Abdominal Plethora :

Aliment, water-free food, 54 ; laxative diet, 66 ; grape-cure, 55.

Cathartics, saline, 749 ; resin-bearing, 753; and hydragogue purgatives, 764.

Saline Mineral Waters, 229, 233 ; especially Saratoga, Vichy, and the purgative saline generally. Abortion :

Aurum, 297. The chloride, to avert the tendency to habitual abortion.

Cornutine, 500. To increase uterine action when required.

Opium, 641. To check uterine action, and Ergot, 500, Hydrastinine, 191, and Viburnum, 365, to restrain hemorrhage.

Abortifacienta, ergot, savine, rue, aloes, pi-crotoxine, apiol, pilocarpus, colocynth, the hydragogue cathartics, etc., all dangerous to life when used in sufficient quantity to produce abortion. Abscess :

Belladonna plaster, 523. Emplastrum am-moniaci cum hydrargyro, 278. Leeches, 814. Silver Nitrate in nitrous ether applied over inflamed area and adjacent ! region to abort inflammation, 304, and ointment or powder of Iodol, 274, and Iodoform, 271, and iodoform substitutes, Lore-tin, 275, Nosophen, 276, Europhen, 276, Aristol, 277. Tincture of Iodine as a counter-irritant, and as an antiseptic injected into the sac of an abscess, 262. Carbolic Acid, 383, Salicylic Acid, 400, Resor-cin and Boric Acid, 420, for antiseptic ! dressing. Sulphides, 249, gr. i every few ; hours to abort abscess, or hasten the formation and extrusion of pus. Potass, per-mangan., 157, as a deodorant and germicide. Also Methylene blue, 414, Naphtalin, 415, for local use.

Acidity: Mineral Acids, 115, before meals. Acid fermentation, with vomiting of pasty matter, I sulphurous acid, 247. During meals an j acid wine (Rhine). For immediate relief, alkalies after meals, 221. The frequent use of alkalies enhances the mischief. Lime-water, 223. Ammonium Carbonate, 237. Alkaline Mineral-waters, 229. Tannic Acid, 843, in pill-form—fll j glycerin to gr. iv of tannin. Carbolic Acid, 383, stops fermentation and eructations. Bismuth, 163, with carbolic acid, gives excellent results. The purified black Mangani Diox-idum, 156, and Silver Oxide, 301, are serviceable, acting as local sedatives and preventing acid fermentation. Lead Acetate, 313, Kino, 343, and Nux Vomica Tincture, 482, act in the same way, and rather remove the causes than affect the acidity directly.

Acne: Phosphorus, 136. Even more effective and safer are the hypophosphites and phosphates. Arsenic, 174 ; sometimes beneficial, but on the whole disappointing. Bismuth, 164, is an excellent topical application when there are heat and redness. Sublimed Sulphur, 249, applied as a powder to the eruption is one of the best applications. Sulphides, 250, in solution, Ich-thyol, 350, a sulphur compound useful both internally and externally ; also iodoform substitutes, Nosophen, 276, Aristol, 277, and others. Alkaline lotions, when the skin is greasy and the sebaceous follicles full, are useful; for example, liquor po-tassai in rose-water, 225. Lotions of corrosive sublimate, 294. Glycerin, 817, internally.

Adynamia : Alcohol, 576, is serviceable when it improves the appetite and digestion, when the tongue becomes moist, and when delirium subsides under its use. Brandy is the best form when bowels are relaxed ; whisky when there is constipation. A wine of good body and high bouquet in the weakness of sedentary occupations. Aliment, 68, 73, beef, milk, cod-liver oil. Bitters, especially calumba and hydrastine, 190, as a substitute for quinine. Eucalyptus, 187, for malarial adynamia, but especially the alkaloids of cinchona, notably quinine, 201, gr. ij—gr. v. ter in die. Iron, 147, to stimulate digestion and promote blood formation, with manganese. Chalybeate springs, 161. Ferratin, 153, an albuminous compound of iron. Nux Vomica Tincture, 482, with capsicum in the case of inebriates. Coca, fluid extract, 561, prevents waste, and favors constructive metamorphosis.

After-pains : Chloral, 617, one of the most efficient remedies, but considerable doses necessary. Camphor, 548, effective, with or without morphine. Gelsemium, 675, also stops after-pains, but as large doses are necessary, safer remedies are preferable. Morphine and atropine, 533, subcutaneously or by the stomach, very certain to relieve. Cimicifuga, 522, affords some relief.

Albuminuria : Milk cure. 58; especially buttermilk, 60. Iron, 152. Basham"s Mistura Ferri et Ammonii Acetatis, 152, and the purgative chalybeate waters, 161, for the anaemia. Arsenic, 175, for the interstitial changes in kidneys. Alkaline diuretics, 219. Gallic acid, 344, especially Aitken's formula to restrain loss of albumen. Oxygen, 367. Gold and Sodium. Chloride, 297, in the chronic forms. Nitro-glycerin and Nitrites, 711, for high vascular tension. Pilocarpine, 683. Digitalis, 513, when quantity of urine much lessens. Oxalic Acid, 245, is suggested by its selective action. Lactate of Strontium, 327, Salts of Uranium, 329, in chronic forms ; also Oil of Erigeron, 184, Terpin Hydrate, 782, renal stimulants.