Anodynum

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Anodyne ( Greek α (ν) - "not un-" and οδυνη "pain, torment"; also Anodynon ) is a - now obsolete and no longer in use - name for a painkiller or anesthetic . At a time when chemical-synthetic drugs were not yet widespread, these mainly included preparations or substances made from herbal drugs such as B. opium and the morphine and codeine obtained from it , Indian hemp , poison lettuce , deadly nightshade , calabar bean , thorn apple , henbane , hemlock , bittersweet , monkshood , hellebore , almond tree , autumn timeless .

Well-known anodynes are the anodynum specificum of Paracelsus , a mixture containing opium, and the liquor anodynus mineralis ( Hoffmann's drops ). Unguentum anodynum is a pain reliever ointment.

In “ Parerga und Paralipomena ” Arthur Schopenhauer describes Kant's postulate of practical reason as a surrogate of the proofs of the existence of God , whereby the Königsberg philosopher, in order to alleviate the death blow given to speculative theology , had to put a soothing agent on it as an anodynon .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anodynum at www.duden.de
  2. ^ Anodyna remedia. In: Otto Dornblüth: Clinical Dictionary. 13./14. Edition, 1927.
  3. ↑ Duden - The foreign dictionary. Volume 5th, 9th edition, Dudenverlag 2006.
  4. ^ Carl Bachem: Narkotica (Anodyna). In: Walter Marle (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the entire therapy with diagnostic information. 2 volumes, 4th edition. Berlin / Vienna 1935, Volume 2, p. 881 f.
  5. ↑ Narcotics . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 2, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 822.
  6. ^ John Redman Coxe: The American dispensatory, containing natural, chemical, pharmaceutical medical history different substances employed medicine. HC Carey & I. Lea 1827, (online)
  7. ↑ Ernst F. Anthon: Concise dictionary of chemical-pharmaceutical and pharmacognostic nomenclatures: or overview of all Latin, German and French names of chemical-pharmaceutical preparations, as well as the raw medicinal substances occurring in the trade, for doctors, pharmacists and druggists. Verlag Schrag 1833, p. 332, (online)
  8. ↑ Parerga and Paralipomena , Vol. 1, Fragments for the History of Philosophy , A few more explanations on the Kantian philosophy, p. 139