Notes on the Newer Remedies: Their Therapeutic Applications and Modes of Administration, Second Edition Page: 147
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PA PA YO TIN.
of the eye, such as opacities of the cornea, and in leu-
corrhcea, diarrhoea, and dysentery. As an expectorant
it is said to be of service in allaying, and even in curing,
coughs.
Administration.-The preparation in use at present
is a decoction or an elixir, the dose of which varies from
I to 2/2 ounces (3o to 75 grammes).
PAPAYOTIN.
Papayotin, known also as papain and papoid, is an
active principle chiefly obtained from the unripe fruit of
the Carica papaya.
Physical Properties.-Papayotin occurs in the form
of a white, amorphous, odorless, crystalline, hygroscopic
powder.
Solubility.-Papain is soluble in water and in glyc-
erin, but is insoluble in alcohol, ether, and chloroform.
Physiological Action.-Recent researches have shown
that papayotin is a true soluble digestive ferment, having
marked proteolytic action in acid, alkaline, and neutral
solutions and in the presence of many chemicals and
antiseptic and therapeutic agents. It softens and dis-
integrates proteids, its general proteolytic action being
similar to that of a genuine digestive animal ferment.
It is said that papoid will peptonize two hundred times
its own weight of fresh blood-fibrin, and that seven
grains of it will digest in one and a half hours a pint of
milk. This drug is alleged also to exercise a certain
amount of amylolytic power, and it is said that its action
is not checked by the ordinary conditions of health and
disease in the gastro-intestinal tract.
Therapeutic Applications.-Papoid has been used
with asserted success as a powerful digestive agent in
dyspepsia and catarrh of the stomach, especially when
there is a deficiency of the gastric juice. It is of value
in constipation due to indigestion, in diarrhoea, and in
most other gastro-intestinal troubles. It may, in fact,
be used with advantage in all those cases in which pep-I47
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Cerna, David. Notes on the Newer Remedies: Their Therapeutic Applications and Modes of Administration, Second Edition, book, 1894; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143542/m1/146/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.