Atropine is advantageously added to morphine in bronchoscopy for foreign bodies, not only for the usual reasons but for its effect as an antispasmodic, and especially for its diminution of endobronchial secretions.
The morphine should be given not less than an hour and a half before bronchoscopy to allow time for the onset of the soporific and antispasmodic effects which are the desiderata, not the analgesic effects.
Now, the effect ofmorphine varies largely, according to the constitution, temperament, and habits of the persons to whom it is given; but the combined result of internal and external doses almost invariably is death.
It will be remembered that Mrs. Sanford used morphine continually, and that she boasted of her ability to administer it in just the proper proportion to cause her victims to fall into a heavy sleep.
Morton said to me, on making one of his reports, that she would often determine to give up morphine and liquor, and live more respectably.
In some way, either in his food or drink, a dose ofmorphine was given to him, and he soon fell fast asleep.
This effect had been produced, of course, by a dose of morphine in the water, and Mrs. Sanford then proceeded to rob Mrs. Jones of all her valuables.
It is almost needless to say that the shock the father received was enough to break his morphine habit for good and all.
Sedatives valueless 416:6 A hypodermic injection of morphine is administered to a patient, and in twenty minutes the sufferer is qui- etly asleep.
I was a travelling salesman, and it was a common occurrence for me to have to call a physician to my hotel to administer morphine for an acute form of this disease.
He came and diagnosed the case, and said that he could do nothing for her but give her some morphine tablets to make her rest.
Butler came down to see me in the reception-room and reported that it had taken an astonishing quantity of morphine to have any effect upon the patient, but that he was at last beginning to grow quieter.
It is, then, probable that morphine is the narcotic principle possessed by this plant, which is not hard to believe when one considers the family to which it belongs.
If so, the question arose, Did this man Morgan contrive to mix the morphine with something which he thought it probable that the one sitting up with the corpse would drink, or had Amos given his brother the sleeping-potion?
It was he who supplied the morphine powders, then?
There is an interesting series of links in this chain which convicts Morgan of using morphine to accomplish his purpose.
Possibly at some future day, one and the same alkaline principle, similar to morphine and strychnia, will be found in poisonous plants belonging to different genera.
She felt sure now that the morphine was accountable for it--that she and Gaynor had given him too much.
It astounded and chagrined her to find that Chesney had procured morphine and cocaine, for she was convinced that he had been in possession of it all the while.
Just you remember it's not you, but the morphinethat hates me.
Hopkins looked pained, but answered straightforwardly that, in his opinion also, Mr. Chesney was in the habit of takingmorphine hypodermically.
It takes years and years for morphine really to injure the brain.
In each of these operations only one-hundredth of a grain of scopolamine and one-third of a grain of morphine had been used, but chloroform was administered later.
She should have pains occurring at regular intervals, preferably every four or five minutes, before the first injection of scopolamine and morphine is administered; that is, the first stage of labor should be well advanced.
Children for years after birth all withstand the action of morphine badly, and a fetus in utero may be overwhelmed by it.
Fonyo[206] reported two fatal poisonings by the scopolamine-morphine method as used in surgery.
Gauss gives one-sixth of a grain of morphine at the first injection, and Polak nearly three-fourths of a grain of narcophin, with one two-hundredth of a grain of scopolamine.
They intensify the action of morphine and other narcotics.
When, however, morphine and scopolamine are given to a pregnant woman hypodermically, these drugs are at once carried by the blood to the fetus.
He tried it first in 1903, but he found that if sufficient morphine is given to abolish pain there is danger of hemorrhage in the mother and of asphyxia in the child.
Morphine is used at the beginning to quiet the patient and the irritable uterus.
They are morphine treacherously disguised, and the assertions in the Cosmopolitan were never retracted when attention was called to the untruth by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
If enough morphine and scopolamine are administered early in labor to a multipara, the labor is commonly stopped; if this dosage is given after the pains are developed, the baby is born, as a rule, before they take effect.
Nevertheless, even if there is some real danger to the fetus from the use of morphine in a threatened abortion, the cautious use of this drug would be morally justifiable.
Should the threatened abortion go on to actual abortion, the fetus will certainly be killed, but the use of morphine on the woman is the best and virtually the only means we have to avert a threatened abortion and so save the fetal life.
An attack of asthma is most successfully cut short by means of one-quarter of a grain of morphine sulphate[6] with 1/20 of a grain of atropine sulphate, taken in a glass of hot water containing a tablespoonful of whisky or brandy.
Ten drops of laudanum,[7] or a tablespoonful of paregoric, may be used instead of the morphine if the latter is not at hand.
