Further observations on the internal use of the hydro-cyanic (prussic) acid, in pulmonary complaints; chronic catarrhs; spasmodic coughs; asthma; hooping-cough; and some other diseases : with full directions for the preparation and administration of that medicine / by A.B. Granville.
- Augustus Granville
- Date:
- 1819
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Further observations on the internal use of the hydro-cyanic (prussic) acid, in pulmonary complaints; chronic catarrhs; spasmodic coughs; asthma; hooping-cough; and some other diseases : with full directions for the preparation and administration of that medicine / by A.B. Granville. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![[ 18] yet we are daily in the babit of administering both; the former, as a most useful evacuant, and the latter as a valuable specific. The charges, therefore, that have been brought for- ward against the Prussic Acid, because it be- longs to the class of poisonous substances, must necessarily fall to the ground, when not a single instance of mischief produced by it can be quoted. Another charge, much better founded, against the Prussic Acid is, that it has failed in producing any good effect in some of the complaints in which it has been exhibited ; but this would only go to prove, that the want of success in those cases is to be attributed to a want of sufficient know- ledge, in the person employing it, of its mode of action on the animal economy ; and with- out this knowledge, it is impossible to make a right use of any remedy whatever. 6. Effects of the Prussic Acid on the Human System, and enumeration of the Diseases in which it has proved beneficial. The Prussic Acid is eminently sedative, more so even than opium ; but its specific mode of action is somewhat different, both as to its](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21055014_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
