TY  - JOUR
T1  - CAlcium chlorid as a palliative agent in the treatment of intestinal tuberculosis
AU  - FISHBERG M
Y1  - 1919/06/28
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1919.02610260002002
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1882
EP  - 1884
VL  - 72
IS  - 26
N2  - With the exception of dysphagia and dysphonia due to laryngeal implication, the intestinal symptoms of tuberculosis are the most painful to endure and most difficult to control by our present methods of symptomatic and palliative treatment of the disease. In the advanced stages of phthisis, we very frequently encounter patients who beg for relief of the abdominal pains, exhausting diarrhea and tenesmus. These unfortunates, in despair of ever being completely cured of their malady, often state that if these intestinal symptoms were but controlled, they would be happy; but, unfortunately, until recently we have been practically helpless in many cases. The various astringents, metallic, mineral and vegetable, often prove of little or no value; the administration of silver nitrate, lead, bismuth and tannin and its derivatives, in moderate or large doses, has proved futile in the vast majority of cases; and dietetic treatment is only exceptionally effective in checking the
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.02610260002002
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610260002002
ER  -