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about three grains of iodide of potassium.
10-09-11

 

This may seem to the uninitiated rather large dosing, but Piedallu affirms that to obtain the really specific local and constitutional effects of these drugs a share in which certainly belongs to the iodide of potassium, really heroic doses are required. He has given as much as 300 grammes of this syrup in the course of a week to children from four to six years old. At the end of several hours, eliminated by the mucous membranes, that is to say, the signs of iodism appear: coryza, salivation, etc., and the spittle flows from the child's mouth; then the dose is diminished, enough being still given to keep up the effect. The object of the Oakley Sunglasses treatment, in the words of the writer, isto maintain in the mouth and pharynx a permanent antiseptic gargarism. He advises in case the false membranes are loose, to detach them gently with a spoonhandle, then to touch the denuded surface with a swab dipped in bichloride solution, 1 to 1,000; this may be done two or three times a day.Piedallu remarks that it is not until the end of fortyeight hours that this treatment shows its curative effect. The false membraues no longer spread, but begin to fall off in a pultaceous mass. In certain rebellious cases, the amelioration does not show itself until the fourth or fifth day, but the remedy must be continued fearlessly, and in doses proportioned to the gravity of the malady.This treatment is very well borne by children, and is very exceptionally attended with colic, vomiting, or stomatitis. It is well to conjoin with it a rigorous milk diet to ensure The North Face Outlet Store activity of the renal function, but when the child desires to eat, light food may be allowed.Piedallu urges the profession to try this method which he says has given him uninterrupted success for three years. He claims that the mercury and iodide North Face Outlet Store of potassium in being eliminated by the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory passages, constantly oppose their antiseptic action to the specific bacilli, and thus make their habitat unpropitious. Certainly, this kind of treatment is more easily carried out than the local treatment by spraying, irrigation and swabbing.It will be remembered that when pilocarpine was first recommended for internal treatment in diphtheria, some such action as that above described North Face Clearance was claimed for it, but the result of treatment by pilocarpine and by jaborandi was only failure and disappointment.At the meeting of the Therapeutical Society, there was some discussion of the above mentioned mode of treatment. One of the speakers Barbier said that Ralph Lauren Outlet experiments made in Germany and Switzerland demonstrated the bactericidal value of biniodide of mercury and iodide of potassium. As these drugs are eliminated by the mucous membranes, the formula of M. Piedallu appeared to be rational. M. Crequy thought the doses rather large for children, but Guelpa affirmed that children support mercury better than adults.Others expressed their desire to test the treatment indicated by M. Piedallu, but affirmed their disbelief that any really specific treatment of diphtheria had yet been found.SCALING THE APPROPRIATION FOR THE North Face Coat LIBRARY OF THE SURGEONGENERAL'S OFFICE.THEappropriation for the Library of the SurgeonGeneral's Office at Washington has been cut down in the House of Representatives from $10,000 to $7,000. An effort will be made to have the amount restored to Oakley Canada the old figure in the Senate. The petty economies practised by Congress in this and similar matters are as exasperating as are the gross extravagances in other directions where it is supposed votes may be made.Remonstrances against the action of the House are making themselves heard from many parts of the country. The following resolutions adopted by the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati express a very general feeling in the Medical Profession:Whereas,the Library of the SurgeonGeneral's Office in Washington is of the The North Face Outlet greatest North Face Outlet importance to medical education and to the medical profession