Bed-sores : Alcohol, 577, a wash to skin. Alum, 337, with tincture of camphor and whites of eggs, a good topical application Bismuth Salicylate, 164. Resorcin, 404, in form of powder. Copaiba, 784, and Castor-Oil, equal parts, but Naphtol, 416, Methylene Blue, 413, Tannigen, 349, Dermatol, 164, local applications, astringent and antiseptic. A galvanic couplet, zinc and silver, connected with a copper wire, has been used with success, 470.

Biliary Calculi. (See Calculi.)

Biliousness : Acids, Mineral, 115, before meals in acid indigestion. Hydrochloric acid and pepsin after meals in atonic dyspepsia. Alkalies, and their laxative salts, 216, and Alkaline Mineral Waters, 229, 234, when the uric acid is in excess. Sodium Phosphate, 139, especially useful. Aloes and the resin-bearing cathartics, 756, Cholagogues, so called, Euonymin, 721, Iridin, 763, Baptisin, 764, etc., to promote biliary evacuations. Calomel and blue-pill, 284, in small quantity as laxatives merely. Ammonium Chloride, 237. Manganese, 156. in gouty subjects. Ammonium Iodide, or iodine, 257, in the biliousness of the malarial cachexia. Hydrastis, 190, Stillingia, 357, and the bitters, also Tincture of Nux Vomica, 482, after the action of saline or resinous cathartics. Milk-Diet, 59, 65, Whey-Cure, 59, Koumiss, 59, of high importance.

Bites ok Venomous Snakes : Ammonia, 240, Bromine, 372, locally to the wound. Intravenous Injection of Ammonia, 26. Potassium Permanganate, 157, Alcoholic Stimulants, 576. Chlorinated Lime, 370.

Bladder, Catarrh of : Alkalies, 218, after meals, when urine is acid. Ammonium Benzoate, 428, when urine is alkaline. Copaiba, 784, Cubebs, 786, Juniper, 789, and other urmo-genitals, are useful, but liable to damage kidneys. Cantharides Tincture, 790, very efficient in small doses. Magnesium Borotartrateand Borocitrate, 421, have proved highly useful. Eucalyptus, 187. and Turpentine, 781. Quinine, 207, very beneficial when there is septicemic fever. Salicylic Acid, 394, Salol, 409, Saccharin, 418, and other members of the series, have proved effective.

Bladder, Irritability of : Belladonna, 530, of special utility in nocturnal incontinence, but must be carried to the production of physiological effects. Cantharides Tincture, 799, sometimes succeeds remarkably in irritable bladder of women. Aquapuncture, 809, often curative. When urine is acid, Alkalies, 218; when alkaline, Ammonium Benzoate, 422.

Boils : Arsenic, 174, long continued for a succession of boils. Silver Nitrate, 305, dissolved in nitrous ether, and painted on early, will abort. Sulphides, 249, in small doses frequently, either stop formation or push to maturation and discharge of pus. Sulphurous Waters, 253, act in same way. Phosphates, 140, suitable tonics.

Bone Diseases ; Softening of Bone : Lime Carbonate and Phosphate, 139, are materials necessary. Phosphorus, 135, promotes formation of bony tissue. Phosphates, 139, improve tissue formation in general. Cod-liver Oil, 124, in combination. Calcium Chloride, 223, in strumous subjects. (See also Caries, Rickets.)

Breath, Foul: Chlorine-Water, 370, properly diluted. Carbolic Acid, 383, in dilute solution, as a mouth-wash, and by the stomach. Potassium Permanganate, 159, in rose-water as a mouth-wash. Benzoic Acid and Tincture of Benzoin, 422, topically and internally.

