The futility of experiments with drugs on animals / by Edward Berdoe.

  • Berdoe, Edward, 1836-1916.
Date:
1889
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    Moerz says that during the Bourgeois declares that in vomiting the temiDerature rises. man the drag has no influence {Wood, p. 438.) on the temperature. — (FFooci, p. 438.) Ziolkowski says the tempera- ture/a?is during the vomiting.— (Ui supra.) Arsenic.—Drs. Ringer and Murrell {Journal of Physiolo'jy, I., p. 217) experimented upon frogs with arsenic. Dr. W. Sklarck, of Berlin {Reicherfs Archiv, 1866), experi- mented in a similar manner with this chemical on the muscular and nervous system of frogs, obtaining very different results from those of the English physiologists. These gentlemen endeavour to extricate physiological medicine from this diffi- culty by saying that the discrepancies in question depend upon the time of year at which the frogs were experimented upon. We do not dispute that this may materially affect the results, but of what avail is it to study the effects of the medical uses of a drug intended for the treatment of man upon a frog's sj'^stem which behaves in one manner in spring and in a totally different manner in autumn ? This confusion illustrates one other of the many fallacies of a system of medicine founded upon any such basis. Atropine.—{See Belladonna.) Beberine {P.B.)—Analkaloid, prepared from Bebeeru bark. It causes convulsions and paralysis in dogs and rabbits, yet in man no serious symptoms have as yet been recorded from its use.—{Wood, Therajyeutles, p. 57.) Belladonna (P. B.)—Deadbj Nightshade.—The root and leaves of the poisonous plant Atropa Belladonna contain the sXkdiloidi Atropia; it is entirely to this active principle that the physiological action of Belladonna is due. The plant and its alkaloid act much more mildly upon the lower animals than upon man. Its well-known action in dilating the pupU