Merck's 1899 Manual Part 43

Sulphides: of pota.s.sium, sodium, ammonium, and calcium. They must be used in low doses, and are indicated in scrofulous abscess and in the chronic boils of children. To hasten suppuration.

Tonics.

Veratrum Viride: in full dose often aborts.

~Abscess of the Liver.~--_See Hepatic Diseases._

~Acidity of Stomach.~

Acids: before meals, or as an acid wine during meals. For acid eructations, especially of sulphuretted hydrogen.

Acid, Carbolic: to stop fermentation or to relieve an irritable condition of the stomach.

Alkalies: after meals, best as bicarbonates; with flatulence give magnesia if there is constipation; lime water if there is diarrhea.

Ammonia: in headache from acidity.

Ammonium Bicarbonate.

Atropine: for gastric hypersecretion.

Bis.m.u.th: in gastritis due to chronic abscess or chronic alcoholism.

Very well combined with a.r.s.enic in very chronic cases, with hydrocyanic acid in more acute cases.

Calcium Carbonate, precipitated.

Cerium Oxalate.

Charcoal: as biscuits.

Creosote: same as carbolic acid.

Ichthalbin.

Ipecacuanha: in small doses in pregnancy where flatulence and acidity are both present.

Kino: useful along with opium.

Lead Acetate: in gastric catarrh and pyrosis.

Lime Water.

Liquor Pota.s.sae: useful for both gastric and urinary acidity.

Magnesium Carbonate.

Magnesium Oxide.

Manganese Dioxide: sometimes relieves, probably acting like charcoal.

Mercury: When liver deranged and stools pale.

Nux Vomica: in small doses before meals, especially in pregnancy, or in chronic alcoholism.

Pota.s.sium Bitartrate.

Pota.s.sium Carbonate.

Pulsatilla: every four hours in hot water.

Silver Nitrate: same as silver oxide.

Silver Oxide: especially useful when acidity is accompanied by neuralgic pains in stomach.

Sulphurous Acid: if a.s.sociated with the vomiting of a pasty material, presence of sarcinae.

Tannalbin: when there is abundance of mucus.

Tannic Acid: in acidity a.s.sociated with chronic catarrh and flatulence.

Glycerin 1 minim, tannic acid 4 grn., as pill.

~Acne.~

Adeps Lanae: topically.

Alkaline lotions: when skin is greasy and follicles are black and prominent.

Aristol.

a.r.s.enic: in chronic acne; generally, though not always, prevents the acne from bromide or iodide of pota.s.sium.

Belladonna: as local application to check a too abundant secretion.

Berberis: for acne of girls at p.u.b.erty.

Bis.m.u.th: as ointment or powder. In acne rosacea, if acute.

Borax: solution very useful.

Cajeput Oil: as stimulant in acne rosacea.

Calcium Sulphide: same as sulphur. For internal use.

Chrysarobin.

Coca.