Bright's Disease: Milk-Cure, Koumiss, Whey, 59, 61, have been very successful, especially an exclusive skim-milk diet, or a diet composed largely of milk. Water, 82, and large draughts of weak alkaline waters. Potassium Bitar-trate. 218, as lemonade, drunk freely as a diuretic. Digitalis, 513, the infusion for dropsy. Iodide of Potassium, 258, in cases of chronic kind (especially if there is a syphilitic taint), and in arterio-sclerosis. Iron, 152, the tincture of the chloride well diluted, or in Basham's mixture, to stimulate the kidneys and to relieve the accompanying anaemia. Pilocarpus, 683, highly useful in many cases of uraemia. Aurum, 297, in chronic interstitial nephritis and amyloid kidney. Cantharides, 799. Eucalyptus, 187, and other urino-genitals, but are doubtful. Nitro-glycerin, 709, has proved highly useful when there is increased vascular tension.

Bronchitis, Acute : Muscarine, 729, at the onset of the disease may arrest. Aconite, 714, in small dose frequently. Tartar Emetic, 324, in moderate quantity, with or without mcrphine. Nitric Acid dilute, 118, Cimicifuga, 521, an expectorant, may be combined with opium and aconite. Ammonium Carbonate, 239, if secretion is viscid and there is depression. Sanguinaria, 359, anaLobelia, 698, nauseating expectoration, best given with opium. Terebene for cough, 781, a valuable remedy. Morphine, or Dover's Powder, with quinine, 642, may abort if given early enough. Pilocarpus, 683, often highly useful at the beginning. For mild cases, Sirup of Squills, 793, or the compound sirup, with Paregoric, makes a useful combination. Ipecac, 740, as expectorant'. Apomorphine and Apocodeine, 736.

Bronchitis, Capillary : Iodides, 258, diminish the viscidity of the secretion, and thus lessen one of the chief dangers. Ammonia Carbonate, 239, acts similarly, and is indicated when depression comes on. Ethyl Iodide, by inhalation, 267, and Terebene. Serpentaria, 183, a stimulating expectorant, may be given with ammonia. Turpentine, 779, when the capillary circulation languishes. Terebene, for cough, 781. Camphor, 547, also under the same circumstances. Emetics are highly useful, the Mercury Subsulphate, 7M,Alum, 734, and Apomorphine, 736, being the principal. Pilocarpus, 683, when there is much secretion. Pyridine Vapor, 417.

Bronchitis, Chronic : Koumiss, 59, 71, a valuable nutrient. Cod-liver Oil, 124. Iron, 150, especially the mis-tura ferri composita. Ammonium Chloride, 239, combined with stimulating expectorants, as Eucalyptus, 186, or Serpentaria, 183, or Sanguinaria, 361. The Iodides, 258, especially the iodide of ammonium, is serviceable in combination with the expectorants just named. Morphine, 638, especially morphine and atropine, 644, or some preparation of opium, is indispensable to quiet cough. Strychnine, 484, and the sirup of the phosphate of iron, quinine, and strychnine, is a valuable respiratory stimulant. Strychnine is the best remedy to check the reflex vomiting. Inhalations of Sulphurous Acid, in spray or gas, 247, especially Pictet liquid, 374, Ethyl Iodide, 267, and gaseous enemata of Carbolic Acid and Creosote, 379. Benzoates, also, 422, are very useful. Grindelia, 723, a valuable expectorant, especially when the cough is troublesome. Copaiba, 784, and Cubeb, 786, useful stimulating expectorants.

Bronchorrhosa : Eucalyptus, 186, Turpentine, 779, its derivatives and the stimulating expectorants mentioned under chronic bronchitis. Carbolic Acid, 379, internally and by spray. Grindelia, 723, Ammonium Carbonate and Chloride, 239. Cubeb, 786, Copaiba, 784. Sulphurous Acid, spray, 247, and as Pictet liquid, 374. Benzoin, inhalation, 422. Tere-bene, 781, antiseptic ; eliminated by the lungs. Oxygen by inhalation and gas ene-mata, 379. Iodide*, 258. Phosphates as restoratives, 140.

Burns and Scalds : Sodium Carbonate, 225, in saturated solution to relieve pain. Boric Acid, 420, most useful in Mr. Lister's hands. Lead Carbonate, 315, painted on. Turpentine, 780, mixed with basilicon-ointment. Salicylic Acid, 400. Carbolic Acid, 382, one-per-cent solution relieves pain and prevents suppuration. Collodion, 819, the flexile for slight burns.