The influence of kairin, thallin, hydrochinon, resorcin, and antipyrin, on the heart and bloodvessels / by H.G. Beyer.

  • Beyer, Henry Gustav, 1850-1918.
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[1886]
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Credit: The influence of kairin, thallin, hydrochinon, resorcin, and antipyrin, on the heart and bloodvessels / by H.G. Beyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INFLUENCE OF KAIRIN, THALLIN, HYDROCHINON, RESORCIN, AND ANTIPYRIN, ON THE HEART AND BLOODVESSELS. BY H. G. BEYER, M.D., M.R.C.S., PASSED ASSISTANT SURGEON, U. S. N. ; HONOBAET CURATOR, SECTION MATERIA MEDIOA, U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. Chemists, for a number of years, have been industriously experi- menting, hoping to find a way to produce quinine artificially. The result has been the discovery of a number of substances, some of them belonging to the phenol series of organic compounds, and possessing to an eminent degree the power of reducing hyperpyrexial temperatures. The literature on these newly discovered antipyretics has already been enriched by a very large number of contributions, and the Index Medicus for 1884 and 1885 contains about ninety-four references, of which forty-two are on autipyrin, thirty-four on kairin, nine on resorcin, seven on thallin, and but two on hydrochinon. Most all of these very valuable contributions, however, treat of these remedies as antipyretics only, and of their power of reducing the temperature in fever, while very few, indeed, are devoted to their physiological action. The busy practitioner is too often obliged to remain satisfied with this, having no time to investigate for himself. No detailed series of experiments on the influence of these remedies upon the circulatory apparatus has, so far, been published, and yet their relation to that apparatus seems all-important, for no intelligent idea of their manner of action can possibly be formed until more is