The Medical Bulletin: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Volume 9F. A. Davis, 1887 |
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Page 280 - ... of the fragmentary and imperfect manner in which the facts are usually conveyed in such advertisements, Parke, Davis & Co. propose to inaugurate rather a novel departure in advertising. It is their intention to publish in the advertising pages they occupy in medical journals a series of what they term plain talks to physicians, in each issue taking up a certain class of preparations and pointing out the reasons why they deserve to be prescribed, until all their preparations shall have thus been...
Page 64 - York, make a specialty of producing an emulsion of cod liver oil with hypophosphites. Their great care in selecting the oil and in making the combination is amply proven by the high therapeutical value set upon the emulsion by the profession. It is no new remedy, but has been steadily growing in demand for a number of years. It is certainly very useful in restoring wasting tissue, and in cases of scrofulous children it acts almost as a specific.
Page 152 - Each State, county, and district medical society, entitled to representation, shall have the privilege of sending to the Association one delegate for every ten of its regular resident members, and one for every additional fraction of more than half that number...
Page 382 - Professor of General Medicine and Diseases of the Chest in the New York Polyclinic; Physician to Bellevue Hospital, etc. One volume.
Page 260 - Localization, and the Later Methods Employed in the Diagnosis and Treatment of these Affections. By AMBROSE L. RANNEY, AM, MD, Professor of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System...
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Page 243 - This should be painted all over the bruised surface with a camel's hair pencil and allowed^ to dry on. A second or third coating being applied as soon as the first is dry. If done as soon as the injury is inflicted this treatment will invariably prevent the blackening of the bruised tissue.
Page 152 - Four ounces of a mixture of bromide of potassium and chloral, each an ounce, with tincture of hyoscyamus and fluid extract of cannabis indica, in appropriate doses, were ordered, with directions to take one teaspoonful every hour until sleep should be induced. An ugly, muddy mixture was received, which produced nausea and headache, but no sleep. A similar prescription instead of the above extemporaneous officinal combination was ordered, only "Battle's Bromidia" was designated, which induced refreshing...
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Page 121 - In those cases of dysmenorrhoea in which we can find no viceproducing menstrual obstruction of a mechanical nature, and in which there are no local inflammatory or plethoric signs, the ammoniated tincture of guaiacum is a reliable remedy when given during the painful period.