American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy: Developing the Latest Acquired Knowledge of Drugs, and Especially of the Direct Action of Single Drugs Upon Exact Conditions of Disease, with Especial Reference to the Therapeutics of the Plant Drugs of the Americas |
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Page 214 - Cactina Fillets regulates the heart and quiets nervous irritability. It is used when the heart is weak during convalescence and in the debilitated heart of old age. It is a reliable agent where the heart muscle is enfeebled and where there is progressive valvular inefficiency, with irregular or intermittent pulse. It is also indicated in mitral or aortic regurgitation on account of its power to shorten the diastolic period, but is contra-indicated in mitral stenosis, where digitalis is to be preferred...
Page 399 - Send a large exploring needle into the sac of the tunica vaginalis testis, and let the fluid escape. Now, before withdrawing the needle, place the nozzle of the loaded syringe into the needle's open mouth, and with a plunge of the syringe's piston send the diluted Thuja into the cavity recently distended with serum. Then, to make the liquid enter every crevice in the sac of the hydrocele, the fingers pinch and knead the scrotum quite vigorously.
Page 57 - Alcohol to saturate the powder and leave a stratum above it. When the liquid begins to drop from the percolator, close the lower orifice, and, having closely covered the percolator, macerate for forty-eight hours.
Page 281 - Acute, cutting pains in the stomach and bowels in infants — in otherwise perfect health. Intestinal derangements denoted by screams and sharp crying out in sleep, persistent crying and screaming with drawing up of the legs in very young babes. Spasmodic pain of all kinds in the stomach or bowels. Therapy — Five drops of the tincture in half...
Page 56 - Cc. of this menstruum, pack it lightly in a cylindrical percolator and add enough of the menstruum to saturate the powder and leave a stratum above it. When the liquid begins to drop from the percolator, close the lower orifice, and having covered the percolator macerate the mixture for 48 hours.
Page 63 - Weigh the substance and the sugar of milk separately ; then place the substance, previously reduced, if necessary, to a moderately fine powder, in a mortar; add about an equal measure of sugar of milk, mix well by means of a spatula, and triturate the powders thoroughly together.
Page 473 - ... instillation; the conjunctival anesthesia is at no time so profound as the corneal, and disappears several minutes before the latter. . 2. There is a slight stinging sensation immediately following the instillation which becomes less and less with each instillation, finally disappearing altogether. ' 3. The eye becomes immediately suffused and continues red for more than an hour after the last instillation. 4. There is no widening of the palpebral fissure. 5. There is a moderate but marked dilatation...
Page 240 - However, the result proved this to be justified, for the patient responded immediately in a marvelous manner. All the fatal symptoms gave way to those of returning health, the patient passing from a death-struggle into a peaceful slumber, from which he awoke after three hours, somewhat weak. Another dose was given, which was followed by a still more pronounced reaction for the better. The patient from that time continued to convalesce and, with the exception of a...
Page 252 - It expels wind, relieves pain, relaxes spasm, induces and promotes perspiration, equalises, the circulation, harmonises the action of the nervous system, and accomplishes its work without excitement, neither increasing the force or frequency of the pulse, nor raising the temperature of the body. It is of especial service in the treatment of affections involving the serous membranes...
Page 95 - ... inflammation, in previously strong patients ; in acute convulsions with high temperature and rapid pulse. Bryonia. — In the fever of acute inflammation, if in the lungs or bronchi, there is sharp, hard, short, quick cough, inducing pain and soreness, quick pulse ; if in serous membranes there is quick, acute pains, diffused soreness, and tendency to effusion. Acute synovitis, with pain on movement and threatened exudation, is relieved by it. Rhus Toxicodendron.