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SOME NEW WAYS TO USE LIQUOR HYPOPHYSIS 

 BY H. E. MACDONALD, M.D., Los Angeles, Calif. 



In the course of several years' experience with var- 

 ious perparations of the active principle found in the 

 posterior lobe of the pituitary body, I have become 

 accustomed to using this remarkable organotherapeutic 

 preparation in several conditions for which I have not 

 seen any recommendations in the literature. Also I 

 have worked out a method of using Liquor Hypophysis 

 in labor which differs materially from the procedures 

 outlined in the works of reference at my command. 



GALL STONE COLIC 



In biliary adrenal colic I give a hypodermic of mor- 

 phine and after the pain stops I inject intramuscularly 

 1 mil. of Liq. Hypophysis. Ordinarily this brings the 

 pain back, but within a few minutes the stone usually 

 passes. In fact, I have never known it to fail in colic 

 of either variety. 



ACUTE APPENDICITIS 



A few days ago I was called at noon to see a large 

 man suffering extreme pain from an acute attack of 

 typical appendicitis it being the third time he was 

 brought down by this disease. He refused to be oper- 

 ated. I relieved him of the pain with morphine and 

 then injected 2 mils, of Liq. Hypophysis. He almost 

 immediately had three "colicy" pains. Called at 10 :00 

 P. M. ; no return of pain. Next morning the patient 



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