Strychnine, eserine and pilocarpine are the drugs commonly used by the veterinarians in the treatment of acute indigestion.
Hypodermic injections of strychnine, eserine, or pilocarpine are useful in the treatment of this disease.
The pilocarpine lymphocytosis does not contradict this view, for pilocarpine causes extraordinary though transient variations in the distribution of water, whereby the inflow into the blood of fluid containing lymph cells is increased.
Pilocarpine Hydrochlorate: in spasmodic asthma, subcutaneously; also in humid asthma if there is no cardiac dilatation.
Other salts of Pilocarpine are not described because used substantially as the above.
The action of this powerful alkaloid closely resembles that of physostigmine, but whereas the latter is specially active in influencing the heart, the eye and the spinal cord, pilocarpineexerts its greatest power on the secretions.
Pilocarpine is not only the most powerful sialogogue but also the most powerful diaphoretic known.
The various preparations of jaborandi leaves are therefore undesirable for therapeutic purposes, and only the nitrate of pilocarpineitself should be used.
Pilocarpine has come into use lately as a sudorific.
To this end the resin of copaiba in pilular form and pilocarpine subcutaneously may be used.
When the skin is habitually dry and harsh a dose of pilocarpine every other night for a few times will often prove very useful.
Pilocarpine shows as perfect antagonism as possible; atropine dries, pilocarpine moistens the skin; atropine accelerates, pilocarpine slows the respiration.
Pilocarpine dissolves without the production of colour in sulphuric acid; but, with bichromate of potash and sulphuric acid, a green colour is produced.
Pilocarpine fused with potash yields trimethylamine, carbon dioxide, butyric, and traces of acetic acid.
Pilocarpine gives a precipitate with phosphomolybdic acid, potassio-mercuric iodide, and most general alkaloidal reagents, but none that are very distinctive.
There is also a most complete antagonism between atropine and pilocarpine in other respects, atropine stopping the excessive perspiration, and relieving the headache and pain about the pubes, &c.
Pilocarpine must be classed among the heart poisons.
Pilocarpine appears under the form of a soft viscous substance; it is slightly soluble in water and very soluble in alcohol, ether and chloroform.
The hydrochlorate dissolved in distilled water, and treated with ammonia and chloroform, yields the pilocarpine upon evaporation of the chloroform solution.
Took thepilocarpine four times since yesterday morning, and each dose is followed by perspiration lasting from one to one and a half hours; quantity of urine, from fl.
The patient was kept warm in bed; stimulating poultices of mustard and flaxseed, one to sixteen, were constantly in use over the kidneys, and the pilocarpine was administered three or four times a day.
Pilocarpine has been used in a number of cases, but, with the exceptional case of a young man reported by Denis Dumont, all terminated fatally.
Muriate ofpilocarpine was now directed to be given in doses of one-thirty-second of a grain every three hours, dissolved in cold water.
Lastly, pilocarpine may be thrown into the tissues in sufficient doses to procure its vigorous physiological action.
The mother stated that the child had taken only two doses, or one-sixteenth of a grain, of pilocarpine when the diuretic effect was apparent and free diaphoresis also occurred.
She also stated subsequently that the quantity of urine was larger when the pilocarpine was administered every third hour than when given at a longer interval.
One-thirty-second of a grain of muriate of pilocarpine was administered every six hours without the desired sudorific effect.
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