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

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of water and other soaps usually increase the trouble.
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Inleclive Infantile llcocolllis. -Bush, coiiibiiiatiou of remedies consistently effectin
the .Australasian .Medical Gazette, deals ive. A form of treatment successful in one
with the lactic acid bacillus method of treat- instance utterly fails in another. The author
inji this stale. has tried to use the Pharmacopoeia intelli-
The lactic acid treatment may be used in gently, he states, but has found it woefully
several different ways, and prepared by dif- lacking in many, indeed in the majority, of
ferent agents. The process was allowed to the severe cases. The writer has used many
proceed for 9 to 12 hours in milk diluted 1 drugs and combinations of them on a numiu
4. There was usually clotting in this ber of cases, giving each a sufficient time
time, and the acidulated milk seems to be to work its way, and has finally come down,
taken very well by children. If considered or back, to a mixture of magnesia sulphate
necessary, the time may be extended. The and corrosive sublimate, with the occasional
author has 'tried another way in cases in administration of a dose of castor oil, and
which the above did not seem to suit en- careful dieting, pinning most faith to the
tirely. The milk was first peptonized, and last. Complications must be met with the
then clotted milk whey was added to the appropriate remedy, and should straining
required proportion. These are the only be marked or persist, he uses opium in small
ways in which the author has administered doses. Bismuth, as a routine, is absolutely
this treatment, but it may also be given in useless, and, indeed, he thinks harmful,
the form of pure lactic acid culture as a causing irritation. It is passed in the momedicine
in prescribed doses, but it seems tions in a practically unchanged condition,
better to give the curdled milk, as by this often resembling curds, and most surely
means food and medicine are conveniently cause irritation. Bismuth is generally reand
pleasantly combined, and greater facil- garded as acting mostly as a mechanical
ity is afforded of iiUroducing a larger quan- protection and astringent. But he believe^
tity of the curative agent. it has a deeper action than this. When it
In regard to drug treatment, he believes does any good it is passed in the black conno
hard and fast rule can be adhered to. dilion. Here, again, it would seem that
Individual cases, of course, require particu- there is some interaction between the agent
lar treatment, but he freely confesses that and the natural intestinal secretion, and in
iu his hands he has found no remedy or the absence of the latter the bismuth is