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

Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Marrubium. HoRKHonwD.-Uted chiefly as inAn. (I;I6) taken hot, or aa confectionery; In couglia, colds, etc, Mastioh — P. B. Mastxchk. - Preparaliom: Pills Aloes and Mastic [AIo« ! gni. (O.Ofi ffrra.), Mast. t/2 grn. (0.03 grm*)]. Dose: 1 pill with dinner. Matioo — U. S. P. Do.e: 30-ia0gm (2—8 grm.).—PrejxiroHon. ; P. li. (l:i); Tr. (1:5). Do«e : 1—S dr. 4-8 cc.). Matricaria — P. B. Qrsman OskMo-MiLB. — Anthemidis Flowers. — Prejwirations; Extr. Dose: 2 —tO grn. (0.1—0,6 grrm.). Inf. (1:20). Dose: I—4oz (30—120 grm.) 01. Dosei 1-4/7(0.06- 0.25 cc ). Melissa. Carminative. —Sec also, Spt. Melissa. Menispermum. YitLfcow PkaiLLA.—Dose: 10—20 grn. (O.G—1.2 grm.). In fl. or infui. Mentha piperita. — P. B. Preparation: Oil. — Dose: 1—i ni (0.06—0.25 grm.) on sugar or in pill. Spt.: 1:50. — Dose: .60—60 n\ (2.0—4.0 oc.). Menthol Merck. — P. B., Recryst. Dose: '/2^—2 grn. (0.03—0.12 grm.) in vomiting of pregnancy. — For toothache: put a crystal into cavity.—Tampons, 1 in 5 of oil; useful in itruritus vnlvae (loo/o ointment); 10—20«/o spt. lotions in sciatica and rheumatism. Snuff and inhalations iu coryza and influenza. Mercauro. Not completely defined.— (Stated: ‘'lO min. contain 'as grn. each gold, arsenic, and mercury bromides.” — Alterative Antisyphilitic. Dose: 5—15 min., in water, .after meals. Mercuro-iodo-hemol. Brown powd.; 12.35'Vo mercury, 28.68»o iodine witli hemol. — Antisy- philitic (chiefly); without untoward action. — Dose: 2—5 grn. (0.1— 0.3 grm.), 3 t. daily, in pills. Mercury, Ammoniated, — see Mercury and Ammonium Chloride. Mercury. Preparations: Empl. 1:3; Linim. 1:6; Pilulae 1:3. Dose: 3—8 grn. (0.2—0.5 grm.) Snpposit. of 5 grn. (0.3 grm.) each. Ungt. 1:2. Dose externally in frictions 20—40 grn. (1.2—3.0 grm.) or 80—100 grn. (6—.8 grm.) every 3 th day. Mercury Benzoate, Mercuric, Merck. White cryst. — Sol. in alhohol, solnt. sodium chloride; slightly in water. — USES: Syphilis and skiu diseases. — Dose: <3»—‘s grn. (0.002—0.0075 grm.), in pills or hypodermically. Mercury Bichloride Merck (Corrosive Mercuric Chloride, P. B). — Recryst. Dose: ‘/<8—grn. (0.004—0.0075 grm.). — Ma.\'. D.: '.:i grn. (0.02 grm.) single; 1 grn. (0.06 grm.) d,aily. —Antidotes: Zinc, sulphate, emetics, stomach siphon, white of egg, milk in abundance, chalk mixture, castor oil, table salt, reduced iron, iron tilings. White of egg and milk 2or 3t. daily for a week. — Inoompatiulks : Reduced iron, sulphurous acid, albumin, alkalies, carbonates.$