A guide to therapeutics / by Robert Farquharson.

  • Farquharson, Robert, 1836-1918.
Date:
1883
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    and to stimulation of the ter- minal filaments of the third nerve. II. Circulating Appara- tus. — Under small doses of Dalabar bean, the hearts action becomes slower and stronger, ind the arterial tension is rotably increased • but when the system is brought more lully under the poisonous in- luence of the drug, the cardiac / pulsations become feeble and x*y ■ d?jU* - rregular, and finally cease. These results are believed to pe due to stimulation and subsequent exhaustion of the Peripheral cardiac filaments of he vagi, and the primary contraction and subsequent re- laxation of the arteries are Explained in the same way. III. Respiration and Tem- perature. — The breathing isually becomes slow and irre- ■ular, and the temperature alls a little. IV. Secreting Organs. — Malabar bean tends to cause omiting, with violent and iainful contraction of the bomach and increased peri- baltic movement of the intes- ines^ Increase in the salivary nd cutaneous secretions has Iso been observed. TV. Calabar bean is a hepatic stimulant, but only in poisonous doses, so that this side of its action has no prac- tical application. Atropia an- tagonises this, as all the other actions of the drug.