Cerium Oxalate Research Articles

THE USE OF CERIUM OXALATE FOR THE RELIEF OF VOMITING :

<h3>1. INTRODUCTION.</h3> The widely prevalent therapeutic use of cerium oxalate, the many years that it has held a conspicuous position in our pharmacopeia, and the disagreement among medical practitioners as to its therapeutic usefulness, seem to justify the series of investigations that provide the subject of this paper. Diversity of opinion regarding the therapeutic value of cerium oxalate has existed ever since the first introduction of the drug in 1854 by Simpson¹before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, and yet a review of the literature has failed to reveal any efforts to solve this mooted question by experimental methods. Following the lead of Simpson, Lee,²Jones³and Sommer,⁴many subsequent observers recorded their endorsement of the use of cerium oxalate for the relief of all sorts of gastrointestinal disturbances. Nevertheless, many others have been absolutely unable to achieve any alleviation of the

The treatment of gastric vomiting with oxalate of cerium

The treatment of gastric vomiting with oxalate of cerium

Oxalate of Cerium for Gastric Crises

Oxalate of Cerium for Gastric Crises

REPORT OF TWO CASES OF SEVERE VOMITING OF PREGNANCY.Read in the Section of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women at the Forty-first Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Nashville, Tenn., May 20, 1890.

It is the purpose of this paper to present merely a clinical study of two cases without entering upon the voluminous and oft-rewritten literature of the subject. Case 1 .—Mrs. P. S., of nervous temperament, delicate from childhood, but subject to no special organic disease, married at the age of 26, and became pregnant within a few months. Nausea and obstinate vomiting developed early. Apparently nearly all nourishment taken was rejected; she soon became so much prostrated as to be confined to her bed. Her weight in a few weeks fell from 102 to seventy pounds. Local examination revealed the signs of an early pregnancy, a conical and very long cervix, no displacement or peri-uterine tenderness. Under treatment by rest in bed, careful regulation of diet, (most of the time an exclusive milk diet), bromide of potash, and oxalate of cerium, the vomiting was somewhat mitigated and nutrition maintained. At three

XIII. A redetermination of the atomic weight of cerium

XIII. A redetermination of the atomic weight of cerium

Oxalate of Cerium in the Sickness of Pregnancy

Oxalate of Cerium in the Sickness of Pregnancy

The Oxalate of Cerium in Dyspectic Vomiting

The Oxalate of Cerium in Dyspectic Vomiting

20. Oxalate of Cerium in Epilepsy

20. Oxalate of Cerium in Epilepsy

Oxalate of Cerium in the Vomiting of Pregnancy

Oxalate of Cerium in the Vomiting of Pregnancy