General Medicine (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Substitute podophyllin for calomel if the patient has been salivated. The patient is directed to take the usual after treatment. He is told that if he does not go to bed the medicine will make him sick. This shotgun prescrio- tion is justifiable, because as a rule the patient will never be seen again until the next spell. As a restructive tonic, West prescribes: 5 Acidi arseniosi, Strychninse sulphatis, aa gr. j; Chinoidin purficati, Sijss; Ferri sulph. exsiccat. 3ss. M. et div. in pil. No. xxx. Sig.: One to be taken three times a day after meals. If there is any reason to suspect constipation, to this prescription may be added one grain of podophyllin. DYSEXTEEY. Etiology. E. Euge gives a review of the facts concerning the etiology and mode of spread of dysentery in the tropics, especially those facts which have been established by recent investigations. The term, tropical dysentery is no longer permissible to describe any particular form of the disease, since it has been shown that both bacillary dysentery and the amebic form occur in temperate climates as well as in the tropics. It is satisfactorily established that there are several varieties of the ameba, one of which is specific for dysentery, and it seems well ascertained that this form is capable of calling forth the symptoms and lesions of dysentery without the aid of bacteria. The proof of this is briefly that the bacilli found in the stools of amebic dysentery are not capable of themselves of causing the disease, while ameba? have been found in healthy or in slightly diseased parts of the mucous membrane, showing that they are capable of penetrating the tissues without the aid of other organisms. Considerable differences have been observed between the pathogenic and non-patho- (1) Kllnisdi-thei-apeutisch...