APPENDIX.

LIST OF REMEDIES MENTIONED IN THIS BOOK AND THEIR USES.

DOSES.-Unless otherwise stated, the doses mentioned in this book are intended for adults. To determine the dose for children, add 12 to the age of the child and divide the age of the child by this sum. This fraction will represent the size of dose compared with that for an adult. For example, a child 6 6 6 years old will require or one-third of the adult dose. 6+1216' CAUTION.-Preparations containing opium, such as laudanum, paregoric, camphor and opium pills, Sun Cholera Mixture tablets, etc., should not be used except where absolutely necessary, as their continued use is liable to produce the drug habit.

Alcohol. Externally, is useful as a mild antiseptic wash for wounds. As a liniment, pure or diluted with from 1 to 3 parts of water, is cooling and stimulating.

Argyrol.-Useful, in 10 to 20 per cent solutions, as drops, for sore eyes, also as injection for gonorrhea.

Aromatic spirit of ammonia.-Useful in hysteria, faintness, headache, flatulent colic, nervous debility, and as a stimulant in shock. Dose: to 1 teaspoonful in water every half hour until three doses are taken.

Aspirin (5-grain tablets).-Useful in rheumatism, neuralgia, cramps in stomach, colic, and headache. Dose: 1 to 2 tablets with hot water or tea every three hours.

Belladonna plaster.-Useful in coughs, colds, rheumatism in joints and arms, lumbago, and pains in small of back. Should be worn only long enough to have the desired effect. If the throat becomes dry or the pupils dilated, indicating belladonna poisoning, the plaster should be removed.

Bicarbonate of soda (baking soda).-Internally, useful in sour stomach and heartburn. Dose: to 1 teaspoonful in half tumbler of water. Repeat in half an hour if necessary.

Bismuth subnitrate (5-grain tablets).-Useful in dysentery, diarrhea, and heartburn. Dose: 2 to 4 tablets every three hours. (Crush before taking.)

Borax.-Useful in sore mouth. One tablespoonful dissolved in a pint of water and used as a mouth wash several times a day.

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Boric acid (boracic acid).—One-half teaspoonful may be dissolved in a glass of water and used as a lotion for the eyes and ears.

Bromide of potash (5-grain tablets).—Useful in convulsions and delirium tremens. Dose: 3 to 5 tablets, dissolved in water, three times a day.

Brown mixture lozenges.-Useful in bronchitis, coughs, and colds. Dose: 1 lozenge allowed to dissolve slowly in mouth; to be repeated as required.

Calomel (-grain tablets).—Useful in constipation and dysentery. Dose for adults and children: Take 2 tablets every 15 minutes until 20 tablets are taken. When from 4 to 6 hours have elapsed a Seidlitz powder or a dose of Rochelle or Epsom salt should be taken. The dose of the Seidlitz powder or salt should be proportionate to the age of the patient.

Camphor and opium pills (poison).-Useful in relieving pain in diarrhea and dysentery. Dose: 1 pill every three hours until 4 are taken.

Camphorated oil (for external use only).—In sprains, bruises, neuralgia, rheumatism, and pains and swellings of the breasts or joints it should be gently rubbed on the painful part. Applied on hot flannel to chest and neck for colds.

Carbolic acid, liquid (poison).-Useful as an antiseptic and disinfectant when mixed in the proportion of 1 part of acid to 100 parts of hot water. Useful without dilution to arrest the development of boils and carbuncles and as an application to ulcers and venereal sores. Should be applied cautiously. The surface should be merely touched with a small piece of cotton moistened with a drop of the acid, care being taken not to burn the surrounding skin. Do not use internally.

Castor oil.-Useful in constipation. Dose: 1 to 2 tablespoonfuls. Chlorate of potash (5-grain tablets).-Useful in sore throat and sores in mouth. Directions: Dissolve 5 or 6 tablets in a wineglass of water and use as a gargle or mouth wash.

Compound cathartic pills, vegetable.-Useful in constipation. Dose: 1 to 3 pills at night.

Compound solution of cresol.-Useful as an antiseptic and disinfectant when mixed with water in from 1 to 3 per cent solutions. (See pp. 104 and 188.) Do not use internally.

Cough mixture-Mistura pectoralis (expectorans) N. F.—Stimulating expectorant. Useful in coughs and colds. Dose for an adult: to 1 teaspoonful.

Cream of tartar.-In small doses (1 to 2 teaspoonfuls in sweetened water) acts as a cooling aperient, gently opening bowels. In large doses (1 to 2 tablespoonfuls) is a hydrogogue cathartic, causing free, watery stools.

Epsom salt.-Useful in constipation and dysentery. Dose: 1 to 2 tablespoonfuls dissolved in as little water as possible. A little lemon juice and sugar may be added to disguise somewhat its bitter taste.

