1. The combination of a biological test object on which adrenalin causes contraction of smooth muscle (perfused blood-vessels or the uterus in certain conditions) with a biological test object on which it produces inhibition of contraction of smooth muscle (intestine) greatly diminishes the chance of error in testing blood (or other body liquids) for adrenalin. A control experiment with adrenal...

In a previous communication to this journal * the preliminary observations with adrenalin were related. They indicated that adrenalin exerted a distinctly beneficial effect upon the circulation by increasing the pulse tension, remedying its irregularities and steadying and sustaining the action of the heart, until such time as the system was able to eliminate the toxins, and bring about recover...

The cellular mechanism of active chloride secretion, as it is manifested in the intestine and trachea, appears to possess the following elements: (1)NaCl cl-transport across the basolateral membrane; (2) Cl- accumulation in the cell above electrochemical equilibrium due to the Na+ gradient; (3) a basolateral Na+-K+ pump that maintains the Na+ gradient; (4) a hormone-regulated Cl- permeability i...

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 ...

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 ...

OBJECTIVE Because of the received wisdom within our setting that claims that local anesthesia should not be used with adrenalin in hand surgery; we conducted a study using lidocaine with adrenalin, to demonstrate its safety, utility and efficacy. METHODS We conducted a prospective study in which, in wrist, hand and finger surgery performed from July 2012 onwards, we used local anesthesia comp...