IODOFORM. 
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AN IMPORTANT 
Therapeutic Agent. 
SECOND EDITION. 
1K,i 880. ' . IODOFORM. 
A Powerful Alterative and General Tonic, 
VALUABLE AS A REMEDY IN 
Scrofula, Anaemia, Neuralgia, Chlorosis, and 
Rheumatism. 
By STILES KENNEDY, M. p. 
Iodoform therapeutically is alterative, nervine, 
anti-periodic, and anaesthetic. As an alterative it acts with mortT" 
rapidity than other medicines of that class, in doses of one, two, 
or three grains, repeated thrice daily. As a nervine it is prompt 
and efficient; while it gives nervous strength, it calms speedily the 
most severe pains. Its sorbefacient properties are manifested with 
some degree of slowness. Five to seven grains, given in broken 
doses in rapid succession, produce a powerful anti-periodic effect. 
Its anaesthetic properties are of local significance. 
It is rapidly absorbed into the blood. 
Accumulative effects have not been observed. 
Iodoform is destitute of any local irritant action, and has that 
advantage over all other iodic remedies. 
It may be administered, with reasonable expectation of success,, 
in the following diseases : 
Neuralgia of every description, chronic rheumatism, consumption,, 
scrofula, ophthalmia, chronic ulcerations, and skin diseases, syphilis, 
and certain affections of the neck of the bladder and prostate gland, 
and whenever a powerful alterative agent is needed. This quality 
of Iodoform is greatly enhanced, in the majority of cases, by the. 
addition of pure iron, Fer. per hydrog. 
IODOFORM AS A REMEDY IN NEURALGIA. 
Case i.-Wm. B., aet. 6, Res. Millville, Md., gastric neuralgia,. 
Sept. ist. This boy has suffered for ten weeks the most intense 
agony with pain in his stomach. During the paroxysms he is 
drawn into a knot, and his screams may be heard hundreds of 
yards. Sometimes the paroxysms follow each other in rapid suc- 
cession for hours; at other times they would appear at intervals of two, three, or four hours during the day or night. Appetite good, 
bowels regular, no tympanites, no enlargement of internal viscera, 
nor any other derangement of organs that could be detected, no 
tenderness along the spine. 
Fever occasionally in the evening; the child was pale, weak, and 
despondent; severe purgation on one or two occasions had relieved 
the symptom for awhile. 
I was called to this case by the attending physician, and found 
that the treatment had been very thorough and extended; that there 
was little room left for any new effort; I advised heroic doses of 
quinine, iron, and morphia, and promised to see the case in forty- 
eight hours. 
3d. Found the patient much easier, but not free from pain, and 
his parents said he had frequently been as much relieved for a day 
or two at a time. I directed 2 gr. of Iodoform every six hours, and 
to shorten the interval one-half, if necessary, to subdue the pain. 
4th. After taking the first pill the child went to sleep; awakened 
at the end of four hours screaming terribly with pain, as he always 
did after the largest doses of morphia. Another pill was adminis- 
tered at once, and then continued every six hours as directed. He 
has been comparatively easy, having had no severe paroxysms but 
the one mentioned. c 
6th. The patient had only a little pain during the night of the 
4th, and since then none at all. Medicine continued for a week in 
1 gr. doses, combined with same quantity of iron. 
This boy has not had any return of the disease to this time. 
Case 2.-Mrs. H., aet. 34. (Reported by Dr. Boyer, of Clear- 
field, Pa.) Neuralgia of ten years' duration; system much reduced; 
I suggested the remedies usually employed, and she appeared to be 
perfectly familiar with them all, and stated that her general health 
had suffered from their long use, which was attested by her appearance. 
I then suggested Iodoform and iron pills, and, this being some- 
thing new, she readily agreed to give them a trial. I ordered her 
100 pills from W. R. Warner & Co., 2 to be taken three times a day. 
The neuralgia rapidly disappeared, her blood-making powers were 
excited to action, and her health is fast returning. She has just 
finished the pills, and her husband writes, that "we are both de- 
lighted and astonished that she has had no neuralgia amounting to 
anything since she began the pills." Treatment continued. 
Under date of Jan. 17th, 1870, Dr. N. H. Chesbrough, of Hobo- 
ken, N. J., asked my advice in the following case: 
Case 3.-Mrs. , set 48. "Menstruating, sterile; has been 
2 gradually declining in health since the fall of 1868, when she had a 
severe illuess from bilious diarrhoea and dysentery. About this time 
an abscess of the labium presented, which had not opened, but 
after a time it opened itself into the rectum, causing a recto-labial 
fistula. She suffered greatly from mere debility, and was constantly 
growing weaker, when in August last she was operated on for the 
fistula by incision, and the cut surfaces allowed to heal by granula- 
tion. Ten days subsequently symptoms of irritable bladder ap- 
peared, which has continued to the present time in spite of an almost 
endless variety of treatment. Meanwhile neuralgia has invaded 
nearly every part of her system, stomach, bowels, chest, arms, face, 
head, so that you can readily imagine her to be an extreme sufferer. 
" Her present sufferings are mainly from gastralgia, metralgia, and 
cystalgia; the paroxysms usually setting in at 9 A. M., and continu- 
ing more or less all day, only so far as controlled or modified by the 
use of morphia; it requiring 1 gr. to grs. to keep down the 
pain. Sometimes, in addition, I have to employ opiate enema per 
rectum and per urethram before the paroxysms can be subdued." 
"All her organs are believed to be free from disease; bowels in- 
clined to be loose; womb pronounced to be all right; complains 
that most medicines burn her stomach ; has never borne iron well, 
and the smallest quantity of stimulants affects her bladder; has no 
appetite; pulse ranges from 60 to 80; the patient has taken a great 
deal of medicine; at present I am making a trial of the faradic 
current, morphia for pain and acid hydrocyan, dilut. gtt. 3 before 
each meal." 
This was certainly a perplexing case of terrible suffering. Many 
physicians have passed through a life-long practice without meeting 
a case half so troublesome, besides experience has taught me that it 
is exceedingly unsatisfactory to treat patients by descriptions of symp- 
toms and person. We are often better able to judge by the mere 
appearance of a patient than by a long account in writing. Never- 
theless, I ventured by return mail on the 20th of January, to advise 
a plan of treatment, of which Iodoform was the basis; gr., 1 or 
even 2 grains three times a day. I thought she was needing iron, 
so I recommended the Fer. per hydrog. in the same quantity, and, 
supposing the burning in stomach and distress in bowels to come 
from acidity, I advised subnit. bismuth, gr. 5 ter in die.; mucilagi- 
nous drinks and fomentations of hops to bowels and external genitals. 
As a convenient and efficient mode of administering the Iodoform 
et Ferrum, I suggested the sugar-coated pills made by W. R. Warner 
& Co., of Philadelphia. 
Dr. C's next letter is dated January 24th. From it I learn he 
3 began the treatment suggested. He says: " Gaye one pill, Warner 
& Co's, I. and F., after supper on 20th; 21st gave two pills after 
breakfast; one after two remaining meals; 22d none were given, she 
experienced so much inconvenience and discomfort, causing burn- 
ing, &c.; 23d gave y2 pill three times; the symptoms in bladder 
and urethra have increased ; she has nearly constant distress in those 
parts, burning, aching, and darting, occasionally darting off in 
violent paroxysms, continually worse about 9 P. M.; nothing will 
alleviate these but the injections, per urethram, of grain doses of 
morphine; last night two such were required, besides 2 pills con- 
taining altogether sulph. morph; gr. i, ext. bellad. gr. ext. hyos. 
gr. ij: I have used a great deal of bismuth, quinine, strychnine, arse- 
nic, iron in every form, opiates of every kind, in every method, 
valerian, zinc, assafoetida, mercury, dry cupping from occiput to 
sacrum. The patient has become prejudiced against the use of 
Iodoform." 
There was certainly nothing very cheering in this letter of the 
doctor's for either the patient, Dr. C., or myself; but I answered 
it at once, urging the importance of continuing the Iodoform. 
Fearing the iron caused some trouble, I requested that it be dropped, 
and that pure Iodoform be made into 2 gr. pills, and that one be 
given after each meal; also advised 5 gr. American pepsin before 
each meal to aid digestion, &c., with a few other general directions. 
The doctor's next letter is dated January 31st. He says: " Up 
to the 27th (when he received my last letter), I had only advanced 
at snail's pace in the use of the I. and F. pills, having given in all 
but 11 in one week's time. I had your last prescriptions prepared 
£t once, and have given the new pills regularly since, so that 12 of 
them have been taken. I am unable as yet to discover any appre- 
ciable good effects from the drug; her sufferings still continue in 
about equal severity, recurring at present for the most part in par- 
oxysms pretty regularly from about 3 to 10 P. M., daily. I am 
obliged to give about the same amount of morphia; tastes the medi- 
cine (Iodoform) when she belches. I think that leaving off the 
iron has»been of some benefit; she requires something to remove 
constipation ; had her menses last week, free, rather painful, a week 
sooner than usual; she sits up none, and every day talks of passing 
away; her debility certainly increases." 
