Antiseptic therapeutics / by E.L. Trouessart ; translated by E.P. Hurd.

  • Hurd E. P. (Edward Payson), 1838-1899.
Date:
1893
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Antiseptic therapeutics / by E.L. Trouessart ; translated by E.P. Hurd. 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.

    130/338 (page 120)
    § 3.—ALKALOIDS. We shall treat here of antipyrine and quinine, which interest us from the point of view of antisepsis. Remember that many of these compounds seem to be derived'from a basic nucleus called pyridine (CgHgN). ANTIPYRINE, OR ANALGESIN. This body which is designated under the name dioxymethylquinizine (C,,H,,N,) of the chemists, is chiefly employed in medicine as an analgesic and antipyretic. Its antiseptic properties are incontesta- ble, and have recently been set forth by Visbecq as the' result of experiments at the School of Lyons. Antipyrine presents the remarkable peculiarity of act- ing chiefly on the toxines secreted by the vegetal microbes. It has no action in malarial fevers. Vianna, prompted by laboratory experiments, has recently recommended it as an antiseptic to oppose the diphtheria bacillus. It is very soluble in water. QUININE. Quinine (C,„H,,N,0,) is the active principle of cinchona Its salts are especially employed in medi- cine to combat malarial fevers, but are also of value in other affections of an intermittent nature. We now know that malaria is caused by the presence in the blood of a micro-organism which is not a bacterium, but a protozoon of the class Sporo- zoa, and of the group Coccidia. Although the salts