AN ALLEGED CURE FOR TYPHOID FEVER.
The Medical Press and Circular says : -The curative treatment of typhoid fever cannot be said to have been characterised, so far, by any great success, the attitude of the practitioner being, perforce, what is euphemistically described as ‘ expectant ’ — e.g., he hopes for the best. Dr. Anderson, the medical officer of health for Dundee, claims to have discovered the long sought for specific in the salicylate of phenol, alias salol. This compound, as is well known, splits up in contact with the alkaline secretions of the intestine into salicylic acid and phenol, and he proposes to turn this phenomenon to account to render and maintain the intestinal tract aseptic. He has tried this method of treatment in a number of cases of typhoid fever, and he states that in many the course of the disease was completely and permanently arrested on the fifteenth day after the supervention of the symptoms and the fifth day of the antiseptic treatment.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 20, 20 May 1893, Page 477
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163AN ALLEGED CURE FOR TYPHOID FEVER. New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 20, 20 May 1893, Page 477
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