Schlangengifte in der Therapie

Quantitative studies on pain threshold after adminisration of various drugs

“…When cocaine (6,7,8,9,10,11,12). This most potent of local anesthetics is morphine for the relief of pain is rapidly extending, well known to be a delirifacient when given by a special study was made of these two medicaments parenteral or intravenous injection.…”

Comparative effects of cobra venom and opiates on vision.

“…Injections of a sterile solution of cobra venom in minute doses were found to be effective in relieving the pain of over 60 percent of series of patients suffering from advanced malignant disease and also from certain chronic neuralgias such as tic douleureux, arthralgias, and the crises of locomotor ataxia. Comprehensive references to literature on the subject may be found in the papers of Macht (3,4,5), the French scientists, Lavedan (6) and Gautrelet (7), the Brazilian Klobusitzky (8) and the Indian investigators, Chopra and Chowhan (9).…”