The Action of medicines in the systemChurchill, 1855 - 396 pages |
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Page 12
... disorders . But a second class of remedies are temporary in their action . They influence the nervous system , exciting it , depressing it , or otherwise altering its tone . They are chiefly useful in the temporary emergencies of acute ...
... disorders . But a second class of remedies are temporary in their action . They influence the nervous system , exciting it , depressing it , or otherwise altering its tone . They are chiefly useful in the temporary emergencies of acute ...
Page 14
... disorders which depend , not on the absence of a natural substance , but on the pre- sence of an unnatural agent in the blood . These medicines are called Catalytics , from a Greek word which signifies to break up or to destroy . Having ...
... disorders which depend , not on the absence of a natural substance , but on the pre- sence of an unnatural agent in the blood . These medicines are called Catalytics , from a Greek word which signifies to break up or to destroy . Having ...
Page 14
... disorders which depend , not on the absence of a natural substance , but on the pre- sence of an unnatural agent in the blood . These medicines are called Catalytics , from a Greek word which signifies to break up or to destroy . Having ...
... disorders which depend , not on the absence of a natural substance , but on the pre- sence of an unnatural agent in the blood . These medicines are called Catalytics , from a Greek word which signifies to break up or to destroy . Having ...
Page 33
... disorders of the fluids often de- pended on their being too viscid , and that this condition might be improved by agents which should attenuate this viscidity . Dr. Archibald Pitcairn , a Scotchman , the immediate prede- cessor and ...
... disorders of the fluids often de- pended on their being too viscid , and that this condition might be improved by agents which should attenuate this viscidity . Dr. Archibald Pitcairn , a Scotchman , the immediate prede- cessor and ...
Page 40
... opinion that all medi- cinal agents were stimulants , only that some acted so power- fully as to produce " indirect debility . " These latter were to be used in sthenic , the others in asthenic disorders 40 THEORIES AND.
... opinion that all medi- cinal agents were stimulants , only that some acted so power- fully as to produce " indirect debility . " These latter were to be used in sthenic , the others in asthenic disorders 40 THEORIES AND.
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absorbed absorption action agents Ague alkali alkaloid Ammonia animal Antimony Arsenic Astringents bile blood blood-medicines bowels brain Carbonic Carbonic acid Catalytic medicines Cathartics cause chemical cloth condition considered contains counteract cure deposit Diaphoretics diminish discases diseases disorders dissolved Diuretics effect efficacy Eliminatives Emetic endosmosis excess excreted exert explained fever Fibrine fluid function Gallic Acid given glands Hæmatics Hydrocyanic acid inflammation influence insoluble intestinal Iodine irritant kidneys lacteal Lactic acid large doses liver matters membrane Mercury mineral minor propositions morbid muscular Narcotics nature nerve-medicines nerves nervous force nervous system Neurotics neutralize operation Opium oxidation pass peculiar poison Potash principle probably produce proved purging quantity Quina remedies Restorative saline salts Scrofula Scurvy secretion Sedatives skin small doses Soda soluble solution Stimulants stomach Strychnia substances Sulphate Sulphur supposed symptoms Syphilis Tannic acid tend theory tion tissues Tonics Uric acid urine vegetable acids vessels Vide
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