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“ Chloral Hydrate: if the delirium follows a debauch; with caution in old topers and cases of weak heart; instead of sleep sometimes produces violent delirium.
Chloroform: internally by stomach.
Cimicifuga or Cimicifugin: as a tonic.
Coffee.
Cold Douche or Pack: for insomnia.
Conium: as an adjunct to opium.
Croton Oil: purgative.
Digitalis: in large doses has had some success.
Duboisine.
Enemata: nutritive, when stomach does not retain food.
Ethylene Bromide.
Food: nutritious; more to be depended on than anything else. ”

“ Sozoiodole-Potassium: as dusting-powder, with starch.
Sozoiodole-Sodium: as wash.
Stimulants, Local: such as Ung. Resinæ, afterwards followed by astringents.
Thymol: one per cent. in olive oil, local anesthetic.
Warm Bath: keep whole body, with exception of head, totally immersed for some days in very extensive burns or scalds. It relieves pain, although it may not save life.
Whiting and Water: mixed to the thickness of cream and smeared over, excluding the air, gives instant relief.
Zinc Ointment and Vaselin: in equal parts for dressing.
Zinc Oxide: as dusting powder. ”

“ Silver Nitrate.
Strychnine: very useful in cases of tobacco amaurosis, alcoholic excess, nerve atrophy (without cranial disease) , and in traumatic amaurosis.
Veratrine: to eyelids and temples. Care must be taken to keep out of the eye.
Zinc Lactate.
Amenorrhea.—See also Anemia, Chlorosis.
Acid, Oxalic.
Aconite: when menses are suddenly checked, as by cold, etc.
Actæa Racemosa: to restore the secretion, and remove the headache, ovarian neuralgia, etc., produced by its sudden stoppage.
Alcohol: in sudden suppression after exposure.
Aloes: alone or with iron. ”

“ Potassium Bromide: In children who choke over drinking, but who swallow solids readily.
Cholera Asiatica.
Acid, Boric.
Acid, Carbolic: 2 min., along with 2 grn. of iodine, every hour.
Acid, Hydrocyanic.
Acid, Lactic.
Acid, Nitric.
Acid, Phosphoric.
Acid, Sulphuric, Diluted: alone, or with opium, is very effective in checking the preliminary diarrhea.
Acid, Tannic: by enemeta.
Alcohol: iced brandy, to stop vomiting, and stimulate the heart.
Ammonia: intravenous injection.
Amyl Nitrite.
Antimony.
Arsenic: in small doses, has been used to stop vomiting. ”

“ Potassium Permanganate: as antiseptic.
Poultices: advantageously medicated, e.g. with belladonna or opium, to allay pain or inflammation.
Quinine.
Resorcin: in syphilitic and other unhealthy sores as an antiseptic.
Salicylic Acid: as antiseptic dressing.
Sarsaparilla: in chronic abscess with profuse discharges.
Sheet Lead: is useful in the chronic abscess of the leg as a dressing.
Silver Nitrate: a strong solution in spirit of nitrous ether, painted around the area of inflammation, will check it in superficial parts.
Sodium Gold and Chloride: in scrofulous abscesses as a tonic. ”

“ Acid, Nitric: with nux vomica to assist mercury, when due to hepatic derangement; combined with pepsin when this is the case with children.
Acid, Nitro-hydrochloric: when there is intestinal dyspepsia.
Acid, Nitrous: in profuse serous diarrhea, and the sudden diarrhea of hot climates.
Acid, Salicylic: in summer diarrhea, and diarrhea of phthisis.
Acid, Sulphuric, diluted in diarrhea of phthisis.
Aconite: in high fever and cutting abdominal pains.
Alkalies: in small doses in diarrhea of children, if due to excess of acid in the intestine causing colic and a green stool. ”

“ Potassium Bitartrate: as hydragogue cathartic and diuretic.
Potassium Bromide: in uremic convulsions.
Strontium Acetate.
Strontium Lactate: if due to renal atony.
Tannalbin.
Tartrates: as diuretics.
Turpentine: as diuretic, 1/2 to 1 minim dose every two to four hours.
Water: in large draughts as diuretic when excretion of solids is deficient; and in dropsy.
Alcoholism.—See also, Delirium Tremens, Vomiting, Neuritis.
Actæa Racemosa: in irritative dyspepsia.
Ammonia: aromatic spirit of, as substitute for alcohol, to be taken when the craving comes on. ”

“ It is particularly so with those who have much to do and more to think of. When the best remedy is wanted, to meet indications in cases that are a little out of the usual run, it is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to recall the whole array of available remedies so as to pick out the best. ”

“ Acid, Hydrochloric.
Acid, Lactic.
Acid, Salicylic: locally applied as powder or saturated solution.
Acids: internally in cancer of stomach.
Aluminium Sulphate: a caustic and disinfectant application.
Aniline.
Argenti Nitras: a saturated solution injected in several places; to be followed by an injection of table-salt 1 in 1000.
Aristol.
Arsenic: as local application, causes cancer to slough out. Sometimes successful when the knife fails, but is dangerous. Internally, in cancer of stomach, lessens vomiting. Supposed to retard growth of cancer in stomach and other parts. ”

