The Australasian Medical Gazette, Vol. 11

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Excerpt from The Australasian Medical Gazette, Vol. 11: The Accredited Organ of All the Principal Medical Societies in Australia and New Zealand, From October 1891, to December 1892I was so imbued with the common-sense reasoning of the article that I at once set about obtaining picrate of sodium for my patients, and was fortunate enough to succeed in getting it made in Melbourne, where I am now actively using it, in conjunction with tuberculine, in doses beginning at f of a grain. One poor fellow, whose is not a suitable case for injections of tuberculine, has been taking picrine alone as a solatium, and has benefited thereby. His sputum has become less purulent, is more frothy and less bacterial, the bacilli showing decided signs of degeneration. Weight has been gained. And the appetite is immense. I have now had a total of 16 cases of phthisis under my care for the last eight months, and the least that can be said of those considered cured or well is, that they show no signs of relapse so far. That a great deal of work is entailed by the inclusion of tuber culine in the modern treatment of tubercular diseases is manifest that few care to face it when such an easy excuse is to hand as that its use is attended by danger to the patient, is also mani fest, whilst, again, there are men who do not believe in antiseptics, and could therefore never be expected to know the significance of a sterilized test tube or syringe, far less the prepara tion of sputum for the microscope. It is therefore clear that were tuberculine even much more useful than it has been found to be, its use would still be restricted to a few practitioners, who had devoted much time to the study of this as well as all other methods of treatment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.