extracts, action on circulation, 211
administration, 457

after abdominal operations, 455
as oxytocic, 197

for increasing peristalsis, 158
from anterior lobe, in dystrophy
adioposogenitalis, 454

in infantilism, 452

in rickets, 457

from posterior lobe in cardiac
failure and shock with
low blood-pressure, 455
in diabetes insipidus, 448,
456 299

in obstetrics, 455

injection of, after opera-
tion, in Addison's disease, 460
in bladder paralysis after lapa-
rotomy, 456

in menorrhagia, 455
in metrorrhagia, 455
uses, 454

whole gland, in epilepsy, 456
in pituitary headache, 454
in vasomotor disturbances,
456
function, 446

hypersecretion of, 450
hyposecretion of, 452

typical evidences of, 453

posterior lobe and sugar metab-

olism, 447

Poisoning, lead, acute, treatment of,

733

chronic, 733

symptoms, 734

treatment, 736

nervous system in, 735
manganese, 731

mercuric chloride, 761

symptoms, 762
treatment, 762
mercury, 731
methyl alcohol, 764

symptoms, 765
treatment, 765

morphine, 716
muscarine, 768
mustard gas, 748

nicotine, acute, 727
nitrite, treatment, 246
opium, chronic, 267
treatment, 265
paraldehyde, treatment, 280
phenol, treatment, 121
phosgene gas, 749
phosphorus, 738

acute, treatment, 739
chronic, 740

pilocarpine, treatment, 185

prevention of, by thyroid gland,
408

primrose, 782

protein, 551, 553

relation of endocrine glands to,
552

to desensitize a patient to, 553
treatment, 554

ptomaine, 618

quinine, treatment, 362

salicylic acid, treatment, 379
silver nitrate, 147

acute, treatment, 147

solanine, 593, 630

strophanthus, treatment, 227

strychnine, bromides in, 275

treatment, 229

sulphonal, treatment, 282
toadstool, 768

tobacco, acute, 727
chronic, 727
trinitrotoluene, 741
trional, treatment, 282
uranium, 731

wood alcohol, 764

symptoms, 765

treatment, 765

Poliomyelitis, anterior, treatment, 547
Pomegranate, 70

fluidextract of, 70

Port, alcohol content of, 596
Post-operative medication, 302
treatment of bowels, 300

vomiting, care of, 299

thyroid in, 407

vomiting of, nutrient enema for, 605
thyroid extract in, 437
Pre-operative care of patient, 292
Preparations and drugs, official, 21
official, types of, 22

that are specific, 109, 338
Prepared chalk, 65, 353
Prescription, art of writing, 17
evolution of, 32

for more than one ingredient, 33
for official compounded pill, 33
for pill with several ingredients, 34
writing, 29

abbreviations for, 32
aim of, 31

apothecaries system in, 28
art of, 17

capsules in, 34

conditions modifying action of a
drug, 40

copy retained, 31

cumulative effects of drugs in, 42
decimal system in, 26, 27

disguising disagreeable drugs in, 32
do and dont's of, 37
dosage in, 37

drop dosage, 35

eliminate mystery in, 25

English in, 25

incompatibility of drugs in, 36

individualized

patient, 30

Latin in, 25
ointments in, 35

old system in, 28

powders in, 34

for particular

rectal suppository in, 35
simple, 25, 31

table of equivalents for, 29
of liquids for, 28

of solids for, 28

Troy system in, 28

weights and measures in, 26

thymus gland extracts in, 500
Riding, bicycle, as exercise, 685
horseback, as exercise, 686
Ringworm, 790

solutions of formaldehyde for, 116
Rochelle salt, 88

as saline purgative, 170
Roentgen-ray, 649

for dangerously enlarged thymus
gland, 499

for metrorrhagia, 651

for ovaries in osteomalacia, 483

for thyroid in Graves' disease, 427

for uterine fibroids, 651

Room, disinfection of, 114

Rosin plaster, 732
Round-worms, 175, 177
anthelmintics for, 177
santonin formula for, 91
treatment, 177

Rowing as exercise, 686
Rubbing with alcohol, 667

Rum, alcohol content of, 596

Running as exercise, 685
Russian baths, 661

Rye, ergot of, 68