Manual of hypodermic medication / by Bourneville and Bricon ; translated from the second edition by Andrew S. Currie.
- Désiré-Magloire Bourneville
- Date:
- 1887
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Manual of hypodermic medication / by Bourneville and Bricon ; translated from the second edition by Andrew S. Currie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Medicinal hydrocyanic acid . . 10 minims Distilled water . . . .60 minims. From two to six minims = f- — f of a minim of medicinal acid. Cyanide of Potassium . . 1 grain Distilled water . . up to 112 minims. Therapeutic uses.—Mental diseases, especially puerperal mania (Macleod) ;* mania and melancholia (Macleod, Bartholow) ; eclampsia (Macleod) ; angina pectoris, gas- tralgia, functional vomiting (Bartholow). Cherry laurel water in doses of half a drachm, has been injected in lum- bago by Estachy.f Antidotes.—Preyer has asserted that atropine is a phy- siological antidote to prussic acid. The experiments of Bartholow do not support this view. [Inhalation of am- monia was shewn to be an antidote, as far back as 1822, by Murray, but it is of little or no use administered by the stomach. I would suggest that it may be an efficient anti- dote administered hypodermically or by intravenous in- jection. See Christison On Poisons, 4th edit., p. 777. Trans.'] ACIDUM OSMICUM. Osmic Acid. This acid, originally employed in the treatment of tumours by interstitial injection (Winiwarter, Delbastaille, etc.), has been employed by Billroth, Neuber, Eulenburg, * [This author made use of Scheele’s acid. French hydrocyanic acid for medicinal use is ten per cent. Trans.'] t [32 minims of aqua lauro-cerasi of the French Codex* = 16 minims of the British Pharmacopceial preparation, or about | of a minim of the acid, hydrocyan. B.P. Trans.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2813039x_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
