Another use for candy medication is in the treatment of the insane, who frequently will not take medicine, but may take it in candy form.
For one who has not used candy medication there is a revelation in store in the positive enjoyment and eagerness with which children take these sweet tablets.
Bonet mentions death after the inunction of a mercurial ointment, and instances of distressing salivation from such medication are quite common.
There has been much discussion on the effects on the fetus in utero of medicine administered to the pregnant mother, and the opinions as to the reliability of this medication are so varied that we are in doubt as to a satisfactory conclusion.
His second case failed, but in a third he was successful by the same medication with a woman who had before borne a dead child.
In the great majority of simple cases no other medication than this is requisite or proper, for no medication is proper in yellow fever unless it is requisite.
Few diseases, however, are as yet so subject to control by specific medication as to allow certainty in such expectations.
The obstinacy of the attacks in many instances under anti-periodic medication seems to make it probable that spontaneous recovery from intermittent hardly belongs to the typical natural history of the disease.
As internal medication minute doses of morphia, dry upon the tongue or in solution in cherry-laurel water, or in combination with eight or ten drops of chloroform, are generally efficacious.
The most important question which relates to medication during the hot stage is in respect to the administration of antiperiodics.
In the wet form, medication consists in the administration of drugs calculated to draw off the excess of serum in the areolar tissues and in the serous sacs.
Hypodermic medication must be resorted to when necessary.
Pure nitric acid, properly diluted, in doses of six to ten drops, given every four to six hours without regard to the stage of the paroxysm, succeeds more often than any medication I have ever resorted to.
In addition to the local treatment of the sore, certain general medication has usually been resorted to, though its real value may well be questioned.
This affords an additional reason why efforts at medication should be principally restricted to the paroxysm and to the earliest periods of that stage.
Thus it is that for many years the muriate of iron has constituted the main element, with me, of internal medication in most cases of diphtheria, both of the mild and the most dangerous septic type.
Further, the label on Nourry Wine and the circular which is wrapped with it suggests its use in a number of diseases in which iodin medication is considered of minor importance.
Several correspondents remark that the relative infrequency of iodism is easily explainable by the fact that syrup is rarely employed in conditions which demand an active iodin medication and that it is, therefore, always taken in small doses.
There is, however, something so alluring about medication by digestive ferments which are assumed to supply a physiologic need, that since their discovery they have formed a fertile field for the activity of the manufacturer of proprietaries.
To urge physicians and the public to depend on this product for efficient iodid medication constitutes an unwarranted therapeutic exaggeration (Rule 6) which approaches criminality.
The claim is made: “The levulose of prunes, a constituent of Prunoids, is hygroscopic and thus when brought into contact with the saliva of the mouth or contents of the stomach, disintegrates and prompt medication is insured.
In this day of self-medication this condition is all the greater menace to the diabetic.
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Rest in bed, regulation of bowels, leeches to perineum, medication to render urine alkaline, and morphine hypodermically or in suppository.
The use of feces and urine as medication was widespread.
But in therapeutic trials that he himself had witnessed, he seemed utterly convinced that the medication in question was responsible for the cure and was quite content to accept the evidence of a single case.
The only media of time that I can use is either medication or food.
They weren't feeding me too much, and I am pretty sure it was after medication and food and the tray had been picked up that the call came in.
For patients in early life it seems to fill the place occupied by cannabis indica in the medication of adults.
The most successful treatment of this variety of insomnia is that form of medication which is addressed to the particular cause of the cachexia or dyscrasia.
But, with the exception of the single incident mentioned on page 193, the entire period from the commencement of her medication to the close of the lethargic stupor was utterly blotted out of her recollection.
It has found considerable employment in the insane asylums of Europe, and in other institutions where disagreeable medication is no obstacle to experiment.
The internal medication must consist of arterial sedatives and cerebral depressants.
In acute febrile diseases we have long ago discovered that far above all drug-medication is the use of mild liquid diet in the period of excitement, and of stimulant and nutritious food in that of exhaustion.
But to justify this proposition, I must add that the injuries inflicted by over-medication are to a great extent masked by disease.
