A text-book of practical therapeutics . ction of arsphenamine has in no way displaced mercuryas an essential part of the treatment of syphilis. The best resultsare obtained by use of both. First the arsphenamine, then a courseof mercury. The use of both drugs is well illustrated by the following 366 DRUGS table preparedby Gibbard and Harrison from records in the BritishWar Office which shows the great diminution of relapses under mer-cury and arsphenamine as compared to the use of mercury is also a great reduction in the number of sick days. Totalcases. ill fi _ 6 M ^£ < Cli
A text-book of practical therapeutics . ction of arsphenamine has in no way displaced mercuryas an essential part of the treatment of syphilis. The best resultsare obtained by use of both. First the arsphenamine, then a courseof mercury. The use of both drugs is well illustrated by the following 366 DRUGS table preparedby Gibbard and Harrison from records in the BritishWar Office which shows the great diminution of relapses under mer-cury and arsphenamine as compared to the use of mercury is also a great reduction in the number of sick days. Totalcases. ill fi _ 6 M ^£ < Clinical relapses. Average time lost byeach man in days. Treatment. 3 O O 3 o£ O 03 O S-. ?« ?- i a p s 3 CO H fin 3,o GO 1 obo ^ .9 c -3 .2 get* Total. Mercury alone ....Mercury and arsphenamine 371152 1516 1150 490 3156 Of all the preparations of mercury used by the mouth in the treat-ment of syphilis, the protoiodide is the most popular, and deservedlyso. (See article on Syphilis.). Fig. 53.—Lamp for mercurial fumigations. This lamp is made of wire gauze, andresembles the safety lamp of miners, thereby guarding against sudden explosions ofthe alcoholic vapors. Mercury is often administered by means of fumigations or inhala-tions both for the removal of local and general syphilitic best apparatus for either purpose is one devised by Bumstead,and it is both simple and inexpensive. It consists of a sheet-iron MERCURY 367 cup so bent that the bottom of the vessel, instead of being flat,projects upward into the center of the cup, thereby forming a raisedcenter with a little ditch about it. The top of this projection isflattened, and on its apex is placed the calomel which is to be sub-limed. The surrounding ditch is then filled with hot water, andthe cup placed over an alcohol flame, which disengages the vaporof the calomel and water. (See Fig. 53.)
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