Merck's 1899 Manual Part 59

~Balanitis.~ _See also, Phimosis, Gonorrhea._

Acid, Carbolic.

Acid, Tannic.

Alum.

Alumnol.

Creolin.

Ichthyol.

Lead Water.

Lime Water: as lotion.

Mercury: yellow wash, as lotion.

Silver Nitrate: molded.

Sozoiodole-Pota.s.sium: dusting powder.

Sozoiodole-Sodium: lotion.

Tannin or Zinc Oxide: as dusting-powder.

Tannoform.

Zinc Sulphate.

~Baldness.~--_See Alopecia._

~Barber's Itch.~--_See Sycosis._

~Bed-Sores.~

Alcohol: as wash to prevent; afterwards dust with powdered starch.

Alum: with white of egg, as local application.

Aristol.

Balsam of Peru and Unguentum Resinae: equal parts spread on cotton wool.

Bis.m.u.th Subnitrate.

Catechu: with lead sub-acetate, to harden skin.

Charcoal: as poultices, to stop bed-sores.

Galvanic Couplet: of zinc and silver; one element on sore, the other on adjacent part.

Glycerin: prophylactic local application.

Hydrargyri Perchloridum: a solution mixed with diluted alcohol.

Ichthyol.

Incisions: followed by irrigation, if sores tend to burrow.

Iodoform.

Iodoformogen.

Iodole.

Iron Chloride: as tonic.

Medicated Poultices: patient to lie with poultices under the parts likely to be affected; if fetor, cataplasma carbonis; if sloughing, addition of Balsam of Peru.

Pyoktanin.

Quinine: local dressing.

Salt and Whisky: topically to harden skin.

Silver Nitrate: dusted over open bed-sores.

Soap Plaster: applied after washing with bichloride solution (1 in 5000) and dusting with iodoform or iodoformogen.

Sozoiodole Pota.s.sium.

Styptic Collodion.

Tannate of Lead: at an early stage.

Zinc Oxide: ointment.

~Biliousness.~--_See also, Dyspepsia, Hepatic Congestion, Duodenal Catarrh._

Acids, Mineral: nitrohydrochloric acid especially useful in chronic hepatic affections, dysentery and dropsy of hepatic origin.

Aconite: as adjunct to podophyllin.