Dental formulary : a practical guide for the preparation of chemical and technical compounds and accessories as used in the office and laboratory by the dental practitioner : with an index to oral diseases and their treatment / by Hermann Prinz.

  • Prinz, Hermann, 1868-1957.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Dental formulary : a practical guide for the preparation of chemical and technical compounds and accessories as used in the office and laboratory by the dental practitioner : with an index to oral diseases and their treatment / by Hermann Prinz. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    equally true of chloroform and ether when used for general anesthetic purposes. 'The man}- cases of so-called idiosyn- crasy probably find an explanation in the too large doses which formerly were so frequently administered. The danger of poisoning with cocaine preparations has been practically eliminated with our increased knowledge of its action on the tissues. At present solutions containing a relativeh' small percentage combined with adrenaline are usually employed, and, when injected with the proper tech- nique, dangerous results are comparatively rare. No direct antidotes of cocaine are known. The treatment of general intoxication is purely sympto- matic. Anemia of the brain, which is of little consequence, may be readily overcome by placing the patient in a recum- bent position, or by complete inversion if necessary. As a powerful dilator of the peripheral vessels, the vapors of amy] nitrite are exceedingly useful; it is best administered by placing 3 to 5 drops of the fluid on a napkin held before the nostrils for inhalation. Flushing of the face and an in- crease in the frequency of the pulse follows almost instantly. Nausea may be remedied by administering small doses of spirit of peppermint, aromatic spirit of ammonia, orvalidol. The latter deserves special recommendation. To overcome the disturbances of respiration, quickly instituted artificial respiration is the very best procedure in all methods of re- suscitation : the only drug that has proved to be of value in this connection is strychnine in the form of the sulphate or the nitrate in full doses by means of hypodermic injections. In dental literature reference is frequently made to shock from the anesthetic. By shock is meant the depres- sion resulting from an injury or an operation, and we are inclined to believe that these 'shock stories of anesthesia N. B.—Parts as tised in this Denial Formulary mean quantities