Word: belladonna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When such "simple methods" are not enough, the Lancet prescribed one-quarter to two grains of ephedrine sulphate at bedtime, depending on the child's age and bed-wetting capacities. "Tincture of belladonna is useful . . . given in amounts of ten minims [drops] for the younger child, and 15 minims for the older, half an hour before bedtime. The dose is increased weekly by five minims until eneuresis stops...
...considerable attention was attracted to an operation which consisted of the bisection of one of the ethmoid [branches of the nasal] nerves. The results were . . . discouraging, since instead of curing hay fever, this procedure sometimes produced neuralgia, hemorrhages and double vision. . . . [In the U. S.] local treatments such as belladonna plasters over the kidneys and ice bags over the vertebrae were enthusiastically recommended. A worthy Ph.D. pleaded for selfdiscipline, fervently exhorting his hearers not to get the sneezing habit-which was very much like bidding a patient with a raging fever to keep cool. . . . Treatment ranged from what was called...
...vision. Twelve years ago Chemist William John Matheson gave several hundred thousand dollars for a study of the disease. The fund has dwindled, for the Matheson Commission takes no money for treatment. Executive secretary of the Commission is capable Dr. Josephine Bicknell Neal who has investigated a remarkable Bulgarian belladonna treatment for chronic cases, long used in Europe. These tablets which Dr. Neal considers "by far the most effective method of symptomatic therapy," have improved the speech, tremors and vision of 75 patients...
...respect for his honesty. This feeling deepened as Napoleon went down, until on the night of his attempted suicide he poured out his story to Caulaincourt alone while the sweat broke out on his sunken features and he waited for the poison to take effect. The poison was opium, belladonna and white hellebore. Napoleon's stomach rejected it and in place of the dignified Roman death he had courted, he spent the night vomiting, begging Caulaincourt to give him another potion, spinning out his disconnected, feverish explanation of his rise and fall. Ending with this bitter scene, Caulaincourt...
...twenty or more scenes which comprise the whole of this beggars' opera would be, or ought to be, wearisome. Suffice it to say that there is one called "Under the Bed" in which that rather impolite article of furniture plays a prominent role. A hatrack in one corner, Belladonna enthroned in the other, a succession of male intruders, a bawdy denouement--and the lights fade mercifully. In a trice the stage is re-illuminated to reveal what is programmatically termed the Beauty Chorus industriously kicking away. And here we have an amusing spectacle, for it is quite palpable even...