This section is from the book "Introduction To Materia Medica And Pharmacology", by Oliver T.Osborne. See also: The Principles Of Therapeutics.
This drug is prepared from morphine by the abstraction of its molecule of water, and is used as the hydrochloride.
In solution it is rapidly absorbed from mucous membranes, but is largely used hypodermatically.
It acts as an emetic by irritating the vomiting center in the medulla. The other symptoms of its action are those of prostration, heart failure being the cause of death from a toxic dose.
 
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