Re: [DL] Medicine

[Jonathan Kelley <darknessintheshade@yahoo.com>]

Thanks alot,
Very helpful. I read a book on the medications of the
wild west yesterday and it said stuff like Mercury
with chalk, but it never said what it was used for or
anything. 

Rupert
 
> Actually, the drugstore is exactly where you'd go to
> get your drugs.
> Remember that this is way before the Federal
> Controlled Substance Act.
> Anyone can buy anything...
> As for which drugs you'd use; I could give you a
> whole list of drugs, when
> to give it, how much to give, how to give it, what
> to will do, etc... but
> most of the drugs we use now weren't around back
> then...
> Having said that, two drugs that I know were in
> common use back then would
> be Morphine Sulfate (an opiate analgesic which also
> causes peripheral
> vasodilatation) and Chloral Hydrate (a very powerful
> hypnotic sedative, the
> exact mechanism of action of this drug is unknown
> even now and because of
> this it is rarely prescribed anymore. Quite a few
> synthetic drugs have taken
> its place, the family of benzodiazapines come to
> mind. But back in the mid
> to late 1800s it was very commonly used. Alcohol has
> a synergistic effect
> with this drug and will often result in a fatal
> overdose. Among certain
> groups in the late 1800s it was known as "the Green
> Fairy").
> Cocaine was also being used as a local anesthetic in
> the mid-late 19th
> century. I don't believe that recreational use
> became popular until the
> 1890s, although I could be wrong...
> 
> 
> Eric Young
> EMT-B and Paramedic student
> 
> 
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