As they see that patients are very commonly getting well under treatment by infinitesimal drugging, which they consider equivalent to no medication at all, they come to disbelieve in every form of drugging and put their whole trust in "nature.
Sometimes the death takes place a few minutes after the injection, but we are informed that the medication had nothing to do with it.
We may consume iron filings and remain anemic, in fact, the effect the iron medication has is to ruin the teeth, digestive organs and other parts of the body as a consequence.
I was educated medically in two of the colleges where medication is strongly advocated and well taught, and am a regular M.
If, after using the Aconite, the eruption breaks out and the fever abates, no further medication is necessary.
Under these circumstances we repeat the medicine every hour, or every two or three hours, one globule at a time, until all further medicationhas become unnecessary.
The overactive type is more likely to be water skiing on Lake Superior than sitting and listening to the tranquilizing strains of prescribed music, and the medication dumped down the drain instead of taken.
The lethargic types are very apt to forget, or to dismiss the medication or the therapy as too much trouble.
I can prescribe medication and therapy, but I have no power to force the patient to take the treatment.
Active and persistent antiluetic medication must precede and accompany any local treatment of luetic laryngeal stenosis.
Secretions can then be easily removed and medication in the form of oily solutions be instilled at will into the trachea.
The treatment of this case was as follows: whiskey every hour, milk every other hour; corrosive medication and powerful brain sedative every night, which would have paralyzed digestive energy for many days.
A learned physician was called, and there were many days of morphine, with other medication and all the food that could be coaxed into an unwilling stomach.
If the physician administers a placebo to a patient with the remark, "Here is a new medication that can help your condition" and if this technique does help alleviate the patient's condition, it is considered good medicine.
A recent scientific study by one of the leading pharmaceutical houses concluded that one third of the effectiveness of any medication depends upon the faith and trust that the patient has in the prescribing physician.
Many controlled experiments have shown that people achieve similar results whether they take a placebo (which they think is the real medication) or real medication that was prescribed.
New York, learning of her aunt's "miraculous cure," resolved to renounce medication and come home for hygienic treatment.
The processes of Water-Cure Explained, Popular Errors Exposed, Hygienic and Drug Medication Contrasted.
True, many chronic diseases are obstinate, yet a course of restorative medication persistently followed, promises a fortunate issue in this tractile temperament.
The nature and strength of themedication depends upon the character of the disease for which it is employed.
Prolonged medication has frequently aroused digestive disorders and made the patient hate the sight of the medicine bottle.
But they should not be satisfied with relief only, but should look about for such a system of medication as will rid them of the disease completely and permanently.
When it is the result of syphilis, the medication appropriate to this disease is to be employed.
A general tonic plan of medication is indicated in most cases, with such remedies as iron, quinine, nux vomica, and cod-liver oil and other nutrients.
It will, however, obliterate the terrible craving that these patients suffer when, unaided, they endeavor to get off their drugs or are made to go through the slow withdrawal without some medication to ease them.
Nothing but sleep will save him," I said, and suggested medication which was administered.
Whilst this medication is applied to the internal organs, let the animal have unusual care taken of him; let his head be washed several times a day with vinegar and water.
We think that the treatment by inoculation might have prevented the typhus in a very large proportion, and that the curative medication might have saved many of the infected cattle at the worst period of the epizootia.
She offered him his medication but he pushed it away.
Desperately, he tried to move to relieve the pains in his back: the smell of his own bandages and medication gagged him: he fought to breathe, to swear at Landel .
I want to put medication in your eyes," said Willits.
During the greater part of its existence all sorts of medication have been tried to allay this or that annoying prominent symptom with a hope of a cure.
The layman naturally adopted the theory and the motto of his medical advisers; hence in his self-medication and also under advice he consumes such vast quantities of purgative nostrums.
Then local medication is added to the general treatment, and as usual matters go from bad to worse.
The resort to this pleasant medication after no long time becomes habitual, and the patient finds that the remedy, whose use he had supposed was sanctioned by his physician, has become his tyrant.
Such moral medication belongs to the higher sphere of the doctor's duties, and, if he means to cure his patient permanently, he cannot afford to neglect them.
