Hypodermic or subcutaneous medication : with special remarks on morphine, atropine, atropo-morphine, and apomorphine, and directions for making their hypodermic solutions : introduction to a discussion in the Section of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in Cardiff / by Talfourd Jones.

  • Jones, Talfourd.
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[1885]
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Credit: Hypodermic or subcutaneous medication : with special remarks on morphine, atropine, atropo-morphine, and apomorphine, and directions for making their hypodermic solutions : introduction to a discussion in the Section of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in Cardiff / by Talfourd Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HYPODERMIC OR SUBCUTANEOUS MEDICATION-. Introduction to a Discussion in the Section of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association, in Cardiff. By TALFOURD JONES, M.B.Lond., University Medical Scholar ; Fillitor Exhibitioner ; Fellowcs Medallist; Physician to the Brecon County and Borough General Infirmary; Member of the Council of the South Wales Branch ; Vice-President of the Section. When I agreed to open the discussion on hypodermic medication in l virifb CM°nf t^0.Sootlo“ of Pharmacology and Therapeutics of tlio British Medical Association, I did not then appreciate tlio difficulty ? tlio task. I ho subject is one of vast extent, and one of daily increasing importance, and I shall find it no easy matter to say enough, and yet not weary you with too much. My thoughts, too, oil this subject have been jotted down in tho midst of tlio constant interruptions of a busy praotico ; hence, 1 pray you to accord mo your most patient indulgence. *VLSi?me an aJ,1Vtio,rlal honour that I am privileged to address you in the presence of the two distinguished colleagues with whom I am m this Section associated. ™ HtSSR®? is immensely indebted to Professor Fraser and to Dr. LI^Ly&wJ-09lcfl Action of the Calabar Bean; and Dr. Murrell has ibfinwf'Irts!'1 th° -?riZ0, °f tho Prench Academy of Medicine for iiis investigations on nitro-glycorine. in ^ JGarS Since Dn Alexander Wood, of Edinburgh, in 1855, published his account of his method of introducing liouor morphine into the system by subcutaneous injection, and it is to him ^doubtedly, that mankind is indebted for the discovery of h™l bH h dne£t\lrfoA/CW y6arS lan°\in 1859> Mr- Charles Hunter jrablished^ importmt paper on the hypodermic treatment of dis- Sffiender and th® labouI of Lawson, Clifford Allbutt, and practised Ilf xv f 'T’ th.e method has become widely known tion of opiates to til a|™ca.ted and practised the direct applica- Pi ri * th? Pamful Poults in neuralgic diseases. Hunter ft-teitasr ***• able to moVe He had Twi [ * martyr to sciatica> and ’as un- always withtbn «» 1 r’atlents> ln eases of sciatica; and from'pain In brS^“^i tllat there was far less immediate relief local rejections wore best^ ** ^ t0°’ he WaS °f °Pini°“ that wa^fa th^aVmaioritvtefr’? P!an °f in''cction at a» ^different spot . we great majority of instances, as effective as local injection ;