Drugs Which Chiefly Affect The Peripheral Nervous System
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This section is from the book "Materia Medica: Pharmacology: Therapeutics Prescription Writing For Students and Practitioners", by Walter A. Bastedo. Also available from Amazon: Materia Medica: Pharmacology: Therapeutics: Prescription Writing for Students and Practitioners.
Drugs Which Chiefly Affect The Peripheral Nervous System
I. Those which depress the peripheral nervous system - the belladonna group, cocaine, etc.
II. Those which stimulate the peripheral nervous system - pilocarpus (jaborandi), physostigma, etc. We have already spoken of adrenaline, which stimulates sympathetic nerve-endings.
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