CREASOTE AS A REMEDY IN PHTHISIS PULMONALIS

A Case of Phthisis Pulmonalis; with Remarks

Creasote as an Antipyretic

Gurkha Rifles, age 24, was admitted into hospital on 21st October, with lobar pneumonia of the right lung. On the first two days the evening temperature was 103?, but at 4-30 p.m. on the third day it had risen to 104? (pulse 108, respiration 36). Creasote was applied to the abdomen at 5 P.M., and at 6-30 p.m. the temperature had fallen to 100? (pulse 80, respiration 18). Next morning, at 7 a.m....

Goa Powder as a Remedy in Psoriasis

Truncus solitarius pulmonalis.

Truncus solitarius pulmonalis is a rare anomaly of the heart. Fifteen cases have been described since I814, some of which cannot be verified at this distance. The deformity, which is a variant of the hypoplastic left heart syndrome, is identified by the absence of coronary ostia in the sinuses of the valve of the truncus and by an atretic aorta which appears to be an anomalous coronary artery.

Contribution to Venesection as a Remedy

Mr President and Gentlemen,?In response to the request of some of our ex-Presidents, I have selected the subject of Venesection. Though regarded as a bete noire or almost forbidden subject ?indeed, a questio vexata?at various periods during the last three centuries, yet as a wave in its favour seems now impending, I feel it my duty to contribute a few cases from past practice in illustration of...