The Medical Fortnightly Volume 46, No. 10 (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. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ..."lymphatic type" in which von Noorden, Magnus-Levy, and others have advised the use of thyroid, provides abundant opportunity for errors. Many cases which apparently belong to his type present cardiac, renal, or vascular disorders; these thyroid tends to aggravate. Patients with albumin or casts in the urine, or who have any degree of cardiac disorder, will do badly under this remedy. This applies also to the majority of patients in whom the adiposis is due to excessive eating. It is in the latter that dietetic treatment proves efficient. The class of cases in which thyroid will prove advantageous includes those in which a gouty diathesis is clear, especially where asthma, migraine, lithiasis or eczema of the recurrent type is a feature of the history. It is also indicated where hypothyroidism is suggested by its typical signs, especially pain or sensitiveness in the occipital region, migraine, aching between the shoulder blades which rest in bed tends to aggravate rather than relieve, premature alopecia or grayness, and in women, "leakage" or stained leucorrhea in the absence of local lesions. Even in these patients large doses of thyroid should not be employed; from one to three grains is a limit which cannot be exceeded without danger.--N. Y. Med. Jour. To Lift the Embargo on Foreign Drugs.--We like the man that does things And such a man is Congressman Herman A. Metz, of New York. While the drug trade of the country is bewailing its unfortunate plight in-not being able to get certain needed chemicals and drugs from Germany and other countries in the European war zone, and keeps calling on the government to do something to relieve the situation, this resourceful man goes to work and devises means to accomplish the...