This fungus seems to contain some poison that acts upon the spinal cord very much as strychnia does, though less powerfully, of course.
Strychnia will do this to a certain extent, but its use may be contra-indicated by twitchings or convulsions from the toadstools.
It has the advantage of not increasing the excitability of the spinal cord asstrychnia does, and hence would not be contra-indicated by nervous symptoms.
Nux vomica, acting through its poisons, strychnia and brucia, poisons of a cognate character, produce that effect.
Do you not think it rather rash to judge of the effects of strychnia on man by so small an experiment?
He stood at the door till they were ready, when I delivered them to him—the prussic acid in the bottle he had brought, the strychnia in a paper, and the opium in a bottle.
I did not put the strychnia into the wine-glass in the presence of Mrs. Witham and Mrs. Wood.
Yes, unless you first get the strychnia in a visible and tangible form.
In cases of poisoning by strychniathe patient screams when the spasms set in; the pain is very severe.
In former times commercial strychnia always contained brucia, hence the coloration by nitric acid was even looked upon as a test for strychnia (see p.
At that time he did not mention to his master Palmer’s purchase of the strychnia because, he said, Palmer and Salt were not friends, and he was afraid that the latter might blame him for having given Palmer the strychnia.
I am of opinion that the fact of the recurrence of the second fit in Cook’s case is more the symptom of angina pectoris than of strychnia poison.
Of course, a Christison would recognize Strychnia from and in the phenomena, while a college janitor (and here and there an over-scientific entomologist) might not.
If any marked tendency to collapse is observed, the subcutaneous injection ofstrychnia or of ether and digitalis, conjoined with diffusible stimulants internally and hot applications externally, are to be employed immediately.
Strychnia fails to arrest them; arsenic has more value, but frequently fails.
In these cases strychniashould be injected subcutaneously in the neck, {714} once or twice daily.
Strychnia is a good general tonic, and may be prescribed combined with mineral acids, particularly with the dilute hydrochloric acid.
A pill of ergot, belladonna, and strychnia would answer the indication of a feeble peristalsis.
Strychnia stands first, but it woefully disappoints one who trusts much in the theoretical arguments for its use.
In these old cases of great relaxation Nelaton has used strychnia by the mouth, and Weber (of New York) hypodermically, with fair result.
In feebler subjects minute doses of strychnia or some of the simple vegetable bitters may be used in conjunction with the laxative salines.
Strychnia causes a deep violet congestion; alcohol, congestion and thickening; and tobacco, redness of the mucous membrane with great engorgement of the vessels of the rectum.
Strychnia with quassia or columbo stimulates the appetite and the gastric digestion.
Belladonna is advised for cases of this kind in combination with strychnia for the constipation.
Strychnia is also very useful as a tonic, and may be used either alone or in the shape of the sulphate, or combined with arsenic and iron, or it may be given, perhaps preferably, in solution in combination with an acid.
Castor oil is mild and efficient in these cases, or in cases of unusual torpor of the muscular coat of the bowels small doses of aloes and strychnia may be tried.
Strychnia can be combined in anaemia and debility with the dried sulphate or carbonate of iron, and with quinia or arsenic,[48] or in feeble digestion with dilute hydrochloric acid and pepsin.
Iron if there is anaemia, andstrychnia if there is a sluggish capillary circulation, with cold hands and feet, are available and useful in many cases.
Strychnia is the only substance attainable by them that could produce such symptoms, and then only when given in an exceedingly small dose.
Strychnia in any doses, however minute, is a violent poison to the dog.
Secale cornutum has little specific action beyond that of inducing vomiting; and strychnia cannot be with security administered, on account of its poisonous operation upon the animal.
In the treatment with strychnia neither the symptoms of the drug nor of the snake-poison ever showed themselves afterwards.
I asked him who had bought strychnia of him lately.
Increase the dose of strychniato three-quarters of a grain.
The strychnia increased to three-fourths of a grain morning and night.
Continue the mixture, and give half a grain of strychnia daily.
Calabar bean has been used in cases of strychnia poisoning and tetanus, as well as in epilepsy and St. Vitus's dance.
It has also been used with advantage in that species of impotence in which strychnia is useful.
A mixture of crude strychnia and brucia is deposited as the fluid cools, and the remainder is obtained by evaporation.
In the cases of different susceptibility to the action of strychnia or of narcotics, the explanation must of necessity, for the present, be more or less speculative.
In the island of Ceylon, a sloth can take 10 grains of strychnia with safety,--chickens presenting a like immunity to the poisonous effects of this alkaloid.
Strychnia is a white crystalline solid, very insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol or chloroform or weak acids, and having an intensely bitter taste.
The seeds of the nux vomica not only yield strychnia but brucia, an alkaloid which has the same properties, and causes the same symptoms as strychnia, though it is much less powerful.
