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COMPARISON OF SOME DRUGS USED

JOHN G. BELLOWS, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1934;12(6):824-832.

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Up to the present time no work has been published on the determination of the relative value of the newer surface anesthetics used by the ophthalmologists in this country. Marx,¹ Hoffmann² and Schornstein³ have compared the drugs commonly used on the continent. Clinical reports on the individual preparations have recently been made as follows : on butyn, by the Committee on Local Anesthetics, of the Section on Ophthalmology of the American Medical Association,⁴ on p-n butylaminobenzoyl-dimethylamino-ethanol hydrochloride by Wilmer and Paton⁵ and Rauh⁶ and on nupercaine, by Dillon and Greer⁷ and Bochner.⁸ This work was undertaken to compare the effect of 2 per cent cocaine, 2 per cent metycaine, 1 per cent butyn, 1 per cent phenacaine, 0.5 per cent p-n butylaminobenzoyl-dimethylamino-ethanol hydrochloride and 1: 500 nupercaine.

Cocaine, the oldest and the best known of these drugs, has . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University Medical School.

Footnotes
This investigation is one of a series to be undertaken for the Committee on Standards of Ophthalmic Instruments and Drugs, Section on Ophthalmology, American Medical Association.

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