The specific action of drugs on the healthy system : an index to their therapeutic value, as deduced from experiments on man and animals / by Alexander G. Burness and F.J. Mavor.

Date:
1874
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Credit: The specific action of drugs on the healthy system : an index to their therapeutic value, as deduced from experiments on man and animals / by Alexander G. Burness and F.J. Mavor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    dry powder may be snuffed up; in the same manner in bleeding from the gums ; also, in solution, in prolapsus ani of children, in uterine haemorrhage, vulvitis, simple purulent ophthalmia, and, mixed with honey, in stomatitis and aphthae, also, as a powder, to burns and scalds. Therapeutic Use in Animals. Alum powder, mixed with charcoal, may be used as an ap- plication to burns and scalds, or after firing in the horse,'also to ulcerated surfaces. The alum coagulates the secretion, and prevents, or limits to a great extent, suppuration, and thus prevents blemishes. Also in diseased sebaceous glands in the heels, commonly known as “ grease,” this agent may be applied in solution, or as an ointment. As a gargle it may be used in the treat- ment of thrush in the mouth, sore throats, also in eczema epizootica (commonly known as “ foot and mouth disease”) in the same manner as an application to the ulcerated gums, so often met with in dogs. AMMONIA. Physiological Effects. The strong solution, topically applied, causes pain, red- ness, vesication, and eventually destruction of the part. When swallowed in a large dose it acts topically on the mucous membrane of the mouth, throat and stomach, causing burning pain, and is soon absorbed, causing coldness of the surface of the body, small, feeble pulse, pain over the abdomen, with diarrhoea; but in smaller doses it produces throbbing pain in the head, a feeling of heaviness, some- times emetic effects, increased pulse, and cough, with in-