Strophanthus hispidus –continued: Pharmacological Action

Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, and Wound Healing Properties of Kigelia africana (Lam.) Beneth. and Strophanthus hispidus DC.

Microbial infections of various types of wounds are a challenge to the treatment of wounds and wound healing. The study was to investigate antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of methanol leaf and stem bark extracts of Kigelia africana and methanol leaf and root extracts of Strophanthus hispidus and also to determine wound healing properties of the extracts. The antimicrobial activities of ...

The Strophanthins of Strophanthus Eminii

In accordance with a plan to investigate as fully as possible the essential chemistry of the strophanthins and other cardiac glucosides, we have attempted to include for comparative purposes, as opportunity presented itself, a study of the digitaloid glucosides and aglucones which occur in the different species of Strophanthus plants. Our own and previous investigations have had to do principal...

Prevention of Trichobezoar in the Cotton Rat, Sigmodon hispidus hispidus.

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Musk: Its Pharmacological Action and Therapeutic Uses

Experimental Typhus Infection in the Eastern Cotton Rat (sigmodon Hispidus Hispidus)

1. The course of typhus infection in cotton rats has been described, and a relationship between the dose administered and the time of death has been demonstrated. 2. Rather incomplete pathological studies indicated that typhus in the cotton rat is an acute infection primarily involving mesothelial tissue, and tissues of mesothelial origin. Depending somewhat upon the route of infection, rickett...