A handbook of local therapeutics / edited by Harrison Allen.

Date:
1893
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    i6s crystals and gum camphor. A clear, oleaginous liquid is reported as resulting from this mixture. Twenty per cent, of this liquid, combmed with eiglity per cent, of lanoline, were found to blanch and constrict the nasal mucous membrane. It appears also to have analgesic properties. Indications for its use, therefore, are those of cocaine. Dr. Bishop has found it useful also in Acute Laryngitis, two inhalations of a five per cent, solution were followed by satisfactory results. R. Seiss highly recommends the following combination as a soothing spray to the nasal chambers : Camphor, gr. iv ; menthol, gr. j ; terebene, ni^iv; liq. albolene, §iv. M. J. Alexander Randall writes in approval of injections of camphorated menthol in liquid cosmoline in the Eustachian tube for Catarrhal Deafness. Camphorated Chloral. Under this name is known a syrupy liquid which results from triturating together equal parts of camphor and chloral. Its action is soothing. It is sometimes used as a local application to the skin in Pruritus. General Surgery.—Painted on the skin by means of a camel's-hair brush, or rubbed on the skin, camphor-chloral usually affords relief in Neuralgia, especially of the superior maxillary and inferior maxillary divisions of the fifth pair of nerves. It is said to allay Spasmodic Cough when painted over the larynx. The mixture of chloral and camphor thus prepared has decided solvent properties for other substances. Morphine will dissolve in it in the proportion of ten grains to the fluid drachm, and may be used to increase its efficiency. Chloroform may be added to it without separating its ingredients, thus forming a modified chlorodyne mixture which may be taken internally. Camphor-chloral will take up morphine, atropine, and other alkaloids in large quantity. The solution containing the alkaloids can be mixed with chloroform without precipitation. This constitutes a topical appli- cation of great power, which can be utilized in the treatment of Pain and Inflammation. It may be painted over the affected part or applied by means of a pledget of cotton saturated with the mixture, which should be covered with oiled silk and kept in position as long as it can be borne. The formula used by R. Bartholow is as follows : R. Camphorse, chloral is, aa 5SS. Mix and add morphines, 9j; atropinse sulph., gr. v. When dissolved, add slowly chloroformi, ^ss. Oleum camphoras, or camphor and lard rubbed together (sj-^j), is an excellent application to Painful and Swollen Breasts during lactation. Camphorated Naphthol. Camphorated naphthol consists of camphor, i part ] naphthol, 2 parts, triturated together, dry. It is freely dissolved in retinol. M. Blanchard