A Treatise on therapeutics, and pharmacology, or materia media v.1, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott, 1856 |
Common terms and phrases
absorption acetate of lead action alcohol alimentary canal alkaloids alum ammonia aromatic astringent bark bath blood body carbonate carbonic acid cause cerebral chalybeates chemical chronic circulation cold colour condition consequence cure debility degree depression diaphoretic diarrhoea digestion diluted disease dissolved dose drachm effects efficacious efficient emetic emmenagogue employed especially excess excitement external favour fever fluid fluidounces fluidrachms functions gallic acid gastric given grains heat hemorrhage increased inflammation influence infusion insoluble iron irritation latter less liquid Lond medicines metallic mode morbid mucous membrane muscles nervous centres odour officinal operation opium organs ounce oxide patient peculiar Peruvian bark pill pint poison preparation probably produce properties quantity reaction rectum reference remedy result salt scrofulous sedative sesquioxide skin soluble solution sometimes stimulant stomach and bowels substances sulphate of quinia sulphuric acid surface tannic acid taste Therapeutic Application tincture tion tissues tonic ulcers unfrequently vapour vital volatile oil vomiting
Popular passages
Page 531 - By transmitting its influence from the nape of the neck to the pit of the stomach, he gave decided relief in every one of twenty-two cases, of which four were in private practice, and eighteen in the Worcester InBrmary.
Page 692 - The gas was collected, and found to be a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, in the proportion of three parts of the former to one of the latter.
Page 105 - ... half an ounce of ginger, a drachm of senna and a pint of boiling water, and given in the dose of a wineglassful three times a day.
Page 713 - ... eyes, betray him at the first glance. The digestive organs are in the highest degree disturbed; the sufferer eats scarcely anything, and has hardly one evacuation in a week; his mental and bodily powers are destroyed — he is impotent.
Page 355 - ... gold, chlorine and the vegetable alkali, for their alcoholic solutions treated with tannin give a greenish blue precipitate of reduced gold ; if the solution be filtered, and the alcohol be evaporated by heat, a precipitate of tannate of the alkali employed is formed. The liquor again filtered, gives with nitrate of silver a white precipitate insoluble in nitric acid, but soluble in ammonia.
Page 33 - The sensibilities are often different in health and in disease, so that the same medicine may produce opposite effects in these two states. Thus, cayenne pepper, which produces in the healthy fauces, redness and burning pain, acts as a sedative in the sore throats of scarlet fever.
Page 125 - The general prevalance of the latter view, for a time, at the close of the last and at the beginning of the present century, did the world a great service by dealing a death blow to the old "police state" of Frederick the Great and Louis XIV., which blocked the way to all reform and all progress.
Page 291 - USES.—The action of peppermint is that of a simple carminative stimulant. An infusion of the fresh herb, made in the proportion of half an ounce to a pint of boiling water, may be given in doses of a wineglassful, in cases of flatulent colic, but for this purpose the...
Page 66 - EXTRACTS (extracta fluida] are highly concentrated solutions of the active constituents of medicines, or the active constituents themselves extracted in the liquid state; and are often very convenient and efficient preparations.
Page 228 - In some instances a tendency to drowsiness or stupor is evinced ; in others, morbid wakefulness ; but in the greater number, neither the one nor the other. Though the pulse is at first sometimes temporarily excited by these large doses, probably in sympathy with the excited brain, it in general soon becomes slower, and always feebler. The pulsations of the heart are often reduced ten or twelve in the minute, sometimes as much as twenty or twenty-five; and the whole number in the minute to forty,...