So far no one will accuse me of having a flattering prospect ahead. 
Still I was not as despondent as Dr. C. I thought I could discern 
a faint ray of hope, and I was willing to trust that small ray. I 
observed that the 35 grains, in all, of Iodoform that she had taken, 
in irregular doses and times during 11 days, had forced these pains 
4 to mass themselves in the afternoon, as if for their protection, so I 
advised the doctor to shorten his lines and make another attack; to 
give one 2 gr. pill of Iodoform at 10 A. M., 12 M., and 2 P. M., 
for a few days; to use the efferv. cit. mag. to move the bowels. 
Dr. C's next letter is dated February 14th. He says: "Your 
prescriptions were faithfully carried out till the 1st inst., (the day 
after his last letter), the stomach at this time so affected that I was 
obliged to suspend its use, (fifteen 2 gr. pills had been taken). It 
was not resumed till after the receipt of yours in reply to mine of 
31st ult. On 4th inst. patient took 3 pills as directed at 10, 12, 2 ; 
same on 5th inst., and her old enemy has been routed, horse, foot, 
and dragoon. The poor and battered frame still suffers from the 
consequences of the prolonged malady, and the effects of the strug- 
gle in its final grapplings with its antagonist, but the neuralgia as it 
was is here no longer. ' ' 
The Iodoform was then discontinued, but she continued to suffer 
greatly from burning distress in bowels, bladder, and urethra. 
Another physician was called in and he decided that these symp- 
toms resulted from the large doses of opiates she had taken and was 
then taking, so they were discontinued on the 8th inst., and he 
concludes his letter: "Her general condition begins to improve 
every way, and I have no doubt of her steady and gradual amend- 
ment and certain recovery." 
The necessity of perseverance as taught by this extraordinary 
case is too obvious to need comment. 
Case 4.-Miss C., set. 19, Delaware. I was called to see this 
case June, '68. The young lady was suffering from painful men- 
struation, which had been gradually increasing for 18 months in 
spite of the best advice she could secure. I have never seen 
dysmenorrhcea more painful than in this case; for two to four days 
the patient would be almost frantic. I was called after this attack 
had a good start, and I did little more than watch the case . directed 
hop fomentations, 1 gr. ext. hyos., every 4 hours, if necessary. 
After a careful examination I came to the conclusion that this young 
lady had neuralgia of the womb, which was developed only at the 
menstrual flow, so I directed her to take in the interval one I. and 
F. pill twice a day, and ordered fifty pills. 
July.-The menstrual period of the patient has passed without 
the slightest pain; menses free at regular time. 
She was directed to repeat the prescription and take three pills a 
day for three days preceding her usual menstrual period; she did 
so, and has had no return of her disease since. 
5 In the Medical and Surgical Reporter, January 15th, current 
year, the reader will find detailed several cases of the severest forms 
of neuralgia known, treated successfully with Iodoform et Ferri. 
Pil., by Dr. Knotts, of Maryland; Dr. Hamilton, of Tennessee, 
and myself. 
IN CONSUMPTION. 
Any medicine that will assuage the sufferings of the phthisical 
patient, is indeed a boon, but Iodoform offers more; there is every 
reason to believe that it exerts a most potent influence in discussing 
and removing the disease in its early stages. Certainly it will apply 
to all those cases where iodine has been heretofore thought especi- 
ally adapted, with much greater hope of success than has attended 
that celebrated remedy. And in another class of cases where Dr. 
Churchill has made considerable reputation for the hypophosphites, 
it is presumed the average number of cures will be greatly increased 
by the simultaneous use of Iodoform, if not by its independent 
exhibition. 
Case 5.-Miss L. LeC , set. 13, Jan. 10th, '67. Residence 
near Chestertown, Md. High fever, quick pulse, severe pain in 
right side, bad cough, expectorates thick yellow mucus; on auscul- 
lation a cavity is clearly discernible in upper lobe of right lung. 
The mother says her child has had a cough for a long time. Two 
or three doctors had said they could do nothing for her, that she 
had consumption and "liver disease." The child could not be 
touched without greatly increasing her cough and sharp pleuritic 
pains. She had wasted away to.a mere skeleton, and was one of 
the most pitiable objects of human suffering I have ever been called 
to attend. I advised a turpentine stupe to side, a hot semicupium, 
and the following prescription : 
Syrp. Prun. Virg. 
Spts. Vin. Gal. aa §ij. 
Sulph. Morph, gr. iij. M. Sig. Two teaspoonsful occasionally. 
Jan. 12. I found the patient much better so far as relief from pain 
and exhaustion were concerned. I now directed one hundred pills 
of Iodoform and iron, each one grain, to be given one three times 
a day, also a cough syrup of sanguinaria, scilla, and senega. 
Feb. 15. The patient has been gradually and rapidly improving; 
she has gained flesh so that she no longer resembles herself, has no 
night sweats, no pain, and very little cough, is playing cheerfully 
6 with her companions. On auscultation I find at upper lobe of right 
lung an intensely rough wet rale. Respiration quite good elsewhere. 
Medicine continued. 
May 12. I saw this patient a day or two since, and she is to all 
appearances well. Fat, hearty, active and cheerful; has not com- 
plained of pain or cough for nearly two months. 
There is a little dullness on percussion on upper right breast, and 
beneath this the respiration is a little rasping; but the abscess has 
healed. Whatever obstructed breathing may be discernible comes 
from cicatrix and the remains of inflammatory products. 
Three years have passed since this case was treated and she is yet 
well and strong. In December of '68 she caught a severe cold, and 
her father wished me to see her, as he feared a return of the con- 
sumption. I saw her once, and with very little medication she was 
relieved. I directed fifty of the pills of I. and F. to be taken as 
before ; merely as a safeguard. 
Case 6.-W. K. Merchant, set 32, Wrights X Roads, Del. I 
was called to see this man Nov. 30th, '68, and found him with all 
the evidences of consumption. He had been able to go about and 
attend to his business; but now he was quite debilitated, thin in 
flesh, with diarrhoea, severe cough, pain, etc., and confined to his room. 
I employed the usual remedies for a few days in allaying some 
local irritation which was temporarily aggravated ; then placed him 
upon two grains each of Iodoform and iron, three times a day with 
Syr. Scillae, Tr. Op. Camph. and Cupri Sul. for his cough. 
This patient gradually recovered his strength, appetite, and flesh 
to some extent, so that he was able to attend to his usual business 
duties, and he remained so during the summer and fall. I do not 
know how he is doing this winter, though I doubt whether the good 
impression made on his system will last very long, for he only took 
the Iodoform about one month. 
Case 7.-J. R., set. 30, Residence Henderson, Md., called Dec. 30, 
'68. This man was in the last stage of consumption, had been in 
bed most of the time from first of October. He suffered intense 
pain in his chest, and after his severe paroxysms of coughing would 
lie so exhausted that he could not move arm nor limb, and bathed 
in profuse sensible perspiration. He had been attended by a skilful 
physician and had received the usual attention and treatment; I 
therefore told him and his family that I could hold out no hope of 
recovery, that at most I might relieve his pain and possibly palliate 
to some extent his cough, and with this understanding I prescribed 
Iodoform and iron aa gr. iij ter in die, to meet the first indication. 01. Terebinth., externally as a counter-irritant, with the ordinary 
syrups internally, met the second. 
This man began to improve at once. At the end of two weeks 
he could sit up most of the day in a chair. On the first of Febru- 
ary he could move about the lower rooms of his house, and at my 
last visit, Feb. 25 th, he met me in the yard. In the spring I heard 
he could give a sort of superintendence to his farming. In the 
summer I met him taking his fruit to market. He had not taken 
any medicine for more than three months, and did not up to the 
time of his death. He died the December following. 
Case 8.-B. S., Male, set 28. This case was in the same neigh- 
borhood as above, and the two cases were as much alike in every 
particular as any two patients ever were, except that this one had an 
idiosyncrasy that forbade the use of Iodoform; the smallest quantity 
could not be tolerated. It is the only instance I have ever known 
where the use of Iodoform had to be abandoned on this account. 
This patient died in less than a month. 
Dr. Boyer, of Clearfield, Pa , writes " I have on several occasions 
in scrofulous cases with hereditary lung taints, prescribed this remedy, 
and am satisfied that it has, for the time being at least, arrested the 
disease." , 
IN SCROFULA. 
I do not know that Iodoform has been used in any case of open 
scrofula, /. e. ulceration of the lymphatic glands; but several cases 
bearing that diathesis, and springing from that cause alone, so far as 
could be judged by the senses, have been treated successfully. 
