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The use of opiates in asthma is not to be com- 

 mended, as habit may be induced. Codeine is 

 effective in the relief of cough. 



Nervous System. Analgesics and hypnotics are 

 to be used with the utmost of reserve in diseases 

 of the nervous system; but there are many acute 

 conditions too many to detail in which its use 

 may be imperative for a short period. 



The emergencies of surgery are many in which 

 morphine must be resorted to pain, spasm, shock, 

 hemorrhage, severe burns, fractures, etc. 



CODEINE is less constipating and narcotic than 

 morphine. Especially useful in irritable cough and 

 some cases of diabetes. Average dose, % grain; 

 phosphate and sulphate the same. EUCODIN is a 

 methyl-codeine bromide, the average dose being 1 

 grain. 



DIONIN is ethyl-morphine hydrochloride, as listed 

 in the U. S. P. IX. It is used in doses of ^ to 1 

 grain. Stands intermediate between morphine and 

 codeine. Used in ophthalmology to secure the 

 removal of old inflammatory products from the 

 cornea or conjunctiva. 



HEROIN is diacetyl-morphine, as listed in the 

 TJ. S. P. After several frights with heroin, I have 

 wholly abandoned its use and consider it less ef- 

 fective and far more dangerous than morphine. 

 Dose, from 1-60 to 1-12 grain. See comments in 

 "New and Nonofficial Remedies," 1916 edition. 

 Heroin is a habit-inducing drug I believe we should 

 drop wholly. 



PAPAVERINE, an alkaloid from opium and of the 

 iso-quinoline group. Not a morphine derivative. It 

 relaxes smooth muscle. A very effective drug in 



