Specific medication and specific medicines : revised, with an appendix containing the articles published on the subject since the first edition : and a report of cases illustrating specific medication / John M. Scudder.

  • Scudder, John M. (John Milton), 1829-1894.
Date:
1874
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    that the great function of Chloral is that of a hyp- notic and calmer of general nervous irritability. In delirium tremens it is excellent: and it is prob- able that with two such weapons for choice as Bro- mide of Potassium and Chloral we shall be able almost entirely to dispense with the use of Opium, which is so uncertain and dangerous a remedy in that disease. In the state of sleeplessness which threatens the access of puerperal mania, Chloral is probably an unequaled remedy. In melancholia its action as a hypnotic appears to be powerfully and remarkably sure. In mania , also, it acts well enough as a hypnotic, though there seems some division of opinion as to whether it does permanent good. We may also state that in the irritable con- dition of aged persons who find it difficult to sleep for any length of time continuously, the use of a single dose of thirty grains of Chloral appears often to answer excellently well. The minor uses of the drug in relieving more trivial conditions of nervous irritation, and in alleviating painful spasmodic symptoms of various kinds, are probably consider- able. CINCHONA.—(See Quinia.) CISTUS CANADENSIS. (Rock-Rose.) Preparation.—A tincture is prepared from the recent plant, in the proportion of 5viij. to Alcohol 76° Oj. The dose is from ten to thirty drops.