Brown Mixture (BM), containing opium powder (10.0-10.5% morphine), opium tincture (0.9-1.1% morphine), or camphorated opium tincture (0.045-0.055% morphine), is a popular remedy, while heroin use is prohibited in Taiwan. Thus, for specimens that are tested positive for morphine, specimen donors' claims of BM use have to be adequately addressed. This study was designed to develop and validate a ...

scarlatina, and their pulses about 150. The girl had taken more than the boy, and her symptoms were the most severe. The stomach-pump was applied with good effect, and opium in tincture given both by mouth and enema, a few drops every hour. In about 12 hours both became gradually drowsy and fell asleep, waking nearly well. Dr. Kavanagh states:?" I have no doubt that these children took four tim...

rigorous imprisonment under section 379, Indian Penal Code, (theft), on the same day, and sent into Jail, "in a dying condition," as noted by my predecessor; collapsed, temperature below normal, pulse weak and thready, respiration hurried, unable to answer questions, spleen enlarged, lungs healthy. He was given a mixture containing quinine, tincture of ergot, and laudanum ; also rum and spiritu...

BACKGROUND The current preliminary study aimed to explore the reasons that a group of opiate-dependent patients reported for entry into opium tincture treatment (OTT). METHODS Through examinations of 52 qualitative focus group interviews with patients from six OTT centers and 10 health providers (in key informant interviews) in Tehran, this study highlights the factors that participants repor...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that treatment of neonatal opiate withdrawal (NOW) in the term infant with diluted tincture of opium (DTO) and phenobarbital was superior to treatment with DTO alone. STUDY DESIGN This was a partially randomized, controlled trial in which 20 term infants exposed to methadone and/or heroin in utero were studied. The severity of NOW...

In this work, a convenient method for determination of relative UV response factors (RRFs) of morphine, codeine, thebaine, oripavine, noscapine and papaverine by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipped with a diode array detector (DAD) was presented. Pholcodine was selected as the reference compound for calculating the relative response factors of the alkaloids. The separation of...

ted into hospital late on the evening of the 4th instant, complaining of slight pain in the abdominal region. Previous history.?In September 1867 was in hospital 7 days "with intermittent fever, and in October of the same year, again suffered from intermittent fever for 8 days. Never had any other disease. Present condition.?Bowels not moved for 3 or 4 days; pulse 83; respiration rather hurried...

opportunity. I went to Hong-Kong and was accidentally asked to see a brother officer's patient, a soldier, dying of dysentery. He was an invalid. I prescribed ipecacuanha one dose. Ife had so good a night's rest that my friend requested I would take charge of the case. He got, comparatively speaking, well and went to England ; but this man was not treated by lurgc doses, nor have I ever found l...

UNLABELLED Treating pain is one of the most difficult challenges in medicine and a key facet of disease management. The isolation of morphine by Friedrich Sertürner in 1804 added an essential pharmacological tool in the treatment of pain and spawned the discovery of a new class of drugs known collectively as opioid analgesics. Revered for their potent pain-relieving effects, even Morpheus the g...

Koch (1886) studied the effect of cholera vibrios on guinea-pigs by feeding the animals with big doses of the organisms and then paralysing the gut by intraperitoneal injection of 1 c.cm. of tincture of opium so as to delay evacuation. Out of 35 animals, 30 died showing weakness of the hind limbs and collapse. The small intestine was deeply injected and filled with a;flocculent colourless fluid...