A text-book of practical therapeutics . king him up and downbetween two attendants. Both of these measures are reprehensibleif anything better can be done—the first method because it coversthe patient with cuts and bruises, the second because it may aid inthe production of death by exhaustion. If an ordinary medicalfaradic battery is at hand, the full force of the current may be allowedto come in contact with the skin from two small poles wet with saltwater, or, better still, the dry or wire electric brush should be sweptover the body while the negative pole is held in the hand of the patiento
A text-book of practical therapeutics . king him up and downbetween two attendants. Both of these measures are reprehensibleif anything better can be done—the first method because it coversthe patient with cuts and bruises, the second because it may aid inthe production of death by exhaustion. If an ordinary medicalfaradic battery is at hand, the full force of the current may be allowedto come in contact with the skin from two small poles wet with saltwater, or, better still, the dry or wire electric brush should be sweptover the body while the negative pole is held in the hand of the patientor pressed against his skin. This causes the most exquisite pain inthe normal individual, but if the brush is kept moving will not causebruises or discoloration. (See Asphyxia.) Artificial respiration maybe resorted to. As pointed out when discussing the elimination of opium, thedrug is eliminated into the stomach from the bloodvessels and thenreabsorbed. Frequent washing out of the stomach is thereforeadvisable in cases of Fig. 59.—A, opium produces sleep by depressing the intellectual centers of the brain,and B, relieves pain by depressing the perceptive centers in the brain. Chronic Poisoning.—Morphine or opium when taken constantlygenerates a habit. The person—or morphine-habitue, as he is some-times called—depends for a comfortable existence on the drug, andday by day increases the dose until the most extraordinary amountsare taken by the stomach or by means of the hypodermic ability to take large doses depends upon an increased abilityon the part of the body to oxidize the poison. A full dose givento an ordinary person results in the escape by the bowels of a largepercentage of it, but if gradually increasing doses are given, notrace of even large doses are obtainable in the stools or urine. Ifthe drug is withheld from the morphine habitue, a train of symptomstypifying depression or exhaustion ensues. The pulse is scarcelyto be felt, horri
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