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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![tense sensation of heat, and occasionally a sense of burning which persists for a considerable time. This local action doubtless depends on the nature of the vehicle used for the solution. Aconitine. . .1 grain Sulphuric acid . • a sufficiency to effect solution Distilled water . . up to 1 ounce, 80 minims. Sixteen minims = of a grain of aconitine. Nitrate of aconitine . . i grain Distilled water . . up to 2 ounces, 160 minims. Sixteen minims = i~6 of a grain of the salt (Gubler, Mary). Erlenmeyer has used without success the follow- ing solution :— Aconitine .... 2 grains Alcohol .... 140 minims Distilled water . . up to 280 minims. Each minim == 3^0 a grain- Alcoholic extract of Aconite . . 1 grain Distilled water . . . up to 64 minims. Lorent uses this solution in doses of from 4 to 10 minims in rheumatic cephalalgia. [The following is Martindale and Westcott’s formula— Aconitine (English) . . 1 grain Diluted sulphuric acid . . q. s. Distilled water to . • 4 ounce. Dose one to four minims. Trans.] Therapeutic uses.—Neuralgia—especially of the trigemi- nal (Gubler); cephalalgia (Lorent, Oulmont, Massini) ; acute0 and chronic rheumatism (Lorent, Eulenberg) ; arthritis deformans (Lobl) ; prosopalgia (Pletzer) ; angina pectoris ; whooping cough, etc. * Rendered superfluous by the introduction of salicylic acid.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2813039x_0062.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
