It is not improbable that the squill might have some share in this cure.
After trying squill and other medicines to no purpose, I directed a decoction of the Fol.
His strength being much broken down, I then ordered gum ammoniac, with small doses of opium, and infusum amarum, continuing the squill at intervals.
Digitalis made into a pill with gum ammoniac, to be taken every night, and to promote expectoration, a squill mixture twice in the day.
After the exhibition of an emetic, and an opening medicine of rhubarb, sena, and sal tartari, he was directed to take half a dram of squill pill, pharm.
His complaints increasing, the squill was pushed as far as could be borne, but without any good effect.
I consider the Foxglove thus given, as the most certain diuretic I know, nor do its diuretic effects depend merely upon the nausea it produces, for in cases where squill and ipecac.
Mild mercurials, soap, rhubarb, and squill were tried; but she grew rapidly worse.
I directed an infusion of Digitalis to be taken every night, and a mixture with squill and tincture of cantharides twice every day.
I triedsquill and fixed alkaly; and these failing, I ordered the Infusum Digitalis.
After tryingsquill medicines without effect, he was ordered to take Pulv.
On the 29th she had a Cough, and complained much of Sickness and Difficulty of Breathing, for which she was ordered a Vomit, and afterwards to take the Squill Draught Morning and Evening, which occasioned a Purging and Gripes.
His Breathing was worse; he was blooded a second Time; had a large Blister applied to his Side, and was ordered to continue the Use of the Squill Mixture.
Defn: A glucoside extracted from squill (Scilla) as a light porous substance.
The head [of the squill insect] is broad and squat.
Any bulbous plant of the genus Scilla; as, the bluebell squill (S.
Defn: A bitter principle extracted from the bulbs of the squill (Scilla), and probably consisting of a complex mixture of several substances.
The Egyptians planted the Squill in groves, and hung it in their houses to preserve them from evil spirits.
The mummies of Egyptian women often hold the Squill in one hand, probably as an emblem of generation.
Platina also adds the squill or sea onion to this category.
Each pill contains digitalis, squill and mass of mercury (each 0.
In the early part of the present century a pill composed of squill and digitalis in powder, and calomel, each one grain, given three times a day, was almost universally chosen.
When this prescription had produced a little ptyalism the mercurial was omitted and the squill and digitalis continued.
Squill Bulbs of the local squill were submitted in 1917 to Kew and provisionally identified as Urginea Scilla.
In making stone irrigation channels which are lined with a coating of lime and sand or earth, local masons sometimes rub over this lining with a sliced squill which has been dipped in oil.
Compound squill pill is a most useful expectorant in chronic coughs, asthmas, bronchial affections, difficulty of breathing, &c.
In small doses, squill acts as a stimulating expectorant and diuretic; in larger ones, as an emetic and purgative.
Anasarcin is said to contain squill, sambucus and oxydendron; Anedemin discards the oxydendron and reinforces the squill with strophanthus and apocynum.
It is marketed as tablets, said to contain the isolated active principles of strophanthus, apocynum, squill and sambucus, chemically combined.
Rose Bradford, for instance, states: “Squill is not used to any extent in the treatment of cardiac disease and cardiac dropsy, digitalis being a far more efficient and less toxic substance.
To appreciate fully the meaning of this description of the actions of Anasarcin, it should be compared with the effects of the digitalis group, to which squill belongs.
It is, of course, well known that squill can be used as a substitute for digitalis in cardiac dropsy, although it is generally considered very inferior to the latter drug.
In brief, then, it appears from the statements of the Anasarcin Company that the action of the remedy is that of squill and that the other ingredients are a mere blind.
Indeed, it is absolutely incompatible with the exhibition of ignorance of the elementary facts of pharmaceutical chemistry which is given by these people when they call the active principles of digitalis and squill “alkaloids.
The dose of the squill is something less than a grain, and of the digitalis only a sixth part of a grain, given uninterruptedly every third or fourth hour.
The squill should be given in the dose of a grain of the dried root every hour, till it operates upwards and downwards.
Alderman Squill asked, very warmly, 'what he meant by his double entendre?
That it can materially affect the action of such powerful drugs as squill and digitalis is exceedingly doubtful.
Neither digitalis nor squill should be employed “in all cases” of nephritis, even if it is “desirable to increase the volume of urine.
Squill was formerly used as an expectorant and diuretic, the activity having been attributed to two amorphous glucosids, scillipicrin and scillitoxin, but Ewins, 1911, found these to be impure mixtures.
On the other hand, it is worse than useless to give colchicum, squill and digitalis for the relief of such pains.
Squill gave him another and another piece; as the fourth offering was presented he patted the animal quietly on its head.
And Squill was not far wrong, for it was found that the monstrous fish measured fifty-two feet between the extremities of its outspread arms.
Squill uttered an Irish yell, and was seen holding on to his line with desperate resolve stamped on every feature.
Blaze, Stubbs, and Squill chanced to be out that day along the shore.
An islet was boarded, as Squill said, and the clumsy, astonished creatures lost numbers of their companions before making their escape into the sea.
Digitalis: best in cardiac dropsy; its action is increased by combination with squilland blue pill.
It is not quite clear whether Squill should be regarded as a Special Sedative, or considered simply as an irritant Emetic and Eliminative.
The urine is often increased by the action of a hydragogue Cathartic; and a combination of Blue-pill and Squill supplies us with one of the best of known Diuretics.
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