When thestrychnia has been taken in a pill two hours have elapsed before any effects have been produced.
The time at which the symptoms commence varies according as the strychniahas been taken in solution or in a pill.
To separatestrychnia from organic admixture the process modified from Stas, given in the beginning of this book, is the most useful.
Letheby to consist of flour, Prussian blue, sugar, and strychnia in the proportion of twenty-three per cent.
Strychnia attacks the sensitive portion of the nervous system; but if the external excitement, which perpetually provokes reflex action and thereby brings on fatal convulsions, be guarded against, recovery may ensue.
Since the use of strychnia by those notorious criminals Palmer and Dove, this formidable agent has been employed by other murderers.
A case is also reported (Glasgow Medical Journal, July, 1856) where a medical man took three grains of strychnia dissolved in spirits of wine and diluted sulphuric acid.
If the skin of a frog be dried, and a few drops of a solution containing strychnia applied to it, strong tetanic convulsions will ensue, and be reproduced every time the animal is touched or irritated.
Pure strychnia is not changed in color when treated with iodic acid or with either of the strong mineral acids; but as this alkaloid generally contains brucia, nitric acid reddens it.
He gave strychnia to animals which died in convulsions, and found very irregular and partial congestions, generally not marked because death was so prompt; blood always fluid; no subpleural ecchymoses.
The administration of the strychnia will follow next in order only if the depressant symptoms of the venom indicate its need.
In the case with the hypodermic place one tube strychnia sulphate, gr.
The average dose of strychniahypodermically applied is 1/30 of a grain.
The administration of strychnia is not so difficult but that any man of ordinary intelligence can inform himself about it in a short time.
When the patient is recovering it is well to keep up the heart by strychniaor digitalin.
The heart then must be stimulated by the digitalin; strychnia also plays a prominent role here.
These directions closely followed will save every case of rattlesnake bite, and in many instances the patient will not require the strychnia at all.
Strychnia has its most important field in the treatment of these cases after the depressant effect of the venom has taken place.
Nux vomica or strychnia (1 to 2 grain doses) may be given.
They consist of violent fluttering motions without any co-ordination; but there are no spasms, as in the case of strychnia poisoning.
In the case of Sarsia the symptoms of strychniapoisoning are not well marked, from the fact that in this species convulsions always take the form of locomotor contractions.
In the case of Tiaropsis diademata the action of strychniais very similar, with the exception that there is no continuous spasm, although occasional ones occur amid the twitching convulsions.
In short, Medusae, when submitted to the influence of strychnia, exhibit all the symptoms of strychnia poisoning in the higher animals.
If strychnia had been found, of course there would have been no difficulty in the case, and we should have had none of the ingenious theories which medical gentlemen have been called here to propound.
Taylor experimented upon the bodies of two animals which he had himself killed with that poison, but in them nostrychnia could be found.
Were the parts upon which you had to operate in your search for strychnia in a favourable condition?
My learned friends have put in a book which was found in his house, and among other notes one in which there is this, “Strychnia kills by causing tetanic fixing of the respiratory muscles.
The prisoner obtained possession of strychnia on the Monday night.
In tetanus from strychnia there are short intermissions.
Sotheby say that whatever impurities there may have been, if strychnia had been in the stomach they would have found strychnia there.
Have you not said that you had no doubt strychnia had been taken, but that Dr.
In various newspapers it had been represented that I had said that strychnia could never be detected--that it was destroyed by putrefaction.
Are you of opinion that where strychnia has been taken in a sufficient dose to poison it can and ought to be discovered?
Can you refer to a case in which a person who had taken strychnia beat the bed with his or her arms?
Most varieties of impure strychnia that are sold contain more or less brucia.
At the sixth week I began to employ strychnia in doses of one-thirtieth of a grain thrice a day at meals, and this was kept up for several months, together with the iron and malt.
Massage was begun again, strychnia and salol were administered, and a short course of full doses of the testicular fluid was given.
It is also an excellent remedy in gastralgia; although I have rather dwelt (in the text of this work) on the action of strychnia in this disease, I would not omit my testimony to arsenic.
Iron is more especially indicated, of course, in cases where there is anaemia; but there are some cases in which strychnia given alone seems to produce a very beneficial influence.
It is clearly not a strychniaeffect pure and simple, nor an iron effect only; it is a tertium quid compounded of the actions of both drugs.
I gave the man a subcutaneous injection of one-sixth grain acetate of morphia, for present ease, and ordered him muriate of iron and small doses of strychnia three times a day.
One ounce of strychnia sulphate dissolved in 2 gallons of hot water was found sufficient to poison 30 pounds of chopped alfalfa previously moistened with water.
Dissolve 1 ounce of strychnia sulphate in 2 quarts of boiling water.
Strychnia alone, or with either of these oils, is ofttimes beneficial.
Other tonics, such as iron, strychnia and cod-liver oil, are also at times of service.
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