New methods of treatment / by Dr. Laumonier ; tr. and ed. from the 2nd rev. and enl. French ed., by H.W. Syers.

Jean Laumonier

Date:: 1904

Credit: New methods of treatment / by Dr. Laumonier ; tr. and ed. from the 2nd rev. and enl. French ed., by H.W. Syers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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$untoward results; it is well borne by all patients, even by children. This mode of treatment has yielded very good results, especially in gastro-intestinal affections of childhood, chronic enteritis, and intestinal maladies generally. Klein gives the following formula for the administration of colloidal silver: Colloidal silver Ogrm.-5— 2 grms, Distilled water 50 „ -200 „ Fresh white of egg \ Neutral glycerine J aaO ,, '5— 2 ,, Three teaspoonfuls a day in a glass of water or milk, preferably taken half an hour before meals. The remedy may also be given in pills: Colloidal silver ... 0 grm. '5 Lactose 5 ,, Neutral glycerine ] ^^^ . . Distilled water ) * To make 50 pills; two to be taken before each meal. Netter, who, in France, has warmly supported the internal administration of collargol, has made use of the remedy in a large number of infections, and especially in pneumonia and the pulmonary complications, and even the broncho-pneumonia of influenza; the results have been fairly satisfactory, but unfortunately they do not appear to be constant, inasmuch as other observers have not been equally successful. The result seems to be less uncertain in typhoid fever (as the observations of Klein would indicate), but the observed facts are not yet sufficiently numerous for a new and more efficacious treatment, based on this method, to be inaugurated.$