MORPHIA INJECTIONS IN NEURALGIC AFFECTIONS.

Vomiting Caused by Morphia

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir.?In your issue for March 1927, the article by Mr. Y. S. Rao on the above subject is interesting, though vomiting is a fairly common symptom after administration of morphia. If he has not done so, I would recommend him to try instead Nepenthe (dose 15 to 20 drops orally administered). In my experience this drug only very rarely causes nausea, and ne...

The Morphia Habit

Neuralgic amyotrophy.

van Dijk JP, Kusters D, van Alfen N, Zwarts MJ, Stegeman DF, Drost G. Using highdensity surface electromyography (HD-sEMG) in detecting neuromuscular disorders in children . Abstract for the 28th International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 10-14 September 2006 Dieks R, van Eijk JJ, van Alfen N, van Engelen BGM. Neuralgic amyotrophy and treatment with prednison...

Idiopathic neuralgic amyotrophy in childhood.

In addition to the review by van Alfen et al., which has been published in 2000, we would like to report a seven-week-old boy with bilateral idiopathic brachial plexus neuropathy that did not show any signs of osteomyelitis on repeated scintigraphy. To our knowledge this is the first child reported with bilateral plexus involvement.

Mental Affections

a subject. The volume is divided into three parts, the first deals with the broad questions of morbid heredity; the evolution of and the determining causes of insanity. Part II is physiological and pathological, and the third and longer part deals the clinical symptomatology of diseases of the mind. As regards the vexed question of the transmission of acquired characters, as it affects disease,...