Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics, including the physiological action of drugs, the special therapeutics of disease, official and practical pharmacy, and minute directions for prescription writing / by Sam'l O.L. Potter.

  • Potter, Samuel O. L. (Samuel Otway Lewis), 1846-1914.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics, including the physiological action of drugs, the special therapeutics of disease, official and practical pharmacy, and minute directions for prescription writing / by Sam'l O.L. Potter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    . , „ , . ^ 7-r i f I- Diminishing tissue-change. By Lessening the Production of Heat, by ^ Reducing the circulation. or by Promoting the Loss of Heat, by 3. Dilating cutaneous vessels, and producing increased radiation. 4. Producing perspiration, and its evaporation. 5. Abstracting heat from the body. The following list contains nearly all the antipyretics, the number following each referring to its proper method of action, as enumerated ■ above:— Quinine.^ Chinolin.i Phenacetin.^,'^ Quinidine.^ Resorcin. 1 Aconite. * Cinchonine.^ Kairin.^,^ Antimonials.2,4 Cinchonidine.i Kairolin.^,* Veratrine.2 Berberine. ^ Antipyrin. Colchicum.2 Benzoic Acid.^ Hydroquinon.i Leeching.2 Carbolic Acid.^,® Thallin.1.4 Cupping. 2 Picric Acid.^ Pyrocatechin.i Blistering.^ Salicin.^ Pheno-resorcin. * Poulticing. 2 Salicylic Acid.^ Camphor. Nitrous Ether. Sodium Salicylate. ^ Eucalyptol.^ Dover’s Powder.'* Quinine Salicylate.^ Thymol.^ Cold Bath.5 Methyl Salicylate. ^ Other Essential Oils.^ Cold Drinks.® (Oil of Gaultheria.) Alcohol.^.* Ice to Surface.® Trimethylamin.2 Digitalis. 2 Cold Sponging.® Acetanilid.^,* Salol.i Wet Packing.® Purgation and Venesection produce antipyretic results, but their mode of action is doubt- ful (Brunton). The Body Temperature is raised by Belladonna (or Atropine) and by Cocaine, but not to such a degree as to constitute fever or enable them to be classed as pyretics. Tubercu- lin, various albumoses, and certain animal poisons, as that of shell fish, will also produce a rise of temperature. Antiphlogistics (Anti, against, Pfleggo, I burn),—are measures and medicines which are supposed to have some specific power in reducing inflammation. The term is becoming obsolete, but frequent references are seen yet to the influence of Mercury and Opium in inflammations of serous membranes. Antimony and Aconite in inflammations of the respir- atory tract and organs, and to the power of Veratrum Viride over puer- peral metritis. The chief antiphlogistics are the following : — Aconite. Veratrum Viride. Tartar Emetic. Mercury. Opium. Gelsemium. Digitalis. Venesection. Ergot. Local Depletion. Ipecacuanha. Purgation. Potassium Nitrate. Counter-irritation. Rest, recumbent position. Cold. Antiperiodics,—are remedies which affect certain periodical febrile diseases, lessening the severity of their paroxysms or preventing their return. They act probably by arresting the development in the blood of successive crops of pathogenic organisms, upon which the disorders are supposed to depend. The principal antiperiodics are : — Cinchona Bark and its Alkaloids. Arsenic. Babeeru Bark and its Alkaloid. Eucalyptol. Salicin, Salicylic Acid, Salicylates. Iodine.