Titlebook: Essential Clinical Pharmacology; Peter Lewis Book 1981 P. J. Lewis 1981 analgesics.antibiotics.asthma.cancer.chemotherapy.drug.infectious

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Anaestheticsward before being brought to the operating theatre. Anaesthesia is induced by the anaesthetist giving a slow intravenous injection of a short acting anaesthetic agent such as thiopental or methohexitone. This induces a rapid loss of consciousness. The anaesthetic is then maintained by administering

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Hypnoticssleeping pills’ are one of the greatest boons or greatest evils of our time, depending on one’s point of view. The real problem with drug-induced sleep is that it is not identical to natural sleep. In natural sleep a series of physiological cycles occur; on falling asleep one enters a phase of relax

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Antiepilepticsferent types of epilepsy. In . the fit is striking and once seen never forgotten. The patient loses consciousness, goes rigid for a few moments, then jerks repetitively, finally falling into a stuporous sleep. . is a disease of children in which very brief periods of unrousability occur, often many

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Parkinson’s diseaseremor. The face of a patient suffering from Parkinsonism is characteristic. They blink infrequently, the eyes have a staring appearance and the face is fixed in a rigid expressionless gaze. In most patients no definite cause for Parkinsonism can be found but it occasionally follows encephalitis, and

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Drugs and infectious diseaseeases where it is still not known whether or not they are caused by infectious agents. A good example would be Hodgkin’s lymphoma where family or community clustering of cases occurs, suggesting an infectious origin of the disease but no organism has as yet been positively identified.

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Antiepilepticstimes a day. In . the convulsion is localized to one limb or muscle group, and there is usually a localized brain lesion to account for this condition. In . epilepsy the attack may consist of an intense internal experience or automatic behaviour.

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Book 1981 It is difficult to believe that so few of the medicines we now use routinely were available when our grandparents were children. The last 50 years has seen an astonishing burst of dis­ coveries - antibiotics, antihypertensives, antiarrhythmics, psycho­ tropics, anticonvulsants, steroids and many ot

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