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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 982 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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STRAMONIUM , in See also:

MEDICINE

medicine, a See also:

DRUG
DRUG (from Fr. drogue, a word common in Romance languages, cf. Span. and Ital. droga; the origin of the word is obscure, but may possibly be connected with Dutch droog, dry)

drug obtained from the leaves and seeds of the Dalura stramonium. Both contain an See also:

ALKALOID

alkaloid known as daturine. From the seeds is made extractum stramonii. The tinctura stramonii is made from the leaves. The physiological See also:

ACTION

action of stramonium resembles that of See also:

BELLADONNA (from the Ital. belle donna, " beautiful lady," the berries having been used as a cosmetic)

belladonna, except that stramonium relaxes to a greater extent the unstriped muscle of the bronchial tubes; for this See also:

REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason it is used in See also:

ASTHMA (Gr. avBµa, gasping, whence lio-Ogaivw, I gasp for breath)

asthma to relieve the bronchial spasm. Cigarettes made of stramonium leaves may be smoked or the See also:

TINCTURE (Fr. teinture, Lat. tinctura, tingere, to dye, stain)

tincture may be taken internally. Frequently the leaves powdered together with equal quantities of the powdered leaves of the Cannabis Indica and See also:

LOBELIA

lobelia mixed with See also:

POTASSIUM [symbol K (from kalium), atomic weight 39.114 0=16)]

potassium nitrate are burned in an open dish. The preparation gives off dense fumes which afford See also:

GREAT

great See also:

RELIEF

relief to the asthmatic See also:

PAROXYSM (Med. Lat. paroxysntus, from the Gr. wapotbvety, to make sharp, odes)

paroxysm. Numerous patent " See also:

CURES

cures " for asthma contain these ingredients in varying proportions. Daturine is used as daturinae sulphas. In acute See also:

MANIA

mania it acts like hyoscyamine in producing See also:

SLEEP (0. Eng. slcepan; Ger. schlafen; cf. Lat. labi, to glide, and " slip ")

sleep.. In large doses stramonium is a narcotic See also:

POISON

poison producing the well-marked stages of exaltation of See also:

FUNCTION

function, diminution of functional activity, and later Ioss of function, sinking into See also:

COMA (Gr. K(.7)

coma and See also:

PARALYSIS, or PALSY (from Gr. aapal,6a , to relax; Wycliffe has palesy, and another old form of the word is parlesy)

paralysis.

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