Chapter 9

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 (1/2per 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.

Jambul.

Krameria.

Levico Water.

Lithium Carbonate or Citrate with Arsenic: if due to gout.

Methylene Blue.

Nux Vomica.

Pancreatin: if due to pancreatic disease.

Pilocarpine Hydrochlorate.

Potassium Bromide.

Purgatives, Restricted Diet and Exercise: if due to high living and sedentary habits.

Quinine.

Rhubarb.

Saccharin: as a harmless sweetener in place of sugar.

Salicylates.

Salines.

Saliformin.

Salol.

Skim-Milk Diet.

Sodium Bicarbonate.

Sodium Carbonate: by intravenous injection in diabetic coma.

Sodium Citrate.

Sodium Phosphate: as purgative.

Sozoiodole-Sodium.

Sulfonal.

Thymol.

Transfusion.

Uranium Nitrate.

Zinc Valerianate.

Diarrhea.—See also, Dysentery, Cholera.

Acid, Boric.

Acid, Camphoric.

Acid, Carbolic.

Acid, Gallic.

Acid, Lactic.

Acids, Mineral: in profuse serous discharges, and in cholera infantum.

Acid, Nitric: with nux vomica to assist mercury, when due to hepatic derangement; combined with pepsin when this is the case with children.

Acid, Nitro-hydrochloric: when there is intestinal dyspepsia.

Acid, Nitrous: in profuse serous diarrhea, and the sudden diarrhea of hot climates.

Acid, Salicylic: in summer diarrhea, and diarrhea of phthisis.

Acid, Sulphuric, diluted in diarrhea of phthisis.

Aconite: in high fever and cutting abdominal pains.

Alkalies: in small doses in diarrhea of children, if due to excess of acid in the intestine causing colic and a green stool.

Alum.

Aluminium Acetate Solution.

Ammonium Carbonate: in the after-stage, if there is a continuous watery secretion.

Ammonium Chloride: in intestinal catarrh.

Argentic Nitrate: in acute and chronic diarrhea as astringent.

Aristol.

Arnica.

Aromatics: in nervous irritability or relaxation without inflammation.

Arsenic: a few drops of Fowler's solution in diarrhea excited by taking food; in diarrhea with passages of membraneous shreds, associated with uterine derangement; and along with opium in chronic diarrhea of malarial origin.

Belladonna: in colliquative diarrhea.

Betol.

Bismal.

Bismuth Subnitrate: in large doses in chronic diarrhea; with grey powder in the diarrhea of children.

Bismuth Citrate.

Bismuth Phosphate, Soluble.

Bismuth Salicylate.

Bismuth Subgallate.

Blackberry.

Cajeput Oil: along with camphor, chloroform and opium in serous diarrhea.

Calcium Carbolate.

Calcium Carbonate: the aromatic chalk mixture in the diarrhea of children, and of phthisis and typhus.

Calcium Chloride: in the colliquative diarrhea of strumous children, and in chronic diarrhea with weak digestion.

Calcium Permanganate.

Calcium Phosphate: in chronic diarrhea, especially of children.

Calcium Salicylate.

Calcium Sulphate.

Calomel: in minute doses in chronic diarrhea of children with pasty white stools.

Calumba.

Calx Saccharata: in the chronic diarrhea and vomiting of young children.

Camphor: in the early stage of Asiatic cholera, at the commencement of summer diarrhea, acute diarrhea of children, and diarrhea brought on by effluvia.

Camphor, Monobromated.

Cannabis Indica.

Capsicum: in diarrhea from fish; in summer diarrhea; in diarrhea after expulsion of irritant.

Carbon Disulphide.

Cascarilla.

Castor Oil: in the diarrhea of children.

Castor Oil and Opium: to carry away any irritant.

Catechu: astringent.

Chalk Mixture, see Calcium Carbonate.

Charcoal: in foul evacuations.

Chirata.

