Researches on the chemical and medical properties of the root of kahinca / by Messrs. Francois, Caventou & Pelletier ; a memoir read at the Royal Academy of Sciences (Institute,) the 27th December, 1820 ; (extracted from the Journal general of medicine, May 1830) ; translated by John Baxter, M. D.

  • François, André, 1775-1840.
Date:
1831
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    patient, and prolong his existence. In order belter to judge of the effect of the kahinca, every time we have prescribed it, it was given pure, without mixture. \\ e prescribed at the same time, a regimen appropriate to the state of the patient, in abstaining from employing any other analogous medicine, to which could be attri- buted in part the results obtained. Independent of our own observations, we shall give several which our honourable brethren have laboured to collect, on the request which we have made them. It is possible that the collection of facts which we pre- sent may appear monotonous and prolix; but notwith- standing all our efforts to avoid this fault, we have been obliged to enter into details, fastidious perhaps, but which have appeared to us indispensable to the proper making known the manner to administer the kahincic preparations, their effects on the patients, and the diffe- rent results obtained from day to day. Observations on the immediate effects of the Baric of the Root of Kahinca. No. 1. A man thirty-five years old, strong and robust, convalescent from a bronchites, had need of a laxative : we gave him thirty grains of the powder of the bark of the root of the kahinca : he had two stools without a cholic. No. 2. A man nearly of the same age, having under- gone a dieting, and fatigued by several bleedings, which had been made with the intention of relieving him from the megrims, which had lasted six weeks, having shown symptoms of gastric uneasiness, took thirty grains of the powder of the root of kahinca ; he had three stoob without cholic. No. 3. A German nurse, Madam Mangin, living in street Montorgueil, No. 35, abrunette, and robust, having had occasion to be purged, took at 7 o'clock in the morn- ing 3j. of the powder of the bark of the root of the ka- hinca. At 1 o'clock in the afternoon, as she had only experienced some borborygmes, she took thirty grains more. She had three copious stools and frequent de.