Camphor as a Medicine.
Camphor is a remedy which has beon used without a real knowledge scientifically and as a sort of household cure-all for ages. It gained' its greatest reputation as a medicinal agent in the treatment of cholera, doubtless due to the fact that its slow absorption in a depressing condition like cholera would afford a valuable stimulation to the nervous system. Camphor in the pioper doses is very useful in nervous headaches, nervous depression, and the first stage of a cold in which there is a va«omotor disturbance (movements of the blood vessels). A few spasmodic conditions may be benefited by it. The best preparations are the spirits and the monobrated. It should be remembered, however, that camphor has poisonous effects, and is not entirely free from danger. The results of a poisonous dose are cyanosis (a condition in which the surface of the body becomes blue), vomiting, delirium, and convulsions.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 80
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