FOR THE USE OF THE MATERIA MEDICA AND OTHER AGENTS.
~Abasia and Astasia.~--_See also, Hysteria._
Sodium Phosphate: by hypodermic injection once a day for 25 days
(Charcot).
~Abdominal Plethora.~--_See also, Hepatic Congestion, Obesity._
Aliment: dry diet; avoid much bread, as well as salted or twice cooked
meats, rich sauces, etc.
Cathartics, saline and hydragogue: to relieve portal congestion.
Grape cure.
Saline mineral waters.
~Abortion.~
Acid, Tannic: combined with opium and ipecac.
Cascara Sagrada: as a laxative.
Cimicifuga: as a prophylactic.
Cotton Root.
Creolin: 2 per cent. solution, injected after removal of membranes.
Curettement.
Diet and Hygiene.
Ergot.
Gold Chloride: to avert the tendency to abort.
Iodine: to inner surface of uterus after removal of membranes.
Iron: with potassium chlorate throughout the pregnancy when fatty
degeneration present.
Opium or Morphine.
Piscidia.
Potassium Chlorate.
Savin.
Viburnum Prunifolium.
~Abrasions.~--_See also, Bruises, Burns, etc._
Benzoin.
Collodion.
Iodoform.
Iodoformogen.
Iodole.
Magnesia.
Solution Gutta-percha.
Sozoiodole salts.
~Abscess.~--_See also, Suppuration, Boils, Anthrax._
Acid, Boric: a powerful non-irritating antiseptic dressing.
Acid, Carbolic: as dressing and as injection after evacuation.
Acid, Tannic.
Aconite: in full dose often aborts.
Alcohol: as a pure stimulant where a large quantity of pus is being
poured out, draining the system.
Ammoniac and Mercury Plaster.
Arnica Tincture.
Belladonna: internally, and locally as a liniment or plaster, to abort
the preliminary inflammation--e.g. of breast--afterwards to ease pain
in addition.
Calcium Phosphate: where abscess is large or chronic, as a tonic.
Calcium Sulphide: small doses, frequently repeated, to hasten
maturation or healing, especially in deep-seated suppuration.
Caustic Potassa: for opening abscess in liver, also in chronic abscess
where the skin is much undermined, also used to prevent scarring if
otherwise opened.
Chlorine Water.
Cod-Liver Oil: in scrofulous cases and in the hectic.
Counter-irritation: to surrounding parts, to check formation or hasten
maturation.
Creolin.
Creosote: same as Carbolic Acid, as a stimulant to indolent
inflammatory swellings.
Ether: to produce local anesthesia, used as a spray before opening an
abscess.
Formaldehyde.
Gaduol: in scrofulous and hectic cases.
Gold Chloride.
Hydrogen Peroxide: to wash out cavity of tubercular or slow abscess.
Ice: after opening.
Iodine: as injection into the sac, and internally to cause absorption
of products of inflammation.
Iodoformogen.
Iodoform Gauze: packed into cavity.
Iodole.
Lead Water.
Menthol: in ethereal solution 10 to 50 per cent., locally applied with
camel's hair pencil.
Morphine.
Naphtalin.
Naphtol: 75 grn., alcohol, 10 fl. drs., hot distilled water q.s. to
make 3 fl. oz. Inject a few drops.
Oakum: as a stimulating and antiseptic dressing.
Oleate of Mercury and Morphine: relieves the pain, allays the
inflammation, and causes the absorption of the products.
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.
Sozoiodole salts.
Strontium Iodide.
Sulphides: of potassium, sodium, ammonium, and calcium. They must be
used in low doses, and are indicated in scrofulous abscess and in the
chronic boils of children. To hasten suppuration.
Tonics.
Veratrum Viride: in full dose often aborts.
~Abscess of the Liver.~--_See Hepatic Diseases._
~Acidity of Stomach.~
Acids: before meals, or as an acid wine during meals. For acid
eructations, especially of sulphuretted hydrogen.
Acid, Carbolic: to stop fermentation or to relieve an irritable
condition of the stomach.
Alkalies: after meals, best as bicarbonates; with flatulence give
magnesia if there is constipation; lime water if there is diarrhea.
Ammonia: in headache from acidity.
Ammonium Bicarbonate.
Atropine: for gastric hypersecretion.
Bismuth: in gastritis due to chronic abscess or chronic alcoholism.
Very well combined with arsenic in very chronic cases, with hydrocyanic
acid in more acute cases.
Calcium Carbonate, precipitated.
Cerium Oxalate.
Charcoal: as biscuits.
Creosote: same as carbolic acid.
Ichthalbin.
Ipecacuanha: in small doses in pregnancy where flatulence and acidity
are both present.
Kino: useful along with opium.
Lead Acetate: in gastric catarrh and pyrosis.
Lime Water.
Liquor Potassæ: useful for both gastric and urinary acidity.
Magnesium Carbonate.
Magnesium Oxide.
Manganese Dioxide: sometimes relieves, probably acting like charcoal.
Mercury: When liver deranged and stools pale.
Nux Vomica: in small doses before meals, especially in pregnancy, or in
chronic alcoholism.
Potassium Bitartrate.
Potassium Carbonate.
Pulsatilla: every four hours in hot water.
Silver Nitrate: same as silver oxide.
Silver Oxide: especially useful when acidity is accompanied by
neuralgic pains in stomach.
Sulphurous Acid: if associated with the vomiting of a pasty material,
presence of sarcinæ.
Tannalbin: when there is abundance of mucus.
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.
Borax: solution very useful.
Cajeput Oil: as stimulant in acne rosacea.
Calcium Sulphide: same as sulphur. For internal use.
Chrysarobin.
Coca.
Cod-Liver Oil.
Copper.
Electricity.
Euresol.
Europhen.
Gaduol: internally, in scrofulous and hectic cases.
Glycerin: both locally and internally.
Hydrastine Hydrochlorate: as lotion.
Hydrastis.
Ichthalbin: internally.
Ichthyol: externally.
Iodide of Sulphur: in all stages of the disease.
Iodine: is of doubtful value.
Iodole: topically.
Levico Water.
Liquor Hydrarg. Pernitratis: a single drop on an indurated pustule will
destroy without a scar.
Magnesium Sulphate.
Mercurials: internally.
Mercury Nitrate: solution topically.
Mercury Bichloride: solution as wash.
Mercury Iodide, red.
Naphtol.
Nitric Acid.
Perosmic Acid.
Phosphorus: in chronic cases in place of arsenic. The phosphates and
hypo-phosphites are safer and more valuable. The latter in acne
indurata.
Potassium Bromide: sometimes useful in moderate doses in obstinate
cases. This salt and the Iodide very often cause acne when taken
continuously.
Potassium Chlorate.
Quinine.
Resorcin.
Sand: friction with, useful.
Sodium Bicarbonate.
Strontium Iodide.
Sulphur: internally, and externally as a lotion or ointment, most
valuable agent.
Thymol.
Water: Hot sponging several times a day.
Zinc Salts.
~Actinomycosis.~
Potassium Iodide.
Sodium Salicylate.
~Addison's Disease.~
Arsenic.
Glycerin: in full doses.
Iron: with antiemetics and tonics.
Iron Glycerinophosphate.
Levico Water.
Phosphorus.
Skimmed Milk: as diet.
Sozoiodole-Potassium.
~Adenitis.~--_See also, Glandular Affections._
Calcium Phosphate: internally.
Calcium Sulphide: internally.
Carbon Disulphide.
Cod-Liver Oil: internally.
Gaduol: internally.
Ichthalbin: internally.
Ichthyol: topically as antiphlogistic.
Iodole: as cicatrizant.
Sozoiodole-Potassium: as granulator.
~Adynamia.~--_See also, Anemia, Convalescence, Neurasthenia._
Acid, Hydriodic.
Acid, Hydrochloric.
Acid, Nitric.
Alcohol.
Arsenic: for swelled feet of old or weakly persons with weak heart.
Calcium Phosphate.
Caffeine.
Camphor.
Cinchona Alkaloids and their salts.
Capsicum.
Digitalis.
Eucalyptol.
Hemogallol.
Hydrastine.
Hydrogen Peroxide.
Iron.
Iron Valerianate.
Levico Water.
Nux Vomica: in dipsomaniacs.
Potassium Chlorate.
Quinine.
Sanguinarine.
Solut. Ammonium Acetate.
Turpentine Oil.
Urethane.
Valerian.
~After-Pains.~--_See also, Lactation._
Actæa Racemosa: it restores the lochia in cases of sudden suppression
and removes the symptoms.
Amyl Nitrite.
Belladonna: as ointment.
Camphor: 10 grn. with 1/8 grn. morphine.
Chloral: in large doses arrests the pains; contra-indicated in feeble
action of the heart.
Chloroform: liniment to abdomen, along with soap liniment.
Cimicifuga: same as ergot.
Copper Arsenite.
Ergot: to keep the uterus constantly contracted and prevent
accumulation of clots and the consequent pain.
Gelsemium: stops pains when in doses sufficient to produce its
physiological effect.
Morphine: hypodermically very useful, 1/6 to 1/4 grn. with 1/100 grn.
atropine.
Opium: the same as morphine.
Pilocarpine: in agalactia.
Poultices: warm, to hypogastrium, relieve.
Quinine: 5 to 10 gr. night and morning, in neuralgic after-pains which
do not yield to opiates.
Viburnum.
~Ague.~--_See Intermittent Fever._
~Albuminuria.~--_See also, Bright's Disease, Nephritis._
Acid, Gallic: lessens albumen and hematuria.
Aconite: to lower a high temperature; and in the onset of acute
nephritis in scarlet fever.
Alcohol: hurtful in acute stage; useful when a slight trace of albumen
is persistent.
Alkaline Diuretics: to prevent formation of fibrinous plugs in the
renal tubules.
Aqua Calcis: in large doses has been found to increase the urine, and
decrease the albumen.
Arsenic: beneficial in very chronic cases. Albumen will return if the
use of the drug be stopped.
Baths: warm water and hot air and Turkish, to increase action of skin
after dropsy or uremic symptoms have appeared.
Belladonna: has been used to diminish the chronic inflammatory
condition left by an acute attack.
Broom: as diuretic in chronic renal disease.
Caffeine: to increase secretion of solids, especially in cases
dependent on cardiac disease. Should be combined with digitalis. Very
useful in chronic Bright's disease; should be used with great caution
in the acute stage.
Calcium Benzoate.
Cannabis Indica: as diuretic in hematuria.
Cantharides: 1 min. of tincture every three hours, when acute stage has
passed off, to stop hematuria.
Chimaphila: as a diuretic.
Cod-Liver Oil: as a tonic.
Copaiba: to remove ascites and albuminuria dependent on cardiac or
chronic Bright's disease, and in some cases of hematuria.
Counter-Irritation: dry cupping most useful when tendency to uremia.
Croton Oil: as liniment to the loins in chronic cases is sometimes
useful.
Digitalis: the infusion is the most valuable in acute and tubal
nephritis, and in renal disease attended with dropsy due to cardiac
disease. Must be given with caution in granular kidney.
Elaterium: as hydragogue cathartic for dropsy; and when uremic symptoms
have come on.
Eucalyptus: cautiously for a short time in chronic disease.
Fuchsine: In 1 to 3 grn. doses in the day, in albuminuria of renal
origin, in children.
Gaduol: as a tonic.
Glycerinophosphates.
Gold Trichloride: In contracted kidney, in the chronic disease, in
doses of 1/20 grn.
Hemo-gallol: in anemia.
Hydrastis: lessens albumen.
Incisions: over the malleoli, to relieve the anasarca of the lower
extremities.
Iron: to diminish anemia with a flabby tongue, give the per-salts. In
dropsy associated with high tension, iron must be cautiously given, and
withheld unless improvement is quickly shown. It always does harm if
allowed to constipate.
Jaborandi: in uremia and dropsy due either to renal disease or
occurring in pregnancy.
Juniper Oil: diuretic.
Lead: lessens albumen and increases the urine.
Levico Water.
Lime Water.
Milk Cure: pure skim-milk diet very useful when tendency to uremia; it
also lessens the albumen.
Naphtol.
Nitroglycerin: in acute and chronic albuminuria.
Nitrous Ether: as diuretic.
Oxygen: compressed, will, on inhalation, temporarily diminish albumen.
Pilocarpine.
Potassium salts: especially the iodide and vegetable salts in
syphilitic or amyloid disease.
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.
Ammonium Chloride.
Ammonium Acetate.
Arsenic: to lessen vomiting in drunkards, in the morning before food is
taken; and also in the irritable stomach of drunkards.
Bismuth: with hydrocyanic acid, to relieve acidity and heartburn.
Bromides: useful during delirium tremens, or to lessen irritability, in
1 dram doses in the wakeful condition which immediately precedes it.
Capsicum: as a substitute for alcohol, and also to relieve the
restlessness and insomnia.
Chloral Hydrate: to quiet nervous system and induce sleep in an acute
attack. Must be used with caution in old drunkards.
Cimicifuga.
Cocaine: to remove the craving.
Faradization.
Gelsemium: same as bromides.
Gold and Sodium Chloride.
Hydrastine.
Ichthalbin.
Levico Water: as tonic.
Lupulin: along with capsicum as substitute for alcohol, also to quiet
nervous system in delirium tremens.
Milk: at night.
Nux Vomica: as tonic and stimulant, both to nervous system and
generally to aid digestion.
Opium: May be necessary to produce sleep; to relieve the pain of the
chronic gastritis and the want of appetite.
Orange: slowly sucked, a substitute for alcohol.
Phosphorus: in chronic cases as nerve tonic.
Picrotoxine: for tremors.
Potassium Bromide.
Quinine: in the "horrors" stage it acts as a sedative to the brain and
restores the digestive functions.
Strychnine Nitrate.
Sumbul: in the headache of old drinkers.
Water, cold: a glass taken in small sips at a time as substitute for
alcohol.
Water, hot: one pint drunk as hot as possible an hour before meals will
remove craving.
Zinc Oxide: in chronic alcoholic dyspepsia, and nervous debility. It
also allays the craving.
~Alopecia.~--_See also, Tinea Decalvans._
Acid, Carbolic: in Alopecia areata.
Acid, Gallic.
Acid, Nitric: with olive oil in sufficient quantity just to make it
pugnant.
Alcohol.
Ammonia: very useful; take Ol. amygd. dul., Liq. ammoniæ, each 1 fl.
oz., Spt. rosmarini, Aquæ, Mellis, each 3 fl. drams; mix; make lotion
(E. Wilson).
Antimonium Tartaratum: as lotion, 1 grn. to 1 fl. oz. water.
Arsenic: internally.
Cantharides Tincture: one part to eight of castor oil rubbed in roots
of hair morning and night.
Eucalyptus.
Europhen.
Glycerin: very useful: either alone or in combination appears greatly
to assist.
Jaborandi.
Naphtol.
Nutgall.
Pilocarpine: subcutaneous injection has been useful.
Quillaja.
Resorcin.
Savine Oil: Prevents loss of hair in Alopecia pityroides.
Sapo Viridis: very useful as a shampoo night and morning--Take Saponis
virid. (German), Alcoholis, each 3 fl. oz. Ol. lavandulæ, 30 drops.
Shaving: sometimes useful after illness.
Sodium Bicarbonate: as a lotion in Alopecia pityroides.
Sulphur Iodide: useful both internally and externally.
Tannin: watery solution or made up into ointment.
Thymol.
Thyraden, and other Thyroid preparations.
~Amaurosis and Amblyopia.~
Amyl Nitrite: useful in many cases of disease of the optic nerve.
Antipyrine.
Arnica: sometimes useful.
Digitalis: in toxic cases.
Electricity.
Emmenagogues: if due to menstrual disorders.
Mercury: when due to syphilis.
Myotomy: in asthenopia and hysterical amblyopia.
Nitroglycerin.
Nux Vomica.
Phosphorus.