Essence of peppermint.-Useful in cramps, colds, gas in stomach, and colic. Dose: 10 drops to teaspoonful in sweetened water or on sugar. Externally is useful in rheumatism, neuralgia, and toothache. Flaxseed meal.-Useful as hot poultice to apply to boils and felons. Compresses, wet with hot bichloride solution, 1 tablet to 5 pints of hot water, are better. To prepare flaxseed poultice a receptacle containing boiling water should be placed on the fire, the flaxseed meal should be gradually added and constantly stirred until the batter is jellylike. This should be evenly spread, with a thickness of from

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inch, to within 2 or 3 inches of the border of a cloth prepared for that purpose by folding in two or three layers. To prevent the poultice from adhering to the skin any of the following may be placed on its surface: Gauze, mosquito netting, cheesecloth, vaseline, or sweet oil.

Formalin (poison).-Used as a disinfectant generally in connection with permanganate of potash, as follows: For every 1,000 cubic feet of room space to be disinfected use pound of permanganate of potash, powder or crystals, and from 1 to 14 pints of formalin. Add the permanganate of potash to the formalin contained in a deep tin pail. Effervescence begins at once, the room is tightly closed, and the operation is over in about 10 minutes. After 12 hours the room is opened and aired.

Glycerin.-Is a mild and healing application for sores, chaps, etc. When mixed with an equal quantity of water is useful in earache, hard, irritated, or feverish skin, chapped face or hands, split lips, and chafing.

Iodide of potash (5-grain tablets).-Useful in syphilis. Dose: 1 tablet dissolved in water three times a day after meals.

Laudanum (poison).—Useful in easing pain in dysentery, cholera morbus, and in severe attacks of colic. Dose: 5 to 30 drops. To be used with great caution and only for acute emergencies.

Lemon juice.-Useful in fevers and inflammatory complaints. Hot lemonade on retiring is useful to aid in the relief of a cold in its first stages.

Lime water.-Internally is useful in soothing sick stomach, heartburn, diarrhea, and in dyspepsia attended with acidity of the stomach. Dose: 1 to 3 tablespoonfuls. For sick stomach, to be repeated after each effort to vomit. Externally, as a liniment (mixed with an equal quantity of linseed, cottonseed, or olive oil) for burns and scalds.

Magnesia, calcined, heavy.-Useful in sick headache, dyspepsia, sour stomach, and heartburn. Dose: to 1 teaspoonful 1 hour after

meals, and, being mildly laxative, for constipation in doses of to 1 teaspoonful.

Menthol.-Useful in oily solutions (menthol 3 grains, liquid petrolatum 1 ounce) as cooling drops in nose in colds in the head. Ten drops should be placed in each nostril with a medicine dropper.

Mustard.—Externally is useful to draw the blood to the surface in case of pain where skin is not broken. Should be employed as a plaster or poultice, made as follows: 1 part of mustard is thoroughly mixed with from 2 to 4 parts of flour and made into a paste by the addition of a small amount of tepid water. This is then spread thinly to within 1 or 2 inches of the border of a cloth prepared by folding in two or three layers of old cotton cloth. The amount of mustard depends upon the degree of pain, the age of the patient, etc. Care should be taken that the mustard does not blister the skin. As a rule, mustard plasters or poultices should not be applied to children and old people, as they may blister the surface. Internally given to produce vomiting, 1 tablespoonful stirred to a cream with a cupful of tepid water.

Oil of cloves (poison).—Useful in toothache, being applied the same as creosote. (See above.)

Olive oil (sweet oil).—Internally is useful in constipation. Dose: 2 to 3 tablespoonfuls. Externally is a soothing application to blistered, burned, scalded, or other injured surfaces, also to piles.

Oil of wintergreen (methyl salicylate).—Useful, when mixed with an equal amount of olive oil, as an application for the relief of neuralgia, rheumatism, and painful joints. The oil should be gently rubbed on the painful area. If used about the head care should be taken that none gets into the eyes.

Paregoric (poison).-Useful in quieting cough and relieving pain in the stomach and bowels and to check diarrhea. Dose: 1 to 2 teaspoonfuls. To be used only in acute emergencies.

Permanganate of potash.-Useful in gonorrhea as an injection: 1 teaspoonful dissolved in 2 quarts of water. One teaspoonful to a quart of water makes an efficient wash for perspiring feet. Useful in snake-bites in the form of a concentrated solution which should be injected freely and immediately into and around the part which has been bitten. Useful as a general antiseptic in solution (1 tablespoonful dissolved in a quart of water). As a disinfectant, see "Formalin."

Peroxide of hydrogen solution.—Is cleansing and slightly antiseptic. Useful as a gargle in sore throat, diluted with an equal quantity of water. Useful to apply to wounds, boils, and abscesses, after diluting with from 1 to 3 parts of water.

Picric acid (poison) dissolve in water (per cent solution).— Useful to wet dressings with, as an application to burns.