Merck's 1899 Manual Part 85

Resorcin.

Salol.

Strychnine: has been used during the preliminary diarrhea, and also as a stimulant to prevent collapse.

Sulpho-carbolates.

Table Salt Injections: into the veins have a marvellous effect during collapse in apparently restoring the patient, but their benefit is generally merely temporary.

Transfusion of Milk: has been used in collapse.

Tribromphenol.

Turpentine Oil: sometimes appears serviceable in doses of 10 to 20 min.

every two hours.

~Cholera Infantum.~

Acid, Carbolic: with bis.m.u.th or alone, very effective.

Aliment: milk.

a.r.s.enic: for vomiting in collapse.

Beef Juice.

Bismal.

Bis.m.u.th Salicylate.

Bis.m.u.th Subgallate.

Bis.m.u.th Subnitrate.

Brandy: in full doses.

Caffeine.

Calomel: in minute doses to arrest the vomiting.

Camphor: where there is very great depression.

Castor Oil.

Cold: bath at 75 degrees F. every three or four hours, or cold affusions.

Cold Drinks.

Copper a.r.s.enite.

Creosote.

Creolin.

Cupri Sulphas: in very minute doses up to the one thirty-secondth of a grain.

Diet.

Eudoxine.

Enteroclysis.

Ferri et Ammonii Citras.

Hot drinks, applications and baths, if temperature becomes subnormal.

Ice to Spine.

Ichthyol.

Iodoform and Oil injections to relieve tenesmus.

Ipecacuanha: when stools greenish or dysenteric.

Irrigation of Bowels.

Lead Acetate: very useful.

Liquor Calcis.

Mercury: 1/6 grn. of gray powder, hourly. In urgent cases a starch enema should be given containing a minute quant.i.ty of laudanum.

Mustard or Spice plaster to abdomen.

Nux Vomica.

Oleum Ricini.

Opium.

Peptonized Milk.

Podophyllin: if stools are of peculiar pasty color.

Pota.s.sium Bromide: in nervous irritability and feverishness.

Pota.s.sium Chlorate: as enemata.