Pilocarpine: in tobacco and alcoholic abuse.
Potassium Bromide.
Potassium Iodide.
Rue: in minute doses in functional dimness of vision, _e.g._ hysterical
amblyopia.
Salicylates.
Santonin: sometimes useful in later stages of iritis and chloroiditis,
and in loss of power of optic nerve.
Seton: on temple; or blisters, along with iodide of potassium, in
amaurosis coming on suddenly, and associated with tenderness of the
eyeball on pressure; the disc is sometimes congested.
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. In torpor and anemia; best administered a
few days before the expected period.
Ammonium Chloride: in headache.
Apiol: 5--10 min. twice a day for some days before the expected period;
if there is a molimen, 15 grn. in a few hours. Useful in anemia and
torpor only.
Arnica.
Arsenic: along with iron in anemia and functional inactivity of the
ovaries and uterus.
Asafetida: along with aloes in anemia and torpor of the intestines.
Baptisin.
Berberine Carbonate.
Cantharides: along with iron in torpor of the uterus.
Cimicifuga: at the proper time for a flow.
Cold Sponging: to brace the patient up.
Colocynth: in anemia with constipation.
Croton Oil.
Electricity: locally applied, sometimes useful.
Ergot: in plethoric subjects.
Eupatorium: in hot infusion, if due to cold.
Gold Salts: like asafoetida.
Guaiacum: mild stimulant to the uterus.
Ichthalbin.
Iron: in anemia, q.v.
Iron Iodide.
Iron Phosphate.
Levico Water.
Manganese Dioxide: in amenorrhea of young women; in delayed
menstruation, or when a period has been missed through a chill.
Perseverance is required, especially in the last case.
Myrrh: a tonic emmenagogue.
Nux Vomica: in combination with iron in anemia.
Polygonum: in torpor; with iron in anemia, aloes in a constipated
subject. Contra-indicated in a plethoric condition. Should be given a
few days before menses are expected.
Potassium Iodide.
Potassium Permanganate: like manganese dioxide.
Pulsatilla: like aconite.
Quinine.
Rue: in atonic conditions of ovaries or of uterus. Plethora
contra-indicates.
Salines: in constipation in plethoric cases.
Sanguinaria: like rue.
Santonin: in two doses of 10 grn. each, one or two days before the
expected period.
Savine: like rue.
Senega: a saturated decoction in large doses, a pint daily, about two
weeks before period.
Serpentaria: in anemia.
Silver Nitrate: locally, to os uteri at period.
Sitz Baths: hot, alone, or with mustard, for some days before the
period; with mustard, if suddenly arrested.
Sodium Borate.
Spinal Ice Bag: to lumbar vertebræ.
Tansy.
Turpentine.
~Anemia.~
Acids: for a tonic action on the mucous membranes in anemia of young
women.
Acid, Gallic: in anemia due to a chronic mucous or other discharge.
Alkalies: potash and soda as gastric and hepatic tonics.
Aloes: as tonic and slight purgative.
Arsenic: in the cases where iron fails of its effect or does not agree
with the patient. Also in pernicious anemia.
Bitters.
Bone-marrow.
Bullock's Blood: when iron fails, fresh or dried, by enema.
Cactus Grandiflorus.
Calcium Lactophosphate: during nursing or after exhausting purulent
discharge.
Calcium Phosphate: during growth, or where system is enfeebled by drain
of any kind.
Calomel.
Cetrarin.
Cold Sponging.
Copper Arsenite.
Diet and Hygiene.
Ferropyrine.
Gaduol.
Galvanization.
Glycerinophosphates.
Gold Salts.
Hemo-gallol.
Hemoglobin.
Hypophosphite of Calcium or Sodium: in cases of nervous debility care
must be taken that it does not derange the digestion.
Ichthalbin.
Iron: very useful. When stomach is at all irritable the carbonate is
often best. Weak, anemic girls with vomiting after food are best
treated with the perchloride. In coated tongue the ammonio-citrate is
often best to begin with. The malate has been useful in pernicious
anemia. In gastric disturbance and constipation, a combination with
rhubarb is often very effectual. Where mucous membrane is very flabby,
large doses of the perchloride. Chalybeate waters more often succeed
than pharmaceutical preparations; one drop of the solution of
perchloride in a tumbler of water is an approximate substitute for
them.
Levico Water.
Manganese salts: may be given with iron--not much use alone.
Mercury Bichloride.
Napthol, Beta-.
Nux Vomica: useful sometimes along with iron.
Oxygen: to be inhaled in anemia from loss of blood or suppuration.
Pancreatin: in feeble digestion.
Pepsin: in feeble digestion.
Phosphorus.
Quinine: in malnutrition.
Sea-bathing: good, but not in chlorosis.
Sodium Arsenate.
Sodium Hypophosphite.
Spermine.
Strychnine.
Wine: with the food, to aid digestion.
~Aneurism.~
Acid, Gallic, and iron.
Aconite: to relieve pain and slow the circulation.
Aliment: low diet; absolute rest.
Barium Chloride: in doses of 1/5 grn. Perhaps raises the arterial
tension.
Calcium Chloride.
Chloroform: inhaled to relieve dyspnea.
Digitalis _is contra-indicated_ (Hare.)
Electrolysis: sometimes useful in causing coagulation within the sac.
Ergotin: a local hypodermic injection has been successful.
Eucalyptus.
Iron-Chloride Solution: to cause coagulation on injection into sac.
Lead Acetate: useful, combined with rest.
Morphine: with croton-chloral, for pain.
Potassium Iodide: very useful in doses of 30 grn. Should be combined
with the recumbent position.
Strontium Iodide.
Veratrum Viride: along with opium in quieting circulation.
Zinc Chloride.
~Angina Catarrhalis.~--_See also, Choking, Croup, Laryngitis,
Pharyngitis, Throat Tonsillitis, etc._
Acid, Carbolic.
Acid, Gallic.
Alum.
Creolin: by vapor-inhalation.
Iron Chloride: as gargle.
Ichthyol: as gargle.
Potassium Chlorate: as gargle.
Potassium Nitrate.
Silver Nitrate.
Sodium Bicarbonate.
Sozoiodole-Sodium.
~Angina Diphtheritica.~--_See Diphtheria._
~Angina Pectoris.~
Aconite.
Allyl Tribromide.
Antipyrine.
Arsenic: to prevent paroxysms.
Atropine.
Cactus Grandiflorus.
Chamomile: in hysterical symptoms.
Chloral: in full doses.
Chloroform: cautiously inhaled to ease the pain.
Cocaine.
Cold: applied to forehead gives relief.
Convallaria.
Conline Hydrobromate.
Digitalis.
Ether: to diminish pain, combined with opium in 1/4-grn. doses.
Erythrol Tetranitrate.
Morphine: hypodermically.
Nitrite of Amyl: gives great relief during paroxysms; in atheromatous
arteries must be used with care.
Nitrites of Sodium and Potassium: less rapid than nitrite of amyl, but
have more power to prevent return of symptoms.
Nitroglycerin: like nitrite of sodium.
Phosphorus: during intervals to lessen tendency.
Potassium Bromide: in full doses will relieve the spasm.
Pyridine.
Quinine: when any malarious taint is present.
Spermine.
Spirit Ether.
Strophanthus.
Strychnine: sometimes useful in mild cases in very small doses.
Tonics.
Turpentine Oil: locally to the chest during paroxysms.
~Anorexia.~--_See also, lists of Tonics, Gastric Tonics, etc._
Acid, Nitro-hydrochloric: when following acute disease.
Absinthin.
Berberine Carbonate.
Calomel: when following acute disease; nitro-hydrochloric acid
generally preferable, however.
Capsicum: in convalescence.
Chimaphila: in dropsical cases, as a tonic and diuretic.
Cinchonidine.
Cinchonine.
Eupatorium.
Gentian.
Nux Vomica Tincture.
Oleoresin capsicum.
Orexine Tannate: of very wide utility.
Quassia: especially valuable when following malarial fever.
Quassin.
~Anthrax.~--(_Carbuncle._)
Acid, Boric: as dressing.
Acid, Carbolic: as wash and injection after spontaneous discharge, or
on lint after opening.
Alcohol: as needed.
Ammonium Acetate.
Ammonium Carbonate: combined with cinchona, after a free purge.
Arnica: fresh extract spread on adhesive plaster and strapped; internal
administration is also beneficial.
Belladonna Extract: with glycerin, as local anodyne.
Blister: to cover area, with hole in the center to allow discharge.
Bromine.
Butyl-Chloral Hydrate: to lessen the pain of facial carbuncle.
Calcium Sulphide: one-tenth grn. hourly useful.
Collodion: around base, leaving opening in the center.
Creolin.
Ether: sprayed on for a little time will cause an eschar to separate.
Europhen.
Hydrogen Peroxide.
Ichthalbin: internally.
Ichthyol: topically.
Iodine: locally, to lessen pain and inflammation, should be applied
around the base.
Iodoform: useful local antiseptic dressing.
Iodoformogen.
Iodole.
Lead Carbonate.
Menthol.
Mercurial Ointment: early application will abort sometimes.
Opium: locally, mixed with glycerin.
Phosphorus: internally.
Potassium Chlorate and mineral acids: internally administered.
Potassium Permanganate: antiseptic lotion.
Poultices: to relieve pain.
Pyoktanin.
Quinine.
Quinine and Carbolic Acid: internally.
Strapping: concentrically, leaving center free, lessens pain.
Terebene or Oil Turpentine: antiseptic application.
~Antrum, Disease of.~
Acid, Boric.
Bismuth Subnitrate.
Chloroform.
Iodine.
Zinc Sulphate.
~Anus, Fissure of.~
Acid, Benzoic: as a local application.
Acid, Carbolic: one drop of 95 per cent. applied to fissure.
Belladonna: locally; relieves spasms.
Bismuth: with glycerin, as a local application.
Calomel: as ointment.
Carron Oil: as a dressing.
Castor Oil: to keep motions soft.
Chloral Hydrate: in dilute solution (2 per cent.) as a dressing.
Chloroform: diluted with half its bulk of alcohol, will aid healing.
Cocaine: in ointment.
Collodion: locally, to protect.
Dilatation, forcible: relieves spasm.
Hydrastis: local application.
Ice: to relieve pain after operation.
Ichthalbin.
Ichthyol.
Iodoform: locally, to heal and relieve pain.
Iodoformogen: very beneficial.
Opium and Gall Ointment: relieves pain.
Potassium Bromide: with five parts of glycerin, locally.
Rhatany: injected after the bowels have been opened by enema.
Silver Nitrate.
Sozoiodole-Potassium.
Sulphur: to keep motions soft.
Tannin: useful as a local application.
~Anus, Prolapsus of.~--_See Prolapsus Ani._
~Aphonia.~
Acid, Nitric: in hoarseness from fatigue or indigestion.
Acid, Sulphurous: as spray or inhalation, in clergyman's sore-throat.
Aconite: in the painful contraction of the throat of singers.
Alum: as spray in chronic congestion of throat and larynx, with
hoarseness.
Ammonium Chloride: as vapor in laryngeal catarrh.
Argenti Nitras: as local astringent.
Atropine: in hysterical aphonia; must be pushed enough to produce
physiological symptoms.
Belladonna.
Benzoin Tincture: by inhalation in laryngeal catarrh.
Borax: a piece the size of a pea slowly sucked in sudden hoarseness.
Chloroform: in hysterical and nervous cases.
Electricity: locally.
Ether: like chloroform.
Glycerite of Tannin: locally to pharynx.
Ignatia: like atropine.
Ipecacuanha: wine as spray in laryngeal catarrh.
Nux Vomica: locally applied in impaired nervous power.
Potassium Nitrate: like borax.
Rue Oil: as inhalation in chronic catarrh.
Turkish Bath: in acute laryngeal catarrh.
Uranium Nitrate: as spray in very chronic catarrh.
Zinc Sulphate: local astringent.
~Aphthæ.~--_See also, Cancrum Oris, Gums, Parotitis, Ptyalism,
Stomatitis, Odontalgia, Tongue._
Acid, Boric.
Acid, Carbolic.
Acid, Hydrochloric: in small doses and as a local application.
Acids, Mineral: dilute solution as paint.
Acid, Nitric: in small doses.
Acid, Salicylic: as local application.
Acid, Sulphurous: well diluted as solution or spray.
Acid, Tannic.
Alum, Exsiccated: to aphthous ulcers which do not readily heal.
Argenti Nitras: locally.
Bismuth: as local application.
Borax: as honey or as glycerite, either alone or with chlorate of
potassium.
Chlorine Water: locally applied.
Copper Sulphate: weak solution painted over the aphthæ.
Coptis Trifolia: infusion is employed in New England.
Creolin.
Glycerin.
Mercury with chalk: to remove the indigestion on which aphthæ
frequently depend.
Potassium Chlorate: exceedingly useful as wash, 10 grn. to the oz.,
alone or with borax, also given internally.
Potassium Iodide: as local application, solution of 1 to 5 grn. to the
oz.
Pyoktanin.
Quinine: 1 grn. every two or three hours, in aphthæ consequent on
diarrhea in infants.
Rhubarb: as compound rhubarb powder, to remove indigestion.
Saccharin: in 2 or 3 per cent. solut. with sodium bicarbonate.
Sodium Sulphite.
Sozoiodole-Sodium.
Sulphites.
~Apoplexy.~--_See also, Cerebral Congestion._
Aconite: to lower blood-pressure and prevent further hemorrhage, where
pulse is strong and arterial tension high.
Arsenic: in cerebral congestion proceeding from apoplexy.
Bandaging the limbs.
Belladonna.
Cactus Grandiflorus: when apoplexy is threatened.
Cold Water: to the head when face is congested.
Colocynth: as purgative.
Croton Oil: as purgative, one drop on back of tongue, or part of drop
every hour.
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.
Stimulants: cautiously exhibited, when collapse is present.
Strychnine: hypodermically, if respiration fails.
Venesection or Leeches: to relieve arterial pressure when apoplexy is
threatening.
Veratrum Viride.
~Appetite, Impaired.~--_See Anorexia._
~Appetite, Loss of.~--_See Anorexia._
~Arthritis.~--(_Gout._)
Aconite.
Arsenic.
Cimicifugin.
Colchicine.
Colchicum.
Formin.
Gaduol.
Gold.
Ichthyol: topically in 5--10 per cent. oint.
Ichthalbin: internally.
Iodides.
Lithium Salts.
Mercury Bichloride.
Mercury Oleate.
Phenocoll Hydrochlorate.
Potassa Solution.
Potassium Bromide.
Potassium Iodide.
Saliformin.
Sozoiodole-Mercury.
~Ascaris.~--_See Worms._
~Ascites.~--_See also, Dropsy._
Acidum Nitricum: in cirrhosis of the liver.
Aconite: in scarlatina nephritis at the onset of the attack.
Apocynum Cannabinum: as diuretic.
Arsenic: in old persons with feeble heart.
Asclepias: in dropsy of cardiac origin.
Caffeine: in cardiac dropsy.
Calomel: as diuretic in cardiac dropsy.
Cannabis Indica: as diuretic in acute and chronic Bright's disease with
hematuria.
Copaiba: especially useful in hepatic and cardiac dropsy.
Croton Oil: in dropsy, in 1/3 of a drop doses every morning.
Cytisus Scoparius: in cardiac dropsy and dropsy with chronic Bright's
disease.
Diuretics.
Digitalis: best in cardiac dropsy; its action is increased by
combination with squill and blue pill.
Elaterium: as hydragogue cathartic.
Gamboge: like elaterium. Large doses tolerated.
Gold.
Jaborandi: in anasarca and uremia.
Jalap: in compound powder as hydragogue cathartic.
Levico Water: as alterant.
Milk Diet: sometimes very useful when kidneys are inadequate.
Pilocarpine.
Podophyllin: in hepatic cirrhosis.
