TELA ARANE^. 



ammonia, and is nearly insoluble in either water or acid water. 50 Cc. 

 of Specific Medicine Tela Arane<-E, diluted with its bulk of water, and 

 distilled to 5 Cc, gave a transparent distillate of an organic odor, 

 free from alkaloids, and neutral to litmus paper. The residue in the 

 distilling flask had a brown-red color, and an offensive odor, reminding 

 one of putrid organic matter. This likewise failed to react with alka- 

 loidal reagents. 



No more can the examination of such a substance as Tela Araneas 

 by ordinary chemical processes be viewed as of any great importance, 

 as concerns its utility in the therapeutic field, than can its hypodermic 

 injection in animals in health portend or limit its therapeutic possi- 

 bilities in the human being in disease. 



Specific Uses. — Dr. J. A. Munk, of Los Angeles, Cal., than 

 whom, possibly, there is no more experienced or carefully qualified 

 observer in therapeutical directions, made the statement in a recent 

 conversation, that he had long used Specific Medicine Tela Araneae 

 successfully in the treatment of cases where the long continued use of 

 cinchona, quinine, arsenic, and other like remedies had resulted in 

 ^failure. He stated that patients from the Eastern States sent to his 

 section of California, and afflicted with sleeplessness, nervousness, or 

 malarial attacks unreachable through the usual remedies, responded 

 under the use of Tela Aranese, which he considers invaluable in such 

 conditions. Where the indications were pronounced, he has found the 

 results of its administration to be surprisingly prompt. 



The specific uses of Tela Aranese, as recorded by Dr. L. A. Perce, 

 of Long Beach, Cal., who also has had great experience in the treat- 

 ing of this class of patients, is condensed into a small compass, as 

 follows : 



Uses. — Specific Medicine Tela Aranese is a sedative acting upon 

 the nervous system and circulation. It is said to have cured intermit- 

 tent fever when all other remedies had failed. It relieves spasms, 

 lessens pain, and promotes sleep. It has been' used in delirium and 

 subsultus of continued fevers, and in hiccough and dry nervous cough, 

 hysteria, periodic headache, asthma, restlessness, insomnia, and mus- 

 cular spasms. Specific indications as given by Dr. Perce are: — 

 "Masked periodical diseases in hectic broken-down patients ; in all 

 diseases that come up suddenly with cool, clammy skin, and perspira- 

 tion, and cool extremities; in nocturnal orgasm in either sex; numb- 

 ness of the extremities when sitting still or lying down. It relieves 

 spasms of arterioles and stimulates capillary circulation. It relieves 

 hyperesthesia of the cerebro-spinal nerves and the great sympathetic, 

 that depends .upon debility. It is the greatest heart stimulant in the 

 materia medica, and lobelia is second only to it. 



Dose: Sp. Med. Tela Areneae, gtt. v to gtt. x in a little water, 

 three times a day. In urgent cases, every hour. 



PRICES OF SPECIFIC MEDICINE TELA ARANE.®. 



J4-ft) package . j 7Sc. each. By mail 97c. 



li-tt) package $1.40 each. Not mailable. 



i-tb package. . $2.75 each. Not mailable. 



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