THE USE OF HYDROZONE AND GLYCOZONE IN GASTRIC AND INTESTINAL DISTURBANCES.

BY W. H. VAIL, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND Surgeon, Medical Examiner for Fraternal Mystic College, Philadelphia, Pa.; Assistant Editor St. Louis Hospital Bulletin; Visiting Surgeon to Mayfield Sanitarium; House Physician for Wm. Barr Dry Goods Co.

I have, for a long time, been rather enthusiastic over the value of hydrozone and glycozone in treating diseases,. and can attribute much valuable assistance and extraordinary results from their use in the last few years. The medical profession, in fact, has never gained such remarkable results from the employment of any production as it has from the use of these preparations, and my recent effects have almost, in a measure, surpassed them all. I will give a brief report of one remarkable case. I could mention several others, but a physician's time is valuable, and often he has not the moment to spend in perusing a legion of cases, so I select this one, it being the severest of all, to demonstrate the potency of hydrozone and glycozone.

I was called to treat a young man suffering from a severe gastro-enteritis. I found him in a most serious condition, having been delirious for three days. His temperature was subnormal, 97.6°, pulse 60, respiration 16. He was greatly emaciated, atonic, had inappetence, a severe agonizing pain in the stomach and intestines, at times so severe that he would sit on the edge of the bed and groan, oftentimes yell. These attacks were always of a similar nature and occurred regularly. He was unable to take either solid or liquid food, even in small quantities, without causing a return of the pain, a teaspoonful of milk being sufficient to produce it. His condition was pitiable. His cheeks were hollow, eyes congested, skin pale and sallow, and his whole appearance showed the presence of intense pain.

I was called at the end of the third week of his illness. The former physician had employed opiates in large doses with most worthless results, also many other drugs with not a sign of improvement, he growing seriously worse. I determined that hydrozone and glycozone were the remedies indicated, and were the only ones that would be of value here; therefore, I gave him at once one-half glass of a mixture of one-half ounce of hydrozone with a little honey to one quart of water. He was somewhat disturbed for a while after the potion, but was soon re

lieved. The distress, I presume, was due to the advanced stage of the inflammation. I continued to administer this for some time, with only a slight improvement; but after several doses had been taken, the relief was very decided. After his nourishment, I gave one teaspoonful of glycozone in a wineglass of water. After a few doses of this, he was much easier, and, at midnight, fell asleep and slept all night, not awakening until morning; the first sleep that he had had in five days. I had previously discarded all other remedies, of which there was a large number, as one after another was given with no benefit. All of the acute symptoms disappeared in a few days, at which time he felt very much better; and he continued to improve without having a recurrence of any of his old severe symptoms. Before this I had increased both the nature and the quantity of his food, which he relished greatly. I continued the hydrozone and glycozone for a month after, to entirely reduce the inflamed condition of the mucous membrane of the gastro-intestinal tract. These two remedies have afforded me most excellent issues many times in the treatment of gastric and intestinal disorders.

All gastric and intestinal disturbances are caused by the lining of the stomach becoming inflamed, and in order to allay this inflammation, it must first be treated with antiseptics, then with medicaments that both heal and stimulate the mucous membrane that has become diseased. The most common cause for this state of inflammation is a greatly diminished quantity of gastric juices necessary for digestion; consequently, the food partaken of, instead of being assimilated, ferments-in other words, the peptic glands, whose function it is to secrete the gastric juice, do not perform their function properly. These must be restored to their normal state at once, which is accomplished by remedies that exert a stimulating effect upon them, and at the same time are non-toxic, else the trouble will only be aggravated. Hydrozone and glycozone are the two remedies par excellence for these two purposes, and the success that I have obtained from the employment of them during the past few years will lead me to always use them in these disorders.

Hydrozone causes destruction to microbes, has no deleterious action upon animal cells, possesses no toxic qualities, exerts no corrosive effect upon healthy mucous membranes when used in diseases caused by germs, is a pus destroyer and a stimulant to granulating tissues. Hydrozone is destruction itself to the skin

or mucous membrane that has become diseased, and leaves the subcutaneous tissues in a perfectly healthy state.

Glycozone, while not so rapid in its action as hydrozone, is, nevertheless, just as sure a stimulant, and in all gastric and intestinal disorders exerts a potent and uninjurious effect upon the diseased mucous membrane of the stomach, healing it to a nicety. It is an effective oxidizing agent, has an agreeable, sweet and, at the same time, slightly acid taste, resembling lemonade. Its use produces no deleterious action on the heart, liver or kidneys.

The beneficial results which hydrozone and glycozone have afforded me in the treatment of this class of disorders have caused me to discard all the other methods of treatment by drugs that exert an ephemeral influence but do not jugulate the offending condition. What is needed in these diseases is an antiseptic that will destroy all pathogenic germs, and at the same time stimulate the walls of the stomach. Hydrozone kills the bacteria, dissolves the mucus and prepares the stomach to better digest the food-in short, it deterges the stomach, hence in it we have an efficient antiseptic; glycozone removes the mucus from the walls of the stomach, stimulates and heals. I have discovered these two preparations to be ideal ones in treating this very common and distressing disorder.

St. Louis, Missouri.

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THE ATMOSPHERE IS

THE TRANSMUTATION OF MEN AND NATIONS.
BOTH THE CRADLE AND THE GRAVE. MATERIAL SUBSTANCES
ARE CONDENSATIONS OF THE AIR.

By R. C. BAYLY, A. M., M. D.
[Paper 1.]

Men and nations are born and die-an unpalatable truth, for each tries to hide from itself the thought of its final day. Each also entertains the delusion that, whatever may be the lot of others, there is an immortal future in store for it. But the hand of inexorable history consigns one and all alike to that bourne from which none return.

What lessons come to us from the past! The Genius of the Old Civilization sits there on the Alps. He counts his children with sadness-Assyria, Egypt, Tyre, Carthage, Troy, Etruria, Corinth, Athens and Rome, all are gone. Alexander, Napoleon, Washington, Lincoln, and a host of the great, good, and loving of our own times are no more. And however appalling, it calls to mind reminiscences of a stroll through an old cemetery some years since, where, on a tombstone, I saw the following epitaph and its addenda:

"Stop stranger, stop as you pass by,
As you are now, so once was I;
As I am now, so you will be,
Prepare for death and follow me."

Some passer-by wrote as follows:

"To follow you I'm not content,

Unless I knew which way you went.'

Then another wrote:

"To follow you might not be well,

For maybe you have gone to hell."

The dashing waves of the ocean spring up we know not where or why. They come rolling up, the very emblems of resistless power. They subside and are hidden and lost among succeeding waves. So on the vast sea of human life, men and nations come and go; they raise their gigantic but ephemeral forms conspicuously high, overthrowing whatever stands in the rapid course of their march. Finally they hurry by and are lost forever; but the unfathomed abyss of humanity still remains.

To the broad expanse of the ocean belongs endless duration. Its rising and falling tides are only temporary. The forces that have impelled them into existence are soon expended, and certain disappearance awaits them. The matter of which they are composed may be eternal, but they are only vanishing forms. Such are the vanishing forms of men and nations, emerging from the great mass of humanity. Then it might seem to be of but little moment to concern ourselves with the study of any of them. But no isolated fact is of any intrinsic value in itself. It is its connection with other facts that gives it all its worth. No sound, whatever its quality may be, can ever of itself make music; that arises from the well-ordered sequence of sounds. And so, we only become conscious of historical harmony through the presentation of successive nations, varying in their forms, their power, and their duration.

Human life in the necessity of circumstances is transitory. Permanence may belong to humanity but not to those fleeting forms into which, here and there, at intervals of time, humanity has been forced.

A succession of nations is the material consequence of the life of the race, being manifestations of the varying activities of numbers and groups of men. Life is the active condition, and existence is the passive state. Life is evanescent, but existence is enduring as eternity itself.

The transitory character of men and nations is analogous. Between the life of a man and of a nation arises a similarity of constitution. In the man there must be unceasing changes in all the component parts. The appearance of permanence is altogether an illusion. Doctors used to say that the body