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Digitalis as a Cardiac Stimulant
PRIVATE IT. F. , aged 33, full service 12 years, in India 0 year?, admitted on the 13th August, 1872, into " The Buffs' " Hospital, suffering from remittent fever. The patient was a very anaemic and debilitated man?a bod subject for fever. On the 17th the disease assumed an asthenic type, and great prostration set in ; endermic injections of quinine were used, stimulants combined with most nutr...
متن کاملDIGITALIS & RELATED CARDIAC GLYCOSIDES Background
in the following notes the term digitalis is used to describe the entire group of cardiac glycosides a large number of plants contain cardiac glycosides, and these have been used by natives as arrow and ordeal poisons Squill was known to the ancient Egyptians and the Romans used it as a diuretic, heart tonic, emetic and rat poison Strophanthus was introduced by Sir Thomas Fraser in 1890 digital...
متن کاملEvaluation of digitalis in cardiac failure.
Ten patients in sinus rhythm with symptomatic cardiac failure participated in a study investigating the value of digitalis at rest and during dynamic exercise. A haemodynamic profile and left ventricular ejection fraction were measured before treatment, after intravenous ouabain, and after six weeks of maintenance treatment with digoxin. There was no significant change in the haemodynamic profi...
متن کاملDigitalis-associated cardiac mortality after myocardial infarction.
The effect of digitalis therapy on 4-month posthospital cardiac mortality was investigated in 812 patients who survived the hospital phase of acute myocardial infraction. A stepwise multiple logistic regression analysis was used to identify variables associated with increased mortality and to adjust for differences in confounding variables between digitalis and nondigitalis patients. The major ...
متن کاملInfluence of digitalis on time of onset and duration of labour in women with cardiac disease.
A comparison was made of the time of onset and duration of labour in 22 women taking digitalis and in 64 women who were not. Spontaneous labour occurred more than one week earlier and lasted about half as long in the patients taking digitalis. The likely explanation for this difference is that digitalis has a direct action on the myometrium.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
سال: 1922
ISSN: 0096-6762,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejm192207131870201