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in this respect be judged by the ordinary standards. Convinced that, 

 if this preparation be tried faithfully and used as advised, it will meet 

 with approval, I take pleasure in recommending" it to the notice of the 

 profession. — Medical News. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1. Moller, F. Peckel. Cod-Liver Oil and Chemistry, London, 

 1895, p. 4. 



2. U. S. Dispensatory, 1883, p. 1024. 



3. Moller. Ibid, p. 113. 



4. Shoemaker, J. V. Therapeutics and Materia Medica, 1897. 



5. Moller. Ibid, p. 106. 

 1723 Walnut Street. 



The Prophylactic and Curative Action of Urotropin.* 



By Dr. Zaudy, Assistant Physician. 



Urotropin, introduced into practice by Nicolaier, needs no rec- 

 ommendation nowadays. Its favoralbe effect in most of the bacterial 

 diseases of the urinary passages is so generally recognized, and the 

 clinical effects obtained from its use agree so thoroughly with the labor- 

 atory. results, that the record of cures of individual cases is of no special 

 interest. Professor Nicolaier himself has recently** collected the 

 very voluminous literature of urotropin, and has added thereto an ex- 

 tensive series of new experimental and clinical observations. His 

 article is also a useful resume of the rules that govern the use of the 

 drug. 



If I report a clinical case here in spite of these facts, it is for two 

 reasons. In the first place an opportunity to convince onesself of the 

 eft'ect of the urotropin by post-mortem examination is certainly a rare 

 occasion ; and on the other hand the prophylactic and not alone the 

 curative effect of the drug was unexpectedly great, as the autopsy 

 revealed. 



The patient, A. W., was an engineer at A. On May 11, 1900, he 

 was referred by the surgical clinic, to which he had been admitted short- 

 before, to the medical clinic. He presented a marked picture of para- 



From the University Medical Clinic at Gottingen of Professor Ebstein, 

 Medical Privy Councillor. 



♦Translated from the Deutsche Medicinische Wochenschrift, Vol. 26, No. 37, 

 September 13, 1900. 



** Experimental and Clinical Researches LTpon Urotropin, Zeitschrift fiir 

 klinische Medicin, Vol. 38, p. 350. (Festschrift to Professor Ebstein, Privy 

 Councillor, p. 66). 



