Merck's 1899 Manual
Chapter 78 : To break up or modify cold. Cubebs: powder as insufflation; also smoked; also the tinct

To break up or modify cold.

Cubebs: powder as insufflation; also smoked; also the tincture in 2 dram doses with infusion of linseed.

Formaldehyde: by inhalation (2 per cent. solut.).

Hot Sponging: to relieve the headache.

Iodine: as inhalation.

Iodoform and Tannin: as insufflation.

Ipecacuanha: in moderate doses (10 grn.). Dover's powder at night will cut short an attack. The wine as spray to the fauces.

Jaborandi: as tincture. Or hypodermic injection of half a grain of pilocarpine hydrochlorate.

Menthol.

Nux Vomica: in dry cold in the head.

Oil: inunction to whole body to lessen susceptibility; locally to nose; sometimes ointment may be used.

Opium: as Dover's powder at commencement; but not in obstruction to respiration.

Peronin.

Pilocarpine Hydrochlorate (see Jaborandi).

Pota.s.sium b.i.+.c.hromate: solution locally, 1 to 10 grn. in 4 oz.

Pota.s.sium Chlorate: eight or ten lozenges a day to check.

Pota.s.sium Iodide: ten grn. at bedtime to avert acute coryza.

Pulsatilla: warm lotion applied to interior of nares; or internally but not in symptoms of intestinal irritation.

Quinine: ten grn. with 1/2 grn. morphine, at commencement may abort it.

Resorcin.

Salicylate of Sodium: two and one-half grn. every half-hour to relieve headache and neuralgia a.s.sociated with coryza.

Sanguinaria: internally, and powder locally.

Sea-water Gargle.

Silver Nitrate.

Spray: useful means of applying solutions such as ipecacuanha wine, already mentioned.

Sugar: finely powdered and snuffed up in the nose in catarrh due to pota.s.sium iodide.

Tartar Emetic: one-twentieth to one-twelfth grn. at commencement especially in children with thick and abundant secretion.

Turkish Bath.

Veratrum Viride: if a.r.s.enic fails.

Zinc Sulphate: as nasal injection 1 grn. to the oz.

~Catarrh, Broncho-Pulmonary.~--_See Bronchitis, Bronchorrhea._

~Catarrh, Cervical.~--_See Uterine Affections._

~Catarrh, Chronic Nasal.~--_See also, Ozena._

Acid, Benzoic: inhaled as vapor.

Acid, Carbolic: one to 100 as spray, or 1 to 200 as douche. One part with 4 of iodine tincture as inhalation or by spray.

Acid, Salicylic.

Acid, Tannic.

Alum: in powder by insufflation, or in solution by douche.

Ammonia: inhalation.

Ammonium Chloride: in thick and abundant secretion.

Asafetida: stimulant expectorant.

Balsam of Peru: stimulant expectorant.

Bis.m.u.th Subnitrate.

Bromine: as vapor, inhaled with great caution.

Calomel.

Camphor.

Cocaine.

Cod-Liver Oil.

Cubebs: in powder, by insufflation, or as troches.