Told Us What You Need For 25 years our experts have collaborated with the Surgeons whom they serve. Every product we make is the final result of countless suggestions, based on wide experience. Surgeons told us their wants, and we met them. They told us our faults, and we found ways to correct them. Even in building our plant, where our products are made, hundreds of medical men were consulted. After 25 years we are thus able to meet the utmost requirements of physicians and surgeons. We meet them as the best men want them met. Every B & B product marks the very last word in science, in cleanliness, and in convenience. These facts are known to thousands. Let us make them known to you. Some BB Books We publish pamphlets and circulars on various lines which will prove of great interest to any physician. Among them are these: Adhesive Plaster On the technique of application, and indications for its use. Illustrated by photographs of recent clinical cases. Formaldehyde Fumigators Dealing with the how and why of formaldehyde fumigation, the standard requirement for various rooms. And showing why B & B Fumigators are the best and most convenient form of aerial disinfection. O-P-C suspensories Showing why this suspensory, for 20 years, has been standard with physicians. And why it is prescribed above all others, by fully ten to one. Any or all of these pamphlets will be mailed on request. Tubercular and Lung Diseases, Scrofula, Rheumatic Gout, Glandular Swellings, Anemia, etc. Each Tablespoonful of No. 1 Contains: 50 Per cent Pure Norway Cod Liver Oil 1-40 Grain Iodide Arsenic 14 Grain Iodide Calcium Grain Iodide Manganese Each Tablespoonful of No. 2 Contains: 50 Per cent Pure Norway Cod Liver Oil 1-40 Grain Iodide Arsenic Grain Iodide Calcium Grain Iodide Manganese 2 Minims Purified Guaiacol 2 Minims Creosote Carbonate Free Samples-plain 16 oz bottle, Detachable Labels BUDWELL PHARMACAL CO., A New Therapeutic Agent. We wish to call our readers' special attention to vanadiol, one of the vanadium products. Remarkable results have been obtained by many physicians through the administration of this new therapeutic agent, a derivative of the rare metal vanadium. Vanadiol being the greatest oxygen carrier, known, is especially indicated in anemia, chlorosis, neurasthenia, diabetes, Bright's disease, pneumonia, tuberculosis, etc. A reprint of Dr. William Franklin Harpel's remarkable paper on the treatment of Tuberculosis by vanadium will be sent to any reader of The Medical Herald on request. Laryngitis. This disease, which is an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx, usually results from exposure to cold. The attack may be ushered in by a chill, followed by fever and pain. There is a hoarse cough, sensitiveness of the throat and difficulty attached to eating enough, in fact, to cause the patient to decline food even when it is temptingly offered. If glyco-heroin (Smith) is used sufficiently early, the attack may be successfully aborted. However, if treatment is not begun, the inflammation extends from the larynx to the neighboring tissues, the fever increases, cough becomes more frequent, breathing becomes more labored aud the patient suffers the loss of much vital force. Laryngitis not infrequently becomes chronic, and as such is a constant source of pain, and discomfort to the patient. When the disease has assumed the chronic form, the physical state of the patient is much depressed, flesh is lost and there is complete absence of energy. It is the aim of the alert practitioner to resort, in the beginning, to measures which prevent laryngitis from developing into a chronic form. To this end he may advantageously make use of glyco-heroin (Smith) as soon as the first symptoms of an attack make their appearance. It is worthy of mention that the preparation is also of conspicuous value in the treatment of both acute and chronic pharygitis. Dept. S.W. Lynchburg, Va. A Dependable Bromide Preparation.— "Why is it," asks a physician of high standing, "that I get results from the use of Peacock's bromides that I never can from ordinary extemporaneous preparations of potassium or sodium bromide? As a matter of fact, I find that I can produce sleep and accomplish sedation with surprisingly small doses of Peacock's bromides and never encounter any ill effect. What makes this product so effective?" The explanation is a very simple one. The bromides in Peacock's bromides are made especially for the product, and salts of their high purity are not found in the open market. The imitations of this preparation, therefore do not imitate, except in physical properties, for ordinary preparations have to be made from inferior salts. A trial consequently never fails to demonstrate a difference between its action, and that of substitute or extemporaneous preparations. Thus, an eminent neurologist writes: "I am convinced that Peacock's bromides is the purest preparation to be had, and moreover, that it gives most satisfactory results and is attended with fewer symptoms of bromism than any other with which I am familiar. I have used it extensively in neuroses during my connection with the State Asylum for the Insane, as well as in my private practice, and in the Clinic of the University, and am, perhaps, fairly well qualified to pass judgment." Extending to Other Countries. It is claimed that more "Storm Binders" are being sent ont to every state in the Union, also to Canada, and even Mexico, than of any other make. This does not excite the least surprise on our part for from an extended experience with them we have come to regard them as well nigh perfect. We have yet to see a patient to whom we have applied one that has not expressed the utmost satisfaction, even gratitude.