This section is from the book "A Treatise On The Materia Medica And Therapeutics Of The Skin", by Henry G. Piffard. Also available from Amazon: A Treatise On The Materia Medica And Therapeutics Of The Skin.
A. Creates a determination to the surface, and promotes perspiration. In some cases it causes a sense of pricking and itching, terminating occasionally in an eruption, 12, 365. The skin becomes hot and itchy, and sometimes eruptions appear, 1, 835-7. Eruption like measles or urticaria, 17, 1076. Sometimes intolerable itching and sudaminous rash, 2, 120. Severe pruritus, pale, diffuse, scarlatinoid redness, with darker points, followed by desquamation, Behrend, 114, Oct. 20, '79, 627. Papulo-erythematous eruption on nose, cheeks, backs of hands and arms, and papules on the trunk, 205. Urticaria, 69, 182.
C. Syphilitic ulcers, 90, 199.
D. Psoriasis, Holland, 44, 437. Phagedenic ulcers, Meyer, 113, '46, 356.
Morphia.
A. Pruritus, papules (Brivois), 89, 60.
Itching, pricking, and bright erythematous eruption, with minute conical papules, Fox, 116, 1/79, 970. Urticarial and erythematous eruption, 206. Erythema, 209. Papulo-erythematous eruption, 205.
The officinal preparations of opium are: Acetum Opii;
Vinum Opii; 'Tinctura Opii; Tintura Opii Acetata; Tinctura Opii
Deodorata; Tinctura Opii Camphorata; Extractum Opii; Pilulae
Opii; Confectio Opii; Suppositoria Opii; Emplastrum Opii. It is also a constituent of Pilula Saponis Composita; Pulvis Ipecacuanhas
Compositus; Suppositoria Plumbi et Opii; Trochisci Glycirrhizoe et Opii. Morphioe Acetas; Morphias Murias; Morphias Sulphas; Liquor Morphias Sulphatis; Trochisci Morphias et Ipecacuanhoe; Suppositoria Morphias.
 
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