The Georgia Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Volume 4, Issue 4

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St. Joseph B. Graham, William Edward Fitch
1899
 

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Page x - The antikamnia has a marked influence over any febrile action, restores natural activity to the skin, and effectually controls any nervous element which may be in the case. The action of the codeine is equally beneficial, and in some respects enforces the action of its associate. The physiological action of codeine is known to be peculiar, in that it does not arrest secretion in the respiratory or intestinal tract, while it has marked power to control inflammation and irritation.
Page 193 - THE GREAT FACT IN MODERN MEDICINE: " The Blood is the Life," And Where Nature fails to make Good Blood, WE CAN INTRODUCE IT. BOVININE is Bovine Blood Unaltered from the Arteries of the Bullock; The Universal Auxiliary of Modern Medicine and Surgery, and the TRUE "ANTITOXIN
Page 193 - Try it in Chronic Catarrhal Diseases ; spraying it on the diseased surfaces, with immediate addition of peroxide of hydrogen ; wash off instantly the decomposed exudation, scabs and dead tissue with antiseptic solution (Thiersch's); and then see how the mucous membrane stripped open and clean, will absorb nutrition, vitality and health from intermediate applications of pure bovlnine.
Page 224 - Professor of Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear in the Illinois Medical College ; Professor in the Chicago Post-graduate Medical School and Hospital ; Surgeon to the Post-graduate Hospital and to the Illinois Hospital; Consulting Surgeon to the Mary Thompson Hospital, to the Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home, and to the Silver Cross Hospital of Joliet, etc.
Page 193 - Anaemia, measuring the increase of red cells and haemoglobin in the blood as you proceed, together with the improving strength and functions of your patient Try it in Consumption, with the same tests from week to week. Try it in Dyspepsia or Malnutrition of young or old, and watch the recuperation of the paralysed alimentary powers. Try it in Intestinal or gastric...
Page 247 - ... injections of salt solution. 2. The hysterical condition which is so commonly found present should be controlled by strengthening the will and influencing the dominant ideas of the patient. 3. All sources of peripheral irritation should be discovered and treated. 4. In extreme cases subcutaneous saline injections serve the threefold purpose of (a...
Page ix - Better Still. — The influenza has been quite prevalent in a number of cities during the past month. In Richmond, there have been many cases, though no deaths distinctly attributed to it. It is affecting mostly those who have had the disease almost annually during the past few years. Although the attacks of this year are relatively mild, they are severe enough to keep business men away from their places of business.
Page x - It so frequently happens that certain unfavorable influences in the stomach may prevent the prompt solution of tablets that this suggestion is well worth heeding. Antikamnia itself is tasteless, and the crushed tablet can be placed on the tongue and washed down with a swallow of water. Proprietors of other tablets would have had better success if they had given more thought to this question of prompt solubility.
Page 226 - Gynecology in the Medical Department of the Columbia University; Late Obstetric Surgeon of the New York Maternity Hospital; Fellow of the American Gynecological Society, etc.
Page x - I do it, what good results I get, and to call their attention to those lighter affections of the throat and chest the principal symptom of which is an annoying cough, for which alone we are often consulted. The patient may fear an approaching pneumonia, or be 'anxious because...

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