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THERAPEUTICS
MATERIA MEDICA and
The Practice of Medicine
Arranged Alphabetically by Topics for Convenient Reference.
Affording in condensed, but sufficiently descriptive form, the latest
and best scientific summary, for practical purposes, of general medical
information from standard chemical, pharmaceutical and therapeutical
By S: V. CLEVENGER, M. D.,
Author of Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity Physician to the
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"^1^ WILMINGTON, DEL.
PREFACE.
Usefulness and reliability were kept constantly in view in the
construction of this book; pedanticisms, serving merely to fill space in

so many text books, robbing the time of the student, are especially
omitted ; nor is there adherence to any cumbrous system for consistency
sake. The impossibility of making a work of this kind conjoin all the
compendious qualities of the heavier tomes is compensated by its free-
dom from the dignified drivel of the average Therapeutics.

Any appearance of enthusiastic endorsement of proprietary articles
in a few instances can be compared with the unhesitating denunciation

of many such compounds emanating from the same manufacturers.
They never subsidize an author to praise one of their medicines and
condemn the rest.
The publications of such reputable houses as those of Squibb
and Merck have been freely used with their permission, to advantage ;
but this work, while embodying information from many sources, to be
found in no other single volume, is intensely original, particularly with

topics upon which the author has been forced to be familiar through
antagonizing some of the worst and most powerful elements in large
cities.
Under Prescribing, Therapeutics, etc., other dissertations occur

that are usually included in a preface or introduction.
THERAPEUTICS,
MATERIA MEDICA,
AND
PRACTICE of MEDICINE.
Abducens Nerve, Sixth Pair, Paralysis.
Owing to greater length of this nerve it is more liable
to paralysis from disease of brain base, especially syphilitic

gumma. As it controls the external rectus eye muscle, eye
pulls inwardly, convergent squint or strabismus. Iodide of
potassium, biniodide of mercury, strychnia.
Aberration, Mental.
Any abnormal mental state, usually temporary.
Abortion prevention.
Antiseptic cotton tampons. Small doses of ergot con-
stringe the bleeding vessels, also the uterine cervix, large
doses contract the entire uterus, hence inappropriate. Asa-
fetida to allay nervousness. Cascara as a laxative. Habitual
cases liable to be syphilitic. When miscarriage inevitable
and complete removal of materials induc-
asepsis, antisepsis
ing hemorrhage, as retained placenta and membranes, then
ergot and sustentation. Prolonged rest.
Aboulomania.
Loss of will power unaccompanied with other mental
impairment. Incurable.
Abrasion.
Borax, boracic acid, carbolic acid 3% salve or oint-
ment, flexible collodion, traumaticin, gutta percha solution,
court plaster moistened with water and not by tongue, if
6 THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AND PRACTICE.
bleeding abrasion styptics. To determine minute abrasions

that are best touched with nitrate of silver in holding au-
topsy to avoid infection through hands, hold them over
open bottle of stronger water of ammonia, the fumes will
locate cuts and abrasions by the sting of the ammonia.
Abscess.
Evacuate if advisable, sometimes can be aborted with
antiphlogistine or similar glycerine-kaolin compounds; ich-
thyol, guiacol or carbolated ointment 3%. Peroxide of hy-
drogen to destroy pus, antiseptic washes afterward or boric
acid; iodoform,though its odor advertises the user. Tonics
if debilitated.
Absinthe.
Wormwood liquor. To be avoided as liable to induce
a habit asbad as that of cocaine taking. The French gov-
ernment has found it necessary to restrict the sales of ab-
sinthe owing to the demoralization it has caused. It rapidly
debauches and frenzies.
Abstracts.
A formerly suggested substitute for extracts to enable
a few drug manufacturers, who had debased the extracts
and fluid extracts to almost worthlessness, to secure a high
price for "assayed" drugs, but re-standardization of extracts
dropped this tricky name from the pharmacopoeia. Squibb,
of Brooklyn, N. Y., makes standard drug preparations few
manufacturers have equalled. Every druggist knows this
and every doctor should know it.
Acacia.
Gum Arabic, an old fashioned and useful demulcent
frequently combined as a vehicle in emulsions, mixtures,
confections, syrups and soothing draughts in inflammatory
conditions of mouth, throat, stomach or intestines. It is
nourishing, as Africans and apes sometimes subsist on it.

THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AND PRACTICE. 7
Acetanilid, see also Antifebrin.
To be used, if at all, with caution as it is the ingredient

in many headache powders that has killed so many by heart
paralysis. It is antipyretic, but when given for reducing
fever itmust be watched in its effects, and it is safer to use

this remedy only in hospitals where attending physicians
and trained nurses can regulate the administration of medi-
cines. As an analgesic mainly in headache it certainly does
relieve the pain quickly in most cases, also that of toothache,
but it is in no sense curative of anything; all it can do is to*
afford time by the lessening of pain, to enable other means
if practicable to be brought to the aid of the patient to re-
move the cause of the disease, which mere pain alleviators

cannot do.
Strictly speaking it is not an antirheumatic for it has
no influence upon uric acid and merely blunts rheumatic
pains temporarily.
Dose: powder, alcoholic or hot water
3 to 10 grains,
solution, cooled and sweetened. Maximum dose 15 grains
or a dram daily. It is incompatible with so many drugs it is
safer to give it by itself, but if united with other milder
analgesics as antipyrine, etc., the entire dose of the combi-
nation must not exceed the usual acetanilid dose in weight.
Antidotes are stimulants, hot coffee, atropine, strych-
nine, oxygen.
Acetic Acid, the base of Vinegar.
Not used internally in concentrated form, the glacial is

sometimes used to cauterize warts. Antidotes are alkalies,
soap and water, milk. Recently used as a solvent and me-
dium for drugs. Squibb holds that a 10% acetic acid men-
struum is quite the equal of a 41% alcohol menstruum for
the extraction and preservation of the medicinal properties
of drugs.
Acetonaemia.
The cause of diabetic coma.
Acetozone.
A proprietary form of Benzoyl-Acetyl Peroxide, on
trial in typhoid fever.
Achillea.
A mild tonic, in little use.
Acholia.
Pernicious Jaundice.
Achorlon Schonleinii.
Fungus parasite, cause of Tinea Favosa or scalp crust.
Acidity of Stomach.
Alkalies, as bicarbonate of soda, lime water, vichy, seid-
litz powder, etc.
Acids, Dilute.
Much in vogue in former days as tonics and alteratives,
but abuse causing untoward effects the dilute acids are little
used now in medicine.

Muriatic, and Nitro-muriatic acids have been
Nitric
used and stomach disturbances where ex-
in liver disorders
cess of alkalinity was present and as hyperacidity is the most

frequent condition in gastritis the acids have been empi-
rically and improperly used in dyspepsias, intensifying the
disease.
Dilute phosphoric acid was sold extensively under the
name of Horsford's Acid Phosphate. Occasionally a "Sure
Germ Killer" containing this or some other simple sub-
stance is extensively advertised and gulped by dupes.
Dilute sulphuric acid was also taken as a "lemonade,"
but that made from the citric acid of lemons is far better.
This mineral acid was also used by the British in India as a
preventive of Asiatic Cholera, the germ of which requires

an alkaline culture medium.
Acinesis.
Loss of power of movement.
Acne.
Any treatment usually disappointing, particularly at
puberty. Fowler's solution internally and antiphlogistine

externally are the simplest and most effective, but many
other things have been used and in most instances failed to
effect a remedy. Such are zinc oxide, salicylic acid, ich-
thyol. Ordinary acne may be regarded as at times physi-
ological, hence the difficulty of doing any thing for it in
young people. Really it should often be considered if it
were proper to do anything more than to use gentle laxa-
tives, unless accompanied by need for antaphrodisiacs.
There are several varieties of acne, so that treatment must

differ for the various forms, miliaria or the warty white sort
must be opened, rosacea or red patches may require iodide
of potassium internally and ichthyol externally. Ergot gives
temporary relief but it is questionable if it should be con-
tinued.The entire list of skin disease remedies has been
recommended in the different acnes, especially rosacea.
Aconite.
In its various forms has done more harm than good in
medicine. It is a powerful depressant and has taken away
the chances for life in many cases of pneumonia, neuralgia,
toothache, etc. Quacks have secured great reputations for
curing rheumatism by rubbing aconite into painful spots,
a proceeding at which the educated doctor would stand
aghast. A man who was making quite a sum by his infalli-
ble rheumatism cure when correctly informed of the liabili-
ties he risked abandoned his "Sure Cure" in fright. But the
doubt may always remain with even the reputable practi-
tioner who has allayed pain with aconite, in case a patient

dies, that the disease might have run a different course had
nothing been given.
Acromegaly.
Giantism, or enlargement of bones and other
great
parts. Incurable. An
example of how an utterly illogical
supposed etiology may not only get into text books but be
copied and circulated unchallenged, is afforded by the as-
cription of acromegaly to an enlarged pituitary gland. It
would be as sensible to claim that it was owing to an en-

larged toe, or tooth. The pituitary body is merely embryo-
nal and without function, though one good clinician un-
wisely assigned an oxygenating property to it. Ancients
regarded it as the seat of the soul, about as justifiably.
Acrophobia.
Fear of high places. Incurable.
Actinomyces.
The fungus cause of actinomycosis, infecting jaws, ears,
neck and face.
Actinomycosis.
Rare in man, usually communicated from "lumpy jaw"
disease of cattle. The "ray fungus" causing it can be at-
tacked with potassium iodide mainly, but other remedies
tried are ichthyol, sodium salicylate by mouth, locally ap-
plied or by injection into place infected.
Acute Delirious Mania.

A fatal insanity with high temperature, called also De-
lirium Grave and improperly known as Typhomania. It
lias nothing to do with typhoid as many mistakenly suppose
from that name.
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Acute Mania.
Beginning stage of mania, which inside of a year is
usually recovered from, if not ignorantly dosed with hyp-

notics, especially chloral and opium.
Acute Melancholia.
Beginning stage of melancholia, with same prognosis
as above.
Addison's Disease.
Tuberculosis of supra-renal capsules with progressive,
anemia, prostration and bronzing of skin. Treatment: one
of the supra-renal capsule preparations, such as Merck's
dried, or adrenalin. Debility can be met with appropriate
tonics, as quinine, iron and strychnia. In a disease that is
organically destructive we can expect palliation at best, and

never a complete cure.
Adenitis. Inflammation of lymphatic glands.

Calomel internally for acute case, for subacute iodide of
potassium internally and ichthyol externally. Scrofulous
cases syrup of iodide of iron.
Adenoids, Post-nasal.
Interfere with breathing. Astringents, alkalines, anti-
septics, amputation.
Adeps Lanae Hydrosus, see Lanolin or Lanum.

Adhesive plasters.
The most common being the diachylon or lead plaster,
but numerous preparations of rubber, etc., are also made.
Ordinary Ichthyocolla or court plaster has minor uses for

cuts and abrasions.
Adonidin.
Adonin. From Adonis Vernalis. Substitute for Digi-
talis. Dose, a twentieth to a quarter of a grain.
Adreniline, see Supra-renal capsule.
Adynamia. Loss of vitality.
As the causes and consequences vary widely it is best

to study them out and remove them if possible. Ordinary
tonics are useful, though some vice of the system may un-
derly the trouble.
After-pains.
Morphine, as the need for it is but temporary. Avoid
relaxation as passivity may induce hemorrhage or postpone
involution.
Agalactia. Deficiency or absence of milk.

Usually due to run-down system. Tonics, fresh air,
rest, good food, especially cow's milk, plenty of drinking

water, to which may be ascribed the reputation of beer as a
galactagogue.
Agaricine.
Formerly used for night-sweats in phthisis. Dose: a
twelfth of a grain. Little used.
Age.
A natural decay, universal with birth and growth, man-
ifest however at no invariable age in the same species, but
inevitable after adult life. Mentioned as some physiolo-
gists, who should know better, suggest excision of the colon
and similar idiotic means of preventing old age. Their
ideas partake of senility.
The notion is credited to Metchnikoff, that senility is
caused by the phagocytes that destroy hostile germs in the

body turning traitor and eating up the cells of the old per-
son-. The more sensible view does not seem to have oc-
cured to those who repeated this guess at physiology, that
the phagocytes merely continued their regular performance

of destroying foreign or defunct materials wherever found.
Senility is plainly the period of dissolution, and instead of
the phagocytes being enemies, they are still loyal but over-
whelmed with the presence of broken down cells from the
decaying organism in which they live.
Agoraphobia.
Fear of open spaces. Incurable.
Agraphia.
Inability to write through lesion of motor writing part
of speech center in brain cortex. Usually associated with
incurable brain disease.
Ague, see Intermittent Fever.
Agurin.
A combination of sodium acetate and sodium theobro-
mate, a new diuretic. Dose 5 to 15 grains 2 or 3 times a
day. Said to be superior to diuretin and inferior to digi-
talis in diuretic effect.
Ainhum.
Tropical endemic causing gradual amputation of little
toe.
Airol.
An unstable bismuth vulnerary. Not much used.
Alalia.
Loss of power of speech, complete or incomplete. Cur-

able or not, according to how seriously the brain is involved.
Hysterical aphonia may disappear spontaneously, but in-
jury to speech center of brain is incurable.
Albargin.
A silver nitrate with gelatine, like protargol. Not
much used.
Albinism.
Congenital pigment absence, causing white hair and
pink eyes. Stigma of degeneracy.
Alboferin.
One of the multitude of albumin and iron combina-
tions.
Albuminuria, see Nephritis, Scarlatina, Eclampsia, Ure-

mia.
Alcohol.
In liquors a stimulant to the failing heart and circula-
tion, but dangers of habit forming are to be kept in view.
As a diluent in medicines only the pure ethyl alcohol
should be used as the many poisonous alcohols such as
wood spirit are frequently confused with the medicinal al-
cohol.
The chances buying adulterated liquors are greater
of
than that pure ones can be secured at any price. Dealers
often say that what they sell they would not use themselves,
even though not abstainers, and druggists are readily im-
posed upon in liquor purchase.
Alcoholic acute poisoning.

Treat as other acute poisoning with purges and vomits.
Alcoholic gastritis.
Lime water and milk. Treat as ordinary gastritis.
Alcoholism, see Inebriety.
Alexander's Operation.
There are two of this name. One attempts to cure epi-
THERAPEUTICS, MATEKIA MEDICA AND PRACTICE. 15
lepsy by ligation of the carotid arteries, cutting off part of

the anterior brain circulation, and the other refers to short-
ening the uterine round ligaments, the function of which in
quadrupeds is to prevent the falling forward of the uterus.
Both these operations are condemned as useless.
Aletris Cordial.
Secret.
Alexia.
Loss of power of understanding printed or written
words. Word blindness. Brain lesion seldom cured.
Alkalithia.
Antirheumatic, composition not fully stated. Dose:

teaspoonful.
Allochiria.
Transferred reflex. A foot sole tickle causes the other

leg to jump. A spinal disorder usually incurable as the le-
sion is a destructive one.
Allopathy.
A designation sometimes improperly used by a regular
physician to distinguish himself from the homeopath, un-
aware that it was an epithet falsely indicating that he used
other than similar things to the disease as remedies. The
regular, which was also originally conferred in derision but
which term can be used as not including irregulars, uses
any sensible means of relieving sickness, from whatsoever
source. The regular is the school of most intelligence, the
.
only scientific and honest, and contains the fewest quacks.

Those who claim to practice both regular and irregular
methods are irregular only.
Almond, Bitter-
Flavor, see Oil.

Almond, Sweet.
For making Emulsions.
Aloes.
In doses of from i to 10 grains of the purified Socotrine
or in the form of Aloin a half to two and a half of Merck's,
or in combination with any one of the multitude of aloin
compound pills it acts upon the lower bowel and to some
extent upon the pelvic sympathetic generally, so that in
bitters containing aloes it soon gains the credit of being an
abortifacient.
Alopecia, loss of hair.

All hair restoratives are humbugs.
Aluminium Acetate.
External antiseptic to wash foul wounds. Dubious for
internal use.
Aluminium Aceto-tartrate.
Disinfectant and Astringent for air passages. Half to
2% solutions or as snuff with half its weight of powdered
boracic acid.
Aluminium Sulphate.
Caustic, Antiseptic, Astringent, for fetid ulcers and dis-
charges. Solutions i to 20 or 1 to 100 or concentrated.
Alums.
The ammonium or potassium alum has emetic proper-
1 to 2 dram doses.
ties in It is styptic and astringent and as
Burnt Alum, alumen exsiccatum, it is a caustic through its

affinity for the water of the tissues.
Amaurosis.
Total loss of vision, which if due to atrophy of optic
nerves is not curable, but there is a hysterical amaurosis
often mistaken for the serious eye trouble, but even the hys-
tericalform may in time progress into the incurable one.
Nitroglycerine and electricity may possibly do good, but
promises cannot be made. Tonics also may be needed.
Antisyphilytics at times.
Amaxophobia.
Fear of riding in vehicles. Allied to other dreads in
sane persons. This fear is more common than supposed,
and is incurable.
Amblyopia.
Partial loss or dimness of vision. Remove cause, which
may be from smoking too much, hysterical, some constitu-
tional disease or a removable functional disorder as anemia.
Amenorrhoea. Absence or arrest of the menses.

Nothing has been more foolishly and improperly
treated than amenorrhoea. In the vast majority, especially
young girls, the menses may be month, six
at intervals of a
months or even a year or more and the child
at the outset,
be healthy, needing absolutely no treatment of any kind,
and in other cases of amenorrhoea there may be simple
anemia which rest or a tonic may remove. The need of
blood is at the root of many instances, so hematic tonics,
any kind of an iron preparation, Glide's pepto-mangan es-
pecially, will restore the function. Local treatment in most
cases is simple malpractice, and in young girls unless a
strong evident reason for it local operative or even digital
examination means are not only inadvisable but cruel in af-
ter effects, which any conscientious physician can readily
imagine. Even where over anxious mothers request such
manipulation of a child it is best to refuse, save in rare in-
stances. The usual list of menstrual restoratives are aborti-
facients and set up pelvic congestion and in non-pregnancy
doing little to restore the menses. In insanity the menses
18 THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDIC A AND PRACTICE.
stop, as a rule, but return with mental recovery; amenor-

rhoea in them is a mere symptom, and is ignorantly re-
garded as a cause by the inexperienced. Local treatment
of amenorrhoea in the insane is improper, at the mildest.
It should be also remembered that sometimes menses are
normally absent, and that there are instances of vicarious
menstruation.
Amentia.
Without mind, obsolete term.
Amimia.
Loss of ability to gesticulate.
Ammonia salts generally.

Other than the bromide, such as phosphate and salicy-
late, are inferior to others in use, the sulpho-ichthyolate or
Ichthyol and valerianate being exceptions, which see.
Ammonia Water, Dilute.
There are various strengths ranging from 10 to 25%

of the stronger water of ammonia in plain water, but if not
so strong as to blister and strong enough otherwise the di-
lute ammonia water is very useful in neutralizing ivy poison

and the stings of insects, if promptly used. The aromatic
spirits of ammonia is a superb heart stimulant in any variety
of faintness other than congestive or apoplectic, the dose
being a teaspoonful in a glass of water.
Ammonium and Iron Tartrate.

Dubious use.
Ammonium Benzoate.
Inferior antilithic. Dose 10 to 30 grains.
Ammonium Carbonate.
In solution furnishes household ammonia.
Ammonium Chloride.
Muriate of Ammonia, Sal Ammoniac. Xot much used
as medicine. Pharmaceutical uses greater.
Ammonium Embelate.
Anthelmintic for tape worm. Dose 3 to 6 grains. Not
much used.
Ammonium Fluoride.
Dubious Alterative.
Ammonium Ichthyol-sulphonate, see Ichthyol.
Ammonium Iodide.
Unstable powder. Free iodine likely formed in solu-
tion.
Ammonium Phosphate.
Inferior antirheumatic.
Ammonium Salicylate.
Inferior to Salicylate of Sodium.
Ammonium Sulpho-ichthyolate, see Ichthyol.
Ammonium Valerianate, see Valerianate.
Ammonol.
Composition not fully divulged, it is based on the idea
that ammonia can correct the heart depression in an anal-
gesic, but great caution must be used in these sorts of pain
alleviators.
Amnesia.
Memory loss, usually from brain disease.
Amnesic Aphasia.
Inability to use words through memory failure in brain
disease.
Amylene Hydrate.
A fair hypnotic but destined to extinction owing to its
offensive odor, and the fact that we have better hypnotics.
Amyl Nitrite.
As it is so volatile it is best to use amyl nitrite in the
pearls to break up impending attacks of epilepsy or hysteri-
cal convulsions. The dose is by inhala-
three to ten drops
tion. See that the inhalation is complete, instead of only
partial, through keeping mouth closed at the time it is ap-
plied to the nostrils. Break the pearls in a handkerchief
held to nose. When the fit has begun the amyl nitrite is of
no use. It breaks up an oncoming attack only, merely
postponing it, as a rule.
Amyloform.
Formaldehyde and starch substitute for iodoform.
Anakesis.
An old English pile suppository, quite effective, made
of astringents opium and powdered slippery elm, conically
moulded.
Anal Fissure.
Antiseptics, astringents, cautery.
Anal Fistula.
Antiseptic surgery, peroxide of hydrogen, healing from
inwards.
Anasarca.
Dropsy usually from heart, liver or kidney disease,
though some nervous swelling may be mistaken for dropsy.
Anemia.
Ordinary bloodlessness improves with iron tonics, the
green sickness of young girls may require arsenic in addi-
tion. Under nutrition through organic disease may also be
the cause of anemia. See also Hematoclysis, Chlorosis,

Progressive Pernicious Anemia, Beri-Beri, Leukaemia,
Leucocytosis.
Anemia, Spinal.
Irritability of the cord, hysterical spine, a painful pro-
longed disorder hard to remedy, and sometimes a paraple-
gia. Tonic and eliminative treatment and fresh air.
Anesthesia.
Absence of sensation, often due to nerve functional or
organic impairment. Frequent hysterical symptom.
Anesthesin.
One of the orthoform group of anesthetics, in the ex-
perimental stage.
Anesthetics.
The British Medical Association Committee of 190
concludes that the percentage rather than quantity of chlo-
roform is to be regarded. A small quantity will kill in con-
centrated form while a comparatively large amount is abso-
vapor below 2%, and while this
lutely safe in a suffices in
most cases to induce anesthesia, or even less, as small a
quantity as 1% or less will maintain anesthesia. The com-
mittee insists that inhalers must supply definite percentages
with air admixture. Bonneau recommends the drop by
drop of chloroform method and keeping the neck muscles
where tonicity is just apparent, tested by moving the head
gently from side to side, watching also the respiration, face
and pupil, and cornea sensitiveness.
Germany research suggests ether also drop by drop, as
safer than chloroform,sometimes the ether may be preceded
by morphine or chloroform. Squibb's chloroform remains
safe and standard. Schleich's mixture has been abandoned.
The Vienna or A. C. E. mixture is still used. Nitrous oxide
gas has been long used by dentists with safety, even where
there was weak heart, and it is coming into more use in
surgery.
Spinal injections of cocaine are less popular for several
reasons; the puncture is cruel and may be septic; it is no
advantage to have the patient conscious; it has no advan-

tage over other anesthetic methods. A limited field for it
may be where general anesthesia was improper.
Marvel claims that ethyl bromide preliminary to ether
hastens anesthesia, the average time being 25 seconds.
Ethyl chloride -J to 1 dram is used both as preliminary and
for full anesthesia, the latter on a towel cone for 15 to 35
seconds. Girard of France confines it to minor operations.
Caution should govern use of new anesthetics as many fa-
tal records are against former experiments.
Local anesthesia through sprays and ethereal prepara-

tions are used. Menthol, carbolic acid and freezing locally
anesthetize. Cocaine hydrochlorate, 3% and stronger, and
substitutes, are used in eye surgery.
Anidrosis.
Absence of sweating, sometimes one-sided. In various
nervous diseases. Usually incurable.
Anorexia.
Aversion to food, usually in melancholia. Artificial
feeding by tube in throat through nose most successful.
Anthrarobin.
Substitute for chrysarobin. Disused.
Anthrax.
Malignant pustule, Charbon, Contagious carbuncle. A
dangerous skin disease which may also assume a constitu-
tional form.
Cautery and large doses of quinine and whisky have

saved some.
Anthrax, non-contagiosa.
Carbuncle accompanies run down system. Tonics re-
quired, but the pustules burrow and reform at new points,
to prevent this dip a burnt match in nitric acid and push it
to the bottom of each deep burrowing pustule. This de-
struction of the centres of infection heals the carbuncle
quicker than other means, meanwhile aseptic and antiseptic
care.
Aneurism.
Vascular dilatation from degeneration of muscular coat
and. hence a serious ailment. Certain hysterical states
simulate aneurismal troubles. Ergot and iodide of potas-
sium are often given but usually unavailingly.
Angina Pectoris.
Agonizing spasm of the heart, due to coronary artery
disease. The paroxysms may be lessened by amyl nitrite
inhalation, nitro-glycerine or morphine hypodermically re-
peated doses if necessary. Iodide of potassium has remedied
some cases.
Angiomata or Angiosarcomata.
Vascular sarcomata. Incurable.
Angioneurotic Edema.
Sudden puffiness of face or other parts, without pain,
lasting a few hours or days. A nervous complaint, liable to
recur in winter and morning due to overexertion, cold or
exposure. Treatment consists in rest, laxatives, tonics or
removal of any apparent cause or associated ailment. If
throat attacked suffocation may follow, but usually there
is recovery.
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Angioneurotic Gangrene, Symmetrical.

Reynaud's Disease. Fingers or toes of both sides per-
ish from spasm of arterioles. Some cases recover, others
suffer painful increase of the trouble until death. It has fol-
lowed upon injury to the spinal cord, and is a tropho-neu-

rosis.
Antifebrin.
The first form in which acetanilid appeared. Claims are
made that this secret form of acetanilid is purer than the of-
ficial kind, and that death is not so likely from its use in
headache powders, but this is the manufacturer's claim. It
isbest to avoid such dangers altogether.
Antikamnia.
A secret powder containing acetanilid or antifebrin,
caffeine and bicarbonate of soda, according to several an-
alyses.
As a rule when a Greek or Latin name expresses appli-
cation of medicine to a pathological state, and worse yet
when the name is in the plain vernacular, as "King of Pain,"
"Fever Buster" or the like, the nostrum can be classed in a
certain category aside from the scientific and honest.
Antimonial Powder. James' Powder.

Obsolescent.
Antimony and Potassium Tartrate. Tartar Emetic.

In the form of wine of antimony or in combination with
syrups tartar emetic has been long used as an expectorant
to promote relaxation of mucous membranes. So it is
known as a depressant expectorant. An alcoholic stimu-

lant is expectorant in an opposite way by causing dryness
of the air passages. So depressant expectorants are to be
given when a cough is dry, and stimulating expectorants
when the cough is attended with too much mucus expec-

toration.
Antimony salts in general.

Out of date, disused more yearly.
Antinosine.
Sodium salt of Nosophen. Soluble. Antiseptic in
vesical catarrh, externally in tenth to half per cent solution.
Antipathies.
May exist without insanity, even absurd ones, but cer-
tain aversions characterize several forms of insanity, and
are always serious for they may be acted upon.
Antiphologistine.
Glycerinated clay with aromatic and other antiseptics,
useful to promote watery derivation to the surface from
deep pneumonia, bruises, etc.
tissues, as in pleurisy,
Antipyrine.
A fairly safe antipyretic, sometimes used as an anal-
gesic. Soluble in i part water, 2 parts alcohol.
Weaker than some more dangerous antipyretics. Dose
10 to 20 grains. Enormous number of incompatibles.
When aggregates of antipyretics are prescribed, do not
exceed the dose of any one of the ingredients.
Antipyrene Salicylate, see Salipyrine.
Antispasmin.
Too unstable.
Antitoxin.
An attempt is being made to standardize the antitoxins
for thepharmacopoeia revision, but the fluctuations of such
an advancing science will force physicians to ascertain for
themselves from reputable manufacturing pharmacists
mainly, and from current medical literature, what serums

give the best results and in what strengths to use them.
Diphtheria antitoxin approaches uniformity and is the
most commonly used. Anti-tetanic serum has encouraging
reports, some practitioners withdraw the spinal fluid and in-
ject the serum in its place, intravenous injections of carbolic
acid have also been tried but the results are disputed. The
British government in India is reporting on the action of
antivenene in snake bites. Typhoid fever antitoxin is still
experimental. A new dysenteric antitoxin is named bac-
teriolysin. Tubercle treatment is tending toward anti-
streptococcic serum, which shows also a multiplicity of
streptococci. Aronson's antistreptococcic serum is used in
Germany for streptococcus infection. Dosage ranges from
20 to 60 cc. In erysipelas small, often repeated doses are
used if no pericarditis or pleuritis. This serum is negative
in scarlet fever, but injections of normal blood serum are
being tried in Germany and Austria not only in scarlet fever
but in other infectious diseases, and the results are reported
as favorable. Smallpox serum treatment is inconclusive.
Erysipelas has also been treated with diphtheria antitoxin.
Improvement rapidly followed in septicaemia after-treat-
ment with antistreptococcus serum two years old, prepared
and dessicated at the Pasteur Institute, Paris. Puerperal
fever and malignant endocarditis have been also favorably
reported upon as modified by anti-streptococcus serum.
Yersin's serum is used for bubonic plague. Dr. Emil Mayer
of New York City is experimenting with Dunbar's hay
fever antitoxin.
A multitude of worthless antitoxins are discussed,
by over enthusiastic but honest workers, besides the
started
many for commercial purposes regardless of merit.
Antitoxin, Diphtheria.
From serum of blood subjected to poison of diph-
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theria. Dose as preventive in children 200 to 250 antitoxic

units, ordinary cases 600 to 1,000 units, severe cases or those
seen late, 1,500 to 3,000 units, given hypodermically and re-
peated in about 8 hours if necessary. Adults about twice as

much. The different brands vary in strength.
Antivenene for snake bites, see Antitoxins.
Anuria.
The hysterical suppression of urine ends with a copious
flow of limpid, colorless urine, but in nephritis anuria is a
dangerous symptom of uremia, and should be combatted
by heat or stimulants to the kidney region. A tablespoon-
tul of turpentine mixed with flaxseed poultice in flannel ap-
plied to the small of the back has promoted recovery, even
when eclamptic convulsions had begun.
Aphasia.
Disordered faculty of language from brain disease, most
often incurable and associated with hemiplegia.
Aphonia.
Hysterical speechlessness can be treated by assurances
of recovery, tonics, electricity. Humbug works "miracles"
in hysteria.
Aphthae.
Stomatitis, little ulcers in the mouth, beginning as ves-
icles.
Any astringent weak antiseptic mouth wash, and at-

tention to general health. A little calomel rubbed on the
spots, alum and myrrh or eucalytpus and borax mouth
washes.
Apiol.
Merck makes an oily liquid soluble in alcohol, and

Chapoteaut makes capsules of Apioline, the dose being 5 to
10 minims of the liquid and 2 or 3 capsules daily, in am-

menorrhoea, but it is illogical to hold that so strong a pelvic
congestant could be of use in dysmenorrhoea. The main
use has been to produce miscarriage, and often such things
suggestively warn pregnant females against taking the medi-
cine. Most often when these or similar abortifacients are
taken the menses would have appeared anyway but the
medicine gets the credit.
Apollinaris Water.
An artificial carbonated ferruginous water, wrongly
claimed to be a natural spring water.
Apomorphine, Hydrochlorate.
As an emetic hypodermically a twentieth to a tenth of a
grain, but not useful otherwise.
Apoplexy.
During the stroke while patient unconscious,, face con-
gested, breathing hard, merely elevate head, loosen neck-
wear, avoid crowds around patient and meddlesome activ-
ity. If prolonged brisk purg*ation can be tried. Differen-
tial diagnosis between congestion, clotting or hemorrhage
of brain can rarely be made until later in the apoplectic
seizure. The practice of giving iodide of potassium at
once bad and even later it may dissolve clots and restart
is
brain hemorrhage. Months after an apoplexy if paralysis

or other results appear will be time enough for absorbents to
be given.
Apoplexy, Threatened.
As indicated by flushed face, dizziness, weakness.
Avoid stimulants. Use ergot and cathartics to reduce blood
volume in head.
Appendicitis.
Pain in line between navel and upper spine of ilium,
right side, often confused with calculi, renaland hepatic,

and abdominal rheumatism and colic. Full calomel and
laxative dosage has aborted appendicitis and made opera-
tion unnecessary. Surface derivation also.
Appendicitis Blood Test.

Available only if leucocytosis marked, but typhoid
fever and fecal impaction are to be excluded.
Arheol.
Sandalwood oil preparation. Not much used.
Arcus Senilis.
Formerly assumed to be a symptom of atheroma. The

white ring around the cornea of the eyeball presumed to be
a fatty degeneration, but it can exist independently.
Arecoline Hydrobromate.
Myotic in i% solution.
Argentamine.
Dubious antiseptic and astringent. Like Silver Ni-
trate.
Argenti Nitras, see Nitrate of Silver.
Argonin.
Silver casein compound for urethral medication. Des-
tined to a short life in materia medica.
Argyll-Robertson Pupil.
Reflex iridoplegia. Non-response of pupil to light. An
early symptom of locomotor ataxia.
Argyrol.
Egg yolk and silver nitrate. Not much used.
Aristochin.
96% quinine.
Aristol.
Largely iodine. Odorless substitute for Iodoform, but

unreliable, especially when pure.
Arnica.
Old fashioned sedative lotion 2
superseded by witch
hazel.
Aromatic Spirit of Ammonia.

Eligible heart stimulant. Dose, a dram in glass of
water.
Aromatic Syrup of Rhubarb.

Laxative for infants. Dose one dram.
Aronson's Anti-streptococcus Serum, see Antitoxins.
Arrhenal.
An inferior arsenical preparation.
Arrow Root.
Infant food and dusting powder.
Arsenauro.
Said to be a gold and arsenic compound, but unsatis-
factory, as even in small doses much pain in the abdomen is
induced, and no known other results.
Arsen-hemol.
Dubious substitute for arsenite of potash and iron.
Arsenic bromides, chlorides, iodides and mercury pre-

parations.
Not proven to be sufficiently useful to survive as medi-
cines.
Arsenous Acid, see Fowler's Solution.

Except as a one per cent solution externally for can-
cers in some cases it is better to use arsenic in the form of

Fowler's solution, as less apt to irritate the stomach. As a
poison it is a painful gastro-intestinal destroyer of tissues.
The best antidotes, as dialyzed iron, or saccharated oxide of
iron, seldom handy, so throw ammonia water on tincture
is
of iron and collect the precipitate on a strainer and use it

wet.
Arterio-sclerosis.
Iodide of potassium given as a routine measure, not al-
ways effective. Nitro-glycerine to overcome functional in-

sufficiency of vessels.
Asafoetida.
Good antispasmodic and sedative for hysterical, even
inducing sleep or pain-relief, when their origin is in ner-
vousness. Dose about five grains in pills.
Asarum or Canada Snakeroot.

Mentioned to indicate how once popular remedies have
fallen into disuse. It is a wild ginger with stimulant and
diuretic properties.
Ascarides, see Worms.

Ascites.
Abdominal dropsy from liver, heart or renal disease.
Cathartics reduce the dropsical swelling and the ignor-
ant suppose that a cure has been made enabling quacks
to rob some patients. The swelling returns and tapping
may be necessary, after emptying the bladder, but death is
inevitable. The distention depends upon the organic de-

struction of which the dropsy is a mere symptom.
Asphyxia.
Artificial respiration, oxygen, electricity, nitro-glyce-
rine, mustard, amyl nitrate, cold and hot douches.
Aspidospermine.
Respiratory stimulant, Antispasmodic. Used in dys-
pnoea, asthma, spasmodic croup, etc. Dose I to 2 grains
in pills.
Aspirin.
Acetyl-salicylic Acid. Used same as Sodium Salicy-
late.
Astasia and Abasia.

Hysterical inability to stand and walk, though muscles
not paralyzed.
Asteatosis.
Absence of oily materials in skin rendering it harsh and
dry. Inunctions of fatty medicaments, as lanolin, cacao but-
ter, etc.
Asthenic Bulbar Paralysis.

Fatal affection of the medulla oblongata.
Asthenopia.
Weakness of sight, often a mere local expression of
general weakness requiring rest and tonics.
Asthma.
This is a mere symptom of several widely different ail-
ments. It may arise as a hysterical manifestation, it may be

caused by rheumatism decreasing the lumen of bronchial
tubes, or asudden swelling of the bronchial mucous mem-
brane, may include forms which like
or reflex asthma
whooping-cough are paroxysmal.
Iodide of potassium has proven very useful in some
cases of asthma, completely disposing of the symptoms af-
ter a few weeks use of 5 grains thrice daily. Change of

elevation or of climate makes radical changes for the bet-
ter; the air of a valley would be insupportable to one who
breathed comfortably on the adjoining mountain, another

found life at sea or on the coast endurable and inland or hill
life distressing. Several bio-physical considerations are in-
volved in such phenomena, related to weight and moisture
of air.
Difficult breathing may be due to many things, some-
times phthisis, bronchitis, rheumatism, impaired nerves,
susceptibility to seasonal and climatic influences, elevations,
atmospheric changes, impurities in the air. as in '"hay fever."
The list of drugs recommended is excessive, mostly
useless. Nitre paper burnt and inhaled in some paroxysms
gives relief, iodide of potassium in some cases in small con-
tinued doses ;change of elevation to mountain or seaside,
localities free from rag-weed in hay-asthma, etc. Asafoeti-
da allays nervous asthma often. Heart or stomach disease
may cause asthma.
Astigmatism.
Error of optic refraction due to imperfect curvature of
eye ball, requiring specially made glasses.
Asylum Ear.
A dropsical auricle of the insane, called also the insane
ear. The left ear is the one most frequently affected, and it
is of bad prognosis as to recovery from the insanity, es-
pecially when both ears are involved.
Ataxia.
Inability to regulate movements accurately, as walking,
due to a variety of causes from disorder of different parts of
the brain or to circulatory causes. Its significance mav be
trivial or serious according to the cause.
Ataxia, Hysterical.
A curable anesthetic co-ordination loss resembling lo-
comotor ataxia, and often mistaken for it, occurring only in
females.
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Ataxia, Locomotor, see Locomotor Ataxia.
Atheroma, see Arterio-sclerosis.
Atheromata.
Old name for wens, but as the name resembles athe-
roma it has been disused,
Atheromatous Insanity.
An apathetic mental derangement in the elderly, re-
sembling senile dementia and paretic dementia superficially,
with convulsions and temporary paralyses, depending upon
atheromatous brain arteries. Incurable.
Athetosis.
Spasmodic cramping movements of the hand due to
destructive lesion of the brain base, occasionally simulated
by hysteria.
Atonicity, General.
Lack of strength may be owing to imperfect elimina-
tion, an autointoxication. Strychnia and eliminants may
restore the normal tone.
Atonicity, Intestinal.
Often from abuse of cathartics. Cod liver oil daily and
occasional vegetable cathartics as cascara, rhubarb, podo-
phyllin and aloes with strychnine and quinine. The tonics
may be required to secure peristalsis, the passive bowels re-
fusing action without them.
Atoxyl.
An amido-benzene compound of arsenic. Not used
much.
Atrophy.
Usually due to an organic incurable decay.
Atropine.
Main use as a mydriatic for eye surgeons. Sometimes
combined with morphine in the proportion of one one-hun-
dredth of a grain of atropine to an eighth of morphine, but
then caution is to be used in increasing the morphine dose
not to also exceed a fiftieth of a grain of atropine.
It was formerly much used as a respiratory stimulant
in the last stages of phthisis, and as a temporary relief for
nasal congestion as in a severe cold. Cold cure nostrums
based upon atropine locally applied are instantly effective
but dangerous in overdoses, atropine poisoning following
too much use.
Belladonna was also called the opium of the bladder,
but of late years other methods of allaying pain due to cys-
titis, etc., have been used instead of analgesic means. Anti-
septics, cathartics, hot applications, unirritating diuretics,
as Buchu, etc., are now preferred.
Auditory Disturbances.
From brain disease, inner, middle or outer ear. Im-
pacted cerumen is the most frequent cause of gradual deaf-
ness, easily removed by dissolving the ear wax in water and

glycerine equal parts, hours later using an ear spoon. Bi-
carbonate of soda solution also disintegrates the wax.
Noises in the ear if throbbing are caused by arterial
congestion; if persistent, by venous engorgment; if music
or voices hallucination, then there is brain cortex irritation,
and danger of insanity. Derivation is useful though tem-
porary in effect in all these cases. Salines especially.
Aurantii Corticis Syrupus.

Syrup of orange peel. A good vehicle, especially for
iodide of potassium.
Auto-Intoxication or Autotoxaemia.
Self pollution from retained excretory materials, re-
sponsible for many sicknesses and insanities, or complicat-

ing them. Evacuation and sustaining the strength are
necessary.
Backache.
Frequent in women, and of no particular significance,
but quackery take advantage of the mistaken popular idea
that any backache means kidney disease inducing unin-
formed to take stimulant diuretics which sometimes produce
a kidney inflammation that would not have existed had the
patent medicine been left alone. Rheumatism is the most
frequent cause of backache, see Lumbago. Constipation
also, especially in women.
Bacteriolysis see Antitoxins.
Balanitis.
Inflammation of glans penis and prepuce. Antiseptics
and astringents.
Baldness.
Incurable. New theories exploded daily, fuzzy crops
anxiously watched with hand glass after applying most re-
cent fake hair restorer unavailingly.
Balsam Copaiba.
Obsolete for gonorrhoea. Some as Copaiba.
Balsam Peru.
Flavor for expectorants.
Barley Water.
Gruel or thin diet for invalids and infants.
Barber's Itch. Mentagra.

