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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![A NT IP YPJX. ANTIHYDROPIN. Antihydropin is obtained from the Blatta Orientalis (cockroach), and is used by the Russians for dropsy.* It has been administered hypodermically by Wyschinski, but with negative results. M. Bogomolow (St. Peters- burger' med. Wochenschrift, 1882, no. 47, p. 404) has used it both as powder and as tincture in 70 cases of anasarca and ascites (cardiac, renal and hepatic affections) ; in 19 cases there was profuse perspiration, in 61 there was increase of urinary secretion, and in 13 cases catharsis, without irritation or other ill-effects, was induced. In uræmia the author injects a syringeful (Pravaz) of tincture. ANTIMONIUM TARTARATUM. (See Emetic, Tartar). ANTIPYRIN. An alkaloid derived from quinoline. The hydrochlorate of antipyrin exists in the form of white powder, of a grey- ish-yellow colour after exposure to the air, soluble in cold water (16 grains in 1 drachm), more soluble in warm water (16 grains in 10 minims), and in alcohol. It has a bitter taste, less disagreeable and less persistent than that of quinine. A powerful antipyretic, its properties are identical with those of Kairin, but its action is both more intense and more prolonged, and it produces no alteration in the blood (Hu chard, Brouardel and Paul Loye, Arduin) ; in the period of reaction there is no sign of rigors, that is when the temperature increases again. It produces sometimes a * [Neale’s Digest, 2nd edit., § 156-5. Trans.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2813039x_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
