Manual of hypodermic medication / by Roberts Bartholow.

  • Bartholow, Roberts, 1831-1904.
Date:
1869
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Manual of hypodermic medication / by Roberts Bartholow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    effects, pain, cramp, and spasm are relieved, or are borne without suffering, for a feeling of comfort and content, difficult to describe, takes possession of the mind. A condition of somnolence in many persons, in others of extreme wakefulness characterized by intense activity of the mind, is experienced. If sleep occur it is usually deep, the respiration being slow and labored- In some instances the sleep is disturbed by dreams and visions,—a somnambulistic state from which it is diffi- cult to arouse the patient. Characteristic influences are exerted upon the great functions of colorification, circulation, and respiration. It was Mr. Hunter* who first pointed out the effect of the subcutaneous injection of morphia in lowering the pulse. He informs us that in mania he had reduced the pulse from 120 to 80 in four minutes. He ob- served, also, the diminished rate of respiration. In order to exhibit these effects I have constructed the annexed diagram of the pulse, temperature, and respiration movements. Soon after the injection, more or less decided itching of the nose, and in many persons during the time the morphia narcosis is at its maximum, an irritation of the whole cutaneous surface, are experienced. This effect is usually followed by general diaphoresis,—the sweating being in many instances very profuse. With the development of the morphia narcosis there occur dryness of the mouth and fauces and an arrest of secretion in general, except that of the sudoriparous glands. If the injection be administered after a full