Western Medical Review, Band 29,Ausgabe 12

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1924
 

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Seite 602 - SO now is come our joyful'st feast; Let every man be jolly, Each room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Round your foreheads garlands twine, Drown sorrow in a cup of wine, And let us all be merry. Now, all our neighbours...
Seite 607 - Tongaline exerts a manifest action on the nervous system of the secreting order of glands, it diminishes the uric acid content of the blood, and produces a substitutive irritation in the region of the articular surfaces. On account of the exaggerated vasomotor action of Tongaline, the irritation drives the uric acid deposits toward the emunctories, causing a great secretion of bile in the liver, an abundant...
Seite 607 - ... intestines, while in the feces and in the urine we find a great quantity of uric acid. These conditions secure the attainment of the desired effect, which is to expel from the organism all those agents, the accumulation and retention of which in the blood are the cause of rheumatism, neuralgia, grippe, gout, nervous headache, malaria, sciatica, lumbago, tonsillitis, heavy colds and excess of uric acid.
Seite 606 - When the medical nucleus of the organization is complete, a general appeal for funds will be made to the public. The American Medical Association at its recent meeting in Chicago, passed the following resolution: Resolved, That the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association, convinced of the great promise which the Gorgas Memorial contains of benefit to humanity...
Seite 560 - Few people in this country other than physicians ever see a case of leprosy, although it is estimated that between five hundred and one thousand lepers are still at large in the United States. Except the disease be in its last stages the average person would never recognize it. Lepers have been known to live in communities for years before being recognized as such. Often these persons are discovered to be lepers when applying for treatment of some other condition. Recently, three lepers have been...
Seite 560 - ... being recognized as such. Often these persons are discovered to be lepers when applying for treatment of some other condition. Recently three lepers have been discharged from the National Leprosarium at Carville, Louisiana as having now no manifestations of the disease. To all intents and purposes, they have been cured although the doctors merely certify that the disease has been arrested and that these persons are no longer a menace to the public health. The treatment at Carville, while by no...
Seite 559 - CELESTINS VICHY The place of CELESTINS Vichy in the dietary is distinctive and important. It is an alkaline water of diuretic action, and is indicated in cases of the following: Chronic hepatic disorders; gastric and intestinal indigestions; acid dyspepsia; chronic catarrhal gastritis or enteritis; rheumatism; diabetes; inflammation of the bladder; and a large number of minor ailments. CELESTINS VICHY is bottled only at Vichy, France, under the direct supervision of the French Government. Order and...
Seite 560 - Carville have never been sufficient to take care of all the lepers who apply. At present there are 211 beds, all of which are filled, but there will soon be facilities to. care for a total of 415 lepers and it is believed that the new buildings will be rapidly filled as there is a large waiting list. The timely provision for the isolation and treatment of these unfortunate victims of this terrible disease will, no doubt, diminish the spread of leprosy in the United States, a matter that is already...
Seite 607 - ... diuresis in the kidneys and a serous diarrhoea in the intestines, while in the feces and in the urine we find a great quantity of uric acid. These conditions secure the attainment of the desired effect, which is to expel from the organism all those agents, the accumulation and retention of which in the blood are the cause...

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