Schlechtendal, in describing a flower of Colchicum autumnale, in which the perianth was virescent, says that, although the stamens were present, the pistil was absent.
The plants belonging to this order have generally inconspicuous flowers, except Colchicum and Bulbocodium, both of which have flowers like the Crocus.
The genera Colchicum and Bulbocodium very much resemble the Crocus in the appearance of their flowers; but they are distinguished by having three styles and a superior ovary, and they are included in the order Melanthaceae.
The bulbs of the Colchicum are used in medicine; but they and the whole plant abound in an acrid juice, which is poisonous if taken in too large a dose.
Colchicum or Nitro-hydrochloric acid are serviceable when this condition of the system is of long standing.
That Colchicum tends in some way to neutralize in the blood the poison of Gout, and to a less degree that of Rheumatism also, is generally admitted, although various theories have been adopted to explain this action.
Colchicum stimulates the function of the liver, which is generally deranged in gouty disorders.
It is particularly observed of Colchicum and of Antimony, and of all medicines which act on the Vagus nerve so as to cause vomiting.
It seems to me that Cinchona bears the same relation to Arsenic in the treatment of ague, as Alkalies to Colchicum in gout; the former, in each case, supplying a needful material, the latter neutralizing a morbid process.
To the combination of an eliminative with a sedative or anodyne action, the use of Colchicum in Gout has been, I think, erroneously ascribed.
So that, altogether, it is perhaps a good rule to treat the patient without Colchicum as long as it can be done with safety, adopting this medicine only as a last resource, when other remedies have been tried and failed.
Bird has found Colchicum to be of signal service in cases of lithic deposit in the urine; and has proved the same medicine to be efficacious in Oxaluria.
It is said that under the action of Colchicum the natural amount of this substance in the urine is much increased.
Todd believes that Colchicum has often a tendency to change the common acute form of Gout into an asthenic form which is less amenable to treatment.
Those who adopt this view of its action aver that Colchicum acts best when it purges freely.
But though Purgatives are often of use in gouty disorders, it is generally found that Colchicum operates most favourably when given in too small a dose to produce any purging.
Colchicum has apparently some power in the diversion or control of these morbid processes, which we can only indicate, but cannot further comprehend.
In Colchicumand Sabadilla, the Supergallates of Colchicia and Veratria.
The official dose of powdered colchicum is 2 to 5 grains, which may be given in a cachet.
Altogether colchicum is a puzzle, and will remain so until the efficient poison of gout is isolated and defined.
From Colchis is derived the name of the plantColchicum (q.
In colchicum poisoning, empty the stomach, give white of egg, olive or salad oil, and water.
The chief constituents of colchicum are two alkaloids, colchicine and veratrine.
Colchicum or colchicine, when applied to the skin, acts as a powerful irritant, causing local pain and congestion.
These assertions, and the total inadequacy of the pharmacology of colchicum, as above detailed, to explain its specific therapeutic property, show that the secret of colchicum is as yet undiscovered.
Salicylates are generally recognized as valuable in acute manifestations of acute articular rheumatism; colchicum is useless in these conditions.
Both salicylates and colchicum are practically useless in chronic rheumatic and in chronic gouty affections.
Extract of colchicumand compound extract of colocynth, of each 1 dr.
Wine of colchicum disguised by some unimportant additions.
The cause of the outbreak was traced to the use of goats' milk, yielded by goats that had eaten of the meadow saffron, the Colchicum autumnale.
Reason may subsequently control and restrain it, or it may fail to do so; but the principle exists before it can be either indulged or restrained.
Stop the tincture of colchicum as soon as the pain is relieved and then you can give wine of colchicum ten drops every four hours, watching for irritation of the stomach, bowels and kidneys.
The wine or tincture of colchicum in doses of twenty to thirty drops may be given every four hours in combination with the citrate of potash, fifteen grains, or the citrate of lithium five to ten grains.
Pen remembered that nobleman's name, and with a bow and a blush said he believed he had to thank Lord Colchicum for having proposed him at the Megatherium Club, at the request of his uncle, Major Pendennis.
Not for the world," cried the daughter of the veteran Blenkinsop; "Lord Colchicum gave it to me.
Colchicum says he has had him to dine, and thinks him agentleman like lad.
We do not consider that Colchicum is properly placed in the garden.
The Colchicum autumnale, or Meadow Saffron, is the type of this order; it grows in moist meadows, producing a purple flower which appears before the leaves.
He is a sensible, well-behaved young man, and, I trust, would not have abused your goodness.
Those regius-professors the nabobs have taught men not to plunder for farthings.
A glance at the sketches of Colchicumand Bulbocodium will show a peculiar method of growth.
As simple purging by other cathartics does not abort the gouty seizure, the value of colchicum cannot be ascribed to its purging effect, and, besides, purging is by no means necessary to its efficiency.
The objections to the colchicumtreatment are based upon humoral pathology, and upon the idea that the attack is an effort of nature to cast out the poison and purify the blood.
The accidents which have been ascribed to colchicumthrough its causing heart-failure are probably to be explained by its injudicious administration in large doses where acute gout is complicated with cardiac or renal degeneration.
The wine of colchicum may be given in doses varying from 20 to 40 minims, alone or combined with Epsom salts in drachm doses, with small quantities of opium, every six or eight hours.
Chronic gouty subjects assert that they are not benefited by colchicum until it has purged them.
Recurrence after the colchicum treatment is certainly more common than after the expectant method, but this should not be ascribed so much to a defective cure as to the temptation which the antidote offers to trifling with the poison.
The value of colchicumin joint affections is a tradition of the earliest records of medicine.
The selection of the preparation of colchicum in the treatment of an acute paroxysm is a matter of individual experience and preference.
Next in importance and value to colchicum in the abortive treatment of gout are salicin, salicylic acid, the sodium salicylate, and the oil of wintergreen.
It is useless, however, to speculate on the way in which colchicum and allied substances affect gouty inflammation; the practical question to be determined is: Are they the best and safest remedies to control it?
As soon as the acute symptoms subside, the colchicum should be continued in smaller and less frequent doses until the fever and local tenderness subside.
All the preparations of colchicum are poisonous in large doses.
A peculiar principle discovered by Gieger and Hesse in the seeds of the Colchicum autumnale or common meadow saffron.
The expressed juice of fresh colchicum corms, cleared of deposit, boiled, strained, and evaporated to a proper consistency at a temperature of 160 deg.
This extract is given in the usual cases in which colchicum is employed.
At the same time it may be admitted that, in the subordinate function of an adjuvant to the aperients which it is sometimes advisable to give, small doses of the acetic extract of colchicumseem to possess some value.
Of course, you know Mactavish did not send for me until he'd found out that Jenkin was so fou' he didn't know colchicum from prussic acid.
Wi' that my memory came back quite suddenly, and I remembered that the colchicum was in my pocket.
Strump knows anything about it, but he has had the accursed gout himself, and when he sits by me and talks so wisely about it, and talks about Colchicum and Polchicum, it is a comfort to think that such a learned man has the gout too.
Strump's confounded Colchicum is doing the mischief, and we must have it out.
Colchicum was in attendance upon Mademoiselle Carandine, little Tom Tufthunt was in attendance upon Lord Colchicum; and rather pleased, too, with his position.
Colchicum says he has had him to dine, and thinks him a gentlemanlike lad.
He staid accordingly till three o'clock, left his patient out of all present danger, and advised Walter especially against allowing colchicum to be administered to him until his strength had recovered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colchicum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
