XIV AN OLD REMEDY COMBINED WITH A NEWER ONE. The Massachusetts Medical Journal recently published the following, which will no doubt be interesting to our readers: "We believe that members of the medical profession should familiarize themselves with the combination tablet of antikamnia & heroin. The first of these, antikamnia, years ago established a prominent place for itself as a most reliable antipyretic, antineuralgic, and general pain reliever, while heroin is, by all odds, the most efficient of recent additions to our list of remedies. The advantages of this combination are fully illustrated by a report of cases submitted to us by Dr. Uriel S. Boone, Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, St. Louis. We reprint three of said cases, as each has some peculiar feature which successfully called into use in a most beneficial manner, the synergetic action of these two drugs. "Case I. J. P. Athlete. Suffering from an acute cold. On examination found temperature 101 degrees, with a cough and bronchial rales. Patient complained of pain induced by constant coughing. Prescribed antikamnia & heroin tablets, one every four hours. After taking six tablets, the cough was entirely relieved. Patient continued taking one tablet three times daily for three days, when he ceased taking them and there has been no return of the cough or pain. "Case II. Ed. H. Age 30. Family history-hereditary consumption. Hemorrhage from lungs eighteen months ago. His physician had me examine sputum; found tubercle bacilli. After prescribing various remedies with very little improvement, I placed him on antikamnia & heroin tablets, prescribing one tablet three times a day and one on retiring. He has since thanked me for saving him many sleepless nights, and while I am aware he never can be cured, relief has been to him a great pleasure, and one which he has not been able to get heretofore. "Case III. Wm. S. Aged 28. Lost 20 pounds in last 30 days. Consulted me July 9th. I thought he most certainly would fall victim to tuberculosis. Evening temperature 101 degrees, with night-sweats and a very troublesome cough with lancinating pains. Prescribed 1-100 gr. atropine to relieve the excessive night-sweats and one antikamnia & heroin tablet every four hours, with the result that he has entirely recovered and is now at work as usual. "Neither in these, nor in any other of my cases, were any untoward after-effects evidenced, thus showing a new and distinctive synergetic action and one which can not help being beneficial." Apply over the thoracic walls, front, sides and back, and cover with a cotton lined cheese cloth jacket as shown in the illustration. BRONCHITIS Apply over and beyond the sterno clavicular region. If a dressing is put on when symptoms of bronchial irritation first appear a serious development may be prevented. PLEURISY Apply over and well beyond the boundaries of the inflammation. AT IN ALL CASES ANTIPHLOGISTINE MUST BE APPLIED The Denver Chemical Mfg. Co., Denver San Francisco New York Montreal In writing, please mention COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL. XVI "PAINFUL MENSTRUATION IN VIRGINS." Dr. Wm. Sellman of Baltimore read this paper and pointed out the necessity of giving relief to young unmarried women who suffer from painful menstruation. He considered the forms of dysmenorrhoea that could be 'relieved by operation. These means should not be of a character to unsex the patient. Lastly he spoke of that class of cases in which dysmenorrhoea was due to a general systemic neuralgia. In these cases, electricity in its different forms afforded great relief. It was doubtful in many of these cases whether the removal of the appendages would accomplish anything more than bring about a premature menopause. Dr. H. W. Longyear of Detroit stated that in operating, if one ovary or a part of an ovary could be saved, he did so. He would enter a protest against operating on cases of dysmenorrhoea that were of short duration in young girls. Dr. William Humiston of Cleveland, O., had seen cases with a narrow, conical os, menstruating without the least sign of distress, but the moment an inflammatory condition of the mucosa was added, that moment the patient began to have painful menstruation. Dr. D. Tod Gilliam, Columbus, O., spoke of the undeveloped condition of the uterus as a cause of dysmenorrhoea. It was not the result of stenosis of the internal os, but to an unripe condition of the uterine tissues.-Med. Review of Reviews. The thing that surprises us most in the above article is that not a single voice was raised to proclaim the almost magical effects of antikamnia tablets in such cases. We can readily recall quite a number of cases in which extreme suffering (dysmenorrhoea) was promptly relieved, not by operation, but by antikamnia tablets. Evidently these men were surgeons only.