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"It was pilocarpine, jaborandi, a plant found largely in Brazil, one of the antidotes for stramonium poisoning.— Gold of the Gods
For this symptom fluid extract of jaborandi was prescribed with the effect of relieving the itching.— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
His remedy consisted simply in forcing the person bitten to accompany him in a rapid walk or trot for twenty miles or more, after which he administered copious draughts of a hot decoction of broom tops, as much for its moral effect as for its value in sustaining and prolonging established diaphoresis Footnote 11: Wild Sports or the West Footnote 12: L'Union Medicale_--name withheld by request of the gentleman Footnote 13: London Lancet Though the pathological conditions of hydrophobia and serpent poisoning are by no means parallel, the rationale of the methods employed in opening the emunctories of the skin are the same; and were it not for its powerful protracting effect and depressing action upon the heart, we might perhaps secure valuable aid from jaborandi (_pilocarpus_), since it stimulates profusely all the secretions; as it is, more is to be hoped for in the former disorder than in the latter.— Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
Prentiss also reported the following case a as adding another to the evidence that jaborandi will produce the effect mentioned under favorable circumstances: Mrs. L., aged seventy-two years, was suffering from Bright's disease (contracted kidney).— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
When the breathing begins to be loud, relief is afforded in some cases by giving a drench composed of 2 drams of fluid extract of jaborandi in half a pint of water.— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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