Case 9.-Mrs. M. Residence Maryland, jet. 40. Very thin in 
flesh; sallow and quite debilitated; for more than a year has been 
suffering with severe pain in left leg from hip to ankle ; the pain is 
much worse at night, and she is often unable to sleep until morning, 
when the pain seems to wear itself out; there are several sores on 
the leg, which follow in successive crops; they appear as small boils, 
very hard around the base, and they are very slow in forming ; run 
for several weeks, and heal by a succession of scabs. There is an 
eruption on the scalp of many months standing; it is dry, scabby 
and smooth beneath the latter. 
She has been treated by arsenic, iodide of mercury, tonics, qui- 
nine, morphia, etc.; locally by innumerable lotions. Her health 
was fast failing, and her friends showed much solicitude. 
I prescribed for this case July 10th, Pil. Iodoform et Ferri No. c. 
sig., two to be taken three times a day. 
8 17th. Patient is entirely relieved of pain; sleeps well at night; 
appetite is improving; medicine continued; several weeks later the 
patient made a visit some forty miles from her home, the medicine 
having been discontinued; while absent the pain in her leg returned, 
which was immediately removed by the exhibition of the same pre- 
scription ; the scrofulous sores and skin disease were entirely healed, 
and did not return during that year at least. 
Case io.-Mr. R., near Camden, Delaware, set. 30, carpenter, 
of strumous habit, had an eruption on his scalp of ten years' dura- 
tion ; had taken medicine of several eminent physicians, all of whom 
had said it was scrofulous. His general appearance and antecedent 
history fully bore out this testimony. I prescribed, on August 1st, 
pil. Iodoform et Ferri, No. c. sig., two, three times a day, without 
any further directions regarding local treatment or general health. 
Aug. 1 Sth. The patient presented himself this morning looking 
remarkably well, I said to him: "Mr. R., your head is not much 
better, or you would not be back so promptly." " Sir, my head is 
better outside anckin than it has been for years," was the reply, and 
on examination I found that the disease was at least one-half abated. 
The medicine was continued for three months, when no traces of 
the disease could be seen. I have met the patient frequently during 
the last two years, and there has been no return of the disease. 
I am treating now a little girl of 12 years of age, who has a 
scrofulous eruption of the nasal floor of two years standing; for 
several months she has complained of pain, almost every day, in her 
right lung; there is rough respiration in that lung; there is also an 
eruption of the derma. This child looks remarkably well, and on 
the street would not be selected as an unhealthy or diseased person. 
She has been treated heretofore, but the only impression made on 
her system was a partial relief of the cutaneous disorder. 
She has been under my care twenty days, taking one Iodoform et 
Ferri pill, ter in die. The nasal trouble has made a marked im- 
provement ; the blotched cutis has cleared up, and she says her 
"side hurts her yet some, but not as bad as it did." There is still 
rough respiration, but I think the expiratory sound is not as long as 
at first. The medicine will be continued, and I have no doubt the 
patient will be restored to perfect health. 
IODOFORM IN OPHTHALMIA. 
Case 12.-Miss L. G., near Bridgeton, Maryland, aet. 19. April 
7th. This young lady is of strumous diathesis, light hair, blue eyes, 
and quite pale. She has been suffering from sore eyes for nearly 
9 two years ; has a great deal of pain, and as her mother forbade her 
the use of laudanum, she came to ask me for something else to give 
her rest. The lower lids are tumid, knotty, about half the hairs are 
out, and the conjunctiva edges are red and slightly everted; the 
conjunctiva of the eyeballs are congested, and on the right one is 
the shadowing of a pterygium. Most of the pain is in the eyeballs, 
though probably, as she says, " if the pain was not there it would be 
in the lids." An acrid fluid escapes from the enlarged sebaceous 
crypts; her temples show the marks of the scarificator, and the 
mastoid processes bear the scars of repeated blisters. The general 
functions of the economy are not much disturbed. 
I directed an ointment of Iodoform gr. xxx, 
Simp. Cerat., 
Adeps. aa §ss. M. Ft. Ungt. 
Sig.-Bathe the lids in warm water fifteen minutes at bed time, 
and apply the ointment, keeping the lids closed. 
I also directed 100 pills of Iodoform and iron, 2 of the former 
to 1 gr. iron, two to be taken three times a day; gave full general 
directions about avoiding everything irritating, as cold winds, dust, 
lights, work, reading, etc. 
23d.-The patient looks better generally, but her eyes are not 
much improved in appearance; says that she has suffered no pain 
for two weeks, and that her eyes have improved a great deal within 
the last three or four days; treatment, ointment continued, the 
pills to be 1 gr. each of Iodoform and iron, taken as before. 
May 10.-Patient returned much improved; the secretion from 
the lids has lost its acridity : they are not tumid, nor is the conjunc- 
tiva as much congested ; treatment, pills continued, one three times 
a day. 
June 1.-So far as can be noticed the patient's eyes are well; 
she says her eyes pain her if she reads; treatment continued for one 
month. I met this young lady in August, and she was entirely 
recovered. 
IN CHRONIC ULCERS. 
Dr. S. Henry Dessau, resident physician, Philadelphia Hospital, 
in a late essay on this subject, Med. and Surg. Rep. xxii. 7, speak- 
ing from a large experience, and magnificent opportunity to study 
and note the results of every plan of treatment, makes use of the 
following language: "There is no ailment nor affection in the do- 
main of surgery more trying to the skill of the surgeon than a 
10 chronic ulcer. It might almost be called the opprobium of surgery, 
but fortunately for the reputation of the surgeon and the comfort 
of the patient, it sometimes gets well." 
Case 13.-Mrs. H., set. 30. Reported by Dr. P. L. Reichard, 
Chairman of the Sanitary Commission of Lehigh County Medical 
Society, to the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, 1868. 
" The ulceration was of six years duration, and the patient has 
been under treatment before and since she came to this city, but to 
no effect. I was called to see her in May, 1867; found her in a 
helpless condition; quite debilitated, and obliged to be carried 
about the house like an infant; one ulcer involved nearly the entire 
ankle; the knee was also much diseased, the veins here being quite 
exposed; in fact the entire left leg, from the knee to the ankle was 
affected with ulceration. The patient requested me to amputate the 
leg that she might find some relief; the sores were undermined; 
the edges inverted and callous. Notwithstanding the disputed 
question of the propriety of healing ulcerations of this character, I 
ventured upon making an effort. All that was irreclaimable was 
removed. My first object then was to bring the ulcer to a simple 
granulating condition so as to give nature an opportunity to effect the 
healing process locally. I applied the nitric acid lotion once in 48 
hours; during the interval I used the cold water dressing (warm dis- 
agreed). In a short time the ulcer presented a granulating surface. 
I then substituted ungt. hydrarg. nit., diluted, internally; I gave 
quinine and iron, and a good nourishing diet. Still I found great 
trouble in keeping healthy granulations, they would become slug- 
gish. I tried a number of alteratives, such as iodide of potassium, 
&c. Still the case progressed very slowly, until my attention was 
attracted to an article in the Medical and Surgical Reporter on 
Iodoform.* I at once concluded to give this remedy a fair trial. 
I discontinued all other constitutional treatment and gave 3 pills 
three times a day, manufactured by W. R. Warner & Co., and con- 
taining Iodoform and Ferrum per hydrogen aa gr. j. I soon had the 
satisfaction of seeing my patient engaging in all her household duties. 
Not a vestige of the disease is to be seen. The patient is enjoying 
perfect health, active and lively. 
I have treated two other cases, one of them of four years standing, 
with the same good result. In the last case that came under my 
notice, I saw the same marked effects, but could not push the remedy 
as far, nor as fast as I should like to have done, as the patient could 
not afford it. I feel convinced of the efficacy of the remedy. 
*" Iodoform as a Constitutional Remedy." By Stiles Kennedy, M. D., Med. and Sure. 
Reporter, Philadelphia, Vol. XVI., No. 20. 
11 For other cases see Med. and Surg. Rep., Feb 5th, '70, Vol. 
xxii., No. 6. 
I have now under treatment two cases of chronic eczema of the 
leg, tending towards ulceration. The soreness and pain have been so 
great as to prevent the patients from walking, except with difficulty, 
and they could not sleep at night from the same cause. The first 
application of an ointment, composed of Iodoform gr. xxx, adipis. 
§i. at bed time, produced in each case a good night's rest, and both 
cases are rapidly healing by the use of the ointment, twice a day, 
and the internal use of Donovan's solution. 
AS A LOCAL APPLICATION. 
By careful manipulation a solution of Iodoform in alcohol and 
glycerine can be obtained, which will be found an excellent remedy 
in the painful skin diseases of infancy, particularly those of syphil- 
itic origin. 
