Autonomic Drugs I

File consists of Vane's handwritten and typed lecture notes for the lecture, titled, "Autonomic Drugs I" in his series of pharmacology lectures given whilst at The Royal College of Surgeons. Details include:

Typed document, with extensive manual annotation, reproducing the lecture in full. The section titles are; adrenaline, noradrenaline, sympathomimetic amines and antagonists; the actions of the natural transmitters - adrenaline and noradrenaline; isoprenaline (or isopropylnoradrenaline); sympathomimetic amines; toxicity of adrenaline; uses of sympathomimetics; asthma; the allergies; local vasoconstrictor action; drugs with anti-enzyme action; drugs affecting the stores of adrenaline at sympathetic nerve endings; and antagonists to adrenaline and related amines.

Handwritten outline notes covering tyramine, thymoxamine, adrenaline and noradrenaline, catecholamines, actions in man, and isoprenaline.

Typed sheets on the subjects of, "Effects of Hexamethonium in Man", "Some Ganglion Blocking Agents", "Acetylcholine and Atropine in Man", and "Histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine".