The influence of certain drugs on Cheyne-Stokes respiration / by G.A. Gibson.

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[1886?]
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    Reprinted from, The Practitioner.] THE INFLUENCE OF CEKTAIN DRUGS ON CHEYNE-STOKES RESPIRATION. BY G. A. GIBSON, M.D., D.SC., F.E.S.E., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinhv,rgh, and Lecturer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics at Surgeons’ Mali, Edinlurgh. It is not my intention in this paper to enter on any general discussion of Cheyne-Stokes respiration as induced by the action of various drugs; it is, nevertheless, expedient to recall some of the observations which have heen made with regard to this subject. In the case narrated by Frantzel,^ which gave Traube the opportunity which he utilised to make his classical remarks on the phenomenon, the Cheyne-Stokes type of breath- ing appeared after the administration of morphine, and similar instances have subsequently been published by Leube,^ and Bern- heim.® Biot^ has observed Cheyne-Stokes respiration follow the use of bromide of potassium, and O’NeilU has seen it aftei the administration of chloral. While it is not the aim of the present paper to discuss the appearance of Cheyne-Stokes respiration after the use of certain sedatives, still less is it within its scope to consider the experimental production of periodic breathing, more or less analogous to the morbid symptom. Many experiments of this kind have been published, such as those of Heidenhain, with ^ Berliner klinische Wochenschrift, vol. vi p. 277. 1869. “ Ibid. vol. vii. p. 177. 1870. Gazette Hebdomadairc do Medecine et de Chirurgie. Deuxifeme SWe, vol. x. pp. 444 and 492. 1873. ■* Etude Clinique et experimentale sur la RespircUion de Cheyne-Stokes, p. 59, Paris, 1878. ® The Lancet, vol. ii. for 1880, p. 691.