Hairs affected must be pulled out and strong antisep-
tics as can be borne applied to pustules, with general anti-
sepsis and avoidance of infecting others.
Barkers.
In the latter part of the 18th century a religious hys-
terical epidemic like the more modern Christian Science
humbug spread through the United States, the craze con-
sisting in barking like dogs.
Basedow's Disease, see Exophthalmic Goitre.
Basham's Mixture.
Solution of iron and ammonium acetate. Routine
treatment in Bright's disease. Dose half an ounce diluted.
Baptisia.
Irritant emeto-cathartic.
Bateman's Drops.
A patent paregoric containing about two grains of
opium to the fluid ounce.
Baths.
Useful under the direction of honesty and intelligence
associated with a medical education, but most of the hydro-
therapeutical and all of hydropathy and other water-cures
are quackish.
Batteries.
The dry chloride of silver cells are the lightest and
therefore most portable, while affording ample current
strength for all medical purposes.
Battey's Operation.
Normal oophorectomy. A cruel surgical fad, as reme-
would be cutting out an eye or slicing off a nose.
dial as
Wherever the shock of this mutilation has restored the mind
ithas proven temporary and Goodell reports insanity in-
duced by the ablation. Male castration is equally nonsen-
sical.
Bechol.
An expectorant containing a sixteenth of a grain of
morphine acetate to the dram. Imitators treble the quan-
tity of morphine.
Bed-sores.
Soap and water cleanliness, antiseptics and astringents.
Bea-wetting. Enuresis.
Incontinence in -children. Arouse several times at
night, no liquids afternoon and night, elevate hips in bed,
warmth to surface, ergot.
In aged or paralytics soft rubber catheter with precau-
tions to avoid cystitis, by antisepsis and sterilized catheter
or other instruments.
Strychnine in suitable cases may strengthen enough to
benefit.
Beef, Wine and Iron.
Ink. The worthlessness of the mixture masked by the

catchy title that appeals to ignorance.
Beer.
Adulterants dangerous to the kidneys, liable to be in
most so-called malt liquors. Hops were used in the past
centuries.
Belladonna.
As little useful as atropine, which is derived from it.
In the form of a belladonna plaster can be applied to an

it
inflamed breast to aid pressure, with or without phytolacca

decandra, reputed to be good in mastitis, and a rapid abate-
ment be looked for. Simple mas-
of the inflammation can
titis has been mistaken for cancer and a surgeon was pre-
vented from operating by pressure disposing of the "can-

cer."
Bell's Palsy.
Facial nerve paralysis, from exposure, rheumatism, in-

jury or syphilis. Strychnia, iodide of potassium, anti-rheu-
matics, Faradic electricity.
Benzanilide.
Discredited antifebrile.
Benzine from Coal Tar.

Antispasmodic and Anticatarrhal, in whoop-
Benzol.
ing" cough, influenza,
etc. Dose 2 to 10 minims every 3
hours on sugar or in capsules.
Benzoic Acid.
Feebly antiseptic and expectorant, used mainly as an
adjuvant in expectorants for bronchitis. Dose 10 to 30
grains 6 times daily. For external use in wound dressing
1 to 100. Incompatible with salts of metals, bromine or
chlorine.
Benzoin.
Dubious Antirheumatic.
Benzolyptus.
Secret.
Benzonaphthol.
Disused antiseptic.
Benzophenoneid.
Pyoktanin substitute, not much used.
Benzosol. Guiacol Benzoate.

Intestinal antiseptic and also for bronchial affections.
Dose 3 to 10 grains.
Benzoyl combinations.
Anelide, Eugenol, Guiacol, Phenetidine tried in tuber-
culous affections with little success.
Benzoyl-pseudatropine Hydrochlorate, see Tropacocaine

Hydrochlorate.
Benzoylsulphonic Imide.
Garantose,- Saccharin, Gluside. See Saccharin.
Berbenne.
Carbonate, Phosphate or Sulphate. Dubious use.
Beri-Beri.
A form of infectious neuritis with chlorosis. No mi-
croorganism found.
Beta-lsoamylene. Pental.
Beta Naphthol.
Alone or with camphor, benzoic acid or salicylic acid
itwas used for antiseptic purposes, but has fallen into dis-
use through better preparations.
Betol.
Discredited substitute for salol.
Betul-01.
Methyl salicylate from betula lenta oil, free from the
toxic products of synthetic salicylate of methyl derived from
salicylic acid made from carbolic acid. Betula-Ol is non-
irritant, analgesic and antiseptic, for external use only in
rheumatism, myalgia, neuralgia, a few drops applied with
camel's hair pencil.
Bezold's Disease.
Rupture of mastoid abscess into sternomastoid region.
Bichloride of Mercury. Corrosive Sublimate.

Antiseptic and Antisyphilitic. Soluble in 20 parts of
water, 5 alcohol, 6 ether, 14 glycerine. Dose one-thirty sec-
ond of a grain to maximum of an eighth of a grain. Should
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not be given undiluted; the usual administration being in

connection with a solution of potassium iodide which con-
verts the corrosive sublimate into biniodide of mercury. In-
travenous injections of mercuric chloride are certain to
cause coagulation of blood in the circulation with embolism,
which as often happens may be carried to the brain and in-
duce paralysis. Even hypodermic use of corrosive subli-
mate by the liberation of concentrated multiple globuli of
metal can set up chronic symptoms from cerebral capillary
plugging.
As a surgical antiseptic one part to a thousand parts of
water, or stronger, though not usual to exceed one in five
thousand, it acts as a germicide partly by the coagulation of
albumen in the organisms, but also by enveloping spores,
cocci, etc., with the liberated very small metallic mercury
globules, imprisoning them from activity; but when such
vegetable micro-organisms are released from the metal by
heat or water washings the antiseptic is proven not to have
destroyed them, as they can be made active in cultures
again.
Antidotes are Alkalies, which precipitate yellow oxide
of mercury, and white of egg, but if not handy any viscid
substance as mucilage or syrup, even soap-suds, may be
used, but too often the damage is done before any antidote
has been used.
Biliary Calculi.
Sodium phosphate, olive oil, operative surgery, mor-

phine in paroxysms, sometimes surgical anesthesia.
Bilious Fever, see Remittent fever.
Biliousness.
Malaise due to acute auto-intoxication.
Headache, loss of appetite and jaundice often relieved
by cathartic as seidlitz powder, rochelle salts, a dose of calo-
mel, draughts of lemonade. Recurrences may need pro-

longed cod-liver oil, Carlsbad salt, as the patient may tend
to chronic intestinal poisoning.
Bismuth Preparations.
Very doubtful value if the testimony is carefully ex-
amined. They are usually given in a routine way and at
autopsies the bismuth has been found occluding the pylorus
and compacted into a large mass nearly filling the stomach.
The few instances wherein bismuth subnitrate or carbonate
is really of service are obscured by the routine and care-
less administration of what may be a fairly good drug if
more rationally prescribed.
Bites and Stings of Insects.
Dilute ammonia water applied at once, bicarbonate of

soda, lime water. Citronella and pennyroyal odors drive
mosquitoes away.
Bites of Rabid Animals.

Pasteur treatment, see Hydrophobia.
Bites of Venomous Reptiles.

Supporting treatment as stimulants, quinine, strych-
nine. Inject into wound 30 grains permanganate of potas-
sium in 4 ounces distilled water. Ligate member above
wound to localize venom.
Bitters.
Like liqueurs, cordials and similar concoctions are safer
unused.
Blackberry.
Theastringency useful in diarrhoea is in the root and
not in the berry, so the several blackberry preparations fla-
vored with the juice depend upon other things, such as
brandy, for astringency. unless the root also is used.
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Black Eyes.
Ecchymoses. Cold or hot application, no leeching or
cutting which is harmful. Recovery in time if not meddled
with.
Black Haw, see Viburnum prunifolium.
Black-Heads, see Comedones.
Bladder Inflammation, see Cystitis, Irritation.
Bladder Irritability, causing frequent voiding,

1
may be
due to nervousness, pregnancy, diabetes, change of diet or
fluids used, hence the treatment is according to the cause.
Bladder Paralysis.
Strychnia if spinal, catheter if distended, antiseptic pre-
cautions.
Blaud's Pills.
Ancient effective carbonate of iron form if freshly made,

otherwise resembling cast iron. Later more eligible ferru-
ginous preparations have superseded these pills.
Blennorrhoea Neonatorum.
Gonorrhoeal infection of eyes of new born, see Con-
junctivitis, gonorrhoeal.
Blepharitis marginalis, sore eye lids.
Resinol is the safest, surest and most rapid. A similar

ointment can be made of ten grains of Resorcin, and three
drams each of Lanolin and vaseline. Borax or Boracic
Acid solution wash.
Blood Root.
Sanguinaria. Irritant and violent emetic and convul-
sant. Formerly in sternutatories and expectorants. Little
used.
Boracic Acid, also called Boric Acid.

More soluble than borax, and used for same purposes,
dissolves in water 26, glycerine 10 and alcohol 15 parts.
Borax. Biborate of Sodium. Tetraborate and Pyroborate.

Soluble in water 25, glycerine 1 part, but insoluble in
alcohol. Too much neglected as an external antiseptic and
foolishly inappropriately used too much internally. Its chief
uses are as ingredient of eye wash or application in solution

any strength to sore mucous membranes, but it is useless in
epilepsy or other complaints internally. Butchers have been
accused of using it to preserve meats and it disturbs diges-
tion and depresses generally the entire system, mainly by
stopping assimilatory fermentation.
Boils. Furuncles.
Antiphlogistine externally in early stages will abort
boils. Poultices are usually filthy promotors of sepsis. Af-
ter evacuation, collodion.
Boldea.
Suggested alterative and hypnotic but unused.
bolus.
Horse pill or "gob," the large sized form of administer-
ing drugs went out of use when little sugar pills came in.
Absurdly huge overdosing being followed by a mere pre-
tence.
Bonalgur Capsules.
For gonorrhoea, containing benzoic acid and gurjun
oil, a balsam resembling copaiba.
Bone-Marrow extract.
As a contribution to organo-therapy Phospho- Albu-
men is superior.
Borolanolin.
Boric acid and lanolin.
Borolyptol.
Partly secret combination of antiseptics and aromatics.
Borax and Eucalyptol, etc.
Boro vaselin.
Boric acid and vaseline.
Bougies.
Medicines for the urethra have been moulded in the
form of bougies, but they are not satisfactory.
Brain Abscess.
Prognosis bad.
Brain Anemia.
Tonics.
Brain Clot.
Iodide of potassium.
Brain Compression.
With apathy and memory impairment, with or without
paralysis. Raising the depressed bone.
Brain Concussion.
Usual symptoms unconsciousness and vomiting at first
and later headaches, sleeplessness and eye troubles. Keep
quiet, avoid over-heating and stimulants. Regulate bowels
and use as little medicine as possible as drug habits easily
formed after head injury.
Brain Congestion.
Active catharsis, as ten grains each of calomel and
jalap; old fashioned but effective treatment. Hot foot baths
or applications, cold to head but do not freeze the brain.
Brain Contusion.
Liable to be complicated with compression or concus-
sion or later to form abscesses. Treat as Concussion.
Brain Embolism.
Brain Fever, see Meningitis.
Brain Thrombus.
Brain Tumor.
Diagnosed by dizziness, nausea or vomiting, choked
optic disk, severe headache or localized pain in head, in ad-
vanced cases paralysis, convulsions, coma. If the tumor is
syphilitic it may be treated with anti-syphilitics, trephining

is foolish in most tumor cases especially syphilitic, as they
are likely to be multiple. Prognosis bad in all brain tumor
instances. Exostoses may be diagnosed by X rays and if
found treated as compression.
Brain Sclerosis.
Incurable.
Brain Softening.
Incurable. But this term is often used to designate in-
sanity. There is no insanity associated in any way with
that name.
Brandy.
Formerly made by distilling grape juice. Artificially,
artistically and remorselessly made by chemical combining
at present.
Brayerin, see Koussein.
Breasts inflamed, see Mastitis.

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Breath, Fetid.
From decayed teeth, neglected bowels, indigestion, dia-
betes, ozena, suggest dentistry, mouth washes, cathartics,
peptenzyme, etc.
Bright's Disease. Nephritis.

Unless your patient is in a hospital, where diet can be
regulated, you will have difficulty in enforcing your notions
as to what should and is not to be eaten. Nephritis cases
are often irritable and obstinate, and will refuse to restrict
any way; some of them get crazes and eat inor-
their diet in
dinately,and as what is taken does not affect them so badly
as expected 11 might be well to compromise the diet with
reference to practicability. Pressure to the kidneys can be
lessened by eating sparingly, but oftener; but it is not clear
that lessened pressure is desirable. Too little pressure is
apt to block the kidneys through inaction. Plenty of water

and no stimulants should be taken, and beer, especially, is
to be avoided, as, with or without the commercial salicylic
acid put in it by dealers or brewers, beer is poison to the
kidneys when there is a tendency to inflammation. When a
heavy beef-steak meal has been eaten the fibrin of the blood
has increased in the menses, with congestive pains, in some
cases of women with nephritis, and that sort of meat food
invariably proves bad for them, sooner or later; that is, one
or two gorges of beef may not be followed by immediate
results,and on the other hand may seem to allay some
faulty nutritive symptoms, but edema, vomiting or uremic
symptoms may appear, which with other sorts of meat are
not so liable. Mutton or pork chops and particularly fried
bacon or ham are tolerated better, but abstinence from meat
altogether is safer. The idea that eggs should be avoided
seems to me to be based upon an altogether erroneous con-
ception of nephritic pathology; because albumen is voided
too much it is not the cause of the inflammation, and the
body should be resupplied with what has been wasted. As

to milk, the books recommend good milk is best as an ex-
clusive diet, but there is often an aversion to it and needless
distress has been occasioned by forcing it upon patients,
even if peptonized, unless the patient is in extremis, and
hydremia can follow too exclusive a milk diet, of the city
supply sort.
If blood clotting were a factor in the exacerbation of
nephritis we could seek something that would tend to ''thin
the blood," as popularly expressed, and ordinary sassafras

has a deserved reputation for producing anemia; however
as hydremia is an occasional feature of Bright's disease
routine dosing in the absence of too much fibrin in the blood
would be unreasonable.
Whatever is likely to irritate the kidneys is to be avoid-
ed; even with rheumatoid pains it is well to abstain from
salicylates or lithia salts, and the old fashioned Basham's
Mixture can be supplanted by phospho-albumen or Gude's
pepto-mangan if anemia is to be combatted. When dig-
italis and strychnia, or nitro-glycerine are taken the size of
the dose and the frequency of administration should be con-

stantly adjusted to the needs of the patient. Give enough
and no more, and seek to discontinue remedies of every sort
as soon and for as long a time as possible. This necessity
is seen in instances where overdosing has hastened death or
prevented recuperative means from acting; needless daily

dosings of strythnia, etc., were kept up till the patient had
formed a habit and was using absurdly great quantities,
which, had the medicine been at once withdrawn, when the
particular occasion for it passed, it would have availed to
prolong life when the next or succeeding attacks warranted
its use. And similarly with diuretics, for they have been
much misused sweeping the kidneys with scoparius has re-
;
moved broken down tissue for the moment only to hasten

the further destruction. If empirics would only ascertain
what effect medicines have, instead of jumping at conclu-

sions that any kidney remedy will answer in any kidney dis-
ease, there would be prolongation of life and some hope of
ultimate recovery in many renal disease cases, instead of
theirbeing cut short so often by "doing something" when
doing nothing would have afforded the patient a better
chance for his life. But Ignorance rushes in where Knowl-
edge fears to tread, or hesitates.
Patients have been afforded temporary relief from dys-
pnoea by a timely dose of digitalis, but by the continuation
of the drug, when it should have been withdrawn, the heart
has been forcibly squeezed down and the patient suffocated,
and this in a hospital between visits of the attending physi-
cian, the interne not wishing to assume authority to stop the
nurse from giving more digitalis.
The quantity of albumen fluctuates in nephritic urine
between a half of one per cent to fifteen per cent or more,
and the tube casts, hyaline, granular and waxy, also vary in
numbers, usually a decrease in this output being attended
by an abatement of the discomfort and most evident symp-
toms, which over indulgence in beer or meat diet may speed-
ily recall.
The severe gastritis of nephritis may cause ulcer of the

stomach, and loads of bismuth are too often given in such
cases until the pylorus is blocked by it and the diagnosis of
cancer obstruction is likely.
Oxalate of cerium, a grain or even five grains, dry on

the tongue allays the nausea, but comfort is surer after a
vomit, which is one of nature's ways of atoning for kidney
deficiency by converting the stomach into a substitute for

the bladder, which cannot be reached by the urine through
proper routes. Stomach washing could occasionally be
used with advantage if the habit were not so easily formed
that there would be danger of the entire economy adjusting
to- this sort of artificial evacuation. There would appear to
be something very alluring about giving the kidneys a rest

through this sort of assisted evacuation, but the question
should be seriously asked if more harm than good may not
subsequently be done. This incessant regard for the pa-
tient's future should be had instead of resorting off-hand to
some flashy temporary relief likely to give later inconven-
ience. Bicarbonate of soda, vichy water or lime water in
plain water or with buttermilk, allays the stomach acidity
for the time, but after awhile this hyperacidity is likely to
abate either in an intermission or through bowel adapta-
tion, periodical watery diarrhoeas occurring instead of the
vomiting and sometimes the acridity of the discharge is
such as to cause burning sensations in the rectum with
more or less proctitis.
Liver congestion is a feature worth relieving by period-
ical, not too often small doses of calomel, and idiosyncracy
is in nothing so well marked as in the amounts of calomel
people can, or cannot, tolerate. A single tenth of a grain
may affect one; three or four pills containing a tenth of a
grain may induce free evacuations in another, and these
tenths are best given in divided doses, say in an hour or half
hour apart, so that the physiological effect may be secured
without overdosing.
Back ache more often indicates constipation or rheu-
matic lumbago, but the popular idea is that back ache
means Bright's disease and the patent medicine knaves are
prompt to seize upon this fallacy and print striking pictures
of sufferers bending over in agony, holding their backs, and
beneath are certificates of some fake nostrum having re-
lieved this condition. The trouble might have been ordi-
nary colic, and the "Bright's disease remedy only disguised
peppermint, or rheumatic back pains may have also been
dubbed Bright's disease and the "Infallible Kidney Cure"
consist in a little wintergreen which is good for acute rheu-
matic complaints, and another certificate swells the columns
of praise of the faker who lets ignorance diagnose its own

disorders and prescribe his trash.
Back ache is not evidence of nephritis. Deep pressure
over the renal region may pain the nephritic, and normal
persons also, though less readily. An old trick of horse
dealers is to make it appear that a horse they are buying has
kidney trouble by pressure each side of the spine near the
haunches, any horse winces under such squeezing, though
insome inflamed kidneys the pain may be greater on pres-
sure. The patent medicine gulper's logic suggests to him,
and I have heard him say: "Well, if the advertised remedy
removes the disorder, whatever happens to be, even if not
it
properly diagnosed, then good always done by it." The

is
educated doctor can see a hundred fallacies in that sort of

reasoning: The patent medicine vender is just as apt to
use the worst kind of salicylates instead of wintergreen in
his desire to cure rheumatism of the back that was mistaken
for Bright's disease, and not only fail to help the suffering
but add to it and even set up an inflammation where one did
not exist before. At a time when couch grass was on the
market in abundance as a ''Kidney remedy," though not
under that name, the incessant stimulation of the kidneys
self prescribers indulged in created thousands of real kid-
ney diseases where they did not exist before.

In cases where time enough is afforded, as when ne-
phritis begins in youth following diphtheria, a vicarious ad-
justment appears to struggle into development, judging
from the feet perspiring so much that stockings quickly de-
composed, and similar cases of hyperidrosis, bromidrosis or
osmidrosis, may be studied with reference to kidney insuffi-
ciency. Veterinary surgeons look for kidney disease in
horses that perspire much over kidney regions of the back.
The stomach troubles of nephritis, usually hyperacidity
at first, and periodical nausea and vomiting later, the uri-
nous odor and taste of the vomited, watery, frothy contents
of the stomach, plainly relate to the diverted kidney func-

tion but all such attempts at compensation, unless one kid-
;
ney remains intact, are insufficient; but even then there also
appear compensatory cardiac and hepatic hypertrophy, and
now and then anemia to such an extreme that blood de-
struction rather than mere hydremia accounted for the
symptoms.
Some patients claim that saliva accumulates rapidly and
if swallowed it nauseates. It may be that the salivary glands
excrete urine which would account for the vomiting of ne-

phritics.
The sudden onset of edema of the legs, or anasarca,
with the attendant disappearance of distressing dyspnoea,
point to changes in the chemistry of the blood as a cause of
the osmotic outpour of serum into extra vascular spaces,
the dropsy.
As search and speculation has completely failed to ac-
count for eclampsia, it is proper to suggest that instead of
something being added to the blood in so called uremia

there is likely to have been abstraction of an important al-
buminous ingredient affecting cerebral vessels, to the point
and
of practical decapitation, just as the headless chicken
spasms are produced, and hysterical convulsions
epileptic
by cramping down of the arterioles. Depriving the blood
of a nutrient constituent is the same as cutting off brain
blood supply to the convulsing degree, the volume being
maintained, the heart acts upon its contents differently from
its Blood can be radically changed
irregularity in fainting.
in nutritive function by either adding to it some foreign ma-
terial as any urine constituent, or by taking from it a neces-
sary ingredient, or by reducing its quantity; in any such

case rendering it poisonous to the nervous system.
Excretion of urea by the kidneys is imperfect in nephri-
tis and of course the proportionate uric acid is not voided
as it should be. In uremia four-tenths per cent of urea is

found in the blood, not considered enough to ac-

but this is
count for the toxic symptoms. The chemistry of uremic in-

toxication remains unknown; it is not urea, nor uric acid,
nor is it ammonium carbonate as was once suggested. Pot-
ash salts were guessed at as in excess but not proven.
Diminished alkalescence was first noted by von Jaksch,
the diminishing taking place greatly on the approach of
uremic symptoms. But the attempt to establish this theory
of acid intoxication has failed. Though uric acid may be in
excess in uremia it is also in other conditions, so the dimin-

ished alkalescence is probably a secondary condition of the
blood in uremia. An autotoxaemic theory is now tentative-
ly held, though the alkaline idea may be re-examined with
reference to idiosyncracy, some being affected in one organ
or in one way by chemical differences in the secretions
where another might be susceptible in another organ or way,
or proof against any impression under similar conditions.
Resisting powers vary widely, we know.
The stress of a pathological state may fall upon one or
more defective organs in one person and be totally resisted
by another. I have had some eclamptic patients survive a
convulsion and at a subsequent confinement have cerebral
disorders, as though predispisition lit the way to how ure-
mia should manifest itself.
Alkalescence refers to carbonates, bicarbonates and al-
bumens in solutions by acid phosphates. Phosphates exist
as neutral or alkaline salts of sodium, calcium and magnes^
him in the plasma, and in various combinations, as lecethin
nuclein, in the red and white blood cells. In anemia p 2 5 is
diminished, and there is a parallelism of this and K in these
conditions. In leukaemia Na and p 2°5 are increased and K
is diminished. The Na and K are principally combined with
CI in blood, but Na as carbonates and phosphates. Both
nephritics and diabetics are susceptible to blood poisoning,
and this fact could be taken as explaining* that the unaccus-
tomed toxicity of the blood of whatever nature, or, for that

matter, the mere failure of the blood in its quantitative nu-
triment for the brain and nervous system generally through
changing its character, negatively or positively, by abstrac-
tion or surplus of some constituents, and these even normal
ones, suffice to cause convulsions.
Uric acid Haig has demonstrated to be a tissue irritant
and certainly an inflamed kidney would be precisely the
place to suffer from such irritation in excreting amounts
which healthy kidneys could void safely. Then in origin
there is a certain similarity between gouty and nephritic
exacerbations, the main difference being as to the parts af-
fected. It is safe to assume that kidney irritation should be
spared the nephritic as far as possible, and whatever will
help uratic elimination without substituting rasping of its
own would be advisable to adopt, so it will not do to give

salicylates whether pure or not, nor lithia salts, and the only
available uric acid eliminant that will unirritatingly assist
excretion is piperazine, (Schering), or the piperazine water,
or Gicht Wasser as known in Germany. It is a strong
it is
organic alkali and would be proper to seek to restore the

it
blood alkalescence in uremic states by using piperazine, in

addition to expecting it to harmlessly prevent kidney irrita-
tion from uric acid. The
limited trials I have given this
remedy encourage me to expect more from it in
in nephritis
future in the alleviation of paroxysms, if not the establish-
ment of intermissions. In the present state of our know-
ledge we can leave the blatant quack to claim the ability to
cure any disease.
Instead of plying the hypertrophied weak heart with
digitalis or nitro-glycerine on all indications, it would be
best to give for temporary effect a little good, wine at times,
the stronger alcoholics or beer are to be avoided, and as
champagne is not only gouty, but affords oxaluria kidney
irritation, it, also, is contraindicated.
Remembering" withdraw medicines of all kinds as

to
soon as indications are met the following aids to defective
function can be resorted to with advantage:
Phospho-albumen, or Glide's pepto-mangan when
there is anemia instead of the old fashioned perchloride of
iron or its vehicle Basham's mixture, because those modern
preparations are swifter and more effective and less objec-
tionable.
Strychnine sulphate in one sixtieth of a grain doses
thrice daily if needed to strengthen the heart's action, with
or without digitalis fluid extract, two minim doses, also
and to raise the arterial pressure to ensure elim-
thrice daily;
ination through kidneys and perspiration, which latter is
often suppressed in nephritics, the glonoin or nitro-glycerin
pills may be used in from one hundredth, or less, of a grain,
up to as much as a fiftieth of a grain once to thrice daily.
Avoid direct diuretics as too hard on the kidney struct-
ure, the digitalis, strychnia and glonoin act as indirect diu-
reticsby increasing- blood pressure to the kidneys.
is mentioned in the old literature as
Iodide of potassium
increasing the arterial lumen and thus relaxing spasm and
helping elimination, but Haig-'s suggestion that it cleared
the blood of uric acid is just as likely to account for what
little aid it affords. Probably in small doses it may act in
several ways, even as an antiseptic, though the notion that
a septic cause of nephritis exists, in view of urine being the
fluid by which septic and other pathological products are
carried from the system, would render asepsis of these or-
gans, the kidneys, as practicable as to render the lower
bowel aseptic. A surgeon suggested the use of ureteral
catheters in connection with injections through them to the
kidney pelves, to "cure Bright's disease by throwing anti-
septics into the kidney to destroy the germs of the disease."
As brilliant a method as the other flashy surgical resort to
decapsulation; cutting the kidney capsule to admit of
greater circulation. There is no evidence of any good hav-

ing followed such severe operations, but on the other hand
deaths have been hastened. Notwithstanding the great
achievements of surgery in the recent past, slicing is not a
means of curing everything, and the physician may have
abundant reasons against the use of the knife in some dis-
eases.
There one surgical aid that has given good tempo-
is
rary results, and that is normal salt solution introduced di-
rectly into subcutaneous spaces by large hypodermic injec-

tions, though the same large amounts have acted for resus-
citation when injected into the rectum.
An easily remembered formula for the normal salt solu-
tion is a teaspoonful of salt to a pint of water, then boiled

and used at a Fahrenheit temperature of a hundred degrees,
introduced into veins, arteries, subcutaneous cellular spaces,
as the right infra-mammary, or into the bowels, with anti-
septic precautions. Seven-eighths of one per cent, or 92
grains to the quart of water, making the solution six tenths
per cent, have also been laid down as resembling the salt
proportion in blood serum, and another form has been used
of 30 grains each of chloride of sodium and potassium bi-
carbonate to a pint of water at a temperature of 104 F. de-
grees, injected into the right infra-mammary space, or a
dram each of acetate and chloride of soda to the pint of
water.
Doses internally of calomel and jalap, ten grains of
each, were the old fashioned and effective means of securing
quick full evacuations, and may still be used when indicated
and practicable. The hot water and salty bowel injection

may not only answer for these more severe remedial means
but where there has been insomnia previously it has induced
natural sleep with abatement of other symptoms.
Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania has applied turpentine on
flannel with flaxseed poultice diluent, say a handful of
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ground flaxseed with hot water and a tablespoonful of tur-

pentine in a flannel applied over the kidneys to stimulate
them impending or actual convulsions
to action in cases of
from urinary suppression, though it is likely that any other
rubefacient might answer in less degree. Even dry cupping
by drawing blood to the surface could relieve the congested
organs if used over the kidneys on the back, or, as a tem-
porary expedient in the absence of better means, either the
hot water bottles, or warm applications, or vigorous rub-
bing of the back could take away some of the congestion
from the kidneys; though nitroglycerine, strychnia and dig-
italis would be surer, though, of course, medicines cannot
be taken by the mouth if the patient is unconscious, as dur-

ing an uremic convulsion. If these remedies are given when
the first indication of obstruction of the kidneys occur they
may avert the seizure. Calomel as a purge has often un-
loaded the system through the bowels in time to relieve im-
pending kidney congestion, or hasten recovery after an at-
tack.
If one curative or preventive means that is su-
there is
perior to other in the care of one afflicted with

every
Bright's disease it is living as simply as possible, in diet and
especially in drinking, and as near a complete out door life
as can be had, or the patient can be induced to take. The
invigorating air of the seashore, away from the city, is the
most recuperative. The free ozone and other constituents
of ocean breezes, to say nothing of the relief from the heat
of summer, brace up patients in this complaint, as in many
others, so as to, at least, prolong their davs.
There are numerous sea coast and other spots on this
continent where long intermissions if not recoveries in ne-
phritis can be obtained, and it should be better known that
Carlsbad and similar European resorts have absolutely
nothing to honestly offer the patient, beyond competent
medical service similar to what can be secured elsewhere, in
comparison to the aid the nephritic can get from an out door
lifewith plain unirritating diet, with little or no meat or liq-
uors, and where possible pure milk as an exclusive diet, for
years if necessary.
Bromacetanilide.
Disused antineuralgic.
Brom-ethyl. Ethyl Bromide.
Bromide of Ammonium.
The most useful salt of all it to some
the bromides, as
extent is a cardiac stimulant and corrects somewhat the de-
pressant bromide tendency, while avoiding the gastric de-
rangement sure to ensue in using bromide of potassium and
to a less degree in the use of bromide of sodium. The am-
monium salt effloresces readily and so the solution should
be complete by over-saturation. 10 to 30 or more grains
thrice daily can be given in epilepsy in water.
Bromides of sodium, potassium, iron and strontium.

In some nostrums these salts are united and a flourish
oftrumpets made as to their curative properties in epilepsy.
Such claims are unfounded. Lyrebird's bromides contain
these, and a bromide Elixir has also chloral and cannabis
Indica.
Strontium bromide is a comparatively recent addition
to pharmacy and prescribed for epilepsy by inexperienced, if
conscientious, doctors. It is valueless as a special bromide
compared to others.
The Bromides may be given in doses of 5 grains up to
30 grains according to indications, but bromism and de-
pression and anemia must be avoided by not too frequent
use.
Bromidia.
Secret preparation.
Bromidrosis.
Offensive sweat, usually of feet and symptom of uremia
or rheumatism.
Dilute ammonia water, tannic acid, boric acid, formal-
dehyde, alum, witch hazel, hydrastis, potassium perman-
ganate, sodium bicarbonate, benzoic acid.
Bromine.
Rarely used.
Bromipin.
Substitute for bromides, but, as remarked under Hy-
drobromic Acid, the bromides are the best form
salts of the
for administration, especially the ammonium bromide.
Bronchitis.
Derivation and removal of all injurious influences,
avoidance of too frequent use of mere palliative medicines,
probably the most useful persistent treatment would be with
cod liver oil which appears to lubricate the bronchial tubes
and lessen the irritation. Chapoteaut's Morrhuol capsules
with occasional use of his morrhuol and creosote capsules
will be found helpful. Change of climate may be impera-
tive. Guiac tablets or lozenges, Brown Mixture, Potassium
iodide, carbonate of ammonia, Thiocol, Terpin hydrate, Ter-
pinol, Guiacol.
Bronchocele, see Goitre.
Brown Mixture.
Mistura Glycyrrhizae Composita. An old fashioned
paregoric and antimonial depressant expectorant, still useful
in some coughs, but it is not to be used steadily or in large
doses, as nausea or paregoric habit may be induced.
Brucine.
Strychnine is better.
Bruises.
Any vegetable astringent wash, as arnica, witch hazel,
camphor or antiseptics.
Bryonia.
An uncertain, irritant and poisonous cathartic super-
seded by jalap. Its glucoside Bryonin has been suggested
in hemorrhage.
Bromo-caffeine, soda or seltzer.

These salts, usually effervescent, might be both useful
and agreeable to take occasionally for symptomatic treat-
ment of headaches, but unfortunately the tendency is for pa-
tients to rely upon them and increase the doses, whereas the
disease itself should be removed, and persistent use of these
depressants, the bromides, even when corrected by the heart
stimulant caffeine, increase the bowel atonicity upon which
the autotoxaemia often depends. This sort of "relief" re-
sembles that of the bankrupt resorting to liquor to drown
his worry.
Bromocoll.
Substitute for bromide of potassium. Dose I to 5
grams per day or increased to 30 grams per day.
Bromoform.
Similar to chloroform, on trial for whooping-cough 1
to 7 drops according to age 3 or 4 times daily, in hydro-

alcoholic solution or in emulsion. Poisoning has occurred
through incompatible prescribing by precipitating the bro-
moform.
Bromo-hemol.
Dubious nerve-tonic and sedative. The idea appearing
to be that iron will atone for the bromism.
Bromol.
Internal antiseptic, but not in use.
Bubo.
Inflammation of lymphatic glands of groin or axilla.
Antiphlogistine if early. Calomel in small continued
doses, mercury and lead plaster, ichthyol, creolin, formalde-
hyde, carb.olic acid, iodine, iodoform, iodoformogen, iodole.
Bubonic plague, see Plague.
Buchu.
As a sedative to the kidneys and bladder and with other
more active diuretics the fluid extract is useful, in the dose of
a teaspoonful in half glassful of water.
Bulimia.
Ravenous appetite of insanity.
Bullae.
Lumps, pea to Ggg size containing opaque liquid.
Bunion.
Relieve pressure and treat as localized rheumatism. The
bunion is an exostosis, the periosteum is inflamed or de-
stroyed, so chiropody or surgery is of no use.
Burns.
First degree. Carbolic acid 3% salve, bicarbonate of
soda solution or dry, collodion, traumaticine, gutta percha
solution, boracic acid, resinol, court plaster, lead plaster.
Second and third degrees. Carron oil, made from lin-
seed oil and lime water with antiseptic and aseptic precau-
tions. The main need is to exclude the air, so that immer-

sion of the burned part in water completely is an excellent
means of relief from pain, covering with some oily substance
that will not also introduce germs. The anesthesia of car-
bolie acid is at once soothing and otherwise beneficial in

preventing decomposition, but it must be ointment. It is
highly improper to use Salicylic acid as it is not only irri-
tating but it destroys the integument, facts too often lost

sight of in regarding its slight antiseptic property.
Bursin.
Suggested in place of ergot which is much better.
Bursitis.
Use ichthyol externally, or tincture of iodine paint.
Butyl-Chloral Hydrate or Croton-chloral Hydrate.

Formerly given in neuralgia, but its pungent odor and
failures are discrediting it.
Buxine.
Antifebrile but unused.
Cacao Butter.
Oleum Theobroma, a vegetable fat used as a cerate and
vehicle.
Cacodylic Acid.
Practically arsenous acid.
Cactina.
A preparation of Cactus grandiflorus.
Cactus grandiflorus.
Night blooming cereus. Cardiac stimulant substitute
for Digitalis.
Cade, Oil of.
Juniper Tar used in skin diseases externally.
Cadmium and Cesium salts.
Not established as of any value.

Caffeine, Theine or Guaranine.

The citrated containing 50% caffeine dose is of 2 to 10
grains, the hydrobromate of caffeine injection 4 to 10 min-

ims solution. Hbr. Caf. 10 parts to hydrobromic acid 1
part, distilled water 3 parts.
As a heart stimulant or for headache relief, though for
this there are better things; see Headaches.
Cajeput Oil.
Formerly used in skin diseases.
Calabar Bean.
Physostigma, from which eserine the myotic used by
oculists is obtained.
Calamus.
Sweet Flag. Weak aromatic stimulant tonic.
Calcium Bromide.
Dubious substitute for Potassium Bromide.
Calcium Carbonate. Chalk.

In chalk mixture with catechu or kino as astringents in
diarrhoea, main use.
Calcium Chloride. Chloride of lime.

A disinfectant and deodorant in minor degree. It takes
up moisture from the air in slaking and when drying the at-
mosphere of a place is desirable it can be used, but it gives
out a pungent odor of its own.
Calcium Glycerino-Phosphate.
Very doubtful utility.
Calcium Hypophosphites.
Not assimilable in my opinion.
Calcium Lactophosphate.
If any result follows its use faith cure likely to be the
cause.
Calcium Permanganate.
Potassium permanganate better.
Calcium Phosphate.
Useless.
Calcium Salicylate.
Diarrhoea and gastro-enteritis. Dose 8 to 24 grains.
Calcium Sulphide or Sulphite.
There are better things for flatulence.
Calculi, Biliary.
Gall stones causing intense suffering of hepatic colic,

blocking duct of gall bladder. See Biliary Calculi.
Calculi, Renal.
During the passage of a kidney stone through the ure-

ter to the bladder there is intense pain, and the advance from
kidney downwards can be gradually traced across the abdo-
men till the stone falls into the bladder when there is instant
relief and if overdoses of morphine have been given they
become evident at this time. It is often necessary to give
hypodermics of a quarter to a half grain of morphine during
the acute stage, but regard must be had to the accumulated
quantity not to exceed toleration, and as the stone ap-
proaches the bladder the patient should be encouraged to
do with less morphine.
Piperazine is probably the best uric acid solvent, but
general antirheumatic treatment with salicylates and lithia
salts assist in preventing renal calculi forming.
Calicolo.
Secret preparation.
Calisaya Bark.
A species of Cinchona yielding quinine.
Callosities.
Circumscribed hardening of the skin. Salicylic acid

and ichthyol with lanoline and petroleum, rubbed in.
Calomel. Hydrargyri chloridum mite.

Formerly used as a cathartic in 10 grain doses, but in
small doses as a tenth of a grain, repeated at intervals until
the physiological effect desired has been induced, or until a
couple of grains in all have been taken, it acts as an altera-
tive where faulty elimination especially hepatic exists. Com-
bined with bicarbonate of soda and sugar its action is more
rapid, as the alkali reduces it to black oxide and the sugar
to metal in the bowels and it is in these forms all mercurous
salts pass into the circulation. The nonsense as to conver-
sion into corrosive sublimate is owing to that more active
and poisonous salt of mercury contaminating the mercurous
or mild chloride before it was given. I tested the stocks of
several drug stores and found corrosive sublimate in the

calomel dispensed by the majority.
The supposition that lemon juice or vinegar converts
calomel into hydrargic chloride is alsowrong as even mu-
riatic acid will not attack mercury when cold, nor can gas-
change the salt. Intestinal alkalies reduce calo-
tric juices
mel and corrosive sublimate to metal finely divided.

As a cathartic to quickly relieve cerebral congestion,
as after a sunstroke, 10 grains of calomel and 10 grains of
jalap can be given in one dose. This sort of derivation takes
the place of the antiquated bleeding.
Incompatibles are numerous but the lists as given in the
books are uniformly wrong as not based upon correct chem-
ical or physiological information. In doubt use single
remedies to avoid incompatibilities.
Calumba, or Calumbo.
An old fashioned mild tonic, incompatible with too
many things to be combined and as small doses of quinine
are superior and answer all such purposes, this old drug- can
be put in the curiosity shop, particularly as it is often im-
pure.
Camphene.
Pure oil of turpentine.
Campho Phenique.
Antiseptic, expensive.
Camphor.
As spirits for external application to enable patients to
satisfy their desire to "do something," and work off their
surplus restlessness, it may be allowed, but otherwise the
main use of camphor is in combinations such as liniments
and with other materials as in making monobromate pills,
a good anaphrodisiac. Sexual function is depressed by
camphor but it is not well to use it direct for this purpose for
it upsets digestion and can even cause gastric ulcer. It is
too freely used by the public.
Camphoric Acid.
Angina, coryza, bronchitis locally in half to 6% solu-
tions. Cystitis half to 2% solutions injected into bladder.
Night sweats of phthisis up to 30 grains.
Camphor Monobromate, see Monobromate of Camphor.

Cancers.
G. Betton Massey of Philadelphia has been using acu-
puncture electrically, forcing mercury by cataphoresis into
the growth. His methods have been so strictly ethical re-
lying upon his results as presented to the profession that he

is less known than many who have undeservedly large prac-
tices in that specialty through having found quasi-ethical

means of advertising themselves. He is on the staff of the
Oncological Hospital, Philadelphia.
An "Alexander Method" is announced to physicians
from Boston, by circulars. It is some sort of a solution for
hypodermic use.
Radium has failed, and it may transpire that causticity,
maybe of peculiar kinds, is at the root of all the x-ray, Fin-
sen and other light applications, the justification for using
which is still under discussion. Arsenic pastes are old cau-
teries and recently cocaine has been added to allay pain.
Multitudes of harmless tumors have been called cancer and
operated upon as such, on the other hand malignant diseases
have destroyed as many more unrecognized as such. If the
embryonal nature of real carcinomata accounts for these
false growths they are to the body what professional poli-
ticians are to a community, and treatment should have been
by eradication and prevention several hundred years before
the patient was born. In general terms cancer treatment
consists in extirpation, antisepsis, deodorants, palliatives,
analgesics, with rarely, here and such as
there, alteratives
the x-ray or Massey's cataphoresis accomplishing some
good. Lupus vulgaris appears to afford the most recoveries
under the x-ray treatment.
Cancrum Oris.
Foul ulcers inside the lips and cheek. Systemic septic
conditions may secondarily arise therefrom, possibly ne-
phritis, etc.
Cannabine.
Peroxide of hydrogen and other suitable antisepsis.
Nervous sleeplessness and mania, one to two grains.
But habit must be avoided.
Cannabis Indica.
So rarely pure that in prescribing" it you can seldom be
sure of getting it, and as its action is harsh, varying with dif-
ferent stocks, it is better to use other delirefacients or some-
thing less in the line of faith cure according to whichever ex-
treme the cannabis may attain, of too great or too little ac-
tivity.
Cannabis Indica Cigarettes.

