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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![Dr. Klein alleges that aloin diminishes inflammation and intraocular pressure in glaucoma, acute keratitis, etc. .Subcutaneous injections of aloin and of watery extract of aloes have been administered, hitherto without success, by Kohn1' in the constipation of insanity. After the injection ot strong doses of aloin in animals he observed a hæmor- rhagic ulcerative gastritis, and changes in the kidneys resembling those which ensue on poisoning by chromium salts. M. Hiller has experimented with a solution of 16 grains of aloin in 48 minims of warm glycerine : one to two syringefuls of this solution at one time produced, 5 to 6 hours afterwards, a moderate purgative action with abdo- mmal pain (see Sodium, foot-note). M. Bozzolo of Turin (1883) was compelled to abandon these injections owing to the severe local disturbances to which they gave rise. AMMONIÆ LIQUOR. Fluid Ammonia. . iAtn“onia k®s been use<l hypodermically along with its internal administration, in the treatment of bites by veno- mous serpents : 30 minims diluted with an equal quantity of water or better still, one part of ammonia with four parts of water (Notknagel and Rossbach). Dr. Willis Cumming has used ammonia injections in a case of alcoholism com- plicated with sunstroke (1883). Halford and Ore have practised intravenous injections of diluted ammonia in severe cases of serpent bites.-j- Monteverdi]; has used it with equal parts of peppermint + f irkTg der Aloes iBerlin' KUn' Woch-> **., do. 5). t [lie translator has used 4 minims of liq. ammoniæ with 6 of water eays::trT0U3^eCtr “ SynCOpe fr0m uterine bæmorrhage in several cases with marked and immediate benefit]. . } Quotafci°n by Eulenburg. Bourguet in 1862 injected dilute ammonia into a pseudo-arthrosis of the thigh. ammonia E 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2813039x_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