Potassium Bitartrate: in combination with jalap in hepatic cirrhosis.
Saliformin.
Squill: as diuretic in cardiac dropsy.
Stillingia: in hepatic dropsy.
Theobromine Salicylate or its double-salts.
~Asphyxia from Chloroform.~
Amyl Nitrite.
Artificial respiration.
Cold Douche.
Electricity.
Oxygen.
~Astasia.~--_See Abasia and Astasia._
~Asthenopia.~
Acid, Hydrocyanic: in irritable ophthalmia.
Atropine: to prevent spasms.
Eserine or Pilocarpine: in weak solution, to stimulate ciliary muscle.
Hot Compresses.
Massage.
Myotomy, Intraocular: to relieve spasms.
Physostigma: in the paralysis produced by diphtheria, and in senile
asthenopia.
Strychnine.
~Asthma.~
Acid, Hydriodic.
Acid, Hydrocyanic.
Aconite: in spasmodic cases, also in asthma consequent on nasal catarrh
in children.
Alcohol: in combination with amyl nitrite in spasmodic asthma.
Alkalies: in chronic bronchial catarrh.
Allyl Tribromide.
Alum: 10 grn. of dry powdered alum put on the tongue may arrest a
spasm.
Ammonia Vapor.
Ammoniacum: like Asafetida.
Ammonium Benzoate.
Amyl Nitrite: sometimes checks paroxysm in spasmodic asthma and dyspnea
due to cardiac hypertrophy. Must not be given in chronic bronchitis and
emphysema.
Anemonin.
Anesthetics: as a temporary remedy in severe cases.
Antimony: in asthmatic conditions in children 1/80 a grn. of tartar
emetic every quarter of an hour.
Antispasmin.
Apomorphine: emetic, in asthma due to a peripheral blocking of the
air-tubes.
Arsenic: in small doses in cases associated with bronchitis or
simulating hay fever, or in the bronchitis of children, or in the
dyspeptic asthma. Inhaled as cigarettes with caution.
Asafetida: as an expectorant where there is profuse discharge.
Aspidospermine.
Atropine.
Belladonna: internally in large doses to relieve paroxysm. It should
only be administered during a paroxysm and then pushed.
Bitter-Almond Water.
Bromides: only available in true spasmodic asthma; soon lose their
efficacy.
Caffeine: 1 to 5 grn.
Camphor: 2 grn. combined with 1 grn. of opium, in spasmodic asthma.
Cannabis Indica: sometimes useful in chronic cases.
Chamois-Leather Waistcoat: reaching low down the body and arms, in
bronchial asthma.
Chloral Hydrate: during paroxysm.
Chloralamide.
Chloroform: relieves when inhaled from tumbler or with warm water.
Cocaine.
Coffee: very strong, during paroxysm.
Colchicine or Colchicum: in gouty cases.
Compressed or Rarified air.
Coniine Hydrobromate or Conium: palliative in a chronic case.
Counter-irritation: applied for a short time only, at frequent
intervals.
Creosote: vapor in bronchitic asthma.
Diet and Hygiene.
Duboisine Sulphate.
Erythrol Tetranitrate.
Ether: in full doses at commencement of attack or administered by
inhalation.
Ethyl Iodide: 15 to 20 drops inhaled may relieve spasm.
Eucalyptus: sometimes along with stramonium, belladonna, and tobacco.
Euphorbia pilulifera.
Galvanism of Pneumogastric Region: positive pole beneath mastoid
process, negative pole to epigastrium.
Gelsemium: useful in some cases, but after a time may fail.
Grindelia: to prevent or cut short attack; used as cigarette.
Hyoscine Hydrobromate: in spasmodic asthma.
Ichthalbin.
Iodine: painting the line of the pneumogastric nerve with liniment or
tincture in pure spasmodic asthma.
Ipecacuanha: as a spray in bronchial asthma, especially in children;
useless in true asthma.
Lobelia: to prevent and cut short paroxysm. Cautiously used in cardiac
weakness.
Lobeline Sulphate.
Menthol.
Mercurials: in spasmodic and bronchitic asthma combined.
Morphine: combined with belladonna, very useful.
Nitroglycerin: in bronchitic, nephritic and spasmodic asthma.
Nux Vomica: in dyspeptic asthma.
Oil Eucalyptus.
Oil of Amber.
Opium: hypodermically during paroxysm.
Oxygen: as inhalation during paroxysm.
Pepsin: exceedingly useful in preventing attacks in dyspeptic subjects.
Physostigma.
Pilocarpine Hydrochlorate: in spasmodic asthma, subcutaneously; also in
humid asthma if there is no cardiac dilatation.
Potassium Bromide.
Potassium Cyanide.
Potassium Iodide: in large doses when asthma is due to acute bronchial
catarrh.
Potassium Nitrate: inhalation of fumes of paper relieves paroxysm.
Sometimes advisable to mix a little chlorate with it.
Potassium Nitrite.
Pyridine: in bronchial asthma, vapor to be inhaled.
Quebracho: good in nephritic and spasmodic asthma.
Quinine: during intervals when the attacks are periodical.
Resorcin: relieves dyspnea.
Sandalwood Oil.
Sanguinarine.
Sodium Arsenate: as tonic, acts probably on respiratory centre.
Sodium Iodide.
Sodium Nitrate: like nitroglycerin.
Sodium Phosphate: sometimes efficacious.
Solanine.
Spermine: as tonic.
Stramonium: sometimes very useful. May be made into cigarettes, or 20
grn. of dried leaves may be mixed with nitrate of potassium, and the
fumes inhaled. A little powdered ipecacuanha may often be added.
Strontium Iodide.
Strophanthus Tincture.
Strychnine: in weakness of the respiratory center.
Sulfonal.
Sulphurated Potassa.
Sulphur fumes: in bronchitic asthma.
Tobacco: smoking is sometimes beneficial.
Turkish Baths: in bronchial asthma.
Zinc Oxide.
~Asthenia.~--_See Adynamia, Convalescence._
~Astigmatism.~
Suitable Glasses.
~Atheroma.~ _See also, Aneurism._
Ammonium Bromide.
Ammonium Iodide: to promote absorption.
Arsenic: often useful, especially where there are cerebral symptoms.
Barium Chloride.
Calcium Lactophosphate.
Cod-Liver Oil.
Digitalis: requires caution; useful in general capillary atheroma.
Hypophosphites.
Phosphates.
Phosphorus: in minute doses along with cod-liver oil, in cases with
cerebral symptoms.
Quinine: like arsenic.
~Atrophy.~
Arsenic: In muscular atrophy.
Electricity.
Massage.
Olive Oil: inunction to atrophied parts.
Strychnine.
~Balanitis.~ _See also, Phimosis, Gonorrhea._
Acid, Carbolic.
Acid, Tannic.
Alum.
Alumnol.
Creolin.
Ichthyol.
Lead Water.
Lime Water: as lotion.
Mercury: yellow wash, as lotion.
Silver Nitrate: molded.
Sozoiodole-Potassium: dusting powder.
Sozoiodole-Sodium: lotion.
Tannin or Zinc Oxide: as dusting-powder.
Tannoform.
Zinc Sulphate.
~Baldness.~--_See Alopecia._
~Barber's Itch.~--_See Sycosis._
~Bed-Sores.~
Alcohol: as wash to prevent; afterwards dust with powdered starch.
Alum: with white of egg, as local application.
Aristol.
Balsam of Peru and Unguentum Resinæ: equal parts spread on cotton wool.
Bismuth Subnitrate.
Catechu: with lead sub-acetate, to harden skin.
Charcoal: as poultices, to stop bed-sores.
Galvanic Couplet: of zinc and silver; one element on sore, the other on
adjacent part.
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.
Soap Plaster: applied after washing with bichloride solution (1 in
5000) and dusting with iodoform or iodoformogen.
Sozoiodole Potassium.
Styptic Collodion.
Tannate of Lead: at an early stage.
Zinc Oxide: ointment.
~Biliousness.~--_See also, Dyspepsia, Hepatic Congestion, Duodenal
Catarrh._
Acids, Mineral: nitrohydrochloric acid especially useful in chronic
hepatic affections, dysentery and dropsy of hepatic origin.
Aconite: as adjunct to podophyllin.
Alkalies: in indigestion due to obstruction to the flow of bile.
Alkaline Mineral Waters: in catarrh of the bile-duct, early stage of
cirrhosis, and obstruction to the hepatic circulation.
Aloes: in constipation, and in deficient secretion of bile.
Ammonium Chloride: in jaundice due to catarrh of the bile-ducts, early
stage of cirrhosis; deficient intestinal secretion.
Ammonium Iodide: in catarrh of duodenum and biliary ducts, in the early
stage of cirrhosis, in the malarial cachexia; efficacy increased by the
addition of arsenic.
Angostura: in bilious fevers.
Argenti Oxidum.
Bromides and Chloral Hydrate.
Bryonia: in bilious headache.
Calomel: in excessive production with deficient secretion; calomel or
blue pill at night and a black draught in the morning.
Calumba: as stomachic tonic.
Carlsbad Water: a tumbler sipped warm on rising very useful.
Chirata.
Colocynth.
Euonymin: at night, followed in the morning by a saline purge.
Friedrichshall Water: a wineglassful in a tumbler of hot water slowly
sipped on rising.
Horse Exercise.
Hydrastis: when chronic gastric catarrh is present, in chronic catarrh
of the duodenum and bile-ducts, with inspissation of the bile and
gallstones.
Ipecac.
Leptandra.
Manganese: in malarial jaundice.
Mercurial Cathartics: in moderate doses night and morning, or in small
doses more frequently repeated. Especially useful when the stools are
pale, is the bichloride.
Mercury Iodide, Green.
Mercury Oxide, Yellow.
Milk Cure: in obstinate cases.
Mustard Plaster.
Opium.
Podophyllum: in place of mercury when stools are dark.
Rhubarb: as hepatic stimulant.
Salines.
Salol.
Sodium Phosphate: in bilious sick headache; also in catarrh of the
gall-duct in children: dose, 10 grn.
Stillingia: in cirrhosis; torpidity and jaundice following intermittent
fever; ascites due to hepatic changes; to be combined with Nux Vomica,
in deficient secretion.
~Bites and Stings.~--_See Stings and Bites._
~Bladder Affections.~
Acid, Carbolic.
Aseptol.
Berberine Sulphate: for atony.
Codeine.
Formaldehyde.
Gallobromol.
Saliformin.
Sozoiodole-Sodium.
~Bladder, Catarrh of.~--_See also, Cystitis._
Acid, Benzoic.
Ammonium Borate.
Antinosin.
Arbutin.
Betol.
Creolin: by injection.
Ichthyol.
Juniper.
Saliformin.
Salol.
Thymol.
~Bladder, Inflammation of.~--_See Cystitis._
~Bladder, Irritable.~ _See also, Cystitis, Dysuria, Enuresis,
Lithiasis, Calculi, Urinary Disorders._
Acid, Benzoic: in large prostate, and alkaline urine.
Alkalies: vegetable salts, especially of potassium when the urine is
acid.
Ammonium Benzoate: like benzoic acid.
Aquapuncture.
Arbutin.
Belladonna: in the irritable bladder of children, more especially when
causing nocturnal incontinence.
Buchu: in combination with the vegetable salts of potassium, when urine
is very acid.
Cannabis Indica.
Cantharides: in women without acute inflammation or uterine
displacement; also in irritable bladder produced by chronic enlargement
of the prostate.
Copaiba: in chronic irritability.
Cubebs: like copaiba.
Eucalyptol.
Gelseminine.
Hops.
Hyoscyamus.
Indian Corn Silk (Stigmata Maydis): a mild stimulant diuretic; infusion
ad lib.
Pareira: in chronic irritable bladder.
~Bladder, Paralysis of.~
Cannabis Indica: in retention from spinal disease.
Cantharides: in atonic bladder, painting around the umbilicus with the
acetum.
Ergot: in paralysis, either of bladder or sphincter, when bladder is so
that urine is retained, and incontinence in sphincter.
Galvanism: in lumbar region.
Nicotine: 1 fl. oz. of a 4 per cent. solution injected by catheter and
then withdrawn in a few minutes.
Strychnine.
~Blenorrhea.~--_See Gonorrhea._
~Blenorrhea Neonatorum.~--_See Ophthalmia Neonatorum._
~Blepharitis.~
Acid, Boric.
Acid, Tannic.
Alkaline Lotions: warm, to remove the secretion.
Alum.
Bismuth.
Borax.
Chloral Hydrate, 5 per cent. solution, to remove scabs and crusts.
Copper Sulphate: instil a very dilute solution.
Creolin, 1 or 2 per cent. solution.
Gaduol: as tonic.
Glycerinophosphates: as tonic.
Hydrastis.
Ichthalbin: as alterative.
Ichthyol: topically.
Iron: to remove the anemia usually present.
Mercury-Nitrate Ointment: very useful application. If too strong,
dilute with vaselin or simple ointment.
Mercury Oxide, Red.
Pulsatilla: internally and locally.
Pyoktanin: pencil.
Silver Nitrate: pencilling the border of the lid with the solid.
Sodium Bicarbonate.
~Blisters.~--_See Burns and Scalds._
~Boils.~--_See also, Acne, Anthrax._
Acid, Carbolic: injection.
Acid Nitrate of Mercury: to abort at an early stage.
Acid, Salicylic.
Aluminium Acetate.
Aluminium Aceto-tartrate.
Alumnol.
Arnica: locally as an ointment, and also internally.
Arsenic: to lessen tendency to recurrence.
Belladonna: internally, or as local application.
Boric Acid: as a dressing.
Calcium Chloride.
Calcium Sulphide: to hasten maturation or abort.
Camphorated Alcohol: as local application in early stage.
Camphor, Carbolated.
Caustic.
Chloral Hydrate.
Cocaine: to allay the pain.
Collodion: painted over whole surface to abort papular stage. Over
base, leaving centre free, in pustular stage.
Counter-irritation: by plasters surrounding the boil.
Gaduol: as alterative.
Ichthalbin: internally.
Ichthyol: topically.
Lead Subacetate Solution.
Levico Water: as alterative.
Menthol.
Mercury Bichloride.
Mercury Iodide, red.
Mercury Ointment.
Opium: locally to remove pain.
Phosphates: especially of sodium, as a constitutional agent.
Potassium Chlorate: as an alterative.
Poultices: to relieve pain and hasten maturation.
Pyoktanin.
Silver Nitrate: strong solution painted over the skin round boil.
Strapping: properly applied gives great relief.
Subcutaneous Incisions.
Sulphides: in small doses to abort or hasten maturation.
Sulphites.
Sulphur Waters.
Solution Gutta-Percha.
Unguentum Hydrargyri: early applied around will prevent sloughing.
~Bone, Diseases of.~--_See also, Caries, Exostosis, Nodes, Periostitis,
Rachitis, Spina Bifida, etc._
Calcium Salts: the phosphate in rickets, in delay of union of
fractures; the chloride in strumous subjects.
Cod-Liver Oil: in scrofulous conditions.
Gaduol.
Glycerinophosphates.
Hypophosphites.
Iodine: alone, or with cod-liver oil.
Iodoform: as dressing to exposed bone.
Iodoformogen: as dusting-powder.
Iron Iodide.
Mercury Iodide, Red.
Phosphorus.
Pyoktanin.
Strontium Iodide.
~Brain, Anemia of.~--_See Cerebral Anemia._
~Brain, Fever of.~--_See Meningitis, Cerebrospinal Meningitis; Typhoid
Fever, Typhus._
~Brain, Inflammation of.~--_See Cerebritis._
~Brain, Softening of.~--_See Cerebral Softening._
~Breasts, Inflamed or Swollen.~--_See Mastitis, Abscess, Lactation,
Nipples._
~Breath, Fetid.~
Benzoic Acid: in spray.
Camphor.
Carbolic Acid: dilute solution as wash to mouth.