To hot alcohol giij, add Iodoform gr. v., stir rapidly till dissolved, 
then add at once glycerine gvi., stir and cork. The solution should 
be compounded in the vial intended to be used, as the Iodoform is 
exceedingly volatile. The solution should be applied with a Camel's 
hair pencil twice or thrice a day. After a few days the Iodoform 
will sometimes be deposited on the bottom of the vial, but it can 
readily be dissolved by heating. I have had the above solution, 
however, to stand several weeks without depositing the Iodoform, 
which I think was due entirely to using care in its preparation. In 
those fearful syphilitic pains of the tibia, which occasionally seem to 
defy all treatment, I have seen most excellent results follow the incor- 
poration of 30 grains Iodoform to the ounce of the ordinary plaster 
and ointments used for syphilitic periostitis, etc. In two cases of 
chancre I applied the Iodoform as a dry powder with magical results; 
the pain ceased at once, and the sores healed rapidly. Dr. Besnier, 
of Paris, in the Bulletin de Therapeutique, '68, testifies to the power 
of this remedy in healing slow cicatrizing wounds, soft chancre, 
syphilitic ulcerations, and open cancer. 
The Am. Jour. Phar., '68, gives the following as a good lotion, 
gargle, or injection in sore-throat, ozoena, abscess of ear, &c.: 
tr. iod. comp, m xlv., cryst. carbol, ac. fu. gtt vi, glycerine 5viij. 
aqua dest. §v. M. Put the bottle, well corked, in a water bath ioo° 
F. until it becomes colorless. 
The efficacy of the above preparation is doubtless due to the chemical 
change it undergoes, the transformation of the iodine into iodide 
of formyl (Iodoform) at the expense of the carbon of the acid. 
12 An ointment of 30 to 60 grains Iodoform to the ounce of lard 
forms one of the most delightful remedies for the relief and healing 
of painful burns, sores, skin diseases, chancres, boils, &c. 
A correspondent of the Medical and Surgical Reporter, Vol. 
xviii, No. 6, writing from Paris, says: 
At the municipal Maison de Sante, in the service of M. Demar- 
quay, some remarkable cases have been recently observed of the 
beneficial influence of Iodoform upon cancer of uterus. Without 
in any way hindering the march of the disease, this agent seems 
able to diminish the suffering to an extraordinary degree. The first 
case related is that of a patient who entered the Maison perfectly 
exhausted with hemorrhage and pain. A vascular tumor occupied 
the uterine orifice. After a day or two of expectation, the physi- 
cian introduced into the vagina a suppository composed of ten 
grammes of butter of cacao, and fifty centigrammes of Iodoform. 
During four or five days no benefit was derived 'from this treatment, 
but on the sixth, the suppository was pushed into a cavity of the 
tumor, and from that day the pains ceased as if by enchantment. 
Certain digestive troubles disappeared, the patient's appetite and 
sleep returned, and very soon she found herself so completely com- 
fortable that she had no doubt of her rapid recovery. The supposi- 
tory was introduced every two days during three months, and the 
comfort of the patient was undisturbed to the last moment. After 
several days of extreme feebleness, in which the dying woman never 
ceased to bless the remedy wffiich she believed had saved her life, 
death supervened, but disguised by the most complete euthanasia. 
In another patient, of whom the observation is not yet complete, 
a similar remission of suffering was also obtained. 
In another letter from the same correspondent, which I have 
misplaced, he states that Dr. Besnier by the application of the 
Iodoform to a large cancerous ulcer of the breast, actually set up 
cicatrization, when the patient was lost sight of. Dr. Besnier uses 
the powder by insufflation when treating the womb or the various 
affections of the mucous membranes. When used in the nasal or 
pharyngeal passages the dose should be smaller, and mixed with 
some other powder, as bismuth 
It will have been observed that the several gentlemen who have 
used Iodoform, in combination with iron, as well as myself, have 
used the " Pil: Iodoform et Ferri," made by Wm. R. Warner & 
Co., Philadelphia, manufacturers of Officinal Sugar-Coated Pills, and 
so far as I know they have been entirely satisfactory. This firm, I be- 
lieve, is the only one in this country that manufactures Iodoform at all. 
And aside from the experience of quite a number of practitioners, 
13 the accurate composition of their pills is attested by one of the 
leading chemists of the country. I am much indebted to their 
spirit and enterprise for valuable information in regard to the chemi- 
cal relations of Iodoform, etc., etc. 
nsroTZE. 
This paper is intended for private distribution to members of the 
medical profession, and the auxiliary and collateral arts, with a view 
of eliciting further investigation and practical inquiry into the 
Physiological and Therapeutical effects of what appears to be a really 
wonderful medicine. 
The writer has attempted to do nothing more than present, in 
as compact -a form as clearness of the subject would admit, some 
cases actually treated by himself and others, since he called the at- 
tention of his professional brethren to Iodoform, as a constitutional 
remedy, three years ago. 
S. K. Pills of Iodoform and Combinations 
AS MANUFACTURED ONLY BY 
WILLIAM R WARNER & CO. 
Iodoform is one of the most important of modern remedies. 
Since its introduction by us in 1871, it has grown in permanent favor 
as an indispensable remedy, possessing the properties of a powerful 
alterative, nervine, sorbefacient, antiperiodic, and tonic. The fol- 
lowing formulas, ready-prepared for physicians' prescriptions, will 
meet the various requirements.-(Specify Warner & Co.) 
FORMULA! AND THERAPEUTICS. 
Pil: Iodoform, i gr., 
Med. Prop. Alterative. 
DOSE. 
I to 2 
Per 100 
$i.6o 
Pil: Iodoform et Ferri. 
Iodoform, i gr. I 
I 
to 
2 
2.00 
Ferrum per Hydg., gr. J 
Med. Prop. A powerful general tonic and alterative; 
valuable as a remedy in Anoemia, Scrofula, Neuralgia, 
Chlorosis, Rheumatism, &c. 
Pil: Iodoform et Ferri et Quinia. 
Iodoform, . . . . I gr. I 
Ferri Carb., (Vallett's,) i gr. > 
I 
to 
2 
3.00 
Quiniae Sulph., . . y2 gr. J 
Med. Prop., alterative, tonic, antiperiodic. 
Pil: Iodoform et Hydrarg. 
Iodoform, . . y gr.") 
I 
to 
2 
2.00 
Mercury Iodide, gr- J 
Med. Prop., powerful alterative. 
Pil: Iodoform et Quinia, .... 
Iodoform, . . y2 gr-1 
I 
to 
3 
2.00 
Quinia Bi-Sulph, y2 gr. f 
Med. Prop, alterative, tonic, antiperiodic. 
Pil: Iodoform et Nuc. Vom. Comp. 
Iodoform, . . y2 gr."] 
Ext. Nuc. Vom. y gr. 1 
I 
to 
2.00 
Podophyllin, i-i6gr. | 
Ext. Belladon, y gr. J 
Med. Prop, alterative, tonic, laxative, repellant. 
MEDICAL SUPPLIES for Physicians, Dispensaries, and Hospitals, 
MANUFACTURED AND FOR SALE BY 
WM. ZR,. WABKEB CO., 
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, 
122S Street, E'lxilad.elplxisu. 
15 WM. R. WARNER & CO. 
The art of sugar-coating pills so as not to impair their solubility, but to preserve 
the composition, keeping it soft and plastic, has acquired for Messrs. Warner & 
Co. a world-wide reputation. Physicians may rely upon the purity of the drugs 
used, and upon the mathemetical nicety in which their pills, "granules," and 
" parvules " are divided. Every doctor may be his own druggist, and at the same 
time save himself the drudgery of it by using Warner's preparations. A bottle of 
quinine pills recently sent us by this firm satisfies us that this form is fully main- 
taining its reputation.-North Carolina Medical Journal, July, 1879. 
We have had occasion to refer in a previous number of our Journal to the firm 
of Wm. R. Warner & Co., of Philadelphia. Our acquaintance with this firm, 
and our own personal knowledge of their method of the production of theirr emedies, 
justify us in giving to them an extended notice. The value to the physician of 
the pharmaceutical products of a known standard and value cannot be overesti- 
mated. We have so many tinctures, extracts, both solid and fluid, pills, granules, 
and preparations of every description, that are either wanting in strength or care 
of preparation, or in official value, that the results obtained are disappointing to 
the practitioner in almost every case, and reputable houses owe it to themselves 
and their patrons to see that all their products have a trade mark, which in no 
case will cause annoyance or failure from any of these causes. Wm. R. Warner 
& Co. have expended large sums in procuring and testing the value of new reme- 
dial agents; they have the finest and best equipped laboratory in the country, and 
were the first to introduce many of the recent preparations which have become of 
so much value, not one of which has failed to be of use. We have been using 
their different pills with great success, and heartily recommend them to the pro- 
fession. The manufacturer of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, in these days, must 
make the most strenuous efforts in order to be in the advance which is constantly 
being made in the discovery of new agents, new methods of preparation, and their 
introduction under special and careful instructions to practitioners.-New York 
Medical and Surgical Journal, Augiist, 1879. 
