American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

morphine added to the whole, has remarkable pain relieving properties
out of all proportion to the small amount of morphine it contains. I add
the above to two ounces of water or other simple menstruum, and give it
in teaspoonful doses every ten, twenty or thirty minutes until the first
effects are observed.
The influence of this simple preparation is exceedingly happy, especially
where something soothing is needed for distress, general discomfort,
nervous irritability, or wakefulness. A sensitive stomach after anesthesia
for surgical operations, will retain this in a remarkable manner usually,
and the patient can thus be kept free from pain and discomfort, and will
enjoy natural and restful sleep with only an occasional dose.
The alkaloid Hyoscyamine Sulphate, in doses of one-eightieth of a grain,
works better often than other forms of the agent in paralysis agitans,
locomotor ataxia, the tremors of old age, and in tetanus. It is of value in
chorea. In chronic dementia, with destructive tendencies, and
sleeplessness, insanity with delusions and hallucinations, in epileptic
mania, and in fact, in mania of all forms it is excellent, especially when
there are with the above, erratic tendencies.
Co-Operatives—Gelsemium, stramonium, opium and passiflora incarnata,
facilitate the action of hyoscyamus. The alkaloid duboisia is said to be
identical with hyoscyamine. Atropine is also identical in some of its
properties.
HYPERICUM. Hypericum perforatum.
Synonyms—St. Johns Wort, Millepertuis.
CONSTITUENTS—
It contains a volatile oil, red coloring principle, pectin and a resin.
PREPARATIONS—
The powder. Dose f rom one to five grains.
The tincture. Dose from one-half to ten minims.
Fluid extract. Dose, from one to five minims.
Specific Symptomatology—Muscular bruises, deep soreness, painful
parts. A sensation of throbbing in the body, without fever. Burning pain,
or deep soreness in the spine upon pressure, spinal irritation,
circumscribed areas of intense soreness over the spinal cord or ganglia.
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