Beaver County News | 1924-08-15 | Page 6 | Intravenous Therapy may Revolutionize the Practice of Medicine

Intravenous Therapy May Revolutionize the Practice of Medicine By DR. W. FORREST DUTTON, Pennsylvania Polyclinic Hospital. Intravenous therapy has made great progress. In view of its development, de-velopment, I believe, it will revolutionize the practice of medicine from a therapeutic standpoint. It is now known to be safe, efficient, accurate and speedy in obtaining ob-taining results. Formerly the treatment was used in only two or Ihrea diseases and limited to four or five drugs. Now it may be applied in approximately 130 diseases. About 110 drugs are used. When injei-tion injei-tion is made in the vein with the needle the medicine reaches every portion por-tion of the body in less than sixty seconds. The 6tomach is a veritable chemical laboratory. When you put a substance there you don't know what action the gastric or intestinal juices will have. By injecting the medicine into the veins you clung conditions from the unknown to the known.