Injection of adrenaline while weaning off morphine

Abstract

Abstracts. Neuropathology and Psychiatry. Prof. N. Rojas from Buenos Aires recommends adrenaline injection for weaning from morphine (L'encephale 1930, no. 4). A. distinguishes between two periods when taking away morphine: the period of intoxication and the period of new adaptation. The second period is especially dangerous - the phenomena of abstinence are vagotonic in nature (tears, sweat, diarrhea, etc. Adrenaline, causing irritation to the sympathicus, restores balance. On vagotonics, adrenaline has a particularly good effect. Adrenaline is injected after taking the last dose of morphine (Rojas carries out withdrawal morphine not immediately, but in a fast way) in the amount of A mg., this dose is repeated again on the same day and the next.

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