THERAPEUTIC NOTES

Therapeutic Notes

c?nditions of protection from contact with air, a fluid extract deteriorates at the rate of 10 per cent, per month, and in hermetically-sealed capsules the diminution in activity ranged fr?m 0.2 to 1.1 per cent, per week, the latter being equal to dt>out 50 per cent, per annum. Edmunds, in 1911, also found ?hat many pharmaceutical preparations of ergot deteriorate ^ery rapidly; the non-pharmaco...

Therapeutic Notes

In two, the symptoms were found to be due to renal calculus ; in four, to diseases of the uterine appendages ; in one, to sarcoma ileum ; in one, to cholecystitis; in one, to acute suppurative pancreatitis; and in two, to general sepsis. We must refer our readers to the original article for the detailed description of the cases enumerated above ; in this place it can only be mentioned that the ...

Therapeutic Notes

new and interesting preparations which are the results of recent researches. The advantages possessed by ' Ernutin,' the active therapeutic principle of ergot in its purest form, are widely recognised. Another preparation of ergot, however, has lately been introduced under the trade name of ' Tyramine.' ' Tyramine' presents the chief active constituent of aqueous extracts of ergot, the organic ...

Therapeutic Notes

Therapeutic Notes

We have received a large number of samples of drugs and preparations from the well-known Manufacturing Chemist, Mr. \V. Martindale, of New Cavendish Street, W. Among these the following articles are worthy of being brought to the notice of the profession in India, &?()?, COMPRESSED MOSS. This forms a most absorbent^ surgical dressing, absorbing, it is said, twenty times its own weight of moistu...