The Old Vegetable Neurotics: Hemlock, Opium, Belladonna and Henbane; Their Physiological Action and Therapeutical Use, Alone and in Combination; Being the Gulstonian Lectures of 1868, Extended and Including a Complete Examination of the Active Constituents of OpiumMacmillan, 1869 - 355 pages |
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... excitement , she evinced but a slight tendency to a fit once every few weeks . Pari passu with progres- sive diminution in the severity of the attacks , her memory and mental condition improved , and her noisy bustling and often violent ...
... excitement , she evinced but a slight tendency to a fit once every few weeks . Pari passu with progres- sive diminution in the severity of the attacks , her memory and mental condition improved , and her noisy bustling and often violent ...
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... excitement of this part of the nervous system . Paraplegia . - Conium often acts most beneficially in allay- ing the reflex jerkings of the limbs which are occasionally so distressing in this disease . But there are many cases in which ...
... excitement of this part of the nervous system . Paraplegia . - Conium often acts most beneficially in allay- ing the reflex jerkings of the limbs which are occasionally so distressing in this disease . But there are many cases in which ...
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... excitement of the motor centres , and thus removing restlessness or agitation of the muscular system . Opium , alone , occasionally fails to procure sleep on account of its tendency to induce , or to increase , existing excitement of ...
... excitement of the motor centres , and thus removing restlessness or agitation of the muscular system . Opium , alone , occasionally fails to procure sleep on account of its tendency to induce , or to increase , existing excitement of ...
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... excitement - the mouth very clean and pink , but hot , and wet almost to slobbering ; the head and skin hot , the conjunctival membrane injected and wet , and the pupils slightly dilated . At the end of 44 hours , the pulses had ...
... excitement - the mouth very clean and pink , but hot , and wet almost to slobbering ; the head and skin hot , the conjunctival membrane injected and wet , and the pupils slightly dilated . At the end of 44 hours , the pulses had ...
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... excitement of muscular movement . How far the muscular movements are due to excitation of the motor centres in the brain is not very evident . That the spinal cord is implicated appears to be indicated by the rhythmical character of the ...
... excitement of muscular movement . How far the muscular movements are due to excitation of the motor centres in the brain is not very evident . That the spinal cord is implicated appears to be indicated by the rhythmical character of the ...
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