Digitalis has gone out of favor; how sure are we that Veratrum viride will not be found to do more harm than good in a case of internal inflammation, taking the whole course of the disease into consideration?
Or, to mention one out of many questionable remedies, shall you give Veratrum Viride in fevers and inflammations?
The fever should be controlled as early as possible by giving 20 drops of Norwood's tincture of veratrum virideevery hour until the desired result is obtained.
When the action of the heart is jerking or violent, 20 to 30 drop doses of tincture of digitalis or of veratrum viride may be given until these symptoms abate.
He finds that the fluidextract of veratrum viride is valuable when eclampsia is in evidence or imminent.
Aconite and veratrum viride are now rarely indicated, although possibly aconite should be used when there is high tension and the heart is acting irritably and stormily.
Digitalis, aconite, or veratrum viride may also be given in appropriate doses if with a high temperature there coexists great frequency of the pulse.
Not many years ago, owing to the encomiums of Fordyce Barker,[75] the tincture of veratrum viride was in great favor in puerperal fever as a means of reducing the excited pulse of inflammation.
I have exhibited small doses of digitalis with apparent benefit, but aconite and veratrum viride I have long since discarded.
Aconite and veratrum viride reduce fever, but they are too depressing to be safely employed in grave scarlet fever, and their antipyretic effect is less than that of water.
Cotgrave has the curious form verderis, which probably represents the Latin viride aeris, the green of brass.
This term (viride aeris) is the common one in the old Latin treatises on alchemy.
Aconite has the same effect in acute cerebral congestion without depressing the vasomotor centres or irritating the stomach as veratrum viride does.
Then I diluted that red by adding a little Viride AEris, and a little more blue Bise than Viride AEris, until it became of such a grey or pale white, as verged to no one of the Colours more than to another.
For these two Colours were severally so compounded of others, that in both together were a Mixture of all Colours; and there was less red Lead used than Viride AEris, because of the Fulness of its Colour.
For thus one Part of red Lead, and five Parts of Viride AEris, composed a dun Colour like that of a Mouse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "viride" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
