Thoughts on the effects of the application and abstraction of stimuli on the human body; with a particular view to explain the nature and cure of typhus ... / [James Wood].

  • James Wood
Date:
1793
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Credit: Thoughts on the effects of the application and abstraction of stimuli on the human body; with a particular view to explain the nature and cure of typhus ... / [James Wood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have tonic effedts on the mufcular fibre % fuch as the cortex peruvianus, ferrum in its different preparations, &c. e i Though the five preceding claffes com¬ prehend every ftimulus with which we are acquainted; yet experience renders it ne- ceffary to form a feparate clafs, whofe ac¬ tion feems entirely confined to the nervous fyftem; thefe chiefly confift of the ftimu- lants included in the 3d clafs, when exhibit¬ ed in fmall dofes, or when thofe of the mind are excited in a moderate degree; nothing elfe can explain the pleafant effedts fmall dofes of opium produce in Typhus, but that its adtion is entirely confined to the ner-* vous fyftem; we fee a ftate frequently oc¬ cur in Typhus, when the mufcular adtion, or the irritability, is much exhaufted, and not eafily adted upon by ftimulants; and yet, at the fame time, a fmall dofe of opium has an evident effedt on the nervous fyftem. I) 2 As
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