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

VDVERTISEMENTS
The First Application of
RE5INOL OINTMENT
In itching and irritable conditions produces a feeling of comfort to the
sufferer never before experienced.
It is the standard remedy for Eczema and acute inflammation of
the skin and mucocutaneous margins, and is a superior dressing for
Burns, Boils, Skin Abrasions and superficial wounds and sores.
It is the recognized specific for Puritus Ani, Itching Piles, etc.
As a nutrient Soap for the Skin
REvSINOL SOAP
is without a parallel
It nourishes the underlying tissues, prevents congestions and eruptions,
obviates waste and atrophj', thus preventing wrinkling and
cracking of the skin. It is superior to all others for the Hair and Scalp.
SAMPLES SENT ON REQUEST.
RE5INOL CHEMICAL CO.,
BALTIIVIORE, MD.
MARKELL y
experience that the proper dosage of this
drug can be calculated at O.OS gramme per
kilo body weight per day Uhis corresponds
to about Tj grains per stone). When salicylic
acid produced disturbance of the stomach,
or other indications caused him to
modify the doses, he preferred to substitute
aspirin in doses of ,'j gramme, gi\en six to
eight times a day. With these doses bo'.h
of the acid and of aspirin the body weig.it
often increased during the medication, the
kidneys were not attacked, and even during
a nephritis the condition of the kidneys
improved.
He says that salicylic acid acts prophylactically
as far as the heart is concerned.
Complications such as endocarditis and
pleurisy occurred less frequently when salicylic
acid could be given freely from the
first than in those cases in which it was
withheld. He brings forward evidence to
show that this drug is not a ctirdiac poison
when given as he has described.
The writer deals with the actual fre-
Iquency of heart affections in rheumatic
fever, and shows that among 319 cases
treated by him with salicylic acid, only two
left the hospital with chronic heart disease
3ue to the attack of fever for which the pa-
tient had been treated. Those cases which
are treated outside without sufficient salicylic
acid, and which when admitted prove
refractory toward the influence of the drug,
usually do well when treated by injections
of {[uiniiie and anripyrin, or by intravenous
injections of collargol. He compares
his results with those of Hauffe, who deals
with his patients by means of so-called
physical therapy, and shows conclusively
that his results are considerably better.
Role of the Placenta In Puerperal
Eclampsia. — Meurice (Ann. de la Soc. de
Med de C'.and) expresses the opinion that
none of them satisfy the conditions except
the one which holds that the placenta is the
elaborator of the poisons which cause the
convulsive symptoms. Eclampsia is divided
into three periods; originally it is the
placenta which elaborates poison; under the
influence of this poison anatomopathological
alterations occur in the liver, kidneys,
spleen and other organs; last of all comes a
period in which excitomotor symptoms aie
manifested, which depend at first on the
influence of the toxic product on the brain,
and then on the labor which plays the part
of a determining cause. In some theories
sight seems to be lost of the fact that
eclampsia is a trouble coexistent always