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Title: Journal - American Medical Association
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: American Medical Association
Subjects: Medicine Medicine Medicine (General) Periodicals
Publisher: Chicago
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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e canesugar, and as soluble as the nature of the activeagent will admit. 3. The placing of one or more granules at adose, whether for purposes antiseptic, disinfectant,anaesthetic, a.stringent, and so on, in the preciseregion of the disease, and leaving the medicationjust where it is deposited. As it melts and dis-solves and mixes with the secretions the tract orregion of ti.ssue will be bathed as the substancefinds its way over their surface. 4. The use of instruments adapted for the pur-pose of carrying the granules in. The matter of the selection of the medicationis in the hands of the surgeon to use that whichhe may. The form of the remedy is convenient,the dose is accurate, and the method of intro-ducing it into the channel of the urethra, thebladder, the cavity and neck of the uterus andthe rectum is clean, economical, elegant, effectiveand simple. The warmed and oiled instrumentis carried down into the urethra until the end de-fines the inflamed patch, and this it does with ac-
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most common cause. The treatment of the urethrafor gonorrhcea and other inflammations concernsa vast number of persons. The methods of treatment are numerous. It isto-day, in the light of science, not a question somuch as to what remedy or drug is required todestroy the cocci and other bacteria, and whichdrug is a good disinfectant, and which an anges- curacy, when the granules are deposited in theurethra and the instrument withdrawn. The sizeof the granule is such that only the slightest, ifany, irritation is cau.sed. There is absolutely nodistress as is the case with bougies of gelatine andmasses of medicated gelatine and cocoa butter, andso on. The strength of the substance of the gran-ule will determine as to how many to use for one 736 THE CARBON COMPOUNDS. (November 24, dose. A single granule of corrosive sublimate of imillig. (Vt grain) is equivalent to a teaspoonful ofasublimate solution of i :20oo. Of granules of iodo-fonn, iodol, hj-dro-naphthol, thallin sulphate andcocaine

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