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Updated: June 13, 2025
"It is serious. You should have a surgeon. But why have you not used the temporary remedy? Of course you know the effect of drugs?" "I know that atropin is ruin, right enough," said Kingozi grimly. "But the pilocarpin " "Of course. I only wish I had some." "But you have!" came Winkleman's astonished voice. "There is of it a large vial!" Kingozi gripped the arm of his chair for a full minute.
The bottles it contained were all of the same shape. He remembered that the pilocarpin was at the right-hand end or was it the left? Hastily he uncorked the left-hand bottle, and was immediately reassured. It contained tablets. The right-hand bottle, on the contrary, held the typical small crystals. But a doubt assailed him.
His mind was occupied by another, more human problem. The discovery that the atropin and not the pilocarpin had been destroyed agitated him profoundly; not, as might be believed, because it enabled him at a critical time to regain the use of his sight, but because it threw before him an insistent question. Did, or did not, Bibi-ya-chui know?
"Until you obtained the remedy?" "Probably for always. One must not let glaucoma run or it becomes chronic. It's God's own luck that I have this stuff with me it's the pilocarpin I told you of. The other stuff atropin would blind me for sure!" He thrust forward the three bottles. "Here," he urged. "If you had not the remedy this what-you-call pilocarpin, what would you do?"
His recollections of the classroom were now distinct. He knew that the pilocarpin would restore his vision within a few hours; and while the alleviation would be temporary, it might last some months, or until he could get the proper surgical aid. Therefore it would be as well not to let the men know anything was even temporarily the matter. "Take my chair," he ordered Cazi Moto.
He went methodically forward with his examination as though he were at home in his white office. "H'm. How long this been going on? Five weeks, eh! Been blind? Oh why didn't you use that pilocarpin I gave you I see." The officers and other white men stood about in a compact and silent group.
"Winkleman read the labels on my bottles," he said sternly. "I have simply used the pilocarpin." "The pilocarpin! But that was destroyed!" So unmistakably genuine was her cry of amazement that Kingozi's heart leaped with joy. She had not known! He took a step toward the couch. But at this moment a wild hullabaloo broke out in the camp. Men yelled and shouted. Some one began to blow a horn.
I wonder whether that cost you anything, too?" He sat apparently staring out into the distance, his sightless eyes wide with the peculiar blank pathos of the blind. The Leopard Woman's own eyes were suffused with tears! "I remember now something you said when you broke the bottle of pilocarpin," he said slowly. "I did not notice it at the time; now it comes to me.
What is more effectual for stimulating a sluggish liver and cleansing the intestinal tract than calomel followed by a dose of salts? What will produce more profuse perspiration than pilocarpin; or what is a better stimulus to the kidneys than squills or buchu? Can we not by means of stimulants and depressants regulate heart action to a nicety?
In general terms, it may be said that the time has not arrived to make a preachment "on the passing of eserin and pilocarpin." Physiologic Action. Concerning the ocular, physiologic action of the two chief alkaloids respectively of Calabar Bean and of Jaborandi, there still exists difference of opinion.
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