AIDS to Rational Therapeutics with U. S. A. Pharmacopoeia Equivalents (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...is T.R. (New Tuberculin), and Sir Almroth Wright's method of using it in cases of localised tuberculosis is to sterilise the liquid by heating it for one hour at 60 C., and afterwards to dilute it with saline solution containing o.2 5 per cent. of lysol. Of this liquid an initial dose corresponding to 36165 milligramme of the dried substance is regarded as the maximum. Generally speaking, the dose will have to be repeated about every tenth day, but this depends upon the response as calculated by the opsonic curve. The bovine form of tuberculin is now considered not to differ essentially from the human form. Opinions as regards the benefit of employing tuberculin in phthisis are very contradictory, and in some cases it is said to have done harm. It is rather significant that it has been given up at the Midhurst Sanatorium. In any case, it must not be administered in the febrile stage. It has, however, been claimed that under its influence the tubercle bacillus disappeared more rapidly from the sputa, and that convalescence started earlier. But while reports are not very favourable in pulmonary cases, good results have been obtained with tubercle elsewhere, and in otherwise incurable cases it should certainly be tried. Tuberculin treatment in some form has probably a brilliant future, but as regards the lungs it is wiser to wait and see. THE OPEN-AIR TREA'rMEN1'.--At night this means having the windows wide open, though the patient should be protected from a direct current of air by screens, and care taken that the extremities are warm. In cold weather, a fire may be necessary; but, in general, additional bedclothes will suffice. In the daytime he should be in a revolving shelter, which, open on one side, is so turned...