ADRENALIN ACTION

On the action of adrenalin

In further illustration of Langley's generalisation that the effect of adrenalin upon plain muscle is the same as the effect of exciting the sympathetic nerves supplying that particular tissue, it is found that the urethra of the cat is constricted alike by excitation of the hypogastric nerves and by the injection of adrenalin. The sacral visceral nerves, on the other hand, relax the urethra of...

The Action of Adrenalin in Neurotics.

The Local Ulcerating Action of Adrenalin *

Vasoconstriction is one of the chief actions of adrenalin. The presence of minute quantities of it in the blood results in constriction of certain arterioles, especially those of the intestinal tract and those of the skin. A similar effect is produced at the site of injection into the tissues. This local effect is so intense as to interfere with the absorption of the drug itself or of admixed s...

Adrenalin in Plague

a new drug is calculated to induce other medical men to try it, with eventual benefit to suffering humanity, however obscure the member of our profession may be, from whom the testimony may come. My first acquaintance with the value of the suprarenal capsule as a medicinal agent took place within two months of my starting practice in Bombay. Four fivegrain tablets of the capsule dissolved in a ...

Adrenalin in Annelids

1. The sympathetic nervous system and the adjuvant adrenalin-secreting system are found in their earliest form in the annelid kingdom, and consist of cells situated in the central nervous system which are the common ancestors of both, and which are both secretory and nervous in function. 2. These cells are developed in the annelid kingdom parallel with the development of a contractile vascular ...