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All these substances reacted like alkalies with acids to treatment hpv order lotrel 5 mg overnight delivery form salts medications safe during pregnancy discount 10mg lotrel overnight delivery, and so were called alkaloids medications diabetic neuropathy generic lotrel 10mg with amex. Chemical analysis showed that they consisted of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen and the proportions of these elements differed significantly in different alkaloids. But the structure of complex carbon com­ pounds the way the numerous atoms were joined to each other was not under­ stood until well on in the nineteenth century. His one-time assistant at the College de France, Claude Bernard (see page 181) who took over Magendie’s job in 1852, did more towards explaining exactly how drugs acted. Bernard showed that certain drugs acted at strictly localized and well-defined sites, a profoundly important fact that began to displace vaguer notions that drugs had some sort of general influence throughout the body. He discovered that the poison used by South American Indians called curare (a tree resin) works where a nerve joins the muscle on which it acts, and nowhere else. It prevents the nerve impulse from making the muscle contract, and so causes paral­ ysis as long as the curare persists. Injected into an animal on the tip of an arrow, for instance the poison is carried by the bloodstream to all the muscles of the body and causes paralysis and death when the muscles of respiration are made inactive. The discovery paved the way to the chemical understanding that Antoine Lavoisier had foreshadowed a century earlier. The amount of opium taken, to burial chambers in Granada believed to be 5,000 years old, relieve the wear and tear of authorship was, he said, and the plant was important in the medicine of ancient civ­ greater than most people had any conception of, and all ilizations in Babylonia, Egypt, Rome, and Greece. Extensive seventeenth-century English physician Thomas Sydenham legal controls have been applied to the drug, and been commended its use and it became an important remedy for extensively defied by traders, governments, and consumers. Simple chemical period such as de Quincey and Coleridge were not excep­ treatment of morphine converts it to diamorphine or tional except in degree. Opium was widely smoked in China and other oriental nations for therapeutic and recreational reasons. When the Chinese government attempted to stop the trade in the 1840s, Britain went to war in defence of ‘free’ trade. The scenes in an opium factory in India (opposite) appeared in the Graphic in 1882. These specific structures or sub­ stances, of then unknown composition, came to be called ‘receptors’, and the study of drug receptors became a mainspring of fundamental pharmacology. So the reactions of drugs with bodily constituents began to be seen to be chemical events, best understood in terms of chemical knowledge. These, however, were the ideas of the laboratory scientist, and only the wisest doctors of the time saw how important the science of chemistry was becoming to the practice of medicine. One who did was Sir William Osier, a Canadian who graduated at McGill Medical School in Montreal, became professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (see page 182), and built up the first orga­ nized clinical unit in any Anglo-Saxon country. In his address to McGill University in 1894, he commented: ‘the physician without physiology and chemistry flounders along in an aimless fashion, never able to gain any accurate conception of disease, practising a sort of popgun pharmacy, hitting now the malady and again the patient, he himself not knowing which’. It is a curiosity of history that the first chair of pharmacology was established, not in France, Germany, or Britain, but in the university at Dorpat, now called Tartu, in Estonia. It had strong links with Germany, and recruited from Leipzig an able young doctor, Rudolph Buchheim, who had already translated the classic English textbook on pharmacology Jonathan Pereiras the Elements of M ateria Medica and Therapeutics (1839-40). His pupil, Oswald Schmiedeberg, succeeded him, and, in 1872, moved to a new department at Strasbourg. There he attracted many young doctors and scientists, who later left to develop the subject in other parts of the world. Scottish medical schools had a strong tradition of teaching ‘materia medica’, largely as a branch of botany, and the departments of materia medica were well placed to take up the new science of pharmacology under the old name. These academic departments were mainly concerned with medicinal plants, and began isolating their active constituents and discovering exactly how they worked, in terms of the growing knowledge of normal physiology. Robert Christison, a med­ ical professor in Edinburgh from 1822 to 1877, wrote a textbook on poisons and described experiments on his own heart and blood vessels with a poisonous bean from Calabar in West Africa, noting the muscular weakness or paralysis that the Drug Treatment and the Rise of Pharmacology 261 Help for headaches and fever the aspirin family of medicines, introduced by the German ever, was this compound checked for antirheumatic effects. Their work, published in 1899, the laboratory as by-products of coal-tar distillation. They showed that the compound was indeed effective in control­ included phenazone (Antipyrine), acetanilide (Antifebrine), ling pain and inflammation both in rheumatism and other and phenacetin. Bayer patented the city in animals were, by modern standards, almost non-exis­ production process, and named the new drug Aspirin. However, several had ognized as a useful medicine may seem surprising, but not longer lives. It is difficult, tedious, and not without risk to dis­ acetanilide, was first used medically in 1893 and became cover whether a substance has unpredicted medical proper­ a popular over-the-counter-painkiller (bufferin, aceta­ ties, and the odds against any particular compound being minophen, etc.