Wm. R. Warner & Co. have for years been regarded as amongst the most reliable 
manufacturers of pills in this country. We have recently received a bottle of their 
quinine pills, sugar-coated, with which we have had a satisfactory experience. 
Dr. Yale made a report to New Remedies last spring upon the pills of various 
manufacturers, amongst them his experiments with pills of quinine, made by Warner 
& Co., that shows a great perfection of result.- Obstetric Gazette, August, 1879. 
Warner's Pills.-We beg to call the attention of our subscribers to the 
Messrs. Warner's advertisement. Their pills are thoroughly reliable, and, being 
carefully sugar-coated, are entirely tasteless. The use of sugar as a coating for 
pills has been objected to. It has been stated by some that in sugar-coated pills 
the drugs become dry and hard, and soon lose their efficiency. This we can state 
for a positive fact not to be the case, having lately used and examined some of 
Warner's pills which had been kept in stock for over four years, and in which, on 
section, the mass was found to be quite soft. From our own experience, we have 
no hesitation in recommending others to use these preparations, as they are sure 
to be reliable and to give satisfaction.-Canada Medical and Surgical Journal, 
November, 1879. 
Philadelphia, January io, 1SS0. 
I have used and prescribed the Sugar-Coated Pills of Messrs. Warner & Co., 
and can testify to their solubility, as far as those which I have used may be 
mentioned. I find them as prompt and efficient as those prepared by the formula 
of the U. S. P. and uncoated. B_ HOWARD RAND, M. D. 
16 SOLUBLE AND RELIABLE 
SUGAR-COATED PILLS AND GRANULES, 
FROM OFFICINAL, AND OTHER RECIPES 
MANUFACTURED BY 
WILLIAM R. WARNER & CO. 
1228 MARKET STREET, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
WARNER & CO 'S Pills are unequaled for their medicinal qualities as the 
best materials emer into their composition, and the utmost care is used in their 
manufacture. An experience of twenty-two years, with careful attention and 
study, has enabled us to achieve results otherwise unattainable. 
We claim the art of Sugar-Coating which avoids drying the m iss so hard * 
as to render it insoluble and inert. 
Skilful preparation and the scientific method of manufacture, which we do 
not hesitate to call our own, are recognized in the acknowledged success attained 
We wish pariiculaily to state that our pills will produce the effect expected, and 
our desire is that Physicians shall be able to realize this in their practice; hence, 
the necessity for specifying our make when ordering or prescribing. 
We would particularly invite your kind attention to our make of 
PILLS OF SOLUBLE BI-SULPHATE OF QUININE 
made from pure material, in sizes containing |, 1,2, 3 and 5 grains each, sold at 
the same price as the pills of the Sulphate of Quinine. This salt which we are now 
extensively manufacturing, is by virtue of its greater solubility, offered as an im- 
portant improvement on the Sulphate. 
The following list of Sugar-Coated Pills comprises a variety of combinations 
of great value, prepared for physicians prescriptions. 
FORMUL/E AND THERAPEUTICS. 
PEB 
100 
F.aoti. 
MEDICAL PROPERTIES. 
)ose?. 
fChinoidiu, 2 grs. ] 
AflT'JT J Ext. Col. CO. zj ** J 
Antiperiodic. 
2 to 4 
$ 75 
(.Ferri. Sul. 54 " ) 
A LOES, U. S. P. [ Pu^v> £loes .s<>cot, 2 grs. ] 
StimulatingPurgative. Directed 
1 Sapoms, 2 grs. j 
to lower portion Alimen'y Canal 
40 
40 
" COMP. (Pil. Gent Comp.) 
Tonic, Purgative. 
2 to 4 
40 
l Pulv. Aloes Socot, iyt grs.) 
" ET ASSAFCETID. ) Assafoetida, 1}3 grs. J- 
(.Pulv. Saponis grs.) 
Purgative, Antispasmodic. 
2 to 5 
40 
| Pulv. A oes socot: gr. | 
" ET FERRI. J „ " .Zlogib. • 1 Sr- 1 
Tonic, Purgative. 
1 to 3 
1 Ext. Conti, /agr.j 
IT MASTICH: | See Pi 1. Stomachic®.] 
Stimulating Purgative. 
1 to 2 
" ETMYKRH.E. ' Pulv. Aloes Socot, 2 grs. I 
U. S. P. -< " Myrrh®. 1 gr. 
Cathartic, Emmenagogue. 
3 to 6 
50 
(.Croct Stigmat, 52 gr. ) 
" ET NEC. VOMICA, •! F'1tV\^]1')evoniCiefl ! - 
Tonic, Purgative. 
1 to 2 
i kxi. ixuc. Vomica, >2 gr. J - 
( Mass. Ilj drarg, 1 gr. I 
ALTERATIVE, < Pulv. Opii, gr. S- 
Alterative, with tendency to 
Mercurial Impression. 
1 to 2 
I Pulv. Ipecac., gr. j 
AMMON. BROMID, 1 gr.. 
Sedative, Alterative, Resolvent. 
1 
75 
[ Pulv. Aloes Socot, ] 
| " Sapon Hispan 
ANDERSON S SCOTS. ■{ " Fruct. Colocynth. 
Cathartic. 
2 to 5 
| " Gambogi®, 
I Oleum Anisi. 
ANTHELMINTIC, f , 1 
' (Calomel, aa, 1 gr. j 
Anthelmintic. 
1 to 2 
1 00 
PILLS SENT BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF LIST PRICE. 
Orders for Quantities subject to a Liberal Discount. Warner & Co.'s Su: 
Pills. 
MEDICAL PROPERTIES. 
PER 
100 
)oses. Each 
ANTI-BILIOUS, (Vegetable) { 00 
[Chinoidin, 1 gr. 
ANTI-CHILL, 1 gr. 
' ] Ol. Piper. Nig. 1 gr. 
1 Arsenic, 1-20 gr. 
C. 2M grs. 1 
Mgr. J 
Cholagogue Cathartic. 
Anti periodic. Applicable to ob 
stir ate 
2 to 3 
1 to 2 
5» 
1 09 
[ Strychnia, 
1-40 gr. 1 
1 Ext. Belladonna, 
1-10 gr. I 
ANTI DYSPEPTIC, 4 Pulv. Ipecac. 
1-10 gr. > 
Applicable where Debility and 
Impaired Digestion exist. 
1 to 2 
1 09 
Mass. Hydrarg, 
2 grs. | 
1 Ext Col. Co., 
2 grs. J 
ANTIMONII COMP . U. S. I*. iSee Pil. Calomel Comn.l _ 
Alterative. 
1 to 3 
4| 
( Ext. Nuc. Vowi, % gr. J 
APERIENT, J •• Hyoscyam, >2 gr. J- 
Aperient Tonic. 
1 to 2 
8S 
( " Coloc. C., 2 gr-<. ) 
ASSAFCE riDjE, U. S. P 
Nerve Stimulant. 
1 to 3 
49 
2 ar 
Nerve Stimulant. 
Tonic and Nerve Stimulant. 
2 to 4 
2 to a 
*• COMP 4 Assafcetid®, _ 2 grs. ( 
40 
1 Ferri Suli li. KxsIp. 1 gr. j 
( Assa celiriae, 1 gr. S 
ASSAFCETIDiE, ET RHEI,4 Pulv. Rhei. 1 gr. b 
Tonic, Laxative, Nerve Stimu- 
lant. 
2 to 4 
75 
( Ferrum, 1 gi 
BISMUTH, Subnit: 3 grs.. 
Sedative. Antiperiodic. 
Sedative. 
1 to 5 
75 
" Subcarb.: 3 gr 
2 to 5 
75 
BISMUTH et Ignat te, 4 an Jo'™ i4'^?- [ 
Sedative, Antiperiodic, Tonic. 
1 to 2 
1 50 
" et Nuc Vomica J Bismuth Sub. Carb. 4 grs) 
et nuc. x omica, 1 Ext_ Nuc. vomiea. K gr. 1 - - 
Sedative, Tonic. 
1 to 2 
1 50 
CALOMEL. 1, gr 
Alterative. 
1 to 3 
1 lo 3 
1 to 3 
1 to 3 
1 to 3 
40 
1 gr 
40 
" 2 grs . 
" Purgative. 
4£ 
" 3 grs 
40 
" 5 grs . 
" Cathartic. 
50 
(Calomel, ) 
Comp. (Plummer's) 3 grs. J Oxvsulph Antimony, 
Alterative, Anti-Rheumatic. 
1 to 3 
40 
(Guaiacum Resin. J 
" ETOPII, 
Cathartic, Anodyne. 
1 
85 
I Calomel, M gr. 1 
" ET RHEI J E*L r [ 
Mild Purgative. 
