severe headache, I at once ordered her a purgative, but she sank and died the same evening at six o'clock. Post-mortem, examination.?At eight o'clock on the morning of the 3rd October, fourteen hours after death, I examined the body. It was fairly well nourished ; the sinus was discharging some frothy purulent matter of a sickening odour. Head.?On removing the calvarium and opening the dura mat...

Physalis minima Linn. (Family  Solanaceae) is commonly known as Ground Cherry or Sunberry. It is traditionally used as diuretic, purgative, analgesic, anthelmentic, febrifuge, vermifuge, abortificient, etc. Many steroidal lactones have been identified from the plant and it has been reported to possess antifertility, hypoglycemic, cytotoxic, antiulcer, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, analgesi...

In order to evaluate chemical consistency between traditional and modern decoctions of Da-Cheng-Qi-Tang (DCQT), a classical Chinese medicine formula commonly used in the treatment of digestive diseases, an ultra performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-ESI-Q-TOFMS) combined with multivariate statistical analysis was established ...

OBJECTIVE Enema administration in the morning of routine colonoscopy is known to be useless. However, the potential bowel cleansing effects of distal colon emptying with enema prior to purgatives are not known. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of enema use before purgatives in preparation for colonoscopy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Two hundred twenty-seven patients were randomly ...

5. Hexylresorcinol.?It is a synthetic compound of pale yellow crystalline nature, probably the safest of the anthelmintics. It is very efficient in ascariasis and fairly satisfactory in oxyuriasis and ancylostomiasis. The drug can be given in freshly filled gelatine capsules or in the form of 1 crystoids ' anthelmintic pills with hard gelatine coating containing 0.1 and 0.2 gm. The dose is 1 gm...

OBJECTIVE Assessment of disordered eating has uncertain validity across culturally diverse populations. This study evaluated Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) performance in an ethnic Fijian study population. METHOD The EDE-Q was translated, adapted, and administered to school-going Fijian adolescent females (N = 523). A subsample (n = 81) completed it again within approximate...

effects as the number of administered doses increases. Our patient’s liver function was deranged, possibly due to granulomatous hepatitis, which has been described in this setting [2]. Treatment with prednisolone and anti-tuberculous chemotherapy was based on advice found in the literature [2,4,5]. Prednisolone at a starting dose of 40mg daily, tapering over 3 months as response occurs, plus is...