A guide to therapeutics / by Robert Farquharson.

  • Farquharson, Robert, 1836-1918.
Date:
1877
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Credit: A guide to therapeutics / by Robert Farquharson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    requires. We must remember, however, that the narcotic action of chloral is not invaiiably exhausted in the single sleep to which it originally gives rise, but may be held over until next night, so that our best practice will be to give a full dose only once the foi'ty-eight hours. The taste and smell of chloral being pungent and disagreeable, we must endeavour to render our prescription as palatable as we can. The syrup contains 10 gi's. to the drachm. Or we may use the following foi-mula :— 1^ Chloral hydratis gr. xx.; syrupi aurantii 5j.; aq. menth. pip. ad |ij. Fiat haustus hora somni sumendus. CROTON CHLOEAL. Local Action. None has been described. Constitutional Action. I. Nervous System.—1. Brain.—Croton chloral causes sleep in from fifteen to twenty minutes. 2. Spinal Cord.—No action is produced on the spinal cord, nor consequent muscular relax- ation. Some paralysing in- I. Croton chloral has been highly praised by its discoverer, Liebi-eich, as a narcotic, being given by him in doses of from 15 to 30 grains. There is little English experience to quote on this heading, as the doses used here are fai- too small to produce sleep ; but as the drug has no depi-essing action on the heart like chloral, there is no doubt that we may prescribe it with comparative freedom.