A handbook of therapeutics / by Sydney Ringer and Harrington Sainsbury.
- Sydney Ringer
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A handbook of therapeutics / by Sydney Ringer and Harrington Sainsbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.
745/798 page 729
![Phthisis—continued. Chalk mixture, 20k In diarrhoea. Chloride of calcium, 205. Chlokoform, 307. With glycerine or honey for the cough in fibroid phthisis. Cod-liver oil, 325. Very valuable in nearly all forms of this disoase, especially at, com- mencement. (See ref.) Also combined with creosote, 328. Conium, as inhalation, 498. Coto BARK, 343. To check sweating. Also asserted to be useful in diarrhoea. Counter-irritation, 108, 109. Only to re- lieve pain in acute forms, as iodine lini- ment; quiets cough and diminishes ex- pectoration in chronic or fibroid phthisis. Ckkosotal, 347. Creosote, 344,345,346. Tar, or carbolic acid to check expectoration. In full doses in non-febrile cases increases appetite. Also as inhalation. Croton oil, 329. With or without liq. potassm as counter-irritant to chest. Caution must be used. Enemata, 657,658. Of starch and laudanum for the diarrhoea. Eucalyptus, 426. Twenty drops of, inhaled for cough of chronic phthisis. Gelsemium, 618, 623. For the cough. Glycerine, 332. In last stage, with water as wash for dry, shiny month. 333. For cough. Guaiacol and guaiacol carbonate, 347. Hypophosphites, 209, 210. Of lime or soda —should be given alone. Most useful in early stage and in young subjects. Also as Fellow’s Syrup, 210. Iodine, 109,132. As liniment painted under clavicles in chronic forms to allay harass- ing cough and to check secretion. 135. As inhalation in chronic phthisis to lessen expectoration and cough. Iodoform, 398. In turpentine as spray. Also given internally. Iodol, 399. Ipecacuanha, 446. Spray to throat when bronchial asthma and emphysema com- bined with fibroid phthisis. Mercury, 273. The hundredth of a grain of corrosive sublimate every two or three hours in diarrhoea. Muscarine, in night sweats, 509. Opium, 565. Or morphia in a viscid vehicle for cough, especially where this is due to inflamed condition of throat— morphia lozenges very useful here. 658. For tubercular ulceration of bowels. • 569. As Dover’s Powder for night sweats. Phosphate of lime, 207. In diarrhoea. 207. In chronic forms of phthisis with little or no fever. Picrotoxine, 513. (See Perspiration, exces- sive.) Pilocarpine, 513. (See Perspiration, exces- sive.) Quinine, 610. In acute phthisis to reduce temperature. 610. In acute and chronic phthisis to check fever and sweating. If a small dose fail, a dose of six or eight grs. ad- ministered at once or in portions repeated hourly. Salicylic acid, 613. In five-gr. doses for foul breath and offensive expectoration. Salol, 619. Sea-bathing, 65. If chronic, with little or no fever, and without active deposition of tubercle. Silver, nitrate of, 253. Sometimes in- jected into trachea. Sponging, very hot, 68. For excessive perspiration. With dilute acids, 101. Phthisis—continued. Sulphides, 124. As natural waters. Sulphuretted hydrogen, 124. Intestinal injection of, mixed with carbonic acid gas. , , Sulphuric acid, 166,107. With sulph. zinc, to check perspiration. Sulphurous acid, 171. Inhalation, spray or fumigation in chronic phthisis. Tuberculin, koch’s, 657. Modified form. Turkish baths, 76. For the cough. Vinegar, 167. With laurel water to check sweats. Piles. Aloes, 030. To gently relieve bowels. Alum, 225. Bleeding from piles. Bromide of potassium, 148. In five parts glycerine locally to ease pain. Calomel, 338. As ointment. Castor oil, 330. Chlorate of potash, 222. 3SS. to 3]. of saturated solution with five to ten drops of laudanum as injection when inflamed and painful. Cold injection, 74. Half a pint before going to stool overy morning. Conium, 498. Gallic acid, 338. With opium as ointment. Hamamelis, 342. As lotion or injection as well as by mouth in piles, whether bleed- ing or not. Hydrastis, 590. As a wash. Ice, 89. Locally applied for pain after operation. Lead, 244. As plaster for pain in back due to piles. Nitric acid. 160, 101. Strong, applied to internal piles, also to granular or ulcerated piles. Half-ounce or one ounce to half a pint of water as lotion for bleeding piles, 161. Opium. 558. Mixed with gall ointment, an excellent application for painful bleeding piles. Mild purgatives also required. Rhubarb, 635. About ten grs. of the root to be chewed nightly if a laxative is needed. Useful also in haemorrhoidal swellings of pregnancy. Sulphur, 119. Five to'ten grs. with one drachm conf. senna in the morning as a laxative. Pityriasis. Borax, 177. Saturated solution locally, several times a day, in pityriasis of scalp. If not successful try it as glycerine of borax. . . . Glycerine of borax, 177, 332. In pityriasis of scalp. Lead, 243. Liq. plumb, two ozs.; glycerine two ozs.; water four ozs. as lotion. Mercury, 256, 257. Citrine ointment es- pecially when pityriasis of hairy parts of face. Often well to add tar ointment, 260. Sulphurous acid, 170. With glycerine m conjunction with warm baths. Tannic acid, glycerine, lard, balsam of PERU AND OIL OF BITTER ALMONDS, 338. Pityriasis rubra. Thyroid extract, 661. Pityriasis versicolor. Mercury, 258. The bichloride in solution, two grs. to the oz. of water, as a lotion. 260. The oleate of mercury with ethor applied with a camel-hair pencil. Sulphurous acid, 170. The B.P. acid with glycerine ; warm baths should also be employed.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20411248_0751.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
