Modern therapeutics

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D. G. Brinton, 1877 - 609 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 102 - Macerate the aconite root for forty-eight hours, in fifteen ounces of the spirit, in a close vessel, agitating occasionally ; then transfer to a percolator, and, when the fluid ceases to pass, pour into the percolator the remaining five ounces of the spirit. As soon as the percolation is completed, subject the contents of the percolator to pressure, filter the products, mix the liquids, and add sufficient rectified spirit to make up one pint.
Pàgina 39 - The symptoms due to large doses of the Bromide of Potassium may be stated as follows, in the usual order of their occurrence: 1. Contraction of the pupils. 2. Drowsiness. 3. Weakness of the arms and legs. 4. Depression of mind. 5. Failure of memory. 6. Delusions. The first three of these are. I think, usual accompaniments of an active dose of the medicine. They simply show a sedative effect due to cerebral anaemia. In adults they never follow a less dose than ten grains. Doses of five grains produce...
Pàgina 320 - Dissolve the sulphate of iron in one ounce of boiling water, and the phosphate of «oda in two ounces of boiling water. Mix the solutions, and wash the precipitated phosphate of iron till the washings are tasteless. With sufficient diluted sulphuric acid, dissolve the sulphate of quinia in two ounces of water.
Pàgina 206 - That in a weak organ, acting because of its weakness with great rapidity, it will reduce the number of its contractions, and, as it were, strengthen or tone them down. To strengthen and quicken the action of a weak slowly acting heart, and to reduce the number of the rapid strokes of a feeble...
Pàgina 159 - A sixth part every three hours till haemorrhage is arrested. In any given case, either of the ingredients may be omitted, if the symptoms indicate that it is not required, or that it has already done its duty. — British Mcd. Journal. Action of Mercury. AT the recent meeting of the Britisl...
Pàgina 530 - CANE states that the advantages which oleate of mercury seems to possess over other remedies are — 1. It is a certain remedy, if carefully applied. 2. It produces no staining or injury of the skin. In cases where the disease appears on the face, it is of great importance to avoid any disfigurement or staining. 3. It is painless in its application. This is not the case with the ordinary strong parasiticides, most of which produce vesication, etc.
Pàgina 237 - If the dose be vomited, it should be repeated immediately, and the patient should lie still, and take no more liquid for half an hour, by which time the oil will have passed from the stomach into the bowels. Within an hour or two the oil will usually have acted freely. Then a tablespoonful of brandy...
Pàgina 75 - ... a shrinking of the brain from this cause. Moreover, we have only to observe its effects upon the human subject, to be convinced that this is one of the most important results of its employment. The flushed face, the throbbing of the carotids and temporals, the suffusion of the eyes, the feeling of fulness in the head, all disappear as if by magic under its use.
Pàgina 526 - The only local application of arsenic which is justifiable is either one where the strength is so weak, and the extent of its use so small, that there is no danger from absorption, which may occur when not expected, or, one of such a strength as to kill the adjoining tissue at once, and so prevent absorption, as is the case with Marsden's mucilage.
Pàgina 36 - ... grains of the bromide of ammonium, when only one of these salts is employed, and a smaller quantity of each, but especially of the second, when they are given together. 3. That an acne-like eruption on the face, neck, shoulders, etc., should be produced, and it is most important to increase the dose when there is no eruption, and also when the eruption la disappearing, unless the dose...

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