Belladonna in Arresting the Lacteal Secretion

Bacterial contamination of the lacteal contents

Reported are the results of a study in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to evaluate the bacterial contamination of the lacteal contents of feeding bottles prepared in urban households of low (LSE) and high (HSE) socioeconomic groups, involving 100 and 32 mothers of infants, respectively. Samples of the lacteal contents of the feeding bottles were cultured and the medians (25th and 75th percentiles) of the co...

Lacteal secretion, fetal and maternal tissue distribution of dasatinib in rats.

Dasatinib [N-(2-chloro-6-methylphenyl)-2-[[6-[4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazinyl]-2-methyl-4-pyrimidinyl]amino]-5-thiazolecarboxamide; BMS-354825] is a potent and broad-spectrum kinase inhibitor used for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia and Philadelphia chromosome positive (Ph+) acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Dasatinib exhibited extensive lacteal secretion in Sprague-Dawley rats following...

Belladonna Poisoning

Recently, a patient, aged 35 years, attended the out-patients' department one morning for swelling and pain of the right side of the scrotum of a couple of days' duration. There was no history of any venereal disease. There was a history, however, of a similar previous enlargement, two or three times years ago. The patient kept up a slight temperature. Bowels?constipated. Urine?normal. Diagnosi...

Belladonna and Blethers

Arresting puberty.

My colleague Fridolf Kudlien in his recent paper "Empticius servus __ .n (Historia 35 [1986] p. 248) has remarked on the fact that in the ancient slave-market youth was at a premium. He points out that the manganes applied vegetable salves to arrest puberty and quotes Pliny N.H. XXI 170. The growth of pubic hair was arrested (N.H. XXX 41). The following Greeklarallels attest to the widespread b...