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

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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$centre in the brain; so, also Opium and Camphor, the latter being decidedly anaphro- disiac after a time. The power of Damiana is doubtful. Urlication and Flagellalion of the nates produce priapism by irritation of the genital centre in the cord through the sensory nerves of the part. Ergot is considered useful by contracting the dorsal vein of the penis, preventing its emptying too rapidly. Anaphrodisiacs (^An, without, Aphrohdeetay, Venus),—are medicines and measures which lower the sexual function and diminish the sexual appetite. They act by lessening the excitability of the nerves of the genital organs, by depressing the genital centres in the brain and cord, or by decreasing the local circulation. The principal anaphrodisiacs are enumerated as follows, viz. : — Bromides. Potassium Iodide. Camphor (at last). Opium (at last). Lupulin. Cocaine. Tobacco. Digitalis. Conium. Belladonna. Stramonium. Gelsemium. Nauseants. Purgation. Venesection. Ice, locally. Cold Baths. Vegetable Diet. Emmenagogues (^Emmayneeah, the menses; Ago, I move),—are remedies which restore the menstrual function, either directly by stimu- lation of the uterine muscular fibre, or indirectly by improving the blood and toning up the nervous system. The direct emmenagogues are ecbolic in large doses. The principal members of this class are enumerated- in the following list, viz. : — Direct Emmenagogues. Indirect Emmenagogues. Ergot. Rue. Iron. Quinine. Savine. Apiol. Manganese. Borax. Cinnamon. Digitalis. Cantharis. Myrrh. Strychnine. Guaiacum. Aloetic Purgatives. Pulsatilla. Polygonum Hydrop. Cod-liver Oil. Asafelida. Potass. Permang. Hot Hip-baths. Alcohol. Cimicifuga. Leeching the genitals. Indigo. Hydr. Biniod. Caulophyllum. Tansy. Oxalic Acid. Rubefacients to thighs. Hedeoma. Origanum. Viscum Flavescens. Tonic Remedies. Oxytocics or Ecbolics (^Ockseus, quick. Tokos, childbirth ; Ekbolay, abortion),—are agents which stimulate the muscular fibres of the gravid uterus to contraction, and may produce abortion. In small doses the same remedies are emmenagogue as a rule. Their mode of action has not been clearly made known, but it is generally believed to be due in some cases to direct stimulation of the uterine centre in the cord, in others to con- gestion of the uterus producing reflex stimulation. The principal oxytocics are those enumerated in the following list, viz. : Ergot. Usiilago. Savine. Potass. Permanganate. Hydrastis. Quinine. Borax. Cotton-root bark. Oil of Rue. Pilocarpine. Viscum Flavescens. Strong Purgatives. r \ f I V ■ S i 4 9 ,1 \ 4$