CATARRHO-PYOGENIC AND TUBERCULOUS INFECTIONS OF THE LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT: Being the Bolingbroke Lecture delivered before the South-West London Medical Society, June, 1925,
Authors: H. B. Shaw
Journal: BMJ (1925)

r §IzBRnT18 _16 _1211M'IA in three weeks.Great reduction in weicrlgt ol)and disappeaiance of all symptoms in six weeks.After twenty mrrontlhs lii:catmlent.requires one injection every second or third (iay to keep herself in good health' finds injections keep lher-in better health than by courses of thyroid medicationi alonie.Casc 12.-Female, aged 55.B.P. 194.Obes:ity wit.h dys-pnoea and bronchial asthma.Two injectionis daily for forii teeii (lays withl 2 gr.thyroid daily.Slight reduction in weight.and(l great improve- ment in breathing; B.P. 172.Case 14.*-Female.aged 53.B.P. 191.Angina majol long lhistory and quite incapacitated.Two injections daily for three weeks 1 to 5 gr. of thyvroid extr-act( daily.Complete relief from anginal attacks after four davs' teat -amenll conetinues relieved.for seventeen months no retur-n of anginial pain; B.P. 155.Thyroid medication and occasional inijectionis taken.Case 14.-Female.aged 39.B.P. 191.Obcsitv anid mild tnyxoedematous symptoms.Two injec( ionlS dlaily, 1 to 4 gr. of thyroid extract daily.B.P. 175 end of secoio(d week.Disappear- ance of disagreeable endonmetritis whiic had exist ed for ntanv years and had resisted two curettings was nioticed oen tih fiftul daly of tr eatment.C(ase /1J;.*-Female,aged 56.B.P. 193.Btiaht\s discase} of many years' standing.Two injections dlailv together with the tusual ri-eatment for this disease.B.P. 1(5 itt fonlt weeks.Gradual d1isappearance of albuminr anid epithelitini.All symptomis relieved.(ast, 16.*-Male, aged 45.B.P. 120.Hyperpiesia of unkniown origill.Two injections daily for one week, onie inijectioni daily for six davs.B.P. 140 at end of second week, anid remained at this tigu-e by taking an injection weekly some nmoniths later. (Self- administered.)Cae 177.*-Fe-male.aged 63.B.P. 1°0.Hyperpiesis.renial witlh turaemic symptoms; apoplexv coinmont in fantiily history.Two injections daily for tOhee weeks, anid one ot-two injections weekly for sixteen months.l.P. 175; all symptom,s improved, with reduction in blood urea.('Cse 18.-Male, aged 70.B.P. 189.Anginaw miniior.Two injectionls daily fori twenty-one (lays.B.P. 170, relief fr-onm aniginal symptoms; keeps himself comfortable witil one injection a week and an occasional course of tlhyrid o medication (lutring tle past twelve months.(Self-administered.)Case 1.9.-Female, aged 60.P.P. 185.IHyperpiesia of iiinkniown or-igin.Two injections daily for five days.P.P. 150, anid keepinig at that average after many nmoniths 1)hy the tise of onie in?jection a, week.No thyroid given.(Self-administered.)Case 20.*-Female, aged 51.B.P. 15.Rheumatoid arfiritis: recent onset, affecting fingers anid shouldets.Alkalinie powder t.d.s., two injections daily foi-two weelks.B.1.140, i-eduction in paini and swelling of joints, signis of rhfetiniadtdl atlthritis almost di9- appeared at end of nintlh week. (Self-adntti4 ted ('ear 21.*-Male, aged 56.B.P. 185.(otlt, 'ciatica, andi neturitii;.After two injections daily for folet ( davs with nc t hvroid, P.P. 150 and gouity syniptonits rceli-eed.Six n onths later.coln- tinued relief from gotit and(l B.P. remttlins ridtied.(Self-adininiet ered.)Case 22.*-Female.aged 47.B.P. 184.Hy pc1pin sia of unknown