Merck's 1899 Manual
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Chapter 80 : Nux Vomica.
Phosphorus and Phosphates: to supply nutriment.
Quinine.
Strychnine.
Zinc P
Nux Vomica.
Phosphorus and Phosphates: to supply nutriment.
Quinine.
Strychnine.
Zinc Phosphide.
~Cerebral Concussion.~
Rest: absolute to be enjoined.
Stimulants to be avoided.
Warmth: to extremities.
~Cerebral Congestion.~--_See also, Apoplexy, Coma._
Acid, Hydrocyanic.
Aconite: in acute cases before effusion has taken place.
a.r.s.enic: in commencing atheroma of cerebral vessels and tendency to drowsiness and torpor.
Belladonna: very useful.
Bromides: very useful.
Cathartics: to lessen blood-pressure.
Chloral Hydrate: when temperature is high.
Colchic.u.m: in plethoric cases.
Colocynth: as a purgative.
Croton Oil.
Diet: moderate, animal food sparingly, and stimulants to be avoided.
Digitalis: in alcoholic congestion, and simple congestive hemicrania.
Elaterin.
Elaterium.
Ergot: in want of arterial tone, or miliary aneurisms causing vertigo, etc.
Galvanism of head and cervical sympathetic.
Gelsemium: in great motor excitement, wakefulness, horrors after alcoholic excess.
Pota.s.sium Bromide.
Venesection: a suitable remedy in cases of threatening rupture of a vessel.
Veratrum Viride: in acute congestion; the good ceases with exudation.
Water: cold douche to head, and warm to feet, alternately hot and cold to nape of neck.
~Cerebral Softening.~
Phosphorus.
Pota.s.sium Bromide.
~Cerebritis.~
Ammonium Chloride: locally.
Chloral Hydrate.
Electricity.
Ice.
~Cerebro-Spinal Fever.~--_See Meningitis, Cerebro-Spinal._
~Chancre.~--_See also, Syphilis._
Acetanilid.
Acid, Carbolic: locally.
Alumnol.
Aristol.
Calomel: locally.
Camphor: finely powdered.