Treatment of Disorders Arising from Prolonged Mental Depression, Etc.

Abstract

in small doses it still is, as it will ever be, a most valuable I greatly into disuse of late years. Administered in small agent. Headland says that very minute doses can be given doses its action is most marked and beneficent. Apart from in debility, and even in scrofula, in which cases it acts as a I its catalytic effect in the blood, it acts as a sedative, diapho tonic by stimulating the functions of the liver. He also re-I retic and expectorant. To produce its true power, it must, commends the admmistration of very small potions of the according to Laennec, be absorbed in the blood, and this can bichlorate of mercury in chronic s:yphilitic affections, if we only be brought about by the administration of minimum wish to secure the special blood actIOn deemed necessary to doses. Its efficacy in small quantities, as an adjunct to pur destroy the poison in this disease. We entirely concur with I gative remedies, through its power of relaxing the muscular him in this opinion.