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Title: Brooklyn medical journal.
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Medical Society of the County of Kings (Kings County, N.Y.)
Subjects: Medicine Surgery Medicine
Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Medical Society of Co. of Kings
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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retic effect seems to result from its action upon the renal epithe-lium. He has not yet been able to determine whether diuretin hasalso any marked effect upon the circulatory apparatus. At presenthe thinks this is impossible. The cases of severe dropsy from scarlatinal nephritis, after thesubsidence of the acute stage of the nephritis, seem to be relievedby diuretin more quickly than by any other method of treatment.In the oedema and serous accumulations resulting from disease ofthe mitral valve with disturbance of compensation, when digitalishas completed the process of compensation, the dropsy is rapidlyrelieved by the use of diuretin. The daily dosage is as follows :—From two to five years of age,0.5 to 1.5 g.; from six to ten years of age, 1.5 to 3.0 g. in 100 g. ofwater with 10 to 12 drops of brandy and 2 to 5 g. of sugar. Nocumulative effects nor any diminution in the therapeutic resultsfrom continued use were noticed where the above doses were ad-ministered for several weeks.
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SIR HANS SLOANE, M.D.,The Founder of the British Museum. This celebrated naturalist, collector and successful Physician was born at Killcleugh, in Ireland, where his fatherhad settled as the head of a Scotch colony sent over by James I., in 1660. He had as a youth a strong inclination to collect and study objects of natural history and other curiosities, whichtaste led him to take up the study of medicine, and, in order to attain a knowledge of its several branches, he went toLondon, where he devoted special study to botany, materia-medica and pharmacy. After four years spent in Lon-don, he traveled through France, spending some time at Paris and Montpelier, and taking his medical degree at theUniversity of Orange. He in 1684 returned to London, and was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society and soonafterwards of the Royal College of Physicians. It is said that on his arrival in London, Sloane waited upon Sydenham with a letter of recommendation from afriend, setting forth his qualifi

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