An injection of strychnineimproved her condition for a few minutes.
If paralysis of the muscular coat of the oesophagus is believed to exist, the administration of preparations of phosphorus and of strychnine are indicated on general principles of therapeutics.
With regard to the intrinsic paralysis of the oesophagus itself, strychnine and its congeners are indicated, and may be administered hypodermatically if the difficulty in swallowing be very great.
Strychnine poisoning is comparatively rare, except when this substance is given with suicidal or murderous intent.
By far the most efficient of them is a hypodermic injection of morphine and atropine, to which strychnine in appropriate doses may be added.
Strychnine and brucine exist in combination with igasuric acid discovered by Ludwig in 1873.
Strychnine can be obtained more readily and in larger proportions from St. Ignatius bean, but it is generally obtained from nux vomica seeds on account of the cheapness of the latter.
Or maybe the heart is failing; then our medical man is so eager to get something into the system that he cannot wait for the slow process of the mouth and the stomach, he shoots some strychnine directly into the blood-stream.
If the patients be suffering from severe shock, hypodermic injections of strychnine should be administered, or possibly some stimulant by the rectum.
Four pints of saline solution were infused into the median basilic vein, and 1/30 grain strychnine sulph.
No improvement followed the administration of brandy and hypodermic injection of strychnine 1/30 grain, and operation was deemed hopeless.
He paused and I waited anxiously to see whether Kennedy would make some reference to the discovery of the strychnine salts.
On continuing the heat, strychnine melts at about 221 deg.
It is only by working on this large scale that there is any probability of detecting absorbed strychnine in those cases where only one or two grains have destroyed life, and even then it is possible to miss the poison.
It is of very great importance to ascertain whether both strychnine and brucine are present or not--the presence of both pointing to nux vomica or one of its preparations.
The spinal cord, it would appear, has the power of collecting strychnine from the circulation and storing it up in its structure.
If a speck of strychnine be placed in the subliming cell, it will be found to sublime usually in a crystalline form at 169 deg.
The series of murders by Thomas Neill, or, more correctly, Thomas Neill Cream, is an example of the use of strychnine for the purposes of murder.
Curarine chromate is distinguished from strychnine chromate by its amorphous character, and by its comparatively easy solubility.
On chemical treatment of the viscera, a mixture of alkaloids was obtained which did not give either the reactions of strychnine or of atropine.
Vermin-killer" may be presumed to include not only strychnine mixtures, but also phosphorus and arsenic pastes and powders, so that there are no means of ascertaining the number of strychnine cases comprised under this heading.
It may happen, however, that in cases of poisoning there is the strongest evidence from symptoms in the person or animal that strychnine alone is to be sought for.
After standing some time all the strychnine is found crystallised out in the beautiful characteristic needle-formed crystals.
Mays states that strychnine affects more the anterior, brucine the posterior extremities.
This we will now inoculate with the strychnine you have procured; and we will send it out to the plains for the dogs to consume to-morrow; and we can continue the operation at frequent intervals until the animals disappear.
I would therefore like you to ride over to Alma, and explain the matter to Mr. Gilbert, the storekeeper there; and procure for me a supply of strychnine and arsenic.
I knew girls in college who took strychnine to keep themselves going through examinations or other occasions of great physical strain, and they have suffered for it ever since.
I rather think," said Larry, "that Nickem knows where the strychnine was bought.
Of course the promiscuous use of strychnine is objectionable.
But all this would have been nothing had not Nickem secured the old woman who had sold the herrings,--and also the chemist, from whom the strychnine had been purchased as much as three years previously.
Scrobby, and the red herrings and the strychnine and the dead fox were, according to Bearside, to be kept quite distinct from the pheasants and the wheat.
When the Scrobbyites heard that Scrobby had gone all the way to Norrington to buystrychnine to kill rats they were Scrobbyites no longer.
As to the poisoned fox and the herrings and the strychnine Goarly declared that he didn't care if there were twenty detectives in the place.
There's been strychnine put down in the Brake too," said Hampton.
But if thestrychnine could be traced and the herrings, then there would be almost a certainty of punishing Scrobby.
Everybody knew as well as though he had seen it that Goarly had baited meat with strychnine and put it down in the wood.
They 'doctored' some rabbit paunches withstrychnine cunningly enough, and laid them seductively in the field.
The endermoid application of strychnine is also efficacious in many cases where the injury has been slight—as in the following.
Still, by far the greater number of amaurotic patients are incurable; and even those who have derived benefit from strychnine are, I am strongly inclined to suspect, exceedingly liable to relapse.
Nervous deafness, like functional amaurosis, may sometimes be relieved or even removed entirely by stimulating frictions, or the application of strychnine to a raw surface behind the auricle, and by attention to the general health.
A succession of small blisters was applied along the sides of the spine in the dorsal and lumbar regions, On the raw surface strychnine was sprinkled, commencing with half a grain daily, and gradually advancing to a grain and a half.
It requires a strong dose of strychnine to kill a grizzly, and frequently the bears get only enough to make them ill and send them into temporary retirement in some dark gorge.
The herders had put strychnine into the carcasses of several sheep that had died of eating poisonous weeds, and McCullough thought the bears must have eaten the poisoned mutton and become sick.
In the morning Mr. Taylor, one of the owners of the ranch, was found skinning a grizzly that had eaten strychnine in pork during the night.
Apparently bruin had made a miscalculation in his calendar and was keeping Lent in the wrong season, but his erratic conduct was explained when some of the herders admitted that they had put strychnine into several carcasses.
This white zone, when examined more nearly, is found to consist of barnacles, so crowded together that they obscure the natural colour of the rock.
How far the case is that they need a house because their tails are soft, and how far the contrary is true that their tails are soft because they live in a house, it would be difficult to say.
The bottles containing the strychnine and the distilled water stood side by side on his shelf.
That might lead to investigation, and that must inevitably disclose the fact that he died from strychnine poisoning.
How I came to make such a mistake I cannot imagine, but when I got home I saw at once that there was an extra dose gone out of my strychnine bottle instead of out of the distilled water, and that explained it at once.
She also wanted to know how much strychnine it would take to produce death.
The post-mortem examination developed this fact, so as to place it beyond question, large quantities of strychninebeing found in the stomach.
The paper of strychnine found in the pocket of the blue silk dress was placed there by me.
What reply did Bowles make when she asked him how much strychnine it would take to kill?
We found a little package of quinine in the fire-place; now it is very plain that this was emptied out of one of the papers left by Doctor Dodson, and that the strychnine was put in the same paper instead of the quinine.
They'll have given him an injection of strychninethis evening to help him through.
I spray with London purple and strychninewhen the leaves are small; think I have reduced the codling-moth.
I have saved some valuable trees from the borers by taking a quarter-inch bit and boring a hole and putting in strychnine or sulphur, and the tree lived on while all others died; even in the black locust it was successful.
It was doubted whether it was the thorn of a bamboo, an ant, or a strychnine tree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strychnine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: arsenic; drug; poison; stimulant
