Merck's 1899 Manual
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Chapter 94 : Castor Oil: 10 to 20 minims in a teaspoonful of brandy and peppermint water before brea
Castor Oil: 10 to 20 minims in a teaspoonful of brandy and peppermint water before breakfast.
Chloral Hydrate.
Cocculus: When montions are hard and lumpy, and much flatus.
Cod-Liver Oil: in obstinate cases in children.
Coffee: sometimes purges.
Colocynth: compound pill at night.
Croton Oil: when no inflammation is present, very active.
Diet.
Dinner Pill: aloes and myrrh; aloes and iron; with nux vomica and belladonna or hyoscyamus, taken just before dinner.
Enemata: soap and water, or castor oil; habitual use tends to increase intestinal torpor; should only be used to unload.
Ergot: to give tone.
Eserine.
Euonymin: cholagogue purgative in hepatic torpor.
Fig: one before breakfast.
Gamboge: in habitual constipation.
Glycerin: suppositories or enemata.
Guaiac.u.m: especially when powerful purgatives fail.
Gymnastics, horseback riding, or ma.s.sage.
Honey: with breakfast.
Hydrastis: useful in biliousness.
Ipecacuanha: one grn. in the morning before breakfast.
Jalap: along with scammony.
Leptandra.
Lime: saccharated solution after meals.
Licorice Powder, Compound: a teaspoonful at night or in the morning.
Magnesium Bicarbonate: solution useful for children and pregnant women.
Magnesium Oxide.
Magnesium Sulphate.
Manna.
Mercury: in bilious disorders with light stools.
Muscarine: to increase peristalsis.
Nux Vomica: 5 to 10 minims in a gla.s.s of cold water before breakfast or before dinner.
Oil Olives.
Opium: when r.e.c.t.u.m is irritable; also in reflex constipation.
Ox-gall.
Physostigma: 10 minims of tincture along with belladonna and nux vomica in atony of the walls.
Podophyllin or Podophyllum: very useful, especially in biliousness: ten drops of tincture at night alone, or the resin along with other purgatives in pill, especially when stools are dark.
Pota.s.sium Bisulphate.
Pota.s.sium and Sodium Tartrate.
Prunes: stewed, often efficient; if stewed in infusion of senna they are still more active.
Resin Jalap.
Rhubarb Compound Pill: at night; also for children, mixed with bicarbonate of sodium.
Saline Waters: in morning before breakfast.
Senna: as confection, etc.
Senna: with Cascara Sagrada.
Soap: suppository in children.
Sodium Chlorate.
Sodium Phosphate.
Stillingia: 10 minims of fluid extract.
Strychnine: in atony of the walls.