Secret remedies : what they cost and what they contain / based on analyses made for the British Medical Association.

  • British Medical Association.
Date:
1909
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    Hyoscyamine is intenncdiatc in its action between atropine and hvoscine ; causes less stimulation of the central nervous system than atropine, and is a weaker sedative and hypnotic than hyoscine. It has the saine action peripherally as atropine but is twice as powerful. Hyoscine resembles atropine in its paralysing efiect upon peripheral ner^-e endings, the action being quicker, more powerful, and less lasting. It does not possess the stimulating efiect of atropine upon the brain; depression of the motor area is marked from the first. Homatropine resembles atropine in its action but is less powerful.