Word: belladonna
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...over 150,000 Ib. of opium a year from Turkey, Yugoslavia, Germany; opium poppies are not commercially grown at all in the U.S. Quinine, a specific for malaria, comes from the bark of cinchona trees in the Dutch East Indies; no substitute is quite so good. Other dwindling drugs: ^ Belladonna, made from the deadly nightshade, was formerly imported from Yugoslavia, Italy, Russia. A minuscule amount is grown in the U.S. During World War I about 300 tons a year were produced at home, but after the war the business did not pay. It is slowly picking up again, may produce...
...Josephine Bicknell Neal, 60, of Manhattan's famed Neurological Institute, is one of the pioneers in sulfanilamide treatment for meningitis. Dr. Neal has also done important research in epidemic encephalitis (sleeping sickness), has recently reported hopeful treatment of chronic cases with Bulgarian belladonna...
...next six years, while living at times in desperate poverty, he tried doses of well-known drugs on his family and friends. Belladonna, he discovered, produced fever and red eruptions in healthy persons; he tried it on scarlet fever and it drove away the disease. Nux vomica paralyzed the chest muscles; he fed his patients tiny doses to check asthma. Arnica, which in overdoses brought on belly aches, he used in small doses to cure diarrhea. After "proving" scores of drugs, Hahnemann broadcast his famed principle of homeopathy (Greek, homoios, like, and pathos, disease): Similia similibus curentur. (Like should...
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...