Chlorine: liq. chloride or chlorinated lime as lotion.
Permanganate of Potassium: as wash to mouth.
Thymol.
~Bright's Disease, Acute.~--_See also, Albuminuria, Hematuria, Scarlet
Fever, Uremia._
Aconite.
Acid, Gallic.
Alkaline salts.
Ammonium Benzoate.
Antipyrine.
Arbutin.
Belladonna.
Bromides.
Caffeine.
Cannabis Indica.
Cantharides.
Digitalis.
Elaterium.
Eucalyptus.
Fuchsine.
Gold Chloride.
Hydrastis.
Hyoscyamus.
Hyoscine Hydrobromate.
Jalap.
Juniper Oil.
Lead.
Mercury Bichloride.
Nitroglycerin.
Oil Turpentine.
Pilocarpine.
Potassium Bitartrate.
Potassium Citrate.
Potassium Iodide.
Sodium Benzoate.
Sodium Bicarbonate.
Strontium Lactate.
Theobromine salts.
~Bright's Disease, Chronic.~--_See also, Dropsy, Uremia._
Acid, Gallic.
Bromides.
Cannabis Indica.
Elaterium.
Eucalyptus.
Fuchsine.
Gold.
Hemo-gallol.
Hydrastis.
Iron.
Jaborandi.
Jalap.
Lead.
Mercury Bichloride.
Nitroglycerin.
Oil Turpentine.
Potassium Bitartrate.
Potassium Iodide.
~Bromidrosis.~--_See Feet._
~Bronchiectasis.~--_See also, Emphysema._
Chlorine: as inhalation to lessen fetor.
Creosote: as inhalation.
Iodine: as inhalation.
Phosphates and Hypophosphites.
Quinine.
Terebene: as inhalation.
~Bronchitis.~
Acetanilid.
Acid, Arsenous.
Acid, Benzoic.
Acid, Camphoric.
Acid, Carbolic.
Acid, Hydriodic.
Alum.
Ammonium Benzoate.
Ammonium Chloride.
Ammonium Iodide.
Ammonium Salicylate.
Astringent sprays for excessive secretion.
Anemonin.
Antispasmin.
Antimony Sulphide, Golden.
Antimony and Potassium Tartrate.
Arsenic.
Cetrarin.
Chlorophenol.
Cocaine.
Codeine.
Conium.
Creosote.
Digitalis.
Eserine.
Ethyl Iodide.
Eucalyptol.
Hydrastis.
Iodides.
Iodine.
Mercury Subsulphate.
Myrtol.
Naphtalin.
Nux Vomica Tincture.
Oil Eucalyptus.
Oil Pinus Pumilio.
Oil Pinus Sylvestris.
Oxygen.
Peronin.
Phosphates.
Physostigmine.
Potassium Citrate with Ipecac.
Potassium Cyanide.
Pyridine: an inhalation.
Sodium Benzoate.
Sodium Iodide.
Solanin.
Stramonium.
Sulphur.
Terebene.
Terpine Hydrate.
Thymol.
Zinc Oxide.
~Bronchitis, Acute.~--_See also, Cough._
Acetanilid.
Acid, Carbolic.
Acid, Nitric: when expectoration is free and too copious.
Aconite: one-half to 1 min. every hour at the commencement of an acute
catarrhal attack.
Actæa Racemosa: in acute catarrh and bronchitis when the more active
symptoms have subsided.
Alkalies: to render mucus less viscid.
Amber Oil: counter-irritant over spine in children.
Ammoniacum: very useful in old people.
Ammonium Acetate.
Ammonium Carbonate: Where much expectoration and much depression; or
where the mucus is very viscid and adherent.
Apomorphine: causes a copious expectoration in the early stage.
Asafetida: like ammoniacum.
Belladonna: In acute bronchitis of children to stimulate respiratory
centre.
Benzoin and Benzoic Acid: 1 dram inhaled from hot water eases cough and
lessens expectoration.
Bleeding: from the superficial jugular veins in severe pulmonary
engorgement.
Camphor.
Chloral Hydrate: to be used with caution, to allay pain.
Cimicifuga.
Cod Liver Oil: relieves.
Colchicum: in gouty cases.
Copaiba: in advanced stage of disease.
Counter-irritants: dry cupping most efficacious in acute cases; mustard
leaves; mustard poultices.
Croton Oil: as liniment; vesication must not be produced.
Cubebs: when secretion is copious.
Demulcents: licorice, linseed.
Eucalyptol.
Eucalyptus: as liniment combined with belladonna in the early stage;
internally in the late stage.
Garlic, Oil of: in the acute bronchitis of children.
Ipecacuanha: when expectoration is scanty, dryness in chest,
ipecacuanha in large doses; also when expectoration has become more
abundant but difficult to expel.
Iron.
Jalap: with bitartrate of potassium instead of bleeding in engorgement
of the right side of the heart.
Lead: in profuse discharge.
Lobelia: when cough is paroxysmal and there is much expectoration
slightly nauseant expectorants are good combined with opium.
Mercury: In some cases useful where there is much congestion and little
secretion.
Morphine: one-half grn. combined with Quinine (10 grn.) will abort the
attack if given early enough.
Muscarine: in doses of 1/8 grn. at the commencement of the attack; well
combined with digitalis.
Mustard: poultice in acute bronchitis of children and adults; foot
bath.
Opium: as Dover's powder to cut short attack and along with
expectorants to lessen cough.
Pilocarpine: in abundant exudation.
Potassium Chlorate: first increases the fluidity of the expectoration,
then diminishes it in quantity, increasing the feeling of relief.
Poultices: in children to encircle the whole chest.
Quinine: to reduce temperature.
Sanguinaria: after acute symptoms have subsided.
Senega: in the advanced stage of acute disorder.
Squill Syrup: combined with camphorated tincture of opium after acute
stage is over.
Tartar Emetic: in dry stage to promote secretion; most useful in first
stage.
Turpentine Oil: when expectoration profuse; also as inhalation or
stupe.
Zinc Oxide.
~Bronchitis, Capillary.~--_See also, Cough._
Alum: as a nauseating expectorant and emetic.
Ammonium Carbonate: when much fluid or viscid expectoration and
commencing lividity; also as an emetic.
Ammonium Chloride: to promote secretion.
Ammonium Iodide: in small rapid doses relieves much.
Antimony.
Apomorphine: to produce a plentiful fluid secretion; also as nauseant
expectorant.
Camphor: as expectorant and stimulant.
Cupping: four to six dry cups over the back often give very great
relief, and if the pulmonary congestion appears very great wet cups
should be placed instead, and 8 to 10 oz. of blood withdrawn from
adult.
Ethyl Iodide: as an inhalation.
Iodides: are very serviceable to diminish viscidity of expectoration if
given in very low doses.
Ipecacuanha: as expectorant and emetic.
Mustard: as poultices.
Oil Amber with Olive Oil (1:3): applied to back and chest.
Pilocarpine: in abundant non-purulent exudation; not to be used in
dilatation of veins and right side of the heart.
Poultices: over whole chest.
Quinine.
Serpentaria: in children as a stimulant expectorant.
Subsulphate of Mercury: as nauseant, expectorant and emetic.
Turpentine Oil: in languid circulation in the capillaries.
Water: hot and cold dashes if death is imminent from suffocation.
~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.
Anemonin.
Antimony: when secretion is scanty.
Apocodeine Hydrochlorate.
Apomorphine Hydrochlorate.
Arsenic: in emphysema and asthmatic attack as cigarettes, where there
is much wheezing and little bronchitis following the sudden
disappearance of eczematous rash.
Asafetida: like ammoniacum.
Balsam of Peru: when expectoration is copious.
Balsam of Tolu: the same.
Belladonna: to children choked with secretion give 1 minim of tincture
every hour to stimulate respiratory centre. It also lessens the
secretion.
Benzoin: as inhalation or as spray.
Burgundy Pitch: emplastrum in chronic bronchitis.
Camphor.
Cannabis Indica: in very chronic cases.
Carbonic Acid Gas: inhaled.
Chamois Waistcoat.
Cheken: the fluid extract renders expectoration easier, and paroxysms
less frequent.
Chloral Hydrate: a solution of 10 grn. to the oz. used as a spray to
allay cough.
Cimicifuga: sometimes relieves the hacking cough.
Codeine: in place of opium when the latter disagrees.
Cod-Liver Oil: one of the most useful of all remedies.
Colchicine.
Colchicum: in acute cases.
Conium: the vapor to relieve cough.
Copaiba: like Balsam Peru.
Creosote: inhaled to allay cough.
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.
Ipecacuanha: the wine as spray in much expectoration; in emetic doses
in children where the bronchioles are blocked up with mucus.
Iron: when expectoration is profuse.
Koumys regimen: sometimes very useful.
Levico Water: as tonic.
Lobelia: when there is spasmodic dsypnea.
Mercury: to diminish congestion.
Morphine: to quiet cough, in small doses.
Myrrh.
Myrtol.
Oil Sandalwood.
Opium: to lessen secretion and cough.
Peronin: in place of morphine for the cough.
Phosphates: in very chronic cases.
Physostigma: in chronic cases with great dyspnea.
Physostigmine.
Plumbic Acetate: in profuse secretion.
Potassium Carbonate: in viscid secretion.
Potassium Iodide: in combination with antim. tart. in cases of great
dyspnea.
Sanguinaria: with other expectorants.
Senega: when expulsive efforts are feeble.
Serpentaria: like senega.
Spinal Ice-bag: in excessive secretion.
Squill: where expectoration is thick.
Steam Inhalations.
Stramonium: in dry cough.
Strychnine: as respiratory stimulant.
Sulphur: where expectoration is copious, bronchitis severe, and
constitutional debility.
Sumbul.
Tar: to lessen secretion and allay chronic winter cough; given in pill
or as spray.
Terebene: internally or as inhalation.
Terpin Hydrate.
Turkish Bath: to clear up a slight attack and to render the patient
less susceptible to taking cold.
Turpentine Oil: as liniment to chest in children.
Zinc Oxide: to control too profuse a secretion.
~Bronchocele.~--_See Goiter._
~Bronchorrhea.~--_See also, Cough._
Acid, Carbolic: as spray.
Acid, Gallic: remote astringent.
Alcohol: accordingly as it agrees or disagrees with patient.
Alum: a remote astringent.
Ammoniac: in the aged.
Ammonium Carbonate: stimulant expectorant.
Ammonium Chloride: stimulant expectorant.
Ammonium Iodide: small doses frequently repeated; value increased by
the addition of arsenic.
Apomorphine Hydrochlorate.
Asafetida: like ammoniac.
Astringents.
Cod-liver Oil.
Copaiba: stimulant expectorant; to be given in capsules.
Creosote.
Cubebs: like copaiba.
Eucalyptol.
Eucalyptus Oil: sometimes very useful.
Gaduol: efficacious alterant tonic.
Grindelia: respiratory stimulant.
Iodine: as counter-irritant to chest, and as inhalation.
Iodoform.
Iodole.
Lead Acetate: to lessen secretion.
Myrtol: in profuse fetid expectoration.
Oil Pinus Pumilio.
Oil Pinus Sylvestris: as inhalation.
Phosphates: tonic.
Quinine: tonic.
Spinal Ice-bag: to lessen secretion.
Sulphurous Acid: as inhalation or spray.
Terebene.
Terpin Hydrate.
Turpentine Oil: stimulant expectorant, and also as inhalation.
~Bruises.~
Acid, Sulphurous: as local application constantly applied.
Aconite: liniment locally, to relieve pain.
Alcohol.
Ammonium Chloride.
Arnica: as local application no more use than alcohol, and sometimes
gives rise to much inflammation; this it will do if the skin is
abraded.
Capsicum: to remove discoloration of bruise.
Compressed Sponge.
Convallaria Polygonatum (Solomon's Seal): the juice from the fresh root
will take away a "black eye."
Hamamelis: locally.
Ice.
Ichthyol.
Iodoform.
Iodoformogen.
Iodole.
Lead Water: to allay pain.
Oil of Bay: same as Capsicum.
Opium: local application to relieve pain.
Pyoktanin.
Sozoiodole-Potassium: as dusting powder.
Sozoiodole-Sodium: as wash.
~Bubo.~--_See also, Chancroid, Syphilis._
Acid, Carbolic: by injection.
Acid, Nitric: as local application to indolent bubo.
Aristol.
Blisters: followed up by application of tinc. iodi. will often cause
absorption.
Calomel.
Chlora Hydrate: 25 per cent. solution, antiseptic and stimulant
application.
Copper Sulphate: 4 grn. to the oz.
Creolin.
Diaphtherin.
Europhen.
Hydrargyri Perchloridum: epidermis is first removed by a blister and
then a saturated solution applied; a poultice is then applied to
separate the eschar, leaving a healthy ulcer.
Ice: to relieve pain and lessen inflammation.
Ichthyol.
Iodine: as counter-irritant applied round the bubo.
Iodoform: as local application.
Iodoformogen.
Iodole.
Lead Lotions: compresses soaked in these will abort, or assist in the
healing process.
Mercury: as local application after opening bubo, when syphilitic
affection is great.
Peroxide of Hydrogen: wash and dress bubo with lint soaked in it.
Potassa Fusa: to open, instead of the knife.
Potassium Chlorate: applied as fine powder.
Pyoktanin.
Silver Nitrate: lightly applied to surface in indolent bubo.
Sozoiodole-Potassium: incision at first sign of suppuration, followed
by washing with antiseptics.
Sulphides: to check suppuration; not so useful as in an ordinary
abscess.
Tartar Emetic: when inflammation is acute and fever considerable.
Xeroform.
~Bunion.~--_See also, Bursitis._
Iodine: painted on in indolent forms.
Rest: when thickened and painful. Pressure is removed by thick
plasters, with a hole in the center.
~Burns and Scalds.~
Absorbent Dressings.
Acetanilid.
Acid, Boric: useful as ointment or lint dressings, or as boric oil.
Acid, Carbolic: 1 per cent. solution relieves pain and prevents
suppuration.
Acid, Picric: dressing.
Acid, Salicylic: 1 in 60 olive oil.
Alkalies: soon remove the pain on exposure to the air after
application.
Alum: finely powdered over foul, bleeding granulations.
Antipyrine: in solution or ointment.
Argenti Nitras: wash with a solution of 4 to 8 grn. to the oz. and wrap
in cotton wool.
Bismuth Subgallate.
Bismuth Subnitrate: a thick paste with glycerin protective.
Calcium Bisulphite (sol.).
Carron Oil: in recent burns.
Chalk, Oil and Vinegar: applied as a paste of a creamy consistence,
relieves pain at once.
Chlorinated Soda: in dilute solution.
Chloroform, Olive Oil and Lime Water: soon relieves the pain.
Cocaine: as lotion to allay the pain.
Cod-Liver Oil.
Cold: Instant application.
Collodion: flexible, to protect from air.
Cotton Wool: to protect from irritation and so lessen pain.
Creolin.
Creosote: like Carbolic Acid.
Diaphtherin.
Digitalis: in shock.
Europhen.
Gallæ Unguentum: 1 part to 8 of lard, to prevent cicatrix.
Ichthalbin.
Ichthyol.
Iodoform: local anesthetic and antiseptic.
Iodoformogen: the same.
Lead Carbonate: _i.e._ white-lead paint, for small burns; should be
applied instantly.
Lead Water.
Linimentum Calcis (lime-water with linseed oil).
Morphine and Atropine: to allay pain.
Naftalan.
Oakum.
Oil and Litharge: applied as a varnish, containing 5 per cent.
Salicylic Acid.
Ol. Menthæ Piperitæ: painted on.
Phytolacca: to relieve pain.
Potassium Chlorate: solution 5 grn. to 1 oz.
Pyoktanin.
Resorcin.
Rhubarb Ointment: one part of root to two of lard.
Rhus Toxicodendron.
Soap Suds: instead of alkali, if it is not at hand.
