Elements of pharmacy, materia medica, and therapeutics / by Sir William Whitla.

  • Whitla William, Sir, 1851-1933.
Date:
1910
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    urinary tract for months and spread the disease. It has been given with marked success in 20 gr. doses in the coma of diabetes. Uresin is urotropine diUthiacitrate, whilst Urosin is the name given to lithia quinate, both of which are given in 5 gr. doses in gout. Helmitol is known as New Urotropine ; it is the Anhydr©methylene citrate of urotropine, existing as a white soluble crystalline powder, given in 15 to 20 gr. doses in cystitis, gonorrhoea, and prostatic complications. Hetralin is Dioxybenzol urotropine—a white crystalline powder introduced as a urotropine substitute, Sver which it, however, seems to possess no advantages. It is given in similar doses. The Sodium-acetate compound of urotropine is known as Cysto- purin, the Triborate as Borovertin, and the compound with Quinic acid as Quino- or Chino-tropine, all of which possess the same anti- septic properties as urotropine when given in 15 to 20 gr. doses. Ustilago Maidis, or Corn Smut, or Corn Ergot, is the fungus which attacks maize, causing irregular swellings on the young ears, from the size of a pea to that of a foetal head. The blackish, dusty powder in the interior is the part employed. It appears to act like ergot, and it keeps better, and is less expensive. It is said to dififer from ergot in not producing prolonged contraction of the uterjs, but in in- creasing markedly the rhythmic contractions and relaxations, hence it is more valuable during labour than after (Hubbard). Upon the other hand, Robert maintains that it is quite inert, and several others state that it has no ergot-like properties at al]. Dose—I dr. of the liquid extract (i in i). Vanillin, Vanillic Acid, or Methylprotocatechuic aldehyde, exists in acicular crystals, and is the odorous and flavouring principle of vanilla pods. It is prepared from coniferin artificially, and from eugenol and from nitro-benzol. It is antiseptic, and has been recom- mended in I gr. doses in various forms of dyspepsia. Its chief use, however, is as a flavouring agent. Paraphenetidin-vanillin-ethyl- carbonate is known as Eupyrine ; it has antipyretic properties when given in 20 gr. doses in feverish conditions. Veratrol, or P5n:ocatechin-dimethyl-ether, is a colourless, liquid antiseptic, local anaesthetic, and analgesic, like guaiacol. It is painted on the skin over neuralgic nerves, or with the view of re- ducing body temperature, or in 2 min. capsules 4 times a day in phthisis and tubercular diseases. It is also produced in the crystal- line form. Veratrum Viride, or Green Hellebore.—The rhizome and rootlets are used extensively in America in the class of cases where aconite is indicated. Though the drug is powerfully toxic, the large doses in which it has been constantly given seldom cause death, as vomiting supervenes. It is a powerful cardiac depressant, and 15 min. doses of the B.P.C. tincture cause a considerable drop in the pulse-rate. It has been used with considerable success in pneumonia, most sthenic fevers and inflammations, acute rheumatism, and all con- ditions where high arterial tension is present, and numerous reports testify to its value in puerperal convulsions. 5 mins. of the tinc- ture are given every hour till the pulse falls to 60.