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

XXIV THE CHARLOTTB MBDICAI. JODRNAL
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all waste of material and insure absolute a dressing for ulcers, wounds, skin diseases,
purity. etc., it has no equal, and is universally both
"Kelene" requires no steam valve for recommended and used by America's most
discharge. Simply press the lever and the prominent surgeons and physicians. As a
automatic sprayer will do the rest. Glass general surgical antiseptic, it not only intubes
alone insure absolute purity.—Fries hibits but destroys bacterial growth. Cam-
Bros., New York. pho-Phenique should be a permanent fixture
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•me Earliest Symplom ol Enlarged
Prostate.
to all medicine cases.
^^^^, inquiry for a sample, addressed to
the Campho-Pheniqne Co., St. Louis, Mo.,
Increased urinary frequency, chiefly noc- will receive immediate and courteous conturnal
in character, is the earliest and most sideration.
frequently encountered symptom of enlarged
prostate. Many cases of hypertrophied The Modern Treatment ol Hay Fever.
prostate might never develop beyond this Whatever be the accepted views as to the
point if sanmetto was administered as a pathology and etiology of hay fever, there is
prophylactic, and the discomfort of rising little difference of opinion concerning itsimtwo
or three times at night to urinate, to portanee and the severity of its symptoms,
say nothing of entering upon a catheter An agent that is capable of controlling the
life, might be avoided.
- catarrhal inflammation, allaying the violent
It is especially in the chronic prostatic paroxysms of sneezing and the abundant
hyperplasia which we find in old men, alwaysassociated
with chronic vesical catarrh,
lacrimation, cutting short the asthmatic
attack wnen it becomes a part of the clinical
that sanmetto gives the most brilliant re- ensemble, and. finally, sustaining the heart
suits. Number of cases can be recited in and thus preventing the great depression
which the use of sanmetto alone has not that usually accompanies or follows the
only relieved the vesical irritability, but attack—in short, an agent that is capable
has seemingly reduced the hypertrophy of of meeting the principal indications—must
the prostate and enabled the patient to dis- prove invaluable in the treatment of this by
pense with catheterization and micturate no means tractable disease,
unassisted for the first time in years. In the opinion of many physicians, the
most serviceable agent is Adrenalin. While
Painstaking doctors whose experience not a specific in the strict meaning of the
and skill are recognized by the consulting word. Adrenalin meets the condition very
medical specialist are frequently called upon effectually and secures for the patient a posito
exercise judgment in the selection of live degree of comfort. It controls catarrhal
antiseptics, whether for the treatment of- inflammations as perhaps no other astrininflammatorv'
affections or for general use. gent can. It allays violent paroxysms of
It is therefore quite natural that under such sneezing and profuse lacrimation by blanchcircumstances
they would be anxious to ing the turbinal tissues and soothing the
select a non-poisonous antiseptic, the use of irritation of the nasal mucosa which gives
which would reflect credit upon their ex- rise to those symptoms. It reduces the seperience
and judgment.. The recommenda- verity of the asthmatic seizure, in many
tions of leading hospital practitioners based instances
on the very highest clinical tests, form one relief.
affording complete and lasting
of the best guides in such cases. In select- There are four forms in which Adrenalin
ing Tyree's Antiseptic Powder, they will is very successfully used in the treatment
merit the commendation of both the phy- of hay fever: Solution Adrenalin Chloride,
sician and the patient, as the Tyree Powder Adrenalin Inhalant, Adrenalin Ointment,
is free from all the objections found in other and Adrenalin and Chloretone Ointment,
antiseptics. Tyree's Powder has stood the The solution, first mentioned, should be dimost
exhaustive clinical tests and is used luted with four to ten times its volume of
and recommended by many of the leading physiological salt solution and sprayed into
physicians and hospitals of America and the nares and pharynx. The inhalant is
Europe. Exhaustive chemical and bacterio- used in the same manner, except that it
logical analysis together with a box of requires no dilution. The ointments are
Tyree's Powder will be mailed free of supplied in collapsible tubes with elongated
charge to any physician by the manufac- nozzles, which render administration very
turer, J. S. Tyree, Washington, D. C. simple and easy.
It is perhaps pertinent to mention in this
Campho-Pbenlque.
connection that Messrs. Parke, Davis & Co.
As an antiseptic, as also an anaesthetic, have issued a very useful booklet on the
Campho-Phenique, for the past 25 years, sabject of hay fever, containing practical
lias fully demonstrated its superiority. As chapterson the disease, indications for treat-