Journal of Materia Medica, Volume 1

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1858

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Página 58 - ... and being purified from all the noxious and deleterious elements, its operation is attended by no sickness of the stomach, no vomiting, no costiveness, no headache, nor any derangement of the constitution or general health. Hence its high superiority over Laudanum, Paregoric, Black Drop, Denarcotized Laudanum, and every other Opiate preparation.
Página 18 - ... the demon, as he went out of the man, to overturn it, and thereby to let the spectators know that he had left the man...
Página 26 - This method consists in turning into the meatus auditorius from four to ten drops (according to the age and sensibility of the patient) of the following fluid; then to close the opening of the ear by means of a little cotton, and to cause the patient to hold the head inclined for some minutes to the side opposite to the seat of the pain, so that the liquid may remain in the bottom of the ear. This preparation is thus made...
Página 88 - ... both when topically applied (as evidenced by the absence of power in causing dilatation of the pupil of the eye), and also when internally administered. Similar observations were next detailed upon the preparations of stramonium and belladonna, and the results were found to be the same. It was, however, shown that the carbonates and bicarbonates of the alkalies were devoid of the property of destroying the activity of the plants. In some of Dr. Garrod's experiments as much as a drachm of the...
Página 136 - was beneficial to Schiller acted on me like poison. I called on him one day, and as I did not find him. at home, and his wife told me that he would soon return, I seated myself at his work-table to note down various matters.
Página 35 - And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
Página 18 - The manner of the cure was this : he put a ring that had a root of one of those sorts mentioned by Solomon to the nostrils of the demoniac, after which he drew out the demon through his nostrils. And, when the man fell down immediately, he adjured him to return into him no more, making still mention of Solomon, and reciting the incantations which he composed.
Página 88 - Caustic alkalies, such as exist in liquor potassae or liquor soda», entirely destroy the activity of henbane, preventing its action on the pupil when topically applied, and its influence upon the system when internally administered; and, combined with a proper amount of these alkalies, the largest doses of the preparations of henbane may be given without the production of any symptoms.
Página 181 - ... cure of these formidable diseases, it passed for a time almost entirely out of notice again. I have found good results from the use of aconite, in almost the entire range of neuralgic affections, and in those obscure complications of rheumatism and neuralgia in which there is freedom from local or constitutional trouble, independent of the nervous derangement ; but more particularly in such cases as are usually styled pure neuralgia, I have frequently had results almost as prompt and satisfactory...
Página 20 - ... completely prevents its peculiar agency, even though artificial respiration be maintained. ' From some experiments of Segalas, it appears also to exhaust the irritability of the heart; for in animals he found that organ could not be stimulated to contract after death, and life could not be prolonged by artificial breathing. Nux-vomica differs from all narcotic poisons, by not exhausting the sensibility. During the intervals of the fits the sensibility is on the contrary heightened, and the faculties...

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