IODINE AS A REMEDY FOR VOMITING.

Turmeric Flower as a Remedy for Gonorrhœa

Sib,?In your issue dated 1st July I have had the opportunity of reading two articles regarding injections of quinine and cinchona into the urethra as the best remedies for gonorrhoea, and this induces me to send you this notice of a specific, which I have lately discovered, as being a useful medicine in that disease, and hope your readers will kindly try it and let the profession know the resul...

A Remedy for Biodeterioration: Zingiber officinale Roscoe. Oil

In our study, bioactivity of essential oil extracted from Ginger (Zingiber officinaleRoscoe.) that belongs to family Zingiberaceae was analyzed. Ginger rhizome oil was found to be effective against a range of bio-deteriogens. The Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) value was determined by Poisoned Food Technique and Volatile Activity Assay. The study demonstrates that essential oil had a wid...

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...

Goa Powder as a Remedy in Psoriasis

The willow as a Hottentot (Khoikhoi) remedy for rheumatic fever.

In 1764, Edmund Stone, a vicar in Chipping Norton, a small town in North Oxfordshire, England, reasoned that the bark of the common white willow tree (Salix alba vulgaris) might be a treatment for 'agues and intermitting disorders' (fevers): 1 'About six years ago, I accidentally tasted it, and was surprised by its extraordinary bitterness; which immediately raised me a suspicion of its having ...