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Excerpt from International Clinics, Vol. 3: A Quarterly of Clinical Lectures on Medicine, Neurology, Surgery, Gynæcology, Obstetrics, Ophthalmology, Laryngology, Pharyngology, Rhinology, Otology, and Dermatology, and Specially Prepared Articles on Treatment, 1897
Upon the heart opium acts in small doses somewhat as a tonic, recognized by the full and bounding pulse; but its administration, if long continued, causes depression, and in turn a feeble and slow pulse. The question whether opium acts directly upon the inhibi tory cardiac nerves is answered by the fact that we unquestionably have an increase in the arterial pressure, demonstrated by the slow and full pulse. The pulse of the third stage of opium-poisoning is probably due to paralysis of the peripheral vagi.
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