Tropical medicine, hygiene, and parasitology ; a handbook for practitioners and students.

  • Brooke, Gilbert Edward, 1873-1936.
Date:
1908
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    2. Goutiness, renal inadequacy, abdominal plethora, and similar cases do well at Evian. 3. Convalescence from malaria or malarial cachexia should go to the iron waters of Spa. 4. Hepatic indequacy, tropical liver cases, and other gastric and hepatic cases should undergo a course of treatment at Brides-les-Bains, followed by Prolagnon. 5. Cases of early leprosy should try the rich chloride waters of Carlsbad. The settler, the traveller, the merchant whose occupation or pleasure necessitates a tropical life, often find themselves out of reach of medical aid. This is replaced in many cases by a private medicine chest and some manual, such as Hints to Travellers, of the Royal Geographical Society ; or other similar volume. Perhaps, largely owing to this circumstance, the use of patent medicines is, if possible, even more prevalent in the tropics than at home. The medical man may be called to a patient, and find him with a serious illness for which he had been taking lx)xesful of So-and- So’s pills. The composition of these quack specifics is often un- known to the medical attendant, who may, therefore, find the following list to be of use, compiled from a Lecture on Patent Medicines b)’ Hutchison :— Antikamnia, .... Beeckarn s Pills, Bile Beans, .... Bromidia, .... Banter s Nervine, . Carter's Little Liver Pills, Clarke's Blood Mixture, . Cockle s Pills, .... Doan's Backache Pills, . Eade's Pills, . Ends E'ruit Salt, Guy's Tonic, . Holloway s Pills, '. Sod. Bicarb., .Antifebrin, and Caffein. .\loes, Ginger, and Soap, Cascara, Rhubarb, Liquorice, Oil of Peppermint, coated with Gelatin. Pot. Brom., Chloral, Hyoscyamus, Cannabis Indica, Oil of Aniseed, Syrup and Water. Creosote, Chloroform, Camphor, Bal- sam of Tolu, and .Alcohol. Podophyllin (gr. '/») and Aloes Soc. (gr. ’A)- .Active constituent is Pot. lod. (6 grs. to the oz.). .Aloes, Colocynth, and Rhubarb. 1. [Dinner Pills] Podophyllin, Aloin, Rhubarb, and Peppermint. 2. [Backache Pills] Oil of Juniper and a resinous con- stituent, ? Copaiba. Sod. Salicyl, Guaiacum, and Aloes. Sod. Bicarb., .Acid Tart., and Acid Cit. .Acid Phosph., Tinct. Cochineal, Inf. Gentian, and Chloroform Water. .Aloes, Rhubarb, Saffron, Glauber's Salt, and Pepper.