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Show New Iteinedjr for Scurvy. A Russian correspondent describes a tew -uilization of tho laown-Scquard lymph, v hieh is said to have been mic-rc.-si'iilly carried out in hospital of Odessa. Ono of the patients was an aggravated ag-gravated case of scurvy, whita aa-.l stubbornly stub-bornly resisted every mode, of treatment The superintending physician resolved to try an experiment on tho patient, :iud injected into him a quantify of Brown-Sttpiard's Brown-Sttpiard's lymph. In a wor k there was marked, improvement, but when tho injections in-jections were slopped the patient relapsed. re-lapsed. Tho tnelliciao was then applied again for three weeks without intermission, intermis-sion, and at tho end of that time the patient pa-tient v;is dechred convalescent. It is fctated that the lymph was produced at the laboratory of tho physician who so euccesefully used it, from th organ of domestic rabbits, New York Commercial Commer-cial Advertiser. |