In Chapoteaut's list. Possibly as useful as any form of
Indian Hemp and as this hypnotic has been found as an in-
gredient in ordinary cigarettes the habit may be treated ac-

cordingly. Those addicted are being excluded from all re-
sponsible positions, being regarded as not even fit for food

for gunpowder.
Cannabinone.
Weak, disagreeable hypnotic.
Cantharides.
For fly blisters these crushed Spanish flies are useful,
but should never be used internally as they destroy the gen-
ito-urinary tract.Much suffering and danger of death has
been occasioned by taking Spanish fly preparations, often
put in patent medicines to increase the sexual function. It
causes bloody urine and agonizing pain. It should not be
used in hair tonics or other than to blister. Small fly blis-
ters over the vertebrae centers of spinal nerves whose peri-
pheries are the seats of pain may occasionally be used to
give relief, if not left on too long.
Capsicum, Cayenne pepper.

As a rubefacient plaster or in tincture in rectal injection
for antidoting opium poisoning.
Carbamide, see Urea.
Useless.
Carbolic Acid. Phenol.

Soluble in water 15, olive oil 2 parts, and freely in alco-
hol, glycerine, chloroform, ether. Too strong for pill form
and must be highly diluted if taken internally, as a drop to a
tumblerful of water in tablespoonful dose to arrest fermen-
tative diarrhoea in infants. When used as an internal anti-
septic insufficient attention has been paid to the bad second-
ary or as sometimes called undesirable effects. Typhoid
fever cases have been killed with antisepsis addressed to the
intestines while forgetting that other parts were liable to be
affected by the poison, as the blood. Mainly useful as an
external antiseptic in various percentages of strength, as
with vaseline or cosmoline 3 to 5 per cent it is admirable for
burns, even cleaner and better than Carron Oil, it anesthe-
tizes gently and allays active symptoms after burns, when
thus used. It is incompatible with so many things that it is
best used with a mere diluent. As carbolic acid is tolerated

in tetanus some have claimed that this antiseptic was the
real agent for good in serums, a supposition that was not
very complimentary to the able bacteriologists engaged in
antitoxin research.
Carbonated Bath Salts.

After the Nauheim treatment valvular disease of the
heart can be treated with artificial salts. The Triton Com-
pany at Saragota Springs, N. Y., prepare salts for these
baths.
Carbuncle.
While malignant pustule or charbon, the frightful sheep
plague, has been included under the designation carbuncle,
certainly the ordinary boil like infection of the neck or hand,
severe thoug-h it may be, that also is known as carbuncle
must be a much weaker form charbon proper
of anthrax, for
is almost certain death while carbuncle may at most be
prostrating, but is seldom fatal. There may be as in ery-

sipelas, cerebral secondary infection causing brain sepsis,
delirium, paralysis or dementia from ordinary carbuncle.
For treatment see Anthrax.
Cardamomom.
Aromatic to flavor medicines or disguise bad breath,
otherwise its alleged tonic or other virtues are too feeble.
Cardiac Arythmia.
Chronic heart irregularities may accompany organic
nervous or brain disease. Irritable heart or palpitations are
usually due to some functional depression as neurasthenia,
indigestion, hysteria.
Cardiac Weakness.
Digitalis, if pulse weak and rapid, for sustaining. Aro-
matic Spirits of Ammonia or Alcoholics for quick stimula-
tion.
Cardol.
A blistering:
& oil.
Caries. Decay of teeth or bones.
Dentistry may reach the needs of teeth decay, but spi-

nal or other bone caries often depends upon tuberculosis
passed to the suppurative stage. Phosphorus and lime, sep-
arately, lime phosphates or hypophosphites are foolishly the-
oretical and Out door life exclusively affords the only
inert.
relief possible,but usually damage to the bones has pro-

gressed too far for repair. The arrest of further decay is all
that can be hoped for, and that cannot be promised in any
treatment.
Ordinary surgical caries as in periosteal injury may be
circumscribed in some instances, by iodides, mercury, anti-
sepsis, operations, etc.
Carnogen.
Secret compound. Ordinary food is cheaper to build
up the system than is prepared foods.
Carpaine.
Alkaloid from Carica papaya, said to be useful in aortic
insufficiency and stenosis, subcutaneously a sixth grain daily
or every other day.
Carron Oil.
Linimentum Calcis. Solution of lime and flaxseed oil,
eight to seven parts. Useful in recent burns applied on cot-

ton batting.
Carvacrol.
An origanum phenol antiseptic. The iodide employed
as iodoform.
Cascara sagrada.
Fluid extracts in dose of a quarter to a full teaspoonful
can be used as a laxative, but the various elixirs on the mar-
ket seek to divest it of bitterness, and they are variable from
inertness to fair results.
Cascara is claimed to be an intestinal tonic and as such
it acts to overcome bowel inertia, so that small doses each
morning for awhile act better than a single large dose to
overcome constipation.
Cassia.
Cinnamon, a carminative.
Castanea. Chestnuts.
Tannin astringent.
Castor Oil.
Mild and speedy cathartic. Dose dram to an ounce.

Applicable to impactions or irritating accumulations.
Castration.
A criminally ignorant suggestion for the "cure" of in-
sanity.
Catalepsy.
Amyl nitrite inhalations, hypodermics of nitro-glycer-
ine.
Cataphoresis.
Some medicines can be forced beneath the skin by elec-
tric currents.
Cataract.
Opacity of the crystalline lens. Alleged absorbants are
dubious if not worse. Excision and suitable glasses are most
reliable.
Catarrh.
Of nasal and pharyngeal passages, sometimes extend-
ing through Eustachian tubes to middle ear causing deaf-
ness frequently fail to yield to simple antiseptic care, in some
mainly moist places near inland lakes, but are
localities, at
once benefited by change to dry locality.
Whether rhinitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis or otitis the
treatment of the catarrhal forms are very unsatisfactory, the
best being change of locality to a dry climate, sometimes a
high altitude or a torrid plane. Astringents and constrin-
gents, especially alums and belladonna are merely palliative
and finally disappoint.
Catarrh Snuff.
Dangerous cocaine nostrum.
Catechu.
The tincture combined with chalk mixture in diarrhoea.
Cathartinic Acid.
A Cassia laxative. Dose 4 to 6 grains.
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Cayenne Pepper.
Capsicum.
Celery.
Too feeble to be other than quackish, and if it does
happen to be strong look out for opium or bromides. The
name with various modifications is used in patent medicines
with whisky or worse.
Cellulitis.
Antiphlogistine externally. Derivatives internally.
Cephalalgia, see Headaches.
Ceratine.
Ichthyol, turpentine and beeswax, for eczema, indolent*
and varicose ulcers.
Cerebral Anemia.
Treat as any other anemia with tonics, as phospho-al-
bumen, Glide's pepto-mangan, etc.
Cerebral Hemorrhage.
Await results. More harm in medication than with-
holding it. Much of the treatment recommended in text-
books is foolish, such as phosphorus or potassium iodide.
Avoid stimulants, keep head high, loose neck wear.
Cerebral Hyperaemia. Congestion of Brain.

Hot foot baths, Ergot; Jalap and Calomel, 10 grains
each.
Cerebral Tumors.
potassium and mercurials in large
If syphilitic iodide of
doses. But most brain growths, even if syphilitic, are in-

curable. No operation should be performed on the brain
except under the advice of a competent neurologist. Sur-
geons alone are not equipped for brain surgery with requis-
ite information. Notwithstanding the Horsley assumptions.
Cerebraux.
Irritable mental alteration of long standing head injury.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis, see Meningitis.
Cerevisine.
Yeast.
Cerium oxalate.
The dry powder on the tongue a grain to four or five
grains at a time allays nausea, especially that of pregnancy
and often prevents vomiting, but in many cases it is merely
palliative as nausea is a mere symptom of widely differing
complaints.
Cerumen, Impacted. Ear-wax hardened in ear.
Peroxide of hydrogen, bicarbonate of soda solution,

half glycerine and half water solution to soak wax and
crumble it, then wash it out.
Cetrarin.
Experimental.
Chafing. Intertrigo.
Corn-starch, Magnesia, Talcum powder, Lycopodium.

In extreme cases mix a little calomel with the dusting pow-
der, and add boric acid if antisepsis needed.
Chalazion.
Small tumor from closure of Meibomian duct of eyelid.
Excision.
Chalk, see Calcium Carbonate.
Chamomile.
Old fashioned medicine. No particular value. Com-
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pounds of similar name are secret. One widely advertised

is made up of strychnia, arsenic and vehicles to enable its
"powerful concentration."
Chancre. The primary ulcer of syphilis.

Cocaine and formaldehyde. Also constitutional treat-
ment.
Chancroid. A non-syphilitic venereal ulcer.
Calomel as dusting powder. Cautery also if necessary.

No ointments.
Chapping.
Any antiseptic ointment or lotion.
Charbon.
Anthrax, malignant pustule, contagious carbuncle.
Charcoal.
A dentifrice can be made of the powder, not well to
take internally as flatulence is not helped by it and digestion
is deranged, while it is not antiseptic enough to be of ser-
vice.
Chenopodium.
Wormseed, a not very reliable anthelmintic.
Cherry Laurel Water.

A diluent with the taste of bitter almonds or prussic
acid. Slight sedative expectorant. Dose 30 minims to a
fluid dram.
Chicken-pox. Varicella.
Contagious eruption, symptoms mild. Keep child in
house and avoid medicines.
Chilblains, Frostbite.
Any antiseptic mild wash or ointment. Also arnica or
witch hazel.
Chinaphenin.
Quinine and phenacetine, for malaria.
Chinoline.
Antiseptic derived from quinine. Little used.
Chinosol.
Antiseptic, not much used.
Chinotropin.
Quinic acid and urotropin derivative, not much used.
Chlonia.
Secret.
Chloasma, Hepatic. Liver-spots.

Calomel internally.
Chloasma Uterine.
Resembles liver-spots but due to uterine disorder,
which if corrected may cause the spots to disappear.
Chloasma, Lentigo, Ephilides, Freckles.

The irritating mercuries recommended are harmful and
temporary.
Chloralamid.
The best hypnotic in use, though not strong enough in
some cases. It should take the place entirely of chloral hy-
drate as safer and having the same dose and effect as a sleep
producer; it does not stomach as does chloral
irritate the
hydrate, nor is it an any mucous membrane. In
irritant to
melancholia it sustains and does not debauch nor tend to
habit forming as when chloral is taken. It does not depress
the heart or circulation hence is useful in all prostrating dis-
orders as the insomnia of neurasthenia, hysteria, the climac-
teric, etc., and likely enough it is because of this heart stim-
ulation that it fails in such active disorders as delirium tre-

mens or acute mania.
The Elixir, a proprietory preparation, but not secret,
enables ready administration in tablespoonful doses, but for
general use as in hospital it is best to make up an aqueous
solution measuring about 5 grains of the crystals to an
ounce of water, provokingly slow to dissolve, requir-
as it is
ing occasional shakings of the bottle and a day or so to pre-

pare the watery solution. A little alcoholic facilitates solu-
tion. The chloralamid once thus prepared and given in
doses affording 15 to 30 grains has given much satisfaction
to physicians using it, and I feel surprise that any chloral re-
mains in use when 15 grains has killed and the poisonous
dose of chloralamid is beyond 120 grains. An amount not
necessary to use.
Chloral Camphor.
Antiseptic, expensive.
Chloral Hydrate.
Widely known and used and when as pure as Merck
manufactures it is far less harmful, but while it will continue
to be used through familiarity with it the untoward effects
should be as widely recognized. It is harsher in action than
chloralamid and not as safe to use. Alcohol splits it into a
poison, and if anything wrong with the heart or
there is
stomach it makes the trouble worse. It will if continued in

use derange digestion so as to prevent insanity from recov-
ering. It tends to depress and in this is opposite in effect to
chloralamid. Its range of incompatibles is great and the
chloral habit is readily formed and not readily broken, lead-
ing more often to opium and other habits.
Chloralose.
A hypnotic which owing to its bitter disagreeable taste
and the dangers of its use is not favored much.
Chloretone.
Hypnotic and anesthetic, taste disagreeable, on trial in
vomiting of pregnancy and sea sickness, also with adrenalin
in rhinology.
Chloride of Sodium.
Purchasers of spring waters read that this mysterious
chemical occurs in the analysis, often unaware that it is
merely common table salt.
Chlorides, Piatt's.
Solution of several chlorides. Excellent deodorant and
disinfectant for sick-room, though expensive.
Chlorine Water.
Disinfectant.
Chlorororm.
Anesthetic. See Anesthetics.
Chloroform Poisoning.
Ammonia, amyl nitrite, strychnine, artificial respira-
tion, fresh air.
Chlorosis, Green sickness, see Anemia.
Choked disk.
Interference with return of blood in retinal veins, symp-

tom of inflammation of optic nerve or brain tumor.
Cholera Mixtures.
Usually old fashioned astringents with chloroform and
opium doing more harm than good through preventing
evacuation of fermenting irritating materials upon which the
diarrhoea depended. Sulpho-carbolate of zinc is better as
it stops the fermentation.
Cholera, see Diarrhoea.

Chondrus.
Carrageen or Irish Moss. A delicate diet sea weed.
Chordee.
Mono-bromate of Camphor.
Chorea, St. Vitus' Dance.
Fowler's Solution or Arsenite of Potassium, freshly
made.
Choroiditis. Inflammation of choroid coat of eye.

Antisyphilitics.
Christian Science.
Homeopathy without sugar pills.
Chromic Acid.
A strong caustic, more liable to abuse than use.
Chrysarobin, see Chrysophanic Acid.
Chrysophanic Acid. Chrysarobin.

External use only, dangerous to the eyes. Parasiticide
and in skin diseases, 2 to 10 per cent ointment or paint.
Chyluria. Milky urine.

Many things mistaken for this, phosphatic diabetes
among them. Ascertain by analysis exact condition and
treat accordingly. A parasite the Filaria Sanguinis Chylu-
ria of the tropics causes milky urine. Treatment is iodide of
potassium and thymol.
Cicutine, see Coniine.
Cimicifuga. Black Snakeroot, Black Cohosh.

For antispasmodic in dysmenorrhoea best form is fluid
extract 15 to 45 minims. Still better in combination, see
Viburnal.
Cinchona.
The variability of barks render quinine the only sen-
sible form to use.
Cinchonism.
Too much quinine. Bromides.
Cinnamic Acid.
Used unavailingly in phthisis.
Circular Insanity.
Alternating mania apparent recovery and melancholia.
A chronic and incurable insanity.
Cirrhosis of Liver.
Calomel.
Citrate of Magnesia, Effervescent.

A pleasant substitute for Seidlitz powders.
Citrine Ointment.
Nitrate of mercury ointment used in ophthalmology.
Citrophen.
About the same as phenacetine. Phenetidin citrate.
Claustrophobia.
Dread of closed spaces.
Climacteric Insanity.
Occuring in women at the menopause.
Coca Erythroxylon.
The leaf which contains cocaine. Wines containing the
leaves of this plant necessarily include the alkaloid, as cin-
chona does quinine.
Cocaine.
Dangerous in rhinology and is being dropped. It has
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injured the cornea, but has been used in herniotomy. The

cocaine habit has grown alarmingly.
Cocaine Hydrochlorate.
A local anesthetic in small amounts, a drop of a 3 per
cent solution taking away feeling in the eye ball, enabling
operations to be made.
Very dangerous in other attempts to use it. Catarrh
snuffs with soon ruin the user.
it The cocaine habit is sim-
ply fiendish, and irresponsible. Murders and thefts are
prompted by its fury to get increasing amounts to appease
appetites that are unappeasable. Notwithstanding the fur-
ious nature of the addiction it is an easier habit to get rid of
than almost any other drug using. Large doses of chloral-
amid at proper intervals have broken up the inclination to
use the cocaine. The habit merges at times with the opium
addiction, modifying it.
Coca wines or any coca compound depends on financial

successes derived from fastening the habit of using it. Some
manufacturers of these inhuman concoctions actually give
tickets for their drinks freely, expecting to get people in
their clutches in this way.
Cocculus Indicus.
Source of picrotoxin.
Coccygodynia.
Pain in coccygeal region may yield to anti-rheumatics
but too often it is incurable and the morphine habit is in-
duced. Operations do no good as the real seat of the dis-
ease may be in the spinal cord many inches above the sac-
rum. Hysteria, injuries, tumors may originate it.
Cocoanut.
Juice is a digestant.
Codeine.
Practically it is merely a weak morphine, so that when
you hear of its being recommended for the cure of the opium
habit you may get an idea of the corners some of our uncon-
scionables turn in imposing upon the sick.
Cod Liver Oil. Oleum Morrhuae.

Stone's Swampscott cod liver oil by expression of the
cold fresh livers, is best when on the market, but as the
Massachusetts General Hospital uses it and what remains
is sold it is not always to be had. The Lofoden varieties
claim next attention, but often rancidity and adulteration or
substitution renders many
Emulsions pre-
oils unfit for use.
tend to disguise taste and prevent regurgitation, this

is done
sometimes by the emulsion omitting the oil, and at best

emulsions are very unsatisfactory in all respects. The oil
should be taken pure without disguise if good effects are to

be had at all, but Chapoteaut makes a very readily taken
Morrhuol capsule with and without creosote which is ef-
fective in bronchial coughs, lubricating and reducing irri-
tation in bronchitis and pulmonary affections.
For chronic constipation cod liver oil is excellent in af-
fording mechanical relief by lubrication, with no after effect
as with other means.
Coffee.
Relieves anemic headache.
Colchicine-Salicylate.
Some preparations under this title contain the impure
salicylic acid. Capsules of this kind intended to imitate the
pure colchi-sal are harsh in action and should not be used.
Colchicum.
Colchicum preparations are antiquated in the treatment
of gout, and their action may be through irritating deriva-
tion to the intestines. With far better uric acid solvents, as

piperazine, at hand the unsatisfactory and dangerous col-
chicum derivatives can be less used.
Colchi-Sal.
Colchicine in methyl salicylate from betula lenta. Gouty
and rheumatic conditions, often relieves promptly, but care
must be used to secure the capsules that contain the pure
oil and even then the heart may be badly affected by over-
dosing. An imitation with the more scientific name of col-

chicine salicylate also copying the appearance of the col-
chisal packages is deadly in comparison.
Colds.
Hot foot bath, derivatives and time allay nasal conges-
tion. Ergot if severe and especially avoid debauching ace-
tanilid, cocaine or opium cold or catarrh cures or snuffs.
Antirheumatics sometimes relieve.
Colic, Hepatic? see Calculi? Biliary.
Colic? Intestinal.
Peppermint, compound spirits of ether, caraway, cham-

omile, coriander, cloves, spearmint, castor oil, seidlitz pow-
der, bicarbonate of soda. Externally mustard plaster to ab-
domen, hot applications, warm water enemas.
Colic? Renal.
Hot baths, iodide of potassium, acetate of potassium.
Collargol.
Colloidal Silver, Argentum Crede. Dubious Antiseptic.
Collodion? Styptic.
20 per cent tannic acid. Used for stopping hemorrhage.
Colocynth.
Drastic hydragogue cathartic. The compound extract
of colocynth combined with calomel, extract of jalap and

gamboge has been a favorite with old practitioners in re-
lieving portal congestion and liver torpidity.
Color Blindness.
May be congenital or from either a functional or or-
ganic brain lesion.
Coma.
So many different causes it is folly to prescribe without
knowing to what the coma may be due, and then it is usually
beyond the power to aid. Head injury, last stages of dia-
betes, as acetonaemia, apoplexy, etc., more likely to make
medicines injurious.
Comedones. Black-heads.
Squeeze out the parasites from the pimples, an old fash-
ioned watch key is best for this, and wash face with soap and
water. The cosmetic columns of newspapers written by
"beauty" quacks are filled with silly instructions on this
point, mainly aimed at selling some nostrum.
Communicated Insanity.
One lunatic may impart delusions to another.
Compound cathartic pills.
Even the "Improved" are unpopular through causing

griping pain.
Compound Spirits of Ether.

Hoffman's Anodyne. Cardiac stimulant anodyne, and
antispasmodic. Dose 30 minims to 2 fluid drams in sweet-
ened water.
Compound Stillingia Liniment Merrill.
Revived ancient rubefacient applied to throat and chest

in colds,coughs, bronchitis, incipient pneumonia.
Compound Syrup of Sarsaparilla.
Vehicle for potassium iodide, rather worthless other-

wise.
Compound Syrup of Squills.
Hive Syrup containing seneka, squill and tartar emetic.

Expectorant, emetic, diaphoretic. Used in croup. Dose 10
drops to fluid dram according to age repeated till vomiting
begins. In false croup small doses will relax and end the
spasm upon which the choking depends, and in membran-
ous croup if the air passages are obstructed any emetic may
relieve that symptom, but cannot cure the diphtheria.
Condylomata.
Wart-like excresences around vulva or anus.
Calomel, resorcin, formaldehyde, caustics.
Condy's Disinfecting Fluid.
Permanganate of Potassium solution, used long before

any other antiseptic treatment.
Conessine.
Astringent alkaloid. Unused.
Coniine Hydrobromate.
Dose one sixtieth to a twelfth of a grain, for same use
as Conium. Injection in tetanus dose a twentieth to an
eighth of a grain.
Conium.
Hemlock. Antispasmodic. Motor Depressant. Use-
mania with insomnia. Squibb's fluid extract in
ful in active
15 minim doses up to half a dram to remove the excitement

and enable sleep. In tetanus it has not been sufficiently
used, and judiciously given would have been beneficial but
the antitoxin will be exclusively used hereafter.' Conium
has also been used in asthma, sciatica and whooping cough.

Dose extract a half to one grain, fluid extract 2 to 5 minims.
Conjunctival eczema.
Resinol or a resorcin salve.
Conjunctivitis.
Borax saturated solution used freely, boracic acid, resi-
nol, avoid mineral salts as liable to damage vision.
Constipation.
Aperients, laxatives, cathartics, hydragogues according
to severity, but continued use of these, especially patent
medicines, is liable to set up intestinal paralysis so that im-
mense doses have to be taken. Cod liver oil and abdominal
massage right to and downwards are the best means
left
sometimes conjoined with strychnine and other tonics to im-

part strength to the bowels where they are inert.
Sometimes an incarcerated hernia may be the real
trouble behind an obstinate constipation. Fothergill's dis-
covery that camp diarrhoea was really a constipation is
worth considering, see Diarrhoea.
Consumption, see Phthisis.
Convallaria.
Lilly of the Valley. Substitute for Digitalis. Influence
does not persist as does Digitalis.
Convallamarin.
Gluco'side from Convallaria majalis. Resembles Digi-
talis in action, not cumulative. Dose half a grain increased
to 5 grains.
Convolvulin.
A glucoside and powerful purgative. Dose one and a
half to 3 grains.
Convulsions.
From teething press tooth through with thumb or ringer
or cut gums of child if from indigestion as infant fed on im-
;
proper empty stomach and bowels with emetic and cas-

diet,
tor oil. Hot water bath helps to relax spasms. Sometimes

brain growths cause fits for which little or nothing may be
done. If fit is epileptic do nothing as a rule unless amyl ni-
trite can be used early enough. If eclampsia of parturient
there should be delivery as soon as possible whether pre-
mature or full time, albumen in urine of such cases often
coagulates solid in test tube with a little heat. Often such
cases are killed with veratrum, aconite, gelsemium, hyo-
scyamus or other barbarous narcotics. Uremic convulsions
see Bright's Disease.
Copaiba.
Obsolescent.
Copper Acetate.
Doubtful use.
Copper Arsenite.
Dubious Antiseptic.
Copper Sulphate.
Blue Doubtful use otherwise than as a water
Vitriol.
purifier of algousand other vegetable forms. A compara-
tively small amount suffices to remove vegetable impurities
from drinking water places, about an ounce of bluestone to
a well or cistern full of water. One part to a million parts
is the official estimate of purifying power.
Corns.
Shave and apply salicylic acid with collodion, cannabis
Indica may be added to allay pain. Pressure must be re-
moved or corn cannot be cured.
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Cornutine.
The active principle of ergot, but too poisonous. It has
been used in doses of a twelfth to a half grain.
Cornutine Citrate.
From Ergot. Hemostatic. Dose an eighth of a grain
in pills.
Corrosive Sublimate, see Bichloride of Mercury.
Coryza.
A cold in the nose. Recovers in a few days. A hun-
dredth of a grain of atropine to half a dram of cosmoline,
vaseline or other vehicle has afforded instant relief, but such
amelioratives are apt to be abused by sufferers, and they
must not use it too much or often. Constringents of the
mucous membranes as adrenaline and cocaine while effec-
tive are still more dangerous. A few drops of fluid extract
of ergot would be safer than all though less marked in ef-
fect.
Cotarnine Hydrochlorate, see Stypticin.
Cotoin.
From coto bark, astringent in diarrhoea.
Cotton Root Bark.

Ustilaigo Maidas. Substitute for Ergot.
Cough.
Avoid morphine, much heroin, codeine or acetanilid
depressants. Use Guiac lozenges, morrhuol and creosote,
expectorants with prussic acid as cherry laurel water, pru-
nus virginiana, or brown mixture, cod liver oil. Loose
coughs use stimulants, dry coughs depressants as tartar
emetic, etc. La grippe cough allayed with a single drop of
creosote in eight ounce mixture of half whiskey and half
simple syrup. Tablespoonful doses ad lib.
Sometimes a headache may be the most prominent ef-

cough and this in turn may be from undiagnosed
fect of a
pulmonary disease, even tuberculosis.
Coxe's Hive Syrup.

Similar to Compound Syrup of Squills.
Crab Louse.
Blue ointment or a grain of corrosive sublimate in 2
ounces of water a tablespoonful applied to the pubes.
Cramp.
Hot water and rubbing.
Cream of Tartar.
Bitartrate of potassium. Cathartic, diuretic and re-

frigerant. Dose in dropsy a dram several times daily, in
water.
Creatine.
A muscle extract for muscular atony. Useless
Cretinism.
Goitrous idiocy, may be a little improved by thyroid
doses.
Creolin.
Coal Tar Creosote. Disinfectant, Deodoriser. The
first form of cresols.
Creosotal.
For croup, measles and pertussis. Dose i to 5 grains
invery young, up to 15 grains every 3 hours in adult. With
peppermint water and glycerine.
Creosotol, see Creosote Carbonate.
Creosote.
In cod liver oil syrups such as maltine, creosote in
small amounts is a good expectorant for bronchial or pul-

monary affections. Chapoteau's capsules of morrhuol and
creosote allay bronchitis and hacking coughs and are good
also in the dry throatcoughs of fall and winter. An effec-
tive la grippecough mixture is a drop of creosote to four
ounces each of whisky and syrupus simplex. Tablespoonful
doses.
Creosote Carbonate.
Creosotol. Antitubercular. Dose 20 minims thrice
daily, increased.
Creosote Phosphite.
Phosphotal. Antitubercular. Same as Creosote., No
improvement on it.
Creosote Valerianate.
Intestinal Antiseptic. Dose 3 to 10 minims.
Cresalols.
Salicylate of cresol. Internal antisepsis, not much used.
Cresols.
Antiseptic substitute for carbolic acid. Lysol an eligi-
ble form.
Croton Chloral Hydrate, see Butyl.
Croup, False. Laryngismus Stridulus.

Hot applications to throat, usually abates as rapidly as
it began, so the last thing done or the last doctor called in
gets credit for cure. True croup, diphtheritic or membran-
ous begins slowly and attracts less attention, see Diphtheria.
Crurin.
Bismuth and chinolin. Not much used.
Crust head.
Remove with olive oil.
Cubebs.
Superceded in gonorrhoea by better remedies.
Cunderango.
Worthless vegetable, advertised as a remedy for cancer.
Cupping, Dry.
This substitute for the old wet cupping is a useful de-
rivative. Glasses with rubber bulbs render the operation
an easy one.
Curarine.
Alkaloid of curare, the paralysant. Seldom used.
Curcuma, Tumeric.
Disused jaundice remedy.
Curetting.
Has occasionally caused septicaemia through denuded
membranes.Nor is it advisable in simple dysmenorrhoea
when many such instances are merely spasmodic and
promptly abate with asafetida, cimicifuga or viburnum, es-
pecially viburnal.
Cuts.
Collodion, traumaticin, court plaster.
Cyanosis.
Congestion with heart failure from acetanelide, anti-
kamnia, etc. Stimulants quickly.
Cypridol.
Mercury biniodide in aseptic oil. Kind of oil not
stated.
Cypripedium.
Gentle nervous stimulant or antispasmodic. Not much
used.
Cystitis. Bladder Inflammation.

Wash bladder with injections of mild antiseptics such as
borax solution, and give buchu internally, with small
amount atropine. Make catheter aseptic.
Cystisine.
Disused diuretic.
Dacryocystitis.
Inflammation of tear sac near inner canthus of eye.
Dacryops.
Stoppage of lacrymal duct, forming blue tumor. Open
with needle.
Damiana.
Worthless alleged aphrodisiac.
Dandelion. Taraxacum.
Diuretic, seldom used.
Dandruff.
Leads to baldness. Treatment unsatisfactory, tonics
usually.
Daturine.
Datura stramonium alkaloid, resembles hyoscyamine.
Deafness.
Most cases due to cerumen impaction which can be dis-
solved out with peroxide of hydrogen or sodium bicarbon-

ate solution, some due to suppuration of middle ear often
due by destroying pus with pe-
to scarlatina, best cared for
roxide of hydrogen, germs with boracic acid the crust from
which can be removed next day with half glycerine and half
water. The recurring lymphatic inflammation is checked
with small doses of calomel at intervals or When attack im-
pends. Perforation of membrane impairing hearing should
not be supplemented by artificial tympanic apparatus which

no good. A small stringy
invariably irritate and do roll of
cotton along external meatus helps convey sounds to the

inner ear.
If deafness due to Eustachian tube catarrh, pharyngeal
antisepsis or change of climate is best. If Menierre's Dis-
ease final complete deafness is unavoidable. Aurists can
best determine such matters. Deafness may be due to hys-
teria, suddenly appearing and disappearing.
Debility.
Tonics and correcting any systemic trouble.
Degeneracy.
Deviation from a standard physical or mental type, as
idiocy, the criminal too poor or witless to defy the law, po-
litical and other heartless thieves, great trust and stock mag-
nates, and other forms of defective mentality based on con-
genital defects as a rule. Incurable.
Delirium.
A mere symptom of many differing ailments, usually in
the course of fever. It is best to abide the course of the dis-
ease and not give depressants, but if constipation or other
blood poisoning the delirium may abate when the cause is
removed.
Delirium Tremens.
Hot water externally and internally in abundance, no
more stimulants than needed to sustain, but strychnia and
quinine and broths or trophonine. Strait jackets cause
pneumonia to which inebriates are specially liable. Sulfo-
nal allays excitement but constipates and weakens.
Delphinine.
Resembles aconitine.
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Delusion.
A faulty idea, as a mistake, one of the commonest of
occurrences, as at times the entire world may be wrong and
only one man right, as Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, etc.
Grotesque delusions most often held by insane but no ac-

curate criterion as to sane and insane delusions. The Czar,
Mrs. Mary Faker Eddy and Dowie are divine among cer-
tain anthropoids.
Dementia.
As it means a serious loss of
generally used by alienists
mentality,though the term may be qualified by affixes.
Some books gravely advise drugs that are nonsensical
for such an ailment. There are many kinds of dementia,
mostly incurable, and medicine is useless in all of them.
Dermatalgia.
Painful skin. Rheumatism.
Dermatitis.
Skin inflammation from various causes. Antiseptics,
the most useful being boracic acid solution. A nervous form
called Duhring's disease with vesicles can be treated with
arsenic and asafetida.
Dermatol.
Bismuth Subgallate. Dusting powder.
Deret's Elixir.
Tannin and mercury biniodide in wine. Stomatitis,
erythema and diarrhoea said to be avoided in its use. Dose
a tablespoonful.
Developmental Insanities.
Occur at critical physiological periods, as puberty, the
climacteric, and senility.
Diabetes Mellitus.
Thousands of useless medicines reported on. Fat and
lean types, the latter with pancreas impairment, sometimes

cancerous. Pancreatine supplies the deficient secretion.
Abstinence from potatoes and other starchy food commonly
practised, but occasionally it is best to allow some to be
eaten. Piperazine on trial. Saccharine instead of sugar
when sweetening desired.
Diabetes Insipidus.
Valerian or asafoetida.
Diabetin.
Levulose. Substitute for sugar in Diabetes.
Dialysed Iron.
From lessened styptic taste presumed advantage over
other iron, but little used.
Diarrhoea.
Summer complaints or intestinal fermentations are of-
ten so slight as to need no medicine at all hence if let alone
the looseness disappears. The dishonest way to treat this
ailment is to give a billionth of a grain of of ho- any kind
meopathic wind and ascribe the recovery to that powerful
"medicine." Quiet rest and strict diet with avoidance of the
foolish astringents usually taken ensure recovery in the
majority of cases, but when the fermentation is severe and
passages rapid, frequent and profuse, catechu or kino tinct-
ures with chalk mixtures can be used, but these do not re-
move the cause as will two to five grain pills of sulpho-car-
bolate of zinc taken after each passage till the diarrhoea is
checked. The combined astringency, antisepsis and anti-

ferment afford the best results. Formerly the best thing
for infantile cholera was very small doses of bichloride of
mercury in water, say teaspoonful doses after each passage
of a solution of half a grain of corrosive sublimate in a pint
of water. But five grains of sulpho-carbolate of zinc in a
glass of water for cholera infantum, teaspoonful doses make

a milder anti-ferment useful in most cases. The milk may-
be the offending substance, but that means the particular
milk used. Sometimes it answers to change to the milk of
one cow. Sterilizing or boiling is useful where the milk is
very bad, but as by heat important nutritive constituents

and useful digestive micro-organisms are also destroyed,
the baby it not getting proper diet in boiled or sterilized
cases, the so-called Pasteurizing process. In the cities the

adulteration of milk is a serious matter in infant sickness.
Often formalin is put in the milk to preserve it and it de-
stroys its digestibility to say nothing of the infants it also
destroys. A simple test for this preservative is to set a spec-
imen of the milk aside for a few days in summer, and if it
does not sour then formalin or some other preventive of fer-
mentation has been used in it.
Remember that internal antisepsis may be carried too

far, the use of too much or too strong diarrhoea mixtures is
pernicious, particularly such as containmorphine or opium.

A valuable contribution to our knowledge of the causes
and prevention of chronic diarrhoea, that is too little known,
was made by Dr. Fothergill of London. He treated a great

many cases of camp diarrhoea in soldiers returned from the
Crimea and on autopsy found invariably the transverse co-
lon solidly impacted, leaving room only for watery passages
around these accumulations, so that really the diarrhoea
was a disguised constipation and by using Turkey rhubarb
steadily, having the patient carry a small piece and chew off
and swallow a small portion occasionally during the day, he
was enabled to break up this bad bowel habit in time. A
modern means would be abdominal massage. A small can-
non ball rolled across the waist below the navel, from right
to left at any convenient time of day or night is a good anti-
constipation massage.
Diastase.
For starchy digestion. The Taka-diastase is reliable.
Digestants.
Physiologically peptone is intermediate in formation
between albumen before and after digestion. Commercial
peptone contains much albumose and little true peptone.
Foods contain proteids, carbohydrates, fats, salts and
water. The last two diffuse through any mucous mem-
brane, but the others have to be digested by means of sa-
liva, gastric juice, bile, pancreatic juice, and intestinal juice.
Proteids by gastric and pancreatic juice; fats by bile and

pancreatic juice; starch by saliva and pancreatic juice; cane
sugar by intestinal juice. The essential ferments are ptyalin
in saliva, pepsin in gastric juice, trypsin in pancreatic juice,
invertin in intestinal juice. Numerous preparations derived
from animal and vegetable sources are made and combined
for different kinds of indigestions, the most generally appli-
cable being peptenzyme.
Digitalein.
Combines digitalin and digitoxin.
Digitalis.
Best form for administration is the fluid extract I to 3

minims or tincture 10 to 20 minims. The German Digitalin
of Merck, not the Eclectic is adapted to injections; the dose
is a tenth to a half grain.
Infusions are variable in strength, and no advantage
over tinctures. Given too often or in too large a dose, digi-
talis will squeeze the heart empty, arrested in systole, with
suffocation of the patient. Weakness of the heart with
rapid pulse is main indication for its use, guardedly in
the
hypertrophy or stenosis, and a slow, strong pulse is a con-
traindication. Digitoxin is of occasional use where prompt-
ness is wanted but is too powerful for repeated use, unless
closely watched. Patients allowed their own discretion in

the use of digitalis are apt to take too much. allegedMany
deaths from heart disease have been directly due to over
doses of digitalis.
Digitoxine.
Most active glucoside from digitalis. Dose one two-
hundred and fiftieth of a grain. Enema an eightieth of a
grain. For rapid stimulation of the heart.
Dionin.
Practically morphine.
Dioviburnia.
Partly secret.
Diphtheria. Diphtheria antitoxin, see Antitoxin Diph-

theria.
Diplopia.
Double vision as in strabismus.
Dipsomania, see Inebriety.

This form of recurring drunkenness is a periodical in-
sanity, which notwithstanding its severity has been success-
fully treated.
Diuretin.
Unstable diuretic.
Dizziness, see also Vertigo.

May proceed from heart weakness, anemia, congestion,
ataxia, ear disease, stomach distress as hunger, indigestion,
etc. Treat accordingly.
Dobeirs Solution.
Alkaline nasal wash varying widely as to amounts of
borax, bicarbonate of soda, carbolic acid and glycerine to
the pint of water.
Impure glycerine and even pure promotes ca-

irritates
tarrh instead of relieving it. The

addition of a dram of com-
mon salt to the pint of warm water improves it, and as car-
bolic acid is too strong it can be also left out and eucalyptus
in some form added. The average formula for Dobell's so-
lution gives 2 drams each of the borax and soda and 24
grains of carbolic acid to the pint of water.
Dogwood. Piscidia Erythrina.

Variable unreliable hypnotic.
Donovan's Solution.
Mercuric iodide and arsenic iodide each i%. Dose i
to 10 minims.
Dormiol.
Amylene chloral. Pungent taste, not in much favor as
a hypnotic.
Double Consciousness.
Sensationalists confuse states that are readily under-
stood by brain physiologists. In epilepsy at different times
the patient may seem though having two distinct
to act as
mentalities or character. A
head injury can cut off certain
groups of acquired or inherited propensities and change the
character permanently. Similarly a spasm of arterioles in
the brain as in epilepsy or hysteria cuts off brain areas tem-
porarily and causeschanged mental action. The supersti-
tiousand those who "confuse knowledge with meaningless
words" call such double conscious states, subliminal and
other idiotic terms.
Doubting Insanity.
Patients who cannot decide anything for themselves,
though apparently otherwise sane.
Dover's Powder.
Opium, ipecac and sulphate of potassium, the last being
.or U
used to by the hardness of its particles in grinding the
assist
powder, so when a syrup of Dover's powder is made it
seems absurd to retain an inert ingredient as the sulphate.
Dracontium. Skunk Cabbage.

Unreliable emeto^cathartic and narcotic. Disused.
Drunkenness, see Inebriety.

Dropsy.
A mere symptom of several diseases. The initial fault
may be heart, liver, kidney or nervous disease. Cathartics

remove the water through the bowels but so doing does not
cure the disease nor prevent return of the dropsy as ignor-
ance is led to suppose. Sometimes strong cathartics are
used.
Duboisine Sulphate.
Mydriatic. Much stronger than Atropine. Not useful
in mental disease as sometimes claimed by inexperienced.
Dumbness.
Usually from never having heard speech. The dumb
may be taught to speak by watching lipmotions and imitat-
ing them. Malformations also may cause dumbness.
Duotal.
Guiacol.
Dymal.
Didymium salicylate. Drying antiseptic for burns, in-
tertrigo, eczema, hyperidrosis.
Dysentery.
Avoid opium and ipecac. Food should be liquid as
beef tea or trophonine, fruit juices without seeds, soft boiled
eggs, no exertion, microscope determines amebsecoli. Dr.

Jay of Chicago studied dysentery specially and says the
large dosage of of text books like Osier's are hurtful. The

rectum denuded of membrane can tolerate injections of ten
to twenty grains of bisulphate of quinine and two drams of
salt to the quart of warm water alternately morning and
evening.
Castor oil is the main reliance and may have to be re-
sorted to for years after an attack, especially when head-
aches indicate autotoxaemia. Tablespoonful doses once to
thrice daily at first to occasionally when abdominal or other
pain. Strychnia, quinine and digitalis as needed if weak, but
avoid habit of using them too often. Relapses are likely.
Solid food has to be slowly and guardedly resumed months
after the attack. Calomel may suffice for minor cases and
assists in severe dysentery. Since the Spanish war the trop-
ical kind has become endemic in many southern states.
Dysmenorrhoea. Painful Menses.

Viburnal. Avoid opium-, bromides, chloral and depres-
sants generally as acetanilide, antikamnia, etc. Hot water
bag to abdomen. Saline cathartics.
Dyspepsia, see Indigestion.
Dysphagia.
Difficult swallowing. Throat paralysis, obstruction,
etc.
Dyspnoea.
Difficult breathing, from hysteria, heart disease, dropsy,
asthma, etc.
Dysuria. Strangury.
Suppressed urination. Hot water to back, turpentine a
tablespoonful in bread or flaxseed poultice to back, mustard
poultice, dry cups to back. Salines, diuretics, diaphoretics.
In uremia saline normal injections.
Earache.
Congestion aggravates the pain of all earaches and if
this is treated the pain frequently departs, so a hot foot bath,

quick saline purge, mustard to nape of neck or back of ear,
or a dose of ergot is more sensible than pouring laudanum
and sweet oil drops in the ear to cake and afford fungus soil.
Calomel aids in clearing the lymphatic congestion.
Ear Diseases. See Deafness and Furunculosis.

