Merck's 1899 Manual Part 103

Alcohol: necessary when the attack is due to a failure of digestion; not when it is the result of a sudden large excess.

Ammonium Carbonate: in debility.

Amylene Hydrate.

Antimony: along with opium, to quiet maniacal excitement and give sleep.

Antispasmin.

Arnica: the tincture when there is great depression.

Beef-tea: most useful.

Belladonna: insomnia when coma-vigil.

Brom.o.f.orm.

Bromide of Pota.s.sium: in large doses, especially when an attack is threatening.

Bromated Camphor: nervine, sedative, and antispasmodic.

Butyl-chloral Hydrate.

Cannabis Indica: useful, and not dangerous.

Capsic.u.m: twenty to thirty grn. doses, repeated after three hours, to induce sleep.

Chloral Hydrate: if the delirium follows a debauch; with caution in old topers and cases of weak heart; instead of sleep sometimes produces violent delirium.

Chloroform: internally by stomach.

Cimicifuga or Cimicifugin: as a tonic.

Coffee.

Cold Douche or Pack: for insomnia.

Conium: as an adjunct to opium.

Croton Oil: purgative.

Digitalis: in large doses has had some success.

Duboisine.

Enemata: nutritive, when stomach does not retain food.

Ethylene Bromide.

Food: nutritious; more to be depended on than anything else.

Gamboge.

Hyoscine Hydrobromate.

Hyoscyamus: useful, like belladonna, probably, in very violent delirium.

Ice to Head: to check vomiting.

Lupulin: as an adjunct to more powerful remedies.

Morphine Valerianate.

Musk.

Nux Vomica.

Opium: to be given with caution.

Paraldehyde.

Pota.s.sium Bromide.

Quinine: to aid digestion.

Sodium Bromide.

Stramonium: more powerful than belladonna.

Sumbul: in insomnia and nervous depression and preceding an attack.

Tartar Emetic.

Trional.

Valerian.

Veratrum Viride: very dangerous.

Zinc Oxide.

Zinc Phosphide.

~Dementia Paralytica.~

Hyoscyamine.