Chloral Hydrate.

Chloroform: as spirits with opium after a purgative.

Cinnamon.

Cloves.

Cocaine: in serous diarrhea.

Codeine.

Cod-Liver Oil: to children with pale stinking stools.

Cold or Tepid Pack: in summer diarrhea of children.

Copaiba: for its local action in chronic cases.

Copper Arsenite.

Copper Sulphate: one-tenth grn. along with opium in acute and chronic diarrhea, associated with colicky pains and catarrh.

Corrosive Sublimate: in small doses in acute and chronic watery diarrhea, marked by slimy or bloody stools of children and adults; and diarrhea of phthisis and typhoid.

Coto Bark: in catarrhal diarrhea.

Cotoin.

Creolin.

Creosote.

Diet: for summer diarrhea.

Dulcamara: in diarrhea of children from teething and exposure.

Enteroclysis: when mucous form becomes chronic.

Ergot: in a very chronic diarrhea succeeding to an acute attack.

Erigeron Canadense.

Eucalyptol or Eucalyptus.

Eudoxin.

Flannel Binder: adjunct in children.

Gaduol: as tonic in scrofulous and weakly children.

Galls: in chronic diarrhea.

Geranium.

Ginger.

Guaiacol.

Guaiacol Carbonate.

Guarana: in convalescence.

Hematoxylon: mild astringent, suitable to children from its sweetish taste.

Ice to Spine.

Injection: of starch water, at 100° F., with tinct. opii and acetate of lead or sulphate of copper, in the choleraic diarrhea of children.

Iodine.

Ipecacuanha: drop doses of the wine every hour in the dysenteric diarrhea of children, marked by green slimy stools.

Iron Sulphate.

Kino: astringent.

Krameria: astringent.

Lead Acetate: in suppository or by mouth; in summer diarrhea (simple in children, with morphine in adults); with opium in purging due to typhoid or tubercular disease, in profuse serous discharge, and in purging attended with inflammation.

Magnesia: antacid for children.

Magnesium Salicylate.

Menthol.

Mercury: the gray powder in diarrhea of children, marked by derangement of intestinal secretion and stinking stools; to be withheld where masses of undigested milk are passed; in adults, see Corrosive Sublimate.

Monesia Extract.

Morphine Sulphate.

Mustard: plaster.

Naphtalin.

Naphtol.

Naphtol Benzoate.

Nutmeg.

Nux Vomica: in chronic cases.

Oak Bark: infusion, astringent.

Opium: in tubercular and typhoid diarrhea; in acute, after expulsion of offending matter; as an enema, with starch, in the acute fatal diarrhea of children.

Pancreatin.

Paraformaldehyde.

Pepsin: along with nitro-hydrochloric acid.

Podophyllin.

Podophyllum: in chronic diarrhea, with high-colored pale or frothy stools.

Potassium Chlorate: in chronic cases with mucilaginous stools.

Potassium Iodide.

Pulsatilla: in catarrhal.

Quinine.

Resorcin.

Rhubarb: to evacuate intestine.

Rumex Crispus: in morning diarrhea.

Salicin: in catarrh and chronic diarrhea of children.

Saline Purgatives.

Salol.

Silver Chloride.

Silver Nitrate.

Silver Oxide.

Sodium Borate.

Sodium Carbolate.

Sodium Paracresotate.

Sodium Phosphate.

Sodium Thiosulphate.

Starch, Iodized.

Tannalbin: has a very wide range of indications.

Tannigen.

Tannin with Opium: in acute and chronic internally, or as enema.

Thymol.

Tribromphenol.

Veratrum Album: in summer diarrhea.

Zinc Sulphate.

Diphtheria.

Acid, Benzoic: in large doses.

Acid, Boric; or Borax: glycerin solution locally.

Acid, Carbolic: as spray or painted on throat; internally with iron.

Acid, Carbolic, Glycerite of: painted over twice a day.