Echinacea Angustifolia.
Said to be alterative in scrofulous and syphilitic affec-
tions, Merrill makes a normal tincture the dose of which is
5 to 15 drops thrice daily, diluted, also externally 10 to 15%

dilution, for eczema, and as an antiseptic.
Echinol.
A concentrated fluid preparation of echinacea angusti-
folia, ten times the strength of the crude drug, for making
ointments and other local applications.
Echitone.
Echinacea angustifolia, viola tricolor and iris versicolor,
for eczematous conditions. Advertised to physicians, prob-
ably depends on first named ingredient.
Echolalia.
Insane repetition of words of others.
Eclampsia, see Convulsions.
Eclecticism.
An obsolescing off shot from Thompsonianism in which
itwas taught that minerals from the ground denoted death
and should not be used, but plants grew above the ground
and indicated life and are alone fit for medicine, in ignorance
of minerals forming on the earth's surface and of some
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plants beneath. Gradually many of the silly tenets of eclec-

ticism have been abandoned and regular respectable medi-
cine is mainly taught in its schools, until eclectic differ from
regular physicians mostly in name though materia medica
and indications for therapeusis are a little antiquated and
illogical.
Ecstasy.
A hysterical cataleptic state.
Ecthyma.
Pustular skin infection. Tonics and antiseptics.
Ectropion.
Eversion of eye lid.
Eczema.
An immense dermatological held by itself in diversity
of causes, appearances and modes of treatment. Astrin-
gents, alteratives, antiseptics, emollients, antirheumatics,
tonics, caustics, alkalies, etc., have all and more been used.
Oil of cade, picric acid, sulphur, ichthyol, zinc oxide, mer-
curic salts, resorcin, pyrogallol, chrysarobin, salicylic acid,
tannates are among these.
Edema, see Dropsy.

Edema of Glottis, see also Laryngitis.
Tartar Emetic in some form, as syrup of squills com-
pound, if laryngitis dry. Edema may be lessened by ergot
or adrenaline. Intubation or tracheotomy may be neces-
sary. A bloodless tracheatome, a sort of intubation process
externally, is advertised by Huston Brothers Company, 35
Randolph St., Chicago, the merits of which physicians must
judge for themselves, as I know nothing about it personally.
Elaterin.
Hydragogue Cathartic. Dose a twentieth to a twelfth

of a grain.
Elaterium.
Drastic purgative. Dose one eighth to a half grain.
Merck's Eleterin dose is a twentieth to a twelfth of a grain.
Electricity.
All currents can be used in diagnosis of real or pretend-

ed paralyses and thus are useful in medico-legal cases. The
applications, however, being quite an art as well as a science,
based mainly on the differences between anodal and catho-
dal milliamperage reactions of healthy and diseased muscles
and nerves, determinable with the galvanometer and galvan-
ism.
For such purposes the galvanic and faradic batteries
made by the Chloride of Silver Dry Cell Battery Company
of Baltimore, Maryland, are most portable and complete. I
have used a twenty years with entire satisfaction.

set for
Static electricity by means of the large revolving glass
wheels or plates is so surprising and pyrotechnic that it can
exert a faith-cure influence in some minor cases, among in-
experienced, and in addition the static breeze will relax the

spasm of the meningeal arteries upon which hysterical and
some other autotoxaemic headaches depend. This form of
current is strongly stimulant and where there had been res-
toration of diseased tissue without accompanying restora-
tion of function as in a few instances of cerebral or spinal
paralyses, it proves useful to build up muscular tone.
Faradic electricity is more handy in general practice,
and the little buzzing apparatus is usually at hand among

country practitioners and can be used for stimulation the
same as the static current applications, in resuscitations of
opium narcotized and to arouse apparently drowned or as-
phyxiated.
Galvanic electricity requires considerable skill and care
in cautery and other work of surgery, opthalmology, opera-
tive gynecology, and in forcing medicines into tissues be-
low the skin : cataphoresis.
Electropoise.
Quack trinket, similar to Oxydonor.
Elephantiasis. Swollen misshapen skin.

Xo remedy found.
Embolism, Cerebral, see Brain.
Emetin.
An alkaloid and a resinoid confused with one another.
Emissions.
Monobromate of camphor in most cases.
Emphysema, Pulmonary. Accumulation of air in cellular

tissue of lungs.
Iodide of potassium, empirically.
Empyema. Pus in body cavity, as the chest.

Evacuation, antiseptic washes, potassium iodide,
strychnia and quinine.
Encephalitis.
Inflammation of brain. Treat as Brain Hyperemia,
which see.
Endarteritis.
Inflammation of artery lining. Rheumatic, syphilitic
or traumatic.
Endocarditis. Inflammation lining membrane of heart,

often rheumatic.
Calomel and seidlitz powder, antirheumatics. See An-
titoxins.
Endometritis. Inflammation lining of uterus.
Ichthyol, ergot, iodine, mercuric chloride, formalde-

hyde, hydrastine.
Enteralgia. Intestinal pain.

Peptenzyme.
Enteritis. Intestinal inflammation.

Heat to abdomen, calomel, sulpho-carbolate of zinc if
fermentative diarrhoea.
Entropion.
Inversion of the edge of the eyelid.
Enuresis, see Bed Wetting.
Ephedrine.
Alkaloid mydriatic in place of homatropine.
Ephilides. Freckles.
Corrosive sublimate often used externally, but the
freckles return and electrolysis has also been used. Trouble-
some, expensive and uncertain are all attempts at treatment.
Epididimitis and Orchitis. Testicle inflammation.

Fine cut tobacco in bread poultice to scrotum, strap-
ping testes with lead plaster strips, morphine if necessary.
Epilepsy.
Bromide of ammonium constantly with occasional in-
tervals. anticipated inhalation of nitrite of amyl pearls
If fit
may cut short the attack for the time, but aside from ab-
staining from cheese, bacon, much other meat or indigesti-
ble vegetables, tobacco, liquors, little can be done for epi-

lepsy in general. Colonies are increasing for their care.
Avoid nostrums and the multitude of nonsensical things
mentioned in medical journals and text books. In rare cases
a brain operation or nitro-glyeerine have done good. Prob-
ably not one epileptic among ten thousand recovers.
Epistaxis.
Nose bleed. Pledget between upper lip and front up-
per teeth, pressure on blood vessels there sometimes arrests
blood, severe cases adrenilin.
Epsom Salts.
Sulphate of magnesia, which with glauber salts, the sul-
phate of soda, both cheap and common, are main ingred-
ients in ''mineral waters."
Epithelioma.
Skin cancer. Surgery and caustics.
Ergoapiol.
The name indicates a union of ergot and apiol which
are antagonistic in action, see Apiol.
Ergot. Secale cornutum.

Fluid extract is the best form, the dose of which is fif-
teenminims to a dram. Merck makes an aseptic ergot for

hypodermic use.
The varied usefulness of ergot is far beyond its ordinary
reputation. In obstetrics to close the uterus after the con-
tents are safely expelled dram doses are given, but a too
early dose will interfere with delivery by neck or irregular
contraction as well as the body of the organ, though some
promote regular contraction with it during passivitv in de-
livery. An irrational use of ergot is in the first months of
gestation to produce miscarriage. The ovum is too small
to be more than firmly grasped by the ergotized womb at
this time, and at various stages ifhemorrhage occur ergot is
actually given in small doses to cramp down enough on the
bleeding vessels to stop the threatened abortion.
Headaches of the menopause or where there is throb-
bing or other indication of hyperaemia may be relieved by
ergot, ten to sixty minims of the fluid extract. In spinal
meningitis the congested spinal vessels are constringed and
pain relieved by ergot, in exophthalmic goitre the gland has
become reduced by constant doses of this drug, and the pro-
truding eyes have receded to a normal appearance owing to
the lessened blood-vessel calibre induced in the gland and
among the post ocular vascular tissues engorgement of
which caused the protrusion. It is a good hemostatic in some
cases especially internal, as in typhoid fever intestinal per-
foration. Post partum hemorrhage is controlled byit, if no
offending material is left in the uterus to renew the bleed-

ing, which is often the case. In large doses it may cause
abortion in later months of gestation, though the cervix is
also firmly closed unless resisted by vis a tergo, and an or-

dinary dose is more likely to prevent miscarriage for this
reason.
Ergotine. Bonjean.
Alcohol purified aqueous extract of ergot. Dose 3 to
10 grains.
Ergotinine.
When pure it is inert.
Ergotism.
Poisoning by ergot. Spasms, paralyses and insanity.
Ergotole,
Liquid ergot for injection 5 to 10 minims.
Eriodyctyon.
Yerba Santa. Obsolete.
Erotomania.
Excessive sexual desire.
Erysipelas.
Ichthyol, resorcin externally and jaborandi internally,
or piloerapine hypodermics. See also Antotixins.
Erythema. Rose rash, roseola? mild inflammation of

skin.
Antiseptic washes or ointments.
Erythroxylon coca.
The plant from which the alkaloid cocaine is derived.
Erythrol Tetranitrate.
Xitrite of amyl is better.
Erythromelalgia.
Redness, swelling and pain in an extremity. A vaso-
motor neurosis.
Erythrophloeine.
Suggested substitute for digitalis. Abandoned.
Esederine.
Calabar bean alkaloid, six times weaker than eserine.
Unused.
Eserine.
Myotic. Mentioned also as motor paralysant in te-
Conium maculatum is better to allay motor
tanus, etc., but
excitement and the tetanus anti-toxine is now effective and
safer.
Ether.
Anesthetic.
Ethyl Bromide.
Can be used as a local anesthetic in spraying surface,
but not internally, as alarming symptoms are occasioned by

it. Ethylene Bromide is too poisonous for any medical pur-
poses.
Ethyl Chloride.
Local anesthetic, minor and dental surgery as spray. In
tubes held in hand six inches away, heat of hand forces gas-
eous spray out in jet, but it is highly inflammable. Has
been used to start general anesthesia.
Ethyl Iodide. Hydriodic Ether.

Too unstable to be useful.
Eudoxine.
Bismuth salt of nosophen, on trial as intestinal antisep-
tic and astringent.
Eugallol. Pyrogallol Monacetate.

Used in chronic obstinate psoriasis.
Eugenol. Eugenic Acid, Caryophyllic Acid.

Local anesthetic, antiseptic.
Eumenol.
Emmenagogue.
Eucaine.
Local anesthetic in eye surgery, resembles cocaine in
effect. Eucaine A is irritant, B is not when properly used.
Eucalyptol.
Aromatic antiseptic oil.
Eumorphol.
A morphined rabbit or mouse serum tried as a remedy
for the morphine habit, results dubious.
Eunatrol.
On trial for biliary lithiasis.
THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AND PRACTICE. Ill
Euonymin.
Resin from euonymus atropurpureus, hepatic stimulant,
used in constipation from hepatic torpor, not so active as
podophyllin. Dose one half to 3 grains.
Euonymus atropurpureus. Wahoo.

An eligible form of this is Wyeth's elixir, a good hepa-
tic tonic alterative in teaspoonful doses several times daily,
a cholagogue laxative in liver disorders somewhat like calo-
mel in its effects.
Eupatorium.
Old tonic, emetic and aperient. Little used.
Eupeptic Hypophosphltes.
Secret preparation.
Euphorbia.
Old emetic. Seldom used.
Euphorin, Merck.
Phenyl-ethyl urethane. Anodyne, antiseptic, internally
in rheumatism, dusting powder in venereal diseases. Dose
8 to 15 grains twice or thrice daily.
Euphthaimine Hydrochlorate.
Transitory mydriatic.
Euquinlne or Euchinin.
Malaria and pertussis substitute for quinine.
Euresol.
Resorcin substitute.
Eurobin.
Chrysarobin substitute.
Europhen. Not Euphorln.

A cresol iodide antiseptic for surgery, like idoform.
Exalgin.
Dangerous analgesic.
Exodyne.
Mixture of acetanilide, sodium salicylate and sodium
bicarbonate.
Exophthalmic Goitre.
A nervous disorder with protruding eyes, enlarged
neck under the chin from swollen thyroid gland, and rapid
heart action.
Ergot, digitalis, asafetida. Thyroid gland preparations
invariably make this disease worse, notwithstanding rou-
tine text books speak of it as among the remedies for ex-
ophthalmic goitre.
Expertism.
Formerly it was something of an honor to be called as
an expert medical witness into court, but owing to general
inability to judge of specialist's qualifications lawyers have
been able to impose the grossest ignorance upon juries as
expertness, and corporations in damage suits develop special
adroit perjurers to act with their own trained witnesses,
while plaintiffs rarely are able to pay court costs, and most
calamity lawyers swindle their experts if they risk contin-
gent pay. So expertism has evolved into degradation.
Facial Hemiatrophy.
Diminishing muscles of half the face. Incurable.
Facial Nerve. Seventh Pair, Paralysis.

See Bell's Palsy.
Fainting.
Usually from inability of the heart to propel blood
enough to the head, hence paleness of face and need for
placing head low, the opposite of apoplexy with congested
face. Aromatic ammonia, or inhalation of am-

spirits of
monia. Stimulants can be given in fainting, but would be
improper in apoplexy or head congestion.
Faith Cure.
Suggestive therapeutics seems to have taken its place,
though it survives under various disguises, in Eddyism,
Dowieism, Homeopathy, etc.
Faradism, see Electricity.
Farcy or Glanders.
Deadly contagious disease caught from glandered
horses usually by the nostril pus being blown in the face of
the one inoculated causing ulcers due to bacillus mallei,
most die in acute stage, few survive the chronic. Treatment
curet and caustics, quinine and stimulants in large doses.
Favus. Scald Head.

Resorcin with tar and sulphur ointments, or formalde-
hyde and olive oil.
Feeble Mindedness.
Schools for these unfortunates exist over the union,
Waltham, Mass., Syracuse, N. Y.,
State institutions are at
Elwyn and Polk, Pa., Vineland, N. J., Columbus, Ohio, Ft.
Wayne, Ind., Lincoln, 111. Private schools in cities may be
found through directories. One at Kalamazoo, Michigan,
by Dr. C. T. Wilbur is a good one, and as these places are
increasing yearly information as to the nearest one can be
secured by communicating with any above mentioned.
Thyroid treatment has done something for a small per-
centage of cases but alienists are best equipped to advise its
administration.
Fel Bovinum. Ox Gall.
Used where deficiency of bile presumed, supposed tonic

and laxative. Dose 5 to 10 grains of the dried preparation.

It enters into the composition of several digestants.
Feniculum. Fennel.
Ancient aromatic carminative. Oil of Fennel dose 5 to
15 drops to expel flatus.
Ferratin.
Iron tonic. Acid albuminate of iron.
Ferropyrine.
Iron tonic and astringent.
Ferro-Salicylata.
Salicylic acid from wintergreen oil. tincture of iron
chloride, citrate of ammonium, for rheumatism.
Ferrum Sanguinis.
Blood iron. Capsules of 25 centigrams, dose 2 to 4 cap-
sules before meals.
Fever.
A mere symptom of different diseases. Rarely advis-
able to reduce the temperature with antipyretics. Fevers
are of many kinds and at first nearly seem alike, but de-
all
velop differently, and there is nothing to do save to watch

developments, ordinarily, unless attendant conditions point
to the nature of the fever, as septic, malarial, puerperal, ty-
phoid and so on. Eruptive fevers require watching and fre-
quent examinations till their diagnosis is certain.
Felon.
Inflammation of periosteal bone covering. Incision
should be carried down to the bone to let out the burrowing
pus. Then antiseptics can be used. Poultices are dirty
and worse than useless.
THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA A.ND PRACTICE. 1 1
Fibroma.
Soft connective tissue tumors. Excision.
Filarla Mediensis. Guinea Worm.

Usually under skin of foot like a coil of string, from
drinking water in which larva of dracunculus mediensis oc-
cur. Inject i to ,1,000 corrosive sublimate and a few days
later cut out the worm.
Filaria sanguinis hominis.
Parasite cause of elephantiasis.
Filicic Acid.
Inert.
Filix Mas. Male Fern.

Tape worm anthelmintic. Dose of powder i to 3 drams.
of ethereal extract 12 to 24 grains.
Ficker's Typhoid Diagnostic.

A modification of the Gruber-Widal test does away
with living bacilli, the microscope and delay. Merck pre-
pares a specially treated and sterilized typhoid culture, with
the apparatus and full instructions for using. The aggluti-
nation and clearing being similar to the Widal test.
Figs.
The small seeds of figs make them a mechanical laxa-
tive, just as berries are for the same reason. A syrup, how-
ever, is a mere flavor. The advertised ''syrup of figs" con-
tains senna.
Finsen Light.
Positive Finsen Light in skin diseases are the chemical
rays to kill bacteria in the skin, perhaps by the inflammation
the light causes, hence maybe no better than any irritant.
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rays by using red rays to modify dangerous symptoms of

small pox, the secondary fever and its suppuration. Useful-
ness dubious, and light declared by some to be harmful in
small pox.
Firwein.
Secret.
Fissured Nipples.
Clean after each nursing and dust corn starch on nipple.
Using ointments, antiseptics and other offensive applica-
tions will sicken the infant.
Fissures, see Anal Fissures.
Fistula, see Anal Fistula.
Flatulence.
Abdominal and stomach wind. Carminatives as pep-
permint, or bicarbonate of soda or seidlitz powder, if diar-
rhoea sulpho-carbolate of zinc.
Flaxseed.
The whole seed in boiling water allowed to cool and
flavored with lemon makes a useful demulcent drink in var-
ious ailments such as throat affections. The ground seed
is used for poultices.
Fleas.
The penetrating sand flea or jigger is killed by chloro-
form and may then be dug out with a blunt needle. The
common flea may be treated with ammonia water.
Fleming's Tincture of Aconite.

Very strong preparation, being 79% where the ordi-
nary tincture is 35%.
Flexible Collodion.
Contains 20 grains Canada turpentine and 10 grains of
castor oil to the ounce.
Folie a Deux.
Similar insanity in associated persons. Usually in-
curable.
Food Adulterations.
A frequent cause of disease. Borax, boracic acid, sali-
cylic acid in meats, also sodium sulphite, debilitate and de-
stroy appetite even in small doses. Liquors are particularly
dangerous from adulterations.
Foods and Dietetic Products.

Most of them are too expensive. Liebig's Extract of
Beef has been accused of being practically concentrated
urine, and students of the subject in general could gain in-
formation from the official inquiry into the nature of canned
beef bought for the American army
in Cuba. Side lights
were thrown on other food preparations. Most prepared
and predigested foods are foolish, innutritious, costly fads.
Trophonine is an exception.
Foot Baths.
With hot water afford a prompt derivative means of re-
lieving head congestion, ear-ache from hyperemia and
warming the circulation. An aid to other derivative meth-
ods as catharsis, etc.
Forcible Feeding of Insane.

The nasal tube is best with funnel into which may be
poured suitable liquid food, stomach pumps are out of date.
Formaldehyde.
Aqueous solution of formaldehyde gas, about 35 per
cent. General antiseptic, but internally as when used to
preserve milk it destroys digestion. It hardens tissues and

is therefore used in preserving anatomical specimens. Anti-
dote ammonia and inhalations
acetate of ammonia.
Formol and Formalin are brands of formaldehyde, for
trade purposes.
Formin.
Same as Aminoform and Urotropin. On trial as uric
acid solvent.
Formin Salicylate, see Saliformin.

Fowler's Solution.
The best form for the administration of arsenic, but
must be freshly made as it deteriorates by chemical union
with glass of bottle. Many failures to secure effects of ar-
Dose one minim to
senic are due to solution being too old.
5 minims bromism in epilepsy, in chorea
daily for acne of
the beginning dose can be 5 minims gradually increased to
15 or 20 and if conjunctivitis, gastric or kidney disorder
withdraw remedy awhile and commence again with smaller
dose. Dilute with water.
Frambesia.
Raspberry like papules, epidemic and contagious in the
tropics. Mild antiparasitics and tonics.
Frangula. Buckthorn.
Contains a cathartic glucoside Frangulin supposed
identical with active principle of Senna. Dose of fluid ex-
tract half a dram to 2 drams.
Freligh's Tonic.
Secret. Probably strong tincture mix vomica mainly.
Friedreich's Ataxia.
Inability to regulate movements clue to congenital mal-
formation of the spinal cord. Incurable.
Frier's Balsam. Compound Tincture of Benzoin.

Ancient vulnerary, pectoral and application to ulcers
and chaps. Benzoin, aloes, storax, tolu. alcohol. Xot much
used now.
Frostbite.
Rub with" snow, later turpentine, camphor, ichthyol,
carbolized vaseline.
Fuchsine.
Because this stain changes the appearance of histologi-
cal specimens it has been irrationally suggested for nephri-
tis, anasarca, etc.
Fucus Vesiculosus.
This sea weed contains iodine which was the effective
agent when used as proved dangerous when
anti-fat, but it
taken to reduce weight, as several deaths were occasioned

by it.
Furuncle of Nose.
Open with needle and apply camphophenique or other
strong antiseptic.
Furunculosis.
These little "cat-boils" usually appear in the left ear,
sometimes as far in as the membrane, they are due to the
burrowing of micrococci at the roots of the hairs, pus forms
and crop after crop grows till extirpated, then the right ear
is often infected. Ear spoons, pins, or other instruments
abrade the surface and make new places for infection. A
couple of weeks ends the nuisance, even if no treatment, un-
less there is diabetes or some depressed state of the system.
Erysipelas or mastoiditis have sometimes followed. Anti-
sepsis of the external ear is the proper treatment.
Gaduol.
Alcoholic Extract of Cod Liver Oil. A wine of cod
liver oil is also made with Gaduol, but many of these kinds
of substitutes for the pure oil are unsatisfactory.
Gaiacophosphal.
Guiacol 92% and organic phosphorus 7%, capsules,
solution and tubes.
Galactorrhoea. Excess of Milk.
All medicines taken by mother affect nursing child.

Bandaging helps to reduce size of breast but is painful. Af-
ter weaning iodide of potassium, ergot and atropine inter-
nally or camphor and lanoline externally or a belladonna
plaster over breast.
Galbanum.
Ancient expectorant, intermediate in power between
ammoniac and asafetida. Seldom used.
Gall of Ox. Fel Bovinum.

Laxative, Digestive where as in typhoid fever there
may be biliary deficiency.
Gall Stone- see Biliary Calculi.
Galvanism, see Electricity.
Gamboge.
Mainly for use in Compound Cathartic Pills.
Gangrene. Phagedena. Mortification.

Dry and moist necrosis, formerly a formidable hospital
plague, but modern antisepsis has almost eradicated it. An-
tiseptics in strength graded to severity of tissue damage.
Garantose.
A saccharine for diabetics.
Gastralgia, Gastrodynia. Stomach pain.

Heat to surface, peptenzyme, compound spirits of ether,
bicarbonate of soda, seidlitz powder ordinarily, but if stom-

ach cancer or ulcer is the cause of the pain flaxseed tea with,
if unavoidable, morphine.
Gastric Ulcer.
Avoid solid food and bismuth. Use mild astringents
and antiseptics and if hyperacidity bicarbonate of soda. Er-
got occasionally. Flaxseed tea lemonade. Trophonine is
the best liquid food. Rectal feeding fails and inflames
bowel.
Gastritis. Inflammation of Stomach.

If Use lime water and plenty
alcoholic stop stimulant.
of buttermilk, Try to
bicarbonate of soda, vichy water.
live on buttermilk or peptonized milk. Avoid greasy food,
pastry, steak, cabbage, cheese, liquors.
Gaultheria.
Wintergreen, increasingly used internally and exter-
nally in rheumatism.
Gelanthum.
A new vehicle for skin-disease medicines.
Gelsemium.
An active but too dangerous depressant, which has
killedmore pneumonia and neuralgic patients than can ever
be justified by the little good it may have done.
General Paralysis.
Obsolete term for insanity now called paretic dementia.
Gentian.
A bitter used as an adjuvant in tonics and as a tobacco
substitute with those who endeavor to break the habit, also
in some inebrietv cures.
Geosote, see Guiacol Valerianate.
Geranium.
Astringent.
Geum. Water Avens.

Tonic and astringent.
Gillenia.
Mild emetic, substitute for ipecacuanha. Dose of pow-

dered root 20 or 30 grains repeated every 20 minutes till it
vomits.
Gin.
Popularly suposed to be a kidney and bladder remedy

as juniper is and the berries were formerly
slightly diuretic
distilled in alcohol to make
schnapps, but modern cheap
methods make gin from a few drops of juniper oil in poor
alcohol.
Ginger. Zingiber.
Carminative stimulant, useful in flatulence or colic.
Gingivitis. Inflammation of the gums.

Bicarbonate of soda and tincture of myrrh, alum, bo-
rax.
Ginseng. Panax quinquefolium.

This root has a psychological value as demonstrating
what credulity will do among an unscientific people. The
Chinese venerate it as miraculously able to cure all diseases,
while white quacks occasionally prescribe it, but it has very
feeble tonic properties and is demulcent, some falling into
the habit of chewing it. One writer attaches importance to
the fact that 400,000,000 people believe in ginseng as a medi-
cine, a matter of as much importance as that none of them
believe in Christian science. Superstition works with or
without so called medicines.
Glanders, see Farcy.
Glandular Enlargement. Adenitis. Lymphatic gland in-
flammation.
Calomel hourly in tenth grain doses. If persistent
syrup of iodide of iron.
Glauber's Salts.
Sulphate of soda, a frequent ingredient of popular
mineral waters.
Glaucoma. Eye ball hardness and progressing blind-

ness.
Ophthalmologists use eserine, cocaine, pilocarpine, atro-
pine leeching and warm fomentations, but with little if any
result.
Glioma.
Incurable tumor composed of cortical brain substance.
Globus Hystericus.
Feeling of a ball rising in throat preceding hysterical
convulsions.
Glonoin.
Xitro-glycerine. Vascular stimulant increasing peri-
pheral blood pressure, hence useful in nephritis, vasomo-
tor weakness, epileptic and hysterical convulsions, amau-
rosis, etc. Dose a hundredth of a grain.
Glossitis.
The acute inflammation of the tongue can be treated

with ice locally but if abscesses they should be evacuated.
The lesser form yields to mild antiseptic mouth washes. A
variety called leucoplacia or map tongue with white veins
erroneously supposed to be syphilitic needs no treatment.
Glosso-labio-lingual Paralysis.
Progressive medulla destruction. Fatal.
Glossy Skin.
A rare atrophic affection usually of fingers due to in-
jury of nerve, which recovers in time, unless mischievous
treatment used.
Gluside, see Garantose.
Glutannol.
Tannin and vegetable fibre. Not much used.
Glutol. Formaldehyde Gelatin.

External vulnerary.
Gluton.
Specially treated gelatin. Not much used.
Glycero-Phosphates.
Organic glycerophosphates of nerve substance com-
bined with lime, etc.
Glycogen.
Liver starch, a French preparation advertised as a rem-
edy in diabetes, typhoid fever, cachexia, septic troubles to
aid phagocytosis. Extensive claims are made for its thera-
peutic value. On trial. Capsules of one grain and tubes for
hypodermic use.
Glyco-Heroin, see Heroin.
Glycosal.
Suggested substitute for salicylic acid.
Glyco-thymoline, see Glycerine.

A secret antiseptic.
Glycosuria.
Sugar in the urine is not always an indication of dia-
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betes mellitus for it occurs often to a limited degree in var-

ious ailments especially mental, as in melancholia.
Glycerine.
Abstracts water from surfaces hence useful externally
as with clay in such things as Antiphlogistine, Antithermo-
line, Glyco-Kaolin or similar mixtures of clay and glycerine,
but for internal use as an ingredient of a tonic or antiseptic
it is apt to cause catarrh of the mucous membranes. Cot-
ton dipped in glycerine makes an excellent vaginal tampon
applied to the uterus to reduce engorgement. In a few min-
utes a watery discharge produced from the congested or-
is
gan which greatly relieves prolapse, inflammation and the

bearing down pains of pelvic congestion.
Glycerine Suppositories.
Induce a watery discharge from the lower bowel a few
minutes after insertion, and are often better than medicines
or enemas in relieving constipation of lower colon.
Glycerine Tonic, see Glycerine.
Glycozone.
Secret.
Glycyrrhiza.
Licorice root from which stick licorice is made, which
is the extract.
Goa Poder.
Source of chrysophanic acid.
Godfrey's Cordial.
A dangerous paregoric containing- a grain of opium to
the fluid ounce.
Goiter, see Exophthalmic Goiter.

The kind that involves structure more than function is
unchangeable.
Gold Salts.
The various chlorides, iodides, monobromides, cyan-
ides, etc., are not satisfactory as medicines.
Gonorrhoea.
Copaiba and cubebs in urinary medication have been
poor antiseptics, occasioning stomach catarrh and kidney
disorders. The bladder and urethra being infected by var-
ious micro-organisms, especially the gonococcus, the rat-
ional medication is by direct antiseptis, and if permissible
also indirect or internal. Several new preparations are urged
as filling the requirements for both these desirable means of
destroying germs, but such things as uriform are still on
trial. This preparation consists of ammonium formaldehyde
as a base associated with sandal wood and saw palmetto. In
cystitis, urethritis, prostatic disease,and especially in gon-
orrhoea a direct antiseptic is badly needed. Formaldehyde
is too strong and the bichloride of mercury has to be diluted
too much to be useful. The least harmful antiseptic for such

purpose is probably borax or boric acid, small well diluted
amounts of carbolic acid have been injected in cystitis, but
all these are trivial in effect upon gonorrhoea. Douches of
permanganate of potassium once or twice daily have recent-
ly come into use with varying success. As the mercury
globules appear to roll foreign particles within, enveloping
them, and as undoubtedly micrococci would thus be washed
away from a mucous surface it occurred to me that filling
the urethral canal with mercury, the liquid metal, would of-
fermore chances of removing the gonococci than any other
means. The metal is not absorbed, but would gravitate out
as soon as permitted to do so. and complete distention of
the urethral canal with the metal could be repeated with

whatever accessory means desired. The removed mercury
should be resublimed or some other effective means should
be used to rid the liquid of the germs, which are not de-
stroyed but are enveloped by the metal, enabling their re-

moval. Acids that when cold do not unite with mercury
could burn the cocci and the metal be fitted for use again by
washing with water.

Peroxide of hydrogen, whether under one or more
names, as deutoxide, hydrogen dioxide, or when mixed with
glycerine, is sometimes erroneously supposed to be a germ-
icide, but it can only destroy pus or remove the pabulum
upon which the germs feed, rendering them merely latent.
Gonosan and light diet with salines also used.
Gonosan.
A preparation of Kava-Kava and Santal-wood Oil in
treating gonorrhoea said to relieve pain and shorten attack.
Dose 2 capsules, 4 or 5 times a day.
Gossypium. Cotton.
Seeds used in southern states as an alterative and the
bark of the root said to be used by negroes to cause abor-
tion.
Goulard's Extract.
Lead acetate solution. Other things can be substituted
for this old astringent, as it is likely to induce lead poison-
ing.
Gout.
Piperazine, lithium citrate, sodium salicylate, Chapa-
teau's colchisal. Avoid high living and
Ordinary
liquors.
colchicum and the articial salicylates are irritating and
worse than useless especially when combined. Potassium
iodide and diuretics are useful. But treatment should not
only be alkaline internally and externally, out saturating, as
a little merely increases pain by calling the uric acid from
where it is deposited in the joints and circulating it through
the system en route toward elimination, but it should be
seen that actual elimination and entire neutralization oc-

curs, so treatment must be prolonged.
Granati Radicis Cortex.

Pomegranite rind, tape worm anthelmintic. The best
form is Tanret's Pelletierine, a syrup arranged in single
doses.
Granular eyelids. Trachoma.

Infectious, so public towels should not be used. Boric
acia solution, weak corrosive sublimate solution, resinol.
Caustics leave unsightly scars.
Granulations, Exuberant. Proud flesh.
Dried alum, nitrate of silver, blue stone, or other caus-

tic.
Granuloma Fungoides.
Inflammatory fungoid neoplasm. No treatment found,
beyond quinine and antipyrin to relieve the itching.
Gravel, Renal, see Calculi.

From nephrolithiasis or rheumatism. Piperazine and
lithia.
Graves' Disease.
Exophthalmic goitre.
Green Sickness, see Chlorosis.

Green Soap. Sapo viridis.
Seldom referred to in literature but is still used in hos-
pitals. In Merck's German Index it is called Sapo kalinus

venalis, for disinfectant cleansing. Formerly in eczema.
Grindelia.
Formerly tried in bronchial troubles and now used in
ivy poisoning. In the latter it seems of some service when

the fluid extract of Grindelia robusta is painted on the poi-
soned surface, but probably its effects are those of all vege-
table astringents, an improvement upon the puckering lead
applications in such cases.
Grippe. Influenza. La Grippe.
Guacamphor.
Guiac and camphoric acid. Dose 3 to 20 grains for
night sweats.
Guarana. Paullinia.
Effects similar to tea and coffee, if active principle is
not identical with caffeine. Formerly used for headaches,

but a cup of coffee will answer as well.
Guiac.
Lozenges containing guiac are good in tonsilitis, sore
throats and coughs of various sorts. It is a good internal
antiseptic, excess causes diarrhoea, with benefit to rheumatic
conditions.
Guiacol.
Of late years Guiacol in a variety of forms and combi-
nations has been urged justifiably for internal antisepsis,
mainly for the air passages. It is used in phthisis and bron-
chitis. Also 5% ointment in lumps, spread over parotid and
scrotum.
Guiacol Benzoate, Carbonate, Phosphite and Valeria-

nate.
With other Guiacol preparations are mainly addressed
to the same ends as Guiacol.
Guiacophosphal, see Guiacol Phosphite.
Gummata.
Syphilitic tumor, often in brain and multiple. Iodide of
potassium and mercurials the only treatment, operations
useless.
Gymnastics.
When applied as treatment gymnastics are in the un-
fortunate predicament of the most elaborate apparatus be-
ing controlled by ignorant charlatanry, while the little that
is useful about it the competent physician or surgeon does
not take the trouble to learn. If the gymnast would co-
operate with the doctor good might be done, but masseurs
seldom care to do so.
Habit-chorea.
St. Vitus dance grown into a habit. Curable by dis-
cipline, making the child wash its face every time it grim-
aces or makes silly motions.
Hair Falling Out, see Alopecia.
Hallucination.
An unreality seen, heard, smelled, felt, tasted, indicat-
ing brain cortex derangement, not necessarily insane.
Hamamelis.
Same as witch hazel or Pond's Extract. This has taken
the place of the old fashioned arnica flowers in alcohol, as
a domestic cure-all for bruises. A slight sedative effect ap-
pears in both these plants, but the alcohol is the main sooth-
er by refrigerating evaporation.
Hay Fever.
Pollantin is an antitoxic serum from the pollen of plants
causing the asthma, autumnal catarrh, rose fever, etc. Fritz-
sche Brothers, N. Y., 37 Barclay St. advertise it to physi-

cians, but as it is new and on trial not much can be said
about it at present. See also Asthma.
Headache.
The most frequent cause of recurring sick headaches is
auto-toxaemia. Women especially confined to the house

and not sufficiently enough out of doors to oxygenate their
blood permit their bowels to become irregular and the sys-
tem simply rebels at the overload of poison retained. The
only sensible treatment is to induce regularity, but this is
not an easy matter, then especially is to be avoided the in-

stituting of a habit of reliance upon cathartics, for soon enor-
mous doses have to be used from the bowel paralysis. Me-
chanical lubrication with a morning dose, repeated twice
daily if Swampscott
necessary, of a tablespoonful of Stone's
cod preceded each
liver oil after meals, morning by a tea-
spoonful of Carlsbad salts in powder in a cup of water*before
breakfast, and if the bowels become too much relaxed the
salts can be less often used, but as a rule the Carlsbad which
is merely Epsom and Glauber salts, affect purification of the
secretions more than acting as a laxative. Continuing this

course steadily for a year or more if needed will free the pa-
tient from liability to these distressing cephalalgias. Anti-
rheumatics have to be taken in addition at times as rheumatic
headaches are of this same autotoxaemic class. Then there
may be hysterical involvement, for hysteria is also a toxae-
mia of the nervously constituted, in such cases neglect of
treatment is apt to occur if the patient is not managed. Or-
dinarily anything will cure a hysterical headache for the
time, a mental impression, a static electrical breeze, a scold-
ing or surprise, and the patient may even forget that she has
a headache. Avoid opiates, acetanilides, bromides and other
debauching drugs. A common form of intractable headache
isfrom astigmatism or other eye disease. A properly fitted
pair of glasses disposes of the headache. Half sided head-
aches occur in degenerates as epileptiform spasms in which
one side of the face may be suffused with blood, the angio-
132 THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MED1CA AND PRACTICE.
paralytic kind, or there may be extreme pallor of half the

face, the angiospastic kind. Pressure on the carotid on the
side of the redness relieves this latter headache for awhile,
and so may doses of ergot remedy the flushed kind, and ni-
trite of amyl may break up both. But as autotoxaemia is the
exciting cause of these epileptic like paroxysms a thorough
cleaning out is imperative, and yet so inert may be the
bowels from habitual atonicity that large doses of strychnia
may be required to enable the cathartic to act. The cod liver
oil and salts treatment may then be maintained. There are
rheumatic headaches, those due to congestion from worry or
overstudy, and anemic headaches which food or a cup of
coffee dispose of. The cause of the head pain must be in-
telligently sought and treated properly, and the pernicious
practice of treating all headaches alike with acetanilid or
other "headache" powder, is quackish in the extreme, and
there are vastly more deaths from using such dangerous
stuffs than the public or even physicians are aware. In
fewer cases headaches may occur from strong light in read-
ing, from medicines taken, as quinine, potassium iodide, or
stimulants, or a severe cough may propel blood to the head,
severe vomiting may do the same. After ovariotomy head-
aches occur from a readjustment attempt of the circulation,
and at the climacteric a normal atrophy of the ovaries dis-
turbs the circulation similarly causing not only headaches
but general nervous disturbances. Ergot at such times aids
equilibration of the blood course. After dysentery auto-
toxemic intestinal states induce headaches and mental weak-
ness, which prompt tablespoonful doses of castor oil clear
off surprisingly well. If necessary such doses can be taken
for long periods with benefit.
Headache Powders.
Almost invariably dangerous as they contain acetani-
lide, disguised.
Heart Diseases.
The custom of reiving upon digitalis for the many
forms of cardiac ailments in harmful. Even where itmay
be suitable for the time it is not a drug that should be in-
definitely used, nor should glonoin be continued too long

for in a recurrence where it would be of value its habitual
use deprives it good effects. As for heart depressants my
of
conviction is that they are barbarous, and will eventually be
disused. See also Valvular Heart Disease.
Hebephrenia.
Insanity of puberty, a developmental defect, character-
ized by behavior, offensive speech and mischievousness.
silly
Work open air especially on a farm affords best chance of

in
recovery which amounts to 50% of cases.
Hebra's Itch Ointment.

Unguentum Sulphuris Compositum.
Hedeoma, Pennyroyal.
Domestic emmenagogue, acting mainly by setting the
mind at rest as something was being done to restore the
menses which returning naturally the pennyroyal tea had
the credit. Lately its perfume is used to keep off mosqui-
toes and fleas, but citronella is less unpleasant for this pur-
pose.
Hedonal.
Hypnotic, on trial. Dose 15 to 30 grains, but the taste
is disagreeable, and its bulkiness makes the powder difficult
to use.
Helenin.
Demulcent antiseptic. Obsolescent.
Helleborein.
Glucoside substitute for digitalis and local anesthetic.
Seldom used.
Helmitol.
Antiseptic and diuretic. Dose 15 to 20 grains 3 or 4
times daily in prostatitis.
Hematemesis. Vomiting of blood.

May be consumption, stomach ulcer, or from teeth.
in
Hysterical girls may suck their gums forcibly till they bleed
to excite sympathy. It is seldom useful to do anything in
blood spitting. Salt does not stop it. Styptics seldom

reach the source.
Hematoxylon. Logwood.
Coloring material, astringent, not fit for medicine.
Hematuria. Bleeding from the bladder.

May be renal, vesical or urethral. Remedies addressed
to such parts to stop bleeding are rarely of use, save occas-
ional styptics in the urethra, or a dilute bladder injection of
astringents.
Hemianopsia.
Loss of half the visual field in both eyes.
Hemicrania, see Headaches.

Half sided headache, sufferers usually predisposed by
heredity,and acute attacks due to autotoxemias. Clean out
and strengthen.
Hemiplegia, see Paralysis.

Half sided paralysis, usually from brain lesion.
Hemlock. Conium Maculatum.

Hemocytolysis.
Rapid destruction of blood cells, from general burns,
THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AND PRACTICE 135
snake poison, arsenic, toadstools, quillia saponaria, solanum

and other motor depressants, and leads to hemiglobinuria;
guiacol in excess, nitrites, as in manufacture of nitro-gly-
cerin and amyl nitrite; nitro-benzol, potassium chlorate, and
bromides, pyrogallic acid, antifebrine, acetanilid, antipyrine,
carbon monoxide and prussic acid poisoning, also electrocu-
tion, lightning stroke, etc.
Hemogallol.
Dubious Tonic
Hemoglobine.
Red coloring principle of blood, which owing to its or-
ganic iron has been given in anemia and chlorosis, in doses
of one and a half drams to 3 drams daily. Its complexity is
seen in its containing 636 atoms of carbon, 1025 of hydro-
gen, 164 of nitrogen, 181 of oxygen, 3 of sulphur and 1 of

iron. But as an exception to other metals and minerals, iron,
whether organic or inorganic is readily taken up in the sys-
tem, accounting for the success of the multitude of iron pre-
parations, regular and irregular.
Hemol.
Another minor blood tonic.
Hemoptysis. Blood spitting, see Hematemesis.
Hemorrhages.
Ligation, styptics, astringents, pressure, protectives.
Hemorrhagic Diathesis.
Liability to hemorrhage from skin, etc. Glauber salts
in full cathartic doses and ergot internally to stop hemor-

rhage for the occasion, but nothing can be done for the
habit.
Hemorrhoids. Piles.
According to degree, sometimes prolapsed requiring

support and return, sometimes excision. Carbolic acid di-

lute injections may
blood and by venous emboli cause
clot
death. Ordinarily a suppository called Anakesis made of
slippery elm and astringents relieves. Resinol for itching
piles.
Henbane. Hyoscyamus.
Hepatic Torpor.
Calomel, euonymus atropurpureus, mineral acids,
strychnia, quinia, rhubarb, podophyllum, bicarbonate of
soda.
Heroin.
One numerous disguised opium derivatives, used
of the
in allaying cough which it does promptly, but the numer-
ous heroin habitues indicate that it is being abused. As
could have been anticipated from its derivation, heroin is
too closely allied to morphine not to furnish victims to a

heroin habit. Its recommendation as an antaphrodisiac is
unreasonable, morphine will destroy genesic desire also, but

should not be used for that purpose ordinarily. Stops irri-
tating coughs so readily the query can be raised may be if it
safe in the end to use a paralysant that allows mucus to ac-

cumulate and finally choke. As a temporary resort, and
temporary only, heroin certainly gives relief. The best way
is when giving a cough medicine in which there may be
heroin, to continue the same medicine but without the her-

oin, not informing the patient of the change to enable the
good effect of the mental impression to remain. Were you
to tell some hysterical case that you had taken away the
heroin that allayed the cough, at once there would be a
paroxysm that would not occur otherwise. The dose is a
twelfth of a grain, combined usually with expectorants.
Heromal.
A malt extract mixture with hypophosphites and her-
oin. Questionable value as heroin is dangerous, the hypo-

phosphites useless as an alterative and malt extract expen-
sive.
Herpes.
Often mistaken for chancroids, small vesicles later
forming pustules, harmless, not constitutional or due to
venereal disease. Same as fever sores around mouth.
Calomel dry as dusting powder. Do not use washes or
ointments. Avoid moisture, keep cleansed. Lasts about
ten days. Bad recurring cases may need tonics.
Herpes Zoster.
Vesicles most often on one side in course of deranged
intercostal, lumbar and trifacial nerves. In opthalmic va-
riety the eye may be destroyed. Pain always present, re-
quiring alleviation even morphine must be used. Recovers
in three weeks. A paint is useful made up of a dram of
ichthyol to an ounce of collodion. Galvanism also relieves
pain. Tonics later.
Hetol.
Sodium cinnamate. On trial in pulmonary tubercu-
losis.
Hexamethylene Preparations, see Formin.
Hiccough.
Phrenic nerve and diaphragm spasm. Stops when pa-
tientsuddenly surprised or required to keep tongue out. If
dependent on serious lesion it may end fatally in spite of all
attempts at relief. Amyl nitrite inhalations in bad cases.
Hidebound Disease. Scleroderma.

