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Updated: June 24, 2025
Stokes-Adams disease should be considered as possibly present, and digitalis would be contraindicated and would do harm. A scientific indication as to whether a heart is disturbed through the action of the vagi or whether the disturbance is due to muscle degeneration may be obtained by the administration of atropin. Jour. Med.
Yavorski saw her about an hour later, and by producing emesis, and giving coffee, atropin, and tincture of musk, he saved her life. Potassium permanganate was used in this case. Chaffee speaks of recovery after the ingestion of 18 grains of morphin without vomiting. In chronic opium eating the amount of this drug which can be ingested with safety assumes astounding proportions.
It is also a well known fact that anything which inhibits or removes vagus control of the heart allows the heart to become more rapid, since these nerves act as a governor to the heart's contractions. Under the influence of atropin the heart rate is increased by paralysis of the vagi.
Ice only relieves thirst for a short time, and as it is liable to induce flatulence should be avoided, especially in abdominal cases. Dryness of the tongue may be relieved by swabbing the mouth with a mixture of glycerine and lemon juice. If severe pain calls for the use of morphin, 1/120th grain of atropin should be added, or heroin alone may be given in doses of 1/24th to 1/12th grain.
In this important paper, Porak, after giving some historical notes, describes a long series of experiments performed on the guinea-pig in order to investigate the passage of arsenic, copper, lead, mercury, phosphorus, alizarin, atropin, and eserin through the placenta.
The value of such an injection rests on the fact that atropin thus injected will increase the normal heart from thirty to forty beats a minute, and Talley believes that if the heart beat is increased only twenty or less, if the patient has not been suffering from an exhausting disease, it shows "a degenerative process in the cardiac tissue which makes the outlook for improvement under treatment unpromising."
As his crimes show a great deal of previous preparation, so we may assume that he would prepare for suicide, or rather for the possibility that he might wish to attempt it. Therefore he would have something better for that purpose than atropin." I shook my head, but Kennedy continued.
"It is really a sort of eye dope," he explained. "You know atropin the stuff an oculist uses in your eyes when he wants to examine them leaves your vision blurred for a day or so." "Yes, I know that." "The effect of atropin is to expand the pupil. Pilocarpin is just the opposite it contracts the pupil." "What need could you possibly have of that?" "There's the joke: I haven't.
"I have been criminally stupid through this whole affair. I might have foreseen something of the kind." She stood there panting excitedly, her hands clinched at her sides. "I will read your label for you now the bottle you hold in your hand! It is atropin atropin " She laughed wildly. "I thank you, madam," he said ironically. "Now you must go back!" "Yes. Now I must go back. I thank you."
Besides the small amount of blood pressure-raising substance secreted by the hypophysis cerebri. it has not been shown that any other gland of the body furnishes vasopressor substance except the suprarenals. Atropin: When there is great cardiac weakness, atropin may be used to advantage. The dose is from 1/200 to 1/150 grain hypodermically, not repeated in many hours.
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