Dr. Thomson's Materia Medica: A Book for Everybody ; Comprising a Complete Treatise Upon the Laws of Life and Health, the Pathology of Disease ; how to Preserve Health, and how to Restore it when Lost ; Together with Descriptions and Illustrations of the Vegetables Principally Used in His Practice, and the Recipes for Preparing All of His Medicines. Designed to be a Substitute for the Family PhysicianC. Thomson, 1868 - 624 sivua |
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Sivu 71 - Black hellebore is a drastic hydragogue cathartic, possessed also of emmenagogue powers, which by some are ascribed to a specific tendency to the uterus, by others are supposed to depend solely on the purgative property. In overdoses it produces inflammation of the gastric and intestinal mucous membrane, with violent vomiting, hypercatharsis, vertigo, cramp, and convulsions, which sometimes end in death. The fresh root applied to the skin produces inflammation and even vesication. The medicine was...
Sivu 208 - ... of from twelve to fifteen inches, with a number of branches, carrying up its leaves with its growth. In July, it puts forth small, pale-blue blossoms, which are followed by small pods, about the size of a white bean, containing numerous very small seeds. This pod is an exact resemblance of the human stomach, having an inlet and an outlet higher than the middle ; from the inlet it receives nourishment, and by the outlet discharges the seeds. It comes to maturity about the first of September, when...
Sivu 99 - Heat, as a sensation, is the effect produced on the sentient organs of animals by the passage of caloric, disengaged from surrounding bodies, to the organs. When we touch, or approach, a hot body, the caloric, or heat, passes from that body to our organ of feeling, and gives the sensation of heat.
Sivu 47 - The soluble combinations of copper, when taken in poisonous doses, produce a coppery taste in the mouth ; nausea and vomiting ; violent pain in the stomach and bowels ; frequent black and bloody stools ; small, irregular, sharp, and frequent pulse; faintings; burning thirst; difficulty of breathing ; cold sweats ; paucity of urine, and burning pain in voiding it ; violent beadache ; cramps, convulsions, and finally death.
Sivu 207 - Lobelia inflata, appears to have watched its growth with an almost paternal affection, and therefore the following extract from his account of the emetic herb, as he terms it, will not be without interest.* " The emetic herb may be found in the first stages of its growth at all times through the summer, from the bigness of a six cent piece to that of a dollar, and larger, lying flat on the ground, in a round form, like a rose pressed flat, in order to bear the weight of snow which lays on it during...
Sivu 207 - In the spring it looks yellow and pale, like other things suffering from wet and cold; but when the returning sun spreads forth its enlivening rays upon it, it lifts up its leaves and shoots forth a stalk to the height of from twelve to fifteen inches, with a number of branches, carrying up its leaves with its growth. In July it puts forth small pointed pale blue blossoms, which is followed by small 'pods about the size of a white bean, containing numerous very small seeds.
Sivu 241 - ... given it a fair trial. The dandelion is diuretic, tonic, and aperient, and has a direct action upon the liver and kidneys ; when languid, it excites them to a healthy and vigorous action. It is most applicable to hepatic or liver complaints, or any derangement of the digestive organs ; in chronic inflammation of the liver and spleen, in cases of deficient biliary secretions, and in all dropsical affections of the abdomen, this is a good remedy.
Sivu 208 - This plant is common in all parts of this country. Wherever the land is fertile enough to yield support for its inhabitants it may be found. It is confined to no soil which is fit for cultivation, from the highest mountains to the lowest valleys. In hot and wet seasons it is most plenty on dry and warm lands; in hot and dry seasons on clayey and heavy lands. When the season is cold, either wet or dry, it rarely makes its appearance; and if the summer and fall...
Sivu 162 - ... some of its organs-, and to lead to an erroneous and dangerous employment or repetition of the lancet, when a directly opposite mode of treatment is required; while the state of actual but protracted sinking frequently resembles a state of oppression of the brain, or of congestion of the lungs, so accurately, as to prompt the unwary practitioner to a still more suddenly fatal use of the lancet.
Sivu 99 - Heat expands all bodies in different proportions, and is the cause of fluidity and evaporation. A certain degree of it is also essential to animal and vegetable life. Heat is latent when so combined with other matter as not to be perceptible.