Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal and Western Lancet, Volume 17, Issue 91875 |
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Page 462 - ... 11. Atropia has no ability to alter or lessen the energy with which morphia acts to diminish sensibility or relieve the pain of neuralgic disease. 12. As regards toxic effects upon the cerebral organs, the two agents are mutually antidotal, but this antagonism does not prevail throughout the whole range of their influence, so that, in some respects, they do not counteract one another, while as concerns one organ, the bladder, both seem to affect it in a similar way.
Page 458 - Hunter's pithy remark is quoted, "some physiologists will have it, that the stomach is a mill, others, that it is a fermenting vat, others, again, that it is a stew-pan; but, in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat nor a stew-pan ; but a stomach, gentlemen, a stomach.
Page 461 - Conia, atropia, and daturia, have no power to lessen pain when used subdermally. " 2. Morphia thus used is of the utmost value to relieve pain, and is most potent, in certain forms of neuralgia, the nearer it is applied to the seat of the suffering. "3. Morphia lowers the pulse slightly, or not at all. Atropia usually lowers the pulse a few beats within ten minutes, and then raises it twenty to fifty beats within an hour. The pulse finally falls about the tenth hour below the normal number, and regains...
Page 462 - ... mentioned, that atropia has the greater duration of toxic activity. 8. The dry mouth of atropia is not made less by the coincident or precedent use of morphia. Atropia does not constipate, and may even relax the bowels; morphia has a reverse tendency. 9. The nausea of morphia is not antagonised or prevented by atropia.
Page vii - Course will not fill the conditions of this requirement. 3. He must have attended at least one Course of Practical Anatomy in the dissecting room, and present evidence of having dissected the entire subject.
Page 454 - MD lecturer on Laryngoscopy and Diseases of the Throat and Chest in Jefferson Medical College. ON INHALATION. ITS THERAPEUTICS AND PRACTICE. Including a Description of the Apparatus employed, &c. With Cases and Illustrations.
Page 461 - ... 4. Morphia has no power to prevent atropia from thus influencing the pulse, so that, as regards the circulation, they do not counteract one another. , 5. During the change of the pulse under atropia, the number of respirations is hardly altered at all. 6. As regards the eye, the two agents in question are mutually antagonistic, but atropia continues to act for a much longer time than morphia. 7. The cerebral symptoms caused by either drug are, to a great extent, capable of being overcome by the...