Dental materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics / by Charles W. Glassington.

  • Glassington, Charles W.
Date:
1896
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    quinintOi] sulphas SULPHATI-: OF QUININE Natural Order.—CinclionacefB. Formula.—(aoH2,N202)3,(H2SO,)2,15H20. Source.—It is an alkaloid obtained from the powder of various kinds of Cinchona and Remijia Bark. Characters.—Snow-white feathery crystals with a bitter taste; only slightly soluble in Water; soluble in Alcohol and the Dilute Acids. Pharmacology.—It is a tonic, stimulant, antiperiodic, antiseptic, and antipyretic. When given in large doses it causes symptoms of Quinism, such as buzzing in the ears, headache, deafness, vertigo (patients will complain that they feel as if their head would spHt), disorders of vision, coma and convulsions. Some people cannot take it, the smallest dose causing head- ache. General Therapeutics.—These are far too numerous to mention in detail in a Dental work. Briefly speak- ing, one of its chief uses is as an antipyretic in many of the acute specific fevers, as in large doses (15 grains) it lowers the temperature. Smaller doses given at shorter intervals do not have this effect, as it is not accumulative in its action. It is said to be a preventative of influenza if taken in 2 to 3 gi'ain doses every morning during an epidemic. The indications for its use, in some forms of neuralgia, are:— (1) That the pain is supra-orbital.