New official remedies : containing all the drugs and preparations contained in the addendum (1890) to the British pharmacopoeia of 1885, with pharmacological and therapeutical notes, adapted for the use of students and practitioners / by Ralph Stockman.

  • Stockman, Ralph, 1861-
Date:
1891
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Credit: New official remedies : containing all the drugs and preparations contained in the addendum (1890) to the British pharmacopoeia of 1885, with pharmacological and therapeutical notes, adapted for the use of students and practitioners / by Ralph Stockman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion, and after large doses excretion goes on up to two or even four days, but the greater part leaves the body during the first twelve or eighteen hours. To test for it in the urine a solution of iodine in iodide of potassium may be used. A small quantity of urine is acidified with a few drops of sulphuric acid, when, on adding the reagent, a reddish-brown precipitate is obtained. Another method is to add a few drops of solution of ferric chloride to the urine, when a precipitate of phosphates is obtained. This clears up on heating, leaving a dark reddish-brown colouration. Phenazone is by no means a powerful germicide, a 3 per cent, solution being required to kill the commoner organisms. Applied to the eye or to raw surfaces it causes severe pain and irritation. Therapeutical Uses.—As an antipyretic, it is used to reduce temperature in pneumonia, typhoid, typhus, scarlet, and other fevers. As a rule, it acts promptly and efl&ca- ciously in reducing the temperature, but exerts no specific action in controlling the course of the disease. A com- paratively small dose, such as 10 or 15 grains, is often quite sufiicient; but a by no means uncommon practice is to give 30, 30 and 15 grains at intervals of an hour. The risk of the production of great depression should never be forgotten, and hence it is as well to begin with a moderate dose to test' the patient's susceptibility. Collapse has most frequently occurred in the anaemic and in sthenic fevers. In chronic fever and in hectic fever it has also been used with good results. The smallest dose necessary to obtain the desired effect should be used, and if sweating be produced it can be controlled by atropine. Children of from 1 to 12 years of age may get from 2 to 7 grain doses. If it cause nausea or sickness it can be given per rectum.
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