Debility

— See also, Adynamia, Anemia, Convalescence. Acid, Hypophosphorous. Alcohol: along with food often very useful; liable to abuse—not to be continued too long; effect watched in aged people with dry tongue. Arsenic: in young anemic persons, alone or with iron, and in elderly persons with feeble circulation. Berberine. Bitters: useful as tonic. Calcium salts: phosphates if from overwork or town life; hypophosphites in nervous debility. Cholagogue Purgatives: when debility is due to defective elimination of waste. Cinchona: a fresh infusion along with carbonate of ammonium. Cod-Liver Oil. Columbin. is: where circulation is feeble. Eucalyptus: in place of quinine. Extract Malt, Dry. Gaduol: in cachoxias. Glycerinophosphates. Hemo-gallol: as a highly efficacious blood-producer; non-constipating. Hemol. Hydrastis: in place of quinine. Iron: in anemic subjects. Levico Water. Magnesium Hypophosphite. Maltone Wines. Manganese: alone or with iron. Morphine: subcutaneously, if due to onanism or hysteria. Nux Vomica: most powerful general tonic. Orexine: for building up nutrition when appetite lacking. Pota ium Hypophosphite. Quinine: general tonic. Sanguinaria: when gastric digestion is feeble. Sarsaparilla: if syphilitic taint is present. Sea-bathing: in chronic illne with debility. Sodium Arsenate. Turkish Baths: if due to tropical climate, with caution; in townspeople, when they become stout and flabby.