Sulphurous Baths in Asthma

Sulphurous Acid in Cholera

P. N. I. at Peshavvur during the cholera epidemic of 1876, had made extraordinary recoveries under the use of this medicine, i. e, the proportion of recoveries was unusually large. The cases of cholera in the 20th P. N. I. above mentioned were under my treatment, and it occurred to rue that the solution of sulphurous acid would be, when given internally, much more efficacious than by any other ...

Sulphurous Acid in Cholera

To the Editor of the " Indian Hfedical Gazette Sir, A few days since I saw in your paper of tho 1st of last October a letter from Surg.-Major G It. Cos tello, headed "Sulphurous Acid in Cholera." In this letter Surg-Major Costello refers to a letter from him in your Gazette of! November 187G, recommending tho internal use of: Sulphurous acid in solution in cases of: cholera, an 1 in his present...

Sulphurous Acid Treatment of Cholera

hoped, were sufficiently full and precise to enable impartial readers to see that the investigation was carried on in neither a " dilettante nor perfunctory" manner ; and I may now add that all arrangements were under my personal supervision, that I -was almost continuously with the patients from first to last, and that I was energetically assisted by students who volunteered for this special d...

Sulphurous Acid Treatment of Cholera

Foot infections in swimming baths.

A 10% random sample of all bathers at a public swimming bath were examined for tinea pedis and verruca.The overall incidence of tinea pedis was 8.5% and of verruca 4.8%. The incidence of tinea pedis in 205 male adults was 21.5%, in 288 boys 6.3%, in 60 adult females 3.3%, and in 220 girls 0.9%. The incidence of verruca in juveniles ranged from 4.2% in boys to 10.5% in girls.It was clear that bo...