Owing to medications like abilify trusted 5mg lotrel the way they are disposed the bones at the knee are often dislocated]: but easily put in symptoms pregnancy 10mg lotrel mastercard, and no great inflammation or fixation of the joint supervenes medicine hat mall cheap lotrel 10mg with mastercard. Most dislocations are in­ wards,§ but some outwards and some into the knee flexure. Reduction is not difficult in any of these cases: as to external and internal dislocations, the patient should be seated on the ground or something low, and have the leg raised, though not greatly. Moderate extension as a rule suffices; make ex­ tension on the leg and counter-extension on the thigh. Dislocations at the elbow are more troublesome than those at the knee, and harder to put in, both because of the inflammation and because of the conformation of the bones, unless one puts them in at once. It is true that they are more rarely dislocated than the above, but they are harder to put up, and inflammation and excessive formation of callus is more apt to supervene. The joint is not dislocated as a whole, but maintaining the con­ nection with the cavity of the humerus, where the projecting part of the ulna sticks out. Such cases, then, whether disloca­ tion is to one side or the other, are easy to reduce, and direct extension in the line of the upper arm is quite enough; one person may make traction on the wrist, another does so by clasping the arm at the axilla, while a third presses with the palm of one hand on the projecting part and with the other makes counter-pressure near the joint. Such dislocations yield readily to reduction if one re­ duces them before they are inflamed; the dislocation is usually rather inwards [forwards], but may also be outwards, and is easily recognized by the shape. In the case of internal dis­ locations one should push the joint back into its natural place, and turn the forearm rather towards the prone position. In patients with these dislocations, extension should be made after the manner which has been described above for putting up a fractured humerus. Make traction upwards from the armpit, and apply pressure downwards at the elbow itself, for this is the most likely way to get the humerus lifted above its own socket, and if it is so raised, replacement by the palms of hands is easy, using pressure with one hand to put in the projecting part of the humerus, and making counter-pressure on the ulna at the joint to put it back. This has, indeed, less claim to be called the most regular method of extension in such a dislocation and reduc­ tion would also be made by direct extension, but less easily. This happens very rarely; but what might not be dislocated by a sudden violent jerk? For many other bones are displaced from their natural position, though the opposing obstacle may be great. Now, there is a great obstacle to this jerking out, namely the passage over the thicker bone [radius] and the extensive stretching of the ligaments, but nevertheless it is jerked out in some cases. Symptoms in cases of such jerkings out: they cannot bend the elbow at all, and palpation of the joint makes it clear. If, then, it is not reduced at once, violent and grave inflammation occurs with fever, but if one happens to be on the spot it is easily put in. One should take a hard bandage (a hard rolled bandage of no great size is sufficient) and put it crosswise in the bend of the elbow, suddenly flex the elbow, and bring the hand as close as possible to the shoulder. One must, however, use the palms, putting one on the projecting part of the humerus at the elbow and pushing backwards [our ‘inwards’], and with the other making counter-pressure below the point of the elbow, in­ clining the parts into the line of the ulna. In this form of dis­ location, the mode of extension described above as proper to be used in stretching the fractured humerus when it is going to be bandaged is also effective. And when extension is made, application of the palms should be made as described above. If you happen to be quickly on the spot, you ought to extend the elbow forcibly, and it goes in of its own accord. But if he is feverish when you arrive, do not reduce, for the pain of a violent operation would kill him. It is a general rule not to reduce any joint when the patient has fever, least of all the elbow. The lesion is made clear by palpation at the bend of the elbow about the bifurcation of the blood-vessel* which passes upwards along the muscle. Speaking generally, fractures are always less troublesome than cases where no bones are broken, but there is extensive contusion of blood-vessels and important cords in these parts. For the latter lesions involve greater risk of death than do the former, if one is seized with contin­ ued fever. Sometimes the actual head of the humerus is fractured at the epiphysis, but this, though apparently a very grave lesion, is much milder than injuries of the elbow joint.

