American materia medica, therapeutics and pharmacognosy : developing the latest acquired knowledge of drugs, and especially of the direct action of single drugs upon exact conditions of disease, with especial reference to the therapeutics of the plant drugs of the Americas / by Finley Ellingwood ; with a practical consideration of the principles of pharmacy and pharmacognosy, by John Uri Lloyd.

  • Ellingwood, Finley, 1852-1920.
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Credit: American materia medica, therapeutics and pharmacognosy : developing the latest acquired knowledge of drugs, and especially of the direct action of single drugs upon exact conditions of disease, with especial reference to the therapeutics of the plant drugs of the Americas / by Finley Ellingwood ; with a practical consideration of the principles of pharmacy and pharmacognosy, by John Uri Lloyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    where the patient is restless and cannot get his breath fully, where there is a suffocating feeling and a desire for fresh air. MAGNESIUM PHOSPHORICUM. Phosphate of Magnesium—Magnesium Phos.—an important remedy, one that I myself have found satisfactory, is found in the muscles, in the brain and bone, in the nerves and teeth, and in the blood corpuscles. It acts more directly on the white nerve fibers. It is especially curative in its influence upon irritation of the nerve filaments in those conditions which result in spasm. It is a typical antispasmodic; at the same time it has an active con¬ trol over the nerve filaments in neuritis and other conditions where there is intense pain from nerve irritation. I have just now quickly relieved a long standing case of pruritis vulva? of a most aggravated type which was insti¬ tuted many years before by rhus poisoning. This condition was shortly cured, but the pruritis was so great as to resemble a neuritis. The influence of this agent with a nerve sedative was immediate and seems to be permanent. It served an admirable purpose for me in one case of acute neuritis from cold that had baffled specialists of reputation. It is indicated in all sharp, cutting, lancinating pains, convulsions, and in neural¬ gias, especially those that are relieved by heat and increased by cold. NATRIUM CHLORIDUM. Sodium Chloride or Natrium Mur., as is well known, is responsible for the osmotic processes within the system. It has to do with the appropriation and elimination of water. The first indication is watery discharges. These are found in choleraic conditions in certain forms of fevers. It is usually accompanied with a frothy, slimy coat on the tongue. It does not have a wide field of action, and is probably one of the least important of the remedies. Where there is an inclination to vesicles, to watery contents, or where there is watery vom¬ iting, it is useful. NATRIUM PHOSPHORICUM. Sodium Phosphate or Natrium Phos. is found in the blood, muscles, nerve, and brain cells, and in the intercellular tissues. It is thought to ab¬ sorb carbonic acid, supplying oxygen from this molecule which is carried into the blood stream. This is used as a remedy for certain enlarged glands if accompanied with sour stomach, or prevailing acid condition within the system, especially if there be a water brash. It is useful in eczema where there is an acid condition within the system with yellow secretion. I have found this substance useful in chronic disease of the liver, and it will prob¬ ably be more serviceable where abnormal action of this organ has to do with the disease, as a cause. NATRIUM SULPHURICUM. Sulphate of Sodium or Natrium Sulph. is found in the intercellular tis¬ sues, but not in the cells. It influences the elimination of the water which results from retrograde metamorphosis. It excites the secretion of the intes-