GOLD AND SILVER AS REMEDIES IN DISEASE

In the sixth group there was Antimony, Arsenic, Bismuth and Cadmium. In the seventh group there was nothing yet; in the eighth there was Sulphur, and with that there was a number of others like Iodine, Potassium, Manganum, Mercury, Platinum, Radium, Stannum and Zinc; in the tenth there was Osmium and Uranium; and in the eleventh there was Thallium.

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The rural medical officer of health will attend the outdoor dispensary and the hospital in the morning and will be helped in his work by the health assistant and the dai. In the afternoon he with his health assistant and the dai will carry on preventive works, viz. examination of school children, anti-malarial measures, vaccination, removal of public health nuisances, public health propaganda, etc.

REMEDIES COMMONLY USEFUL IN INFLUENZA

Many remedies not mentioned here, have their place in the treatment of influenza. To the beginner, in prescribing, many of these symptoms are regarded as erroneous.The beginner must not make the mistake of trying to pick his remedy on the symptoms common to the disease. The remedy is chosen on the individual symptoms of the patient, his reaction to the disease. Influenza has certain earmarks found in every case.

THE PRINCES OF SERENDIP

The Musical Scale and the Mathematics of Acoustics In the writings of Hippocrates, the father of medicine, we find many evidences of the strange and the unusual. Pythagoras. Greek philosopher, is said to have thought of the musical scale upon passing a blacksmiths shop and hearing the hammer strike the anvil, and later introduced the mathematics of acoustics.