IS QUININE AN OXYTOCIC?

Is Quinine an Abortifacient?

seems hardly tenable with the evidence before one, which is to be found in more recent medical publications; and, although what I can produce is undoubtedly limited in amount, and very often imperfect from being merely abstracts of more detailed papers, it is still sufficient to show how diversified are the opinions held on these points, and also that the influence of quinine on the womb must b...

Ergot of Rye as an Oxytocic

tioners were frequently in the habit of giving it to hasten tedious labour that was occasioned solely by the presence of some mechanical obstacle. In this way they invoked and called to their aid the powers, as Dr. Barnes has remarked, of a Frankenstein, quite beyond their control, whose unbridled strength might give rise to frightful disasters; in their ignorance they quite forgot that the pro...

Oxytocic Action of Neptal

Partial separation of an oxytocic principle from preparations of angiotonin.

A THE name implies, angiotonin is characterized by its action on vascular smooth muscle. This activity is usually assayed from its pressor effect in intact animals. Preparations of angiotonin have also been observed to cause contraction of nonvascular smooth muscle and, on this basis, the pressor activity of angiotonin has been attributed to a direct myotropic action of a single substance' ; th...

Release of an oxytocic substance following genital stimulation in bulls.

The oxytocic activity of the jugular blood plasma of bulls before and after copulation, ejaculation into an artificial vagina, massage of the seminal vesicles and ampullae and stimulation with an electroejaculator increased from below 0\m=.\01\g=m\U/mlto a peak level varying from 2 to 1000 \g=m\U/ml4 to 6 min after ejaculation or 6 to 9 min after the start of electrical or manual stimulation.