Sodium Bicarbonate: immediate application of a saturated solution.
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.
~Bursitis.~
Acid, Carbolic: as injection.
Blisters: most useful.
Fomentations: to relieve pain.
Ichthyol.
Iodine: When chronic, Lin. Iodi may be used as a blister, or the
liquor, after blistering or aspiration.
~Cachexiæ.~--_See also, Anemia, Scrofula, Syphilis, etc., and the list
of Tonics._
Acid, Nitric: in debility after acute disease; in combination with the
fresh decoction of bark.
Air: fresh.
Aliment: nutritious.
Ammonium Carbonate: with bark; after acute illness.
Arnica: Internally, in bad cases.
Arsen-hemol.
Arsenic: in malarial, also in cancerous, cachexia; in chronic malaria,
combined with iron.
Baths: Turkish bath, useful.
Calcium Phosphate.
Chalybeate Waters.
Cholagogues: most useful before, or along with other remedies, and
especially in malarial cachexia before the administration of quinine.
Cupro-hemol.
Electricity.
Eucalyptus: in general cachectic conditions.
Euonymin: as cholagogue.
Gaduol.
Glycerin: as a food.
Glycerinophosphates.
Gold.
Grape Cure.
Hemo-gallol.
Hemol.
Hydrastine.
Hydrastis: in malaria.
Ichthalbin.
Iodine.
Iron: generally in all anemic conditions.
Levico Water.
Manganese: along with iron and as syrup of double iodide.
Massage: exceedingly useful.
Mercury: in syphilitic cases.
Oils and Fat: cod-liver oil very useful. Cream as an addition to food;
oil as inunction.
Phosphates: in scrofula, phthisis and malnutrition.
Podophyllin: as cholagogue, in children of a few months old improperly
fed; in alcoholic excess; chronic morning diarrhea.
Potassium Iodide: in syphilitic and resulting conditions.
Purgatives, Saline: as adjuncts to cholagogues.
Quinine: in various forms of cachexia.
Sarsaparilla: in syphilis.
~Calculi.~--_See also, Gravel._
Acid, Benzoic.
Acid, Sulphuric, diluted.
Ammonium Borate.
Lithium Benzoate.
Lithium Carbonate.
Lithium Citrate.
Magnesia.
Manganese Dioxide.
Oil Turpentine.
Sodium Benzoate.
Sodium Bicarbonate.
Sodium Phosphate.
Solution Potassa.
~Calculi, Biliary.~--(_Gall-stones._)--_See also, Colic, Jaundice._
Acid, Nitric: hepatic stimulant and alterative.
Acid, Nitro-hydrochloric: same as nitric acid.
Aliment: absence of starch and fat recommended.
Anesthetics: during the passage of the calculus.
Belladonna: relief during spasm.
Carlsbad Waters: prophylactic.
Chloral Hydrate: to relieve pain during paroxysm; good in combination
with morphine.
Chloroform: inhalation from tumbler, most useful to relieve paroxysm.
Counter-Irritation: to relieve pain during passage.
Emetics: of doubtful value in aiding the expulsion of the calculus.
Ferri Succinas: as a resolvent for existing stones, and prophylactic.
Ferri Perchlor. Tinctura: like creosote, as an astringent. Useful if
renal changes complicate.
Iridin: in doses of 1 grn. for its cholagogue properties.
Mercury: the green iodide, with manna and soap as a pill.
Morphine: 1/5 grn. (repeated if necessary) with 1/120 grn. atropine
subcutaneously, to relieve pain and vomiting in paroxysm.
Nitro-hydrochloric Bath: to cause expulsion of calculus and to relieve
pain.
Oil: in large doses has been followed by the expulsion of gallstones.
Salicylate of Sodium: as prophylactic.
Sodium Carbonate: in large quantity of hot water during passage of
stone. At first there is usually vomitting but this soon ceases.
Sodium Phosphate: in 20 or 30 grn. doses before each meal as
prophylactic. Should be given in plenty of water.
Turpentine Oil and Ether (Durande's remedy): Equal parts to relieve
pain during paroxysm; also occasionally as prophylactic along with a
course of Carlsbad or Vichy water.
~Calculi, Renal and Vesical.~--_See also, Colic, Lithiasis, Oxaluria,
etc._
Acid, Hippuric.
Acid, Nitric: dilute; as injection into the bladder to dissolve
phosphatic calculi.
Alkalies, especially Potassa Salts: to resolve calculi, potash and soda
to be used.
Alkaline Mineral Waters: especially Vichy and Bethesda.
Ammonium Benzoate: to resolve phosphatic calculi.
Anesthetics: to relieve pain during passage of calculus.
Belladonna: sometimes relieves the pain of the passage of calculus.
Borocitrate of Magnesium: to dissolve uric acid calculus. Formula:
Magnesii carb. 1 dram; Acid, citric, 2 drams; Sodii biborat. 2 drams;
Aquæ, 8 fl. oz. m. sig.; 2 drams 3 t.p.d.
Calcium Carbonate.
Calumba: to relieve vomiting.
Castor Oil: as purgative.
Chloroform: as in biliary calculi.
Cotton Root: as decoction to relieve strangury.
Counter-Irritants: to lessen pain during passage of calculus.
Formin.
Lead Acetate.
Lithium Salts.
Lycetol.
Lysidine.
Mineral Waters.
Morphine: hypodermically as in biliary calculi.
Piperazine.
Potassium Boro-Tartrate: more efficient than the magnesium salt;
prepared by heating together four parts of cream of tartar, one of
boric acid, and ten of water. 20 grn. three times a day well diluted.
Potassium Citrate: in hematuria with uric acid crystals.
Water, Distilled: as drink.
~Camp Fever.~--_See Typhus._
~Cancer.~--_See also, Uterine Cancer._
Acid, Acetic: as injection into tumors.
Acid, Carbolic: as application or injection into tumor to lessen pain,
retard growth and diminish fetor.
Acid, Chromic: as caustic.
Acid, Citric: as lotion to allay pain, 1 in 60.
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.
Arsenic Iodide.
Belladonna: locally relieves pain. Used internally also.
Bismuth Subnitrate: to relieve pain and vomiting in cancer of stomach.
Bromine Chloride: alone or combined with other caustics. To be followed
by a poultice.
Bromine, Pure: as caustic to use round cancer.
Calcium Carbonate.
Caustic Alkalies: in strong solution dissolve the cells.
Charcoal Poultices: to lessen pain and fetor.
Chian Turpentine: benefits according to some--acc. to others, it is
useless.
Chloral Hydrate: to lessen pain.
Chloroform: vapor as local application to ulcerated cancer.
Codeine: as a sedative in cases of abdominal tumor.
Cod-Liver Oil: in cachexia.
Coffee: disinfectant, applied as fine powder.
Conium: as poultices to relieve pain. Used internally also.
Creolin.
Ferro-Manganous preparations.
Gaduol: in cachexia.
Gas Cautery: a form of actual cautery.
Glycerinophosphates.
Glycerite of Carbolic Acid: same as carbolic acid.
Gold and Sodium Chloride.
Hematoxylin Extract: to a fungating growth.
Hydrastis: as palliative application.
Hydrogen Peroxide.
Hyoscyamus: bruised leaves locally applied.
Ichthyol.
Iodoform: locally to lessen pain and fetor.
Iodoformogen.
Iron and Manganese: internally as tonics.
Levico Water: internally.
Lime: as caustic.
Manganese Iodide.
Mercury Bichloride.
Mercury Nitrate, Acid.
Methylene Blue.
Morphine salts.
Opium: locally and internally, to relieve pain.
Papain: as local application or injection.
Pepsin: as injection into tumor.
Potassium Chlorate: allays the pain and removes the fetor.
Potassium Permanganate.
Potassa Fusa: as escharotic.
Poultices: to relieve pain.
Pyoktanin.
Resorcin.
Sodium Ethylate: a powerful caustic.
Stramonium: ointment to relieve pain.
Terebene: disinfectant dressing.
Vienna Paste.
Warm Enemata: to lessen pain in cancer of rectum.
Zinc Chloride: as caustic.
Zinc Sulphate: as caustic.
~Cancrum Oris.~--_See also, Aphthæ, Stomatitis._
Acid, Boric.
Acid, Nitric: undiluted as local caustic.
Arsenic: internally.
Potassium Chlorate: internally in stomatitis; useless in noma.
Quinine: as syrup or enema.
Sodium Borate.
Sozoiodole-Sodium.
~Carbuncle.~--_See Anthrax._
~Cardiac Affections.~--_See Heart._
~Cardialgia.~
Antacids.
Bismuth Valerianate.
Charcoal.
Massage.
~Caries.~--_See also, Necrosis._
Acid, Carbolic: as a disinfectant lotion; often heals.
Acid, Phosphoric, Diluted: locally.
Aristol.
Calcium Carbonate.
Calcium Chloride.
Cod-Liver Oil.
Gaduol.
Glycerinophosphates.
Gold: in syphiloma of bone.
Iodine: locally and internally.
Iodole.
Iodoform.
Iodoformogen.
Iron.
Phosphates of Calcium and Iron.
Phosphorus.
Potassium Carbonate: concentrated solution, locally applied.
Potassa Fusa: to carious bone to remove disorganized portion.
Potassium Iodide: in syphilitic cases.
Sarsaparilla.
Sozoiodole-Mercury.
Sozoiodole-Potassium.
Sulphuric Acid: injection (one of strong acid to two of water) into
carious joints, and locally to carious or necrosed bone. Useful only if
disease is superficial.
Villate's Solution: cupri sulph., zinci sulph. 3 parts each, liq.
plumb, subacetat. 6 parts, acid acet. 40 parts, as injection into a
sinus.
~Catalepsy.~
Chloroform: inhaled.
Sternutatories.
Turpentine Oil: as enemata and embrocations to spine during paroxysms.
~Cataract.~
Atropine.
Cineraria Maritima Juice.
Codeine: in diabetic cases.
Diet and Regimen: nutritious in senile cases. Sugar and starch to be
avoided in diabetic cases.
Galvanism: in early stage.
Mydriatics: to dilate pupil as a means of diagnosis.
Phosphorated Oil: instilled into the eye will lead to absorption if
borne.
~Catarrh.~--_See also, the various Catarrhs below._
Acid, Camphoric.
Acid, Hydrocyanic, Dil.
Acid, Sulpho-anilic.
Alantol.
Aluminium Tanno-tartrate.
Antimony Sulphide, Golden.
Antinosin.
Apomorphine Hydrochlorate.
Arsenic Iodide.
Calcium Bisulphite.
Cimicifugin.
Cocaine Carbolate.
Creolin.
Cubeb.
Eucalyptus.
Gaduol.
Ichthalbin.
Ichthyol.
Iodoform.
Iodoformogen.
Menthol.
Naphtalin.
Oil Eucalyptus.
Potassium Cyanide.
Potassium Iodide.
Sodium Bicarbonate.
Sodium Iodide.
Sodium Nitrate.
Sozoiodole-Sodium.
Sozoiodole-Zinc.
Sulphur.
Sulphurated Potassa.
Tannoform.
Terpinol.
~Catarrh, Acute Nasal.~--_See also, Cough, Hay Fever, Influenza._
Acid, Carbolic: as inhalation or much diluted as spray. As gargle, 1 in
100, when catarrh tends to spread from nose into throat and chest, or
to ascend from throat into nose.
Acid, Sulphurous: as inhalation, spray or fumigation.
Acid, Tannic: injection of a solution in rectified spirit.
Aconite: internally at commencement, especially in children.
Aconite and Belladonna: in sore-throat and cold with profuse watery
secretion, one drop of tinct. of aconite to two of belladonna every
hour.
Aconite Liniment: to outside of nose in paroxysmal sneezing and coryza.
Aluminium Aceto-tartrate.
Ammonia: as inhalation in early stage, while discharge is serous.
Ammonium Chloride: in young children.
Ammonium Iodide: one grn. every two hours.
Argenti Nitras: injection of a solution of 10 grn. to the oz.
Arsenic: internally, or as cigarettes, in paroxysmal and chronic cases:
valuable In cases which exactly simulate hay fever.
Baths: hot foot-bath before retiring, Turkish, at commencement; cold
bath is prophylactic.
Belladonna: 5 min. of tinct., and afterwards one or two doses every
hour until the throat is dry.
Benzoic Acid: in ordinary catarrh, for its stimulant effects.
Bismuth: as Ferrier's snuff. Bismuth sub-nit., 2 drams; acaciæ pulv., 2
drams; morph. hydrochlor., 2 grn.
Camphor: as inhalation.
Chloral.
Chloroform: by inhalation.
Cimicifuga: in coryza accompanied by rheumatic or neuralgic pains in
head and face.
Cocaine Hydrochlorate.
Codeine.
Cold Powder: camph. 5 parts dissolved in ether to consistence of cream,
add ammon. carbonat. 4 parts, and pulv. opii 1 part. Dose, 3 to 10 grn.
To break up or modify cold.
Cubebs: powder as insufflation; also smoked; also the tincture in 2
dram doses with infusion of linseed.
Formaldehyde: by inhalation (2 per cent. solut.).
Hot Sponging: to relieve the headache.
Iodine: as inhalation.
Iodoform and Tannin: as insufflation.
Ipecacuanha: in moderate doses (10 grn.). Dover's powder at night will
cut short an attack. The wine as spray to the fauces.
Jaborandi: as tincture. Or hypodermic injection of half a grain of
pilocarpine hydrochlorate.
Menthol.
Nux Vomica: in dry cold in the head.
Oil: inunction to whole body to lessen susceptibility; locally to nose;
sometimes ointment may be used.
Opium: as Dover's powder at commencement; but not in obstruction to
respiration.
Peronin.
Pilocarpine Hydrochlorate (see Jaborandi).
Potassium Bichromate: solution locally, 1 to 10 grn. in 4 oz.
Potassium Chlorate: eight or ten lozenges a day to check.
Potassium Iodide: ten grn. at bedtime to avert acute coryza.
Pulsatilla: warm lotion applied to interior of nares; or internally but
not in symptoms of intestinal irritation.
Quinine: ten grn. with 1/2 grn. morphine, at commencement may abort it.
Resorcin.
Salicylate of Sodium: two and one-half grn. every half-hour to relieve
headache and neuralgia associated with coryza.
Sanguinaria: internally, and powder locally.
Sea-water Gargle.
Silver Nitrate.
Spray: useful means of applying solutions such as ipecacuanha wine,
already mentioned.
Sugar: finely powdered and snuffed up in the nose in catarrh due to
potassium iodide.
Tartar Emetic: one-twentieth to one-twelfth grn. at commencement
especially in children with thick and abundant secretion.
Turkish Bath.
Veratrum Viride: if arsenic fails.
Zinc Sulphate: as nasal injection 1 grn. to the oz.
~Catarrh, Broncho-Pulmonary.~--_See Bronchitis, Bronchorrhea._
~Catarrh, Cervical.~--_See Uterine Affections._
~Catarrh, Chronic Nasal.~--_See also, Ozena._
Acid, Benzoic: inhaled as vapor.
Acid, Carbolic: one to 100 as spray, or 1 to 200 as douche. One part
with 4 of iodine tincture as inhalation or by spray.
Acid, Salicylic.
Acid, Tannic.
Alum: in powder by insufflation, or in solution by douche.
Ammonia: inhalation.
Ammonium Chloride: in thick and abundant secretion.
Asafetida: stimulant expectorant.
Balsam of Peru: stimulant expectorant.
Bismuth Subnitrate.
Bromine: as vapor, inhaled with great caution.
Calomel.
Camphor.
Cocaine.
Cod-Liver Oil.
Cubebs: in powder, by insufflation, or as troches.
Ethyl Iodide: as inhalation.
Eucalyptol: in chronic catarrh with profuse secretion.
Eucalyptus.
Gaduol: as alterative.
Gold chloride.
Hamamelis: snuffed up nose.
