conclusions there was no meaningful relationship between the mortality rate of patients with mi who were either opium-dependent or non-opium-dependent. the number of re-hospitalizations due to heart problems was meaningfully higher in the opium-dependent patients; hence, educating people and training them on the destructive effects of opium, specifically in patients with heart conditions is hig...

To the Editor, Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?In my article " Clinical Studies on Digitalis in Bengal," which appeared in the Indian Medical Gazette of April 1924, it was stated as a result of therapeutic tests on a large series of cases of heart failure in Calcutta that there is 110 tincture of digitalis that acts in the dose of 5 to 8 drms. as in "Europe and America. On the other hand, it was e...

Several sub-committees are reporting on the work that has been done since the last meeting of the Health Committee in June, 1923. Thus the Opium Sub-Committee?made up of members of the Opium and Health Committees?has undertaken an inquiry into the average amounts of opium and dangerous drugs required by each country annually for medical and scientific purposes, and the best way of pursuing furt...

In this study, we have chosen HPTLC as a method of analysis to develop a standard procedure based on fingerprinting characteristics for the evaluation of homoeopathic formulations. A simple and accurate HPTLC method has been developed for the quantification of BacosideA and fingerprinting of the in-house mother tincture considered here to be a standard with that of different marketed samples av...

Opium addiction and cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) are endemic in different parts of Iran, particularly in Bam, where a massive earthquake occurred. This study was designed to compare the incidence rate and severity of CL cases among opium addicted and non-addicted individuals in south-eastern Iran. This study was carried out as a prospective cohort by active house-to-house visits of 1,481 habita...

I then started the use of salol locally, arid tincture iodine injections intravenously in alternate cases. The results were most gratifying; but with far-reaching, quicker, and greater beneficial action with the iodine injections than the salol dusting. I invariably start with an injection of tincture iodine m. v. in 1 c.c. normal saline solution, and go up to m. xx. in 10 c.c.'s. The injection...

BACKGROUND There is evidence that opium addiction has immunosuppressant effects. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a condition resulted from atherosclerosis which is dependent on the immune response. PURPOSE To evaluate plasma levels of interleukin-6 and interleukin-1Ra in 30 patients with three-vessel coronary artery disease, ejection fraction of more than 35% and to evaluate their changes af...

Background/Aims. Destructive and metabolic changes in hepatobiliary system have been demonstrated following opium use; however, cholangiographic features of bile ducts in opium-addicted patients with sphincter of Oddi dysfunction are not clearly determined. We described these differences and assessed the effects of opium use on postendoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography complications. M...

We gladly took the opportunity represented by a large collection of the insects that were forwarded from the same source to try out the hypothesis. A powerful tincture prepared from the specimens and matured since May 1938 was used for the experiments on two volunteers. In each experiment approximately equal quantities of the fluid were used for it and for the control. Experiment I.?In the firs...