1 to 3 
75 
(. oloe C. gr. [ 
1 " Hyoscyam. 1-6 gr. J 
CAMPHOR ET EXT. (Camphor, 
HYObCYAMUs, 1 Ext. Hvot "vamus, (F.i 
1 gr-I 
Anodyne. Cerebral Stimulant. 
1 to 2 
50 
v 1 1 gr. j 
( Ext. Cob c. Comp. IM gr. 1 
CATHART. :1 Comp., U. S.P. J cm™) p8B' 
1 gr. 1 
1 tir. | 
Cathartic. 
2 to 4 
50 
I Pulv. Gambogiae, Mgr. J 
( Pofh.phyllin 
" •• vegetable J 
Cathartic. 
2 to 3 
50 
i Aloes, Soap & Ginger. J 
(Ext. Coloc. Clomp. ) 
I " Jalap, 
•• " imp. 4 
Cathartic. 
2 to 4 
50 
" Gentian. 
1 01. Menth Pip. 
( PulV. Aloes Soc. ) 
CHAPMAN S DINNER PILLS, 4 " Rhei Opt. [ 
Stimulating Laxative. 
1 to 3 
60 
(Gum Mastic]). ) 
CERII OXALAT: 1 gr 
Nerve Tonic. 
1 to 3 
1 00 
CHINOIDIN, 1 gr 
Tonic, Antiperiodic. 
2 to 4 
40 
" 2 grs 
Tonic Antiperiodic. 
2 to 4 
50 
(Chinoidin, 
2 grs.) 
" COMP.: 4 Ferri Sulph. Exsic. 
(Piperina, 
J gr. 
Tonic, Antiperiodic. 
1 to 2 
1 00 
M gr. ) 
CINCHON, SULPH. I E grs 
Tonic, Antiperiodic. 
1 to 3 
75 
[Pulv. Res. Scammony, 1 gr. 
1 " Soc. Aloes, 1*4 grs. 
COCCIA, •{ " Colocynth, M gr. 
1 Potass. Sulph. M gr- 
H ydragogue-Cathartic. 
2 to 4 
90 
(Ol. Caryopbyl. Mgr. 
[ Pulv. Aloes Soc. 1 gr. ) 
COOK'S, 3 grs. p!iel> v f ? 4 - 
Purgative. 
2 to 4 
50 
1 Sapon. Hispan gr ) 
COLOCYNTHIDIS COMP., 3gr.. (Ext. Coloc. Comp.) U S. P 
Purgative. 
Cholagogue Cathartic. 
2 to 5 
80 
COWET HYDRARG-[ PB. Hvdrarg?100' 2 ® 
EI IPECAC, (Pulv. ipecac. 1-6 gr. J 
1 to 3 
75 
COLOCYNTH ET H YOSCYAM. { ?M £ } -- 
COPAIB.E, U. S. P.,3grs 1. 
Gentle Laxative. 
1 to 2 
75 
Alterative to Mucous Mem- 
2 to 6 
50 
" ET EXT- CUBEBIE. fn'} 
(Pil. Copaib. 1 
brane. 
Alterative to Mucous Mem- 
brane. 
2 to 4 
80 
COPAI ByE COMP. I MtWlaC' [- 
Alterative to Mucous Mem 
2 to 4 
80 
(Oleo-rt sin Cubeb. I 
brane, Tonic. 
( Pulv. Digitalis, 1 gr. ") 
DIGITALIS COMP. -1 " Scillte, 1 gr. 
( Potass. Nit. 2 grs 
V 
Arterial Sedative. 
1 to 3 
50 
■) 
(Sapo. Hispan. Pulv. 2 grs. ) 
DIURETIC, 4 Sodae Carb. Exsic. 2 grs. >. 
Diuretic, Antacid. 
1 to 3 
50 
(.Ol. Baccae Jump. 1 drop. ) 
( Pulv. Guaiac. 
DUPUYTREN, 4 Hydg. Chlor. Corros. 
(Pulv. Opii, 
3 grs.) 
Specific Alterative. 
1 
50 
M gr. ) 
( Ergotine, 
Ext. Hellebore. Nig. 
Igr.) 
1 gr. 1 
EMMENAGOGUE, 4 Aloes. Socot 
1 gr. I 
Active Emmenagogue, Tonic. 
1 to 3 
1 49 
1 Ferri Sul. Exs. 
1 gr. | 
lOl. Sabinae, 
M gr.J 
PILLS SENT BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF LIST PRICE. Warner & Co.'s Sugar-Coated Pills. 
PEI 
100 
loses. Each 
MEDICAL PROPERTIES. 
FEL. Bovinuna, {£*®ed Jamaica Ginger, la} 
Laxative. 
1 to 3 
54 
Tonic. 
1 to 3 
54 
Tonic. 
1 to 2 
75 
" CABB. (Vailet s> V. S. P 
" CITRAT. 2 vrs 
Tonic. 
1 to 4 
44 
Tonic. 
1 to 3 
54 
" COMP. U. S. P 
Tonic, F.mmenagogue. 
Tonic, Alterative. 
Tonic. 
2 to 6 
44 
" IODID. 1 gr 
1 to 2 
65 
•• LACTAT. "1 gr. 
1 to 3 
54 
" PYROPHOS. 1 gr. 
Tonic. 
1 to 3 
44 
" VALEK. 1 st 
Tonic, Antispasmodic. 
1 to 2 
1 04 
( Fer. per Hydrogen, IQ gr. i 
" ET QUAS, ET 1 Ext. Quassia, 1 gr. 1 
NEC. VOM. 1 " Nuc. Vom. JX gr. J - 
--------- 
Tonic, Nerve Stimulant 
1 to 2 
75 
1 Pulv. Saponis, S gr j 
" ET QUIN. Cit, 1 gr 
Tonic, Antiperiodic, 
Tonic, Antiperiodic. 
1 to 2 
75 
" " "'2 grs 
1 to 2 
1 44 
" ET STRYCHNINE, 1 three times a day. 
f Strychnia. 1-GO gr 1 
(Ferrum i>er Hydrog. (Qnevenne s) 2 grs. J 
Tonic, Nerve Stimulant 
1 to 2 
7* 
" ET STRYCHNINE CIT. 
(Strych. Cit. 1-50 gr. 1 
1 Ferri Cit. 1 gr. f 
--------- 
Tonic, Nerve Stimulant 
1 to 2 
76 
[Pulv. Gambogiie 1 
GAMBOGLE comp. :: 
Active Purgative. 
2 to 5 
44 
t " Saponis, 1 
("Ext. Gentian, ?- 
gr. ) 
GENT. COMP. X Pv. A loes Soc. 2 grs. > 
Tonic, Purgative. 
2 to 4 
44 
(_OI. Carui, 1-5gr. ) 
("Pulv. < 'ubebie. 
2 grs.) 
GONORRHOEA, X Bals. Copaib. Solid, 1 gr. > 
Tonic, Alterative to Mucous 
1 to 3 
44 
(Ferri Sulph. (X 
gr. Venef. Terebinth 1*. gr. ) 
Membrane. 
f Pil. Hvdrarg. 
3 grs.) 
Cholagogue Cathartic. 
1 to 2 
HU 
(. * Hyoscyam.' 
1 gr. ) 
f Aloes Socot. 
Ferri Sulph. F.xsic. 
I Ext. Hellebore, 
HOOPER (Female; Pills) 2Q grs. 
■i Pulv. Myrrh, 
j " Saponis, 
I " Canella, 
Emmenagogue. 
1 to 3 
44 
( " Zing. Jamaica. 
HYDRARGYRI TT. S. P. 3 errs 
Mercurial Purgative. 
Mercurial Purgvive. 
2 to 3 
44 
1 to 2 
54 
(Mass 
" Comp. J. Pulv. 
Hydiarg. 1 gr.) 
Opii, gr. > 
1 to 2 
75 
Mercurial Alterative. 
Ipecac. JX gr.) 
" Tod etOnii J Hydg. lodid. 1 gr. 1 
lod. etoptt, (Pulv opii, % gr. / 
Mercurial Alterative. 
1 to 2 
7' 
IODOFORMI ET FERRI, f dr°'' H fl' ) - 
Tonic Alterative. 
1 to 2 
2 
IODOFORM 1 gr 
Tonic. Alterative. 
1 to 2 
1 •» 
IPECAC ET OPII, 3QZ grs., (Pulv. 
" " 5 grs............ 
Dover!, U. S. P.> 
Anodyne, Soporific. 
1 to 3 
1 to 2 
65 
flnsin, 
1 i gr. ) 
IRISIN COMP. 4 Podophyllin, 
1-10 gr. y 
Cathartic, Nerve Stimulant 
1 to 3 
.14 
(strychnia. 
HO gr.) 
( Leptandrin, 1 gr. ) 
LEPTAND. COMP. N Irisin. 
Ya. gr. > 
Laxative, Diuretic. 
1 to 2 
1 04 
( Podophyllin, % gr. i 
LEPTANDRIN, 1 gr 
Cathartic. 
