Medical handbook of life assurance, for the use of medical and other officers of companies / by James Edward Pollock and James Chisholm.

  • Pollock, James Edward.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Medical handbook of life assurance, for the use of medical and other officers of companies / by James Edward Pollock and James Chisholm. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    BURROUGHS, WELLCOME & CO., Manufacturing Chemists. concomitant symptoms, it is in most cases invaluable, and some have obtained good results in the anasarca of hepatic cirrhosis and chronic peritonitis. While in purely bronchial and nervous asthma it is not so beneficial, its beneficent efl'ects in the dyspnoea of cardiac and renal diseases have been most marked. It is not a stimulant, but a cardiac tonic. Dose.—The tincture (i in 20) may be taken in doses of from 2 to 10 minims, the former being a small dose. The Tabloids contain each two mins. of the tincture. Strophanthus Tabloids (2 minims of Tinct. in each) supplied to the medical profession in bottles of 100, at is. 4d. each. Retail 2s. each. Strophanthus Tincture in ^-oz. and i-oz. IsQttles at 4d. and 6d. each ; i-lb. bottles, 6s. each. SULPHONAL TABLOIDS. Sulphonal was discovered by Professor Baumann of Freiburg Universit)', and first prepared by Friedrich Bayer & Co., Elberfeld, Germany. Its physiological and pathological effects were first ascertained by Prof Kast of Freiburg University, who discovered and studied the hypnotic action. Since then it has been the subject of numerous.trials and experiments by many emi- nent and experienced physicians, whose testimony is unanimously favourable. Sulphonal is not a narcotic like morphine, but acts by giving rest to tlie cells of the cerebral cortex, thereby causing sleep. This drug is best administered £ft bed-tiine in the form of Tabloids of Compress'ed Sulphonal, dissolved in hot fluids, e.g., soup^ tea, coffee, cocoa, etc., as when .placed in the liquids they disintegrate and easily pass into the circulation. On account of being tasteless it presents a faA7ourable advantage over other soporifics in the cases of weak-minded and insane patients, for ''it can be easily administered without being detected. . R. E. Power, Medical Officer, Her Majesty's Convict Prison, Portsmouth, writes to the British Medical Journal, May i8th, 1889, as follows :— I have three patients at present taking Sulphonal. (i) Insomnia: Has tried every remedy prescribed by different medical men, but has had nothing to compare with Sulphonal in causing sleep. No consequent effects noticed or felt. (2) Cancer of the rectum : Lumbar colotomy performed about a year ago. Opium, morphine, belladonna, paraldehyde, cocaine, failed to procure suflicient sleep. Forty grains of Sulphonal give four or six hours' painless rest. No after- symptoms. (3) Cerebral meningitis : Procured some hours of painless sleep. LANOLINE (LIEBREICH). Lanpline is the purified fat obtained from sheep's wool, and is natural to the hair and skin, and is absorbed by these at once. It is the best basis known for ointments, salves, «Sfc. It is perfectly mixable with water and all medicaments. Of desirable consistence, it does not melt below body heat, and does not run like ordinary ointments. Free from odour, homogeneous, and devoid of hard crystalline bodies and free fatty acids, it is bland, soothing, and .acceptable in the most irritable conditions of the skin. It is recommended by the highest authorities both at home and abroad, and has been pronounced the only aseptic ointment base. Lanoline supplied to the medical profession in I lb. and 7 lb. tins at 2s. Sd. per lb. Anhydrus Lanoline (Lanolinum Anhydricum) 3s. 4d. per lb. Lanoline Base (Ung. Lanolini) 2s. 2d. per lb. Ayhydru? Lanoline Base, 2s. lod. per lb. Ceresin, is. 6d. per lb. ; Paraffinum Facing Cover 3.]