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Silver Nitrate. Strong solution locally applied for an inch or two beyond inflamed area
Sodium Salicylate, 2. Antipyretic
Sulphurous Acid, 3. Equal parts with glycerine locally
Tartar Emetic, 1. Small doses frequently
Erythema.
Acids. In cases of indigestion Alum, 2. Lotion
Belladonna, 2. In simple erythema Bismuth. Locally
Hydrochloric Acid, 2. If reflex from gastrointestinal disturbance Lead, 2. The glycerine of the carbonate Nitric Acid, 2. Like hydrochloric acid Quinine. In erythema nodosum Rhus Toxicodendron Zinc, 2. Locally, as ointments or lotions
Exophthalmos.
Barium Chloride, 2. To raise arterial tension Belladonna, 2, 3
Chalybeate Waters, 2. For the anaemia Digitalis, 2. If functional in young subjects; often relieves in other cases Galvanism of the cervical sympathetic, and pneumogastric nerves Iron. For the anaemia
Favus.
Boric Acid, 2. Locally in ethereal solution Carbolic Acid, 2. As a local parasiticide Cod-Liver Oil, 2. In a debilitated subject Mercury, Oleate, 3. Parasiticide; also lotion of bichloride gr. ij.-3j. of water Myrtol, 2. Parasiticide
Oils, 3. To get rid of scabs, and prevent spread Resorcin, 2.
Salicylic Acid, 2. Like myrtol Sulphurous Acid, 3.
Fever.
Acids or Acid Drinks, 3. To allay thirst and aid digestion
Aconite, 2, 3, 4. Small doses frequently in all sympathetic fevers
Alcohol, 2, 3. Often useful, but effect watched carefully and quickly discontinued if it does not relieve symptoms
Alkalies, 3. Febrifuges, and increase urinary solids
Ammonia, 4. In a sudden collapse
Ammonium Acetate, 2, 3. Very useful as diaphoretic, more so in milder forms
Fever.
Ammonium Carbonate, 3. In scarlet fever and measles, and in any typhoid condition
Antipyrin, 3, 4. To reduce temperature; has caused collapse and death
Arnica, 2. Full doses of the infusion in sthenic reaction; low doses of the tincture in asthenia
Arsenic, 3. In malarious fevers; and in prostrating acute fevers to raise the patient's tone
Belladonna, 3. In eruptive fevers and delirium
Benzoate of Sodium, 4. In infectious and eruptive fevers, antiseptic and antipyretic
Bitters, 3. With acid drinks to quell thirst, e.g. cascarilla, orange peel, etc.
Blisters, 3. Flying blisters in various parts of the body in the semi-comatose state
Calomel, 2. In the early stages of typhoid
Camphor, 3. In adynamic fevers, and in delirium, in gr. xx. doses every two or three hours, and effects watched
Carbolate op Iodine, 2. In the later stages of typhoid; and in chronic malarial poisoning
Carbolic Acid, 2, 3. An antiperiodic and antipyretic
Castor Oil, 3. As purgative
Chloral, 3. In the violent delirium and wakefulness of typhus, etc, and to reduce fever
Cimicifuga, 2. When cardiac action is quick and tension low
Cocculus. In typhoid, to lessen tympanitis
Coffee. In place of alcohol
Cold Bath and Affusion, 1, 2, 3, 4. To lessen hyperpyrexia, and a first-class stimulant, tonic, and sedative
Cold Packing, 3. In acute fevers, especially on retrocession of a rash
Digitalis, 1, 2, 3, 4. In inflammatory eruptive fevers, especially scarlet fever, as an antipyretic; much used in typhoid on the Continent
Elaterium, 1. Hydragogue cathartic
Eucalyptus, 3. In intermittent fevers
Gelsemium, 2, 4. In malarial and sthenic fevers, especially in pneumonia and pleurisy
Glycerine, 3. Demulcent drink
Hot Affusions, 3. For headache sometimes better than cold
Hydrastis, 2. Inferior to quinine in intermittent fever
Ice. To suck; bag to forehead
Kairin, 4. Not a safe antipyretic
Lemon Juice, 4. An agreeable refrigerant drink
Mercury. Small doses at the commencement of typhoid or scarlet fever
Musk, 3. A stimulant in collapse; along with opium in an acute specific fever
Opium, 3. In typhoid delirium; with tartar emetic if furious; at the crisis aids action of alcohol
Phosphate of Calcium, 3. In hectic
Quinine, 2, 3, 4. In malarial, typhoid, and septic fevers; the most generally applicable antipyretic
Resorcin, 2. Antipyretic and antiseptic
Rhus Toxicodendron. In rheumatic fever, and scarlet fever with typhoid symptoms
Salicylate of Sodium, 3. Inrheumatic fevers,
Salicylic Acid, 2, 3. or in hyperpyrexia
Strychnine, 3. Subcutaneously for muscular paralysis as a sequela
Sulphate of Magnesium, 3. As a depletive and purgative
Tartar Emetic, 3, 4. In small doses, with opium, if delirium is not greater than wakefulness; if greater, in full doses, with small doses of opium : diaphoretic; in ague aids quinine, also in acute
Fever.
Turpentine, 2. As stimulant in typhoid, puerperal, and yellow, and to stop haemorrhage in typhoid Veratrum Viride. In delirium ferox Warm Sponging, 3. In the simple fevers of children
Fistula.
Capsicum. As weak infusion locally Pepper. The confection as laxative Sanguinaria. As injection
Flatulence.
Abstention from sugar, starchy food, tea, 3
Alkalies. Before meals
Ammonia, 3. In alkaline mixture a palliative
Asafoetida, 2, 3. In children; simple hysterical, or hypochondriacal
Belladonna, 2. If due to paresis of intestinal walls
Bismuth, 3. With charcoal, in flatulent dyspepsia
Calumba, 2. With aromatics
Camphor, 2. In hysterical flatulence, especially at climacteric Carbolic Acid, 3. If without acidity, etc.
Carlsbad Waters. If due to hepatic derangement
Charcoal
Chloroform, 3. Pure, in drop doses in gastric flatulence
Essential Oils, 3
Ether, 2. In nervousness and hypochondriasis
Eucalyptol, 3. At climacteric, if associated with heat flushings, etc.
•Galvanism, 1
 
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