On the reduction of toxicity of strychnin by the simultaneous administration of large quantities of fluid

Autor: S. J. Meltzer, I. S. Kleiner
Rok vydání: 1912
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Zdroj: Experimental Biology and Medicine. 9:101-103
ISSN: 1535-3699
1535-3702
DOI: 10.3181/00379727-9-73
Popis: In the course of some experiments on adrenalin glycosuria in which the simultaneous injection of blood, serum or lymph with adrenalin was studied, it became manifest that the significance of the factor of dilution had to be previously established. It was thought that the study of the effect of dilution upon strychnin poisoning would throw some light upon this. The definite and instructive results which were obtained will be stated here very briefly.Controls.—Six rabbits received subcutaneously 0.45 mg. strychnin per kilogram body weight. All six had convulsions, with fatal termination in three. Nine animals received 0.5 mg. per kilo; all had convulsions, terminating fatally in four. In 15 controls, then, a dose of 0.5 mg. strychnin or less per kilo body weight brought on convulsions in every one and a fatal termination in 7; in other words 0.5 mg. strychnin proved to be toxic in 100 per cent. and fatal in 47 per cent.Strychnin diluted in 100 c.c. of normal saline.—Ten rabbits received subcutaneously doses...
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