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The Treatment of Chronic Bright's Disease
1885
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
If necessary, heat may be employed by the pharmacist in making a clear mixture, the bulk of which might be this elixir of orange, or syrup and water. About twelve or fifteen grains per day. of caffein should be the limit of dose, but much smaller amounts are often sufficient. Abroad, as much as thirty grains a day have been given without damage. Has caffein any bad effect? It has one. In the treatment of a case of dropsy in which I advised caffein, it quickly removed the effusion, but in four
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