Abstract

About five years ago, being called to a patient who had prodromic symptoms of typhoid fever, and insisted on some prompt remedy, I gave him a half-grain pill of hydrarg. protiodid, knowing it to be one of the most powerful antiseptics and having frequently prescribed it in cases of specific disease, for several days in succession, without causing any trouble. After one pill daily for two days he was so much improved that nothing more was given and on the fourth day he went out and remained well. Later, in two similar cases, it was used with like results. Some time after, I was sent for at night to see a young man who had diarrhea and had been sick for a week, but not in bed. His family had considered it as merely a bilious attack, until the delirium alarmed them. I found him with a temperature of 104,

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