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

XXXVIII
THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL.
influenced by the salicylates and which progress- of Bordeaux (in the Medical Annual), as originatively
affects all the joints and is often fatal. In ing this treatment, E. Manuel Sympson, of I.uicertain
respects it resembles the gonorrhoic form, coin, Eng., has frequently employed it, and has
but no specific germs have yet been discovered. been greatly pleased by its almost unvarying success.
His plan is for the patient to bathe the af-
The gouty pint affections are included by the ^^^J^^^'^^ ^ri^^^J^l^
^troy;slJ°Sct1o^'- especially in the more ^^ ^'^'^^ -^'^^ :^' }^^Zll:^ ^^
chronic progressive type, have been found a most utes, twice daily. This treatnient has the addi- |
valurbi; adju4it in th; treatment, and have t.onal advantage of being capable of being carried
brought abit remarkable results when all the
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other measures failed. As a rule, ,o injections of though it is well to dun nish the strength of the
2 3 Cc. each were given, one dailv, into the gluteal Peroxide ,f much pain and irritation is produced
muscles. Improvement was generally noticed onlv by the application. A continuation of thi.s treatafter
the twentieth injection:' No aftlr-effects were "'ent for two or three days m most cases will effect
observed, except in a few cases a slight diarrhea. ^ cure. -British Med. Jour.
Even patients with valvular disease and lung trou- ,
ble stood the injections remarkably well. The Splenectomy.
swelling of the joints disappears, the active and , ^ .
passive mobilitv returns, and a most marked change Fisher (Prcceedings of the Royal Society of
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in the general condition can be noticed. Fibro- Medicine) reports the case of a woman 47 years (
lysin acts as a lymphagogue, increases the hvper- old. who entered the hospital complaining of a
emia, and stimulates chemotaxis. As a cbnse- severe pain in the left hypochondrium, which t
quence, the firm connective tissue will be softened, came on suddenly four days before she was seen. 1
—Deutsch. med. Woch. This for two days was not entirely crippling in in- •:,
^ tensity, but thereafter had confined her to bed. -j
..„ .•._,. M« Pulse, temperature, and respiration were about