Hydrastis.
Ichthalbin: as alterative.
Ichthyol.
Iodine: vapor inhaled.
Iodole.
Iodoform and Tannin: insufflated.
Iodoformogen.
Potassium Bichromate.
Potassium Permanganate.
Pulsatilla.
Resorcin.
Sanguinaria: in very chronic cases.
Silver Nitrate.
Sodium Chloride.
Sodium Phosphate.
Sozoiodole-Potassium.
Turpentine Oil: as liniment to chest.
~Catarrh, Duodenal.~--_See Duodenal Catarrh._
~Catarrh, Epidemic.~--_See Influenza._
~Catarrh, Gastric.~--_See Gastritis, Chronic._
~Catarrh, Genito-Urinary.~--_See Bladder, Catarrh of; Cystitis;
Endometritis; Gonorrhea; Leucorrhea, etc._
~Catarrh, Intestinal.~--_See Dysentery, Jaundice._
~Catarrh, Vesical.~--_See Bladder, Catarrh of._
~Cephalalgia.~--_See Headache._
~Cerebral Anemia.~--_See also, Insomnia._
Ammonia: inhaled is useful in sudden attacks.
Amyl Nitrite: to act on vessels.
Arsenic: in hypochondriasis of aged people; best combined with a minute
dose of opium.
Caffeine: in hypochondriasis.
Camphor, Monobromated.
Chalybeate Mineral Water.
Chloral Hydrate: in small doses, with stimulants.
Digitalis.
Electricity.
Glycerin.
Gold: melancholic state.
Guarana: restorative after acute disease.
Iron.
Levico Water.
Nitroglycerin: to dilate cerebral vessels. Like amyl nitrite.
Nux Vomica.
Phosphorus and Phosphates: to supply nutriment.
Quinine.
Strychnine.
Zinc Phosphide.
~Cerebral Concussion.~
Rest: absolute to be enjoined.
Stimulants to be avoided.
Warmth: to extremities.
~Cerebral Congestion.~--_See also, Apoplexy, Coma._
Acid, Hydrocyanic.
Aconite: in acute cases before effusion has taken place.
Arsenic: in commencing atheroma of cerebral vessels and tendency to
drowsiness and torpor.
Belladonna: very useful.
Bromides: very useful.
Cathartics: to lessen blood-pressure.
Chloral Hydrate: when temperature is high.
Colchicum: in plethoric cases.
Colocynth: as a purgative.
Croton Oil.
Diet: moderate, animal food sparingly, and stimulants to be avoided.
Digitalis: in alcoholic congestion, and simple congestive hemicrania.
Elaterin.
Elaterium.
Ergot: in want of arterial tone, or miliary aneurisms causing vertigo,
etc.
Galvanism of head and cervical sympathetic.
Gelsemium: in great motor excitement, wakefulness, horrors after
alcoholic excess.
Potassium Bromide.
Venesection: a suitable remedy in cases of threatening rupture of a
vessel.
Veratrum Viride: in acute congestion; the good ceases with exudation.
Water: cold douche to head, and warm to feet, alternately hot and cold
to nape of neck.
~Cerebral Softening.~
Phosphorus.
Potassium Bromide.
~Cerebritis.~
Ammonium Chloride: locally.
Chloral Hydrate.
Electricity.
Ice.
~Cerebro-Spinal Fever.~--_See Meningitis, Cerebro-Spinal._
~Chancre.~--_See also, Syphilis._
Acetanilid.
Acid, Carbolic: locally.
Alumnol.
Aristol.
Calomel: locally.
Camphor: finely powdered.
Canquoin's Paste: zinc chloride, 1 in 6, made into paste, local.
Caustics: chromic acid, bromine, acid nitrate of mercury, zinc chloride
nitric acid, caustic alkalies.
Copper Sulphate.
Eucalyptol: mixed with iodoform and locally applied.
Europhen.
Formaldehyde.
Hydrogen Peroxide: constantly applied to destroy specific character.
Iodoform.
Iodoformogen: one of the best remedies.
Iodole.
Mercuric Nitrate Solution.
Mercury: internally. Also, locally: black wash; or yellow wash; or
corrosive sublimate in solution.
Mercury Salicylate.
Monsel's Solution.
Pyoktanin.
Resorcin.
Sozoiodole-Mercury.
Sozoiodole-Zinc.
Tannoform.
~Chancroid.~--_See also, Bubo._
Acetanilid.
Acid, Carbolic: as injection and local application.
Acid, Nitric: locally as caustic.
Acid, Salicylic.
Acid, Sulphuric: with charcoal.
Acid, Tannic.
Actual Cautery.
Alumnol.
Aristol.
Bismuth Benzoate.
Bismuth Subgallate.
Bismuth and Zinc Oxide: or calomel and bismuth, as substitutes for
iodoform.
Camphor: finely powdered.
Caustics: sometimes necessary.
Cocaine.
Eucalyptol: with iodine.
Ferric Iodide: internally in phagedenic cases, or debility.
Ferrum Tartaratum: like ferric iodide.
Hot Sitz-bath.
Hydrogen.
Iodoform.
Iodoformogen: very useful.
Iodole.
Mercury: acid nitrate as local application.
Potassium Chlorate: in fine powder.
Pyoktanin.
Resorcin.
Sozoiodole-Mercury.
Sozoiodole-Potassium, as dusting-powder.
Sozoiodole-Sodium, as wash.
Zinc Chloride.
~Chapped Hands and Lips.~
Acid, Benzoic.
Acid, Sulphurous: as lotion or as fumigation.
Adeps Lanæ.
Benzoin: compound tincture, 1 part to 4 of glycerin.
Calcium Carbonate, Precipitated.
Collodion.
Camphor Cream.
Glycerin: mixed with half the quantity of eau de cologne; or as
glyceritum amyli.
Hydrastis: as lotion.
Lanolin.
Lotio Plumbi.
Lycopodium.
Magnesia.
Solution Gutta-Percha: protective.
Sozoiodole-Sodium.
Starch.
Zinc Carbonate and Oxide.
~Chest Pains.~--_See also, Myalgia, Neuralgia Pleuritis, Pleurodynia,
Pneumonia._
Belladonna: in pleurodynia as plaster or ointment.
Iodine: in myalgia as ointment.
Strychnine.
~Chicken-Pox.~
Aconite.
Ammonium Acetate.
Bath: cold in hyperpyrexia; warm as diaphoretic.
Compress, Cold: if sore throat.
Laxatives.
~Chilblains.~
Acid, Carbolic: with tincture of iodine and tannic acid as ointment.
Acid, Sulphurous: diluted with equal part of glycerin, as spray; or
fumes of burning sulphur.
Acid, Tannic.
Aconite.
Alum.
Arnica.
Balsam of Peru: as ointment when broken.
Basilicon Ointment.
Cadmium Iodide: internally.
Cajeput Oil.
Capsicum, Tincture: locally, when unbroken with solution of gum arabic
equal parts on silk.
Chlorinated Lime.
Cod-Liver Oil: internally.
Collodion.
Copper Sulphate: solution of 4 grn. to the oz.
Creolin.
Creosote.
Electricity.
Gaduol: as tonic.
Ichthalbin: as alterant tonic.
Ichthyol: topically.
Iodine: ointment or tincture to unbroken chilblains.
Lead Subacetate.
Sozoiodole-Sodium.
Tincture of Opium: locally to ease itching.
Turpentine Oil.
~Chlorosis.~--_See also, Anemia, Amenorrhea._
Absinthin.
Acid, Gallic.
Arsenic: in place of or along with iron.
Arsen-hemol.
Benzoin.
Berberine Sulphate: inferior to quinine.
Calcium Hypophosphite.
Cetrarin.
Cocculus Indicus: in amenorrhea and leucorrhea.
Cupro-hemol.
Ergot: in chlorotic amenorrhea.
Ferri Iodidum.
Ferro-Manganates.
Ferropyrine.
Gaduol.
Gold.
Glycerinophosphates.
Hemol.
Hemo-gallol: powerful blood-maker.
Hemoglobin.
Hypophosphite of Calcium, or Sodium.
Ichthalbin: effective alterative.
Iron: carbonate, useful form; sometimes best as chalybeate waters. In
irritable stomach the non-astringent preparations; in weak anemic
girls, with pain and vomiting after food, the per-salts are best.
Levico Water.
Manganese Salts: in general.
Massage: useful, combined with electricity and forced feeding.
Nux Vomica: useful, combined with iron.
Orexine: as appetizer.
Pancreatin: to improve digestion.
Potassium Iodide.
Purgatives: useful, often indispensable.
Sea-Bathing.
Zinc Phosphide.
Zinc Valerianate.
~Choking.~
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.
Atropine: hypodermically in collapse.
Betol.
Cajeput Oil.
Calomel: in minute doses to allay vomiting.
Camphor Spirit: 5 minims with tincture of opium, every ten minutes
while the symptoms are violent; and then every hour.
Cannabis Indica.
Cantharides.
Capsicum.
Castor Oil.
Chloral Hydrate: subcutaneously, alone, or with morphine, in the stage
of collapse.
Chloroform: 2 or 3 min., either alone or with opium, every few minutes
to allay the vomiting.
Cinnamon.
Copper Arsenite.
Copper salts: sometimes used to stop vomiting.
Corrosive Sublimate.
Counter-Irritation over epigastrium.
Creolin.
Creosote: alone or with opium, to allay vomiting.
Dry Packing.
Enemeta of warm salt solution.
Enteroclysis associated with hot bath.
Ether: subcutaneously.
Guaco.
Hypodermoclysis.
Ice to Spine: for cramps.
Ipecacuanha.
Jaborandi.
Lead Acetate; has been used as an astringent in early stages along with
camphor and opium.
Mercury Bichloride.
Morphine: one-eighth to one-fourth of a grain subcutaneously to relieve
cramps.
Naphtalin: may be useful.
Naphtol.
Naphtol Benzoate.
Opium: in subcutaneous injection 1--10 to 1--2 grn. to check the
preliminary diarrhea, and arrest the collapse.
Permanganates.
Physostigma.
Podophyllin.
Potassium Bromide.
Quinine.
Resorcin.
Salol.
Strychnine: has been used during the preliminary diarrhea, and also as
a stimulant to prevent collapse.
Sulpho-carbolates.
Table Salt Injections: into the veins have a marvellous effect during
collapse in apparently restoring the patient, but their benefit is
generally merely temporary.
Transfusion of Milk: has been used in collapse.
Tribromphenol.
Turpentine Oil: sometimes appears serviceable in doses of 10 to 20 min.
every two hours.
~Cholera Infantum.~
Acid, Carbolic: with bismuth or alone, very effective.
Aliment: milk.
Arsenic: for vomiting in collapse.
Beef Juice.
Bismal.
Bismuth Salicylate.
Bismuth Subgallate.
Bismuth Subnitrate.
Brandy: in full doses.
Caffeine.
Calomel: in minute doses to arrest the vomiting.
Camphor: where there is very great depression.
Castor Oil.
Cold: bath at 75 degrees F. every three or four hours, or cold
affusions.
Cold Drinks.
Copper Arsenite.
Creosote.
Creolin.
Cupri Sulphas: in very minute doses up to the one thirty-secondth of a
grain.
Diet.
Eudoxine.
Enteroclysis.
Ferri et Ammonii Citras.
Hot drinks, applications and baths, if temperature becomes subnormal.
Ice to Spine.
Ichthyol.
Iodoform and Oil injections to relieve tenesmus.
Ipecacuanha: when stools greenish or dysenteric.
Irrigation of Bowels.
Lead Acetate: very useful.
Liquor Calcis.
Mercury: 1/6 grn. of gray powder, hourly. In urgent cases a starch
enema should be given containing a minute quantity of laudanum.
Mustard or Spice plaster to abdomen.
Nux Vomica.
Oleum Ricini.
Opium.
Peptonized Milk.
Podophyllin: if stools are of peculiar pasty color.
Potassium Bromide: in nervous irritability and feverishness.
Potassium Chlorate: as enemata.
Resorcin.
Rhubarb.
Silver Nitrate: after acute symptoms are past.
Sodium Phosphate.
Tannalbin: very useful and harmless.
Tannigen.
Tannin and Glycerin.
Tribromphenol.
Xeroform.
Zinc Oxide: with bismuth and pepsin.
Zinc Sulphocarbolate.
~Cholera Morbus.~--_See Cholera Simplex._
~Cholera Nostras.~--_See Cholera Simplex._
~Cholera Simplex.~--_See also, Cholera Asiatica and Infantum._
Acid, Carbolic: with bismuth.
Acid, Sulphuric.
Alcohol: dilute and iced.
Arsenic: to stop vomiting.
Atropine: hypodermically, an efficient remedy.
Borax.
Cajeput Oil: used in India.
Calomel.
Castor Oil with Opium.
Calumba: as antiemetic.
Camphor: very useful.
Chloroform.
Chloral Hydrate: subcutaneously, very useful.
Chlorine Water.
Copper Arsenite.
Copper salts: as astringent.
Creolin.
Creosote.
Ipecacuanha: very useful.
Lead Acetate: at commencement after salines, and before administering
opium, in order to deplete the vessels.
Morphine: hypodermic.
Mustard: internally as emetic; poultice over chest.
Mustard or Spice plaster to abdomen.
Naphtalin.
Naphtol.
Paraformaldehyde.
Salines: to precede the use of lead acetate.
Salol.
Sumbul.
Tannalbin.
Veratrum Album.
~Chordee.~
Aconite: 1 min. every hour.
Amyl Nitrite.
Atropine: subcutaneously with morphine.
Belladonna: with camphor and opium, internally, very useful.
Bromides: especially of potassium.
Camphor, Monobromated.
Camphor: internally, useful in full doses.
Cannabis Indica.
Cantharis: one drop of tincture three times a day as prophylactic.
Cocaine Hydrochlorate.
Colchicum: half fl. dr. of tincture at night.
Cubebs.
Digitalis.
Hot Sitz-bath.
Hyoscyamus.
Lupulin: as prophylactic.
Morphine: hypodermically in perineum at night.
Potassium Bromide.
Tartar Emetic: carried to the extent of producing nausea.
Strychnine.
Tobacco Wine: just short of nauseating, at bedtime.
~Chorea.~
Acetanilid.
Ammonium Valerianate.
Amyl Nitrite.
Aniline.
Antimony: in gradually increasing doses twice a day, to maintain
nauseating effect.
Antipyrine.
Apomorphine.
Arsenic: useful sometimes; must be pushed till eyes red or sickness
induced, then discontinued and then used again.
Belladonna.
Bismuth Valerianate.
Bromalin: agreeable sedative.
Bromo-hemol.
Bromides.
Calcium Chloride: in strumous subjects.
Camphor, Monobromated.
Cannabis Indica: may do good; often increases the choreic movements.
Cerium Oxalate.
Chloralamide.
Chloral Hydrate: sometimes very useful in large doses, carefully
watched, also where sleep is prevented by the violence of the
movements.
Chloroform: as inhalation in severe cases.
Cimicifuga: often useful, especially when menstrual derangement, and in
rheumatic history.
Cocaine Hydrochlorate.
Cocculus: in large doses.
Cod-Liver Oil.
Cold: to spine, or sponging, but not in rheumatism, pain in joints,
fever; best to begin with tepid water.
Conium: the succus is sometimes useful, must be given in large doses.
Copper: the ammonio-sulphate in increasing doses till sickness
produced.
Cupro-hemol.
Curare.
Duboisine Sulphate.
Electricity: static.
Ether Spray: instead of cold to spine.
Exalgin.
Gaduol.
Gold Bromide.
Hemol.
Hot Pack.
Hyoscine Hydrobromate.
Hyoscyamus.
Iodides.
Iron: chalybeate waters in anemia and amenorrhea.
Iron Valerianate.
Lactophenin.
Levico Water.
Lobelia: only in nauseating doses.
Mineral Water Baths.