Acid, Hydrochloric: dilute as gargle, or strong as caustic.

Acid, Lactic: a spray or local application of a solution of 1 dram to the oz. of water, to dissolve the false membrane.

Acid, Salicylic: locally as gargle, or internally.

Acid, Sulphurous.

Acid, Tartaric.

Aconite.

Alcohol: freely given, very useful.

Alum.

Ammonium Chloride.

Antidiphtherin.

Antitoxin.

Apomorphine: as an emetic.

Argentic Nitrate: of doubtful value.

Arsenic: internally.

Asaprol.

Aseptol.

Belladonna: at commencement, especially useful when tonsils are much swollen and there is little exudation; later on, to support the heart.

Bromine: as inhalation.

Calcium Bisulphite: solution, as paint.

Calomel.

Chloral Hydrate.

Chlorinated-Soda Solution: as gargle or wash.

Chlorine Water: internally; locally in sloughing of the throat.

Cold: externally.

Copper Sulphate: as emetic.

Creolin.

Creosote.

Cubeb.

Eucalyptol.

Ferropyrine.

Guaiacum: internally.

Hydrogen Peroxide.

Ichthyol: paint.

Ice: to neck, and in mouth; with iron chloride internally if suppuration threatens.

Iodine: as inhalation.

Iron: the perchloride in full doses by the mouth, and locally painted over the throat.

Lemon Juice: gargle.

Lime Water: most serviceable in adults, as a spray.

Mercury: internally as calomel or cyanide,1/20to1/40of a grn.

Mercury Bichloride.

Mercury Oxycyanide.

Methylene Blue.

Milk Diet.

Oil Turpentine.

Oxygen: inhalations, with strychnine and atropine hypodermically. If suffocation is imminent, intubation or tracheotomy may be necessary.

Papain: as solvent of false membrane.

Pepsin: as membrane solvent, locally.

Pilocarpine Hydrochlorate: internally; sometimes aids in loosening the false membrane.

Potassa Solution: internally.

Potassium Bichromate: as emetic.

Potassium Chlorate: internally, frequently repeated, and locally as a gargle.

Potassium Permanganate: as gargle.

Pyoktanin: topically.

Quinine: strong solution or spray.

Resorcin: spray.

Sanguinaria: as emetic. See under Croup.

Sassafras Oil: locally.

Sodium Benzoate: in large doses, and powder insufflated.

Sodium Borate.

Sodium Hyposulphite, or Sulphites: internally and locally.

Sodium Sulphocarbolate.

Sozoiodole-Potassium: as dusting-powder with sulphur.

Sozoiodole-Sodium: as preceding; or as solution.

Strychnine: subcutaneously for paralysis.

Sulphocarbolates.

Sulphur.

Tannin: five per cent. solution as a spray.

Thymol.

Tolu Balsam.

Tonics.

Tribromphenol.

Dipsomania.—See Alcoholism.

Dropsy.—See also, Ascites, Hydrocele, Hydrocephalus, Hydrothorax, etc.

Aconite: at once in dropsy of scarlet fever if temperature should rise.

Acupuncture: in œdema about the ankles, to be followed up by hot bathing; not much use in tricuspid disease.

Ammonium Benzoate: in hepatic dropsy.

Ammonium Chloride: in hepatic dropsy.

Antihydropin: a crystalline principle extracted from cockroaches; is a powerful diuretic in scarlatinal dropsy; 15 grn. as a dose for an adult; the insect is used in Russia.

Apocynum.

Arbutin.

Arsenic: in dropsy of feet from fatty heart, debility, or old age.

Asclepias Syriaca: may be combined with apocynum.

Broom: one of the most useful diuretics, especially in scarlatinal, renal, and hepatic dropsy.

Bryonia: as drastic purgative, and diuretic.

Cactus Grandiflorus: tincture.

Caffeine: in cardiac and chronic renal dropsy.

Calomel.

