. Clinical medicine. granules of this rem-edy prepared by M. Charles Chanteaud. According to the Textbook of Alkaloid-al Therapeutics, by Doctors Waugh andAbbott, (second edition, 1907, p. 123), theremarkable power exerted over diphtheriaby calcium sulphide is a discovery whichthe world owes to Fontaine, of Bar-sur-Seine, whose first communication on thesubject appeared in 1875. We have before us two French pamph-lets on the subject of calcium sulphide,one by Dr. Albert Salivas, published in1898, and the other by Dr. Gabriel Viaud,published in 1900, both of which reportupon experimental and cl
. Clinical medicine. granules of this rem-edy prepared by M. Charles Chanteaud. According to the Textbook of Alkaloid-al Therapeutics, by Doctors Waugh andAbbott, (second edition, 1907, p. 123), theremarkable power exerted over diphtheriaby calcium sulphide is a discovery whichthe world owes to Fontaine, of Bar-sur-Seine, whose first communication on thesubject appeared in 1875. We have before us two French pamph-lets on the subject of calcium sulphide,one by Dr. Albert Salivas, published in1898, and the other by Dr. Gabriel Viaud,published in 1900, both of which reportupon experimental and clinical investiga-tions concerning the antiseptic and antibac-terial action of calcium sulphide whichwas used with success in diphtheria, mem-branous croup, croup, whooping cough,scrofula, tuberculosis, typhoid fever andmany other bacterial diseases. It is interesting, at times, to look backupon the history of valuable remedies, andwe hope that this brief historical note mayprove acceptable to our readers.—Ed.] ;o]E.
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