A manual of materia medica and therapeutics : including the preparations of the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, with other approved medicines / by J. Forbes Royle.

  • John Forbes Royle
Date:
MDCCCLVI [1856]
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Credit: A manual of materia medica and therapeutics : including the preparations of the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, with other approved medicines / by J. Forbes Royle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Digitalis perhaps first excites but soon depresses the heart, and greatly lowers the circulation, acting slightly on the intestinal canal, and efficiently as a Diuretic. Colchicum, Tobacco, and Lobelia, at first excitant, produce great nausea, depression, and relaxation of the muscles, and are hence employed to produce relaxation in spasmodic affections, and in the reduction of Dislocations. Of the Acro-Narcotics, Colchicum may also be placed here as acting on the liver and intestinal canal ; it produces copious evacuations, ex- treme depression, and affords great relief from the pain of Rheu- matism and of Grout. The latter effect may be experienced in slight cases, without the former. But the most useful and powerful methods which we have for producing depression are Ipecacuanha and the Antimonial preparations, which are also given as Diapho- retics, Expectorants, and Emetics, and which in suitable doses produce extreme nausea, the greatest depression, and consequently powerful sedative effects. Hence Tartar-emetic is one of the most effective agents in contra-stimulant treatment ; it is, moreover, the agent which has been most frequently employed when it has been required to increase the dose of the contra-stimulant in proportion to the degree of excitement. Thus was ascertained the capability of the body of bearing much larger doses of Tartar-emetic than was previously thought possible, —which has been named tolerance of medicines. Thus adding another to the different modes in which medicines seem to act and to produce their effects, and also increas- ing the difficulty of making a good Physiological or Therapeutical •arrangement of the Materia Medica. Nitrogen, Sulphuretted Hydrogen, and Carbonic Acid Gas, act as Seda- tives when inhaled, but all arc poisonous. Acidum Hydrocyanicum Dil. Lauro-Cerasus et Aqua. Amygdalaj Amarfe. Oil of Bitter Almonds. Cyanides of Potassium and Zinc. Ferrocyanide of Potassium. Ferri Percyanidum. Benumbent and Sedative. Aconitum Napellus. Extr. et Succus spissa- tus, L. D. Extr. E. Extr. Alcoholicum Aconiti et Tinct. Aconitina. Solutio et Unguentum. Liquor et Lotio. v. p. 276. Paralysers.—Conium maculatum. Extr. (Succus spissatus), Tinct., Pil. comp, with Ipecac. Ung. et Cataplasm. Anticonvulsive and Anodyne.—Cannabis sativa. Extr. et Tinct. Resinous Tincture {Donovan). Digitalis. Infusum. Tinctura et Extract. Liniment, with Soap and Ammonia. Pilulse Digitalis et Scilke. Tabacum. Enema et Vinum, or the Smoke. Lobelia inflata. Antimonii et Potassse Tartras. Vinum. Ipecacuanha. Pulvis et Vinum, given in nauseating doses. Plumbi Acetas et Pil. Opiatae. Plumbi Diacetatis Liquor et L. Dilutus. Antiphlogistic Treatment generally, which includes Blood-letting, Leeches, Purgatives, Refrigerants, the application of Cold, continued Sponging, Demulcents. Anaesthetics. Ether and Chloroform, or Chloroform inhaled. Hydrocyanic' and Creasote give great relief from pain in the Stomach in Gastrodynia. So does Nitrate of Bismuth. Calomel in gr. x. and gr. xx. doses, gives great relief, and acts like a Sedative, in cases of acute Dysentery.
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