These compounds had a very surprising febrifuge action, without any unpleasant after effects or local disturbances.
The most decided febrifuge action, however was found by Prof.
A native of the East Indies, where the roots are used in medicine as a febrifuge and alexipharmic.
Indians in Mexico employ it as a febrifuge and sudorific and also as a remedy for epilepsy.
We do not think of it any more, however, as a general febrifuge and there is no justification for its use in the slight infective conditions we know as colds.
There are physicians who still use quinine as a febrifuge in typhoid and other essential fevers, and doubtless its bitter taste helps their patients because of the suggestive value of an unpleasant medicine.
Pure quinine is but rarely used in medicine, but several of its salts are employed as remedies, on account of their great stimulant, tonic, and febrifuge powers.
Solution of acetate of ammonia is a very common and excellent febrifuge and diaphoretic, and, in large doses, aperient saline liquor.
Dose, 12 drops to a teaspoonful; as a febrifuge and tonic.
The real febrifuge cinchona, with a hairy corolla, is nowhere else found so near the coast, if we except the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta.
A febrifugehaving been prepared, we attempted to follow the etiquette of the Abyssinian court, by tasting the draught prescribed; but the king, again extending his parched hand, protested against this necessity.
It may be said to resemble the family of the honeysuckle, or caprifoliaceous plants, one section of which has alternate leaves, and among which we find several cornel-trees, remarkable for their febrifuge properties.
The sickly traveller may perchance repose in a cottage, the inhabitants of which are ignorant of the febrifuge qualities of the trees that shade the surrounding valleys.
May it then be admitted, that this resiniform matter, which possesses different degrees of energy according to the combinations by which it is modified, is found in all febrifuge substances?
Eminent febrifuge virtues have also been found in the cortical part of the roots of the Cinchona condaminea at Loxa; but it is fortunate, for the preservation of the species, that the roots of the real cinchona are not employed in pharmacy.
The carminative properties of spearmint are inferior to those of peppermint, and its chief employment is for its diuretic and febrifuge virtues.
Administering a warm, alkaline hand-bath to a fever patient every day, is an excellent febrifuge remedy, being careful not to chill or induce fatigue.
Gelsemium was originally employed as an arterial sedative and febrifuge in the malarial fevers of the South, and subsequently in sthenic fevers.
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In India it is regarded as a febrifugeand laxative and is commonly given with some aromatic.
The trunk bark is a febrifuge of great importance; it is official in the Pharmacopoeia of India and is widely used in the Philippines.
The root is tonic, febrifuge and expectorant and the fruit nervine and emmenagogue according to the Sanscrit writer.
The decoction of the flowers is pectoral and febrifuge and is given in bronchitis, asthma and malarial fever.
This drug is also tonic, febrifuge and astringent, and a decoction of its leaves and flowers is used as a wash for ulcers.
Heckel and Schlagdenhauffen have confirmed the febrifuge virtues of the seeds and are uncertain as to the active principle since they found no glucoside or alkaloid in their analysis.
In smaller doses it is febrifuge and produces nausea.
The root and the leaves are used as a febrifuge in the Philippines and in India, according to Wight.
Its febrifuge action is well-known in our country.
Kanirages (native physicians) use Nim as the principal substance in their febrifuge medicines.
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