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.