On Pressure as a Surgical Remedy

On Sulphurous Acid as a Remedy for Cholera

In the first place, the qualities of sulphurous acid are worthy of note. "It is a powerful deoxidising agent, disinfecting and antiseptic, and destructive to vegetable life. It destroys the germs of fungi in wounds, of parasitic lichen on the skin." {Vide Squire's Companion to the British Pharmacopoeia, Art. Sulphurous acid.) Should cholera be due ^as some have supposed) to the presence of a fi...

Note on Embelia Ribes as a Remedy for Tape-Worm

Civil Surgeon of Allahabad. "Baubirung" is the vernacular name of the remedy above alluded to, and as it seems to me to surpass many others that I have tried in tape-worm?as, moreover, its virtues do not seem to be extensively known?it has been thought worth while to draw attention to it in this place. In proof of the drug being little known, it may be stated that Dr. Waring does not mention it...

On Cobweb as a Remedy for Malarious Fevers

wise of cobweb in the treatment of paroxysmal fevers. I therefore contribute my experience on this point. In 1859, Mr. Donaldson, of the Bengal Service, inserted a paper in the Indian Lancet, reporting very favourably of cobweb in intermittents. Wishing to try the experiment myself, I collected, when Civil Surgeon at Bhooj, a large quantity of clean cobweb, and prescribed it, as advised, in the...

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