Organo-therapy : ancient and modern / [Arthur T. Davies].

  • Davies, Arthur T., 1858-1929.
Date:
1903
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    Pulmonary Extract. At the French Medical Congress, held at Montpellier, in 1898, Brunei * gave an account of the use of pulmonary juice (“ Quelques Indication Nouvelles sur VEmploi du Sue Pulmonaire ”), and considered it an efficacious adjuvant in certain conditions where it is possible to stimulate the vital resistance of the patient, but he expressly states that it is not bactericidal or antitoxic in its action (k‘ mais comme un remede renforgant le resistance de Uorgan¬ isms du poumon en particulier ”). It acts best in cases of pleuro- pulmonary suppuration with osteo-arthritic condition, as described by Marie—in this the amelioration is rapid and the bony de¬ formation is arrested—but it is useless in advanced cases of phthisis. Arnozanf has employed pulmonary juice with success in puru¬ lent pleurisy of a chronic nature communicating with the exterior either through the pleura or into the bronchial tubes, and non- tuberculous in character, and associated with bony changes. He states that the temperature falls, the pus becomes less abun¬ dant and more clear, and the articular stiffness and weakness disappear. Cassaetf (■“ De VAction du Sue Pulmonaire ”) states that tuberculous cases with a chronic pleuro-pulmonary septic condition are much benefited by pulmonary juice. Nervous Extracts. The researches of Halliburton have shown that extract of sympathetic ganglia produces a fall of blood-pressure, and that other extracts of the nervous system, as the brain, spinal cord, and ganglia and nerves, produce the same result. The effect can be explained on the hypothesis that cholin is the principal active agent. Gumprecht, like Mott and Halliburton, found in normal cerebral spinal fluid minute doses of cholin and in diseased condi¬ tions, in which the katabolic side of nervous action is preponder¬ ant, cholin is immensely increased. Thus Mott§ and Halliburton state that in 150 cases of general paralysis examined by them they found widespread degeneration, not due to degenerative * “ CongiAs Frangais de Medecine, Montpellier, 1898,” vol. ii., p. 370. + Ibid., p. 363. t Ibid., vol.iv., p. 366. ? “ Transactions of the Medical Society of London,” Feb. 27th, 1900.
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