The Medical Brief: A Monthly Journal of Scientific Medicine and Surgery, Volume 10, Issue 12

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1882 - Medicine
 

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Page 24 - 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.
Page 24 - ... 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 14 - The principles upon which this discovery is based have been described in a treatise on "The Digestion and Assimilation of Fats in the Human Body,
Page 24 - Prompt; it stimulates the appetite and the digestion, it promotes assimilation, and it enters directly into the circulation with the food products.
Page 562 - Fistula, Haemorrhoids, Painful Ulcer, Stricture, Prolapsus, and other Diseases of the Rectum : Their Diagnosis and Treatment.
Page 560 - SURGERY (THE INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF). A Systematic Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Surgery by Authors of various Nations.
Page 1 - DOSE. — 4 to 6 at once. This number of parvules, taken at any time, will be found to exert an easy, prompt, and ample Cathartic effect, unattended with nausea, and in all respects furnishing the most aperient and cathartic preparation in use.
Page 560 - A Systematic Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Surgery by Authors of Various Nations. Edited by John Ashhurst, Jr., MD, Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania.
Page 1 - Calomel, taken every hour, until five or six doses are administered (which will comprise but half a grain), produce an activity of the liver which will be followed by bilious dejections and beneficial effects, that twenty grains of Blue Mass or ten grains of Calomel rarely cause, and sickness of the stomach does not usually follow.
Page 12 - Marasmus, Sea Sickness, Excessive use of Alcoholic Stimulants, Per Rectum in all cases where the stomach cannot digest the food, and in debility resulting from any cause. Also, a valuable adjunct in voyages and camp life. We will be pleased to have the Profession everywhere test our assertions regarding lhi...

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