Domestic medicine : a treatise on the practice of medicine, adapted to the reformed system, comprising a materia medica / by J. Kost.

  • Kost, J., 1819-1904.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Domestic medicine : a treatise on the practice of medicine, adapted to the reformed system, comprising a materia medica / by J. Kost. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    deadly power is absolutely of a sedative character When given in this way it prostrates the energy of the brain, spinal marrow and general nervous system, as is evinced in the sinking of the pulse, loss of sense and motion, and depression of the mental powers, stupor and general prostration that supervene. It seems also that the contractility and irritability of the muscular fibre is destroyed in like manner.