Stiffened integument. Tonics and locally oil applica-
tions.
Highmore Antrum Disease.

Dentistry in most instances, antiseptics and antlphlo-
gistics.
Homatropine Hydrobromate.
Transitory mydriatic. Sometimes used in night sweats
of phthisis.
Homeopathy.
Suggestive therapeutics, or faith cure with sugar pills.
False homeopathy ignorantly risks regular medicines, pre-

tending they are homeopathic, particularly alkaloids be-
cause they can be used in minute doses.
Homicidal Insanity.
Degenerate periodical impulse to kill, but with no other
symptom of insanity. Incurable. The lawyers may be rec-
onciled to nature, whose laws they so often find inconven-
ient, in this case by knowing that the true homicidal impulse
sufferer seeks to be controlled and avoids murder.
Hops. Humulus lupulus.

The slight hypnotic influence of hops has not induced
pharmacists to make much out of lupuline or other hop pre-
parations. It is singular that patent medicine fakers have
not taken advantage of the popular superstition that hops
are great sleep producers to put on sale some murderous
morphine compound and call it a hop mixture.
Hordeolum. Stye,
Resinol and evacuation of pustule, boric acid wash or
borax water.
Hot Water.
Mentioned as a reminder that its external use and oc-
casional internal use are too often neglected in favor of less
effective medicines. It is alterative as a derivative, stimu-
THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MED1CA AND PRACTICE. 139
lant to vital processes, evacuant as an enema and hypnotic

also by enema or as a foot bath and a reliever of pain and
sedative by distributing the circulation. It aids elimination
by the pores.
Hives. Urticaria.
Nettle rash, pink elevations of skin with intense itching,
from diet indiscretions, some more liable than others after
eating crustaceans as lobsters, or berries. Drugs affect cer-
tain people in this way. Acute cases get well in a few days
and chronic cases practically incurable. Atropin, arsenic,
pilocarpine internally and antiseptics externally, alkaline
baths, anti-rheumatic methods.
Hive Syrup. Compound Syrup of Squills.
Hoarseness.
Lemon juice and syrup, guiac lozenges, cod liver oil,
morrhuol and creosote, hot applications to neck, turpentine
or mustard to throat, elixir terpen hydrate, hoarhound
candy.
Hoffman's Anodyne. Compound Spirits of Ether.
Holocaine Hydrochlorate.
Local anesthetic like cocaine.
Homatropine.
Resembles atropine but effects transient, dilates pupil
rapidly for shorter time. Used in night sweats of phthisis.
The salts are hydrobromide hydrochloride, salicylate and
sulphate. Homatropine prescribed in same doses and forms
as atropine.
Huxham's Tincture.
Compound tincture of cinchona which as the "cinchona
rubra cure for drunkenness," about 1885 made its proprie-
tor, D'Unger, richand increased the number of drunkards,
as his tincture was strongly alcoholic.
Hux-SaL
Huxley's antiseptic salt, for making non-toxic solu-
tions, i in 20. A combination of aromatic and other anti-
septics.
Hydracetine.
Abandoned substitute for chrysarobin. Allied to phe-
nylhydrazine used in micro-chemical glucose test.
Hydrangea.
Root used in calculous affections, removing gravel and
attendant pain. Dose fluid extract half an ounce to 2
ounces.
Hydrargyrum, see Mercury.

Hydrastine.
Alkaloid of hydrastis candensis, insoluble in water con-
stringes uterus, used in metrorrhagia, typhoid, dyspepsia,
hemorrhoids, aphthae, skin diseases. The nitrate and tar-
trate soluble in hot alcohol and water.
Hydrastinine.
Oxidation product of hydrastine. Hydrochloride most
used for uterine hemorrhage, dysmenorrhoea, hypoder-
mically 1 grain in 10% solution.
Hydrastis Canadensis. Golden Seal.

A fairly useful drug that has been diverted to useless
directions. As an astringent to mucous surfaces it acts
blandly and efficiently, and its astringency can be referred
to the tannin existing so universally in many plants. As to
its alleged tonic or anti-epileptic power it is simply too
feeble for demonstration. In hemorrhages, gonorrhoea and
leucorrhoea in females and as an injection in the male ure-
thra it acts as a mild efficient astringent. Of the various

hydrastine preparations one made by Merrill that holds its
solvency, even when mixed with other things, is called Mer-

rill's and can be used in the proportion of 5
fluid hydrastis,
to 10 percent dilutions in water as an injection in male gon-
orrhoea, but there is no good reason to use hydrastis inter-
nally. An alkaloid is berberine.
Hydrazine.
Allied to hydroxylamine hydrochloride. Dangerous
cancer applications.
Hydriodic Acid.
Doubtful if any advantage over iodide of potassium.
Hydrobromic Acid.
No advantage over bromides.
Hydrocele. Scrotal Dropsy.

Surgery.
Hydrocephalus. Water on the brain.

Infantile cases are tubercular and usually die early.
Medicines useless.
Hydrophobia. Rabies.
Pasteur Institute as soon as possible. One can be
found in each of the following places: Chicago, Baltimore,
Atlanta, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburg, Ann Arbor,
Michigan. The treatment consists in hypodermic injec-
tions of a specially prepared virus of different strength for
15 to 21 days according to severity of case. It is well toler-
ated and harmless even though suspicion of hydrophobia
may not be justified.
By far the most frequent bites conveying rabies are by

dogs, then follow cats, horses, skunks, wolves, cows, calves,
asses, coyotes, rats, mules, pigs, sheep and human beings.

At the Institutes patients are classified as first, those bitten

by animals recognized and ascertained to be rabid by the
test experiment made in the laboratory or by the death of
other animals or persons bitten by the same animal ; second,
persons bitten by animals recognized to be rabid by the
symptoms of disease shown during life; third, persons bit-
ten by animals strongly suspected to be rabid. The mortal-

itywas formerly placed at 88 per cent, but the Pasteur treat-
ment has reduced it to less than half of one per cent.
Mad-stones are survivals of ancient superstition and
bad reasoning. They may affect the imagination of cases
where the bites were not rabid, but supposed to be. There
is a spurious hydrophobia, a mere nervous disorder in weak
minded persons, in which they snap, growl, bite and bark as

they think rabid dogs do. A mere hysteria and dementia.
See Lyssaphobia.
Ordinary pumice stone or any similar porous material
previously soaked in any green coloring matter, vegetable
juice or permanganate of potassium and made to adhere
with cerate or anything that is sticky, has been used not
only by quacks but occasionally by graduates in medicine
to reach the demand of the ignorant for a madstone. Placed
in water the coloring is washed out and the bitten person
tells of how the stone sucked out the "rank, green pizen"
from the wound. It is as good as Christian science or other

humbuggery, but like it, it will not answer in real cases.
Quick cautery and the Pasteur Institute is far safer.
Hydrochloric Acid. Muriatic Acid.

Caustic, diluted dose 5 to 10 minims used when gastric
juice feeble or as hepatic stimulant, but used less every year.
Hydrocyanic Acid. Prussic Acid.

So decomposition and so deadly a poison it
liable to is
best to use only the plant preparations in which this acid is
found, as wild cherry, etc.

Hydrogen Dioxide.
When freshly made without preservatives is best for
antiseptic purposes, 3%, but when used as a
to volumes,
depilatory, hemostatic or bleaching purposes quicker results
are secured with a 30 volume solution of 9%.
Hydroleine.
Partly secret.
Hydronapthol.
Beta-napthol derivative. Enteric fever, diarrhoea, ty-
phoid 4 grains every 2 hours.
fever, 3 or External antisep-
tic 1% in glycerine and alcohol.
Hydrotherapy.
An attempt to make the old quackery of hydropathy
respectable, but the temptation seems irresistible to use
water treatment as a cure-all, when it does more harm than
good.
Hydrothorax. Pleurisy.
Calomel and other purges. Antiphlogistine, aspira-
tion.
Hydrozone.
Partly secret.
Hygiene.
Consists in how to maintain health and prevent disease.
The average air necessary for health is 3,000 cubic feet per
hour, and water consumption per individual 16 to 20 gallons
per day, increased by manufactures by 15 gallons per day.
Hyoscine.
Internally a hundredth to a thirtieth of a grain, in pills
or solution, subcutaneously a two hundred and fiftieth to a
fiftieth of a grain. As a mydriatic a 1% solution.

Hyoscine hydrobromide.
Soluble in water or alcohol. Sedative and hypnotic too
often used in mental diseases. Has been used in asthma
and neuralgias.
Hyoscyamia.
A dangerous drug in any of its forms, and for all its al-
leged purposes there are better medicines that can induce

sleep or calm without the risk of habit forming. Its use in
insanity or to cure drug addictions is to be condemned as
pernicious in both cases; insanity can be confirmed by its
use, and no drug habit was ever broken up by it for substi-

tuting one narcotic for another is not a cure, and the habitue
is likely to return to the original drug, as morphine, and add
the hyoscyamia, hyoscine or other delirifacient to it. Some

conscientious and well informed specialists in nervous and
mental diseases think that it has a legitimate temporary use
occasionally, but careful consideration will enable them to
find many better and safer methods of doing without any
hyoscyamia drug.
Hyoscyamus or henbane preparations are the thick liq-
uid, hyoscine in doses of a two-hundredth of a grain, hyo-

scine hydrobromate crystals used as hyoscine, the alkaloid
hyoscyamine crystals and amorphous, and their sulphates,
in one-eighth grain doses, except the crystalline which even
in a thousandth of a grain sometimes gives marked results
of an unpleasant delirious nature. The eclectic hyoscyamin
differs from all these.
Hyperesthesia.
Extreme tenderness of skin, usually hysterical unless
circumscribed when it may indicate spinal lesion.
Hyperidrosis.
Excessive sweating, from faulty innervation. Boracic
acid externally especially in stockings for feet excessive
sweating. Hot water sponge in axilla awhile stays sweating

under the arms for a few hours. Dilute ammonia and tan-
nin also used.
Hypermetropia. Far-sightedness.
Hypnal.
Antipyrine and chloral, hypnotic and analgesic. Not
much used.
Hypnone.
Weak hypnotic, not much used.
Hypnotism.
Most effective with weak minded. Mostly humbug.
Hypertrichosis.
Superfluous hair. Reversion to monkey skin, especially
the nevus pilosus or hairy mole. Depilatories and electroly-
sis, bad scarring or malignant conditions
cautiously, as
sometimes result. is barium sulphide
Duhring's depilatory
2 drams, pulverized starch and pulverized zinc oxide each 3
drams, made into a paste with water and spread on the hairy
part ten or fifteen minutes, then oiled to allay irritation, re-
peated weekly or more often. Electrolysis expensive,
troublesome and requires careful experienced technique.
The Baltimore dry chloride of silver cells and apparatus are
excellent for such purposes.
Hypertrophic Rhinitis.
Stoppage of nose from overgrowth of lining. Surgery.
Hypnopyrin.
Hypnotic. Not much used.
Hypochondriasis.
In this hysterical disorder the patient tries to account
for his discomfort by imagining he has all sorts of diseases
which he has not, and goes from one doctor and treatment
to another; morbid minded on the subject and incapable of
reason. It is a mental malady and faulty assimilation and
elimination is at the root of it. Tonics, cathartics and car-
minatives give the best results. Liquor and morphine should
be avoided as apt to create habits. Also see Neurasthenia.
Patent medicine is a habit with some hypochondriacs.
Hypophosphites.
Not assimilated either alone or in combination. They
are inert and should long ago have been dropped as obso-
lete.
Hysteria.
A vast range of nervousness is included in this term,
see my Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity. Acute attacks
may be treated with nitrite of amyl inhalations, but the dis-
ease an autotoxaemia liability in a predisposed per-
itself is
son. A
thorough cleaning out and strengthening up in a
rational manner will afford the best results. Strong mental
impressions work wonders in the hysterical temporarily,
causing apparent cures of paralysis, blindness, deafness, con-
vulsions. Religious fakers have great influence over such
emotional unstable notoriety loving patients. Elixir of
valerianate of ammonia and asafoetida are safe remedies for
them, and bromides, chloral, opium, cocaine and liquors are
dangerous to them. Most of the certificates of the whisky
and cocaine or morphine patent medicine effects are written
by hysterics and clergy ignorant of human nature, chemis-
try, or the rudiments of medicine. Several mental diseases,
not all, are amenable to treatment by reasoning with the pa-
tients, not with nonsensical dishonest hypnotic mystery but
by open manly instruction in the nature of the complaint

and the need of cultivating self control. These views are
based on trials I published in my Clinical and Pathological
Reports on Insanity in the Chicago Medical Journal and

Examiner in 1884. Hysteria can be bettered by reasoning
with the patient, the penalty being that the practitioner has
to suffer financially, as his services are cut short by recover-
ies, or the patient resorts to quacks who will pander to her
perverted condition. Emotionalism is dangerous to hys-

teria and feeds the disease, but the dishonest oversight is
better rewarded as a rule, except in earning self respect,
which is, by some, valued above riches, which too often de-
grade and never satisfy.
Ice.
Small pieces of cracked ice held in the mouth till the

sharp edges are melted and then swallowed allay nausea and
prevent vomiting often. Rubber caps containing ice can be
used in cerebral congestion or the headaches and delirium
of pyrexia or traumatism, but too prolonged applications
are harmful. Appenditicis is treated with ice applications.
Icterus, see Jaundice.
Idiocy.
Absence of intellect usually from birth, a more pro-

found imbecility.
Ichthalbin.
Ichthyol albuminate. Internal antiseptic. Dose 10 to
30 grains.
Ichthargan.
Silver Ichthyol. External in gonorrhoea, unstable.
0.02 to 0.1% solutions.
Ichthoform.
Formal-Ichthyol. Internal antiseptic. Dose 15 to 30
grains.
Ichthyocolia. Isinglass.
Gelatine from fish swimming-bladders, often the trans-
parent mineral mica is improperly called isinglass. Court
or ichthyocolia sticking plasters are made from this gela-
tine.
Ichthyodine and Iscarol.

Cheap ichthyol substitutes. Not much used.
Ichthyol.
A thick brown liquid, bituminous odor, containing
easily assimilable sulphur, soluble in water. Antiphlogistic,
antiseptic, alterative. Uses: internally in phthisis, skin dis-
eases; externally in 5 to 50 per cent lotions or ointments in
erysipelas, burns, chilblains, carbuncle, rheumatism, peri-
tonitis, etc., 10 per cent with glycerine on tampons or in
suppositories in uterine and vaginal inflammation; 1 to 3
per cent solutions or 1 to 2 minim bougies in gonorrhoea;
pure in ivy poisoning.
A number of allied preparations derived or fabricated
have Ichthyol as a base, as Ichthalbin, Ichthargan, Ichtho-
form, Ichthyol Albuminate, the same as Ichthalbin, and a
synthetic substitute called Thiol is also made.
Ichthyosis.
Skin covered with reptile like scales, which itch dis-
tressingly. As it is a failure of development like moles noth-
ing can be done for beyond mitigation, as with resorcin
it
ointments externally andoils internally, sometimes iodide of
potassium, antirheumatics and increase of perspiration.
Igazol.
A formaldehyde preparation. Not much used.
Ignatia.
Resembles nux vomica and is but little used.
Illusions.
Misinterpreted perceptions occurring in sanity and in-

sanity. The common mistake is made that illusions pertain
only to one sense, when any sense may be involved in false
sights, sounds, tastes, feelings, odors, a magnifying glass
causes illusions, for instance.
Imbecility.
A lesser grade of idiocy, congenital or acquired.
Impetigo. An inflammatory pustular skin disease.

Ichthyol, salicylic acid, calomel, resorcin, pine tar, an-
tiseptics externally and tonics internally.
Impotence.
If occurring during period of life when it should be un-
usual then there are two opposite causes which must be
properly considered and treated to remedy the condition.
The local debility may be owing to a generally run down
system, and this probably is most frequent cause, in
the
which case strychnia, quinia and iron tonics and especially
phospho-albumen will speedily restore the function, but if
rhis local and general debility is due to excess in venery,
and excess in one may not be the same as in another, then
rest of the function is needed, and inono-bromate of cam-
phor is the best suppressor of irritable genesic desire. This
drug stops self abuse and many a prospective dement lias
brightened up from using it when the mental and bodily
depression were due to masturbation. It is well to recollect
these two opposite methods of treating impotence. And too
early ejaculations are impotence of over excitement needing
the mono-bromide to prolong the act in a few over-excitable
persons. The practice of using cocaine on the glans is per-
nicious. Phospho-albumen increases the semen quantity
and erethism, hence is to be used in the opposite condition
of debility and erection failure from constitutional and not

genital over exercise.
Phosphorus or cantharides are highly injurious and
many nostrums are based thereon, such as damiana, "mor-
mon elder," and similar rascally things.
Incompatibility.
As modern materia medica contains increasingly num-
bers of articles the affinities of which are not fully known the
scientific physician is inclined to prescribe single remedies,
especially as adulterations of drugs is more common also

rendering it impossible to predict what the resulting com-
pound will be. Prescribe single remedies and be sure they
are what you ordered.
Incontinence or Urine. Enuresis.

See Bladder conditions.
Inco-ordination.
Inability to regulate movements owing to impairment
of the nerves or centers of control. The cerebellum is not
the only organ whose lesion produces inco-ordination, as
older text books assert, as regulation of bodily movements
depends upon many different parts of the cerebro-spinal
nervous system.
Indigestion.
If intestinal or failure to digest starchy foods use pep-
tenzyme, taka-diastase, lacto-peptine, tyalid, but if dyspep-
sia due meat indigestion Fairchild's or other pepsin will
to
answer, though peptenzyme suffices for this also. There
are indigestion troubles due to organic or functional causes
not removable by digestants. Cancer, ulcer, sickness, aton-
icity, overloading, fermentation, etc. Bismuth has been re-
sorted to too much in such instances.
Inebriety.
Wars, pestilences, famines, floods, volcanic eruptions,
disasters in which thousands are destroyed at a time, it is
claimed have furnished fewer victims than has alcohol. Ap-

proximately a third of all insanity and other decrepitude,
pauperism and crime are charged to it. Considering its too

ready assimilation, physiologically and chemically the
trouble may be resolved into the revolutions and disintegra-
tions naturally following upon attempts to substitute for the
animal and vegetable food to which man and his remotest
animal ancestry have grown accustomed and adjusted, the
concentrated, dangerous carbo-hydrate food, variously di-
luted and known as wines, liquors, etc.
Nor is the matter even so simple, for 85 per cent of all
the liquor sold in the United States as whisky is not whisky

at all, according to Dr. H. W. Wiley, of the U. S. Bureau
of Chemistry (Proc. Am. Med. Assoc, 1904). Besides the
assumed ethyl alcohol, the base of pure spirits, there are to
be found in liquors the still more poisonous amyl alcohol or
potato spirits, fusel oil; and the aroma is due to acetic and
valeric ethers of the deadly butyl as well as amyl alcohols.
Between the distillery and the saloon-keeper the quantity,
color, odor and taste are arranged with the view of greatest
profit, until the stuff drunk ceases to be a simple wine, beer,
whisky or brandy, but contains cocculus Indicus, salt, cop-

peras, opium, Indian hemp, strychnine, tobacco, darnel seed,
logwood, salts of zinc, lead, alum, litharge, lime, soda, pot-
ash, catechu, oak-bark, sloe leaves, earths to decolorize,
sweetening agents and flavoring ethers, and, since the Eng-
lish parliamentary act describing the above adulterants (35
and 36 Victoria, chapter 94.) in use in 1872, there have been
found such things as commercial salicylic acid, the kidney
destroyer, prune juice the laxative, and glycerine enough to
create catarrh of the entire alimentarv canal.
152 THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDlCA AND PRACTICE.
The guzzling our European ancestry, hundreds of

of
years back and to recent periods, amounted to a continued
pestilence killing off the unfit and not only enabling the
hardiest drinkers to survive, but implanting upon their de-
scendants a similar ability to swill all sorts of intoxicants
and live. When savages encounter alcoholics for the first
time they are so fascinated and powerless to resist taking it

that they succumb so rapidly as to scare even the Indian
agents into fear that there will be no occupants of the gov-
ernment reservations, and when chronic politicians array
themselves on the side of temperance and humanity the dan-
gers to their profits must have been great. Similarly the
Feejee islanders were killed off by measles to which Europ-
eans had become immune, practically, leaving survivors
among these primitive people who could also transmit their
ability to have measles with the indifference of the Europ-
ean of our day; and yet, no doubt, measles as well as other
epidemics, including the alcoholic plagues, slaughtered off
our rude progenitors as a frost kills off flies.
Here and there are offspring of these immune races
who revert to the susceptibility of their remote fore-fathers
in disposition to take too much drink and to suffer for it.
These weaklings fill our jails, poor-houses and asylums, and

sprinkle the streets with tramps and town drunkards while ;
the Germanic, Celtic or Latin peoples, generally, may drink

quite as much, if not more, and yet be sober. The Russian
Slav moujik remains in the beginning stage of this harden-
ing process, where society was in the times described by Sir
Walter Scott, when dinners were ended by a sleep under the
table. And naturally the people regarded being ''drunk as
a lord" as an indication of respectability.
Ignorance of the consequence and of the composition
of the drink, falling in with the custom of a place, as in treat-
ing, may start a drinking habit; and all are not affected
alike. Some can stand huge amounts, and neuropaths are

fuddled by small amounts, and also experience other bad
effects of liquor.
Alcohol is often taken for the first time by means of
patent medicine and the surprise and "gratitude" of the user
is something like that of Dicken's Pip, when he first tasted
champagne and wanted to fall down and worship it. The
testimonials from "distinguished'' uninformed statesmen,
actresses, nuns, preachers read very much alike for the good
feeling imparted by cocaine, morphine, bad whisky and
similar debauching elevators of spirits. Any one who would
instruct these gulpers of patent medicines would have his
labor for his pains and be invited to "mind his own busi-
ness." Even druggists who occasionally attempt advice as
to the bad after effects of these nostrums are suspected of
sinister designsand made to suffer pecuniary loss, but the
plausible mercenary vender of such things is eagerly be-
lieved because credulous ignorance, the kind that is so very
ignorant it does not know that it is the least ignorant, is
studied by the "business" disposition on the look out to give

the people what they think they want, if they pay for it, no
matter what harm it may do. Thousands of these self be-
guiled slowly sink away from notice back alleys, in-
in the
sane asylums and other avenues of oblivion. Attempts to
rescue them are resented if they have a dollar left, and libel
suit bluffs are threatened against anyone who specifically
exposes the ingredients of these insidious poisons. Every
evil similarly A^aunts itself and virtuously denies harmfulness,
while deriding would-be protectors and even injuring them

if the profits of the evil are threatened by the growth of en-
lightenment.
Here and there the medical press has assailed for many
years these infamous concoctions, but their audacity in-
creased till actuallv disguised whisky was sold as a cure for
inebriety, and the crowning damnability was reached in a

compound advertised for that purpose that actually held a
grain of morphine to four ounces, of which a third was al-
cohol.
A report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health in
1896, and a public document, No. 34 of the Analyst of that
State, afforded the percentages of alcohol, morphine and co-
caine,ranging from twelve to fifty per cent of alcohol, in
many was met by deep silence until the lay press be-
cases,
gan to take the matter up, in some cases because advertise-
ments were refused them, whereupon ingredients and pro-
portions were somewhat changed so as to falsify the exact
figures if recent purchases were made of the stuff, enabling
a foothold for the bluff about libel suits. The bare fact tha't
the patent medicine syndicate has strength enough, or
money enough, to see that congress passes no law interfer-
ing with their profits from their dupes, such as compelling
the exact formula to be placed upon the label, shows that
intelligence,and that only, will defeat the degradation in
store for a people enticed by "infallible" and "sure cures"
through their instructors and educators, the daily news-
paper, paid by these patent medicine manufacturers to de-
ceive the people, a large proportion of whom at this day
may be heard to say: "It must be true, because I saw it in
a newspaper."
Then these "public educators" explain that the valu-
able principles in herbs are extracted by alcohol, so its pres-
ence in patent medicines no more objectionable than in
is
fluid extracts. A mere bamboozling trick, for in legitimate

drugs alcohol is a minor ingredient, and generally absent or
in such trival quantity, as compared to the dose, that it cuts
no figure, but in patent medicines the alcohol is the chief ar-
ticle therein.
A great step toward making a community more tern-

perate would be taken were publicity of the truth in such

matters made fashionable. It has been the fad to have rant-
ing temperance meetings where pledges were signed, and of
as much use as promises not to have typhoid fever. The
growth of intelligence may eventually cut off the patent
medicine source of creating drunkenness.
To begin with, drinking may be a mere custom, appar-
ently innocent as far as the majority is concerned; it may be
a mistake or even a vice, deliberately indulged in at first by

recklessness, or it may be a habit acquired through the in-
fluence of others. In any event a harmful and useless habit

may become fastened, and from the instant that it is so fas-
tened and cannot be shaken off and begins to undermine the
health, mentality, morality and welfare generally, it from
that instant becomes a disease and must be so regarded and
treated thereafter. Not with neglect or disgust, not with en-
treaties, with reproaches, the policeman's club or the tem-
porary jailing, but with every means at the command of ad-
vanced medicine. Acute cases as accidental poisinmg, by
emptying stomachs and bowels, up and down, and a thor-
ough washing externally to get rid of the pernicious alco-
hol remaining, for fear the system may grow accustomed to
its presence and erect a desire for the poison. The chronic
case to be treated by more prolonged, but essentially the
same means, less energetically, but acting similarly to
cleanse and sustain.
The was a mere differ-
old fashioned drunkards' retreat
from jailing, its idea was that the drunkard was a
entiation
bad man and only nteded a little time to repent and "re-
form." I know of a great municipal establishment of the
kind with a patriotic name, run by ecclesiastical politicians.
Weekly a pious ignoramus would "lecture" to the inmates
on the injuriousness of the "vice," as if these poor devils did
not know all about it far beyond what any one could tell
them, reminding me of the advice the constable of Great

Stoughton, Huntingdonshire, would interpolate in 1744 as
to the wickedness of being infested by devils when he was
recorded as receiving 8s 6d for beating them from an insane
woman. The opium and whisky crazed sufferers were
visited daily by a burly medical politician who gave them
more oaths than medicine, and who built himself a house out
of materials intended by the city to be used in constructing a
similar place for female drunkards. Large salaries were se-
cured by these "humanitarians," and the founder of this
drunken sinners was the renowned deacon
special prison for
and dean of a medical school who at one time dominated
medicine in America with sixteenth century ideas.
The self-righteous denouncer of the disease idea of in-
ebriety helps the bar-keeper retain his business by making
rational treatment unpopular with such lies as that virility
is destroyed by cures.
Alcoholism once fastened as a habit is a true disease,
just as is the opium habit, the eating of clay, the irresistible
craving for arsenic, the cathartic habit from overdosing un-
til the bowels refuse to move unless swept by strong hyda-
g-ogues. Drunkenness, whether continuous or intermittent,
is as much of a disease as leprosy, small pox, cholera or any
such ailment, against which will-power is so futile that will-
power is itself destroyed and in some instances the brain
structureis visibly changed, as a severe head wound or in-
flammation could change it, in such cases rendering the re-

covery impossible; whether we refer to the insanity, the
stoppage of liquor or the brain destruction. In a long chap-
ter of my Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity I detail these
matters, including a summary of the pathology of alcohol-
ism. The hard drinker experiences deranged sensations,
pains, cramps, numbness, aches, empty gnawing feeling in
his abdomen, stomach burnings, crawlings, creepings. ting-
THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AND PRACTICE. 1 57
lings, at the base of which are circulatory disturbances, to

be abated usually only by more of the poison that caused
the disease. The blood vessels are involved in fibroid
thickening and fatty degeneration through checking of
oxidation. Muscular tremors point to the nervous involve-
ment, the mentality is dulled and business cannot be attend-
ed to without stimulation. Sleeplessness, irritability, forget-
fulness and change in moral character increase. Mendacity
is sometimes a product of inebriety until the drunkard can-
not be believed on oath, particularly where the opium haibt
is added. Huss described the paralytic and anaesthetic
forms of chronic alcoholism, and others detail the pathology
of multiple neuritis of alcoholism, sometimes known as poly-
neuritis, more apt to afflict tipplers, those who drink small
quantities of liquor but who take it often, and also women
who are inclined to be most prone to polyneuritis.
fat are
Motor weakness, sensory disturbances and incoordination
with wrist-drop and foot-drop are commonly the symptoms.
Among other derangements we find stomach catarrh, liver
cirrhosis, acne rosacea, arterial kidney changes inducing
the granular kidney. An alcoholic paraplegia may follow
upon the neuritis by secondary changes in the spinal cord
and from atrophy of the muscles. Hardening of the brain
membranes with wasting of brain substance and adhesions
occur in advanced cases. Alcoholic epilepsy has been rec-
ognized, but each amnesic drunk seems epileptic in char-
acter. Other alcoholic derangements are Delirium tremens,
Alcoholic Paretic Dementia, Alcoholic trance states in
which loss of consciousness occurs for long periods of time,
Dipsomania or the periodical drunkenness, Oinomania or
false dipsomania in one who merely drinks till his saturation
point is reached, and not from an irresistible impulse, as
does the dipsomaniac, Chronic alcoholic insanity with spec-
ial characteristic delusion of marital infidelity and persecu-
tion, and Alcoholic Dementia.

Stoppage of liquor may in some instances show that a

weak heart had been braced up by liquor stimulation, but
instead of this fact being recognized the leaving off of the
drink most likely to be blamed, and of course the saloon-
is
keeper will blame the heart weakness upon the cure if one
has been taken. Other destructive changes in the system
may have been masked by drink to become apparent when
liquor was stopped. Syphilis has been rendered latent by
drink helping the disease to resist treatment, so with drink
stoppage the syphilis breaks out afresh and cures can be
blamed for inducing a syphilis which the patient may have
inherited. Consumption as it is popularly called, or tuber-
culosis, has certainly been kept in check for many years by
the use of alcoholics, and the disease would make rapid
headway as soon as abstinence was enforced. So consump-
tion has actually been an accusation blamed upon medical
treatment of chronic alcoholism.
Sociologically Alcoholism is a plague. A few years
ago the board of guardians at Stockholm published the re-
sults of its inquiry into the causes of poverty. It found that

drunkenness is responsible for 52 per cent of the cases. In
6 per cent of these cases both parents were drunkards, in 39
per cent only the father, and in 7 per cent the mother only.
The children of such parents have to be supported by the
poor-rates. The vast army of tramps is recruited by whisky,
which shares with consumption the credit of murdering a
large part of the race.

Drunkenness as a disease is compelling a place in medi-
cal works and practice. When properly provided for there
will be fewer inebriates in jail and more in hospitals. Alco-
holism is not a delusion to be disposed of by mind-cure or
belief, which will no more cure disease than it will create
one. The hypochondriac who thinks his hand is glass can-

not by his fancy make it so. The chronic drunkard is like
the insane, the paralytic or epileptic, to be cured if cure is at
all possible by efficient medical means and not by signing

pledges, being scolded, or preached to. Where there re-
mains an impression in the public mind to the contrary it
can be accounted for by its retention of stubborn ignorant

beliefs, which even in educated minds have slain thousands,
and the lingering disposition to punish instead of to treat
inebriety as a vice rather than disease, results from ignor-
ant belief.
A proper medical cure may be summed up as a general
cleansing of the system from the poison and from the effete
products of faulty nutrition, and at the same time it is neces-
sary to renovate to tone up beyond the need of resorting to
the false aid that alcohol has heretofore afforded. Imprison-
ment cures nothing, craving is not overcome by will power
certain drugs, methods and discipline can be used in the
patient's behalf to break up the nervous habit and rythm of
inebriety.
Many false "cures" entice patients and disappoint them
terribly, for they merely resort to temporary expedients in
treating the drunkard in his acute stage, from which he will
recover anyway, but the great impeller to drink, the intense
desire, and the pathological condition upon which it depends
remains untouched by the mere soaking in mud, steam,
electrical or other fake baths. Too many physicians in try-
ing to suppress the alcoholic desire in themselves, have re-
sorted to opium and found that instead of one there are now
two masters, and still worse some advertised "cures" act-
ually substitute morphine or hyoscyamus, chloral hydrate,
or some equally pernicious habit for the alcoholic. There
are instances of actually giving something worse than the
disease, like curing freckles with small pox. Legions of
poor fellows have turned on the gas unlit, in such places, or
butted their brains out against stone walls, to release them-
selves from suffering.
It might be thought that long incarceration as a term

in the penitentiary should enable "reform" or recovery,
full
whichever way it may be regarded, but it is not so. One pa-

tient voluntarily immured himself for six months in the
Chicago city "home" and went on a spree the first day of
regaining liberty. But he was finally cured by medical
means.
There are unfortunates who are past recovery, neuro-
tics with strong heredity doomed from birth to mental deg-
radation through the first unfavorable influence encounter-
ed, and to such nothing more fatal exists than whisky. An
insufficient amount for another could precipitate insanity in
them. Also there are brain destroyed drunkards who may
be released from the whisky habit only to reveal the real
mental state which was previously ascribed to drunkenness.
Of course such instances are paraded as results of attempts
at cure. Then there are alcoholophiles who remain addic-
ted to liquor, in spite of every proper cure on earth. These
are said to have whisky on the brain. remark- And it is a
able psychological state that can have all desire for a poison
removed and yet return to it. Certainly there is something
initially rotten in the make up of such a person.
The most famous and successful treatment of drunken-

ness and other addictions is that of Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, at
Dwight, Illinois. He was graduated at Rush Medical Col-
lege, which is now a branch of the Chicago University. As
with every one who has accomplished great things in the
world many misconceptions are extant concerning him.
Most of the unfavorable criticism has come from the whisky
dealers whose profits have been materially reduced, and
who in many cases have been forced into some more honor-
able occupation, through communities having been made
sober which previously were drunken. The fact that Dr.
Keeley controlled the management of his method instead
THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MBDICA AND PRACTICE. 1()1
of "ethically" giving it to the medical profession has caused

him to be mistakenly classed with secret nostrum venders.
I enjoyed personal familiarity with Dr. Keeley and his
methods. Both were unexceptionable. At the time of the
issue of my large volumes on the Medical Jurisprudence of
Insanity I told Dr. Keeley that I thought the time had
come when the medical profession should properly estimate
him and the great good he had done in the world, especially
as some 17,000 physicians had undergone the treatment for
inebriety and were ready to attest its benefits, so I inti-
mated my intention of describing his system and the re-
markably favorable results he had secured, with all other
information calculated to make him and his work better ap-
preciated among medical men, but he advised me against
so doing, remarking that years must pass before the unjust
prejudices against him were overcome, and meanwhile he
would not permit friends to be also sacrificed in his defence.
The effort to have him better understood, he claimed, would
fail and react upon any one brave or honest enough to try
to explain. So at this time, before I also, as he has. have

done my life-work and passed on with "the innumerable
caravan," I would like to give physicians a clear idea of the
"Keeley Treatment," or, as popularly known, the "Keeley
Cure," as I understand it, direct from its founder.
While Dr. Keeley may not have been first in the claim
that inebriety was a disease, he is certainly the first one to
logically and persistently act upon that assumption consis-
tently and to the exclusion of every other view of the sub-
ject. In this he received no assistance from any medical
source, as the vice theory dominated physicians as well as
the laity. He worked steadily in this direction amidst the
invariable discouragements, jeers and harrassments, and he
also noticed that whenever he attempted to impart his ideas
and methods to medical men that he met only opposition,
derision and misunderstandings, and even such formulas as

he gave openly to doctors shortly became changed beyond
recognition, as the principles were but vaguely grasped, and,
as a rule, most physicians are poor pharmacists and notor-
iously write incompatible prescriptions. A few pharmacists
with clearer knowledge of compounding built upon some of
these earlier and cruder prescriptions of Dr. Keeley and the
market became flooded with fake inebriety cures. Then
commercialism took a hand and put in ingredients out of
which the most profit could be made, and high-priced ma-
terials were omitted, so the original compounds were fear-
fully debauched, some even with opium, until the doctor
saw that his best efforts were to be wasted unless a different
course were tried. He was not satisfied with his partial suc-
cesses during many years experimenting without recom-
pense, and even after he felt certain that he was justified in
seeking- paying patients he lacked some essential in the
treatment that caused him to take only volunteer unremu-
nerative cases for several years more, when finally he knew
that he had the method reasonably perfected. His friend and
confidant at this time was the well known Dr. J. Adams Allen,
the president of Rush Medical College of Chicago, and to
him the doctor detailed his hopes and difficulties and plainly
askec him if under the circumstances it would not be best
to indefinitely withhold the completed process until he had
fully demonstrated its value by many recoveries under the
treatment. Allen agreed with him that at this stage his per-
fected formulas might share the fate of their predecessors,
and that he would be blamed for the failure of others to use
the medicines properly, to say nothing of his being out of
pocket for the years of labor and expense he had undergone
already. The thought that the whole system was likely to
be destroyed by the carelessness, cupidity and ignorance of
others, notwithstanding the fact that many capable and con-
scientious physicians would, within from twenty to forty

years, rescue its remains and establish it for future genera-
tions, as a contemplation was not satisfactory to Dr. Keeley,
so he sought the means of demonstrating the sufficiency of
the methods, the means for which could not be secured from
any medical source whenever he proposed to give the pro-
cess and formulas to the profession. Thus the entire matter
would have perished, and to this day been unknown as the
great success it is had not the proposal reached him to form
a stock company on business principles, as he knew that in-
ventors of surgical instruments require capital to put them
on sale, and if unprotected the profits go to rivals who watch
for evidences of success. The question was, with the doc-
tor, should he make public the formulas and for years fight
to defend and justify and explain them against detractors,

ad captandum essayists, sophistication, patent medicine
makers on the lookout for fake combinations to impose
upon the public, as well as manufacturers of proprietary af-
fairs who put false formulas on their labels, but who thus
pass muster as ethical? Should he receive nothing for his

outlay and be supremely ethical and see his name wiped
from the invention and another grow rich on the wreck of
it, the semblance put into some lying commercial shape,
while he remained poor? Or should he retain the formula
to some future and more promising time?
He was simply forced to be. what business men call
"practical," and under all the circumstances it was advisable
to accept the suggestion of a stock company to shorten by
hundreds of years the introduction of this inestimable bless-
ing to humanity.
A Chicago newspaper publisher was anxiously looking
out for inebriety cures, and among others had been fooled
by D'Unger's "Cinchona Rubra'' cure, which doubtless was
based on crude ideas of Keeley's methods. Editor Medill
sent five "old soakers" to Keeley for trial and they were
returned metamorphosed into gentlemen, and after a suffi-
cient lapse of time to convince Medill of the permanancy of

their recovery the Daily Tribune voluntarily advertised the
Dwight institution until soon there was not room in the
town for applicants for treatment, and subsidiary institutes
had to be started in the various states of the union and else-
where to care for the hundreds of thousands who have un-
dergone the treatment. Armour the Chicago beef packer
sent 200 patients, employes in whom he was interested and
whom he wished to restore to health. A Keeley League has
been formed as a practical means of rescuing others from
drunkenness, and it has a membership of 30,000. The
Dwight home office began in the year 1880, and altogether
probably a half million persons have taken the course of
treatment, and among these are seventeen thousand physi-
cians who would otherwise have been mere wrecks of hu-
manity. Naturally the prevailing instinct among these res-
cued ones would be to try to forget their lives of foolish dissi-
pation and disgrace, and, as a rule, they did not shout their
cure from the house-top. Many felt impelled, however, to
honestly give credit where was due, even though at some
it
fancied disadvantage through unfriendly comments, but, as

the evidences of cure were to be seen among the people
everywhere, it became possible to point to these as instances
of the Keeley cure, .instead of to themselves, and thus ap-
pease a conscience not at all satisfied with keeping silence
on the subject, while feeling grateful for a service no money
could requite. Gratitude is a sentiment not altogether lost
to the world, and probably from experiencing so much of
its man is most likely to develop it as
absence the medical
not wishing to be wanting in what he regrets that he does
not find in others. So from the custom of roundly abusing
the Keeley treatment as unethical and fakey, and repeating
all sorts of silly lies that interested bar-keepers busily spread

to fight what threatened to, and often did actually put them
out of business, there grew a disposition to listen to stories
of recovery, to probably regard them as exceptional and to
put the cure on the same footing with others generally, as
accidental, as due to hypnosis, to the X ray, to confinement,
to putting nauseants in the food, anything, everything that
had been utter failures heretofore. Nothing was suggested
as an explanation of the cures except what was imagined
without actually visiting the institution itself. At D wight
can be seen an orderly, respectable assembly, occupied ex-
actly asany hotel guests employ their time, conversing free-
ly coming and going, with not the slightest restraint upon
their movements. Sometimes a newcomer, hilariously
drunk, attempts to make himself funny, and remarks are
dropped here and suppose I was
there, to the effect that: "I
like that But the next morning the
myself at one time."
fun has departed, and the matriculant sits around in amaze-
ment at the effect of a few preliminary doses of medicine.
"Why," remarked one such patient, "I never would have
believed it possible that I could breakfast without first
drinking whisky, and I actually relish my food, too!"

