“Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States.” For the Fiscal Year 1911. Washington. Government Printing Office. 1914.
This is the forty-third annual report of the operations of the Public Health Service, in the one hundred and sixteenth year of its existence, issued by the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States. This treats of the seven divisions of the bureau under the following heads, viz. (1) Scientific Research and Sanitation; (2) Foreign and Insular Quarantine and Immigration; (3) Domestic (Interstate) Quarantine; (4) Sanitary Reports and Statistics; (5) Marine Hospitals and Relief; (6) Personnel and Accounts; (7) Miscellaneous. The report contains a great deal of interest to the general reader, especially to those interested in sanitary matters, and shows the methodical and systematic manner in which the affairs of the bureau are administered.
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“In Particular Cases.”
Therapeutic efficiency in the use of the bromides is often as dependent on the avoidance of untoward effects as on the attainments of maximum physiologic activity. For this reason Peacock’s Bromides offer the most satisfactory bromide therapy, for not only does this happy combination of carefully selected bromide salts insure all the benefits of the most active bromide preparation, but it does so with the great advantage that gastric disturbance and all tendencies to bromism are reduced to a minimum. This is why in “particular cases” so many physicians are in the habit of insisting on the use of Peacock’s Bromides.
Notwithstanding the large number of Hypophosphites on the market, it is quite difficult to obtain a uniform and reliable syrup. “Robinson’s” is a highly elegant preparation, and possesses an advantage over some others, in that it holds the various salts, including iron, quinine, and strychnine, etc., in perfect solution, and is not liable to the formation of fungus growths. (See advertisement in this issue.)
“Many cases of acute coryza and naso-pharyngeal irritation are often due primarily to the streptococcus rheumaticus and respond to the usual rheumatic therapy.”
In these cases commonly called “colds,” generally deep-seated, painful and exhausting, Tongaline mitigates the congestion and by rapid elimination of the poison or germs, promptly relieves a condition often very obstinate and if not corrected within a reasonable time, attended with serious results and always with a tendency to become chronic.