Morphine: subcutaneously in severe cases, until effect is manifested;
by mouth in combination with chloral hydrate best.
Musk.
Nitroglycerin.
Physostigma: three to 6 grains of powder a day for children, 10 to 20
for adult.
Picrotoxin: large doses.
Potassium Arsenite Solution.
Quinine.
Salicin.
Salicyliates.
Silver: the oxide and nitrate sometimes do good.
Silver Chloride.
Silver Cyanide.
Silver Oxide.
Simulo.
Sodium Arsenate.
Stramonium Tincture.
Strontium Lactate.
Strychnine: useful at puberty or in chorea from fright.
Sulfonal.
Valerian: to control the movements.
Veratrum Viride: has been employed.
Water: cold affusion to spine useful.
Zinc Chloride.
Zinc Cyanide.
Zinc-Hemol: effective hematinic nervine.
Zinc Iodide.
Zinc Oxide.
Zinc Sulphate in small: but very frequent doses, and when the nausea
produced is unbearable another emetic to be used.
Zinc Valerianate.
~Choroiditis.~
Atropine.
Mercury.
Opiates.
Opium.
~Chyluria.~
Acid, Gallic.
Hypophosphites.
Methylene Blue.
Potassium Iodide.
Sodium Benzoate.
Thymol.
~Cicatrices.~
Iodine.
Thiosinamine.
~Climacteric Disorders.~--_See also, Metrorrhagia._
Acid, Hydriodic.
Aconite: 1 minim hourly for nervous palpitations and fidgets.
Ammonia: as inhalation. Raspail's Eau Sédative locally in headache:
take Sodii chloridum, Liq. ammoniæ, each 2 fl. oz.; Spiritus camphoræ;
3 fl. drs.; Aqua to make 2 pints.
Ammonium Chloride: locally in headache.
Amyl Nitrite.
Belladonna.
Calabar Bean: in flatulence, vertigo, etc.
Camphor: for drowsiness and headache.
Cannabis Indica.
Change: of air and scene useful adjunct.
Cimicifuga: for headache.
Eucalyptol: flushings, flatulence, etc.
Hot Spongings.
Hydrastinine Hydrochlorate.
Iron: for vertical headache, giddiness, and feeling of heat, fluttering
of the heart.
Methylene Blue.
Nitrate of Amyl: where much flushed.
Nux Vomica: useful where symptoms are limited to the head.
Opium.
Ovaraden.
Ovariin.
Physostigma.
Potassium Bromide: very useful.
Potassium Iodide.
Sodium Benzoate.
Stypticin: efficacious, hemostatic and uterine sedative.
Thymol.
Warm Bath.
Zinc Valerianate.
~Coccygodynia.~
Belladonna: plaster useful.
Chloroform: locally injected.
Counter-irritation.
Electricity.
Surgical Treatment: in obstinate cases.
~Coldness.~
Atropine.
Chloral Hydrate.
Cocaine Hydrochlorate.
Cold Water: as prophylactic with friction and wrapping up.
Spinal Ice-bag: for cold feet.
Strychnine.
~Colic, Biliary.~--_See Colic, Renal and Hepatic._
~Colic, Intestinal.~
Ammonia: in children.
Anise.
Antacids: in acidity.
Arsenic: when pain is neuralgic in character.
Asafetida: to remove flatulence, especially in children and hysterical
patients.
Atropine: in simple spasmodic colic.
Belladonna: especially in children and intestinal spasm.
Caraway.
Chamomile Oil: in hysterical women.
Chloral Hydrate and Bromides: when severe in children.
Chloroform: by inhalation, to remove pain and flatulence.
Cocculus: during pregnancy.
Codeine.
Coriander.
Essential Oils: Aniseed, Cajeput, Camphor, Cardamoms, Cinnamon, Cloves,
Peppermint Rue, Spearmint: all useful.
Ether: internally and by inhalation.
Fennel.
Fomentations.
Ginger: stimulant carminative.
Hyoscine Hydrobromate.
Hyoscyamus.
Lime Water: in children where due to curdling of milk.
Matricaria: infusion, to prevent, in teething children.
Milk Regimen: in enteralgia.
Morphine: very useful.
Mustard: plaster.
Nux Vomica: useful.
Oil Turpentine.
Opium.
Peppermint.
Potassium Bromide: in local spasm in children which can be felt through
hard abdominal walls.
Poultices: large and warm, of great service.
Rhubarb.
Rue.
Spirit Melissa.
Zinc Cyanide.
~Colic, Lead.~--_See also, Lead Poisoning._
Acid, Sulphuric: dilute in lemonade as a prophylactic and curative.
Alum: relieves the pain and constipation.
Atropine.
Belladonna.
Bromides: as solvents alone or with iodides.
Calomel.
Castor Oil: given twice a day to eliminate.
Chloroform: internally and externally as liniment.
Croton Oil.
Eggs.
Electro-chemical Baths.
Magnesium Sulphate: most useful along with potassium iodide.
Morphine: subcutaneously to relieve pain.
Opium.
Potassium Iodide: most useful in eliminating lead from the system, and
combined with magnesium sulphate to evacuate it.
Potassium Tartrate.
Sodium Chloride.
Strontium Iodide.
Sulphur: to aid elimination.
Sulphurated Potassa.
Sulphur Baths.
~Colic, Nephritic.~--_See Colic, Renal and Hepatic._
~Colic, Renal and Hepatic.~--_See also, Calculi._
Aliment: abstain from starches and fats.
Alkalies: alkaline waters very useful.
Ammonium Borate.
Amyl Valerianate.
Antipyrine.
Baths: warm, to remove pain.
Belladonna.
Calomel.
Chloroform: inhalation from tumbler during fit.
Collinsonia.
Corn-silk.
Counter-irritation: see list of Irritants, etc.
Diet.
Ether: like chloroform.
Formin.
Gelsemium.
Horse-back riding.
Hot application over liver: as a relaxant.
Hydrangea.
Lycetol.
Lysidine.
Olive or Cotton-Seed Oil.
Opium: in small doses frequently repeated, or hypodermically as
morphine.
Piperazine.
Sodium Benzoate.
Sodium Salicylate.
Stramonium.
Strophanthus Tincture.
Turpentine Oil.
~Collapse.~--_See also, Exhaustion, Shock, Syncope._
Ammonia.
Atropine.
Caffeine.
Digitalin.
Digitoxin.
Ether.
Heat.
Nitroglycerin.
Mustard Baths.
Strophanthin.
Strychnine.
~Coma.~--_See also, Cerebral Congestion, Uremia, Narcotic Poisoning._
Blisters: on various parts of the body in succession in the critical
condition, especially at the end of a long illness.
Cold Douche: in the drunkenness of opium care must be taken not to
chill, and it is best to alternate the cold with warm water.
Croton Oil: as a purgative in cerebral concussion, etc.
Mustard: to stimulate.
Potassium Bitartrate: purgative where the blood is poisoned.
Turpentine Oil: enema as stimulant.
~Condylomata.~--_See also, Syphilis, Warts._
Acid, Carbolic: locally.
Acid, Chromic: with one-fourth of water locally, as caustic.
Acid, Nitric: as caustic, or dilute solutions as a wash.
Arsenic: as caustic.
Europhen.
Ichthyol.
Iodole.
Iodoform: locally.
Iodoformogen.
Mercury: wash with chlorine water, or chlorinated soda, and dust with
calomel and oxide of zinc in equal quantities.
Savine.
Silver Nitrate: as caustic.
Sozoiodole-Mercury.
Thuja: strong tincture locally; small doses internally useful.
Zinc Chloride or Nitrate: locally, as a caustic or astringent.
Zinc Sulphate.
~Conjunctivitis.~
Acid, Boric.
Acid, Carbolic.
Alum: after acute symptoms have subsided; but not if the epithelium is
denuded, since perforation may then take place.
Antipyrine.
Argenti Nitras: solution 4 grn. to the fl. dr. in purulent ophthalmia.
The solid in gonorrheal ophthalmia, to be afterwards washed with sodium
chloride solution, 4 grn. to the fl. oz.
Atropine.
Belladonna: locally and internally.
Bismuth: locally, in chronic cases.
Blisters: behind ear.
Boroglyceride.
Cadmium: as a wash instead of copper and zinc; the sulphate, 1 grn. to
the fl. oz.
Calomel.
Castor Oil: a drop in eye to lessen irritation from foreign body.
Cocaine Hydrochlorate.
Copper Acetate.
Copper Aluminate.
Copper Sulphate: as collyrium.
Creolin Solution, 1 per cent.
Ergot: the fluid extract, undiluted, locally in engorgement of the
conjunctival vessels.
Eserine.
Euphrasia: as a mild astringent.
Europhen.
Formaldehyde.
Gallicin.
Hydrastine Hydrochlorate.
Iodole.
Iron Sulphate.
Mercury: as citrine ointment, very useful outside the lids in palpebral
conjunctivitis.
Mercury Oxide, Red.
Mercury Oxide, Yellow.
Naphtol.
Opium: fluid extract in eye relieves pain.
Pulsatilla: as wash and internally.
Pyoktanin.
Resorcin.
Retinol.
Silver Nitrate.
Sodium Borate.
Sozoiodole-Sodium.
Tannin: as collyrium.
Zinc Acetate.
Zinc Chloride.
Zinc Sulphate.
~Combustiones.~--_See Burns._
~Constipation.~--_See also, Intestinal Obstruction._
Absinthin.
Aloes, see dinner pill.
Aloin.
Alum.
Ammonium Chloride: in bilious disorders.
Apples: stewed or roast.
Arsenic: in small doses.
Belladonna Extract: one-tenth to 1/2 grn. in spasmodic contraction of
the intestine leading to habitual constipation; best administered along
with nux vomica as a pill at bedtime.
Bismuth Formula: take Aluminii sulphas, 1-1/2 grn.; bismuthi
subnitratis, 1 grn.; extracti gentianæ, q.s., make pill.
Bisulphate Potassium.
Bryonia.
Calomel.
Carlsbad Waters: tumblerful sipped hot while dressing.
Cascara Sagrada: in habitual constipation, 10 to 20 minims of fluid
extract an hour or two after meals.
Castor Oil: 10 to 20 minims in a teaspoonful of brandy and peppermint
water before breakfast.
Chloral Hydrate.
Cocculus: When montions are hard and lumpy, and much flatus.
Cod-Liver Oil: in obstinate cases in children.
Coffee: sometimes purges.
Colocynth: compound pill at night.
Croton Oil: when no inflammation is present, very active.
Diet.
Dinner Pill: aloes and myrrh; aloes and iron; with nux vomica and
belladonna or hyoscyamus, taken just before dinner.
Enemata: soap and water, or castor oil; habitual use tends to increase
intestinal torpor; should only be used to unload.
Ergot: to give tone.
Eserine.
Euonymin: cholagogue purgative in hepatic torpor.
Fig: one before breakfast.
Gamboge: in habitual constipation.
Glycerin: suppositories or enemata.
Guaiacum: especially when powerful purgatives fail.
Gymnastics, horseback riding, or massage.
Honey: with breakfast.
Hydrastis: useful in biliousness.
Ipecacuanha: one grn. in the morning before breakfast.
Jalap: along with scammony.
Leptandra.
Lime: saccharated solution after meals.
Licorice Powder, Compound: a teaspoonful at night or in the morning.
Magnesium Bicarbonate: solution useful for children and pregnant women.
Magnesium Oxide.
Magnesium Sulphate.
Manna.
Mercury: in bilious disorders with light stools.
Muscarine: to increase peristalsis.
Nux Vomica: 5 to 10 minims in a glass of cold water before breakfast or
before dinner.
Oil Olives.
Opium: when rectum is irritable; also in reflex constipation.
Ox-gall.
Physostigma: 10 minims of tincture along with belladonna and nux vomica
in atony of the walls.
Podophyllin or Podophyllum: very useful, especially in biliousness: ten
drops of tincture at night alone, or the resin along with other
purgatives in pill, especially when stools are dark.
Potassium Bisulphate.
Potassium and Sodium Tartrate.
Prunes: stewed, often efficient; if stewed in infusion of senna they
are still more active.
Resin Jalap.
Rhubarb Compound Pill: at night; also for children, mixed with
bicarbonate of sodium.
Saline Waters: in morning before breakfast.
Senna: as confection, etc.
Senna: with Cascara Sagrada.
Soap: suppository in children.
Sodium Chlorate.
Sodium Phosphate.
Stillingia: 10 minims of fluid extract.
Strychnine: in atony of the walls.
Sulphates: in purgative natural waters, in small doses.
Sulphur: sometimes very useful as a good addition to compound licorice
powder.
Tobacco: 5 minims of the wine at bedtime, or cigarette after breakfast.
Treacle: with porridge, useful for children.
Turpentine Oil: in atonic constipation with much gaseous distention of
colon.
Water: draught in the morning before breakfast.
Whole-Meal Bread.
~Convalescence.~--_See also, Adynamia, Anemia._
Acid, Hydriodic.
Alcohol: with meals.
Bebeerine.
Berberine.
Bitters: the simple.
Coca: either extract, or as coca wine for a nervine tonic.
Cod-Liver Oil.
Cream.
Eucalyptus: a tonic after malarial disease.
Glycerinophosphates.
Guarana: same as coca.
Hemo-gallol.
Hydrastine.
Hydrastis: as a substitute for quinine.
Ichthalbin: to promote alimentation.
Iron: as chalybeate waters.
Koumys.
Lime: as lime-water or carbonate of calcium.
Malt Extract, Dry.
Opium: as enema for insomnia.
Orexine: to stimulate appetite, digestion and assimilation.
Pancreatin: to aid digestion.
Pepsin: the same.
Phosphates.
Phosphites.
Quinine.
Sumbul: where great nervous excitability.
~Convulsions~--_See also, Albuminuria, Epilepsy, Hysteria, Puerperal
Convulsions, Uremia._
Acid, Phosphoric, Diluted.
Allyl Tribromide.
Amyl Nitrite.
Atropine.
Bromides: in general.
Camphor, Monobromated.
Coniine.
Eserine.
Hyoscyamus.
Musk.
Mustard bath.
Nitroglycerin.
Veratrum Viride.
~Convulsions, Infantile.~
Aconite.
Alcohol: a small dose of wine or brandy arrests convulsions from
teething.
Asafetida: a small dose in an enema arrests convulsions from teething.
Baths: warm, with cold affusions to the head.
Belladonna: very useful.
Chloral Hydrate: In large doses--5 grn. by mouth or rectum.
Chloral Hydrate: with Bromide.
Chloroform.
Garlic Poultices: to spine and lower extremities.
Ignatia: when intestinal irritation.
Pilocarpine Hydrochlorate (in uremic).
Spinal Ice-Bag.
Valerian: when due to worms.
Veratrum.
~Corneal Opacities.~--_See also, Keratitis._
Cadmium Sulphate.
Calomel.
Iodine: internally and locally.
Mercury Oxide, Red.
Mercury Oxide, Yellow.
Opium.
Potassium Iodide.
Silver Nitrate: locally.
Sodium Chloride: injected under conjunctiva.
Sodium Sulphate.
Thiosinamine.
~Corns.~
Acid, Acetic.
Acid, Carbolic.
Acid, Chromic.
Acid, Salicylic: saturated solution in collodion with extract of
cannabis indica, 1/2 dram to 1 fl. oz.
Acid, Trichloracetic.
Copper Oleate.
Iodine.
Mercury Bichloride.
Potassium Bichromate.
Poultices: and plaster with hole in centre to relieve of pressure.
Silver Nitrate.
Sodium Ethylate.
~Coryza.~--_See also, Catarrh._
Acid, Camphoric.
Acid, Sulpho-anilic.
Acid, Tannic.
Aconite: in early stages.
Allium: as a poultice to breast, or in emulsion, or boiled in milk for
children.
Amyl Nitrite.
Arsenic: taken for months; for persistent colds.