-Ed. Massachusetts Med. Jour., January, 1905. FOR THE NEURASTHENIC. Oftentimes the neurasthenic patient can be promptly started on the road to recovery by a temporary change of scene and the use of a good tonic. Gray's Glycerine Tonic Compound is of especial value in these conditions of nervous exhaustion, and it often supplies just the right support and reconstructive action needed. The NEW ORLEANS POLYCLINIC, now constituting the postgraduate department of Tulane Medical College, opened most auspiciously for its 20th annual session on November 5, 1906. There are already a number of matriculates enrolled from Louisiana, Texas, Indian Territory, Alabama and Oregon. XVII Is Lower Price a Valid Reason for Preferring Stearns' Antitoxin? Yes, because its quality is unsurpassed and its injecting device (the Simplex Syringe) is unequaled. The reduced price results from economy in marketing-not in preparing the serum. This economy is effected by our having abandoned, 14 months ago, the wasteful practice of exchanging new for unsold serum-hence, there is no waste, no overproduction, no high price to pay for that waste. Thus the user of Stearns' Antitoxin pays for only what he uses, the user of any other brand pays for a large proportion of wasted returned serum besides what he uses. Stearns' Antitoxin is prepared by scientific experts in our splendidly equipped laboratories. Hundreds of thousands of does have been used-it is everywhere recognized as conforming to the highest standards of life-saving efficiency. The retail price of Stearns' Diphtheric Antitoxin is $1.75 for 1000 units; $3.00 for 2000 units; $4.00 for 3000 units. That is, from 15 to 20 percent less than other standard brands. Therefore, you have every reason-Quality, Convenience, and Economy-for preferring Stearns' Antitoxin when buying or prescribing. S FREDERICK & COMPANY DETROIT, MICH..U.S.A. WINDSOR, CANADA.LONDON, ENG.NEW YORK CITY SEASONABLE SPECIALTIES. STOCK LINES: Sharpe & Dohme, John Wyeth Bro., Upjohn, Abbott, Grape Capsules, Mulford's Serums. The Wendt Bristol Co., 47 South High St., Neil House Block. COLUMBUS, OHIO. In writing, please mention COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL. XVII LA GRIPPE AND ITS SEQUELAE AGAIN PREV ALENT. The following suggestions for the treatment of La Grippe will not be amiss at this time when there seems to be a prevalence of it and its allied complaints. The patient is usually seen when the fever is present, as the chill, which occasionally ushers in the disease, has generally passed away. First of all, the bowels should be opened freely by some saline draught. For the severe headache, pain and general soreness give an antikamnia tablet, with a little whisky or wine, or if the pain is very severe, two tablets should be given. Repeat every two or three hours as required. Often a single dose is followed with almost complete relief. If, after the fever has subsided, the pain, muscular soreness and nervousness continue, the most desirable medicine to relieve these and to meet the indication for a tonic are antikamnia and quinine tablets. One tablet three or four times a day, will usually answer every purpose until health is restored. Dr. C. A. Bryce, Editor of "The Southern Clinic," has found much benefit to result from antikamnia and salol tablets in the stages of pyrexia and muscular painfulness, and antikamnia and codeine tablets are suggested for the relief of all neuroses of the larynx, bronchial as well as the deep seated coughs, which are so often among the most prominent symptoms. In fact, for the troublesome coughs which so frequently follow or hang on after an attack of influenza, and as a winter remedy in the troublesome conditions of the respiratory tract, there is no better relief than one or two antikamnia and codeine tablets slowly dissolved upon the tongue, swallowing the saliva. NEVER WITHOUT CALCIDIN. I have the highest regard and praise for Calcium Iodized -Calcidin (Abbott), having in my own simple way no doubt saved the life of a child 20 months of age (one of twins)Croup complicated with congestion of lungs. The condition was gravel temperature 105.6; one convulsion after another. The condition, as it was found, had been existing only six hours before my arrival. I ordered Calcidin every 10 minutes for 2 hours, then every 30 minutes with calomel, gr. 1-10, every 30 minutes; hot foot bath, in fact above hips; cold applications to head and neck. I expected the child to die, so did her parents when they called me. I returned in six hours. Tem. 101.8 and breathing very good indeed. In one week the child was well. Two years before I had a case exactly like this one, I have particulars, and the child died eight hours after I saw her. I think I am safe in saying I was the means, with the aid of Calcidin and Nature, in bringing back the life that was fast coming to a close. I shall always use it. I am never without the drug a minute. DR. FRANK S. MYERS. Youngstown, Ohio. 1 |