The elements of a new materia medica and therapeutics : Based upon an entirely new collection of drug-provings and clinical experience / By E.E. Marcy, J.C. Peters & Otto Füllgraff.

  • Marcy, E. E. (Erastus Edgerton), 1815-1900.
Date:
[1850?]
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    exerts a peculiar action upon the brain and nervous system, upon the urinary and genital organs, and upon the bones. It has been found useful in pains, inflammation and suppuration of the bones; against caries of the bones and teeth, rhachitis, softening and bending of the bones; against diseases of the bones in which a fluid and offensive pus is discharged, rather than against carious ulcers which have gone on to true necrosis. Lentin cured a case of caries of the frontal bone by the internal and external use of this acid; also a case of caries of the first false rib. Wolff cured a case of whitlow with caries, where the external application of Phosphoric-acid seemed to hasten in a remarkable manner the reproduction of the ulcerated phalanx. Like all the acids it is said to be tonic and astringent, checking all excessive' liquefacient and colliquative processes. It has been used successfully against colliquative perspirations, excessive pollutions, leucorrhosa, profuse and exceedingly offensive expectoration, obstinate diarrhoea, passive haemorrhagies. It has been used successfully against many varieties of haemorrhage; viz., bleeding from the womb, expectoration of blood, bleeding from the mouth,nose and rectum; especially in actually scorbutic haemorrhages, in which there is an entire absence of coagulability of the blood, coupled with great atony of the bleeding organ ; also where there is excretion of blood in consequence of decay or decomposition of the affected parts. General sphere of action.—In large doses it acts as a powerful stimu- lant to the nervous and vascular systems; it is absorbed into the system, and has been detected in the blood; it also communicates a peculiar odor to the breath. In very large doses it is an irritant poison; convulsions and insensibility preceding death. (Waring.) Hecker asserts that it exercises a specific influence over the nervous system, in virtue of which it possesses the power of allaying pain and spasms. Lentin ascribes to it a specific action upon secreting surfaces and the bones, thus rendering it a valuable remedy in certain affections of these parts. Others regard it as aphrodisiac, and have employed it successfully as a tonic and stimulant in debilitated conditions of the sexual organs. When injected into the veins, it coagulates the blood. This acid is tolerated by the system better than either sulphuric, nitric, or muriatic-acids; being less liable to derange the stomach, or to give rise to other constitutional disturbances. AUTHORITIES. Hahnemann. Mat. Med. Pur. (1.) Orfila. Traite de Tox. (2.) Pereira. El. Mat. Med. and Ther. (3.) Franks' Mag. (4.) Marcy. (10.) Peters. (11.)