Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics : including the physiological action of drugs, the special therapeutics of disease, official and practical pharmacy, and minute directions for prescription writing / by Sam'l O.L. Potter.
- Samuel Otway Lewis Potter
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics : including the physiological action of drugs, the special therapeutics of disease, official and practical pharmacy, and minute directions for prescription writing / by Sam'l O.L. Potter. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![3 Anasihetics are certain volatile substances, mostly belonging to the classes of alcohols and ethers, which when inhaled produce complete uncon- sciousness and loss of sensation (anaesthesia), with lessened motor power. Narcotics also produce anaesthesia, but this term is usually restricted to the effects of the volatile agents referred to above. The principal mem- bers of this group are— Ether (Ethyl Oxide). Methylene Bichloride Ethylene Bichloride. Nitrous Oxide. Chloroform. Chlorinated Ethyl Chloride. Ethyl Bromide. Pental (Tri-methyl-ethylene). The list of General Antesthetics also includes Alcohol and many substitution products derived from alcohols and ethers. [Compare the articles entitled Alcohol, ^Ether AND Chloroform in Part I.] Antispasmodics against, Spasmos, a spasm),—are agents which prevent or allay spasm of voluntary or involuntary muscles in any portion of the organism. Some of the agents belonging to this class act by stimulation of the higher nervous centres, the coordinating power, and the circulation, as Alcohol and Ether in small doses. Camphor, Musk, Valerian, etc. ; others by a depressant influence on the motor centres, as the Bromides, and still others by paralysis of the end-organs of the vaso- motor nerves, as Amyl Nitrite. A few depress all the vital functions, as Aconite, Tobacco, Lobelia, Hellebore, and Prussic Acid ; and a long list stimulate the bowels to expel gaseous accumulations, namely, Asafetida, Cajuput, Valerian, Musk, Aromatic Oils, etc. They are used in convul- sive affections, especially asthma and other spasmodic diseases of the respiratory organs, hysteria, chorea, angina pectoris, epilepsy, etc. The principal antispasmodics are as follows, viz.— Alcohol. Ether. Chloroform. Amyl Nitrite. Nitrites. Bromides. Potassium Iodide. Potassium Nitrate. Arsenic. Valerian. Conium. Aconite. Lobelia. Tobacco. Hellebore. Opium. Belladonna. Stramonium. Hyoscyamus. Hydrocyanic Acid. Physostigma. Curare. Ammoniac. Castor. Musk. Galbanum. Sumbul. Ipecacuanha. Senega. Silver Salts. Zinc Salts. Copper Salts. Asafetida. The Cerebellum is affected by a few drugs, their action upon its several lobes producing various disturbances of equilibrium. Alcohol the principal agent acting upon this portion of ducts of the still seem to affect different portions of the cerebellum h or instance, intox Son by wine or beer is said to cause lateral falling, ‘hat by whiskey an mchnationto^^^^^^ face downwards, cider a backward tendency ^erSum or produces a tendency to move in a circle, and therefore probably affects the cerebellum o the corpora quadrigemina.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24907303_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
