Physotigmine is an alkaloid derived from the Calabar Bean. It has little effect on the cerebrum, but acts strongly on the vital centres in the medulla, and on the spinal cord where it produces feebleness of muscular movement, and slightly affects sensation. It was used in medicine where it was given to relieve tetanus and to antagonise the action of atropine and to relieve ocular tension. Research Physotigmine
Tetanus (lockjaw) is a disease affecting the nervous system the vaused by the release of exotoxins from the bacterium,Clostridium tetani which is found mainly in soil. Research Tetanus
An antitoxin is a substance having the effect of counteracting poison in the animal system, especially of counteracting toxins, or poisonous matters present in the system in some serious disease. During the 19th century it was discovered that by introducing a toxin in gradually increasing doses into the blood of an animal susceptible to it, a blood serum may be obtained, which, when introduced into the blood of another animal, has a protective effect against such a toxin. Hence arose the treatment known as sero-therapy, which has been especially successful in diphtheria. The antitoxic serum employed in this disease is obtained from the blood of horses inoculated with the bacilli of diphtheria, in gradually increasing doses, and it is introduced into the human subject by way of inoculation. Several other diseases - erysipelas and tetanus, for instance - are treated in the same way; as are certain diseases of domestic animals. Research Antitoxin
Chloral a liquid first prepared by Justus Liebig by passing dry chlorine gas through absolute alcohol to saturation, and still prepared in a similar manner. When mixed with water it readily yields chloral hydrate), a white crystalline substance, which, in contact with alkalies, yields chloroform and formic acid. Chloral kills by paralysing the action of the heart, but is often employed in medicine. It is a hypnotic as well as an anaesthetic, and is frequently substituted for morphia. It has been successfully used in delirium tremens, St Vitus's dance, poisoning by strychnia, in tetanus, and in some cases of asthma and whooping-cough. It should be taken with great caution and under medical advice, as an extra dose may produce serious symptoms and even death. The treatment of poisoning by chloral is to keep the person warm by means of blankets, warm bottles; etc. Warm stimulating drinks should also be administered, such as hot coffee, hot tea, negus, etc. It has been shown that an animal kept warm by wrapping in cotton wool recovered from a dose of chloral that otherwise would have killed it. Research Chloral
DTP is an abbreviation for Desktop Publishing
DTP is an abbreviation for Design to Price
DTP is an abbreviation for Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis
DTP is an abbreviation for Doppler Techniques Proposal Research DTP
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