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Title: Buffalo medical journal
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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oncluded that the dead foetus antedated 382 ABSTRACTS the second pregnancy. Superfecundation is not explicitly men-tioned. Six cases of post mortem Caesarian section are mentioned. Malaria treated by cinchona, dysentery and a great variety ofdiseases occurring during pregnancy, are described. Some of themost interesting allusions are to small pox. For example, hementions a case of a woman who contracted variola in the secondmonth of pregnancy, recovered and was delivered at six and one-half months of a foetus, apparently recently dead, presenting morethan twenty typic pustules. On the other hand he reports a caseand mentions having had a number of others in which small poxneither interrupted pregnancy nor was transmitted to the foetus.He also mentions small pox in the puerperium. Note: Owners of ancient medical books are invited to con-tribute abstracts of them. ABSTRACTS. Scorpion Found in Bunch of Bananas. The accompany-ing cut illustrating a rare but not unknown danger of commerce.
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is reproduced through the courtesy of Popular Electricity and theWorlds Advance, a journal which is interesting from cover tocover, including its advertisements. Benzoate of Mercury in Syphilis. G. B. Sweeney of Pitts-burgh, Urologic & Cutaneous Review, having observed the re-sults obtained by Gaucher of the St. Louis Hospital, Paris, whoused a solution in sodium chlorid—sterile water, conceived theidea of eliminating the drawback of pain by employing an oilemulsion derived from bullocks brain. This medium and theprecaution of using chemically pure benzoate of mercury provedsuccessful in rendering hypodermatic injection comparativelypainless. The patient may be assured that the period of treat-ment will seldom exceed three months; that there will be nodigestive disturbances and that recurrence of lesions need notbe feared if reasonable precautionary measures are followed upand correct habits are observed. ABSTRACTS 383 Solid Tumors of the Sub-maxillary Gland. Addison G.Brenizier

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