Nervous exhaustion and the diseases induced by it : with observations on the origin and nature of nervous force.

  • Campbell, Hugh Joseph, 1898-
Date:
1873
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Credit: Nervous exhaustion and the diseases induced by it : with observations on the origin and nature of nervous force. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    CHAPTER VI. REMEDIES. The medicines which exercise the greatest amount of restorative influence upon the nervous centres and branches, are those which are termed nerve tonics; of these the principal are phosphorus, arsenic, zinc, manganese, silver, strychnia, iron, quinine. Some of these have a special influence on particular parts of the nervous system; as, for ex- ample, phosphorus and its compounds, the hypophos- phites of soda, &c. on the cerebro-spinal substance; arsenic on the pneumogastric nerve at its origin in the brain, and along its whole course; zinc, strychnine, silver, &c, on the spinal cord. While others, as iron and manganese, exercise a peculiar influence on the transformation of food into blood, and facilitate its conversion into brain and nerve tissue. Many of these remedies produce better effects in combination, over certain conditions of the nervous centres, than when employed separately ; a combination of iron, quinine, and strychnia, for example, furnishes the most powerful restorer of exhausted nerve-tissue, even when at the verge of degeneration, that we have. Strychnia alone in- creases the reflex faculty of the nervous centres, and acts on the sympathetic system, and through