Far from being in the least detrimental to health the
toning up secured in the course of treatment is beneficial to
health. Preliminarily it is ascertained whether B right's dis-
ease, diabetes, or other ailment is present or absent, by rou-
tine analyses such as hospitals use with general physical ex-
ploration, so that friends of the patient will not fancy that
diseases the patient brought with him were ascribable to
the treatment. There is no loss of virility from the system.
That accusation of saloon-keepers has a slim, frail founda-
tion in the previously recklessly immoral drunkard when
sobered up becoming ashamed of his previous behavior,
and, at least, assuming an appearance of decency, which the
whisky dealer prefers to interpret as impotency, and the lik®.
166 THEKAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AND PRACTICE.
The patient usually remains at the institute four or five
week and after the period of remorse and shamed reminis-
cence is over he finds hope reviving, his mind clear and ac-
tive, thought consecutive, appetite good, eyes, complexion,
morals better, "feels ten years younger," sleeps regularly

and with every added year wonders more and more at the
metamorphosis wrought in his entire nature for the better.
In making autopsies of the alcoholic insane at the
county asylum of Chicago, where I was pathologist, I found
as badly disorganized tissues in the brain substance as
though the lunatic had suffered a direct head injury, and in
fact drunkenness can produce insanity with the characteris-
tics of head injury, as observed in my Medical Jurispru-
dence of Insanity. So, of course, it is unreasonable to sup-
pose that when alcoholism has destroyed the brain that any-
thing can be done to save the lunatic. If the brain is intact
aftei drunkenness then there is hope for the treatment being-
effective, and the test can be applied to a great extent as to

how much is left of the man when he is cured. There is a
chronic alcoholism, a chronic alcoholic insanity, and the de-
generate from birth, the dispsomaniac. About two- thirds of
the chronic alcoholics have not passed to the brain-de-
stroyed stage, and for these there is great hope from the
Keeley treatment, there are even a few among the chronic
alcoholic insane who may at least be greatly benefited if not
restored mentally; such must be in the functionally poisoned
stage, rather than in that of brain degradation, but naturally
lunatics are notgood material to work upon, regardless of
whether they drank because they were insane, as do the
dipsomaniacs, or whether they put their brains beyond re-
pair by liquor.
While the formulae are the property of the company,
there is no secret about the method adopted at Keeley in-
stitutes, which are open to the inspection of the public and
especially physicians.
Patients in such places are not under restraint or other

supervision than medical Hypodermics are
oversight.
given four times daily, between 8 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. De-
lirium tremens cases, of course, require more care. A tonic
is administered internally in teaspoonful doses several times
a day. The
alcohol is voluntarily given up, by the patient
himself, through the influence of the medicine purification
of the system, the poisonous waste products that had pre-
viously been retained being eliminated by the kidneys, sweat
glands, bowels, etc. Then the nervous, circulatory and
other organs are restored to their original, unpoisoned
states, as before drinking had been begun; a surprising
statement to make, but every "graduate" of this system can
verify it.
This process of withdrawal and elimination is usually

accomplished during the first week of the treatment, after
which the progress is quite noticeable. Xo apomorphia or
other nauseant is used at any time, for such temporary ex-
pedient accomplishes nothing of value, and as to hypnotic
or other foolish methods the visitor to an institute would
ever after laugh at such an idea. It is possible to cure the
drunkard, but not the lunatic whose brain is torn to pieces
with corrosive liquors, and these no institute will undertake
to treat.
Infantile Cerebral Palsy.
Paralysis of a limb, with failure of development through

brain fever in infancy, or injury to the head.
Infantile Spinal Paralysis.
Inflammation or injury to the spinal cord of an infant

may result in paralysis of one or more members usually a
leg, with failure of development of the affected part.
Ingluvin.
A digestive ferment from chicken gizzards, inferior to

other digestants.
Ingrowing Toe-nail.
Cocaine the tender spots and pare center of nail, anti-
septics, astringents, removal of nail.
Inflammation.
External superficial and a few deep as pneumonia,
pleurisy may be favorably modified by the mixture of clay
and glycerine called antiphlogistine, antithermoline, glyco-
kaolin, etc.
Influenza. La Grippe.
Quinine, salicylic acid, terpin hydrate, creosote and
morrhuol capsules of Chapoteau. For cough a single drop
of Beeehwood creosote in 2 oz whisky and 2 oz simple
syrup, tablespoonful doses, ad lib. The best description of
La Grippe is in Niemeyer's Practice.
Insanity.
Though insanity consists of symptoms of bodily dis-
eases the general practitioner has had no opportunity to be-
come familiar with the subject, as asylum experience is ab-
solutely necessary to a physician in studying psychiatry.
The assistant physicians in asylums are usually the best
alienists, the superintendent having too many executive
duties to have time for purely medical. Hence superinten-
dents should be appointed from among assistant physicians
but always from other asylums to prevent temptations to
intrigue against the superintendent of the same asylum.
Politics convert places for the ostensible care of sick and
paupers, especially for insane into veritable hells on earth,
and one of the best evidences of the animal conditions of so-
ciety is that such things as political asylums are possible.
Humanity is actually offensive to the management of such

institutions and when restraints are removed even the pre-
tense of humanity is thrown off in torturing patients for
amusement. Twenty-five years personal observation and
study enabled me to publish details of such crimes in the
chapter on Treatment in my 1400 pages Medical Jurispru-

dence of Insanity.
Diagnosis is only possible to the alienist, and medical
treatment is in the vast majority of cases highly improper
by others than alienists, who carefully avoid such things as
chloral,which inflames the stomach, destroys digestion and
perpetuates the insanity, and opium or other such baneful
hypnotic liable to foster a habit worse often than the mental
ailment.
Just as all foreigners look alike to the untraveled so
does all insanity to the inexperienced. Physicians in hos-
pitals for insane are amused and shocked at the improprie-
ties practiced by physicians without knowledge of psychia-
try. Needless suffering and deaths result from this inexper-
ience and misplaced confidence. Psychiatry is now as re-
spectable a branch of medicine as surgery, and as exact in
agreement of recorded experience, so that the claim of any-
one that nothing is known about insanity betrays as gross
ignorance as to assert that no one knows mathematics, or
similar assertions of callow development. The different
forms of insanity are incidentally briefly mentioned in this
work, but of course, inadequately as compared to treatises on
insanity. These are best when written by alienists, next best
by neurologists, and poorest of all when attempted by poli-
ticians, whatsoever called, even though with the advantage
of being favored by a well-known publisher who advertises
his wares beyond their deserts.
Insolation, see Thermic Fever.

Insomnia. Sleeplessness.
Seek and remove the cause if possible rather than take
narcotics. A hot bath, or foot bath, hot enema, a stimulant

in weak heart, ergot in cerebral congestion. Chloralamid
and sulfonal are the most reliable.
Intercostal Neuralgia.
Often mistaken for heart pain. Three tender spots in
course of nerve, hysterical most liable. Rubefacients be-
tween shoulder-blades.
Intermittent Fever.
Full doses of quinine an hour or half hour before the
return of the chill is to be expected. Substitutes for quinine
are unsatisfactory. If it congests the head too much take
bromide of potassium with it. Calomel may assist anti-
periodic treatment.
Intertrigo, see Chafing.
Intravenous Injections.
Used only in extremis as in cholera collapse, prolong-
ing life but a short time. The practice of using mercuric
chloride intravenously injected in. my opinion cannot be too
strongly condemned. The corrosive sublimate necessarily
forms minute emboli by coagulating the albuminous plasma,
the clots blocking the lesser vessels, and in two instances I
have seen the mercurial tremors after such intravenous in-

jections, resembling the chorea induced in animals by the
multiple cerebral emboli of minute seeds being injected into
the circulation.
Intussusception.
Bowel obstruction from folding intestine inside itself.
Knee-chest through colon,

position, massage, inflating
antiseptics, oily lubricants as olive or cod liver, opiates and
in some cases operation.
Iodide of Potassium, see Potassium Iodide.
Iodides, Colorless.
Practically de-iodized.
lodipin. 10 per cent, and 25 per cent.

Iodized Sesame Oil. 10 and 25% iodine. Substitute
for iodide of potassium. Dose of 10%, 1 to 2 fluid drams,
hypodermic dose of 25%, 20 to 40 minims.
Iodine.
Soluble in 30 parts chloroform, 10 alcohol, 4 ether, 65

glycerine, nearly insoluble in water. Externally in 4 per
cent ointment or in tincture to paint skin in erysipelas, and
some skin affections, but its desquamative effects prevent
continued use.
It is if any of the fancy preparations of Iodine
doubtful
have any advantages over, or are as good as,
for internal use
ordinary iodide of potassium, while being more expensive.
There are Iodopin 10 per cent, the iodized sesame oil of
Merck, containing 10 per cent of Iodine said to enable iodine
to penetrate the remotest tissues, another 25 per cent pre-
paration of the same for hypodermic use. a fluid-dram of the
10 per cent internally and 20 to 40 minims of the 25 per cent
hypodermically.
Iodine Vasogen.
For inunctions, the claim being that it is more readily
absorbed.
lodo-bromides,
Partly secret compounds and dubious use.
Iodoform.
A useful but odoriferous powder for external applica-
tion to ulcers, but the smell betrays the nature of the disease
many times, and even though used to prevent wound sup-
puration where syphilis is not concerned the public asso-
ciate the odor with that disease, so that in the patient's in-
terest it is well to bear this in mind. Many poisoning in-
stances.
lodo-hemol.
Suggested substitute for potash salt.
lodole.
Same as the German Jodol, and several similar iodoform
disguises claimed to be odorless have proven to be less sat-
isfactory to iodoform, anIodoformogen or Iodoform Al-
buminate of Knoll is one of these articles described in
Merck's Digest. Idozen is a secret substitute for iodoform.
lodyloform. lodylin.
Iodoform substitutes made with iodine, albumen, gela-

tin and bismuth. Not much used.
lodo-nucleoid.
Substitute for potassium iodide, 9^% iodine with nu-
clein in organic combination. Dose 10 to 20 grains. On
trial.
lodothyrine, or Thyro-iodine.
A dry preparation of thyroid gland, for goiter it should
not be used and in myxedema it is inferior to other thyroid
preparations.
Ipecac.
Emetic 10 to 15 grains.
Iridoplegia.
Paralyzed, and therefore dilated, pupil.
Irish Moss. Chondrus or Carrageen.

Iritis.
Dilate pupil and give iodide of potassium and mercur-

ials.
Iron by Hydrogen. Quevenne's Iron, Reduced Iron, Steel.
Obsolete as medicine.
Iron, generally.
Many inferior forms of iron and its salts or compounds

exist in the market, due to the fact that almost anything
with iron in it can serve as a tonic to some extent. Even a
few iron nails allowed to rust in water make a ferruginous
drink not wholly useless in anemia. The multitude of iron

springs, artesian waters, and fake mineral preparations owe
financial success to this fact. So anything with iron makes
a tonic of less value than the more eligible ones with man-
ganese. These inferior hematics are: Iron arsenate, car-
bonate, citrate, glycerino-phosphate, hydrate, unstable, hy-
pophosphite. oxalate, oxide, succinate, sulphate, valerian-
ate, tartrate.
Peptonized Iron and Manganese are more useful, and
some of the Elixirs such as the Elixir of strychnia, quinia
and iron pyrophosphate or citrate are convenient forms for
good tonic medicines in teaspoonful doses. The Tincture
of the Chloride of Iron is still used by adherents of the old
methods, but its injury to the teeth requiring it to be taken
by means of a tube, and the fact that an acid chalybeate is

not desirable in gastritis with hydrochloric acid excess in
the stomach, cause the muriate of iron to be put with the
less useful ferruginous tonics, remembering that any thing
with iron in it no matter how inferior answered very well in
former days.
Ferro-Mangan was a good tonic but the
Diedrich's
swiftest in effectsand probably the best iron manganese
proprietory preparation to-day is Gude's Pepto-Mangan, in
174 THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MP^DICA AND PRACTICE.
polygonal eleven ounce bottles, tablespoonful doses or less.

Improved forms of Blaud's carbonate of iron pills when
fresh and properly made were the very best iron form for
quick results, but unfortunately they became hard in a little
while and as usually dispensed were therefore inert.

Physicians differ as to the value of dialysed iron, the
dose of which is 10 to 30 minims, the probabilities being
thatsome makes may be serviceable, just as any iron form
may be, while in the main it is inferior.
Isopral.
A new hypnotic, on trial, dose 10 to 15 grains, pungent,
burning taste with anesthesia of tongue.
Itch.
Caused by itch mite usually on wrist and between fin-
gers. Sulphur ointment.
Itching, see Pruritus.
Itch, Pubic.
Mercurial ointment, but mercuric chloride wash is
cleaner though it must be used cautionsly. One grain to

the thousand.
Ivy Poisoning.
Dilute ammonia water at once neutralizes toxicoden-

dric acid in vesicles. Solution of bicarbonate of soda ap-
plications, fluid extract grindelia robusta astringent reduces
swelling, Dobell's solution, saline purge. Piperazine for
alkalinizing internally. Do not use lead washes or opium.
Izal.
On trial for phithisis.
Jaborandi, see also Pilocarpus.

Produces profuse perspiration and salivation, weakens
heart action, pilocarpine hydrochlorate alkaloid salt best for
use in Bright's disease if heart strong enough, in uremia and

puerperal eclampsia, parotitis, agalactia, diabetes insipidus
urine lessened by diaphoresis, dropsy if heart not too weak,
pleuriticand meningitic exudations, amblyopia from alcohol

and tobacco, in keratitis and other eye diseases, diphtheria
and erysipelas, remembering the heart precaution, and while
both salivary and sudoriferous glands are stimulated by
large doses a small dose checks profuse ptyalism or perspi-
ration. Dose of pilocarpine hydrochlorate a fiftieth to a
half grain. Hypodermically a sixth of a grain. The fluid
extract of pilocarpus is usually worthless. Atropia antag-
onizes in doses of a hundredth of a grain. Strychnia sus-
tains the heart action and morphine controls the vomiting.
Jaborine another alkaloid from pilocarpus acts like atropine,
the reverse of pilocarpine. Artificial respiration also needed
in poisoning by pilocarpine.
Jacksonian Epilepsy.
Localized spasms at times without loss of consciousness.
jalap.
Cathartic, useful for relieving brain congestion, as after
sunstroke. Dose 10 to 30 grains, or 10 grains with an equal
amount of calomel.
Jambul.
Not much used.
James' Powder.
Emetic and purgative, formerly used as alterative and
diaphoretic but going out of use.
Jamestown Weed. Stramonium or Thornapple.

Dangerous narcotic and delirifacient. Formerly used
for asthma, mania and epilepsy. Discredited and disused.
Jaundice. Causing yellowness of eyes and skin. Icterus.

Blood or liver disorder, in some instances from ob-
structed gall duct see Calculus, renal; liver cirrhosis, ab-
scess of liver, acute yellow atrophy, echinococcus cyst of
liver, ascites, etc. Elixir of Euonymus atropurpureus, calo-
mel.
Jequerity.
Abrin alkaloid, both too dangerous outside of ophthal-
mology specialism as eye destruction liable in its use.
Jiggers. Sand Fleas.

Chloroform kills them and they can then be dug from
the skin with a blunt needle.
Jounod's Boot.
Vacuum apparatus to draw blood to foot, little used
now as accidents as fainting or worse produced.
Juglans. Butternut.
Mild cathartic, little used.
Jujube Paste.
Commonly gum arabic and sugar with the jujube left
out. Demulcent for pectorals and as good as real jujube

paste.
Jumpers.
An endemic sometimes, as with the Maine Jumpers
who if touched or spoken to suddenly.
reacted violently A
hysterical spasmodic tic convulsif. Religious emotion may
produce it in camp meetings.
Juniperus Virginiana. Red Cedar.

Resembles savine but weaker, little used.
Juvenile Insanity.
Moral Imbecility.
Katatonia.
Insanity alternating mania, catalepsy and melancholia.
Seldom benefited, tends to complete loss of mind in demen-
tia. Nitrite of amyl may temporarily help.
Kava-Kava, see Gonosan.

Keloid.
Fibrous skin tumors, not malignant, frequent among
negroes. No treatment, excision temporary relief.
Keratitis. Corneal inflammation.

Borax or boric acid wash.
Keratosis Pilaris.
Horny skin. Use alkalines, salicylic acid applications
with ointments and soft soap washings.
Kermes Mineral. Antimony Sulphurated.

Obsolete.
Kidney Disease.
See Bright's Disease. Popular idea that pain in back
indicates kidney disease erroneous, also that diabetes is lo-
cated in the kidneys.
Kino.
Astringent in diarrhoea. Dose tincture I to 3 drams,
used in chalk mixture usually.
Kleptomania.
Uncontrollable impulse to steal. The law usually per-
mits the rich a monopoly of this disease. With the poor it
is theft, legally, but in psychiatry rich and poor are equally
liable to the disorder.
Kneipp Cure.
Sanctified water cure.
Knight's Solution.
Secret eczema remedy.
Kola.
A suggested substitute for strychnia but at present
with cocaine it enables debauchery in the guise of a popular
drink.
Koumys.
Imitation Mare's Milk, fermented as made in Tartary.
Practically carbonated buttermilk is about as nutritious and
assimilable while much cheaper.
Kousso.
As an anthelmintic the fluid extract dose is I to 4 fluid
drams, but Koussein of Merck, amorphous, is a powder
soluble in alcohol but only slightly so in water; the dose is
15 to 30 grains divided into 4 parts to be given at intervals

of half hour, followed by castor oil children
; half this quan-
tity.
Krameria.
Astringent and mild tonic. Little used.
Kryogenin.
Antipyretic. Dose 3 to 20 grains.
Kryophine.
Like Phenacetine.
Kugloids.
Quinine glycerophosphate with benzoates of creosote
and eucalyptol. For bronchial complaints.
Labarraque's Solution.
Solution of chlorinated soda. Disinfectant and deodor-
ant. Dose 10 minims to a dram diluted, externally to foul
ulcers.
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Lactagol.
Extract of cottonseed meal on trial as a galactagogue.
Lactophenln.
Antipyretic and analgesic similar to phenacetine.
Lachrymation.
Overflow of tears due to closure of nasal tear duct.
Probe.
Lactic Acid.
Doubtful if of much or any use, as a caustic other
things are better.
Lactopeptine.
A useful digestant in intestinal dyspepsia. Peptenzyme
is similar.
Lactophenin.
Like Phenacetine.
Lactose. Milk Sugar.
Lactucarium.
Being largely from age and other causes, has been
inert
made means of pushing morphine in disguise through
the
lactucarium expectorants and sedatives.
Lactucine.
From lactuca virosa, sedative. Dymond quoted by
Helbing suggests hyoscyamine in extracts of various spec-
ies of lactuca.
Lactyl-Phenetidin, see Lactophenin.
Lagophthalmos.
Eye protrusion so that lids cannot be closed.
Lanolin.
Wool fat, numerous makes of which of various grades
are in the market used as an ointment excipient, having the

advantage of ready absorption through the skin.
Lanum.
Hydrous Wool-Fat, U. S. P.
Largjn.
Silver albumin for gonorrhoea. Not much used.
Laryngitis. Inflammation of internal larynx.

Heat or rubefacients externally, antiphlogistine to
throat, guiac lozenges, creosote and morrhuol capsules, cod
liver oil, calomel and salines.
Laryngismus Stridulus, see Croup.

Laudanum.
Tincture of opium. Dose 5 to 30 minims.
Laughing Gas.
Nitrous oxide anesthetic, useful in dentistry and can be
used more in surgery with advantage.
Lavage.
Washing out the stomach with a tube and funnel, the
old fashioned stomach pump dirty and complicated, dis-
used. In some cases of putrid atonic stomach washings are
very effective, but the hysterical are liable to form a habit
of wanting the process too often.
Lax Skin. Dermatolysis.

Elastic skin, allied to fibroma molluscum. Treatment
is excision.
Lead Acetate.
Old fashioned astringent. It has occasioned lead poi-
soning so often that vegetable astringents are better for
medical use. For ivy poison it is not useful, and in collyria
THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AKD PRACTICE. 181
will cause corneal opacity. Did much harm in injections

for gonorrhoea.
Lead iodide and nitrate are equally unserviceable.
Lead Plaster.
Adhesive plaster. Excludes air from wounds, but not
otherwise antiseptic.
Lead Poisoning.
Iodide of potassium, acetate of potassium, hot baths.
Lecethine.
Organic phosphorus from brains, testes, etc. Nutri-
tive stimulant.
Leeches.
Passing out of use. Majority of practitioners do not
know which end of the leech to apply. Some are poisonous,
and in all cases better things than leeches can be found for
congestion relief. When applied to eyelid the black eye is
made worse. Before going out of use altogether the better

derivative position was found to be the temple for eye ecchy-
moses.
Lemons.
The same as limes or citric acid, derived from either, in
cases of so called liver troubles, bilious attacks, headaches,
malaise, etc., often afford relief and in some instances act
much as calomel would to alter secretions. Nor is lemon
juice incompatible with mercurials.
And in rheumatic or other uric acid affections lemon
juice appears to act as an alkali instead of acid, forming an
exception to the rule that acids should be avoided in rheu-
matism.
Lenigalloi.
On trial in place of Pyrogallol for chronic eczema.

Lenirobin.
Mild substitute for chrysarobin for external use.
Lentigo, see Chloasma.
Leprosy.
Incurable.
Leptandra. Culver's Root.

When used at all is prescribed in the form of Leptan-
drin mostly, as a chologogue and alterative in I to 3 grains,
and purgative 8 grains. Not much in use.
Leucocytosis.
The attempt to rid blood of bacteria and toxic causes.
Leucomia, see Keratitis.
Leucomaines and Ptomaines.

First are alkaloids from decomposition of living albu-
minoid tissues, latter are alkaloids from putrefaction.
Leucoplacia. White patches in mouth, sometimes can-

cerous.
Antiseptic mouth washes.
Leucorrhoea.
Astringent and antiseptic douches, boro-glyceride sup-
positories, hydrastine vaginal suppositories, ichthyol sup-
positories. Tonics if weak.
Leukemia, Leucemia or Leucocythemia.

Great increase in white blood corpuscles. Fatal.
Trauma a direct cause, spleen, bones, bad hygiene, syphilis,
malaria, rachitis, tuberculosis, and transformations from
pernicious anemia.
Leukoderma. Vitiligo.
Piebald skin, irregular white spots. No treatment.

Paint may hide the blemish.
Leukoma.
Opaque white cornea. Surgery.
Levico Water.
A spring water containing arsenic and iron. Fowler's
solution is far better and cheaper.
Lice. Pediculi.
Mercurial ointment or weak mercuric chloride wash.
Lichen. Papular skin disease.

Alkalines, antiseptics, antirheumatics, tonics, ichthyol
particularly.
Lichen Ruber.
Itching papules. Antiseptics.
Lichen Scrofulosis.
Cod liver oil and tonics.
Lipoma. Tumor of fat.
Potassium iodide internally and ichthyol and chrysaro-

bin externally.
Lithaemia, see Rheumatism.
Lithiasis, see Calculi.
Lime Sulphurated.
So called Calcium Sulphide, offensive with smell of hy-
drogen sulphide used chiefly in boils, carbuncles, etc., dose
a quarter grain to 2 grains, doubtful utility.
Lime Water.
Calcium Hydrate Solution or Aqua Calcis. Diluted
one half or less with water, milk or buttermilk corrects

stomach acidity. Comparatively harmless and should there-
fore be more frequently used than things that in time injure
digestion.
Mixed with linseed oil lime water makes Carron Oil an
application for relieving the pain of burns.
Liniments.
Soap and chloroform more useful.
Linseed.
Meal for poultices, whole flaxseed for demulcent drink.
Liquid Air.
Used as cautery of cancerous growths.
Liquorice.
Glycyyrrhiza.
Listerine.
One of the numerous weaker antiseptics, made of aro-
matics and borax.
Lithium.
In the form of citrates the lithium tablets have proven
most useful as a minor remedy in rheumatism. Many spring
waters are sold as carbonates of lithia, but the strength of
these vary greatly leading to the inference that druggists or
others fill up their lithia water receptacles with plain water,
or that if marked lithia effects are secured the carbonate has
been added to the water in the form of bicarbonate in larger
quantity than can be found naturally in any spring water.
The best effects are secured from a slightly aperient
lithia water in which a small portion of glauber and epsom
salts occur, this is the case with the Geneva Lithia Water
from Geneva springs near Rochester, New York, but the
temptations to substitute are so great and so easily done
that you can seldom be certain that a genuine spring water

is most solemn assurances of venders.
to be had, despite the
Other Lithium salts such as the Benzoate, Bromide,
Iodide, Salicylate are fancy additions to the overburdened
Dispensatory.
Lobelia.
Obsolete.
Lock-jaw, see Tetanus.
Locomotor Ataxia. Tabes Dorsalis.

Sclerosis of the posterior spinal cord columns.
Symptoms are loss of the pupillary reflex to light, pu-
pil does not contract in bright light, but does for accommo-
dation, the Argyll-Robertson pupil, lancinating, sharp
shooting pains down the legs, loss of knee reflex, anesthesia
of feet and legs, inco-ordination of movements, etc.
Avoid opiates and the long list of useless often harmful
remedies, very little can be done for the disease as it pro-
gresses to paralysis and death from some intercurrent dis-
ease like pneumonia. Anti-syphilitic medicine may be vig-
orously tried and it sometimes improves the case. Ergot
and galvanism of spine descending current 15 or more
milliamperes relieves pain often. Cathartics at intervals,
special gymnastics calling into use muscles otherwise but
little used. Thousands of theories as to treatment exploded.
Loretin.
One of the' numerous substitutes for Iodoform.
Losophan.
A Cresol antiseptic with 80 per cent iodine.
Lues Venerea, see Syphilis.

Lugol's Solution.
Compound solution of iodine. Iodine 5, potassium iod-
ide, 10, water 85. Dose 1 to 5 minims, diluted.
Lumbago. Rheumatism of back, see Backache.
Lunar Caustic. Silver Nitrate.

Aside from its caustic uses it is astringent in the propor-
tion of 10 grains or less to the ounce of water as an applica-
tion with a camel's hair pencil to the fauces and tonsils when
inflamed. Sometimes the relief obtained is immediate.
Many things, however have been erroneously called tonsili-
tis, and the rheumatic form is alleviated by guiac tablets or
lozenges allowed to melt on the tongue before swallowing.
Lupulin.
Alkaloid from hops. Dose 2 to 15 grains. Little used.
Lupus Erythematosus.
Reddish skin patches. Treatment mild stimulating
ointments as sulphur and tar. X ray.
Lupus Vulgaris.
Skin tuberculosis one form. Skin cancer. Extirpation,
silver nitrate, pyrogallic acid, arsenious acid caustic, chlo-
ride of zinc, X rays.
Lycetol.
Alleged uric acid solvent.
Lycopodium.
Dusting powder.
Lymphadenoma, see Pseudo-leukemia.

Lymphangitis. Inflammation of lymphatic vessel.
Ichthyol externally and syrup of iodide of iron inter-
nally, quinine and other tonics and stimulants according to
severitv of attack.
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Lysoform.
Lysol and formaldehyde. Not much used.
LysJdlne.
Another alleged uric acid solvent.
Lysol.
A saponaceous 50% cresol antiseptic and disinfectant,
one of the best as it is effective, comparatively safe, non-
caustic and cheap. For making instruments aseptic, also
hands of surgeon, deodorizing, etc.
Soluble in water it makes a clear, transparent, unctuous
solution more convenient and safer than any other anti-
septic.
For weak antisepsis a solution of J to£% suffices. The
usual surgical strength being 1 to 2%
for operating. As a
disinfectant it is used in 5% solution. It also deodorizes and
has no offensive properties.
Lyssaphobia.
Fear of hydrophobia causing weak minded persons to
bark,etc., in hysterical ignorance that barking is not a
symptom of hydrophobia.
Lysulphol.
Sulphur lysol and soap. Not much used.
Macrotin, see Cimicifugin.
Magnesium Carbonate.
Insoluble; Antacid, Antilithic. Dose 30 to 120 grains.
Magnesium Oxide, Light.

Light or calcined magnesia. Soluble in dilute acids and
carbonic acid water. Antacid, Laxative, Antilithic. For
stomach acidity and accompaniments of headache, dyspep-
sia, etc., externally ulcers and abrasions, tooth powders.
Large doses laxative. 10 to 60 grains dose.
Magnesium Sulphate.
Epsom Salts. Soluble 2 parts water. Dose a half to
one ounce. Other magnesium salts or preparations are
chemical reagents of doubtful medical utility.
Maizavena.
Corn silk, saw palmetto, oats, sandalwood oil. Tea-
spoonful doses for cystitis, enlarged prostate, gonorrhoea,
etc.
Malaria, see Intermittent Fever and Remittent Fever.
Mai de Mer, see Sea-sickness.

Male-Fern, Oleoresin.
Filix mas, a gram of the oleoresin representing about
14 grams of the root. Anthelmintic, unpleasant but safe.
For tape worms Merck's Extract can be used 2 4 drams
to
in 3 portions half-hourly, in capsules, followed by calomel
and jalap if needed. See Tanret's Pelletierine for eligible
syrup for tape worm.
Malignant Pustule, see Anthrax.
Malt Extracts.
Vehicles for cod liver oil, cascara, and some other medi-
cines. Minor tonic and nutrient by itself. Expensive.
Manganese.
Useful only in connection with iron tonics.
Mania. Insanity with mental excitement.

Sulfonal or Squibb's fluid extract of conium maculatum
in quarter to half dram doses. Avoid opiates and chloral
hydrate especially as the latter ruins digestion and forms a
habit. Plenty of fresh air and out door exercise often re-
sults in good sleep at night. Stimulants are better than de-
pressants, the bromides add to the debility and supporting
treatment is needed for exhaustion finally sets in. Whisky

may calm and act as a sedative where depressants have but
temporary effect.
Marasmus. Infant malnutrition.

Sanitary surroundings, pure milk, tonics, removal of
any constitutional cause if possible.
Massage.
As with many other remedial means the value of mas-
sage has been misunderstood and practitioners have missed
chances to benefit patients materially through natural skep-
ticism and disgust induced by the extravagant claims of
masseurs and the fact that most of them will use massage in
cases where it is plainly useless. In their desire to get fees
the real advantage of massage to the patient is of no con-
sideration. Hence we see it applied by badly educated rub-
bers, in and out of "massage parlors" and barber shops,
solely as a fad and for profit and without the least reference
to helping the sick person. At times even the most ignorant
and useless treatment of any sort may exert a mental influ-
ence, accidentally assisting a case particularly of minor ail-
ments; but on the other hand you can observe instances of
superficial rubbing, such as any granny can give, effleurage,
where deep pressure is appropriate, blood pressed toward
the heart and brain when those organs were already en-
gorged, and the reverse operation of emptying brain vessels
by downward pressure on the arteries in cases of faintness
from too little blood in the head. The fact is massage is
both a science and an art, but subsidiary to, or collateral
with, all the other medical arts and sciences. To administer
it properly requires an intimate knowledge of anatomy,
physiology and pathology, and had practitioners recognized
and availed themselves of what massage offers as an adju-
vant in treatment, educated masseurs would have found
190 THERAPEUTICS, MATEIUA MEDICA AND PRACTICE.
enough employment as assistants of physicians to enable
them to give up the dishonest claim that all diseases can be
treated by massage. The only function of the masseur is as
an assistant to the physician; as a separate practitioner de-
ciding for himself what disorders should be massaged he is
most often a quack, like the "osteopath" who would never
have sprung up at all if physicians had used the assistance
of the masseur and not ignored the help it would have af-
forded him, which the public has imperfectly realized and
which the "osteopath" ignorantly applies with all the arro-
gance of the financially successful and rascally charlatan.
The way to kill the impudent harmful "osteopath" is to in-
telligently employ the educated masseur, letting him agree
to his subordinate position and discrediting him if he as-
sumes to be a "cure-all" and refuses no case however in-
appropriate for massage treatment, as long as a fee is ob-
tainable.
In treating chronic rheumatism, for instance, a combi-
nation of massage, superheated air and medicines has
worked surprising benefits to the patient, but the business
problems are awkward: the hot-air man tries to steal such
patients from the doctor, and in some few instances hot-air
treatment by itself has been sufficient, then the masseur
sneers at the inability of medicine to remedy all cases and
makes unjustifiable promises to the sufferer, which some-
times are fulfilled accidentally, and the osteopath laughs at
all of them and literally and figuratively pulls the legs of vic-
tims, who when their means are exhausted go back to the
regulars or dispensaries, in some cases apologizing for pat-
ronizing such unpromising practitioners as they no longer
had the means to employ advertising and other high priced
quackery.
The mutual attitude of the doctor, masseur and hot-air
man, thus is one of silence as to, if not condemnation of,
one another. The patient is left to flounder in ignorance,

occasionally helped by a quack, because the doctor was not
equipped with apparatus or information which in a few in-
stancesmay have been legitimately used. Nor is it neces-

sary for the physician to have all the accessory means for
helping disease any more than he need own health resorts,
springs or dispensaries. A conscientious regard for his pa-
tient's welfare will suggest the employment of such means
as are helpful without regard to how the ignorant may be
influenced to false estimates of the subsidiary means and
incline to substitute it for your general oversight of the case.
Tapotement or rapid tapping over parts is now a part of
massage but an apparatus was made for performing it in
treating supra-orbital neuralgia in 1875 m France, and since
then tapping machines have been more or less used in au-
ral and facial massage, but mechano-neural treatment, vi-
bratory stimulation, mechanical massage and treatment with

other apparatus for similar purposes are being advertised to
both doctors and patients until their claims perplex the
practitioner, and when he reads announcements of cures by
vibrations of disorders impossible to benefit by any means
he is apt to grow disgusted and denounce the entire matter
as a fake. To sift out the real from the false in any-
thing is always difficult, and this is merely one of the in-
stances. The manufacturers of the machines would sell
everyone a set of jigglers and tossers if possible, and physi-
cians would put them in the scrap heap. Meanwhile the
little good they do is seen by some students and made use
of, thus forcing the machinery into qualified recognition.
Of course the mechanical treatment tries to secure every-

thing whether suitable for that method or not. Business
instinct prompts the doctor to reciprocate in kind and do as
the charlatans do, but higher intelligence would reconcile
the physician to abandon his practice altogether rather than
sink to their level.
Gymnastics or Swedish movements, in some few dis-

orders, specially applicable, appear to be useful ; but, as with
other measures, the inclinationis to use them as cure-alls.
In locomotor ataxia resort to muscle using differing from

the ordinary, has been tried with not very encouraging re-
sults, the idea being to develop such centers in the spinal
cord as are not concerned in ordinary movements, thereby
effecting a sort of derivative stimulation. In writers' cramp,
or paralysis, exercise other than the habitual does no good,
and excess of athletics is apt to impart heart hypertrophy
and an uncomfortable over development of the muscles,
which, in sedentery work, such as those perform, as a rule,
after college graduation, becomes further pathological,
necessitating exuviation before adjusting to the new habits
of office or other quiet life; a painful disorganizing process.
Mastitis, Mammitis. Inflammation of the breasts.

Phytolacca decandra and externally belladonna oint-
ment or plaster.
Mastoiditis.
Inflammation of the mastoid cells sometimes after sup-
purative ear disease, may, if antiseptic treatment fails, re-
quire surgery to excavate the abscess if one forms.
Matico.
Diuretic, fluid extract dose half a dram. Mild, unre-
liable and obsolescent.
Measles.
An eruptive mild fever with catarrh of throat, nose, eyes
and ears. Keep child in the house, give nothing but a little
calomel. Measles recovers soonest when let alone.
Medico-legal matters.
Formerly such things as equity, science, learning, in the
better sense of the words were involved in court issues, but

with the evolution of all things, good and bad, mere adroit-
ness, chicanery and absence of humane considerations gov-

ern most proceedings. Juries and judges are openly bought,
an imitator of Lord Jeffreys once ruled Chicago in the in-
terests of burglars, gamblers, politicians and similar crimi-
nals, and it required a revolution to defeat him. He took
bribes from corporations and cruelly abused the innocent
plaintiffs against them. States Attorneys as a rule, with few
exceptions, try to condemn every one indicted, and indict
every one arrested, regardless of innocence or guilt, to
"make a record of convictions" often to offset their release
of wealthy criminals. I have personally known of immense
efforts inChicago of assistant state's attorneys to hang im-

beciles and insane, whom they knew to be such. Abraham
Lincoln with his honesty, mercifulness and ability without
claptrap should be the type for emulation, but the blood-
thirsty Jeffreys is more frequently copied.
Megendie's Solution.
Morphine 16 grains to the ounce of distilled water, for
hypodermic use. The assertion is made that solutions of
morphine change to apomorphine solutions in time.
Melachol.
Secret.
Melancholia.
This insanity is accompanied with toxaemias self en-
gendered and it is a puzzle to combat them without depress-
ing the patient further. Hot baths are cleansing but they
exhaust, cathartics are needed but they have to be used in
such large doses that when they operate the patient is often
in a collapse. It is advisable to tone the system up at the
same time these cleansing measures are used, and melan-
choliacs can stand large doses of strychnia, quinine and
phospho-albumen enabling them to take cathartics and ton-

ics better. Chloralamid is the best hypnotic.
Membranous Croup.
Diphtheria.
Meniere's Disease, see Deafness.
Meningitis, Brain Fever, Cerebro-spinal fever.

Ergot, calomel, bromide of potassium, saline cathartics,
ice to head, antipyrine, chloralamid.
Mentagra, see Barber's Itch.
Menopause.
Circulatory disturbance in the climacteric or change of
life period. Ergot, chloralamid, valerianates, asafoetida.
Menorrhagia. Excessive menstruation.

Ergot and rest in ordinary cases. Severe instances
styptics, tampons, rarely uterine applications.
Menthol.
From oil of peppermint. Refrigerant, anthelmintic, an-
tisepticand incidentally slightly anesthetic especially to mu-
cous surfaces. Very soluble in alcohol, insoluble in water
or glycerine, also dissolves in 4 parts olive oil, which is
sometimes used on tampons or externally as an antiseptic,
analgesic, anaesthetic or stimulant; in diarrhoea, vomiting,
chronic bronchitis, influenza, asthma, catarrh, nasal diph-
theria internally, and outwardly toothache, crystal in tooth,
migraine, neuralgia, pruritus ani et vulvae. Dose 3 to 5
grains. Menthol is the main ingredient headache
in several
and neuralgia external applications. It has been used for
internal antisepsis in typhoid with debatable results, but as
an anthelmintic with success in the anemia of Puerto Rico,
ignorantly written Porto Rico, the anemia being due to
uncinariasis, a tropical parasite destructive of blood corpus-

cles.
Menthol Valerianate, see Validol.
Mercuro-iodo-hemol,
Substitute for iodide of mercury, on trial.
Mercurol.
Antiseptic and astringent, but as it must be made fresh
as wanted it is not valuable enough to warrant the trouble.
Mercury.
The old fashioned blue mass contains 33 per cent of
metallic mercury finely divided into globules, but these di-
visions are very irregular as may be seen under the micro-
scope, some of the globules flowing together in larger
masses. If the stock is old these are still larger, accounting
for the differences in effect of the separate stocks. Calomel
is better for any purpose for which blue mass was formerly
used.
The ointment, Unguentum Hydrargyri, or blue oint-
ment, used as an external application in parasitic destruc-
tion and inunction in syphilis, also varies in the division of
the metal and also may not contain the 50 per cent of metal.
Improvements have been made by using Lanolin as an ex-
cipient, and Squibb made oleates of mercury, but even these
vary in the number of globules to the ounce, though labelled
as having certain percentages. The metal has a tendency to
precipitate from the and to gather at the bottom
oleic acid
of the bottles, as may be seen by simple inspection. Oleates
are, however, more active than blue ointment, the division of
metal being much finer, the minute globules being absorbed
by the skin, but in metallic masses where the liquid has
flown together there is no absorption even when the metal
is beneath the skin. The finer the division the more active
the mercurial, and this applies to the salts of mercury as

well, as the mercuric decomposes into much finer metallic
globules than the mercurous salts, the bichloride releasing
extremely small globules in the alkaline fluids and intestinal
sugar than the mild chloride, and the first named is corres-
pondingly more active, meriting its title of corrosive subli-
mate.
Hydrargic Plaster is hardly useful enough to be re-
tained in the pharmacopeoia.
The Ammoniac and Mercury Plaster is practically ob-
solete.
Ammoniated Mercury is so rarely used as to also war-
rant its being dropped.
From researches into the properties of the mercurials,
published by me in various medical and scientific journals,
the last article being in the Journal of the American Medical
Association, Feb. 22 and 29, 1896, I was able to make sug-
gestions as to the rationale of this class of medicine among
which from observations under the microscope of the be-
havior of the metallic particles in the human body, was the
phagocyte like effect of the metal in enveloping debris, or
any minute foreign particles, thus suppressing their patho-
genic activity, if any, and enabling elimination of disease
producing germs or products. This in turn suggested to me
the idea of using the fluid metal mercury by pouring it into
the urethra by gravitation, or introducing the pure metal by
bougies, catheters or any other means, so as to come in di-
rect contact with the gonococci, envelop them and by agi-
tation cause the crypts of the urethra to be filled by the met-
al which with the cocci can be subsequently poured and ex-
pressed from the canal. Any later use of the same metal
should be only after subliming or subjecting it to acid strong
enough to destroy the germs without affecting the metal.
In this way I think the entire canal can be thoroughly
cleansed with no danger of mercurial or any other poison-

ing or bad result.
Much nonsense is current concerning the effect of mer-
curials. One mistake that acids may not be used when
is
calomel is Calomel is unaffected by anything in the

taken.
stomach or by what may be taken, except an alkali, such as
bicarbonate of soda, which I recommended to be taken with
sugar, in an article published twenty-five years ago. since
which this mode of administration has come into common
use. I also showed that the customary dose of the mercur-
ials at that time was unnecessarily large and recommended
the tenth grain calomel doses thereafter.