Antipyrine.
Aristol.
Belladonna.
Bismuth Subnitrate.
Bromides: for associated headache.
Camphor.
Cocaine.
Cubebs.
Formaldehyde: by inhalation (2 per cent. solut.).
Glycerin.
Hamamelis.
Hot Mustard foot-bath.
Ichthyol.
Iodine Fumes.
Iodole.
Iodoformogen.
Losophan.
Menthol.
Pilocarpine Hydrochlorate.
Potassium Iodide.
Quinine.
Salicin.
Sodium Benzoate.
Sozoiodole salts.
Stearates.
Sweet Spirit of Niter.
Tartar Emetic.
Thymol.
~Coughs.~--_See also, Bronchitis, Pertussis, Phthisis._
Acid, Carbolic.
Acid, Hydrobromic.
Acid, Hydrocyanic, Diluted: for irritable cough, and in phthisis, and
in reflex cough arising from gastric irritation.
Aconite: in throat-cough and emphysema.
Alcohol: relief by brandy or wine; aggravation by beer or stout.
Alum: as spray or gargle.
Antipyrine.
Antispasmin.
Argenti Nitras: in throat cough, a solution of 8 grn. to the fl. oz.
applied to fauces.
Apomorphine: in bronchitis with deficient secretion: and as emetic in
children where there is excess of bronchial secretion.
Asafetida: in the after cough from habit, and in the sympathetic
whooping-cough of mothers.
Belladonna: in nervous cough and uncomplicated whooping cough.
Blue Pill: in gouty or bilious pharyngeal irritation.
Butyl-Chloral Hydrate: in night coughs of phthisis.
Camphor: internally or locally, painted over the larynx with equal
parts of alcohol.
Cannabis Indica.
Carbonic Acid Gas: inhalation in nervous cough.
Cerium: in cough associated with vomiting.
Chloral Hydrate: in respiratory neurosis.
Chloroform: with a low dose of opium and glycerin in violent paroxysmal
cough; if very violent to be painted over the throat.
Codeine.
Cod-Liver Oil: one of the most useful of all remedies in cough.
Conium: in whooping cough.
Creosote: in winter cough.
Cubebs: along with linseed in acute catarrh.
Demulcents.
Gaduol: to improve nutrition.
Gelsemium: In convulsive and spasmodic cough, with irritation of the
respiratory centre.
Glycerin: along with lemon juice, as an emollient.
Glycerinophosphates.
Glycyrrhizin, Ammoniated.
Grindelia: in habitual or spasmodic cough.
Guaiacol.
Hyoscyamus: in tickling night coughs.
Ichthalbin: as alterative and assimilative.
Iodine: as inhalation in cough after measles, or exposure to cold,
associated with much hoarseness and wheezing of the chest.
Iodoform: In the cough of phthisis.
Ipecacuanha: internally and as spray locally; in obstinate winter cough
and bronchial asthma.
Ipecacuanha and Squill Pill: in chronic bronchitis at night.
Lactucarium: to relieve.
Laurocerasus, Aqua: substitute for hydrocyanic acid.
Linseed: in throat cough.
Lobelia: in whooping-cough and dry bronchitic cough.
Morphine.
Nasal Douche: in nasal cough.
Nux Vomica.
Oil Bitter Almond.
Opiates: morphine locally to the throat and larynx, and generally.
Peronin: admirable sedative without constipating action.
Potassium Bromide: in reflex coughs.
Potassium Carbonate: in dry cough with little expectoration.
Potassium Cyanide.
Prunus Virginiana.
Pulsatilla: as anemonin 1/2 to 1 grn. dose, in asthma and whooping
cough.
Sandalwood Oil.
Sanguinaria: in nervous cough.
Tannin: as glycerite to the fauces in chronic inflammation, especially
in children.
Tar Water: in winter cough, especially paroxysmal, bronchial and
phthisical.
Theobromine salts.
Thymol.
Valerian: in hysterical cough.
Zinc Sulphate: in nervous hysterical cough.
Zinc Valerianate.
~Coxalgia.~--_See also, Abscess, Caries, Suppuration, Synovitis._
Barium Chloride.
Ichthyol.
Iodoform.
Iodoformogen.
Iron Iodide.
~Cramp.~--_See Spasmodic Affections._
~Cretinism.~
Thyroid preparations.
~Croup.~--_See also, Laryngismus Stridulus, Laryngitis, Diphtheria._
Acid, Carbolic: spray.
Acid, Lactic: to dissolve membrane (1 in 20); applied as spray or
painted over.
Acid, Sulphurous: as spray.
Aconite: in catarrhal croup.
Alum: teaspoonful with honey or syrup every 1/4 or 1/2 hour until
vomiting is induced; most useful emetic.
Antispasmin.
Apocodeine.
Apomorphine: as an emetic; may cause severe depression.
Aspidospermine.
Calomel: large doses, to allay spasm and check formation of false
membrane.
Chloral Hydrate.
Copper Sulphate: 1 to 5 grn., according to age of child, until vomiting
is induced.
Creolin Vapors.
Hydrogen Peroxide.
Ichthyol Vapors.
Iodine.
Ipecacuanha: must be fresh; if it does not succeed other emetics must
be taken.
Jaborandi: beneficial in a few cases.
Lime Water: spray, most useful in adults.
Lobelia: has been used.
Mercury Cyanide.
Mercury Subsulphate: one of the best emetics; 3 to 5 grn., given early.
Papain.
Petroleum.
Pilocarpine Hydrochlorate.
Potassium Chlorate.
Quinine: in spasmodic croup, in large doses.
Sanguinaria: a good emetic; take syrup ipecac, 2 fl. oz.; pulv.
sanguin., 20 grn.; pulv. ipecac, 5 grn.; give a teaspoonful every
quarter-hour till emesis, then half a teaspoonful every hour.
Senega: as an auxiliary.
Sodium Bicarbonate.
Sozoiodole-Sodium: insufflations.
Sulphurated Potassa.
Tannin: as spray, or glycerite of tannin.
Tartar Emetic: too depressant in young children.
Zinc Sulphate: sometimes used as an emetic.
~Croup, Spasmodic.~--_See Laryngismus Stridulus._
~Cystitis.~--_See also, Bladder, Irritable; Calculus; Dysuria;
Enuresis; Hematuria._
Acid, Benzoic: in catarrh with alkaline urine.
Acid, Boric: as boroglyceride as injection, in cystitis with an
alkaline urine due to fermentation.
Acid, Camphoric.
Acid, Carbolic, or Sulphocarbolates: as antiseptics.
Acid, Gallic.
Acid, Lactic.
Acid, Osmic.
Acid, Oxalic.
Acid, Salicylic: in chronic cystitis with ammoniacal urine.
Aconite: when fever is present.
Alkalies: when urine is acid and the bladder irritable and inflamed.
Ammonium Citrate: in chronic cystitis.
Antipyrine.
Arbutin: diuretic in chronic cystitis.
Belladonna: most useful to allay irritability.
Buchu: especially useful in chronic cases.
Calcium Hippurate.
Cannabis Indica.
Cantharides or Cantharidin: in small doses long continued, where there
is a constant desire to micturate, associated with much pain and
strain.
Chimaphila: in chronic cases.
Collinsonia.
Copaiba: useful.
Creolin.
Cubebs.
Demulcents.
Eucalyptus: extremely useful in chronic cases.
Gallobromol.
Grindelia.
Guaiacol.
Guethol.
Hot compress over bladder.
Hot Enemata: to relieve the pain.
Hot Sitz Bath.
Hygienic Measures.
Hyoscyamus: to relieve pain and irritability.
Ichthyol Irrigations.
Iodine and Iodides.
Iodoform or Iodoformogen: as suppository.
Kava Kava.
Leeches: to perineum.
Lithium Salts.
Mercury Bichloride: solution to cleanse bladder.
Methylene Blue.
Milk Diet.
Myrtol.
Naphtol.
Oil Eucalyptus.
Oil Juniper.
Oil Sandal.
Opium: as enema to relieve pain.
Opium, Belladonna, or Iodoform: suppositories.
Pareira: in chronic cases.
Pichi.
Potassium Bromide: to relieve the pain.
Potassium Chlorate and other Potassium salts, except bitartrate.
Pyoktanin.
Quinine: in acute cases.
Resorcin.
Saliformin.
Salines.
Salol.
Silver Nitrate.
Sodium Benzoate.
Sodium Borate.
Sozoiodole-Sodium: irrigations (1 per cent.).
Sozoiodole-Zinc: irrigations (1/2 per cent.).
Strychnine.
Sulphaminol.
Sulphites: to prevent putrefaction of urine.
Triticum Repens.
Turpentine Oil: in chronic cases.
Uva Ursi: in chronic cases.
Zea Mays: a mild stimulant diuretic.
~Cysts.~--_See also, Ovaritis._
Acupuncture.
Chloride of Gold: in ovarian dropsy.
Galvano-puncture.
Iodine: as an injection after tapping.
Silver Nitrate: as an injection.
~Cyanosis.~--_See also, Asphyxia, Asthma, Dyspnea, Heart Affections._
Amyl Nitrite.
Oxygen.
Stimulants.
~Dandruff.~--_See Pityriasis._
~Deafness.~
Ammonium Chloride.
Cantharides: as ointment behind the ear.
Colchicum: in gouty persons.
Gargles: in throat-deafness.
Gelseminine.
Glycerin: locally.
Morphine.
Quinine: in Menière's disease.
Tannin: in throat deafness.
Turpentine Oil.
~Debility.~--_See also, Adynamia, Anemia, Convalescence._
Acid, Hypophosphorous.
Alcohol: along with food often very useful; liable to abuse--not to be
continued too long; effect watched in aged people with dry tongue.
Arsenic: in young anemic persons, alone or with iron, and in elderly
persons with feeble circulation.
Berberine.
Bitters: useful as tonic.
Calcium salts: phosphates if from overwork or town life; hypophosphites
in nervous debility.
Cholagogue Purgatives: when debility is due to defective elimination of
waste.
Cinchona: a fresh infusion along with carbonate of ammonium.
Cod-Liver Oil.
Columbin.
Digitalis: where circulation is feeble.
Eucalyptus: in place of quinine.
Extract Malt, Dry.
Gaduol: in cachoxias.
Glycerinophosphates.
Hemo-gallol: as a highly efficacious blood-producer; non-constipating.
Hemol.
Hydrastis: in place of quinine.
Iron: in anemic subjects.
Levico Water.
Magnesium Hypophosphite.
Maltone Wines.
Manganese: alone or with iron.
Morphine: subcutaneously, if due to onanism or hysteria.
Nux Vomica: most powerful general tonic.
Orexine: for building up nutrition when appetite lacking.
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.
Blisters: in delirium due to an irritant poison, and not to exhaustion.
Bromides.
Camphor: in 20 grn. doses every two or three hours in low muttering
delirium.
Camphor, Monobrom.
Cannabis Indica: in nocturnal delirium occurring in softening of the
brain.
Chloral Hydrate: in violent delirium of fevers.
Cold Douche: place patient in warm bath while administered.
Hyoscyamus.
Morphine: hypodermically.
Musk: in the delirium of low fever, and in ataxic pneumonia of
drunkards with severe nervous symptoms.
Opium: with tartar emetic.
Quinine.
Stramonium.
Valerian: in the delirium of adynamic fevers.
~Delirium Tremens.~--_See also, Alcoholism._
Acetanilid.
Acid, Succinic.
Alcohol: necessary when the attack is due to a failure of digestion;
not when it is the result of a sudden large excess.
Ammonium Carbonate: in debility.
Amylene Hydrate.
Antimony: along with opium, to quiet maniacal excitement and give
sleep.
Antispasmin.
Arnica: the tincture when there is great depression.
Beef-tea: most useful.
Belladonna: insomnia when coma-vigil.
Bromoform.
Bromide of Potassium: in large doses, especially when an attack is
threatening.
Bromated Camphor: nervine, sedative, and antispasmodic.
Butyl-chloral Hydrate.
Cannabis Indica: useful, and not dangerous.
Capsicum: twenty to thirty grn. doses, repeated after three hours, to
induce sleep.
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.
Gamboge.
Hyoscine Hydrobromate.
Hyoscyamus: useful, like belladonna, probably, in very violent
delirium.
Ice to Head: to check vomiting.
Lupulin: as an adjunct to more powerful remedies.
Morphine Valerianate.
Musk.
Nux Vomica.
Opium: to be given with caution.
Paraldehyde.
Potassium Bromide.
Quinine: to aid digestion.
Sodium Bromide.
Stramonium: more powerful than belladonna.
Sumbul: in insomnia and nervous depression and preceding an attack.
Tartar Emetic.
Trional.
Valerian.
Veratrum Viride: very dangerous.
Zinc Oxide.
Zinc Phosphide.
~Dementia Paralytica.~
Hyoscyamine.
Paraldehyde.
Physostigma.
Thyraden.
~Dengue.~
Acid, Carbolic.
Acid, Salicylic.
Aconite.
Belladonna.
Emetics.
Opium.
Purgatives.
Quinine.
Strychnine.
~Dentition.~
Antispasmin.
Belladonna: in convulsions.
Bromide of Potassium: to lessen irritability and to stop convulsions.
Calcium Hippurate.
Camphor, Monobromated.
Calumba: in vomiting and diarrhea.
Cocaine Carbolate.
Hyoscyamus.
Hypophosphites: as tonic.
Phosphate of Calcium: when delayed or defective.
Tropacocaine: weak solution rubbed into gums.
~Dermatalgia.~
Cocaine.
Menthol.
Tropacocaine.
~Dermatitis.~
Aluminium Oleate.
Arsenic.
Bismuth Subnitrate.
Cocaine.
Ichthyol.
Lead Water.
Sozoiodole-Sodium.
Tropacocaine.
~Diabetes Insipidus.~
Acetanilid.
Acid, Gallic.
Acid, Nitric.
Alum.
Antipyrine.
Arsenic.
Atropine.
Belladonna.
Creosote.
Dry Diet.
Ergot: carried to its full extent.
Gold Chloride: in a few cases.
Iron Valerianate.
Jaborandi: in some cases.
Krameria: to lessen the quantity of urine.
Lithium Carbonate or Citrate with Sodium Arsenite: in gouty cases.
Muscarine: in some cases.
Opium: most useful; large doses if necessary.
Pilocarpine.
Potassium Iodide: in syphilitic taint.
Rhus Aromatica.
Strychnine and Sulphate of Iron: as tonics.
Valerian: in large doses.
Zinc Valerianate.
~Diabetes Mellitus.~
_CAUTION: The urine of patients taking salicylic acid gives Trommer's
test for sugar._
Acetanilid.
Acid, Arsenous.
Acid, Gallic, with opium.
Acid, Lactic.
Acid, Phosphoric, Diluted.
Acid, Phosphoric: to lessen thirst.
Acidulated Water or Non-purgative Alkaline Water: for thirst.
Alkalies: alkaline waters are useful, when of hepatic origin, in obese
subjects; and in delirium.
Almond Bread.
Aloin.
Alum.
Ammonium Carbonate.
Ammonium Citrate.
Ammonium Phosphate.
Antipyrine.
Arsenic Bromide.
Arsenic: in thin subjects.
Belladonna: full doses.
Calcium Lactophosphate.
Calcium Sulphide.
Codeine: a most efficient remedy; sometimes requires to be pushed to
the extent of 10 grn. or more per diem.
Colchicum and Iodides.
Creosote.
Diabetin.
Diet.
Ergot.
Ether.
Exalgin.
Glycerin: as remedy, and as food and as sweetening agent in place of
sugar.
Glycerinophosphates.
Gold Bromide.
Gold Chloride.
Guaiacol.
Hemo-gallol: efficacious hematinic in anemic cases.
Hydrogen Dioxide.
Ichthalbin.
Iodoform.
Iodole.
Iron: most useful along with morphine.
Jaborandi.