SPHERE OF ACTION
This remedy has a special and powerful action upon the cerebro-spinal system. Professor Jones, of Nashville, has made some very interesting experiments with this poison upon alligators with a view of ascertaining its modus operandi.
From these experiments he concludes that Prussic acid acts primarily, directly and chiefly upon the medulla oblongata and spinal cord, and that its ability to produce sudden death is dependent upon its action upon the medulla oblongata.
Derangements in the relations of the medulla oblongata and spinal cord to the muscular system generally and especially to the respiratory, are the first phenomena in the action of Prussic acid.
Prussic acid acts also upon the blood, the muscular fibres and sympathetic nervous system; but the most marked phenomena, those disturbances of the respiration which induce death, are due to the direct action of the poison upon the medulla oblongata.
Homoeopathic Independent.
It has a prominent action upon the sentient nervous system of the abdominal viscera.
Through its action upon the pneumogastric nerve, the heart is powerfully acted upon.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS
Spasms, when the muscles of the back, face and jaws, are principally affected, and the body assumes a bluish tint.
Long fainting spells, with trismus and tetanus.
Heart disease; violent palpitation, with fainting spells.
Scarlatina; eruption dark-colored, and soon becomes livid; rapid, feeble pulse; sinking at the stomach from prostration of the solar plexus.
Cholera, with marble coldness of the whole body, pulselessness, and rapid progress of the disease toward asphyxia.
Involuntary stools.
Cessation of diarrhoea and vomiting; hiccough, paralysis of the oesophagus, the fluid runs gurgling down the oesophagus.
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881