American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

hypersecretion and restores normal functional action.
These facts are also true in catarrhal bronchitis, in asthma and in
whooping cough. In these spasmodic coughs the antispasmodic
influence of the agent is of prime importance.
It is of service when added to cough syrups as a stimulating sedative in
the persistent coughs of capillary bronchitis.
It has a marked anaphrodisiac influence, and has been given freely in
nymphomania, satyriasis and erotomania. Its influence in controlling
sexual excitement is positive. It cures priapism, chordee, and in a
general way reduces the power of erection and the sexual appetite. In
sexual weakness and in nocturnal emissions accompanied with erotic
excitement from over indulgence, with violent erections, it is of much
use and may be combined with ergot to equalize the circulation of the
organs.
It is a stimulating diaphoretic in fevers, and in inflammatory disorders
with inactivity of the sudoriferous glands. This is especially true in
exanthematous fevers, and where there is mania in prostrating fevers. Its
influence is marked in adynamic fevers where there is feeble, rapid heart
action and irritable pulse, with dry skin and muttering delirium, with
subsultus tendinum. It has a diffusive stimulating influence in these
cases which is of value.
It is combined with opium and ipecac in the well known Diaphoretic
Powder, in the proportions of one part each of camphor, opium, and ipecac,
with seven parts of the potassium sulphate. The dose is from two to ten
grains.
CAMPHOR MONOBROMATE.
Synonym—Monobromated Camphor.
Occurrence—Formed by heating bromine and camphor in a sealed tube
on a water bath. The crystalline product is dissolved and recrystallized,
first from water, then from alcohol.
Description—Prismatic crystals, colorless, with the odor and taste of
camphor, permanent, soluble in alcohol, ether and chloroform, insoluble
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