Mississippi Valley Medical Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 8

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1882 - Medicine
 

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Page 309 - America and England for efficiency in the treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Chronic Bronchitis, and other affections of the respiratory organs, and is employed also in various nervous and debilitating diseases with success. ITS CURATIVE PROPERTIES are largely attributable to Stimulant, Tonic, and Nutritive qualities, whereby the various organic functions are recruited. IN CASES where innervating constitutional treatment is applied, and tonic treatment is desirable, this preparation will be found...
Page 309 - AGENTS— Iron and Manganese; The TONICS — Quinine and Strychnine; And the VITALIZING CONSTITUENT— Phosphorus, Combined in the form of a Syrup, with slight alkaline reaction. IT DIFFERS IN EFFECT FROM ALL OTHERS, being pleasant to taste, acceptable to the stomach, and harmless under prolonged use. IT HAS...
Page 309 - ... into the circulation with the food products. The prescribed dose produces a feeling of buoyancy, and removes depression and melancholy ; hence the preparation is of great value in the treatment of mental and nervous affections.
Page 324 - Three faces wears the doctor ; when first sought, An angel's— and a god's the cure half wrought ; But when that cure complete, he seeks his fee. The devil looks less terrible than he.
Page 348 - By the same Author. The Change of Life In Health and Disease : a Clinical Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System incidental to Women at the Decline of Life.
Page 313 - Candidates for graduation are required to be twenty-one years of age, to have studied three years, to have attended two courses of lectures, and to pass a satisfactory examination.* Graduates of other respectable schools are admitted upon payment of the Matriculation and half Lecture Fees. They cannot, however, obtain the Diploma of the University without passing the regular examinations and paying the usual Graduation Fee.
Page 309 - Its action is prompt, stimulating the appetite and the digestion; it promotes assimilation, and enters directly into the circulation with the food products. The prescribed...
Page 343 - Wochenschrift) advises that before swallowing powder or pills of quinine, a weak tartaric acid lemonade be taken. This procedure not only greatly...
Page 339 - C. [194° Fahr.], and to sulphur vapor and then well scoured. 5. The bedding, curtains and furniture of the sick-room should be thoroughly disinfected, washed and aired. 6. The pupil of a school, after recovery from one of the above contagious diseases, should not be readmitted to the school unless furnished with the certificate of a physician that the above precautions have been observed.

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