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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![powder of broiled meat, is ten times more easily absorbed, as is proved by the experiments of Ellinger, than the albumoses and similar products. It is, however, right to add that the larger number of preparations known as ])eptones contain, especially at the present time, albumoses; so that the albumoses of commerce possess no real superiority 'as regards these products. Somatose is a yellow, slightly granular powder, soluble in water, without appreciable smell or taste, and contains, according to Goldman, 78 per cent, of true albumose and only 2 to 4 per cent, hi peptone. This preparation is of value in cases ot-dgrspepsia due to functional weakness, in anaemia with anorexia, in fevers, especially typhoid fever, in tuberculosis and in hysteria and syphilis during the stage of w^asting. In chlorosis the administration of somatose causes the disappearance of menstrual irregularities, of headache, of giddiness, &c. Finally, it acts as an efficient galactogogue. When given to w^et nurses w^hose milk supply is scanty or in whom lactation is not normally performed, it increases or renews the flow of milk, w^hether this action be due, as Drews believes, to its exciting the secretion of the glandular structure, or whether it is the result, as Joachim maintains, of an improvement of the general nutrition brought about by the remedy. Further, it has been proved that somatose increases the number of the red blood corpuscles, and hence also the per- centage of haemoglobin. In the case of infants at the period of weaning, and in wasted children, this albumose gives good results, and is also always w^ell tolerated on account of its tastelessness. Somatose is given in quantities of 15 to 30 grammes IKV diem in adults, children taking from 3 to 10 grammes.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21172353_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
