THE SINGLE HYPOPHOSPHITES IN DEFECTIVE NUTRITION OF BONE AND NERVE TISSUES.

Abstract

Of all the varied uses of the hypophosphites, none are more interesting to me than their employment to meet certain faults of nutrition in the osseous and nervous systems. I group these two departments of the human organism roughly together here, because my attention was directed to them in this connection, by certain rational considerations. In the chemic constitution, the growth and the maintenance of both, phosphorus plays a very important part. So it was inferred, that in certain pathologic conditions of either, especially when characterized by defective nutrition, the use of phosphorus in some convenient and easily assimilable form, is the primary and essential indication of treatment. The various clinical trials of this opinion in practice for several years, have amply justified and sustained the inference. My readers are probably familiar with the use of these remedies in cases of delayed teething in children. Aside from this familiar use,