A manual of hypodermic medication : the treatment of diseases by the hypodermatic or subcutaneous method / by Roberts Bartholow.

  • Bartholow, Roberts, 1831-1904.
Date:
1891
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Credit: A manual of hypodermic medication : the treatment of diseases by the hypodermatic or subcutaneous method / by Roberts Bartholow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion in water, but Meyer prefers to make use of formamide as the vehicle for all the aloins employed by hypodermatic injection. The dose of aloin is the same whether given subcutaneously or taken into the stomach. He found that Natal aloin was always active, but the aloins do not act more speedily by injection than when taken into the stomach. Aloin can always be detected in the faeces and urine. It causes burning pain when thrown under the skin, but only for a few minutes. From the foregoing observations it seems clear that only when there is complete insensibility or excessive and uncontrollable irritation of the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane is the subcutaneous injection of cathartics advisable.