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Page 19 - Wood suggested the use of antipyrine and bromide of ammonium in combination. Since then this mixture has been used with excellent results in the treatment of forty-three cases of idiopathic epilepsy. In none did it fail to cause marked amelioration of the symptoms, and in some it gave relief when all the other commonly-used remedies had failed, and in none has there been any indication of bromism, or of the disagreeable symptoms to which antipyrine sometimes gives rise.
Page 31 - At the. same time he does not lose sight of the fact that attention should also be paid to the general surroundings of the patient — hygiene, sunlight, sanitary clothing, etc.
Page 72 - The same treatment was continued another twenty-four hours, at the expiration of which time the exudate had entirely disappeared from the boy's mouth and throat, while in the girl's throat it had again at least doubled in quantity, and the general appearance of the throat was much worse. Believing then that the zinc sulphate was entitled to credit for the boy's rapidly improved condition, the girl was supplied with a gargle identical with that which the boy had been using, and twenty-four hours later...
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