Materia medica, pharmacy, pharmacology and therapeutics / by W. Hale White.
- William Hale-White
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Materia medica, pharmacy, pharmacology and therapeutics / by W. Hale White. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(6) Chloralamicle. ] (10) Alcohol. (7) Siilphonal. (11) Hyoscine. (8) Paraldehyde. (12) Cannabis iudica. (9) Trional. (13) Lupulus. Therapeutics.—These drugs are often used for persons suffering from sleeplessness, but it is far more important to remove the cause of the sleepless- ness. Sleep is often promoted by dilating the vessels of other parts of the body than the brain; for ex- ample, a warm bath or an abundant meal conduces to sleep. The use of hypnotics is greatly abused. Those who take them become habituated to them, so that at last even large doses do not cause sleep. Chloral, the bromides, and chloralamide are perhaps the most satisfactory. Narcotics are substances which not only produce sleep, but also in large doses depress the fmictions of respiration and circulation. Many of them fall also under the head of general anaesthetics; others are, in smaller doses, hypnotics. The following is a list of them : (1) General anaesthetics. (6) Hyoscyamus. (2) Opium. (7) Alcohol. (3) Chloral hydrate. (8) Cannabis indica. (4) Belladonna. (9) Lupulus. (5) Stramonium. All must be given in considerable doses. Therapeutics.—They are of great use in calming excitement of any kind; many of them, such as, for example, opium and belladonna, are beneficial in rehevuag distress and producing sleep in heart disease. General Anesthetics.—These are drugs that lead to a total loss of consciousness, so that pain IS no longer felt; at the same time reflex action is abohshed. They illustrate admirably the law of dissolution, and also the fact that after excitement H 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21507260_0121.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
