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Liverpool Medico-chirurgical Journal (1886)
Liverpool Medicochirurgical Journal - 1886 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REPORT RECENT PRACTICAL ADVANCES IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY. The Editors have much pleasure in announcing that they have added a new department to this Journa... more »l, in the form of a half- yearly report on recent practical advances in medicine and surgery. Amid the profusion of medical literature of the present day, it must be often felt that it is difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. It will be the object of this report to act as a sifter, and from among the numerous new remedies and methods of treatment which are introduced to select only those of practical value, and reject all those which have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. This department has been placed in the hands of a committee, and no new treatment will be recommended in these reports until it has been fully investigated and approved of by all the members. The gentlemen who form the committee are:—Dr William Alexander, Dr James Barr, Dr J. E. Burton, Dr William Carter, and Mr Reginald Harrison. The subjects of the present report are Antipyretics and Antiseptics. The report on Antipyretics has been drawn up by Dr James Barr, and that on Antiseptics by Dr William Alexander. ANTIPYRETICS. The subject of antipyretics has for some time greatly exercised the minds of physicians, and in all febrile manifestations the tendency—rightly or wrongly—in the present day is to reduce the temperature at all hazards. The fever,which is only one of the many symptoms of the disease, is perhaps receiving undue attention to the neglect of all the others. An excellent lecture by Professor Dujardiii-Beaumetz on antithermic medication, with special reference to resorciue, kairine, antipyrin, and thalline, appeared in the Therapeutic Gazette of September, from which we abstract the following summary:— Resorcine,...« less