Cannabis Indica: as diuretic.

Chenopodium Anthelminticum: in scarlatinal dropsy.

Chimaphila: in renal dropsy.

Cimicifugin.

Colchicum: in hepatic, cardiac, and scarlatinal dropsy.

Colocynth.

Convallaria: used by the Russian peasantry.

Copaiba: especially in hepatic and cardiac dropsy: not certain in renal.

Digitalin.

Digitalis: in all dropsies, but especially cardiac dropsies. Infusion is best form.

Digitoxin.

Diet: dry.

Elaterium or Elaterin: useful hydragogues cathartics, especially in chronic renal disease; should not be given in exhaustion.

Erythrophleum: in cardiac dropsy instead of digitalis.

Ferropyrine.

Fuchsine.

Gamboge never to be used!

Gold.

Hellebore: in post-scarlatinal dropsy.

Hemo-gallol: when marked anemia present.

Iron: to correct anemia; along with saline purgatives.

Jaborandi: in renal dropsy with suppression of renal function.

Jalap: in some cases.

Juniper: exceedingly useful in cardiac, and chronic, not acute renal trouble.

Levico Water.

Magnesium Sulphate.

Mercury.

Milk Diet.

Nitrous Ether: useful alone, or with other diuretics.

Oil Croton.

Oil Juniper.

Parsley: a stimulant diuretic.

Paracentesis Abdominis.

Pilocarpine Hydrochlorate.

Potassium Bicarbonate.

Potassium Bitartrate and Acetate with Compound Jalap Powder: most useful of the hydragogue cathartics.

Potassium Carbonate.

Potassium Iodide: in large doses, sometimes a diuretic in renal dropsy.

Potassium Nitrate: as diuretic.

Potassium and Sodium Tartrate.

Resin Jalap.

Resorcin.

Rhus Toxicodendron.

Saliformin.

Saline Purgatives.

Scoparin.

Scoparius Infusion.

Senega: in renal dropsy.

Squill: in cardiac dropsy.

Strophanthus: in cardiac dropsy.

Sulphate of Magnesium: a concentrated solution before food is taken.

Taraxacum.

Theobromine and salts.

Turpentine Oil: in albuminuria.

Duodenal Catarrh.—See also, Jaundice, Biliousness.

Acid, Citric.

Acid, Nitro-hydrochloric.

Arsenic: in catarrh of bile-ducts as a sequela.

Bismuth.

Calomel.

Gold and Sodium Chloride.

Hydrastis: in catarrh associated with gall stones.

Ipecacuanha.

Podophyllum.

Potassium Bichromate.

Rhubarb.

Salol.

Sodium Phosphate.

Dysentery.—See also, Diarrhea, Enteritis.

Acid, Boric: continuous irrigation with a two-way tube.

Acid, Carbolic.

Acid, Gallic.

Acid, Nitro-hydrochloric.

Acid, Nitrous: in the chronic dysentery of hot climates.

Acid, Tannic.

Aconite: when much fever.

Alum: to control the diarrhea.

Aluminium Acetate: solution.

Ammonium Chloride.

Aristol.

Arnica: where much depression.

Arsenic: Fowler's solution along with opium if due to malaria.

Baptisin.

Belladonna.

Benzoin: in chronic cases.

Berberine Carbonate: in chronic intestinal catarrh.

Bismal.

Bismuth.

Bismuth Subgallate.

Bismuth Subnitrate.

Calomel: in acute sthenic type.

Castor Oil: in small doses, with opium.

Cathartics: to cause local depletion.

Cold: Enemata of ice cold water to relieve pain and tenesmus.

Copaiba: in some cases.

Copper Arsenite.

Copper Sulphate.

Corrosive Sublimate: in small doses, when stools are slimy and bloody.

Creolin.

Creosote.

Enemata.

Ergotin: in very chronic type.

Glycerin: with linseed tea, to lessen tenesmus.

