Studies on Pharmacognosical Characteristics and Phytochemical Analysis of Manilkara hexandra (Roxb.) Dubard

Medicinal Plants have been playing a significant role in the treatment of various ailments in India. The important traditional methods in our country are Ayurvedic, Homeopathy, Unnai and Siddha systems of medicine. Manilkara hexandra plant bark was used in Febrifuge and the latex used in giddiness, aphrodisiac, general debility. This review attempts to encompass the available literature of Manilkara hexandra with respect to traditional uses, Pharmacognosical characteristics and phytochemical analysis.

Palliative care

This chapter in the Oxford Handbook of General Practice explores palliative care in general practice. It covers pain control and general debility, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, and other gastrointestinal problems. It discusses skin, neurological, orthopaedic, respiratory, haematological, and vascular problems. It also explores problems with mental well-being and examines the last 48 hours and the role of syringe drivers.

Cancer and palliative care

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Deanol in Depression

The management of mild depression and its concomitant associated symptoms of general debility presents a constant and widespread challenge to psychiatry both in hospital and in general practice. It is inevitable that at some stage resort will be made to drugs. This is a tempting pharmacological field and the level of interest is indicated by the available plethora of alternatives. A recently introduced drug in current use and purported to be of use specifically in this field is Deanol (Deaner) which is the p-acetamidobenzoic acid salt of 2-dimethyl-aminoethanol or Atrol which is the bitartrate of the same base.

On Nodules occasioned by Gapeworm in Pheasants

For many years past, Syngamus has been recognised as a serious trouble in both avian and mammalian hosts, and the course of the disease has been closely followed in several birds of economic importance. The symptoms are well known and have often been cited. Clinically the first symptom to appear is a characteristic sneezing and coughing in the affected bird. This is followed later by the best known symptom—the actual gaping—when the bird stretches its neck and opens its beak widely in its endeavour to ease respiration. There are minor signs such as a general debility with ruffled feathers but these are secondary and not specific to this disease. Internally in the trachea there is an increase in the secretion of mucus, which coupled with the presence of the gapeworms is sufficient to cause asphyxiation and the bird dies.

Some Observations on Mental Disease

The first of these observations treats of the use of hot water as a revulsive. It is well-known that congestion, especially in its more rapid and severe forms, is often frequent in both the cerebro-spinal and respiratory systems of the insane, and often proves rapidly fatal. The general debility of the insane appears to be daily increasing, and their condition to demand rather the infusion than the abstraction of blood.