RT Journal
A1 BISHOP L
T1 USe of acetanilid in various combinations as a substitute for many proprietary drugs and mixtures.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD September 9
VO XXXIII
IS 11
SP 633
OP 634
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.92450630009001d
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.92450630009001d
AB Those of us who are confused by the claims of the ever-appearing antipyretic analgesics should consider one method by which we can obtain definite knowledge of this special class of drugs. It is better to know one drug well than many partly. For a long time I have not prescribed any new drugs of this class, but have substituted acetanilid in such a combination as seemed desirable for the case. In doing this I have also returned somewhat to the custom of prescribing liquid medicines. Acetanilid is not soluble, but it is readily suspended in syrupy mixtures so that one can write for acetanilid combined with ammonia in any of its forms—salicylic acid, nux vomica, digitalis, codein, creosote, bromid of potash, or indeed almost any drug, and obtain a prescription that can be much more readily adapted to the case than is possible where any of the ready-made combinations are