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  • Equipment for the application of a local ether anaesthetic.
  • Quinine-Urea-Hydrochloride as a local anaesthetic and as a dressing for infected wounds.
  • Quinine-Urea-Hydrochloride as a local anaesthetic and as a dressing for infected wounds.
  • Quinine-Urea-Hydrochloride as a local anaesthetic and as a dressing for infected wounds.
  • Quinine-Urea-Hydrochloride as a local anaesthetic and as a dressing for infected wounds.
  • Kelene (Κ́ηλ́ε or I calm) : pure chloride of ethyl, local anaesthetic in glass tubes.
  • Kelene (Κ́ηλ́ε or I calm) : pure chloride of ethyl, local anaesthetic in glass tubes.
  • Kelene (Κ́ηλ́ε or I calm) : pure chloride of ethyl, local anaesthetic in glass tubes.
  • Kelene (Κ́ηλ́ε or I calm) : pure chloride of ethyl, local anaesthetic in glass tubes.
  • Percaine "CIBA" : The new local anaesthetic for regional, infiltration, surface and spinal anaesthesia ... not a narcotic. Economical in use. Belongs chemically to a class entirely different from cocaine & its derivatives / Clayton Aniline Co. Ltd.
  • Erythroxylum coca Lam. Erythroxylaceae Coca. Distribution: Peru . Cocaine is extracted from the leaf. It is no longer in the UK Pharmacopoeia (used to be used as a euphoriant in ‘Brompton Mixture’ for terminally ill patients). Cocaine, widely used as a local anaesthetic until 1903, inhibits re-uptake of dopamine and serotonin at brain synapses so these mood elevating chemicals build up and cause a ‘high’. Its use was often fatal. Coca leaf chewing was described by Nicolas Monardes (1569
  • Butyn.
  • Hordeum vulgare (Barley)
  • Eugenia caryophyllus (Cloves)
  • Hordeum vulgare (Barley)
  • Hordeum vulgare (Barley)
  • Drug advertising ephemera. Box 12.