The preparations of conium maculatum of the British pharmacopoeia, 1864 / by John Harley.
- Harley, John, 1833-1921
- Date:
- 1867
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The preparations of conium maculatum of the British pharmacopoeia, 1864 / by John Harley. 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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![figures which accompany my first papers furnish a complete delineation of the parasitic products in the present case. The mucus in which the eggs are for the most part im- bedded, is derived, I believe, from the mucous crypts in which the animal takes up its abode, the growth of the mucous corpuscles being due to the irritation caused by the body of the parasite and its eggs, just as occurs in the vegetable kingdom in the development of a ball or gall on the oak around the ova of cynips. As soon as the solid mucus fills the crypt it is forced out by the continued production of eggs, and, being thus roughly moulded, appears in the urine in the form of little pellets or strings. Some softer or more fluid masses become disintegrated and form the usual floc- culent mucous deposit. Treatment.—The parasites being thus safely lodged in the mucous crypts, the mouths of which are closed by their deposits, it would be of course useless to attempt an attack on the parasite by local means. Even if the body of the parasite lay bare upon the surface of the mucous membrane the injection of styptics into the bladder would probably do more injury to the host than to the parasite. In my opinion, topical treatment is therefore out of the question, and we are reduced to the use of such general remedies as passing unaltered through the kidneys may exercise an injurious effect on the parasite. I have shown that the active principles of belladonna and hyoscyamus are wholly removed in an unchanged condition in the urine and I am hopeful that these substances thus brought in contact with the parasite may at least restrict its development, and by constantly dwarfing its growth, ultimately destroy it. Guided by these considerations I prescribed the following for my patient : R Extracti hyoscyami gr. v, Oxydi argenti gr. ^; fiat pilula, omni nocte sumenda. And with the view of annoying the parasite as thoroughly as possible I gave a morning dose composed of the following : R Olei Cubebse iffx—ii]xv, Spiritus vini rectificati ^ij, Infusi Absinthii ad 3iss ; fiat haustus. 1 ‘The Old Vegetable Neurotics/ pp. 213—336.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040223_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
