Merck's manual of the materia medica, together with a summary of therapeutic indications and a classification of medicaments : a ready-reference pocket book for the physician and surgeon.

  • Merck Serono
Date:
1899
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    INIMCAT10N8. I'AKT H. Citrate. Iron: carbonate, usefnl form; sometimes best as chalybeate waters. In irritable stomach the non-astringent preparations: in weak anemic girls, with pain and vomi- ting after food, the persalts are best. Manganese Salts: in general. Massage: useful, com- bined with electri- city and forced feeding. Nux Vomica: useful, combiued with iron. Ovaria dried. Orexinc: as appetizer. Pancreatin : to int- prove digestion. Potassium Iodide. Purgatives: useful, often indispensable. Sea-Iiathing. 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. (0.12 cc.) along with 2 grn. (0.12 grm.) of iodine, every hour. Acid. Hydrocyanic. Acid, Lactic. Acid, Nitric- Acid, Phosi>horic. Acid. Sulphuric, Dilu- ted: alone, or with opium, is very effec- tive in checking the ]) r e 1 i m i n a r y diar- rhea. Acid. Tannic, by ene- meta Alcohol: iced brandy, to stop vomiting, and stimulate the heart. Ammonia: intraven- ous injection. Amyl Nitrite. Antimony. Arsenic: in small doses, has been used to stop vomiting. Atropine: hypodermi- cally in collapse. Betol. Cajeput Oil. Calomel: in minute doses to allay vomit- ing. Camphor Spirit: 5 mimms (0.8 cc; with tincture of opium, every ten minutes, while the symptoms are violent: and then every hour. Cannabis indica. Cantharides. Capsicum. Castor Oil. Chloral Hydrate: sub- cntaneously. alone,or with morphine, in the stage of collapse. Chloroform; 2 or 3 min. (0.12—0.2 cc.) either alone or with opium, every few minutes to allay the vomiting. Chlorodyne. Cinnamon. Copper Araenite. Copper salts: some- times used to stop vomiting. Corrosive Sublimate. Counter- Irritation over epigastrium. Crcolin. Creosote: alone or with opium, to allay vomiting. Dry Packing. F.nemeta of warm salt solution. Enteroclysis associ - ated with hot bath. Ether; subcutane- ously. Guaco. Hypodermoclysis. Ice to Spine: for cramps. Ipecacuanha, deeme tinized very usefnl. Jaborandi. Lead Acetate; has been used as an as- tringent in early stages along with camphor and opium. Mercury Bichloride. Morphine: one-eighth 126 to one-fourth of a grain (O.tXra-0.015 grn.) subcutaneously to relievo cramps. Naphtalin ; may be useful. Naphtol. Naphtol Benzoate. Opium; in snbcntaiie- ons injection ',io to •/* grn. (0.008—0.03 grm.) to check the preliminary diar- rhea. and arrest the collapse. Permanganates. Physostigma. Podophyllin. Potassium Bromide. Quinine. Resorcin. Salol. Sal physiologi cum Poehl in Entero - clysms. Strychnine, has been used during the pre- liminary diarrhea, and also as a stimu- lant to prevent col- lapse. 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 col- lapse. Tribromphendl. Turpentine Oil: some- time appears ser- viceable in doses of 10 to 20 rain. (0.6— 1.2 cc.) every two hours. Cholei'a 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. Jf«rrV« XfantuU.