1 
76 
1.1'PIT.IN. 3 irrs 
Anodyne. 
2 to 4 
44 
(Morph. Sulph. JX gr.) 
MORPHIA COMP. -< Tart. Emetic. 1, err. > __ 
Anodyne, Febrifuge. 
1 
1 34 
(Calomel, 
JX grj 
[Quinia Sulph. 
2 grs. I 
I Morphia Sclph 
1-20 gr. 1 
NEURALGIC. 1 Strychnia. 
1-30 ar • 5- 
Tonic, Alterative, Anodyne. 
1 to 3 
3 04 
I Acid Arsenious, 1-20 gr. 
(Ext. Aconlti, 
,Q gr. ( 
Ext. Hyoscvami, ».( gr. 
" Co'nii, % gr. 
" Ignat Am. Q gr. 
NEURALGIC. (Brown-Sequard.) 
" Opii, JX gr. 
" Aconiti, % gr. 
" Cannab. I. JX gr. 
" Stramon, 1-5 gr. 
" Bellad, J gr. 
Anodyne. 
1 
2 44 
OPII, U. S. P., 1 gr 
Anodyne 
1 
44 
" ET CAMPHORS f Pulv. upu, 1 gr. 1 
El l AJirHUK-r., t Camphor®, 2 grs. J 
Anodyne, Nerve Sedative. 
1 
H 
(Pulv. Opii, V cr. 
" ET CAMPHORnE, ET TANNIN,X Camphor®, 1 gr. >.... 
Anodyne, Astringent 
1 to 3 
M 
(Acid Tannic, 2 grs J 
" ET PLUMBI ACET. {SKetas. $ }... 
Anodyne, Sedative. 
1 to 2 
94 
PHOSPHORUS COMP. Vomica, Fr.' 
Nerve Tonic. 
1 to 4 
1 50 
PHOSPHORUS, 1 50 gr.. 1-25 gr 
Nervine Stimulant. 
1 to 2 
1 00 
PHOSPHORUS, 1-100 gr.. 
Nervous Stimulant. 
1 to 4 
1 00 
PHOSPHORUS. IRON ( „ .. . gr l 
AND NUX VOM. ) Ferri Carb. (Vailet s) 1 gr. -. 
Nervous Stimulant, Tonic. 
1 to 3 
1 96 
(Ext. Nuc. Vom. L gr. ) 
POTASS. BROMID. 1 gr 
" 5 grs 
2 to 5 
W 
Nervous Sedative. 
1 to 2 
1 i5 
" IODID. 2 grs.. 
1 to 3 
85 
[Podophyllin, J« gr. ] 
Lent mdrin. 1-16 gr. 
PODOPHYLLIN COMP. (Eclectic.) 5 Juglandin. 1-16 gr. 1 ... 
Purgative. 
2 to 4 
75 
1 Macrotin, 1-32 gr. 
1 Ol. Capsici. 
(Podophvllin, Jj gr.) 
PODOPHYLLIN ET BELLAD. 
1 Fxt. Bellad, JX gr. 1 
i Ol. Res. Capsici, JX gr. | " 
Stimulating Laxative. Mild 
1 to 3 
75 
1 Saccbarum I,act 
p-r. 1 
PILLS SENT BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF LIST PRICE. Warner & Co.'s Sugar-Coated Pills. 
PER 
100 
Doses. Each 
MEDICAL PROPERTIES. 
PODOPHYLLIN ET HYDRARG. {^P^rnarg. «* } 
Laxative. 
2 to 4 
50 
ET HYOSCYAMUS, { - Jgrs.} 
Gentle Cathartic 
Cathartic. 
1 to 2 
60 
r 'DOPHYLLIN, 1 gr.. 
1 
75 
QUINI2E SULPH. *£ gr... 
" " I gr... 
Tonic, Antiperiodic. 
1 to 4 
90 
Tonic, Antiperiodic. 
1 to 3 
1 40 
" " 2 grs. 
Tonic. Antiperiodic. 
1 to 3 
2 75 
" " 3 grs.,.. 
(Quin. Sulpb. 1 gr. i 1 immediately 
Tonic. Antiperiodic. 
1 to 2 
4 00 
" COMP. -ilerrlCarb. 2grs. >.... alter 
Tonic, Antiperiodic. 
1 to 2 
1 75 
(Acio Arsenious, 1-iiOgr.) each meal. 
ET EXT. BELLADON. {g"'u '*!£} 
Nerve Tonic, Antiperiodic. 
1 to 2 
1 75 
• t-'t ffrrt f Quin. Sulpli. 1 gr. ( 
isi i jjivavi, (Ferrum per Hydrog. (Quevennp s) 1 gr. J 
Tonic, Antiperiodic. 
1 to 2 
1 75 
QU1NI2E ET FERRI, ET ( vallet's) 2 t 
STRYCHNIA Hter".h Sulph. 1-60 In J 
Tonic, Antiperiodic. 
1 to 2 
1 75 
QUINIJE ET FERRI ET fPh.?3- g'""lu> | ) 
STRYCH. PHOS. { .. 1J fjj 
Tonic, Antiperiodic. 
1 to 2 
1 75 
' ET FERRI, Vai er, 2 grs 
Tonic, Nerve Sedative. 
1 to 2 
3 50 
QVINEE ET FERRI CARB. { Ver?i Carb.(ValleVs), 2 gk} 
(Quin, sulph. 1 gr. ) 
" ET HYDRARG. -J Mass. Hydrarg. * 2 grs.?--.. 
Tonic, Antiperiodic. 
1 to 2 
1 75 
Tonic, Antiperiodic. 
1 to 2 
1 75 
\Oleo-resm. Piper. Nig. Is gr. J 
(Iodoform. 1 gr. 4 
QUINIA, IODOFORM AND IRON Ferri Carb.(Vallet s) 2 grs. >- 
Tonic, Alterative. 
1 to 2 
3 00 
(QumiaSul. Da gr. ) 
QUINI2E ET STRYCIINLE. {£r } 
Tonic, Nerve Stimulant. 
1 to 2 
1 75 
Tonic, Nervine. 
1 to 2 
2 00 
(Pulv. Rli< i, ) 
RHEI ET HYDRARG -j Mass. Hydrarg. >4 grs 
Cbolagogue Cathartic. 
2 to 5 
SO 
(Soda Carb. Exs. ) 
RHEI U.S. P. (Pylv.Rhei 3 grs. 1 
Gentle Laxative. 
1 to 5 
75 
I baponis. 1 gr. J 
I Pulv. Rbel, 2 grs. ) 
RHEI COMP. U. S. P. 4 Myrri^10*8 Socot> 1'j i 
Purgative. 
2 to 4 
75 
1 Ol. Mentli. Pip. J 
I Ext. Coloc. C. 1' . grs. 1 
RHEUMATIC, 1 u ' 
Anti-Rheumatic, Purgative. 
1 to 3 
90 
1 Ilydg. Chlor. Mit. gr. 1 
SANTONIN, Igr . 
Anthelmintic. 
1 to 3 
1 00 
i Pulv SCll'te, L gr. 1 
ar"-r i ar COMP TT S P < ** Zingib. Jamaica, 1 gr. 1 
_.b. r. < Ammoniac 1 gr. | 
Expectorant, Diuretic. 
1 to 3 
50 
I Pulv. Saponis. 1' gr. J 
( Aloes Soc. | 
Stimulating Purgative. 
1 to 2 
50 
Dinner Pills, 3 grs.) ( Flor. Rosie. ) 
SYPHILITIC, 1 £Ot r. fin'"7*' F 
Specific Alterative. 
( Hyd. Chlor. Corros. 1-10 gr.) 
(Aloes Socot, 2 grs. | 
1 to 2 
1 00 
TRIPLEX, D Mass. Hydrarg, 1 gr. >■ 
Purgative. 
2 to 4 
75 
(Podophy'llin, " (( gr. ) 
ZINCI VALERIAN 1 gr. 
Antispasmodic. 
1 to 3 
1 00 
GRANULES. 
MEDICAL PROPERTIES. 
PER 
100 
loses, Each 
ACID, Arsenious, 1-20. 1-30 and 1--0 grs 
... Antiperiodic, Alterative. 
i 
to 2 | 
40 
ACONITIA, 1-60 gr 
... Nerve Sedative. 
i 
to 2 
75 
ATROPIA, 1-60 gr 
Anodyne. 
i 
to 2 
75 
CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE, 1 12, 1-20 and 1-40 grs.. 
Mercurial Alterative. 
i 
to 2 
40 
CAUBOPIl YLLIN, 1-10 gr 
CIM1CIFUGIN, 1-10 gr 
Emmenagogue. 
t 
to 4 
40 
.... Tonic. Nerve Stimulant. 
i 
to 4 
40 
DIGITA BIN, 1430 gr 
Arterial Sedative. 
i 
to 2 
75 
EBATERIUM, (Clutterbuck's) 1-10 gr .. 