Grape Diet.

Hamamelis: where much blood in motions.

Hydrogen Peroxide.

Ice Water: injections.

Injections: in early stages, emollient; in later, astringent.

Iodine.

Ipecacuanha: in 30 grn. doses on empty stomach, with complete rest; or as enema, with small quantity of fluid; milk is a good vehicle.

Iron: internally, or as enemata.

Lead Acetate, by mouth, or as enema or suppository, along with opium.

Lemon Juice.

Magnesium Salicylate.

Magnesium Sulphate: in acute cases in early stage.

Mercury Bichloride.

Morphine Sulphate.

Naphtalin.

Naphtol, Alpha.

Nux Vomica: in epidemic cases, and where prune juice stools and much depression.

Oil Eucalyptus.

Opium: to check the diarrhea; given after the action of a saline.

Potassium Bitartrate: in advanced stages where much mucus.

Potassium Chlorate: as enema.

Quinine Sulphate: in large doses in malarial cases, followed by ipecacuanha.

Saline Purgatives.

Salol.

Silver Chloride.

Silver Nitrate: as injection.

Silver Oxide.

Soda Chlorinata: as enema.

Sodium Carbolate.

Sodium Nitrate.

Strychnine.

Sulphur: in chronic cases.

Tannalbin.

Tannin: conjoined with milk diet in chronic disease.

Tribromphenol.

Turpentine Oil: with opium when the acute symptoms have passed off; also in epidemic of a low type.

Zinc Oxide.

Zinc Sulphate: by mouth or enema.

Dysmenorrhea.

Acetanilid.

Acid, Salicylic.

Aconite: in congestive form in plethorics; or sequent to sudden arrest.

Aloes.

Ammonium Acetate.

Ammonium Chloride.

Amyl Nitrite: in neuralgic form.

Anemonin.

Antipyrine.

Apiol (Oil of Parsley): as emmenagogue in neuralgic form; to be given just before the expected period.

Arsenic: when membranous discharge from uterus.

Atropine.

Belladonna: in neuralgic form; along with synergists.

Borax: in membranous form.

Butyl-Chloral Hydrate: in neuralgic form.

Cajeput Oil.

Camphor: frequently repeated in nervous subjects.

Cannabis Indica: very useful.

Cerium Oxalate.

Cetrarin.

Chloralamide.

Chloral Hydrate.

Chloroform: vapor locally.

Cimicifuga: in congestive cases at commencement.

Cimicifugin.

Codeine.

Conium.

Copper Arsenite.

Electricity: the galvanic current in neuralgic; an inverse current in congestive.

Ergot: in congestive cases at commencement, especially if following sudden arrest.

Ether.

Ethyl Bromide.

Ferropyrine.

Gelseminine.

Gelsemium.

Ginger: if menses are suddenly suppressed.

Gold and Sodium Chloride.

Gossypium.

Guaiacum: in rheumatic cases.

Hamamelis: often relieves.

Hemogallol.

Hemol.

Hot Sitz-bath.

Hydrastinine Hydrochlorate.

Ipecacuanha; as an emetic.

Iron: in anemia.

Magnesium Sulphate.

Manganese Dioxide.

Morphine: like opium.

Nux Vomica: in neuralgic form.

Opium: exceedingly useful in small doses of 3 to 5 min. of tincture alone, or along with 3 or 4 grn. of chloral hydrate.

Picrotoxin.

Piscidia Erythrina.

Pulsatilla: like aconite.

Quinine.

Rue.

Silver Oxide.

Sodium Borate.

Strychnine.

Stypticin: useful uterine sedative.

Sumbul.

Triphenin.

Viburnum.

Water: cold and hot, alternately dashed over loins in atonic cases.

Zinc Cyanide.

Dyspepsia.—See also, Acidity, Biliousness, Flatulence, Gastralgia. Pyrosis.

Absinthin.

