Camphor In Morphine Habit

Morphine Habit in India

In a previous paper (1928) the senior author stated that addiction to purified alkaloids of opium was a rare occurrence in India. In western countries morphine and of late years codeine and heroin also have been extensivelyused. In view of the fact that habitual use of alkaloids, such as cocaine, is being gradually introduced into India from these countries and from the Far East, the Drug Addic...

The Morphine Habit and Its Painless Treatment

Crystal Habit Modification Using Habit Modifiers

Camphor Cultiyation in the United States

The camphor tree seems to be native in the coastal regions of southeastern Asia, both on the mainland and in the southern part of the Empire of Japan. It is but natural, therefore, that the earliest records of the plant should occur in Chinese literature. In the sixth century A. D.^ the tree was referred to as a valuable timber, no reference being made, however, to the gum. It is somewhat stran...

No Camphor Toxicity in Cambodian Infants

Thiamine deficiency and beriberi are prevalent in Cambodia, although most infants with nonspecific clinical symptoms of beriberi, including tachypnea, lack echocardiographic evidence diagnostic of the disease. Camphor activates transient receptor potential vanilloid 3 (TRPV3), a nonselective ion channel expressed in the medial preoptic nucleus of the hypothalamus and thought to be important for...