“ Bronchitis, Chronic.—See also, Cough, Emphysema.
Acids: to diminish a chronic copious expectoration.
Acid, Carbolic: as inhalation or as spray.
Acid, Gallic: in profuse discharge.
Acid, Nitric: in mixtures, to remedy the effect on digestion produced by sedatives like opium.
Acid, Sulphurous: as inhalation or spray.
Alum: in children with copious expectoration in doses of 3 grn.
Ammonia: when there is difficulty in bringing up expectoration.
Ammoniac: very useful, especially in elderly people.
Ammonium Chloride: to render the secretion less viscid. ”

“ Tannic Acid: in acidity associated with chronic catarrh and flatulence. Glycerin 1 minim, tannic acid 4 grn., as pill.
Acne.
Adeps Lanæ: topically.
Alkaline lotions: when skin is greasy and follicles are black and prominent.
Aristol.
Arsenic: in chronic acne; generally, though not always, prevents the acne from bromide or iodide of potassium.
Belladonna: as local application to check a too abundant secretion.
Berberis: for acne of girls at puberty.
Bismuth: as ointment or powder. In acne rosacea, if acute. ”

“ Diet and Hygiene, prophylactic: meat and stimulants to be taken very sparingly; exposure to heat, over-exertion, and especially anger, to be avoided.
Elaterium: in suppository, or as enema during attack.
Electricity: to promote absorption, after partial recovery has taken place.
Ice: to head.
Mercurial purge.
Mustard plaster to feet, or mustard foot-bath, and ice to head, keeping head high and feet low.
Nitroglycerin: to lessen cerebral congestion.
Opium and calomel.
Potassium Bromide: in combination with aconite.
Potassium Iodide: to cause absorption of effused blood. ”

“ Antitoxin against Pulmonary Tuberculosis.—Dose (subcutaneous) : In apyretic cases, 16 ♏ (1 cubic centimetre) every other day for 10 days, then daily for 10 days, and 30 ♏ twice a day thereafter until sweats have entirely subsided, when 16 ♏ are injected for a month every other day, and finally once a week for a year. In febrile cases, if the fever be slight and intermittent, dosage the same as above; if continuous and intense, inject 160 ♏; and if there be a marked fall of temperature repeat in a week, and so continue until fever is gone, then inject 16—32 ♏ daily.
Silver Chloride Merck. ”

“ Potassium Hypophosphite.
Quinine: general tonic.
Sanguinaria: when gastric digestion is feeble.
Sarsaparilla: if syphilitic taint is present.
Sea-bathing: in chronic illness with debility.
Sodium Arsenate.
Turkish Baths: if due to tropical climate, with caution; in townspeople, when they become stout and flabby.
Decubitus.—See Bed-Sore.
Delirium.—See also, Cerebral Congestion, Fever, Mania.
Acetanilid.
Alcohol: when delirium is due to exhaustion.
Antimony: along with opium in fever, such as typhus.
Baths, Cold: in fever.
Belladonna: in the delirium of typhus. ”

“ Uses: Intern., small doses increase frequency of pulse; large doses: rheumatism, gout, scrofula, painter's colic, skin diseases, catarrh, croup; antidote in lead and mercury poisoning; extern., lotion in parasitic skin diseases.—Dose: 2—10 grn.—Antidotes: Emetics, stomach siphon, lead or zinc acetate, brandy.—Incompatibles: Acids, alcohol, carbonated waters, etc.
Potassa, Sulphurated, Merck.—Crude.
Uses: For baths in skin affections, 2—4 ounces to one bath.—Caution: Avoid metal bath-tubs, metal spoons, and water with much carbon dioxide. ”

“ Caffeine Citrate: for the headache.
Cannabis Indica: one-third to one-half grn. of the extract to relieve headache.
Capsicum.
Champagne, Iced: small doses frequently repeated.
Chloralamide and Potassium Bromide.
Chloral Hydrate: fifteen to thirty grn. every four hours most useful; should be given before nausea sets in; the combination with potassium bromide, taken with effervescing citrate of magnesia, is very good.
Chloroform: pure, two to five minims on sugar.
Coca: infusion quickly relieves.
Cocaine.
Counter-irritation: mustard plaster or leaf to epigastrium. ”

“ Hemoglobin Reduced by Pyrogallol, Merck.—Reddish-brown powd. containing iron in condition for easy assimilation.—Hematinic, Constructive, Tonic.—Uses: Anemia, chlorosis, chronic nephritis, diabetes, and in convalescence; readily transformed into blood coloring-matter in debilitated people, and uniformly well borne; much superior to inorganic preparations of iron.—Dose: 4—8 grn., 3 t. daily, 1/2 hour before meals, in powd. with sugar, or in pills or chocolate tablets. ”

