Western Medical Advance and Progress of Pharmacy Volume 1-2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...of twenty-seven pages, and is very clearly written. He attributes the cause of this disease principally to high temperature, as shown by its prevalence during excessive hot weather. He speaks highly of the use of Chapman's ice bags in treatment, but recommends no specific drugs. He says, "You must treat each individual case by itself and for itself, according to its symptoms and indications. Be careful and do not treat them too much. Let the sin be one of omission rather than of commission. Keep the babies, especially their backs and spines, from getting too warm, and see that they have plenty of air, pure healthy air; sufficient clean, healthy, digestible and appropriate nourishment; and perhaps--they will live." Clinical Examination Of Urine, With A Description Of A Convenient Apparatus For Its Speedy Analysis. By Reuben A. Vance, M. D., Physician-in-Chief to the N. Y. Institute for the Paralyzed and Epileptic, etc. This apparatus comprises litmus paper, two test tubes, bent wire for test tube holder, specific gravity apparatus, nitric acid bottle, platinum foil, pair of forceps, two pipettes, an axillary thermometer. This is enclosed in a case 4x2x1 in., and for sale by Tiemann & Co. This pamphlet contains many useful hints for the rapid and thorough examination of the urine. Sugar Formation ru The Liver. By J. C. Dalton, M. D., Professor of Physiology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. This is a record of some recent very careful and elaborate experiments whose results have been in the main confirmatory of those formerly obtained by Dalton, Flint, Lusk and others. Prof. Dalton draws the following conclusions: "I. Sugar exists in the liver at the earliest period at which it is possible to examine the organ after its s...