carbolic oil. He appeared to be making a satisfactory progress up to the 22nd, when he was found to be suffering from hepatitis ; the area of hepatic dulness was extended in an upward and backward direction ; there was some pain on pressure, but no rigors. His looks were somewhat haggard, and he had slight cough, unattended with any expectoration. On the evening of the 2oth he was found to be s...

in the following notes the term digitalis is used to describe the entire group of cardiac glycosides a large number of plants contain cardiac glycosides, and these have been used by natives as arrow and ordeal poisons Squill was known to the ancient Egyptians and the Romans used it as a diuretic, heart tonic, emetic and rat poison Strophanthus was introduced by Sir Thomas Fraser in 1890 digital...

Case 1. (Case 4 in the Volume, as the three first art mere dissections afezo days after entering the hospital.) A man, 34 years of age, was admitted into hospital early in the spring of 1812, apparently in a dying state. Countenance and lips livid and swollen ; eyes red and suffused; breathing excessively difficult; cough with haemoptysis ; great debility and emaciation ; slight oedema of the f...

Did Johnson possess real medical learning and understanding or merely a standard smattering of information? The issue has been much debated. Wiltshire persuasively argues the former. He shows, especially by examination of Johnson's correspondence, that he possessed a clear grasp of Boerhaavian iatromechanism. Johnson's considerable faith in venesection followed from such physiological principle...

Antimicrobial activity of methanol extract from bulb of Scilla scilloides as well as the purified eucosterol oligosaccharides (EOs) against bacteria, fungi and alga was evaluated in vitro using paper disc bioassay. EOs including scillascilloside E-1, E-2, E-3 and G-1 were isolated from the bulbs by methanol extraction, gel filtration on Sephadex LH-20 and preparative HPLC. The metabolites were ...