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Personally, it has always seemed to me that the salicylate of eserin is preferable to the sulphate, but I have not persuaded myself that the nitrate of pilocarpin possesses material advantages over the hydrochlorid, although some authors prefer it.
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_ Of these, eserin (physostigmin) and pilocarpin, with their respective salts, the sulphate and the salicylate in the first instance, and the hydrochlorid and the nitrate in the second, are well established in favor and efficiency.
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There is a good deal of clinical evidence to indicate that in this type of glaucoma, as well as in the so-called sub-acute varieties, myotic activity is increased by a mixture of pilocarpin and eserin in the same solution, exactly as a mixture of arecalin and eserin is more potent than either of the drugs in separate solution.
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Posey has advocated a tenth of a grain of salicylate of eserin to the ounce, and the strength gradually increased so that at the end of some months the patient is using a solution 1 grain to the ounce; or if the pilocarpin is preferred, solutions in double these strengths.
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Kingozi seemed to see plainly in his mind's eye the precise arrangement, to visualize even the exact appearance of the labels on the bottles -- first the morphia, next to it the pilocarpin, and last the atropin.
The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909
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He remembered that the pilocarpin was at the right-hand end -- or was it the left?
The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909
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It's God's own luck that I have this stuff with me -- it's the pilocarpin I told you of.
The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909
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He fervently blessed the shortage of phenacetin that had forced him to take pilocarpin as a sweating substitute for fever.
The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909
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"What is pilocarpin?" she asked, making a difficulty of the word.
The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909
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She really thought that she had destroyed the pilocarpin; she had not deliberately held from him the light of day!
The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909
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