Atropine vs Patching—Reply

Comparison of inhaled atropine sulphate and atropine methonitrate.

The bronchodilator potencies of inhaled atropine sulphate and atropine methonitrate have been compared either alone or in combination with fenoterol in a group of adult asthmatic patients. A cumulative dose response study showed that 2 mg of atropine sulphate produced near maximum bronchodilatation. A larger dose of 4 mg was used in comparing the potency of this drug with 2 mg of atropine metho...

A Randomized Trial of Atropine vs Patching for Treatment of Moderate Amblyopia

OBJECTIVE To determine the visual acuity outcome at age 10 years for children younger than 7 years when enrolled in a treatment trial for moderate amblyopia. METHODS In a multicenter clinical trial, 419 children with amblyopia (visual acuity, 20/40-20/100) were randomized to patching or atropine eyedrops for 6 months. Two years after enrollment, a subgroup of 188 children entered long-term fo...

a randomized trial of atropine vs patching for treatment of moderate amblyopia

Atropine in Cholera

atropine in cholera and he recommended its routine use from the earliest stages of the disease. In the acute condition we have to consider three classes of patients (1) those who improve without the use of atropine, (2) those who show improvement from the administration of atropine, (3) those who get worse in spite of atropine. Hence the point is to select the cases that would be benefited by a...

Atropine in Strangulated Hernia

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?The following case may interest some of your readers. H. B., a Mohammedan male, aged about 60 years, Was brought to this hospital with a strangulated inguinal hernia of the left side at 7-30 p.m. on the 10th June, 1934. The duration of this condition was about five hours; the patient was in severe pain; his temperature was normal and pulse 68 per m...