New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-23
MANIFOLD USES OF COCAINE.

A RAPIDLY INCREASING DEMAND FOR IT-WaAr II
EFFECTS.
The use OF cocaine as an anaesthetic and
therapeutic has been akan up rapidly by the medical
profession and its application has been made remar.
able variety Of forms Of disease Dr. Knapp, Profess
OF Ophthxlmology in the medical Departments
OF tue University OF the City OF New.York.
Its Use In opathsluic aud General Surgery" sayss
No modern remedy has hsen received the profession
with such general enthusiasm, none has become
idly popular. and scarcely any has shown sxsen.
siye aed of useful application coeaina" The author
states his belief that its properties will DO tho subject Of
scientific researches and chemical observations all
tho globe for many years TO come.
DR.. Kolers original paper on tho subject was read
before the Medical Society OF Vienna October. 1884
and devoted principally to consideration Of the
OF cocaine in an9sthesing the eye. Two be-.
fore this paper published the attention oculfsts
country attracted TO the subject through
muuication to Tee Medical Record by physician Of
this city who had heard the paper read Cocans 81
put into In the treatment OF various diseases Of
the eye Experiments wore rapidly made the effect
OF cocaine @thetic other membranes, In tho
ear the mouth the the trachea and tho larynx.
10 learned that the tongue and the soft palate
became numbcd with its either q spray when
applied By soft brush this faculty Of taste tenn
poriiy destroyed by the arug aud also the Of
smell The spraying OF arnyx Of bronchitis
allayed irritation and gave relief Cocaine applied
In probing the tear ducts. In removing tamors and In
growing toe-nais. esraehe. throat troubles, the
moval of bullets aud the removal OF superfuous hairs
from the upper lip of female patient iu dental surgery.
EXCLUSIONS. neuralgia. hypodermc injections for pain
and headache through treatment Of the eyes.
All these discovered andapped by American
practitioners within two months that is, upto Decem.
Der "a 1884 The En gsh physicians ceol &C FIRST.
spproeaative sfterward. says Dr. Knapp. and
new remedy fully six weeks later than their American
brethren, whereas they ought :" have been On two
sent away with reflex excitaby In the patient
SriHsiy surgery. sysseclssy ana general surgery 49,
VII. probably uses as much cocaine as any otSs:
prsc.,tonsr here $50 Or $50 worth month.
drug local sSsrapsae agent He H., b..
In sss On pd o
rated with the solution. A bent probe employed Ia
OK TIE drug seems a be IN ia uss in larynr which
10 apt 70 close spasnodicsly a. soou as touehed
III: ssss the Surfaces thai
penetrses the exterior coat Of the membrane and pro-
thereby I striking diminution Of the oabrs Of the
blood-vesssls themselves.
20 reach IN Of the property just stated
hay fever The diseased condltoa OF the ~aceas SEN.
fever Is marked with swelling S e tho
yeins and blood veSsels generally. ihis ~
due to lack Of Of the OF the coats OF tho
Mucous membrane. Cocaine causes contraction OF the
muscuar coat thereby expeling the blood. whiie the
extreme datation does not return In several mia
OF this kind complete relief has been ootnoi "
the use OF the drug. Cases Of bronchitis have been
cured the explanation lying In tho action OF the Uug
controlling the blood supply. DIMINISHING the esilore
secreton and cell proliferaton" case OF spasmodo
.stbma has boon successfully treated. ,,
The referred 70 above says that ne consue
that there Is hardly local agent 90 valuable or SO su
In lis action az cocaine ae has been unable 70 na
he action Of drug Is than local. ana no hss op
.sryed no reaction following Ito local use Inere Ne
isncer of cocaine habits being formed IN us oPin'
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"The one thing that strikes Philadelphia
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"s,,,ot. vsv A which New-Yorxer minds his own
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~ stare AZ ono another each one noticing the others
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uenfs un III they meet and pasA And then mere ~
en- chances 70 one that they'll cape over ther
"a walking for the Ashley belt and his last lap
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lou one glance that Photographic your personany %
nstant Or looks through you with me prooccupioe
n 4 man whose mind IL entangled WIZ mattors o.
Importance that he utterly oolivfons 70 tho I'M
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