-Mass. Medical Journal. ANNOUNCEMENT The Sophian-Hall-Alexander wishes to announce to the medical profession that The personnel of this Laboratory comprises the We wish the physicians of the Missouri Valley to feel a personal pride in furthering the interests of this distinctly ethical institution, to the end that we develop here a Laboratory for the production of serums and allied products that will rank with its model, the New York Research Laboratory. Our full line of bacterins is most carefully prepared and sealed in ampoules without any addition of preservatives. Such a method of preparation insures the perfect specificity and potency of action. Special attention is directed to a faultless technique in the performance of the original Wassermann test. The fee for this test has been reduced to ten dollars. A cordial invitation is extended the profession to visit the Laboratory at 1208 Wyandotte Street. Kansas City, Mo. When Writing to Our Advertisers, Please Mention The Medical Herald -55 The Application of Chemistry to Clinical Medicine. It has long been thought that the therapeutic value of cod liver oil did not rest upon its abundance of fatty substances, for while the advantage to be secured from the employment of fats in emaciation and general debility was truly appreciated, yet it was believed that it was to other elements that cod liver oil owed its acknowledged worth. With an increasing chemical knowledge of cod liver oil, it became an obvious fact that the essential principles of the oil could be separated from the whole product without the loss of therapeutic power in the process, or, in other words, that these isolated principles when applied clinically would produce the effects hitherto secured from the entire oil. It was this practical fact together with the realization that in a vast number of cases any potential value possessed by the oil was more than neutralized by the distress occasioned when a de"fective gastric apparatus attempted to digest the entire greasy mass, that encouraged chemists to apply themselves to the task of extracting the essential principles and thus relieve the stomach of the burden. In short, chemical science has enabled the patient to secure every therapeutic virtue possessed by cod liver oil without being forced to digest a large amount of fats. Cord. ext. ol. morrhuae comp. (Hagee) has long been recognized as the highest type of cod liver oil preparations, for results show that although it lacks the fat which makes the crude oil so unpalatable, yet it still retains those principles upon which the therapeutic value of cod liver oil depends. Novatophan, the Tasteless Atophan.Soon after the discovery of the remarkable uric acid-mobilizing, analgesic and antipyretic properties of the 2-phenylquinolin-4-carboxylic acid (atophan) and its derivatives, the prediction was made that Nicolaier's researches in this field would ultimately prove as great a boon to modern therapeutics as those which led up to the introduction of urotropin by this eminent pharmacologist. Though barely eighteen months on the market, the preparation bids fair to fully realize these ambitious expectations. The extensive pharmacologic and clinical studies to which atophan has been submitted during this period, both by American and foreign investigators, have definitely demonstrated that it stimulates the uric acid excretion to a degree never before attained and possesses the ability to mobolize it from the blood and the tissues, to counteract its abnormal retention there, in brief, to regulate the uric acid metabolism selectively. superiority over the colchicum preparations and the salicylates lies in the far more reliable and prompt relief it affords from pain and inflammatory symptoms and in the entire absence of depressant and constipating by-effects or strong diaphoresis. The striking palliation, Its Telephone No. Main 1173 3154 1635 6326 5267 shortening of entire suppression of the attack under atophan therapy, the rapid absorption of joint effusions and in many cases even the disappearance of the tophi, have gained for this preparation prompt recognition as the foremost remedy in acute gout. In the chronic forms of gout, its employment during attack-free periods as a prophylactic to reduce the frequency and intensity of the attacks is proving of inestimable value. In articular rheumatism, too, and in a great many other painful inflammatory conditions in which perverted uric acid metabolism is frequently a contributory cause, atophan is rapidly becoming the preferred constitutional medicinal treatment, such as in gonorrheal arthritis, neuritis, sciatica, neuralgia, lumbago, hemicrania, migraine, the non-specific types of iritis, epi-scleritis and otosclerosis, in eczema, pruritus, urticaria and other skin diseases pointing to excessive acidity of the blood; also in pyorrhea, alveolaris, looseness of the teeth, erosions of the enamel, etc. Among the more recent contributions to the literature of atophan bearing out the above, are the following: Dr. G. D. Kahlo, former Medical Director, French Lick Springs Hotel, French Lick, Ind.; Professor of Clinical Medicine, Indiana University: "Atophan in the Treatment of Gout," paper read before the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the American Gastro-Enterological Association at Atlantic City, June 3d, and 4th, 1912. Drs. H. Bach and E. Strauss: "Contributions to Atophan Therapy," from Dr. E. Lampe's Clinic in Frankfort on the Maine, a private institution, specializing on metabolic diseases. (Muenchener Medizinische Wochenschrift, July 30th 1912.) Dr. A. Bendix: "The Treatment of Articular Rheumatism with Atophan," from Prof. Clemperer's Clinic, Staedt. Krankenhaus, Moabit, Berlin (Therapie der Gegenwart, July 1912.) Dr. P. Neukirch: "Treatment of Articular Rheumatism," from Prof. A. Fraenkel's Clinic, Staedt. Krankenhaus am Urban, Berlin. (Therapeutische Monatshefte, Sept. 1912.) Dr. A. S. Wookwark: "The Treatment of Gout by Atophan." (St. Bartholomew's Hospital Journal, London, Sept. 1912.) Dr. Joseph Merzbach, Chief of Gastro-Intestinal Dept. Jewish Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y.: "Personal Experiences with Recent Drugs. (Long Island Medical Journal, Oct. 1912.) Novatophan, a quite recently introduced tasteless atophan derivative, is 6-methyl-2phenylquinolin-4-carboxylic acid-ethylester and identical with atophan in pharmacologic action, indications and dosage. It will be found a welcome substitute in the few cases in which the slightly bitter taste of atophan causes discomfort to patients. |