Citation

No Author(s) Listed. Buffalo medical and surgical journal 1880; 19(6): 264-265.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1880)

DOI

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PMID

36663768

PMCID

PMC9401772

Abstract

Dr. C. H. Lewis, in the November number of the Detroit Lancety gives an interesting account of a case of poisoning with morphine, treated with subcutaneous injections of atropine. He believes belladonna to be the remedy par excellence in opium- nareosis, but that it must be given in heroic doses. On the 22d of August, 1879, a lady took by mistake fully half a teaspoonful of morphia sulphate. About an hour was spent by another physician in procuring emesis, before Dr. Lewis saw the patient. At this time the stage of excitement was pass ing into that of stupor; the face was flushed, the eyes lustrous, but very prone to close, the pupil contracted, the skin warm and the pulse full and slightly accelerated. The patient could answer questions, but the last words would be lost in sleep, from which she would be suddenly roused by the head dropping forward...

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