Acids: before or after meals, especially nitro-hydrochloric acid.

Acid, Carbolic.

Acid, Gallic: in pyrosis.

Acid, Hydrochloric, Dilute: after a meal, especially if there is diarrhea.

Acid, Hydrocyanic: in irritable cases.

Acid, Lactic: in imperfect digestion.

Acid, Nitric: with bitter tonics.

Acid, Nitro-hydrochloric.

Acid, Sulphurous; in acid pyrosis and vomiting.

Acid, Tannic: in irritable dyspepsia.

Alcohol: along with food when digestion is impaired by fatigue, etc.

Alkalies: very useful before meals in atonic dyspepsia, or two hours after.

Aloes: as dinner pill, along with nux vomica, in habitual constipation.

Arsenic: 1 min. of liquor before meals in neuralgia of the stomach, or diarrhea excited by food.

Asafetida.

Belladonna: to lessen pain and constipation.

Berberine.

Bismuth Citrate.

Bismuth Subgallate.

Bismuth Subnitrate: when stomach is irritable; and in flatulence.

Bitters: given with acids or alkalies, to stimulate digestion.

Bryonia: in bilious headache.

Calabar Bean: in the phantom tumor sometimes accompanying.

Calcium Saccharate.

Calcium Sulphite.

Calomel.

Calumba: very useful.

Cannabis Indica.

Capsicum: in atonic dyspepsia.

Cardamoms.

Castor Oil.

Cerium Nitrate.

Cerium Oxalate.

Cetrarin.

Chamomile.

Charcoal: for flatulence.

Chloral Hydrate.

Chloroform.

Cholagogues: often very useful.

Cinchona.

Cocaine: in nervous dyspepsia,1/4grn. twice or three times a day.

Cod-Liver Oil: in the sinking at the epigastrium in the aged without intestinal irritation.

Colchicum: in gouty subjects.

Cold Water: half a tumbler half an hour before breakfast.

Columbin.

Creosote: if due to fermentative changes.

Diastase of Malt.

Eucalyptus: in atonic dyspepsia due to the presence of sarcinæ.

Gentian: in atony and flatulence.

Ginger: an adjunct.

Glycerin.

Glycerinophosphates.

Gold: the chloride in nervous indigestion.

Hops: a substitute for alcohol.

Hot Water: a tumbler twice or three times between meals, in acid dyspepsia, flatulence and to repress craving for alcohol.

Hydrastis or Hydrastine Hydrochlorate: in chronic dyspepsia or chronic alcoholism.

Hydrogen Peroxide.

Ichthalbin.

Ipecacuanha: useful adjunct to dinner pill, in chronic irritable dyspepsia.

Iron and Bismuth Citrate.

Iron Phosphates.

Kino: in pyrosis.

Lime Water.

Magnesia: in acid dyspepsia.

Malt Extract, Dry.

Manganese: in gastrodynia and pyrosis.

Mercury: as cholagogue.

Morphine: subcutaneously in irritable subjects.

Naphtol.

Naphtol Benzoate.

Nux Vomica: exceedingly useful in most forms along with mineral acids.

Opium: in sinking at the stomach partially relieved by food which, at the same time, produces diarrhea, a few drops of tincture before meals; with nux vomica in palpitation, etc.

Orexine Tannate: very potent.

Pancreatin: 11/2or 2 hours after meals, very useful.

Papain.

Pepper: in atonic indigestion.

Pepsin: sometimes very useful with meals; and in apepsia of infants.

Picrotoxin.

Podophyllin: a cholagogue, used instead of mercury; useful along with nux vomica and mineral acids.

Potassa, Solution of.

Potassium Bicarbonate.

Potassium Carbonate.

Potassium Iodide.

Potassium Permanganate: like manganese.

Potassium Sulphide.

Ptyalin.

Pulsatilla.

Quassia.

Quinine: in elderly people, and to check flatulence.

Resorcin.


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