Sometimes, indeed, there are no clinical symptoms, the condition perhaps only being discovered whilst performing the complete mastoid operation as a prophylactic measure.
It is also advisable as a prophylactic measure, although not urgent, even although no acute symptoms are present.
The vaccination took place before the disease began, but too late to exert a decided prophylactic effect.
The prophylactic treatment of smallpox is of vastly more importance than any therapeutic measure, since it concerns a community and not merely an individual.
Circumcision is, therefore, an advisable prophylactic measure, where the constitutional taint is known to exist.
One man will produce the same results through the means of some vaunted wash or dip which is supposed to act as a prophylactic to any venereal infection.
There's not a Micrococcus in the garden where they play; They bathe in pure iodoform a dozen times a day; And each imbibes his rations from a Hygienic Cup-- The Bunny and the Baby and the Prophylactic Pup.
It is to be noted that it is recommended that the prophylactic treatment is to be carried out by some properly instructed person.
It recommended, among other remedial measures, that prophylactic depots, both for males and females, should be established as widely in the community as possible.
Others, partly taken from Galen, are recommended by him for prophylactic purposes and for cleansing and beautifying the teeth.
In Serapion, too, we find many formulas for dentifrice powders, some of which are intended simply for cleaning the teeth, others for special prophylactic or curative purposes.
From this it may be perceived that even in those days doctors had understood the importance of the cleanliness and disinfection of the mouth as a prophylactic against infective diseases.
Turpentine Oil and Ether (Durande's remedy): Equal parts to relieve pain during paroxysm; also occasionally as prophylactic along with a course of Carlsbad or Vichy water.
Acid, Sulphuric: dilute in lemonade as a prophylactic and curative.
Cold Water: asprophylactic with friction and wrapping up.
Quinine: as prophylacticto abort fit and to prevent recurrence: its action is aided by purgatives, emetics and aromatics.
When the messenger delivers the money to me, the prophylactic will be sent immediately.
In case you do, the prophylactic will not be sent under any circumstances.
The letter continued, "I am happy to say, however, that I have a prophylactic which will destroy any number of these germs if used up to the ninth day.
But pharisaism diagnosed the disease of the age differently, and insisted that the observance of the Law was the best prophylactic against disease.
According to an old Welsh custom, fighting-cocks were provided with prophylactic amulets before entering the arena.
Devil; and cites the case of a young woman living in Chelsea, England, who reposed confidence in a sealed paper, mystically inscribed, as a prophylactic against toothache.
Now there's not a micrococcus in the garden where they play And they bathe in pure iodoform a dozen times a day, Taking each his daily ration from a hygienic cup, The baby and the bunny and the prophylactic pup.
The antiseptic baby and the prophylactic pup Were playing in the garden when the bunny gambolled up; They looked upon the creature with a loathing undisguised, For he wasn't disinfected and he wasn't sterilized.
As a prophylactic of cholera and fevers it is invaluable and superior to all other substances.
The hom[oe]opathists regard them as prophylactic of cholera, and the common people hold them to possess the same virtue in reference to contagious diseases generally, but especially typhus and scarlet fever.
Fresh carbonised bread forms an excellent charcoal, both for a prophylacticand a tooth powder.
In 1831 it was much employed in Paris as a prophylactic of cholera.
Some months ago, during the war, I attended a conference to protest against the giving of prophylactic outfits to the overseas troops.
Consider again the controversy that has raged with regard to the providing of prophylactic outfits to our men in the Army and Navy.
In view of this and as a prophylactic against a course of bad luck, I made so bold as to ask if I might venture to repair the loss of the peseta which he would otherwise have earned.
Jenner who shall discover a reliable prophylactic against scarlatina, is probably not yet born.
This remedy was first introduced as a specific and prophylactic by Hahnemann, and soon recommended not only by his own disciples, but by some of the best names of the "regular" school.
Vaccination is an almost sure prophylactic against it; but, notwithstanding, many, with whom the preservative was neglected or with whom it proved powerless, have fallen victims to its ravages.
There is neither a Specific nor a Prophylactic to be relied on 32 43.
Whatever ground there may have been for the belief in the prophylactic effect of smoking, there can be no doubt that in the seventeenth century it was firmly held.
The belief in the prophylactic power of tobacco was, however, very generally held.
When vasectomy is done by the State, it is done either as a penal or as a prophylactic measure.
Before 1881, when Crede introduced prophylactic treatment for ophthalmia neonatorum, every maternity hospital had a department isolated for the care of babies suffering with this disease.
It is on account of this very insidiousness of onset that I have elsewhere urged as a prophylactic measure the examination every six months of all persons over forty years of age.
In general the treatment of arteriosclerosis is prophylactic and symptomatic.
At the English drug store on the Escolta I bought a tiny bottle of Yersin's Antipest Serum and another of Haffkine's Prophylactic Fluid.
Charles V at Paris, and was held by those who bore it to possess a prophylactic virtue.
The figure of a saint was naturally a favourite subject, since it was supposed to possess special prophylactic powers.
The fever some times attacked the believers in quinine, while the unbelievers in its prophylactic powers escaped.
Officers were invited to discuss the question whether it would not be advisable to establish prophylactic depots in various parts of Cairo.
In California, the birth certificate asks these questions: "Was a prophylactic for ophthalmia neonatorum used?
Dr Glaser reports that the birth certificates in fourteen of the largest cities of the state, for the year 1917, show that on eighty-seven per cent of the certificates filed, the questions had been answered, and the prophylactic used.
There may be some little hereditary tendency, but the disease itself is certainly not inherited, and can be counteracted in its early stages by prophylactic treatment, as we have now fully demonstrated.
If we had developed our prophylactic system earlier it might have saved him, but he is too old now.
In fact, at the present day in some parts of the South quinin is constantly kept on the table as a prophylactic constituent of the diet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prophylactic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
