Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

172 THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL.
ing all nitrogenous food and alcohol, and
giving mainly a milk diet. In that way he
ially vulnerable to the action of thyroid,
The tubercle bacillus which, as you know,
wards off serious kidney complications. is also pathogenic when dead, owes its mor-
The use of opium in any form has been bid action to an endotoxin rich in phosfound
very pernicious. Quieting and rest phorus; being thus rendered extremely inin
nervous cases can be easily attained by flammable while the blood'soxidizingpower
bromides and chloral,
is enhanced simultaneously, this pathogenic
As a purgative, nothing is better than a organism is promptly destroyed. This ap-
- little Rochelle salts flavored with orange or plies also to lupus. In syphilis, the use of
raspberry juice. thyroid, based on the views I have advanc-
Many ear troubles are brought about by ed, has been termed "marvelous" by other
too much spraying and improperly blowing observers. It has been used with success
of the nostrils. in acute infections, including the exanthemata
which may often be curtailed by its
Riehmond Journal of Practice, May, 1909. judicious use.
Adhesion of the Placenta.—Dr. W. R. -,-, ., , ., j. , , , r , ^ ,„
^^'^ ^•^''«'^«'«« Medical Journal, July, 1909.
Wilson says that recent research has demon-
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strated that the fetal layer of the decidua Wasserman Reaction for the Sehas
a tendency in abnormal cases to pene- *"•" Diagnosis of Syphilis.— Dr. J. P.
trate toward the uterine wall, thus invad- L°"« concludes that the serum reaction for
ing the spongv or material
syphilis is
layer of the
specific. It is found positive in
decidua. As a consequence, the villi at- ^'''^ '-"' P^*" '^^"^- ^o 98 per cent, of all cases,
tach themselves to the ""'^!* syphilitic
wall of the sinuses,
manifestations. It is found
establishing a direct adhesion
Positive in
between the
50 per cent, to 60 per cent, of
fetal decidua and the musculature.
^*^^"t cases.
The
cause of this change is no ^^ longer '^ considered
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