The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-09
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From the ~. James Gaxette.
Cocaine, rs u is now well known, 10 .
very valuable hut an exceedingly danger
our drug; and NJ. Dssfournier has lately
published in tho Archires de Medicine the
remarkable results of his Investigations
into it's use. Cases where have
occurred are very numerous. and there is
hardly a urged using cocaine who has
not had occasion tn Witness them. An
early IA in 1ss7 DIR. Mattison published
the account of forty such instances, and
the roll Of victims who have lost their life
from a dose Of cocaine has now reached
as high as nine. In a large number OF
cases il has given rise To a species of pois-
oning. from which the patient usually
RECEIVERS. Among the phenomena charac-
terixinR this form of poisoning one OBJ
served in a patient OF DIR. =; Brady Is
was taken with facial paralysis, from
which he did not recover for six months.
Other y are h~allticinatipns, great
finally, DIR. Leslie C~alloUhan i'm one ease
saw the entire body covered 10y ~ scar
latiniform rash.
wart situated at the base Of the thumb of
n young girl of ~, injected under the skin
close to- the war!, one cubic cent'msaer OF
tient felt no pain, hut AS the little wound
was being sewctl together h suddenly
lost her color ana fallltetl: ner pulse H.
came weak and slow. and her hands and
feet stiffened. Water was dashed In her
face, and she recovered consciousness.
of feeling. as she kept asking where her
hands were. BY this time the stiirenin0
had extended tn the whole Of her person
down little by little, and by half an hours
time they all came tn u happy elHl. This
case rcpEesenas the m,idsst form OF CO.
the cases i'm which death cnsued come in
a series of scvcrer forms, i'm which the
alarming symptoms lasted from three
DIR. Baratoux mentions the case OF n
druggist, who, under the impression that
his throat with u sOlutian Of cocaine; for
seven or eight hours he passed from one
syncope to another. until he finally sue
"a woman of a. She received q hypo-
dermic injectionof four ccntiRrammes of
cocaine i'm her lower eyelid before under
going q trivial operation i'm that region.
Al the close of the operation she tainted,
aud her face became purple as in as-
phisia. In spite OF the fact . thas lar arsificial
derinic injections OF ether and catherine
were made, and though the latter seemed
nate woman died five hours afterward.
IL we endeavor tO ASCERTAIN to what
cause to ascribc these different symptoms
most frequent is the use of too large a
lose of cocaine. The highest dose that
can be- used without risk is, according tn
some, three centiRrammes; according to
others, twenty centigramInes. Between
these two quantities., that are 80 wide
can set as being from five to seven cent?
Rrammes; with this dose IL may possibly
happen that i'm some cases total antPtllesis,
will not he reached, but in the very larger
number of cases no alarming symptoms
will bc observed. Still, il il prudent to- re-
fuse tai give cocaine to aged persons, tn
highly nervous people, ar tn such as are
run down from any cause.