Whenever calomel seems to be converted into corrosive
sublimate in the system it is because the mercuric salt exis-
ted in the dose of calomel as an impurity before it was taken.

So lemons or vinegar can be safely used when calomel is
taken andif any harshness seem referable to any combina-
tions formed it is wholly due to impure calomel having been

taken. The higher salts always decompose into oxides and
metal in the body just as the lower salts do, that is the bi-
chlorides, biniodides and other mercuric preparations split
into the yellow oxide of mercury, and calomel and other
mercurous salts decompose into the black oxide of mercury
in the alkaline secretions and then further pass into the fine-
ly divide metallic state by the action of physiological sugars,
the main difference being that the higher salts break up
more minutely than the lower, calomel liberating globules
about the size of those in blue mass only vastly more uni-
form, explaining the similarity of effects of calomel and blue
pill.
Mercury Chloride, Hydrargyri chloridum mite, see

Calomel.
Mercury Bichloride, Corrosive Sublimate or Hydrar-
gyri chloridum corrosivum, see Bichloride of Mercury.
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Mercury Cyanide, seldom used, obsolete.
Mercury Imido-succinate, see Mercury Succinamide.
Mercury Iodide, Red. The active Biniodide used as an
antisyphilitic in tenth grain to quarter grain doses.
Mercury Iodide, Yellow. In old pharmacopoeias called
the Green Iodide until the microscope revealed that the
green color was owing to the mixture of the pure yellow
Mercury Protiodide with metallic mercury decomposed
from it forming the impure green. It is used for the same
purpose as the red iodide but is milder, being allied to calo-
mel as a mercurous salt while the red iodide is mercuric and
hence related to corrosive sublimate. The yellow can be
given in half grain to 2 grain doses, but not combined with
iodides or iodine as it may form the mercuric salt before
taken internally.
Mercury Oxide, Black. Too unstable for use. calomel
is better.
Mercury Oxide, Red. This highly poisonous salt is
not used internally, and in my opinion is a subnitrate, for

which I gave reasons in the articles on Mercury mentioned.
A 10 per cent irritating ointment is made with it.
Mercury Oxide, Yellow. Being derived from the mer-

curic salts this oxide is more active than the black and being
equally unstable it decomposes into finely divided metal un-
der all circumstances. It is not used internally, an ointment
has 10 per cent and the oleates various percentages, but they
split up so readily this property should be taken account of
when using it.
Mercury Oxycyanide. Active germicide, more poison-

ous than sublimate. Six tenths of one per cent solutions to
wounds, but of doubtful superiority to mercuric chloride.
Mercury Salicylate. Doubtful as any value to the over-
burdened list of fancy medicines.
Mercury Succinimide. Improperly suggested for hypo-
dermic use in syphilis. See Corrosive Sublimate.
Mercury Sulphate, Basic. This is Turpeth Mineral,

the subsulphate of mercury and unfit for any use in medi-
cine with so many purer and more eligible preparations. It
is practically obsolescent even as an emetic.
Mercury Tannate. A useless fancy article.
Mercury Ammonium Chloride. White Precipitate.
Only used as an ointment with 10 per cent of the ammon-
iated mercury, and this old preparation can be spared.
Mesotan.
For local application of salicylic acid in rheumatism.
10 to 20% in olive oil or castor oil.
Methyl alcohol.
Poisonous wood alcohol.
Methylene Blue.
Aniline substitute for quinine. Dubious usefulness.
Methyl-morphine.
See Codeine. Merely disguised but weak morphine.
Methyl Rhodin.
Substitute for salicylates. On trial. ,
Methyl salicylate.
Synthetic oil of wintergreen. Cheaper but more dan-
gerous than the natural oil.
Metritis. Inflammation of the uterus.

Antiseptic and astringent washes or suppositories as
ichthyol, internally ergot and salines.
Metrorrhagia. Hemorrhage from uterus.

Same treatment as menorrhagia, but if foreign sub-
stance in uterus it should be removed to stop bleeding.
Migraine, see Headache.

Milk Leg, see Phlegmasia Alba Dolens.
Milk of Magnesia.
Liquid Magnesia, 24 grains to fluid ounce. Antacid.
Dose 1 to 4 fluid drams.
Milk, Sterilized.
Von Behring says that the usual sterilization of milk is
to be condemned since fresh milk contains anti-bodies which

protect the infant against infection from colon-bacillus.
Milk Sugar.
Weak diuretic and nutritive, used as excipient wnere
bulk and harmlessness desirable as in placebos and homeo-
pathic preparations.
Mind Cure.
Impudent lying ignorance endeavoring to impose upon
stupid ignorance. Such superstition is also preyed upon in
mental telepathy, mind reading, theosophy, etc. Were there
any truth in the ability of any one to read the mind of an-
other as such fakes claim, the fakirs would instantly black-
mail millionaires instead of scaring negroes out of dimes
with their supernatural power.
Molluscum.
Waxy white or pink elevations with dark center, like
vaccine sore. Tonics may relieve without incision, or zinc
and mercurial ointment.
Monobromate of camphor.
In pills of either 3 or 5 grains, once to thrice daily, they
are unequalled as a sedative to over activity of the genital
functions or sexual desire. At puberty some young men are
in danger of insanity from this cause and monobromate
given judiciously calm this erethism and brighten up the
will
intellect, enabling proper sleep and absence from irritating
physiological conditions. Neurasthenia has been caused by

masturbation and the monobromate pills will stop this pro-
pensity enabling the patient to gather strength of mind and
body, where tonics in such cases merely add fuel to the fire.
Monoplegia.
Paralysis of single group of muscles.
Monsel's Solution.
Subsulphate of iron solution. Styptic. Dose 3 to 10
drops diluted. Stops bleeding applied to surface injured,
not antiseptic enough alone to prevent ulcers and sloughs
from forming later.
Monospasm.
Spasm confined to a single group of muscles. Proto-
spasm is where a general spasm follows on a monospasm.
Moral Imbecility.
Maliciously mischievous children and the money sharks
and politicians who are without scruples. Under "business"
they excuse acts from petty larceny to murder. Crime con-
sists in being caught.
Morning Sickness. Nausea of Pregnancy.

A grain or two of oxalate of cerium dry on the tongue.
Morphine.
Alkaloid from Opium, which see. Dose an eighth to a
half grain, and is more convenient and definite than opium
as a medicine but equally terrible as a habit. Main antidotes
are permanganate of potassium internally and tincture of
capsicum by the rectum, with stimulants and tonics, as
strychnia.
The commonlyprescribed sulphate is the best form for
use, theHydrochlorate being prescribed when other chlo-
rine compounds are used by would-be careful practitioners
lacking experience in chemistry and who imagine that the

trifling amounts of sulphates, etc., in salts of the kind, while
theoretically incompatible are practically so, when they are
not, and solubility differences are trifling.
Morphinism. The opium habit.

Reduce to slight discomfort point, cleanse with hot
baths and cathartics, but support at the same time as in mel-
ancholia, give strychnia aid. chloralamid for sleep, and never
withdraw when intercurrent disease.
When the point of discomfort on the small dose is
reached then wait on that sized dose until it is tolerated as a

point of comfort and then reduce still further and so con-
tinue. Nothing is a cure when one narcotic is substituted
for another.
Morphine Poisoning, See Opium Poisoning.

Mousette's Pills.
Aconite about one three hundreth of a grain to each

pill, dose two to three pills daily for neuralgia. Old prac-
titioners anxiously and skilfully watched the effects of such
deadly stuff as aconitine upon pain in honest endeavors to
relieve it, when a brisk cathartic would have disposed at
once of the poison upon which the pain depended. The an-
cient treatment was like sealing up a sewer outside of the
house.
Muira-puama.
Alleged aphrodisiac.
Mumps. Parotiditis.
Calomel a tenth of a grain hourly for the first day or

two. Keep the patient in the house and isolate as it is con-
tagious. It recovers in a few days even if nothing done, but
in adults there is danger of orchitis.
A five per cent ointment of guiacol spread over the
parotid region, and if orchitis threatened, also over the scro-

tum has been recommended as a means of reducing the dan-
gers and period of parotiditis.
Muscarine Nitrate or Sulphate.

Antispasmodic and antihydrotic. Night sweats, anti-
dote to atropine.
Music.
Sentimental ignorance periodically "discovers" thai all
insane and sick can be cured by music. It is a survival from

the savage beating of drums to scare away the devils that
cause sickness. One political asylum head availed himself
of the catchiness of the idea to have concerts for ''graft."
Musk.
Antispasmodic, stimulant in doses of 3 to 10 grains or
tincture half to a fluid dram.Seldom used as ammonia an-
swers the purpose as well.
Mustard.
Emetic in teaspoonful doses, in plaster, papers or
leaves, charta sinapis, allays nausea and
abdominal pain.
Powder in hot foot bath adds to rubefacient and derivative
effect.
Myalgia.
Pain in muscles, usually rheumatic
Mydrine.
Evanescent mydriatic made up of ephidrine and hom-
atropine hydrochlorates. 10 per cent solution in diagnosis.
Myelitis. Spinal cord inflammation, see Meningitis.

In syphilitic treat accordingly, otherwise as meningitis.
Surgical myelitis refers to inflammation of the marrow
of bones, often tubercular. Xeurologically it means inflam-
mation of some portion of the spinal cord, gray or white

matter, both are serious diseases and apt to be chronic.
Iodides, ergot, antiphlogistics, cathartics may aid, but cord
myelitis tends to paralysis or worse.
Myocarditis.
Heart muscle inflammation. Diagnosis difficult, ends
in degenerationand liability to rupture. Treat as endocar-
ditis.
Myoma.
Muscle tumors. Excision.
Myotonia.
Congenital chorea like inco-ordination. Incurable.
Myoclonia or myoclonus could apply to the same, which has
been called Thompson's Disease. Though clonic grimaces
more properly fall under that division, such are also incur-
able though not congenital. Habit chorea liable to be con-
fused with tonic and clonic disorders of other kinds.
Myrrh.
Astringent. Carminative, Cathartic, Emmenagogue.
Dose 20 grains or tincture half to 2 fluid drams. There
5 to
are also pills of Aloes and Myrrh and a tincture of the same.
Not much used except with other things or as an astringent
application of the tincture of Myrrh to tender and loose
gums in dentistry.
Myrtol.
Ethereal drops 5 to 15 minims on sugar or otherwise in
bronchitis, tonsillitis, cystitis, etc.
Mysophobia.
Fear of contamination. Some patients wash their hands
hundreds of times daily. Treatment seldom helpful. Sea
travel, bicycle riding, out door life. Usually incurable.
Mysticism.
Tendency to credulity and love of mystery are rever-
sions to savage terrorism. Negro hoodooism is an example.
It is also a symptom of some insanities, as paranoia, or per-
version of reasoning. Uncultivated and illogical delight in
deceiving themselves, assisting fakirs in hoodwinking them.
Myxoma.
Mucous polypi are formed of this connective tissue
growth. Excision.
Myxoedema.
A mucous dropsy, causing puffiness of face and hands
and stupidity. Thyroid preparations are remarkably suc-
cessful in this disorder, probably originating the idea that
thyroids were good in obesity, as myxoedema resembles
obesity superficially.
Naevus.
Mother's marks, moles, red due to arterial, blue to ven-
ous blood. Electrolysis judiciously if at all. Most cases
are best not treated.
Napelline.
Alkaloid from aconitum napellus, dose a sixth of a
grain. In morphinism to substitute one horrible habit for
another.
Naphthaline.
Soluble in 20 parts alcohol, 3 ether, 8 oil turpentine, 2
chloroform, 8 olive oil, insoluble in water or glycerine. Has
been used internally in intestinal catarrh, worms, cholera,
Dose 2 to 8
typhoid fever, and externally in skin diseases.
grains inpowder or capsule; for tape worm 15 grains fol-
lowed some hours later by castor oil. Maximum dose 30
grains. As an internal antiseptic it cannot be used in suffi-
cient quantities to aid.
Naphthoic Alpha.
Disagreeable taste, but little soluble in water, soluble
in alcohol or ether. Antifermentative, Antiseptic, used in
diarrhoea, typhoid fever. Dose 2 to 5 grains. Seldom used.
Naphthol, Beta.
Soluble in 1 part alcohol, 2 ether, 25 chloroform, 40
glycerine, 12 olive oil, almost insoluble in water. Antisep-
tic internally and for skin diseases as psoriasis externally.
Dose 3 to 8 grains, maximum 10 grains. Not so often used
as formerly.
Naphthol, Beta, Benzoate.

Same purposes as other Naphthols, dose 5 to 15 grains.
Narcotile.
Anesthetic. Not much used.
Nargol.
Silver and nucleic acid for gonorrhea. Not much used.
Nausea.
Ice swallowed, mustard to abdomen, oxalate of cerium
a grain dry on the tongue. If fermentation, atonic indiges-
tion a vomit induced by copious water drinking and any
emetic or lavage washing out of the stomach are better than
merely smothering the sensation of nausea.
Nephritic Deafness.
Morf says half the nephritics are deaf. How many are
deaf without nephritis not estimated.
Nephritis, see Bright's Disease.
Nephroson.
Diuretic elixir. Compound of vegetable diuretics.
Dose 5 to 10 drops diluted.
Nervous Exhaustion, see Neurasthenia.
Nervousness. Irritability.
Fresh air, avoid medicines except a little asafoetida.

Change the conditions producing nervousness, as late hours,
idleness, inane life, too much or too little food, liquors, tea,
coffee, etc. Bromides debilitate, opiates and cocaine de-
bauch.
Nettle Rash, see Urticaria.
Neuralgia.
See also Headache. Usually an autotoxaemia, requir-
ing cleansing in the most effective manner that will not in-
duce the habit of taking cathartics. Pure cod liver oil. not
emulsions or silly substitutes, and salines establishing regu-
larity of bowels, with bathing and any other means of main-
taining regularity and cleanliness of habits. The various
acetanilide, antikamnia, opiate and cocaine wines and simi-
lar preparations are given only by careless, ignorant or de-
signing who have not proper regard for the future of the pa-
tient. Often those who have developed considerably in a
particular branch of mechanical medicine, as surgery, mas-
sage, etc., may not have the requisite experience or infor-
mation as to the perniciousness of administering such ad
captandum drugs, and give them for their immediate effects.
The eradication of the disease, usually an autotoxaemia, is
the greatest service to render, but the average patient wants
theatrical instantaneous results without regard to his future,
and the consequence is that superficial and even debauching
temporary dosing is better in demand than honorable logi-
cal study and removal of sickness.
Rarely a neuralgia may be from organic defects, as tu-
mors or deformities of structure, but the majority can be
helped as indicated above.
Neurasthenia.
Sometimes anemia treatment suffices, but the bedrid-
den habit may be hard to break up. It is best to get the pa-
tient out of doors as soon as possible and to clean out the
system at the same time it is toned up. Salines and Phos-
pho-albumen, or strychnia and quinine are valuable. Care to
be used that hysterical peculiarities are recognized, for firm-
ness and insistence upon staying out of bed and exercising
out doors cut this sort of ''neurasthenia" short. The mind
is more involved than in diseases that resemble this hysteri-
cal "nervous prostration."
Neuritis. Inflammation of a nerve.

If alcoholic withdrew cause, similarly if from lead poi-
soning. Antiphlogistine, anti-rheumatics and if indicated
anti-syphilitics.
Neurodin.
Secret antineuralgic and antipyretic.
Neuroma.
Nerve tumor, neuro-fibroma, painful tumors. The most
intense suffering from an urethral caruncle in the female,
is
a small scarlet wart like angio-neuroma, rendering micturi-

tion excrutiatingly painful. Cocaine relieves pain instantly
locally in 3% solution, but excision is the only relief of a
permanent kind. I caused one to disappear with ergot
fluid
extract, buchu and atropine, the excrescence becoming a

white fibroid without sensitiveness.
Neurosine.
Secret.
Nickel Bromide.
Useless in epilepsy.
Nicotine.
Nauseant depressant alkaloid of tobacco, a twentieth of
a grain in strychnia poisoning. Seldom used.
Night sweats.
Quinine, other tonics, atropia, spirits of nitrous ether.
Night terrors of children.

From obstructed breathing, adenoids at times, imper-
fect cerebral circulation from scarlatina, diphtheria, etc.
Nipples, Rubber.
For infants should not be vulcanized, nor when used
for teeth cutting should they be perforated, as the air sucked
in causes colic.
Nipples, see Fissures.
Nirvanin.
Local anesthetic. Probably as unscientific as its name.
Nitre Paper.
Old fashioned method of allaying asthmatic suffering

was by soaking "brown paper," wrapping bibulous paper,
in a strong solution of saltpetre, drying the paper and set-
ting it afire in a pan covered with a tin funnel through the

small end of which the asthmatic inhaled the gases given
off.
Nitric Acid.
Escharotic, after cocaine on syphilitic ulcer, or in burn-

ing out the pits in which the carbuncle germs and pus bur-
row. Antidote alkalies.
Nitro-glycerine. Glonoin.
Like amyl nitrite but more enduring in effects. Vas-
cular dilator and lessener of blood pressure, diffusing cir-
dilation, increasing heart rapidity. In angina pectoris ar-

terial tension is and hysteria paroxysms
relieved, in epilepsy
may be anticipated and prevented though amyl nitrite is
better for prompt action, spasmodic asthma, whooping
cough, false croup, neuralgic dysmenorrhoea, sea sickness,
nausea, cold stage of ague, syncope, chloroform poisoning,
tense pulse from any cause as autotoxemia, pale migraine,
convulsions generally, chronic interstitial nephritis, tetanus,
either the amyl nitrite or nitro-glycerine according to the

rapidity of effect desired, prove useful. The glass pearl
iorm for amyl nitrite and the tablet or pilule form for glon-
oin are best. The dose of nitro-glycerine is a hundredth of
a grain, sometimes less and seldom more. The spirit of
glonoin contains i% in alcohol, the dose being a half to 10
minims. So powerful a medicine naturally attracted the at-
tention of irregulars, who with such dangerous things as
acetanilide, opium and glonoin work apparent miracles, and
make widespread misery; so, to enable their little pills to
get credit for demonstrable effects the homeopaths made a
ten per cent tincture, see H. Phar. 2nd ed. Phila., 1883, p.
235, to pour on their sugar pills to "potentialize" them, in
direct opposition to Hannemann's idea that "potency" in-
creased as the cause decreased, so that a single itch scab
should cure all diseases in the world, hence a grain of nitro-
glycerine diluted by the Atlantic ocean should consistency
be medicine for them in drop doses. Their 10% tincture
has blown up some of their "doctors" and patients, though
not all of them, for material enough for generations of them
and similar faith curists remain unexploded.
Nitro-muriatic Acid. Nitro-hydrochloric Acid. Aqua Regia.

One fifth strength of the concentrated is the dilute acid,
used internally sometimes for jaundice, biliary calculi in
doses of 5 to 20 minims well diluted. This has been im-

properly used for "dyspepsia" as a routine remedy, when

there may have been already too much acid in the stomach.
Nitrous Oxide.
Laughing gas. Used by dentists for safe anesthesia,
and not enough in surgery in which it could with advantage
replace chloroform and ether for short anesthesia. It is
particularly useful in weak heart indications against ordi-

nary anesthetics.
Norwood's Tincture.
Veratrum viride. Dose 5 minims tri-hourly to lower
pulse. Depressant like aconite and as unsafe, paralyses
heart.
Nose-bleed, see Epistaxis.
Nosophen.
Tetraiodo-phenolphtalein. Surgical antiseptic contain-
ing 60 per cent of iodine. Odorless, tasteless, insoluble.
Well spoken of by surgeons.
Nourry's lodinated Wine.

About three fourths grain iodine and a grain and a half
of tannin to the tablespoonful. Substitute for iodide of
potassium.
N Rays.
Nonsense rays. The sensational claim being made for
these N rays that thought and other brain functions could
be measured by them. The plethysmograph measures the
blood pressure as affected by exertion of any sort, but this
is not spiritual enough to suit the illogical mystics.
Nuciein.
Organotherapy preparation.
Numbness.
A symptom of circulatory and nerve impairment in a
variety of disorders, functional and organic, trivial and ser-
ious.
Nutgall.
Galls. Astringent.
Nutmeg.
Aromatic, Carminative. Dose 5 to 20 grains; in over-
doses acts as an abortifacient by causing pelvic congestion,
as does apiol. Also has narcotic poisonous effect in over-
dose. Ergot and stimulants counteract undue influence
mentioned.
Nutrient Reflex.
Vaso-motor arrangement by which blood-supply is
regulated by waste, explained in neurological journals and

books written by me during thirty years, waiting for the
plagiarist with influence enough to make a sensational an-
nouncement of his "discovery."
Nux Vomica.
Stomachic, Tonic. Strychnine is better as it is less
variable.
Nystagmus.
Eye ball oscillations side to side. Bad prognosis.
Nymphomania. Abnormal sexual desire in females.

Monobromate of camphor, salines, light food, no liq-
uors.
Oakum.
Coarse but efficient surgical absorbent, the tar while
odoriferous makes it a fair antiseptic. Used empirically in
hospitals and for packing splint boxes from early times.
Obesity, Fatness.
Numerous remedies have been tried with no result.
Thyroid may in some cases where the fat is a degeneracy
stigma, but the most certain reducer of size is in out door
lengthy walks, or an exclusively out door life. I have known
this to reduce the weight from 250 to 180 lbs in six months.
Anti-fat nostrums are injurious as founded on the iodine in
kelp or fucus vesiculosus, several deaths have occurred from
its through colliquitive diarrhoeas induced. Phytoll-
use,
acca berries, and alternating acid and alkaline salt treatment
failed.
Odontalgia, see Toothache.
Oedema, see Edema, or Dropsy.
Oil, Betula.
Oil of sweet birch, uses and dose same as oil of Gaul-
theria. Anti-rheumatic.
Oil of Bitter Almond.

Contains prussic acid poison.
Oil of Cade.
Juniper Tar. Old fashioned external in psoriasis, fa-
vus, etc.
Oil of Cajuput.
Stimulant, Diaphoretic, Carminative. Seldom used.
Dose 5 to 20 minims. ,
Oil, Castor.
Cathartic dose half to a fluid ounce. Antagonizes auto-
toxemias especially as indicated by headaches in post-dys-
enteric states.
Oil, Cod Liver, see Cod Liver Oil.

Oil, Croton.
Virulent purge. Dose one drop. Externally as a pus-
tulant, irritant.
Oil, Eucalytus.
Aromatic antiseptic much used as Eucalyptol in the
popular weaker antiseptics with borax, etc.
Oil of Gaultheria. Wintergreen.

Good antirheumatic when pure. Dose 5 to 20 minims.
Oil of Juniper Berries.

Old diuretic, seldom used.
Oil of Mustard.
The true oil of mustard is exceedingly pungent, and is
an old fashioned sternutatory. Quackery made use of it as
"Electricity Bottled" to smell in colds. An eighth of a drop
with much water is an internal dose as a carminative. Sel-
dom used.
Oil, Olive.
Rarely obtainable pure; usually cotton seed oil is sold

as olive oil. The old use of this oil favored mouldy growths
in ears when combined with laudanum for ear drops. As an
intestinal lubricant to promote gall stone passage or as a
laxative, cod liver oil is better.
Oil of Pine Needles, Pinus Sylvestris.

Oil of Scotch Fir. Antiseptic, Antirheumatic, used by
inhalation with steam in lung diseases. Externally in rheu-
matism. Little used.
Oil, Pinus Pumilio.

Mountain Pine Oil. About the same as above. Little
used.
Oil of Rosemary.
Stimulant, Diuretic, Carminative. Dose 2 to 5 minims
in capsules. Seldom used.
Oil 9 Santal. Sandal wood oil.
Internal antiseptic, anticatarrhal, anti-gonorrhoeal.

Dose 5 to 20 minims. Irritating more or less.
Oil of Tar.
Externally, but not much in use.
Oil of Thyme.
Externally, but thymol more useful.
Oil of Wintergreen, see Oil of Gaultheria.
Oleate of Cocaine.
5 and 10 per cent, local anesthetic.
Oleate of Mercury.
20 and 40 per cent. Externally in skin diseases, pedi-
culi, and inunction.
Oleoresin, Capsicum.
Rubefacient, stimulant in flatulence. Externally in pain
of> neuralgia and rheumatism. Capsicum and Capsine plas-
ters are kept in stock by druggists.
Oleoresin of Male Fern, see Male Fern.
Onychia, Inflammation of the matrix of a nail.
Ichthyol, carbolic acid, opium tincture, cocaine, anti-

phlogistine.
Operative Remedies.
Trephining the skull should be done rarely and with
neurological advice, as there are many problems of diag-
nosis, brain localization, cerebral topography and general
neurological clinical experience not usually studied by the
average practitioner and still less by the surgeon who too
often unadvisedly and rashly operates, sanctioned by the ig-

norance of such matters on the part of the laity, who accord
to flashy surgery a reverence they are incapable of extend-
ing to medical knowledge as they cannot grasp the logical
training and deep study of the many branches that go to
make up medicine as a whole, inasmuch as these become
reasoning processes of the highest kind, indemonstrable to
the superficial, but operative measures they can see and
fancy that they can understand. Depressed fractures of the
skull should be remedied by replacing the bones, but it is
malpractice to trephine in cerebral hemorrhage, and many
apoplexies are of this nature. Trephining has often been
performed on the wrong side of the head, through interpre-
ting symptoms without neurological knowledge. Opera-
tions for appendicitis have been improperly made when
there was biliary calculus instead, and even dysentery or
abdominal rheumatism has been called appendicitis by sur-
geons prepared to operate. The gravid uterus has been cut
down upon for tumor. But the worst blunder is in emascu-
lating the insane to "cure the insanity" without reference to
alienistic literature which would inform the too ready knifer
that Battey's operation has made lunatics, and that where
the shock of an operation has temporarily cleared the mind
the subsequent relapse of the insane woman deprived of
healthy ovaries is too frequent to warrant this mutilation.
Even respectable gynaecological surgical literature depre-
cates the taking out of normal ovaries as likely to have bad
after mental results. Of course diseased ovaries, if
really diseasedand not merely superficially diagnosed as

such may be properly removed, but healthy ovaries no more
than eyes, ears or noses can be destroyed to "cure insanity."
A few decades ago cart loads of clitorides were cut off for
all kinds of ailments, and Stevens' ocular muscle cutting
followed for the cure of as many conditions as patent medi-

fines allege.
Ophthalmia, see Conjunctivitis.
Ophthalmoplegia.
Paralysis of one or more muscles controlling eye-ball
movements. As syphilis is most frequent cause, antisyph-
ilitics can be tried, and later strychnia.
Jpium.
Varies in quantity, which should not be less than 9 per
cent, of morphine, that it is better to use that alkaloid in-
stead.
Less used yearly by more intelligent and conscientious
prescribers, as the havoc it has made in the world weighs
heavily against its benefits.
Opium Habit, see Morphinism.
Opium Poisoning.
Internally 4 grains potassium permanganate neutralize
3 grains of morphine, and 6 grains for each fluid ounce of
laudanum. Hypodermically 15 minims of 5% solution
hourly or oftener till improved.
Rectal injections of tincture of capsicum half an ounce
to a pint of water arouses interest in the performances, and
it is not attended with inflammation subsequently.
Opodeldoc.
Ancient liniment, superseded by other external appli-
cations.
Optic Atrophy.
Death of the optic nerve with inevitable, incurable
blindness.
Orchitis, see Epididymitis.

218 THEEAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AND PRACTICE.
Orexin Tannate.
Appetite promoter and stomachic. On trial for sea-
sickness.
Organotherapy.
Thyroid gland, testicular substance, as phospho-albu-
men, and suprarenal gland are decidedly useful, but a long
list of worthless affairs said to be from other organs are
based often on nitro-glycerine, and are for the most part

dishonest or ignorantly foisted on a therapeutically ridden
profession.
Orphol. Bismuth Beta-Naphtholate.
Orthoform.
Local and internal anodyne and antiseptic, chief use on
external wounds, burns, toothache to allay pain, pure or in
ointment. Dose 8 to 15 grains.
Orthopnoea,
Distressed breathing in any other than an upright posi-
tion, usually because fluids press upon the lungs in lying
down, during serious organic disease with dropsy.
Osmidrosis or Bromidrosis.
Offensive perspiration, usually of feet. Rheumatism or
uremia the cause. As it is hyperidrosis decomposed later
boracic acid in the shoes may prevent some of the offensive-
ness. Charcoal also, pulverized.
Osteoma. Bone Tumor.

The X ray is useful in photographing the location of
such hard substances in the brain or elsewhere.
Osteomalacia. Bone softening.

The usual calcium nostrums prescribed are worthless,
tonics in general can be tried, with suitable food.
Osteopathy.
Ignorant massage.
Otalgia, see Earache.
Otitis.
Suppuration of the middle ear after scarlet fever or

measles should be treated early with boracic acid and pe-
roxide of hydrogen, as neglect entails necrosis, abscesses,
deafness and even insanity.
Otorrhoea, see Deafness.
Ovarden.
Dried extract of ovary. Doubtful organo-therapy pre-
paration.
Ovariin.
From cow ovary. Doubtful usefulness.
Ovaritis. Oophoritis. Inflammation of the ovaries.

Ovaralgia or pain in the. ovary may be due to prolapse
and by replacement relieved, but inflamed ovaries require
derivation externally and internally. Calomel, salines, cas-
cara, heat to abdomen, rubefacients and even cantharidal
blister plasters over ovaries.
Ovo-Ferrin.
A much advertised egg-iron tonic. Iron in any form
will act as a tonic, more or less.
Oxalate of Cerium.
Anti-nauseant in doses of I to 5 grains, dry on the
tongue.
Oxalic Acid.
Improperly used in medicine.
Oxaphor.
50 per cent solution of oxidation product of camphor,
used in cardiac dyspnoea and asthma. Aromatic spirits of
ammonia will answer as well for the former ailment.
Ox-gall, see Fel Bovinum.
Oxide of Zinc Ointment.

Antiseptic for ulcers.
Oxydonor.
Quack trinket, nickel plated cylinder containing as-
phaltum, to cure all diseases by tying it to the patient's leg.
Oxygen.
Inhalations to resuscitate asphyxiated, and in collapse
of pneumonia.
Oxymethylene, see Formaldehyde.
Ozena. Fetid nose disease.

Antiseptics, antisyphilitics, peroxide of hydrogen, bo-
rax, etc.
Palpitation.
Often a stomach rather than a heart trouble. Bicarbo-
nate of sodium, digestants, digitalis or aromatic spirits of
ammonia, asafoetida.
Panax, see Ginseng.
Pancreatin.
For intestinal indigestion, and as the lean type of dia-
betes is associated with pancreas disease, functional or or-
ganic, as in cancer of that gland, the free use of pancreatine
should mitigate though it may not fully relieve this glyco-
suric disorder. Dose 5 grains and upward.
Pankreon.
Peptonizing Powder. ,
Panopepton.
An alcoholic, rather strong, with foods said to be pre-
digested. Not a triumph of its kind as is Trophonine.
Papain.
Papayotin. From Carica Papaya, Pawpaw. Enzyme
said to be similar to pepsin but acting in alkaline, acid or
neutral solution, soluble in water or glycerine, to aid diges-
tion, but it appears not to be much in favor for such pur-
poses, and as for the claim that it dissolves false membranes
and can be used in diphtheria, it cannot attack this systemic
disease even though it may dissolve the membrane which is
a mere incident and not even an essential one in diphtheria,
and as for cataract absorption the higher grade of ophthal-
mologists rely still upon surgery, while charlatans proclaim
"removal of cataract by digesting the false tissue."
Pappilloma, see Warts.
Paraformaldehyre.
Same as Trioxymethylene. A formaldehyde fancy pre-
paration, disguised with a new name.
Paraldehyde.
Hypnotic. Not much used. Suffocative.
Paralysis.
Before a paralysis can be treated properly its location
and cause must be known, and in most cases the paralysis
cannot be cured and meddlesome dosing is harmful or
merely to earn fees. Paralysis from brain hemorrhage in its
early stage is best let alone; many months afterwards, if in
one not too old, massage, or electrical stimulation may im-
prove a fourth of the cases, and make a decided improve-
merit in one case in a hundred. Similarly in embolic cases,

but in the hemiplegias of brain syphilis in the young much
can be done with iodide of potassium and mercurials if
treatment soon enough, if too much destruction of brain

is
tissue has occurred the full recovery can not be obtained.

Paralyses of children attended with an alteration in the size
of the leg or arm, or its failure to grow are incurable. Spinal
cord destruction causes incurable paralysis.
Paralysis Agitans. Shaking Palsy.

Incurable. Hot bathing and riding in vehicles amelior-
ate.
Parametritis. Inflammation of tissues around uterus,

see Metritis.
Paranoia. Logical Perversion.

Formerly incorrectly called monomania. Often homi-
cidal. Incurable insanity.
Paraplegia.
Spinal paralysis of both legs.
Paregoric. Camphorated Tincture of Opium.

Dose for infants 5 minims, adults a dram.
Pareira.
In great favor 200 years ago as a diuretic, antilithic and
in cystitis. Seldom used now.
Paresis, see Paretic Dementia.
Paronychia, see Felon.
Parotiditis, see Mumps.

Parotitis, see Mumps.
Passiflora.
Used in dysmenorrhoea.
Pautauberge's Solution of Creosote and Hydrochloro-

-phosphate of lime.
Doubtless a fair substitute for other creosote prepara-

tions, but the lime salt is not assimilable.
Paw-paw.
, The ordinary paw-paw is said to have digestant powers,
but the kind called Carica papaya is remarkable in this re-
spect, for albumenoids.
"
Pediculi, see Lice.
Pelletierine.
For tape worm several preparations of the kind. A

good syrup is that of Tanret's Pelletierine.
Pemphigus. Inflammatory skin disease? with vesicles
and pigmentation.
Arsenic and quinine internally and ichthyol and zinc
oxide externally.
Pennyroyal. Hedeoma.
Emmenagogue, dose of oil 2 to 10 minims. Also used
to prevent bites of fleas and mosquitoes.
Peppermint.
Carminative, aromatic, dose of oil a drop to 5 drops,
troches contain a sixth of a drop, spirits dose 5 to 15 min-
ims.
Pepsin.
Multitudinous pepsins more or less nasty or inert are
marketed even in such silly forms as with beer or chewing
gum. When the people learn that rotten stomachs of hogs
are the source of many of these popular pepsins they
will cease purchasing them. Some eligible preparations
such as Fairchild's are found useful, but as these have
been mistakenly applied to intestinal indigestion as well as

stomachic, they are liable to lose esteem. An instance of
where instruction of the purchasers would eventually prove
more profitable than in permitting them to think that pep-
sin could be universally applied.
Pepsin? Dialysed.
Dose 2 pearls. #
Peptenzyme.
Whether in Elixir, tablet or powder form peptenzyme
is an excellent intestinal digestant, relieving abdominal
pains swiftly. Reed and Carnrick, the manufacturers, have
made a special study of digestants and a trial of this one will
sustain my claim that their research has been successful.
Pepto-Mangan, Gude.
An eligible, effective iron-manganese tonic.
Peptonates, see Digestants,
Peptone Wine.
Digestant.
Peptonized Foods.
By means of peptonizing powder sometimes contained
in tubes, enough in each tube or small glass vial to pepton-
ize a pint of milk, a readily assimilable special diet can be
made in short order time. Milk by the cold or hot process
adapted to Bright's disease treatment and feeding, milk
gruel, jelly, punch, lemonade, also peptonized beef and oys-
ters. Digested or pancreatized would be more appropriate
as a designation for the process. See Digestants.
Peptonizing Powder.
Pancreaticus Compositus. A mixture of 20 parts pan-
creatin and 80 parts sodium bicarbonate. 25 grains will
"peptonize" a pint of milk.
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Perdynamin.
An albumen iron.
Perkins' Tractors.
About 1800 a Connecticut man named Perkins claimed
the ability to cure all diseases with his "tractors," a couple
of little metal tubes held in the hands. Multitudes in Eu-
rope, including 8 professors, 40 physicians and 30 clergy-
men certified to the miraculous cures made by the tractors.
It was proven that wooden cylinders also "cured," when the
sick thought they were metal. The craze died out to be re-
placed in time by various forms of Eddyism.
Pericarditis.
Inflammation of the heart sac. Digitalis in small doses,
calomel diuretics, aspiration for exudate. Keep up strength
by nourishment and stimulants.
Periositis. Inflammation of bone membrane covering.

Iodide of potassium, mercuric chloride or biniodide,
syrup of iodide of iron.Such things as calcium phosphate
and glycerino-phosphates are silly. See also Felon.
Peritonitis and Perimetritis. Peritoneal inflammation.

Magnesium sulphate, calomel, morphine, in large and
frequent doses as symptoms indicate, and ichthyol exter-
nally with heat to abdomen. With pelvic effusion as in cel-
lulitis of uterine affections, a large cantharides plaster, the
serum evacuated later from incision in most dependent part,
and the surface dressed with 1% to 3% carbolized vaseline.
Chronic perimetritis treat with iodide of potassium. The
simultaneous use of calomel, magnesia sulphate and mor-
phine to allay pain is more seemingly incompatible than
really so, as emunctories must be kept open in spite of the
tendency of drugs to close them.
Permanganate of Potassium, see Potassium Perman-

ganate.
Perosmic Acid.
Improperly used in medicine, no value in epilepsy, as
prescribed by some inexperienced persons.
Perspiration, Offensive and Excessive, see Bromidrosis
and Hyperidrosis.
Pertussis. Whooping Cough.
Of the many things recommended few are even useful
and most are depressing. Among things tried are ichthyol,
potassium bromide, antipyrine, bromoform. If the irritat-
ing germs lie at the base of the tongue probably Chapoteau's
morrhuol and creosote capsules may be as effective as any
good harmless antiseptics applied locally. Morphine is bad,
and if bromides are used they must not be in excess, heroin
is objectionable for steady use. Creolin inhalations help
some cases. Calomel to prevent head congestion from se-
vere cough.
Petrolatum.
Cosmo-line or vaseline.
Phenacetin.
One of the safest of the modern group of pain allevia-
tors. In addition to its analgesic properties it is antipyretic,
but almost insoluble. Dose 5 to 15 grains, cautiously as
even the weakest of this class of anti-neuralgics may have a
bad effect upon the heart, especially when weak.
Phenacoll Hydrochlorate.
Practically a soluble Phenacetin. Dose 5 to 15 grains.
Phenalgin.
A dangerous antineuralgic.
Phenazone, see Antipyrine.

Phenol, see Carbolic Acid.
Phenol Salicylate, see Salol.
Phenosalyl.
A mixture of carbolic, salicylic and lactic acids with
menthol.
Phenyl-acetamide, see Acetanilide.

There are phenyl prefixes to various drugs such as an-
tipyrine, euphorin, orexine tannate, etc.
Pharyngitis. Throat Inflammation.

Cod liver oil and creosote, guiac, nitrate of silver 8
gains to an ounce of water painted on tonsils and fauces, ex-
ternally heat, an antiphlogistine or blisters; rubefacients in
minor cases.
Phenic Acid. Carbolic Acid.
Phenol Sodique.
Carbolate of soda. Antiseptic.
Phlebitis. Vein inflammation.

Calomel internally and ichthyol, morphine and bella-
donna externally.
Phlegmasia alba dolens.

Milk leg, femoral phlebitis from obstruction by throm-
bosis after delivery or in typhoid fever. Carbonate of am-
monia, anti-pyrine, digitalis, hydrochloric acid internally,
hamamelis, ichthyol and antiseptics generally externally.
Phlegmon. Boils.
Antiphlogistine aborts, ichthyol collodion or other pro-

tective, alteratives and tonics internally if debilitated. A
phlegmonous erysipelas may appear in diabetes and end fa-
ta;'--"
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Phosphates.
Inorganic not assimilable, only useful as medicines if
in plant or meat form. Phosphites similarly ineligible.

Phosphatol.
Neutral phosphite of creosote. Suggested for tubercu-
losis, 4 to 6 capsules daily.
Phosphaturla. Excess of phosphates in urine.

Tonic treatment and rest, minor antiseptics internally.
Phospho-Albumen.
A proprietary preparation of the testes of cattle and
sheep in which the theorizing of Brown-Sequard is carried
out to a practical result. It is the best organo-therapic com-
pound to be had and quick results are secured with it in
neurasthenia, sexual debility, anemia from any cause and in
incipient melancholia, especially in the aged. In some cases
there have been inert syrups substituted for the genuine, or
rarely fermentation spoils the real article, but when the
proper article is secured and appropriately used physicians
have uniformly been pleased with its effects.
Phosphoric Acid.
Too poisonous and concentrated to use.
Phosphorus.
Too dangerous to use pure or disguised as a medicine,
especially as an aphrodisiac, causes fatty degeneration of
kidneys and liver with bloody urine and great suffering.
Phosphorus poisoning.
The French oil of turpentine is used antidotally in
preference to other oils, but with discouraging results. Old

ozonized oil of turpentine is mentioned as antidotal and
prophylactic. Bamberger used three grains of sulphate of
copper every five minutes in acute cases claiming that a
chemical union was secured resulting in an inert product.

