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:1/6grn. 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 to1/2grn. 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, 11/2grn.; 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,1/2dram 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 anemonin1/2to 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 every1/4or1/2hour 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.