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The _treatment_ of functional aphonia should be general and local; tonics such as strychnin, iron, and arsenic should be administered; the intra-laryngeal application of electricity usually effects a sudden cure.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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If the temperature becomes subnormal, the animal should be warmly blanketed, and if much weakness is shown this should be combated with stimulants, such as strychnin, camphor, alcohol, atropin, or aromatic spirits of ammonia.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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A brisk purge should be admintered at the onset and strychnin, because of its indirect stimulative effect upon the circulation together with its tonic effect upon the musculature, is beneficial.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Good hygienic care, a suitable diet and full physiological doses of strychnin are indicated.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Local applications, stimulative in character, are beneficial, and the internal administration of strychnin is indicated.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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In young and vigorous subjects where cause is not definitely known, a course of strychnin may be given.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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I've given her iron, arsenic and strychnin enough to cure a dozen weak women.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll
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In our extensive study of the brain in its relation to the production of energy and the consequent exhaustion caused by fear and rage; by the injection of foreign proteins, of bacterial toxins, and of strychnin; by anaphylaxis; by the injection of thyroid extract, of adrenalin, and of morphin, we found that, with the exception of morphin, each of these agents produced identical changes in the brain-cells.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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We have studied the brains of animals which had been activated in varying degrees up to the point of complete exhaustion by running, by fighting, by rage and fear, by physical injury, and by the injection of strychnin (Figs. 2, 4, 5, and 37).
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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An animal, both of whose adrenals had been excised, showed no hyperchromatism in the brain-cells after the injection of strychnin, toxins, foreign proteins, etc.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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