The causes and treatment of imperfect digestion / by Arthur Leared.

  • Arthur Leared
Date:
1860-
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    stryclmia; and some time has now elapsed witlioiit a return of the attacks. Stryclmia should always be given in solution for sake of its more effective diffusion in the stomach, and for sake of greater certainty in apportioning the dose. A proportion of some acid, as a drachm of dilute acetic acid to a grain of strychnia, shoidd be prescribed with it, as the action of strychnia is greatly favom^ed by association with acids. The discrepant accoiuits given of it, in all probability depend on dif- ferent degrees of acidity in the stomachs into which solid strychnia was introduced. As a bitter tonic, the fortieth part of a grain is a suilicient dose. When it is desired to insure specific action, the twentieth part of a grain may be given ; but it will seldom be necessary to exceed this, as the good effects of strychnia on the gastro-intestinal muscular fibres are usually secured by a quantity that does not affect the voluntary muscles. A solution of strychnia of definite strength that will keep, which that made with acid will not do, is a desideratum in the forthcoming national phar- macopoeia.* * Ever since the notorious poisoning cases in which
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