Merck's 1899 Manual
Chapter 274 : Suitable Gla.s.ses: to remedy defective vision. Tropacocaine. ~Stricture, Urethral.~--

Suitable Gla.s.ses: to remedy defective vision.

Tropacocaine.

~Stricture, Urethral.~--_See Urethral Stricture._

~Strophulus.~--_See also, Lichen._

Antimonium Crudum.

Adeps Lanae.

Borax and Bran Bath: if skin is irritable.

Carbonate of Calcium.

Chamomile.

Glycerin.

Ichthyol.

Lancing the Gums.

Lead Lotion: to act as astringent.

Magnesia.

Mercury: gray powder if stools are pale.

Milk Diet.

Pulsatilla.

Spiritus aetheris Nitrosi: where there is deficient secretion of urine.

Zinc Oxide.

~Struma.~--_See Scrofula._

~Stye.~--_See Hordeolum._

~Summer Complaint.~--_See Cholera Infantum, Diarrhea, etc._

~Sunstroke.~

Aconite: not to be used with a weak heart.

Alcohol: is afterwards always a poison.

Ammonia: for its diaph.o.r.etic action.

Amyl Nitrite.

Apomorphine: one-sixteenth grn. at once counteracts symptoms.

Artificial Respiration.

Belladonna.

Bleeding: in extreme venous congestion.

Brandy: in small doses in collapse.

Camphor.

Chloroform: in convulsions.

Digitalis: to stimulate heart.

Ergot: by the mouth or subcutaneously.

Gelsemium.

Hot baths (105--110 F.), or hot bottles or bricks, in heat exhaustion, and in collapse.

Ice: application to chest, back, and abdomen, as quickly as possible, in thermic fever, and to reduce temperature; ice drinks as well.

Leeches.

Nitroglycerin.

Pota.s.sium Bromide to relieve the delirium.

Quinine: in thermic fever.

Scutellaria.

Tea: cold, as beverage instead of alcoholic drinks.

Tonics: during convalescence.

Venesection: best treatment if face be cyanosed and heart laboring and if meningitis threaten after thermic fever (Hare).