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Identifier: elementsofmateri01pere Title: The elements of materia medica and therapeutics Year: 1842 (1840s) Authors: Pereira, Jonathan, 1804-1853 Subjects: Materia medica Therapeutics Materia Medica Therapeutics Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: authority ofDr. Langsdorf, with a very few Amanitce, aparty of diunkards may keep up their debauchfor a week ; and by means of a second per-son taking the urine of the first, a third of thesecond, and so on, the intoxication may be pro-pagated through five individuals J.Amanita muscaria. Vessels effecting Absorption.—Theparticles of medicinal and poisonous substances are absorbed by theveins principally, but also by the lymphatics and lacteals. 1. Absorption by the Veins.—The circumstances which seemto prove venous absorption are the following:— a. Detection of substances in the venous blood.—Tiedemann andGmelin^ administered a variety of colouring, odorous, and salinesubstances to animals, mixed with their food, and afterwards exa-mined the state of the chyle, and of the blood of the (splenic,mesenteric, and portal) veins. The colouring substances employedwere—Indigo, Madder, Rhubarb, Cochineal, Litmus, Alkanet, Gam-boge, and Sap-green; none of them could be detected in the Text Appearing After Image: J See also, on tMs subject, The History of KamtscJiatlia and the Kurilsld Islands, translated by Dr.J-Gi;ieve, p. 208. Gloucester, 1764. Op. supra cit. 110 ELEMENTS OF MATERIA MEDIC A. chyle, but some were found in the blood and mine. Theodorous substances used were—Camphor, Musk, Spirits of Wine,Oil of Tiupentine, Dippels Oil, Asafoetida, and Garlic : they were,for the most part, detected in the blood and urine, but none werefound in the chyle. The saline substances tried were—Acetate ofLead, Acetate and Cyanuret of Mercm-y, Chloruret and Sulphate ofIron, Chloruret of Barium, and Ferro-cyanide and Sulpho-cyanideof Potassium. A few of these were detected in the chyle, and mostof them in the venous blood and urine. From these experiments wemay conclude, that although saline substances occasionally pass intothe chyle, odorous and colouring matters do not; all the three classesof substances, however, are found in the venous blood. These results,observe Tiedemann and Gmelin, are oppos Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.