Antipyretic and Antineuralgic, like Phenacetin; prompt, and without by- or after-effect.
Chloral Hydrate: as antipyretic when fever is high; and to check vomiting or convulsions in adults and children during malarious fever.
Alcohol: as antipyretic and stimulant, especially useful in blood-poisoning.
It was found that substituting ethyl for H in the imid group annihilated the narcotic and antipyretic properties.
The narcotic action is strengthened and the antipyretic action unaffected.
In men theantipyretic and anti-neural actions were unaffected.
In dogs the narcotic action was feebler than with methyl or ethyl, and in men there was diminished antipyretic action.
The smallest amount of toxicity is in the ethyl substitution; while the maximum antipyretic and antineuralgic action belongs to the methyl substitution.
From this latter series the conclusion is drawn that the maximum of narcotic action is obtained by the introduction of methyl and the maximum antipyretic action by the introduction of methyl or ethyl.
The antipyretic action of drugs is probably due for the most part to some direct influence they exert upon the oxygenation of the tissues.
Aconite and veratrum viride reduce fever, but they are too depressing to be safely employed in grave scarlet fever, and theirantipyretic effect is less than that of water.
This is best done by the cold-water treatment in some form or other, or by the internal administration of antipyretic doses of quinia.
It seems to be more decidedly antipyretic than quinine in the febrile and inflammatory diseases, though somewhat depressing to the heart's action.
Quinia to produce a decided antipyretic effect must be given in large quantities.
In the epidemic of 1867, I used gelsemium as an antipyretic in fifty cases or more, but the results were so unsatisfactory that I have quite abandoned its exhibition.
Perhaps its antipyretic effects are limited to those cases in which malaria is a known or an unknown complication.
Since the modern recognition of the deleterious effects of high temperatures per se, antipyretic remedies in place of the old-time cardiac sedatives have come to play the leading rôle in the treatment of fevers.
It is found in practice that the most decided results are obtained when the medicine is given in the evening, so that the time of its fullest antipyretic effects will coincide with that of the morning remission.
The antipyretic action which considerable doses of aconite display is not specific, but is the result of its influence on the circulation and respiration and of its slight diaphoretic action.
According to Sir Thomas Fraser nothing else can compete with alcohol as a food in desperate febrile cases, and to this use must be added its antipyretic power already explained and its action as a soporific.
The principal assets of the salicylate-cinchophen class of drugs in the treatment of rheumatism and gout are their analgesic and antipyretic qualities.
Pyramidon is a proprietary preparation derived from, and having the antipyretic and anodyne properties of, antipyrin.
The latter is the most valuable and, in fact, the only vegetable antipyretic known.
In the initial stage of pneumonia, the preparation exercises a calming, antipyretic and sedative effect.
O'Shaughnessy experimented with it in the hospital of the Medical College of Calcutta and reported good tonic and antipyretic effects.
As a tonic and antipyretic it is certainly worthy of recommendation.
The decoction is used internally as an antipyretic in fevers and in dysentery.
In conclusion, the use of alcoholic stimulants, and the common employment of depressing antipyretic agents, must be condemned.
But the antipyretic influence of alcohol is so feeble in comparison with the proper application of water to the surface, or with the internal administration of sulphate of quinia, salicylic acid, digitalis, etc.
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