Whatever the ethics of their use medicine pictures lotrel 10mg discount, no nation could afford to treatment ingrown toenail trusted 10mg lotrel be ignorant of their properties or be unpre­ pared to symptoms panic attack buy 5mg lotrel mastercard treat whatever casualties might occur. When one was administered to a mouse with a lymphoma (a large solid tumour of the lymph cells) the tumour shrank Drug Treatment and the Rise of Pharmacology 273 dramatically, in a way never seen before. The experiment was reproducible, and so patients with lymphocyte tumours were treated with nitrogen mustards, naturally with extreme caution, but soon with considerable success. One promising approach was to synthesize compounds that resembled folic acid, which is used in the formation of new blood cells, including the excessive prolif­ eration in leukaemia. One of them (aminopterin) was shown in the 1940s to cause strik­ ing remissions in childhood leukaemia. Another approach depended on studying the pathway by which nucleic acids are synthesized. Here, too, the tactic was used of making analogues that could jam some particular part of the works without non-specific disastrous consequences. George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion at the Wellcome laboratories then in New York produced a sequence of new drugs in this way in the 1940s and 1950s. They included 6-mercaptopurine, which was also found to cause remissions in some leukaemia patients. More fortuitous discoveries included the anthracycline antibiotic called daunorubicin, derived from a Streptomyces fungus and active against a variety of solid tumours as well as acute leukaemias, and the alkaloids called vincristine and vinblastine, obtained from periwinkles (Vinca). All of these substances are highly toxic and their use calls for specialist expertise at every stage. Many leukaemias responded well, and these conditions, once invariably fatal, now often have a prospect of recovery. Repeated courses of treatment are all too often less and less effec­ tive, and drugs, whether natural or synthetic, have, so far, proved more often pal­ liative than curative. Research laboratories grew even faster than the companies; typically, the old-established American firm of Smith, Kline & French had a research staff of eight in 1936, which grew to hundreds in the 1950s and now is enlarged by amal­ gamations with other enterprises into Smith Kline Beecham. In such laboratories millions of compounds were synthesized and tested for pharmacological and antimicrobial properties. The search was conducted in vari­ ous ways, some rational, and sometimes more speculative or quite random. Many useful drugs resulted from each kind of approach; luck as well as judgement is crucial to success in research. Often, several drugs were discovered with closely similar properties, and complaints were made about the waste in such ‘me-too’ discoveries. However, among major series of drugs, such as sulphonamides and corticosteroids, the original agents have been completely superseded by succes­ 274 The Cam bridge Illustrated H istory of M edicine sors widely regarded as having a better overall performance. A ‘me-too’ drug is not necessarily worse, and may be distinctly better than its competitor. It has always been much easier to believe optimistically in a remedy than to prove its worth in even a faintly scientific way. Extensive clinical research has been applied to discovering how best to use the powerful new remedies produced by the pharmaceutical laboratories, to discovering which of similar drugs is prefer­ able, and indeed to discovering whether their use is, in the long run and in spite of superficial appearances, beneficial at all. Bedside observation of individual patients under treatment has been supplemented by collection of facts about as many as possible of the patients treated in one way or another. Sometimes it then turns out that, however excitingly some sufferers appear to recover, most of the patients being treated actually do worse than those who are left alone or receive other treatments. Not only do new remedies need evaluating: many traditional remedies must also be questioned, as the eighteenth-century naval physician, James Lind, observed in the preface to his Treatise on Scurvy (1753). Elis wisdom remains all too true but is often forgotten: It appeared to me a subject worthy of the strictest inquiry: and I was led upon this occasion to consult several authors who had treated of the disease; where I perceived mistakes which have been attended in practice, with dangerous and fatal consequences. There appeared to me an evident necessity of rectifying those errors, on account of the pernicious effects they have already visibly pro­ duced. But as it is no easy matter to root out old prejudices, or to overturn opin­ ions which have acquired an establishment by time, custom, and great authorities; it became therefore requisite for this purpose, to exhibit a full and impartial view of what has hitherto been published on the scurvy; and that in a chronological order, by which the sources of those mistakes may be detected. Indeed, before this subject could be set in a clear and proper light, it was neces­ sary to remove a great deal of rubbish. History of the use of medicines reveals, over and over again, how much trust is James Lind, who pioneered placed in medical beliefs that particular remedies are effective and that it is negli­ early clinical trials that gent or worse to withhold them. And yet, years or centuries later the remedies demonstrated the efficacy of have fallen into disuse, if not positive disrepute, because their lack of good or citrus fruits in combating their positive harm has at last been revealed by careful accumulation of evidence scurvy, discredited many tra­ ditional remedies.

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