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

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THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL.
When ordinary cow's milk is acted upon tional disorder of the blood-forming organs,
by human gastric juice it forms a firm curd depeuding chiefly on a debility of these
which is broken up and digested with great hemopoietic tissues, a debility perhaps indifficulty;
human milk, however, forms a herited, but depending (in common with
finely divided curd, which is readily acted other tissues) for its production chiefly on
upon by the digestive juices. such faults as lack of suitable food and
These facts, in part at least, explain why fresh air, but at times determined by the I
it is that cow's milk is not easily assimila- toxins of measles, syphylis, and other in- f;i
ted by infants and by adults affected with fectious. If a number of children are ill- '
digestive disorders. fed, all their tissues suffer more or less, but
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The clotting of milk in the infant's stom- usually one tissue more than another, the
ach may be overcome to a great extent by tissue most affected varying in different .
the use of Chyiuogen, a rennet preparation, children. Hence with some children the
wdiich, under proper conditions, acts upon debility affects chiefly the blood-forming i
casein and precipitates paracasein in a form organs. With some insufiBcient food or
which is easily broken up, and thus prepar- fresh air at once determines anemia. That
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ed for rapid digestion. The particles of these infantile anemias are of this nature is |
curd are so small that the infant can take shown by the results of treatment. Give |
its food in the usual way from a nursing the infant suitable food and plenty of fresh
bottle. air and, provided no complication such as ]
As Chymogen contains sugar of milk, its pneumonia occurs, a cure may be confi- j
use renders cow's milk more nearly of the dently looked for in time. ;
same composition of human milk. .
Milk treated with Chymogen is not pep- Trcalment by Nurses. i
tonized, nor is it made into buttermilk. It
is merely sweet milk that will not curdle in Chicago has her difficulties, as well as !
large and indigestible clots. other sections, with nurses. The Medical ]
Chymogen is packed in 4 oz bottles at Review of Reviews (April) speaks of it
S2.0dperlb. thusly: ',
There is some danger that the school
A New Book. inspection and school nursing may be per- i
mitted to exceed the proper limits of such 1
Dr. Robert Gray, of Pichucalco, Mexico, activity. It is noticeable in Commissioner i
has written a most interesting book to which Evans report, for example, that school i
he has given the appropriate title. Specific ^^rses treated 863 cases of ringworm and i
Medication." The boo^ is full of facts 2,357 cases of impetigo during the quarter i
that are of inestimable value to every phy- ending March 31, 1909, which indicates a I
sician. Dr. Gray is one of the oldest phy- <
,,,iiii„^ness, if not a desire, to treat the
sicians in ^lexico, and he has won the res- :
g^hool children, to the neglect of the fampect
of the medical profession everywhere jiy physician. Thirty-six cases of favus ;
by his valuable contributions to medical were also treated by nurses, and, as every ,
literature._ Dr. Gray gives in the most open dermatologist knows, it is one of the most
manner his experience with many drugs,
difficult of all skin diseases to cure. We
About one remedy, with which many phy- .
are confident that school inspection and
sicians are acquainted, Anasarciii, Dr. i^irsing under the charge of the health .1
Gray is very emphatic He says: Ana- ,,oard is of the greatest value, hut compe- !
sarcin.-lhis has cured for me some of the tent supervision is essential by the medical ,i
most fearful cases of dropsy that I ever officer of health, and the family physician i
saw in all my long experience not having i^as a ri^ht to demand all due consideration. , (
failed me once. These words, strong as -ph^s far we sympathize with the members
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they are wil strike a responsive chord m i
^f ^1,^ Chicago Medical Society. Adequate I
the hearts of many physicians who have qualifications on «
the part of both physicians
had similar ex^periences.
^„d ^^^1^1^ ^^^^^^ ^,,^ thorough co-opera- |
Dr. Gray s book ,s sent out as a message tj^n will not only advance the general wel-. \
of truth to the profession with no apologies, '«
fare, but will insure a negative answer to
and It will find many appreciative readers, '.'>
all fear for the future of the — medical pro-
I herapeutic Record, April, 1909.
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Inlanllle Splenic Anemia.- Hunter (in
^ Scientific Priest on tlie Dangers of i
The London Medical Journal ) records ten ""'^ Water. ,
cases of this affection. The writer's re- The sanitary dangers lurking in "holy
marks leads to the conclusion that the con- water have often been referred to by medi-'
dition is not a primary, but rather a second- cal men. Thev have recently been scien- i
ary anemia, and in the main duelo a func- tifically studied by a monk, Fr. Augustin I
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