Drs. Bourneville and Bricon's Manual of hypodermic medication / [edited] by G. Archie Stockwell.

  • Bourneville, 1840-1909
Date:
1890
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Credit: Drs. Bourneville and Bricon's Manual of hypodermic medication / [edited] by G. Archie Stockwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Benzoate of Soda, which is soluble in two parts of water, appears to be possessed of more active pro- perties than benzoic acid, but, as far as known, has not yet been employed hypodermically. ACIDUM CARBOLICUM—CARBOLIC acid. PHENOL. PHENIC ACID. An anti-putrescent and anti-fermentative. Solu- ble in all proportions in alcohol, ether, and glycerin, and in 50 parts of water. Absorption is rapid, even through the unbroken cuticle, and elimination is correspondingly so, through the lungs, kidneys, and skin. The urine, without be- ing necessarily heavily charged with the acid, often assumes a greyish-green hue, and sometimes there is albuminuria, especially after large doses. From seven to thirty grains induces general ex- citement, followed by stupor, vertigo, tinnitus auriiim, deafness, languor, sweats, diminution of pulse and temperature, colic, and diarrhoea. Poisonous doses result in vertigo, giddiness, tingling of fingers, intox- ication, delirium, stupor, analgesia, anaesthesia, mus- cular debility, intermittent heart followed by arrest in diastole, collapse, coma, death—rarely convulsions as in lower animals. Antidotes:—Saccharated lime (Husemann); sul- phates (Baumann); inhalations of oxygen, bleeding, transfusion (Ferrand).