And I don't know but an over-dose of morphine would be the best thing for her now.
It is perhaps the best modification of morphine for use in coughs.
An alkaloid prepared from morphineby acetylization.
As compared with morphine it is less constipating and less apt to induce a drug habit.
The author also shows that morphine gives a dark, dingy brown colour with chlorine and ammonia, which is capable of more or less masking the reaction of quinine.
The proportion of the first two may be estimated by the loss of weight which the sample suffers when digested in ether; or by dissolving out the morphine by digestion in weak liquor of potassa.
Morphine is chiefly used for the preparation of the acetate, and some of its other salts.
But not every one realizes that the giving of money in case of poverty is as dangerous as the giving of morphine in sickness.
Another example of the kind of giving which comes to an end and does not tend to form a habit like the morphine habit, is exemplified when we buy a man the necessary tools of his trade, or the stock and furniture necessary to start a store.
Hence there is always danger that before long the patient will have to fight, not only the disease which originally caused him pain and made him call for morphine, but the morphine habit in addition.
But we all know the dangers of giving morphine for the relief of pain.
If morphine were a possession of the doctor's, as money is a possession of the visitor or those whom she represents, then the doctor might often seem stingy, cruel, selfish in his refusal to give it.
Money like morphinesatisfies an immediate need and hence is eagerly welcomed by the sufferer.
The person gets over the attack, and does not want morphine again for months or years.
But of money as of morphine it is true that a single dose soon makes the patient call for another, and often a larger dose; that it soon makes the patient dependent on this sort of relief, and so forms a dangerous habit.
With the rarest exceptions, to give money or to give morphine does not cure.
They want a remedy, a pain-killer, morphine or its equivalent.
I know how little good such "inspiration" usually is because it can be given the same way as money or morphine can be given.
One of these patients had been usingmorphine for fourteen years and morphine with cocaine for an additional four years.
It is extremely difficult, and commonly impossible, to cure the morphine disease after it has been firmly established, and a deliberate acceptance of the habit is evidently a grave vice.
Given so many grains of cocaine or morphine or so many ounces of alcohol, and you can make a liar of a man once on the way toward sanctity.
Opium and morphine diminish the sexual appetite in males, even to impotence.
Many users of morphinecan carry on business, but the cocaine habitue can not do so.
The degenerative effects of morphine are not so great nor so rapid as those of alcohol.
When a user of morphine has been deprived of the drug for from ten to fifteen hours, he becomes so weak he can not stand; he gets diarrhoea with cramps; he sweats, trembles, and collapses.
Morphine and Cocaine Intoxication,--Morphine, an alkaloid of opium, is used very extensively as an intoxicant.
Some physicians, by carelessly prescribing morphine for neuralgia, migraine, dysmenorrhoea, or any pain, make their patients slaves of this drug.
Haidlen[404] recognised morphine in the blood of a suicide who had taken opium extract.
Persian Opium=, examined in the same way, varied in crude morphinefrom 2.
Lemaurier's Odontalgic Essence= is acetate of morphinedissolved in cherry-laurel water; strength, 1 grain to the ounce.
It was not until the next day that the morphine dog regained his spirits and usual humour.
There is not the supposed antagonism between the action of morphine on the frog and on the mammalia.
Fixed Alkalies=, in excess, dissolve in part resin; they also dissolve morphine freely; narcotine remains insoluble.
The dog which, two days before, after having been codeinised, woke lively and gay, was now bewildered and half paralysed at the end of his morphine sleep; whilst the other was wide awake and in the best spirits.
It is scarcely probable that morphine should be a constituent, for its subliming point is high, and it will rather be deposited in the cooler portion of the pipe.
In France, opium or morphinepoisoning accounts for about 1 per cent.
But these experiments show that the quantity of morphine has a much more powerful convulsive action than a milligramme of thebaine.
The proprietors of "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" had strenuously denied the presence of morphine in their preparation.
Why, this physician plenipotentiary and coroner extraordinary that I have referred to, didn't know when he got a call whether to take his morphine syringe or his venire for a jury.
He squirmed a good deal, but I kept on until I thought it must be about time for the morphine to begin to take effect.
I kept him onmorphine and red pepper for three days, but when I let up on him he was cured, and my reputation was made.
And why not," she cried to herself when the consciousness of it came over her, and like a morphine fiend carrying the drug to his lips, she knew that she also was pressing there the solace of her misery.
For my part, I think they are the product of man and wine or women or morphine or some other narcotic.
She was nuss to marster's girl and she give it morphine to put it to sleep.
She give de baby girl so much morphine dat her body was full of it and she died.
