Elements of pharmacy, materia medica, and therapeutics / by William Whitla.

  • Whitla William, Sir, 1851-1933.
Date:
1898
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    and the drug has a certain amount of anodyne or pain-relieving power. It has also been used as a remedy against round and tape worms, which it sometimes has destroyed by its digestive action. It bas been used with varying success as a local remedy in diphtheria, where its application as a powder causes the disintegration of the false membrane. It has also been employed to destroy warts, epitheliomas, &c. Schwimmer has successfully used a solution (i in io) to cure fissures of the tongue. It is a powerful galactagogue when given internally, or even applied locally. The writer has satisfied himself of the great value of Finkler’s papain in dyspepsia, chronic gastritis, ulcer, and cancer of the stomach in doses of 2 to 3 grains. He obtains such excellent results with the drug that he seldom now uses pepsin. He combines it with dried carbonate of soda, carbonate of bismuth, and a little morphia. There is no other combination which will give so good results in gastric affections as this :— R. Papain (Finkler) gr. iii, Sodii Bicarb, gr. xxx. Mag. Carl). Port. gr. xx. Bismuthi Card. gr. x. Morph. Hyd. gr. T‘B. Misce. Fiat pnlvis. St. i. ter die expaul. aqucc p. cib. There is also contained in the leaves a poisonous alkaloid called Carpaine. (See page 515.) Papaverine is one of the colourless, crystalline alkaloids of opium. Owing to impurities and difficulties in isolating these alkaloids, the greatest diversity of opinion exists about their action. Thus the ordinary dose of this substance is given at ^ gr. Hoffmann affirmed he took 50 times this quantity without experiencing any effects whatever. F'ronmiiller states that it is narcotic, and that it dilates the pupil, and does not affect pulse, temperature, or respiration. Other observers find it markedly diminishes these. Leubuscher employs it in to £ gr. doses in the diarrhoea of children owing to its power of diminishing the intestinal movements. The dose of Merck’s crystalline alkaloid is tt to i gr. Paracotoin. (See Coto.) Para-Formic Aldehyde, sometimes called Paraform or Polymeriform, is the polymerized form of formic aldehyde or Formalin (which see). It is extolled by Aronson as a valuable