A text-book of pharmacology, therapeutics and materia medica / by T. Lauder Brunton ; adapted to the United States Pharmacopoeia by Francis H. Williams.
- Date:
- 1887
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Credit: A text-book of pharmacology, therapeutics and materia medica / by T. Lauder Brunton ; adapted to the United States Pharmacopoeia by Francis H. Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![636 ; figure showing the paralysing action of ammonium sulphate on muscle, 636 Sulphide, action of, on bacteria, 94 Amoebje, nature of, action of drugs on, and method of experimenting on, 59 et seq.; an amoeba, figured at two difEerent periods during movement, 74 ; struggle for life between the, and bacilli, 84; the protoplasm of, contracts in any direc- tion, 117; ansesthetics act as poisons to, 206 Amphioxus, mechanism of respiration in the, 232; diagram of an, 233 Amygdala, 915 Amylamine, action on muscle, 636 Amyl nitris, 784 Amyl, nitrite of, use of, in diminish- ing tension and removing pain in an- gina pectoris, 4; difference of action of, in difEerent animals, 54; action of, on blood, 71; action of, on me- dusa?. Ill; on psychical processes, 191; on the dog and rabbit, 288 ; as a poison, with its antidote, 490; antago- nism of, to strychnine, 492; prepara- tion, characters, and tests of, 784, 785 ; physiological action of, 785; on the blood, blood-pressure, respiration, and pulse, 785 ; on the muscles and motor nerves, 786 ; on the nervous system and urine, 786 ; uses of, 786 ; as a remedy in spasmodic conditions, 786; in angina pectoris, headache, &c., 786; pulse- tracings illustrative of the action of, in angina pectoris, 787; in epilepsy and ague, considerations regarding the ad- ministration of, 788 Amylum iodatum, 1053 AmyridaccEB, 893 Anacardite, 897 Aruemia, causes functional inactivity of the cerebro-spinal system, 197; loss of albumen through the kidneys, and de- ficiency of fatty food cause of, 412 ; a deficiency of iron in the blood in, 412 Anaesthesia, various modes of inducing, 204, 205 ; may be caused by the direct action of dings on the nerve-cells, 206 ; dangers arising from the efforts to induce, 207; action of, and mode of using in animals, 210; history of the discovery of, 211 Anassthetics, nature and uses of, 157, 203; action of, on the motor centres of the brain, 187 ; difference between ano- dynes and, 203 ; divided into local and general, 204; chief local and general, 204-205 ; usual action of general anes- thetics, 205 I the action of, divided into four stages—the stimulant, 206; the narcotic, 206 ; the anesthetic, 207; and the paralytic stage, 207; uses of, 207 ; dangers of, 207,208; mode of adminis- tering, 209 ; action of on, and mode of using in, animals, 210 ; history of the discovery of the uses of, 211: action of, on the eye, 219 ; may obstruct respu-a- tion, 238 ; fallacies from, in ascertain- ing the action of drugs on the circu- lation, 269 ; action of, on the motor ganglia, 316; as poisons, with their antidotes, 488; iodide of ethyl as an anaesthetic, 790; iodoform as, 805; erythroxylon and hydrochlorate of cocaine as, 878 Analgesics. See Anodynes Anaphrodisiacs, nature and action of, 447- 452; diagrams illustrating the action of, 448, 449; general considerations regarding, 451-452; camphor as an, 1019 Anemonin, 836 Aneurism, emetics to be avoided in per- sons suffering from, 375 Angina pectoris, 4; nitrite of amyl di- minishes tension and removes pain in, 4 Aniline red, 822 Sulphate, action of, on the cardiac muscle, 316 Animal charcoal, 542 ; purified, 542 Animal kingdom, 1077-1096; class mam- malia, order rodentia, 1077; order ru- minantia, 1077 ; order pachydermata, 1084 ; order cetacea, 1085 ; class aves, order gallinje, 1085 ; class pisces, order stuiiones, 1086 ; order teleostese, family gadidje, 1087; class insecta, order hymenoptera, 1089 ; order hemiptera, 1090; order coleoptera, 1091 ; class annelida, 1095 Animals, utility of, for experiments in medicine, 51-56 Anise, character of, 935 ; oil of, 840, 935; as a carminative, 379, 935 Anise fruit, character of, and prepara- tions, 935 Annelida, 1095 Annulosa, action of drugs on, 114 Anodynes, two classes of, local and general, 201; nature, action, and uses of, 201-202 ; adjuncts to, 203 Antacids, nature and action of, 369; divided into direct and indirect, or remote, 369; action of alkalies as, 598 ; slaked lime as an antacid, 649 Antagonistic action of drugs, 492-496 Anthelmintics, nature of, 408; divided into two kinds, 408 ; list of the chief 408 ; adjuncts to, 408; uses of, 409 • beuEin as an, 762 ; azedarach as, 894 '• kousso as a, 921; pomegranate root bark as, 926; pumpkin seed as, 930 • wormwood as, 953 ; tansy as, 954 ; san- tonin a-s, 955 ; spigelia as an, 978; oleum chenopodii as, 1009 ; kamala as, 1025 ■ oil of turpentine as, 1069; thuja as] 4 B 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2198170x_1167.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
