are taken. — Hightower.
Pertussis. —
IJ. Hyd. peroxide (10 vols.') 3 vj.
Glycerine 3 iv.
Water ad 5 iij.
Dose : Half a fluid ounce, in a wineglassful of water,
five or Nizagara Tablets six times a day. — Richardson.
Glycerine, four parts, to bismuth, one part, is the best
way to keep the latter in solution — Taurence.
Peritonitis. — The best treatment is by the administra-
tion of large doses of saline cathartics (sulphate of mag-
nesium, 3 ij., every two hours until the bowels have been
opened eight or ten times). — Keen.
Camphor given with acetanilid overcomes the de-
pressing effects. — CSHESMIUTZEFF.
Incontinentia Urinse, when due to slight disorders of
genito-urinary or nervous systems, may be relieved by
rhus aromatica, Jjeginning with five to ten drops and in-
creasing to fifteen or twenty, four times daily.
Adherent Placenta. — Injection of cold water by the
rectum acts by reflex stimulation. — Newton.
Typhoid Fever. — I have found betanaphthol to work
so well that unless the stomach is very irritable, which is
a contra-indication to its use, I invariably give it, and my
results guarantee the statement that it is an agent par ex-
cellence in the rational treatment of typhoid fever. —
Shi.monek.
Asthma. — At onset of attack, paint nasal fossa; as far
in as possible with one part by weight of cocaine hy-
drochlorate to twenty of water, or spray nose and
pharynx for four or five minutes. This may cut short
the attack. — Dieulafoy.
Exophthalmic Goitre. —
.IJ. I'owd. ipecac gm. .335
Powd. digitalis gm. .02
Ex. of opium gm. .0025
For one pill. Four or six to be given every twenty-four hours.
Bromoform exerts almost a specific action in whooping
cough. One to five drops are given to children three or
four times daily. It is best given in a mixture with al-
cohol and glycerine. The drug should be clear and color-
less. — Western Med. Rep.
Naphthol as a Vermifuge. — Dr. Dubois gave fifteen
centigrammes three times daily to a girl on whom he had
tried all the usual remedies without result, and succeeded in
causing a discharge of thirty-four ascarides lumbricoides.
— Lyon Medical.
Tornwaldt's Disease, or chronic inflammation of a
pathologically formed cavity, and freijuently mistaken for
post-nasal adenoids, is best treated, according to Smith-
Hozier, with applications of chromic acid on a probe.
Resorcin is recommended for gastric ulcer, five grains
three times a day. It is antiseptic, hemostatic, and anal-
gesic, enabling the stomach to tolerate food.
Acute Rhinitis. — For relief of urgent distress cocaine
and tincture belladonna in from three to five per cent,
solution applied on cotton. — Pierce.
Sulpho-Carbolate of Zinc is recommended by Sangree
in typhoid as cajjable of rendering the mucous membrane
and intestinal contents less suitable for the development
of micro-organisms. It is of little use to employ small
doses, and five grains are given by the author every three
or four hours until the temperature falls. — The Times and
Register.
Puerperal Eclampsia. — Veratrum viride (Norwood's
tincture) in sedative doses every half hour or hour until
the desired effect is produced has been my favorite
remedy for more than thirty years. — Stephens.
Dyspepsia. — The following treatment is useful in cases
of obstinate indigestion :
IJ. Tincture of cascarilla, cinnamon, gentian, Co-
lombo, rhubarb Sa 3 'j.
Tincture of nux vomica ... 3 j.
— Jules Simon.
Cold Baths have been successfully employed by Riviere
in two cases of Order Nizagara tetanus after chloral and opium had
failed.
July I, 1893J
MEDICAL RECORD.
29
Thymol is a useful addition to carron oil in treatment
of burns, from J^ to jV 'per cent.
Cimicifuga. — Ten to thirty drops of the fluid extract
after meals cures seminal emissions. — Reed.
Ulcer of Stomach. — To combat the nausea and vomit-
ing, a pill containing extract of belladonna, gr. }t. and
silver nitrate, gr. ^, may be used with advantage ; the
latter is said to exercise a curative influence on the ulcer-
ated surface, and by being converted into an insoluble
chloride, diminishes or neutralizes the hydrochloric acid
present in the stomach. — Woi.fk.
To Cut Short 'Whooping-cough, paint the periglotteal
region every two hours with a ten per cent, solution of
resorcin. — Moncorro.
Dysentery. — Hot enemata of tannin and boric acid.
Scotch Douche has given Schiiller better results in
chronic joint trouble of rheumatic origin than any other
form of hydrotherapy.
Salicylate of Bismuth has been found useful in infan-
tile diarrhcea, and lactic acid in many other forms, even
that of phthisis. — Lance/.
Hydrogen Peroxide has been proved experimentally to
be a valuable antidote in hydrocyanic poisoning. — K
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