If arsenic is used over long periods, or any of the salicylates because of the supposed connection of chorea and an underlying rheumatic diathesis they will certainly do harm.
Rheumatism, as we know it, is an acute infectious disease and there is no reason in the world for saying that the salicylates or cognate drugs are specifics in this affection.
The salicylates are often given for these conditions and relieve the discomfort but because of their value as anodynes, which they share with the coal-tar products, and not because of any genuine antirheumatic effect.
After rest in bed and the administration of salicylates and colchicum, the pain subsided and the redness and much of the swelling disappeared.
There is no doubt that the salicylates will relieve the pain almost at once, but so will any other coal-tar product and phenacetin, acetanilid or even antipyrin may be used with good effect.
Any painful condition in the neighborhood of the joint that is worse on rainy days is likely to be labeled rheumatism and, because the salicylates are supposed to be a specific for rheumatism, treated with large doses of these drugs.
They include all the old-fashioned salicylates as well as certain more recent compounds, such as aspirin.
This indicates the attempt made to convey, by implication, the idea that the salicylates are absent from Hymosa.
The basic preparation is Phecolates, which contains bile salts in combination with phenyl salicylates and benzo-naphthol in about one-eighth the regular doses and hence not likely to be of any real service.
Salicylates are generally recognized as valuable in acute manifestations of acute articular rheumatism; colchicum is useless in these conditions.
Still harping on the undesirability of salicylates and the value of hymosa the advertising pamphlets state: “Salicylic Acid Replaced.
Although the alleged superiority of natural over synthetic salicylates has been disproved, physicians are urged to use Betul-ol because it contains, or is alleged to contain, a natural salicylate.
Hymosa has achieved most remarkable results in overcoming rheumatism in cases where salicylates have been tried in vain .
Both salicylates and colchicum are practically useless in chronic rheumatic and in chronic gouty affections.
Reid Hunt, recently appointed professor of pharmacology at Harvard Medical School: “Have you ever made an examination of the theobromin sodium salicylates on the market to determine if they are identical with ‘Diuretin?
When the quantity of salicylates is small, the urine may be acidified with hydrochloric acid and extracted with ether, the ether evaporated, and the test applied to an aqueous solution of the residue.
Salicylates are only of service during the exacerbations attended with pyrexia.
Remedies such as salicylates are given for the relief of pain, and for this purpose drugs of the aspirin type are to be preferred, and these may be followed by large doses of iodide of potassium.
Salicylates have a field of usefulness in influenza in that they often afford relief from pain.
Still more astonishing is the following claim: “Venosal is a combination carrying the true salicylates (sodii) in doses much larger than given by mouth.
The facts are: Salicylates are useful in some of these conditions, colchicin occasionally in a few, hexamethylenamin in none.
The whole question of the justification of using salicylates intravenously is open to grave doubt.
The name and the statement of composition are objectionable in that they do not reveal the identity of the drugs in “Calcylates” and in suggesting that this preparation possesses radical advantages over salicylates in other forms.
The same failure which has followed the use of quinine, of arsenic, and of salicin and the salicylates has attended the effort to prevent the relapse by berberine, benzoate of soda, tincture of eucalyptus, and other reputed antiperiodics.
Nor do the salicylates materially alter the time spent in hospital by rheumatic patients; some evidence indicates that they actually prolong that period.
Relapses appeared to recur less frequently in those cases which yielded to the salicylates within five days than in those which took from six to eleven days to yield, in the ratio, according to Fagge's figures, of 26.
As regards the relative power of the salicylates and of full alkaline {61} treatment in protecting the heart, the following analysis and calculation deserve attention.
Such measures have been already said to be the administration of the salicylatesand alkaline salts together in full doses, and the observance of certain dietetic and hygienic details to be given hereafter.
Should severe cardiac inflammation exist, and, even although not severe, should there exist signs of failure of cardiac power, salicylates and salicine had better be avoided.
Relapses are more frequent--probably considerably more frequent--under treatment by salicylates than under other methods.
As this complication most frequently occurs during acute rheumatism, the question arises as to the value or harmfulness of salicylates and alkaline drugs.
Except in large doses, salicylates probably do not depress the heart.
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