Old Age Its Care And Treatment in Health And Disease
Old Age Its Care And Treatment in Health And Disease
Robert Saundby
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Bur- roughs, Welcome and Co. , whose preparations for opotherapy have justly gained the confidence of the profession, sell ovarian tablets under the trade name of " Varium " tabloids weighing five grains. This treatment has been found useful in women whose ovaries have been removed by surgical opera- tion, in climacteric and post climacteric nervous disturbance, in hypertrichosis, and even in acute mania. Thus Geach has reported the case of a woman of sixty who had an attack of acute mania with... insomnia and delusions of persecution ; she was treated with ovarian extract in doses of at first ten and then twenty grains three times a day for ten days ; the improvement was very marked ; all the symptoms disappeared ; the patient could dress and feed herself and converse rationally. Ovarian opotherapy has also been found useful in the obesity which often comes on after the meno- pause but is probably inferior to thyroid extract for this purpose. It has been tried in the chronic rheumatism of elderlv women without marked result, DIETARY AND GENERAL TREATMENT 251 in osteomalacia with improvement (Senator, Castellevi), but adrenal extract has done better, and both seem inferior to the effect of castration the results of which are evident.
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