She looked brighter than hitherto, and remembered a dollhouse and her birds at mamma's house; yet, her long course of opiates left her little recognition of the boy and girl she had so dimly seen.
If he had died--the man she had just left behind in that torpid sleep which opiates bring--his body would have been carried to his last home in just such a hideous equipage as this hearse.
They were not wires which Ingolby should have heard at the time, when his wound was still inflamed, when he was still on the outer circle of that artificial sleep which the opiates had secured.
But do not physicians prescribe opiates in acute cases, where the violence of the disorder would be apt to throw the patient into a fever or delirium?
A man, forty years old, who had takenopiates daily since his twenty-second year--his dose being 6 grms.
Europeans, again and again, have discovered the native nurses administering opiates to the infants under their care, and it is feared that in many cases detection is avoided.
Laxatives, intestinal antiseptics, and bowel irrigations have almost taken the place of opiates in the treatment of these conditions in modern medicine.
In fact, our dependence upon opiates and mental influence have been both a characteristic and a cause of the Dark Ages of medicine.
There is only one way to get rid of them: that which an old sea-captain mentioned to me, namely, to keep one's self under opiates until he wakes up in the harbor where he is bound.
Therefore it behooves the manufacturer of opiates to disguise the use of the drug.
In epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, opiates may be safely employed in much larger doses than are tolerated in the simple forms of the disease.
Salicylic acid and the salicylates have in great measure superseded the use of opiates for the relief of pain and wakefulness in rheumatism, but they are not always efficient.
It is, therefore, to be relieved with opiates given in connection with such arterial sedatives and diaphoretics as each individual case may require.
According to Curci,[41] it opposes the tendency ofopiates to cause cerebral hyperaemia.
It is expensive and not very efficient, but may be sometimes prescribed with advantage when moral considerations render the use of ordinary opiates inexpedient.
Its association with opiates seems to increase their hypnotic effect, while at the same time neutralizing their disagreeable action.
This renders it preferable to the ordinary opiates in typhoid fever, and in other exhausting diseases.
These different opinions are probably due on the one hand to differences in the dose and strength of the opiates employed, and on the other to idiosyncrasies on the part of the individuals subjected to experiment.
As the effect of opiates is highly stimulant to the sweat-glands, and is often productive of nausea, it is advisable to associate atropine with morphine when thus given.
In his recent work,[51] the same author deprecates the use of opiates in states of depression, and advises the substitution of tincture of cannabis indica (x min.
If symptoms of asphyxia appear, indicated by blueness of the lips and nails, opiates should never be given.
It may, therefore, be advantageously associated with opiates in the restlessness and insomnia of exhaustion.
If opiates alone are given in cases of insanity with great depression, there is danger that death by syncope may occur, precisely as it sometimes happens in delirium tremens when treated with large and frequent doses of opium.
Of all the remedies for the relief of pain opiates are the most effectual.
From the draughts of inflated poetry and corrupted rhetoric which they manufactured, every stimulating ingredient was gradually withdrawn, while opiates were freely introduced in their stead.
The swelling may be relieved by hot fomentations, and opiates mitigate the pain.
The bowels should be well cleared out before the operation, so that two or more days may pass over without the parts being required to perform their functions; and, if the bowels are naturally loose, opiates may be administered.
Opiates are of great use in alleviating the pains and twitchings in the limb.
When the circulation has become perfectly calm, and every trace of excitement allayed, opiates will prove of inestimable value: they stop any disposition to uterine contraction, and remove the pain in the back and loins which this will cause.
If diarrhoea has set in to an exhausting degree, theopiates must be increased, and the Hydrarg.
Wherefore," says Burton, "we must not be too forward in giving strong opiates and other internal medicines, which may take them off while this grumous blood is lodged within these sinuses.
Opiates are by no means desirable remedies, and rather tend to aggravate the disease by still farther injuring the tone of the stomach and producing constipation.
Tincture of cantharides, or repeated blisters; afterwards opiates in small doses, and the bark.
Flap their huge banners, throw their opiates round, Fierce o'er the field conflagrant squadrons bend, And fiery fevers thro' the regions send.
There have been a few cases of physicians who have yielded unworthily to drugs and opiates as a means of dissipation.
A great number of physicians themselves have acquired the habit of taking opiates in this form, believing at the outset that they were not harmful drugs.
To this section belong the plants used to make the Chinese and Japanese joss, as well as Opium, Tobacco, Stramonium, and various opiates now well known.
The subtle powers ofopiates obtained from certain plants were among the secrets carefully preserved by the magi and priests.
The little opiatesof happiness Would make the sailing better, though we know The trip is nowhere and the rocks will sink The portless steamer.
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