Therapeutics, materia medica and pharmacy : the special therapeutics of diseases and symptoms, the physiological and therapeutical actions of drugs, the modern materia medica, official and practical pharmacy, prescription writing, and antidotal and antagonistic treatment of poisoning / by Sam'l O.L. Potter.

  • Potter, Samuel O. L. (Samuel Otway Lewis), 1846-1914.
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[1931], ©1931
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Credit: Therapeutics, materia medica and pharmacy : the special therapeutics of diseases and symptoms, the physiological and therapeutical actions of drugs, the modern materia medica, official and practical pharmacy, prescription writing, and antidotal and antagonistic treatment of poisoning / by Sam'l O.L. Potter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following table, modified from Brunton, gives the antagonistic poisons, also their mutual antagonistic and lethal doses in each case in which they have been determined. The doses are expressed in grains or fractions of a grain per pound weight of the animal. Table of Antagonistic Poisons. ANTAGONISTS. I. II. Aconitine and Atropine,. “ “ Digitalin,. “ “ Strychnine. Alcohol and Strychnine,. Atropine and Aconitine,. “ “ Chloral,.... “ “ Hydrocyanic Acid, “ “ Muscarine,. “ “ Morphine,. “ “ Pilocarpine,. “ Phytolaccine,. “ “ Physostigmine,.... “ “ Quinine,. Chloral and Atropine,. “ “ Picrotoxin,. “ “ Physostigmine,. “ “ Strychnine,. Chloroform and Amyl Nitrite,... Digitalin and Aconitine,. “ Muscarine,. “ Saponin,. Gelsemium and Opium,. “ “ Atropine,. Morphine and Caffeine,. “ “ Chloroform,. Muscarine and Atropine,. Opium and Atropine,. “ Gelsemium,. “ Veratrum Viride,.... «< n tt ANTAGONIS¬ TIC DOSE. 1 750 1 6 0 0 1 755 9 56 3 1 3 if 2 5 1 125 1 20 3 7 LETHAL DOSE. I. II I. II. 555 1 50 0 1 50 0 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 1. 6 3 1 3 7 1 1 2 8 8 1 2 8 8 50 0 2^5 xi 1 25 1 2 8 8 _JL_ 90 0 1 25 T 3 7 7 Anthelmintics (cum, against, cA/uvs, a worm),—are agents which destroy (vermicides) or expel (vermifuges) worms inhabiting the intestinal canal. The principal vermifuges are the purgatives Castor Oil, Jalap and Scammony; while the vermicides are classed according to the worm they are each most efficient against, thus,— Thread Worms (Oxyuris Vermicularis). Alum. Sulphate of Iron. Lime Water. Quassia. Eucalyptol. Sodium Chloride. Tannin. Veg. Astringents. Naphthalene. Turpentine. Vinegar. Round Worms (A scar is Lumbricoides). Santonica. Santonin. Spigelia. Chenopodium. Senna 1 with the Calomel j above. Naphthalene. Papain. Carbon tetrachloride. Azederach. Tape Worms (Teenies, etc.). Aspidium. Kamala. Kousso. Granatum. Pelletierine. Pepo. Turpentine. Chloroform. Naphthalene.