Diuretic Hydragogue, Cathartic. 
i 
to 2 
05 
EXTRACT Belladonna, lEng.) *4 gr 
Anodyne. 
i 
to 3 
40 
Iguana Amara, J4 gr 
N erve Sedative. 
t 
to 2 
50 
" Cannabis indica. '4 gr. 
Anodyne. 
i 
to 4j 
60 
" Hyos-yamus, (Eng.) ,'2 gr... 
Nerve Stimulant. 
1 
to 3 
40 
" Nuc. Vomica. 14 and )4 gr 
Nerve Stimulant. 
i 
to 3 
40 
GEESEMIN % gr.. r 
" ?4 gr 
Arterial Sedative. 
1 
to 4| 
50 
Arterial Sedative. 
i 
to 2 
75 
HYDRASTIN, '4 gr 
Emetic. Diuretic, Cathartic. 
i 
to 2 
05 
HELONIN, l-'Qgr 
LEPTANDRIN*. *4 gr 
" gr 
Cathartic. 
i 
to 2 
50 
Cathartic. 
1 
to 4| 
40 
Cathartic. 
i 
to 4 
50 
MERCURY'. Iodide, '4 gr 
Alterative. 
i 
to 4 
40 
" •* Red, 1-16 gr 
Alterative. 
i 
to 4 
40 
MORPHIA, Amt. \ g) 
Anodyne. 
i 
to 2 
70 
•' Sulphate, 1-10 gr 
Anodyne. 
i 
to 2 
60 
. Anodvne. 
1 
to 2 
70 
" " 14) " 
Anodyne. 
1 
to 2 
80 
t. M y, u 
Anodvne. 
1 
to 2 
1 00 
" Valerianate, 
Anodyne. 
1 
to 2 
1 00 
PODOPIIYLLIN, 1-10 gr 
Cathartic. 
1 
to 4 
40 
" X gr 
. . Cathartic. 
1 
to 4 
40 
" L gr ------ 
f Podopiiyllin, gr ) 
COMP. -J Ext. IIyo«cvnm, J4 gr. r.. 
.... Cathartic. 
1 
to 2 
50 
.... Cathartic and Tonic. 
1 
to 2 
75 
L " Nuc. Vomica, 1-16 gr. J 
SIL VER. Nitrate, 34 gr 
Alterative, to Mucous Memb'ne. 
1 
to 4 
75 
" Iodide. *4 gr. 
Alterative.to Mucous Memb'ne. 
1 
to 4 
75 
STRYCHNIA, 1-16, 1-20. 1-30, 1-32, 1-40 and 1-60 gr 
.... Nerve Stimulant, Tonic. 
1 
to 3 
4® 
PILLS SENT BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF LIST PRICE. ii Rue Neuve Des Capucines, 
Paris, February 20th, 1879. 
Editors North Carolina Medical Journal. 
Gentlemen : 
****** 
* * * I cannot conclude this letter without saying 
a word in regard to a medicine which has recently been introduced 
into France by our enterprising countrymen, Messrs. Wm. R. 
Warner & Co., of Philadelphia. Among other specimens of their 
exhibit at the recent Exposition, their agent in Paris very kindly 
sent me several bottles of *Ingluvin-prepared from the gizzard of 
the chicken,-with the request that I would give it a fair trial in the 
treatment of gastric irregularity and disturbance. I am pleased to 
be able to chronicle the fact, that, in three cases of pronounced 
atonic dyspepsia and in one case of chronic indigestion, it has acted 
like a charm-promptly relieving all disagreeable symptoms and re- 
storing the stomach to its proper functions. My patients, who had 
previously tried ■without benefit all ordinary forms of pepsine, bis- 
muth, cerium, nux vomica, &c., &c., are delighted with this new 
remedy and assure me that they experienced benefit from the first 
dose. Hereafter I shall prescribe it liberally and with great confi- 
dence in its therapeutic value. 
Assuring you of my abiding interest in the success of the 
Journal, 
Very Truly and Respectfully Yours, 
Edward Warren, (Bey) M. D., C. M. 
*A powder prescribed in the some manner and dose as Pepsin, and in all cases 
where the use of Pepsin is indicated, it is superior. 
FAVORITE AND SPECIAL RECIPES FOR PILLS. 
Physicians having a special formula which they may desire to have 
made in pilular form and sugar-coated for convenience and office 
practice, can have them so prepared with the greatest care and 
perfection, by 
WILLIAM R. WARNER & CO., 
DRUGGISTS AND CHEMISTS, 
MANUFACTURERS OF SOLUBLE SUGAR-COATED PILLS, 
1223 Zv£a.rlzet Street, T'lxila.d.elplxia,. A NEW AND IMPORTANT CLASS OF REMEDIES. 
FOE J'JJYSIC IANS' PE ESCJi I PTIO NS. 
WARNER & CO. 
SMALL DOSES FOR FREQUENT REPETITION, 33 VARIETIES. 
At the solicitation of numerous medical friends we have prepared this new 
class of preparations, denominated PARVULES, to distinguish them from Pills 
and Granules. They are designed for the administration of medicine in doses 
for children, and for frequent repitition in case of adults. It is claimed by some 
practitioners that small doses given at short intervals exert a more salutary effect, 
and the peculiar mode of preparation secures this result.-Prepared only by WM. 
R. WARNER & CO., Chemists, 1228 Market Street, Philadelphia. 
Price, 40 Cents per Pottle of JOO each. Discount for Quantities. 
POCKET-CASES WITH 20 VARIETIES, FOR THE USE OF PRACTITIONERS, $6.00 NET. 
" " 10 " " " " 3.50 " 
The DOSE of any of the Parvules will vary from one to four, according to age, 
or the frequency of their administration. For instance, one Parvule every hour, 
or two every two hours, or three every three hours, and so on for adults. For 
children, one three times a day is the minimum dose. 
Acid Arseniosi 1-100 gr. 
Acidi Salicylici . 1-10 gr. 
Acidi Tannici 1-20 gr. 
Aconiti Rad 1-20 gr. 
ALOIN 1-10 gr. 
A most desirable Cathartic. 
Dose.-4 to 6 at once. This number of 
Parvules will be found to exert an easy, 
prompt, and ample cathartic effect, unattend- 
ed with nausea, andin all respects furnishing 
the most desirable aperient and cathartic 
preparation in use. For habiturl constipa- 
tion, it replaces, when taken in single par- 
vules, the various medicated waters, without 
the quantity which they require as a do e, 
which tills the stomach and deranges the di- 
gestive organs. 
Ammonii Chloridi 1-10 gr. 
Antimonii et Potass. Tart.....1-100 gr. 
Arnicee Flor 1-5 gr. 
Arsenici lodidi 1-100 gr. 
Delladonnse Fol 1-20 gr. 
CALOMEL 1-20 gr. 
Alterative, Purgative. 
Dose 1 to 2 every hour. Two parvules of 
Calomel, taken every hour, until five or six 
doses are administered (which will comprise 
but half a grain), produce an activity of the 
liver which will be followed by bilious dejec- 
tions and beneficial effects, that twenty grains 
of Blue Mass or ten grains of Calomel rarely 
cause, and sickness of the stomach does not 
usually follow. 
Camphorse 1-20 gr. 
Cantharidis 1-50 gr. 
Capsici 1-20 gr. 
Digitalis Fol 1-20 gr. 
Ergotinee 1-10 gr. 
Ferri Redacti 1-10 gr. 
Gelsemini Rad 1-50 gr. 
Hydrarg. cum Creta 1-10 gr. 
Hydrastin 1-20 gr. 
lodoformi 1-20 gr. 
Ipecac 1-50 gr. 
Morphise Sulph 1-50 gr. 
Nucis Vomicae 1-50 gr. 
Opii 1-40 gr. 
Piperinae 1-20 gr. 
PODOPHYLLINI 1-40 gr. 
Cathaitic, Cholagogue. 
Two parvules of Podop'iyllin, administered 
three times a day, re-establish and regulate 
the peristaltic action, and relieve habitual 
constipation, add tone to the liver, and in- 
vigorate the digestive functions. 
Potassii Arsenitis 1-100 gr. 
Potassii Nitratis 1-10 gr. 
Quiniee Sulphatis 1-10 gr. 
BI-SULPH. OF QUININE PILLS, 
1( 2 and 3 Grains each, at same price as Sulphate of Quinia. 
Place one of Warner & Co's Bi-Sulphate of Quinine Pills in water. The perfect 
solution which it produces is a positive evidence of the solubility and superiority 
of W. R. Warner & Co's Sugar, Coated Pills of all kinds. 
-PREPARED BY- 
WILLIAM R. WABBBB & CO., 
Manufacturers of PHYSICIANS' and HOSPITAL SUPPLIES, 
1223 Street, ZE'lxi.le.cLelplxie,-