“ Glycerin: prophylactic local application.
Hydrargyri Perchloridum: a solution mixed with diluted alcohol.
Ichthyol.
Incisions: followed by irrigation, if sores tend to burrow.
Iodoform.
Iodoformogen.
Iodole.
Iron Chloride: as tonic.
Medicated Poultices: patient to lie with poultices under the parts likely to be affected; if fetor, cataplasma carbonis; if sloughing, addition of Balsam of Peru.
Pyoktanin.
Quinine: local dressing.
Salt and Whisky: topically to harden skin.
Silver Nitrate: dusted over open bed-sores. ”

“ Acid, Boric: lotion in phlegmonous erysipelas.
Acid, Carbolic: lint soaked in two per cent. solution relieves pain; subcutaneously 1/2 dram, alcohol 1/2 dram, water 2 oz.
Acid, Salicylic: as ointment, or dissolved in collodion as paint.
Acid, Sulphurous: equal parts with glycerin locally.
Acid, Picric.
Acid, Tannic.
Aconite: at commencement may cut it short; valuable when skin is hot and pungent and pulse firm; also in erysipelatous inflammation following vaccination.
Alcoholic Stimulants: if patient passes into typhoid state. ”

“ Bromo-hemol.
Butyl-Chloral Hydrate: if heart is weak.
Camphor, Monobromamated.
Cannabis Indica: alone or with hyoscyamus.
Cannabine Tannate.
Chloralamide.
Chloral-Ammonia.
Chloral Hydrate: very useful, alone or with bromide of potassium; the addition of a small quantity of opium to the combination assists its action.
Chloralimide.
Chloralose.
Chlorobrom.
Chloroform.
Cocaine Hydrochlorate.
Codeine.
Coffee: causes insomnia, but has been recommended in insomnia from deficient nervous power, or chronic alcoholism. ”

“ Tartar, Soluble,—see Potassium Tartrate.
Terebene Merck.
Colorl. or slightly yellowish liq.; resinifies when exposed to the light; thyme-like odor.—Sol. in alcohol, ether; slightly in water.—Expectorant, Antiseptic, Antifermentative.—Uses: Intern., in chronic bronchitis, flatulent dyspepsia, genito-urinary diseases, emphysema, phthisis, bronchitis, dyspnea, etc.; extern., uterine cancer, gangrenous wounds, skin diseases, etc. In phthisical affections it is given by inhalation (about 2 oz. per week) .—Dose: 4—20 ♏, with syrup or on a lump of sugar. ”

“ Crude Petroleum: in capsules or pills in chronic bronchitis.
Cubebs: like copaiba.
Digitalis: where heart is feeble, especially in the aged.
Emetics.
Ethyl Iodide.
Eucalyptus: stimulant expectorant.
Euphorbia Pilulifera.
Gaduol: a most useful remedy.
Galbanum: like ammoniac.
Grindelia: expectorant when the cough is troublesome.
Guaiacol.
Guaiacol Vapor.
Hydrastis: in chronic coryza.
Hypnal: for cough.
Iodides and Iodine: as inhalation or liniment to chest, to lessen expectoration in chronic bronchitis; in the hoarse hollow cough of infants after measles.
Iodoform. ”

“ Potassium Bromide to relieve the delirium.
Quinine: in thermic fever.
Scutellaria.
Tea: cold, as beverage instead of alcoholic drinks.
Tonics: during convalescence.
Venesection: best treatment if face be cyanosed and heart laboring and if meningitis threaten after thermic fever (Hare) .
Veratrum Viride.
Water: cold affusion.
Wet Sheet: where the breathing is steady; otherwise cold douche.
Suppuration.—See also, Abscess, Boils, Carbuncle, Pyemia.
Acid, Carbolic: lotion and dressing.
Acid, Gallic.
Alcohol: to be watched.
Ammonium Carbonate: in combination with Cinchona. ”

“ Acid, Perosmic, Merck.
Osmic Acid.—Yellowish needles; very pungent, disagreeable odor.—Sol. in water, alcohol, ether.—Antineuralgic, Discutient, Antiepileptic.—Uses: Intern., muscular rheumatism, neuralgia; extern., remove tumors, and in sciatica (by injection) .—Dose: 1/64 grn., several t. daily.—Injection: 1/20—1/6 grn. as 1% solut. in aqueous glycerin (40%) —Antidote: Sulphuretted hydrogen.—Incompatibles: Organic substances, phosphorus, ferrous sulphate, etc.—Caution: Vapor exceedingly irritating to the air-passages. ”

“ It causes much less hyperemia than does cocaine. Mydriasis does not always occur, and when it does, is much less than with cocaine. The activity of its solution is retained for two to three months. Tropacocaine may replace cocaine in every case as an anesthetic.—Applied in 3% solut., usually in 0.6% sodium-chloride solut.— [Further information in "Merck's Digest" on "Tropacocaine", containing clinical reports.]
Turpentine, Chian, Merck.
Thick, tenacious, greenish-yellow liq.; peculiar, penetrating odor.—Antiseptic.—Uses: Extern., cancerous growths. ”