Therapeutics, materia medica and pharmacy : the special therapeutics of diseases and symptoms, the physiological and therapeutical actions of drugs, the modern materia medica, official and practical pharmacy, prescription writing, and antidotal and antagonistic treatment of poisoning / by Sam'l O.L. Potter.

  • Samuel Otway Lewis Potter
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[1931], ©1931
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    Alcohol (at first). Camphor. Ammonia (inhaled). Coffee. Ammoniac. Caffeine. Asafetida. Tea. Atropine Theine. Belladonna. Guarana. Cannabis. Cocoa. Cocaine. Ether. Quinine. Stramonium. Scopolamine. Strychnine. Valerian. The Cerebellum is markedly disturbed by the few drugs which affect it specifically, theii action upon its different lobes producing various disturbances of coordination and equilibrium. Alcohol in considerable dose causes a staggering gait, and a tendency to fall; and different preparations thereof seem to affect different portions of the cerebellum. Intoxication by wine or beer is said to be accompanied by a tendency to fall sideways,—that, by whiskey, especially Irish whiskey, an inclination to fall on the face,—and that by cider a backward tendency; and these disturbances correspond exactly with those caused by injury to different lobes of the cerebellum (Brunton). Apomorphine in large doses seems to act upon the cere¬ bellum or corpora quadrigemina, as the animal poisoned by it does not vomit, but moves round and round in a circle. Cholagogues, see Hepatic Stimulants. Ciliary Excitants are substances which, when dissolved in the mouth, promote the expectoration of bronchial mucus by their reflex excitation of the tracheal and bronchial cilia. This group includes such agents as the Chlorides of Ammonium and Sodium, Potassium Chlorate and Gum Acacia. Deliriants excite the functions of the cerebral cortex to such a degree as to disorder the mental faculties, producing intellectual confusion, loss of will¬ power, delirium and even convulsions. They are all narcotics (though all nar¬ cotics are not deliriants), and the most important may be listed as follows;— Belladonna. Stramonium. Hyoscyamus. Turpentine. Alcohol. Chloral. Ether. Chloroform. Cannabis. Lupulus (at first). Opium (at first). Nitrous Oxide Gas. Demulcents (demulceo, I soothe),—are substances usually of oleaginous or mucilaginous nature, which soothe and protect the parts to which they are applied. This term is generally used for substances employed for mucous membranes, and the term Emollients for similar agents used on the skin. [Compare Emollients.] The chief agents belonging to this class are:— Acacia. Cetraria. Barley. Licorice. Starch. Glycerin. Flaxseed. Gelatin. Honey. Olive Oil. Marsh-mallow. Isinglass. White of Egg. Tragacanth. Almond. Bland Oils. Dental Anodynes are substances employed locally in toothache due to caries exposing a nerve filament. Such are Aconite, Opium and Cocaine salts,— also Creosote, Chloral, Phenol, and Potassium Chlorate. A solution, contain¬ ing the three first named, applied on a pledget of cotton, will promptly relieve whenever the nerve is accessible. Chloral should never be employed for this purpose, as in solution sufficiently strong to be of any service it is very apt to cause sloughing of the gum, especially if injected thereinto by a hypodermic syringe, as is frequently done by ignorant dentists, who advertise the “extrac¬ tion of teeth without pain.”