Merck's 1899 Manual - Part 96
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~Convulsions, Infantile.~

Aconite.

Alcohol: a small dose of wine or brandy arrests convulsions from teething.

Asafetida: a small dose in an enema arrests convulsions from teething.

Baths: warm, with cold affusions to the head.

Belladonna: very useful.

Chloral Hydrate: In large doses--5 grn. by mouth or r.e.c.t.u.m.

Chloral Hydrate: with Bromide.

Chloroform.

Garlic Poultices: to spine and lower extremities.

Ignatia: when intestinal irritation.

Pilocarpine Hydrochlorate (in uremic).

Spinal Ice-Bag.

Valerian: when due to worms.

Veratrum.

~Corneal Opacities.~--_See also, Kerat.i.tis._

Cadmium Sulphate.

Calomel.

Iodine: internally and locally.

Mercury Oxide, Red.

Mercury Oxide, Yellow.

Opium.

Pota.s.sium Iodide.

Silver Nitrate: locally.

Sodium Chloride: injected under conjunctiva.

Sodium Sulphate.

Thiosinamine.

~Corns.~

Acid, Acetic.

Acid, Carbolic.

Acid, Chromic.

Acid, Salicylic: saturated solution in collodion with extract of cannabis indica, 1/2 dram to 1 fl. oz.

Acid, Trichloracetic.

Copper Oleate.

Iodine.

Mercury Bichloride.

Pota.s.sium Bichromate.

Poultices: and plaster with hole in centre to relieve of pressure.

Silver Nitrate.

Sodium Ethylate.

~Coryza.~--_See also, Catarrh._

Acid, Camphoric.

Acid, Sulpho-anilic.

Acid, Tannic.

Aconite: in early stages.

Allium: as a poultice to breast, or in emulsion, or boiled in milk for children.

Amyl Nitrite.

a.r.s.enic: taken for months; for persistent colds.