To prevent emesis so as to be able to continue the dosing af-
ter all the good had been secured by vomiting, opium has
been added to the sulphate treatment. Permanganate of
potassium douches have been used bv von Jaksch, but a
third of the cases died. Fatty food or medicines must be
avoided as oils render the phosphorus soluble. Jaw necrosis
is usually from inhaling- the poison as in match making, so
a change of occupation is necessary in such cases, and sur-

gery claims the discussion of that trouble. Usually in cases
of chronic poisoning the damage

beyond repair. Fatty
is
degeneration of the liver, kidneys and heart result from

chronic phosphorus poisoning. In my opinion all the good
possible to obtain from an eliminant in instances where the
poison lurked in the tissues, would be secured from con-
tinuous minute doses of calomel, say tenth grain doses four
or five times daily till constitutional mercurial effects ob-
served. The Czar Alexander, it is said, was slowly
last
poisoned with phosphorus in his food. As an ingredient of

aphrodisiacs great irritation of the genito-urinary tract has
been set up, ending sometimes in complete loss of sexual
function, paralysis and death. Many quack aphrodisiacs on
the market contain poisonous doses of phosphorus.
Photophobia. Light causing pain in eyes.

Head injury or serious eye disease or neurasthenia.
Darkened room and otherwise suitable treatment, mainly
intelligent watchfulness without over medication.
Phthisical Insanity.
Angry, suspicious mania occasionally found with phth-
isis. Some recover mentally to relapse physically.
Phthisis. Consumption. See also Tuberculosis.

Exclusively out-door life especially in pine tree moun-
tains. All other treatment as cod liver oil morrhuol and
creosote merely palliative. The usual quack method is to

play upon the well-known hopefulness of consumptive pa-
tients and promise to cure them with some "recent wonder-
ful discovery," gauging the time by estimation ofhow long
the victim's money can be secured, the usual medicine being
wild cherry bark or cherry laurel water, the prussic acid in
which allays the cough a little but is no more curative than
a lid on a volcano puts out its fires.
Physio-medical.
Title of a quack system.
Physostigma. Calabar Bean.

Eserine is an alkaloid.
Contracts pupil, used in oph-
thalmology, antagonist atropine. Other uses as a paraly-
sant not encouraging.
Phytolacca Root.
Poke root, Phytollacca decandra. One of the very few
survivals from Eclectisism, somewhat alterative and popu-
larly favored as a remedy in mastitis. Dose I to 5 grains,
fluid extract 1 to 5 minims. At one time the berries were
said to have an anti-fat effect, based on a homoeopath's fairy
story of birds eating them and growing thin, but time and
trials placed this among other anti-fats, discredited.
Pichi.
Fluid extract on trial for renal and vesical catarrh and

calculi.
Picric Acid.
No use in medicine, notwithstanding it may appear in

some formularies. It has been used to heal ulcers from
burns and in ingrowing toenails, but it is very doubtful if
other things are not better and less poisonous.

Picrotoxin. Cocculin.
Supposed usefulness based on a weak theory that a
stain might change pathological conditions.
Pilocarpus. Jaborandi.
Violent diaphoretic, other uses less. Said to abort ery-
sipelas,and the severe sweating has markedly relieved
chronic rheumatism so that patent medicines were based
upon it until so many deaths occurred from such "rheuma-
tism cures" that the nostrums became unpopular. Dose 10
to 30 grains, fluid extract 10 to 30 minims. Pilocarpine
hydrochlorate is freely soluble in water or alcohol and can
be given hypodermically or internally in eighth or quarter
grain doses in dropsy, uremic convulsions, coryza, asthmatic
dyspnoea, croup, orchitis, atropine poisoning, painful rheu-
matism but not when fasting or the heart is weak, nor
should the dose exceed a third of a grain. It is not a remedy
that can be carelessly used owing to its prostrating effects.
Pineapple.
Juice is digestant.
Piperazine.
Diethylene-diamine. This valuable remedy for rheu-
matism and gout was imitated at one time to the detriment
of its reputation. Schering's is the genuine. The crystals
are freely soluble in water, and the dose is 5 grains several
times daily. Its harmlessness and ability to dissolve uric
acid in all parts of the body, even calculi, and its diuretic
effect enables it to excrete gouty and rheumatic products
effectively. A more expensive but very eligible carbonated
water in quart bottles called Gicht Wasser in Germany and
Piperazine Water here, contains Phenacoll to further the
painless excretion of uric acid. Piperazine is a strong or-
ganic alkali and considering the ability it has to reduce the
irritating influence of uric acid it may prove to be useful in

Bright's disease exacerbations or as a preventive of par-
oxysms ascribable to uric acid kidney irritation, which
sometimes alone is sufficient to cause albuminurea. It has
been recommended in diabetes mellitus but its rationale in
this disease is not clear, though we may accept the empirical
findings from whatever reliable clinical reports there may be
in the future.Its alkalinity suggests its use internally in
poison oak or ivy in connection with external alkalies to

neutralize the toxicodendric acid found by Maisch in the
vesicles of this eruption. There is but one make of piper-
azine that has therapeutic value, that of Schering. Lehn &

Fink, New York city, import the genuine crystals and
water.
Pjperin.
Stomachic in feeble digestion. Seldom used.
Pityriasis. Dandruff.
Vaseline. Many "cures" are petroleum disguised.
Plague, Bubonic, Oriental or Egyptian. Malignant

Polyadenitis.
Antitoxin.
Piatt's Chlorides, see Chlorides Piatt's.
Pleurisy. Pleural inflammation.

Calomel internally and antiphlogistine and heat exter-
nally with aspiration of effusion if extensive.
Pleurodynia.
Neuralgia of chest, usually left infra-mammary in hys-
terical, with three painful points along course of intercostal
nerve when pressed. Small fly-blister between shoulder

blades, asafoetida internally, autotoxaemic treatment if se-
vere.
Pneumonia.
The multitudinous remedies for this disease indicate
their general worthlessness, and the theories advanced for
their use vary between timidly tentative, audaciously ignor-

ant, speculative, and evasively pedantic. Dr. Ad Captan-
dum, at a meeting of the Chicago Medical Society in 1903,
with a full attendance of newspaper reporters, announced that
there was no treatment for pneumonia, and that medicines
were injurious in that complaint. He was about a genera-
tion too late in the originality of the assertion, and as un-
warrantably extreme in one way as was Dr. Nestor in his
opposite practice of poisoning all diseases, including pneu-
monia, but of existence. Bleeding has gone out of fashion,
and were it reinstated as a means of reducing sthenic condi-
tions the routinists would be sure to misapply it and commit
murder again. But the idea of "bleeding into one's own
veins" with depressants, is so taking that the physiological
necessity for so doing is not properly considered, and a re-
sidence in a badly conducted county asylum or poor-house
enable this sort of routine dosing to be followed out logical-
ly to the "death from exhaustion" as recorded and ascribed
to insanity or a chronic ailment, instead of to the depress-
ants used to stun the patient and his symptoms into quietude.
While the heart is feebly fluttering to pump blood through
obstructed lungs the empiricist with the sanction of old
grannies gives veratrum "to quiet the heart." While lungs
are oppressed for moving heavy poultices
space, hot, wet,
add to the difficulty; then a jump is made with complacent
confidence to ice packs, soon to be abandoned through the
skeptics proving that nothing was accomplished by them.
Dry heat seems to be finding more favor. Because a stimu-
lant happened to save some practically moribund case at an
opportune time forthwith stimulants are poured down at in-
appropriate times. Oliver Wendall Holmes has well said
234 THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AND PRACTICE;
that a doctor may have all the science and learning of medi-
cine, but without common sense he is a poor physician; one
may be versed in pathology and be a poor therapeutist, an-
other may have materia-medica at his finger ends and be
unable to apply his knowledge. The great difficulty is that
where so many branches have to be simultan-
of learning
eously called into requisition the uncommon sense of an
Abernethy, Graves, or John Hunter are needed to utilize
them and then to make matters worse when, as in pneu-
monia, there are unknown and shifting factors at work, even
they would with all our modern facilities be non-plussed, so
it befalls that only our cock-sure omniscients of either the
very old or the very new cults dare predict and lay out "in-
fallible" rules for the guidance of ordinary mortals such as
we are, to practice by routine. In backwoods regions there
are still cases treated with lobelia, veratrum, tartar-emetic,
opium or whiskey as specifics, but the thoughtful doctor
watches symptoms and meets indications, lifting prostration
and remembering that sapping strength is no way to care
for a disorder of weakness. A hemorrhage may cause noisy,
violent delirium and the old method would have been to take
more blood, the modern to knock the patient down with de-
pressants, but the common sense plan would be to sustain
judiciously, without overdoing it, until nature had a chance
at restoration. A dose of calomel at the start, or minute
doses frequently used could appropriately be given with a
view to lessening obstruction of any viscera, nor would diar-
rhoea be a contraindication as Fothergill demonstrated that
obstructed bowels are accompanied in some instances with
diarrhoea, and there can be congested capillaries needing at-
tention though distant organs may be relaxed. As a rule
antipyretics in pneumonia are bad and have undoubtedly
determined the struggling heart to stop its efforts altogether,
in many cases. The fact is pneumonia is precisely such

ground as is dreaded by the most accomplished, conscien-

tious and practical medical man, but most presumptuously
and unhesitatingly trodden by the rule-of-thumb practition-
er who parrot-like has his routine by heart, or who has the
latest foolish fad in treatment, incapable of judging of its
applicability generally or specially. A generalized treatment

to be varied with individual needs would be: Glycerinized
antiseptic osmotic paste to chest, thick and renewed
hot,
when dry. Calomel and other laxatives, but the calomel is
an excellent antiseptic itself. Weakness combat with strych-
nia. Deplete as little as possible for the disease does that
too much. Depressants are murderous. Rapid pulse and
high fever can be expressions of weakness to be treated with
judicious sustentation or such antifebrile means as will not
paralyze the heart.
Podagra? see Gout.

Podophyllum. May Apple.
The
extract 2 to 5 grains or the resin Podophyllin an
eighth to a half grain as a cathartic, usually combined.
Poisoning.
General rules may be stated that in a large number of
poisoning cases especially as with caustics like carbolic acid,
sulphuric or muriatic acid destruction of tissues is swift and
impossible to remedy, so that antidotes are usually too late.
By understanding the general principles poisoning may be

antagonized, more or less successfully, off hand. Alkalines
and alkaloids are neutralized by acids and vice versa, but
this isnot enough, for deleterious combinations may still
remain, so that elimination up or down and enveloping the
poison in some material that will obtund or modify it, are
remedial means. Soap suds, flaxseed, slippery elm, mo-
lasses; but oils render carbolic acid more active. Under
each special poison antidotal means are mentioned or the
generalization may
be used of neutralizing and ejecting, by
cathartics, emetics or stomach washing. If esophagus
burned by lye or acids care must be used to not tear the
damaged tissue further. Violent vomiting can do Nar-
this.
cotic poisons require stimulation, and excitants need de-

pressants.
Polyneuritis.
Inflammation of nerves with rheumatoid pains and
wrist drop, usually caused by tippling alcoholics and mis-
taken for rheumatism.
Pomegranite.
Best form for use as Pelletierine.
Pond's Extract. Witch Hazel.
Porrigo. Ringworm of the scalp, see Ringworm.
Potassa Sulphurated.
Formerly used in skin diseases, but its offensiveness
and other remedies answering as well or better tends to omit
it from recent medical usage.
Potassium Acetate.
The old sal diureticus. Soluble in one part of water or
two of alcohol. Dose ioto 60 grains. Well known diuretic
and in large doses cathartic, useful in dropsy and as an ad-

juvant in rheumatism.
Potassium and Sodium Tartrate.

Rochelle or Seignette Salt. Soluble in one and a half
parts water, popular laxative, ingredient Seidlitz Powder.
Dose 2 to 8 drams.
Potassium Antimoniate.
Has been used in pneumonia and puerperal fever for its
diaphoretic and seditive effect, but it can be harmful in any

treatment, as merely saps strength and does not destroy

it
the cause of such ailments.
Potassium Arsenite.
For administering arsenic the best form is Fowler's so-
lution, the Liquor Potasii Arsenitis, most effective when
freshly made and liable to deteriorate with age, to which fact
many failures in its use may be referred. The liquor attacks
the glass containing it as may be readily seen by inspection
of the dimmed bottles in which it is kept. This changes the
chemical nature of the liquor, lessening its value as a medi-
cine. The fresh arsenite of potash is effective in chorea, per-
nicious intermittent fever, obstinate anemias as chlorosis
where iron seems ineffective and in some skin affections. To
antagonize the eruptions of bromism in epilepsy necessitat-
ing long use of bromides, a drop or two of Fowler's solution
daily often keeps the complexion clear. A miserable habit,
however, consists in overdosing with arsenic.
Potassium Bicarbonate.
Not much used as there are better things as antacid diu-
retic or antilithic. Dose 20 to 60 grains, usually taken ef-
fervescent with tartaric or citric acid.
Potassium Bichromate.
Caustic and doubtful use otherwise.
Potassium Bisulphate.
Aperient, but the sulphate is more commonly used.
Potassium Bitartrate. Cream of Tartar.
Soluble in 200 parts water, the neutral tartrate is much

more soluble. Cathartic, diuretic and cooling. Dose 1 to 8
drams.
Potassium Bromide.
Soluble in 2 parts water. Dose 5 to 60 grains. Much
used in epilepsy and is the base of many quack nostrums for

"Fit Cures," indeed Niemeyer announced its usefulness
from rinding that quacks were first to try it. It should not
be used for indefinite periods as it destroys blood corpuscles
and degrades activity and mentality. In epilepsy any bro-
mide will prevent fits for long periods, though it cannot cure
the disease. It is given in this disease in spite of its bad af-
ter effects, as an unavoidable alternative. In other com-
plaints it should be sparingly and temporarily used particu-
larly in such debilities as neurasthenia.
Potassium Carbonate. Pearlash.

Not used
in medicine by itself, though formerly its dose
was 10 30 grains. It has pharmaceutical uses as in mak-
to
ing neutral mixture the solution of citrate of potassium, ere.
Potassium Chlorate.
Contains much oxygen, soluble in 17 parts water. Dose
10 to 20 grains. Formerly used as gargle or spray to ton-
sils in diphtheria and in troches for sore throat, but it has
fallen into disuse. Peroxide of hydrogen is more successful

in oxidation of pus, etc.
Potassium Citrate.
Formerly much used in doses of 10 to 40 grains in rheu-
matism and fevers, still more commonly as effervescent
draught made of lemon juice and 15 grains of carbonate of
potassium or 20 grains of the bicarbonate with water. This
neutral or saline mixture was much used as a cooling
draught in fevers with a dry skin to promote diaphoresis,
but nowadays instead of temporizing with fevers the aim is
to abort them and occasionally the patient is removed with
the disease, though the general trend of science is to lessen
the frequency and severity of fevers.
Potassium Cyanide.
Doubtful utility.
Potassium Glycerino-Phosphate.
Alleged ''nerve tonic."
Potassium Guiacol-sulphonate, see Thiocol.
Potassium Hydrate.
Caustic Potassa. Seldom used except externally, and
as a caustic it is inferior to silver nitrate as the flowing of
caustic potash extends the destruction of tissue undesirably.
Potassium Hypophosphite.
Not assimilable. Explodes easily.
Potassium Iodide.
Soluble in about one part water. A semi-saturated so-

lution would be better for dispensing and prescribing as the
efflorescence would be avoided through temperature
changes redepositing- the salt. Instead of grain for minim
this would afford a grain to two minims of water.
Sometimes iodine is liberated coloring the solution and
this offends the stomach of some patients. The best vehicle
is milk, as the taste is better disguised by it.
In syphilis, doses can be increased from 5 grains thrice

daily by adding a grain to each day's dosage, until by the
twentieth day twenty four grains are used in each dose. If
nausea or the iodide headache appears a return to the mini-

mum dose can be made and gradually increased again. An
old fashioned treatment for headache was to sip a solution
of potassium iodide till 5 or 10 grains were taken, but it
would depend upon the cause of the headache whether this

would avail or not.
Lumbago yields to a small dose of the iodide often, and
formerly it was the favorite remedy in rheumatic disorders.
Haig thinks it relieves arterial tension, and it is used oc-

casionally with diuretics in Bright's disease, but its main
use will be in syphilis, for which it is the nearest to a specific
we have. Fancy substitutes fail to give the good results of
the iodide. Much of the alleged intolerance for it is hysteri-
cal as can be ascertained by not informing the patient that
iodide is being used. See also Iodine.
Potassium Nitrate.
Saltpeter; niter. Formerly much used in rheumatism,
fevers, etc., little used now, occasionally as niter paper made
by soaking bibulous paper such as used for filtering, in so-
lution of saltpeter, drying, and inhaling the fumes from
burning the paper, to relieve asthmatic paroxysms.
Potassium Permanganate.
Disinfectant, deodorant, soluble in 18 parts water, in-
ternally in opium poisoning one or two grains in solution.
Urethral douche in gonorrhoea, deodorant in cancer, ozena,
antiseptic and oxidizing in diphtheria, scarlet fever, septi-
cemia. Solution a dram to the pint. Test for organic im-
purities in drinking water, a permanganate solution being
discolored by organic matter.
Potassium Phosphate.
Doubtful use.
Potassium Salicylate.
The pure salicylate of soda is preferable for the same
purposes and more commonly used.
Potassium Sulphate.
,Mild purgative, magnesium sulphate more commonly
used.
Potassium Tartrate.
Soluble Tartar. Diuretic, laxative. Dose 15 grains to
2 drams.
Pox, see Syphilis.
Presbyopia.
Aged sight. Hyperopia, myopia or astigmatism. Pro-
per glasses.
Prescribing.
In the choice between muriate and sulphate of quinine
the custom is to prescribe the sulphate, merely because it is
more commonly used. Some prescribers carefully select a

sulphate if other sulphates are in the same prescription and
a muriate in case hydrochloric acid or a muriate goes with
the quinine salt. Such care is like straining at gnats, for the
small amout of radicle with the quinine is too trivial to af-
fect result in any degree. And often a direful ''swallowing

of camels" in the way of pharmacy blunders is performed
by these same finiky prescription writers. The day of the
old "shot gun" prescription is past, in which a slop of every-
thing was poured in hope that some article might help the
case; also there was "polypharmacy" in which many things
were put together so that the combined effect would be in-
creased. In a few instances, as when laxatives, cathartics
and tonics are used together there is a little justification for
uniting several things in one dose, but as a rule there are so
many objections to polypharmacy that at this time single
remedies are more favored. Suppose, for instance, you pre-
scribe an emulsion containing cod liver oil, strychnia and
quinine. The dose must be adjusted to the strongest in-
gredient, and even then it is common for the strychnia or
quinia symptoms to appear from overdosage in the effort of
the patient to increase the oil dose. Emulsions are, anyway,
faulty vehicles, for the oil is reduced often to the vanishing
242 THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AND 1'RACTICE.
point and a lot of useless trash like "hypo-phosphites"

which are not assimilated are associated with strychnia,
which is the real tonic, and often a harmful one, used in this
disguised manner; then if there is oil in the emulsion it
regurgitates and is tasted more than if a full dose of good
oil were taken, like that of the Swampscott, Mass., cold
pressed oleum morrhuae, or occasional brands of Lofoden.

Stone's Swampscott is the most reliable, but not always
readily obtained as the Massachusetts General Hospital has
the first claim to what is made and the surplus only, if any,
goes to the market.
The formin which medicine is given may affect results,
and a thought should convince the physician that there
little
are effective and eligible forms that would give the best re-
sults. For example, an elixir in one case, a tincture in an-
other, capsules, the fluid extract, the solid extract or in some
cases even the crude drug itself, and it is the duty of the doc-
tor to study out these matters. Mere copying of a prescrip-
tion, blindly, brands the copyist as uneducated, and danger-
ously so, for errors in amounts and in names are very com-
mon in printed formularies, and blind prescribers are more
than apt to have dead patients in consequence. This is one
of the troubles in patent medicines, the self prescriber and
the patent medicine advertiser are apt to be equally ignorant
of the nature of drugs, and the latter aims as a rule to make
money out of the gullible public that diagnoses its own ail-
ments, and with all the confidence of children or savages,

which they are in such particulars, they gulp all sorts of
abominable concoctions, about as monkeys try sips of this,
that or the other forest product, testing edibility at the risk
of life, and sick monkeys are common in the woods and
cities in consequence. Great hospitals are building up to
cure human simians of drug habits, and a life time may be
spent in trying to be cured of the drug habit induced in the
attempt to cure the previous drug habit. One falls into the
chloral habit in prescribing for himself against the whisky
habit, goes to a fake institute and is cured of the chloral
habit with opium, then at another place his opium habit is
relievedby substituting the hyoscyamus habit, and if any

money is left it is likely to be spent in resuming trials of all
the former stuffs combined till the madhouse or death ends
the farce.
Effective prescribing demands that the prescription be
filled properly, and the careless or indifferent prescription
writer who thinks his duty is complete in scrawling any-
thing on a paper and getting his fee, is not only a fraud, but
deceives himself more and more, as he persists in this
method of automatically going through routine motions,
which in half the instances are absurdly futile.
To be certain as to whether your patient gets what you

order you may not only have to become acquainted with the
druggist and his stock but his idiosyncracies also. The
psychology of dispensing and the dispensers are to be
looked to. The temptation to substitute, to prescribe over
the counter and abuse the doctor who retorts by dispensing
his own medicines, to recommend the other thing as ''just
as good," to encourage the sale of debauching patent medi-
cines and to use cheap, worn out inert materials may be ir-
resistible according to whether the doctor does or does not
look out for his patient's interest, which in time should
prove to be identical with his own.
If the doctor does not know or care about the difference
between the cheap commercial kidney-ripping salicylic acid

and that made from the plant-oils, which costs more, but is
effective and does no harm, the druggist often spares him-
self a quarrel with the customer by using the worthless com-
mercial article to enable him to compete with his brother

pharmacist who would undersell him. Nor it this all. The
key note to harmony between patient, doctor and druggist

starts with the doctor knowing what he is about, and to pro-
tect the patient the prescriber may have to know nearly as
much chemistry and pharmacy as the druggist, and in addi-
tion have to raise the intelligence of the patient.
Were it not so murderous political pharmacy would be
amusing; Chicago county asylum, when I was path-
at the
ologist there in 1882 and later, the drugs were absurd rub-
bish, the fluid extracts as strong as cold tea. the lice grew
fat on what was bought for mercurial ointment, for it was
lard; quinine and calomel could be swallowed by the hand-

ful without effect and yet amazing prices were charged up
for these things. Beer, whisky and cigars were of good

grades, charged up as ''sundry drugs." and consumed by
the county commissioners and their riff raff political friends.
A great howl would be raised were lkjuors prescribed for
the patients. In other public institutions whisk)' in the ward
medicine closets disappeared, though the patients had none.
As to proprietary compounds the subject is by no
means a simple one for honesty at one end of the considera-
tion merges into patent medicine disguises at the other end.
The reputable manufacturing pharmacist has facilities for
making the very best medical preparations, the nature of
which he frankly reveals, but often the process of manufac-
ture is such that therein lies much of the superiority of the
medicine, and even were this process described it could not
be imitated without great expense and the manufacturer
does not feel ethically bound to instruct rivals, though he
defers to the ethical feelings, real or assumed, of the medical
profession, and the highest type of scientific manufacturer
of medicines makes valuable additions to our therapeutic
knowledge at great expense, employing capable chemists
who love their science and who live only to discover and in-
vent. Nothing can be happier in the way of furthering

medicine as an art or science than in such a combination be-

tween commerce and research, though the devoted student
is seldom adequately recompensed. There is a recognition
of this high standard of pharmaceutical manufacturing
among the better informed physicians, but, alas, they also
know that imitators who are dishonest succeed in deceiving
the less well posted physicians by advertising synthetical
compounds or other matters that are in some cases mere
mixtures of honest coal tar derivatives, attaching some mon-
grel Greek-like name, usually one that in which the jargon
intimates the disease to which it is addressed. Then secret
remedies with morphine or cocaine are disposed of under
semi-scientific titles, and misleading formulas are printed on
the label. Inexperienced and young practitioners are liable
to prescribe some rascally preparation by the mere name
having a scientific sound and years afterward find, as he
learns better, that he has unintentionally made opium fiends
through his carelessness and the trap set for him by some
proprietary medicine compounder of the lower grade.
Blindly using all proprietary preparations is as foolish as to
neglect the rare instance of a patent medicine being useful.
Condemning both sweepingly is still more foolish.
The Illinois board of pharmacy, in 1904, sent out pre-
scriptions to 139 druggists in Chicago. In 31 the drug was
pure, in 23 it was absent, in 85 it was adulterated.
Priapism. Erection from chordee, satyriasis, or spinal

injury.
Cold bathing mornings, warm baths at night, monobro-

mate of camphor, cathartics, in spinal disease or injury in-
volving the erector Tenter in the cervico-dorsal region er-
got and conium with dry cupping over shoulder blades.
Proctitis. Rectal inflammation.

Antiseptics, demulcents, resinol or resorcin, ichthyol,
see also Piles.
246 THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AND PRACTICE;
Progressive Pernicious Anemia.

Any excessive anemia. Intestinal intoxication, lesions
gastro-intestinal tract, chronic gastritis, stenosis of pylorus,
carcinoma and gastric ulcer, intestinal parasites, repeated
hemorrhages, malaria, syphilis, prolonged diarrhoea, filth
diseases, starvation, bad hygienic conditions.
Prolapsus Ani. Falling of rectum.

Replacement carefully and slowly with greased cloth,
then astringent douches or suppositories like anakesis.
Strychnia internally.
Prolapsus Uteri. Falling of the womb.

Supporting cotton tampons and astringents. Tonics.
Propionyl-phenetidin, see Triphenin.
Propylamine, so called.
Trimethylamine, Solution. Doubtful use.
Prostatic Enlargement. Prostatitis andProstatorrhoea.

These disorders of the prostate gland tax the ingenuity
of surgeons and physicians; in general terms antiphlogis-
tics, antiseptics, massage or vibrations to reduce the size of
the gland, but all cases are difficult to improve, due to the
tendency of the prostate to retrograde changes, as it is a
homologue of the uterus and hence rudimentary. Calomel,
ichthyol, belladonna, iodoform, suprarenal capsule, ergot.
The gleety discharge is subsequent to gonorrhoea.
Protargol.
Silver 83% with protein, for gonorrhoea.
Protonuclein.
One of the organo-therapy preparations that has not
proven to be useful, at least in my experience and that of
others who tried it.
Prunes.
Slightly laxative, old fashioned laxative prune juice
and a pinch of senna leaves.
Prunus Virginiana. Wild Cherry.

The prussic acid in this plant, in bitter almonds and
cherry laurel is sedative and pleasant to the taste, used in
expectorants. Cherry Pectoral made a fortune for its con-
coctor and advertiser.
Prurigo. Intense general itching.

Anti rheumatics succeed best, though many cases in-
tractable. Hot air to over 300 degrees Fahrenheit, salicylic
washes, resorcin, ichthyol, strychnia internally in senile
cases.
Pruritus. Similar to Prurigo.

Treatment as for prurigo, sometimes mercurial oint-
ment if due to lice or pubic and sulphur ointment if
lice,
itchmite the cause. Uric acidaemia itching indicate anti-

rheumatics, as piperazine, lithia, hot bathing, bicarbonate of
sodium washes.
Pseudo-Leukaemia. Lymphadenoma. Hodgkin's Dis-

ease.
Anemia with enlarged lymph glands and spleen, with-
out leucocytosis. Fowler's solution internally and hypo-
dermically.
Psoriasis. Dry Tetter.

Scaly, itchy, cracking skin inflammation. Arsenic, al-
kalies, potassium iodide, thyroids, internally and chrysaro-

bin. pyrogallic acid, salicylic acid, ichthyol, resorcin exter-
nally.
Pterygium.
Vascular growth from inner canthus toward cornea.
Dissect conjunctiva and push blood vessels of growth be-
neath it.
Ptomaines, see Leucomaines.
Ptosis.
Dropped eyelid paralysis.
Puerperal Convulsions. Eclampsia.
Puerperal Fever.
A septicemia. Antitoxin, calomel, antipyretics, anti-
septic washes.
Puerperal Mania.
As little medicine as possible. The disease is self limi-
ted and often recovers in a few months when the patient
should be taken home at once, unlike other insane cases
which should remain till fully convalesced. The reason is
that surrounding's impress the peurperal convalescent un-
duly if unpleasant. Avoid opiates, chloral, bromides, hyo-
scyamia, etc.
Pulsatilla.
Paralysant, dilates pupil, diaphoretic and diuretic. Al-

kaloid anemonin resembles aconite. Not much used. In
coughs it admits of mucus accumulating, instead of being
expelled.
Pumpkin Seed.
Anthelmintic. Dose i to 2 drams, variable results.
Purpura. Purple patches of skin, remaining when

pressed.
When bleeding, iron salts and supra-renals, antirheu-
matics and arsenic.
Pyelitis. Inflammation of the kidney pelvis, see Bright's

Disease.
Pyemia. Surgical Fever, Septicemia with pus in blood.

Strong supporting treatment as stimulants and quinine.
Mild antiseptics internally and strong ones to any abscesses.
Pyoktannin, Blue.
Dubious use in internal cancers.
Pyoktannin, Yellow.
Weaker than blue and used in skin diseases, with doubt-
ful results.
Pyramidon.
Suggested substitute for antipyrine.
Pyranum.
Benzoic and salicylic acids with thymol.
Pyrethrum.
Pellitory. Old sialagogue, little used now. Pyrethrum
roseum is an insecticide, sold as insect powder.
Pyridine.
Tar oil from distilled bones, for inhalation. Doubtful
value as respiratory sedative, bad heart effect, not much
used.
Pyrogallic Acid.
Pyrogallol. Soluble in 2 parts water, 1 alcohol. 2 ether.
Externally only, usually in 5 to 10 per cent ointment. Skin
diseases. Several pyrogallol preparations are known as
Pyrogallol Disalicylate, the Saligallol; Mono-acetete, Eu-
galiol. Tri-acetate, Lenigallol.
Pyrogallol Oxide.
Psoriasis, chronic eczema, lupus ery, 10 per cent salve
with vaselin and lanolin.
250 THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AND PRACTICE. -
Pyromania.
Incendiarism of insane. The inclination to burn prop-
erty is associated with epilepsy sometimes, particularly at
puberty, but it is not like mysophobia or other morbid im-
pulses, for the pyromaniac is insane.
Pyrosis. Gastrorrhoea. Heart-burn.

Acidity of stomach on which belchings and other symp-
toms depend are corrected with alkalies as lime water, bi-
carbonate of sodium, magnesia, vichy; usually a gastritis
needing dieting mainly on buttermilk.
Quassia.
Infusion injection formerly used to destroy pin worms
in children, but quinine is better. Otherwise quassia is an-
tiquated.
Quiliaja.
Soap Bark. Expectorant, Antiparasitic. Dose 10 to

30 grains. The deleterious effects of this drug which is too
much used to create foam on soda water, should restrict its
use. Saponin, its is more poisonous than medicinal.
alkaloid
Quinalgen.
Doubtful use.
Quinidine.
Quinine is better.
Quinine.
Sulphate usually prescribed. Antiperiodic or antima-
larial, Tonic half to grain thrice daily. Injection in dysen-
amoeba coli in doses of
tery destroys 3 to 8 grains of bisul-
phate which is more soluble. An antimalarial 10 to 20
grains according to severity of intermittent fever, to be
taken as near as can be estimated an hour or half hour be-
fore the expected chill as at that time trie Plasmodium is best
attacked. For children's pin worms two grains of quinine

in capsule used as rectal suppository, continued till relieved,
once to twice daily.
Quinine Sulphate.
Most useful.
Quinine Bisulphate.
More soluble.
Quinine salts in general.

Other than those mentioned above are of doubtful use.
Quinsy. Suppurative inflammation of tonsils, see Tonsi-

litis, suppurative.
Rabies, see Hydrophobia.
Rachitis. Rickets.
Tonics, thyroid, proper food and sanitation. Lime salts
are not assimilated from the phosphites or hypophosphites
mentioned in text books and phosphorus is nonsense. Phos-
pho-albumen may help rachitis, but nothing is sure in such
a deep seated defectiveness.
Radium and Radio-Activity.

Becqueral rays from uranium substances led to the dis-
covery of polonium, actinium, and radium, the latter most
easily obtained, not free, but combined with other elements.
Radium chloride and carbonate being sold by Leon Faval
of Newark, N. J.
Radium acts as does sunlight and the X ray in photo-
graphy, and is on trial in treating cancers.
Rectal Food Suppositories.

Worthless as nutriment and cause proctitis. Tropho-
nine is effective per oram.
Remittent Fever. Bilious Fever. Continued Malarial

Fever with remissions.
Quinine, Citric acid, calomel, euonymus, cathartics, ar-
senic.
Renal Calculi, see Calculi.
Renal Dropsy, see Dropsy.
Renal Hemorrhage, see Hematuria.
Resin of Jalap.
Dose i to 3 grains.
Resin of Podophyllum.
In habitual constipation small doses best, eighth to
quarter grain, but drug habit can be formed in bowel atoni-
city. as well as otherwise and long dependence upon cathar-
tics paralyses the intestines in time.
Resin of Scammony.
Drastic purgative 3 to 8 grains. Little used.
Resinol.
Ointment very prompt in relief of pruritus ani or vul-
vae. Resorcin is probable base, with lanolin, oil of Cade,
etc. Also useful for sore eye lids.
Resorcin.
Most useful as external application antiseptic in 5 to 30
per cent solution or ointment, in inflammatory diseases of
the eye, the skin and mucous surfaces especially, but pre-
parations are made with difficulty, the most eligible being
the proprietary ointment called Resinol, which is the best
antipruritic in prurkis ani,and as an application to the eye
lids in tarsal ophthalmia the scaliness and granulations are
quickly disposed of. and rapid improvement of any ocular
external inflammation is secured from its use.
fHERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AND PRACTICE. 253
Resorts.
The majority are fashionable places for dissipation. The
medicinal springs about as valuable as seidlitz powder or
iron scraps in water. The U. S. Agricultural Department
has been overhauling the mineral waters on sale generally
and reports them as mainly worthless fads.
Rest Treatment.
In a few cases this may avail, but in the greater num-
ber of neurasthenics and melancholies it can be pernicious,
as the tendency is to hysterical helplessness.
Retinitis, Albuminuric.
In Bright's Disease, associated with arterial degenera-

tive changes.
Rhagades. Painful cracks in the skin, see Fissures.
Rheumatin.
Salicylic acid and quinine.
Rheumatism.
Salicylic acid, oil of wintergreen, sodium salicylate, po-
tassium iodide, bicarbonate of sodium and other alkalies, ci-
trate of lithium, cascara sagrada, piperazine, phenacetine.

phenacoll, dry cups, hot applications, massage, hot air, jabo-
randi, abstinence from meat; proper exercise and out door
oxygenation of tissues, plenty of water internally and exter-
nally, methyl salicylate, colchi-sal, guiac, guiacol. The fleet-
ing pains of tertiary syphilis and alcoholic neuritis are mis-
taken at times for rheumatism.
Rhodalline. Thiosinamine.
Rhubarb.
Dose as laxative 10 to 20 grains, cathartic 20 to 40
grains, usually in pills combined with other laxatives as
aloes. The aromatic syrup dose is half an ounce upward,

the compound powder 30 to 120 grains.
Rhus poisoning, see Poison Ivy.
Ringworm. Tinea Circinata.

Soap and water cleansing, epilation of infected hairs,
antisepsis, tincture of iodine, tincture muriate of iron, ink,
salicylic acid, chrysarobin, ichthyol, formaldehyde, peroxide
of hydrogen, betanaphthol, resorcin, carbolic acid, corrosive
sublimate, in diluted applications of ointments or lotions.
Rochelle Salts, see Potassium and Sodium Tartrate.
Roentgen Rays.
Stimulant in lupus treatment, on trial for other affec-
tions. Most useful in diagnosis.
Roseola.
Macular syphiloderm.
Rubidium and Ammonium Bromide.

Dubious value as a bromide salt in place of the potas-
sium, sodium or ammonium bromides.
Rubidium Iodide.
Doubtful substitute for Potassium Iodide.
Rubus.
Blackberry. The root or bark contains the astringent
principle that renders blackberry so popular as a diarrhoea
remedy. It is really the varieties of tannic acid in all vege-
table astringents that act in such cases. The berry lacks
this astringency,hence blackberry brandy so called depends
upon the tannin in the brandy flavored with the berry juice.
The pharmaceutical preparations are the fluid extract in
doses of half a dram to a dram, and the syrup two to four
drams.
THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AXD PRACTICE. 255
Saccharin.
Benzoyl-sulphonic Imide, Garantose. Used in tablets
each of which is equal in sweetness to a large lump of sugar,
for use in tea, coffee, etc., of diabetics. But in time the per-
sistency of this flavor remaining long after being taken palls
on the taste as everything tastes sweet that is eaten.
Salicin.
Soluble in 30 parts of water, Antirheumatic. Dose 10

to 30 grains.
Salicylated Collodion.
With extract of cannabis indica, a modified form of the
national formulary "corn collodion." useful as an applica-
tic n to corns.
Salicylic Acid.
Derived from oil of wintergreen, Gaultheria procum-

bens, and from other plants as Spiraea ulmaria, meadow
sweet, etc.
The salicylic acid derived from carbolic acid is harm-
ful, and has no proper place in medicine, but is often dis-
pensed unless care is used in specifying the natural, as the
artificial is much cheaper, and you can always get sand at
sugar prices if you cannot tell sand from sugar.

The main use of salicylic acid though better prescribed
as a salicylate of sodium, is in treating rheumatism, in doses
of 10 to 40 grains.
Externally it can be used as an antiseptic in some cases,
and is sold mixed in absorbent cotton, but its ability to
macerate the skin should be kept in mind, raw surfaces are
produced by it, so it is not good in burns nor in many other
instances where its properties are not fully known. This
skin-destroying faculty makes it useful as a corn eradicator,
and it is the base of myriad "corn cures," united with collo-
dion, cocaine or cannabis Indica.
It is readily soluble in alcohol or ether and but sparing-

ly in water.
Saliformin.
Dubious uric acid solvent.
Salipyrine.
Antipyrine Salicylate. Not readily dissolved. Anti-
rheumatic, Analgesic. Dose 10 to 30 grains in cachets.
Salligallol.
Pyrogallol Disalicylate, vehicle for dermics in 2 to 15

per cent solution externally.
Salocreol.
Creosote and salicylic acid. On trial.
Salol.
Phenol Salicylate. Formerly used for typhoid fever,

diarrhoea, rheumatism, etc., but falling into disuse as either
liberating too much carbolic acid or, most frequently pass-
ing undissolved through the bowels.
Salophen.
A salol salt. Not much used.
Salt, Epsom, see Magnesium Sulphate.

Salt, Glauber's, see Sodium Sulphate.
Saltpeter, see Potassium Nitrate.
Salt, Rochelle, see Potassium and Sodium Tartrate.

Salt, Seignette, see Potassium and Sodium Tartrate.
Sanatogen.
An infant food.
Sanguinaria.
Blood Root. Expectorant, Emetic. Little used at
present. Dose 3 to 30 grains. Sanguinarine the alkaloid is
in twelfth grain doses, and the nitrate and sulphate are also
used in expectorants occasionally.
Sanitariums.
Many reputable and useful sanitariums exist scattered
over the Union where medical attention is honest and ap-
propriate, but as wealth is usually arrogant as well as ignor-
ant, and truckling is thus induced to pander to prejudices
for mere gain, of course the result is an abundance of fake
institutions where the wealthy ass gets what he thinks suits
his case and is appropriately robbed. Hysteria is coddled in
such places, if it has money, and degeneracy is the sure re-
sult,one of the multitude of evidences that poverty more
often than wealth is likely to develop the fittest to survive.
There are what are called sanitarium cranks, who prefer life
in some institution where their peculiarities are studied with
making money out of them regardless of
sole reference to
good or harm done. This vampyre spirit has grown
the real
and has proven so suitable a means of piracy that it is act-
ually respectable, quite as much so as ''graft," "boodleism"
or the New York pirate trade which good old King William
and Governor Bellomont failed to suppress because the
community including the clergy were on so low a plane that
reformers were shot if too- energetic among them.
The atmosphere of such places is disgusting, every-
where is how much is likely to be made out
calculation as to
of the patient and what kind of humbuggery is best suited
to his case. He is pumped to ascertain his fads, his ignor-
ances, his superstitions and gullibility generally, so as to ad-
just the squeeze to the possible limit. The disorder, if one
exists, is ofminor consequence, except as an element affect-
ing the time in which the patient can be most swiftly robbed;
if rest cure is likely to be the surest means of imprisoning
the victim to the extent of his cash then he is kept abed, re-
gardless of its perniciousness in his particular case as tend-
ing to neurasthenia. I have seen a lot of rich hysterical bed-

ridden who should be up and about, but their money insured
the presence of schemers instead of the physician who would
have given honest advice and treatment.
Santal-Midy.
Pure sandalwood oil in capsules, for genito-urinary ca-
tarrhs and inflammation. Dose, several capsules of 5 min-
ims each, daily.
Santal-Wood Oil, see Gonosan.
Santonin.
Anhydrous Santoninic Acid. Dose 2 to 4 grains as
anthelmintic; children of two years a quarter to a half grain.
Troches are made with half a grain in each.
Saponin, see Quillaja.
Sarcina infection of stomach.

Mild internal antisepsis or anti-ferment as sulpho-car-
bolate of zinc.
Sarcoma. Flesh Cancer.

Prognosis bad. Treatment unsatisfactory.
Sarsaparilla.
No medicinal value except in the imagination of the
uninformed public, and as commonly marketed it is sasafras
root the syrups of both having about the same flavor. Sar-
saparilla is a good vehicle for disguising iodide of potas-
sium, the compound decoction, fluid extract, compound
fluid extract, and compound syrup are the preparations.
The latter being most often used as a flavoring vehicle.
Sassafras.
Substitute for sarsaparilla. The tea of this root de-
praves the blood and causes anemia.
THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA ASD PRACTICE. 259
Satyriasis, see Priapism.
Savme.
Emmenagogue, but dangerous. Dose fluid extract 5
to 20 minims, Oil 1 to 5 minims.
Scabies, see Itch.
Scald Head, see Favus.
Scalds, see Burns.
Scammony.
Griping, harsh cathartic.
Scarlatina. Scarlet Fever.

Symptomatic treatment and care and as little medicine
as possible. Antipyretics if temperature too extreme, but
conserve strength with quinine. Antiseptics in gargle or
externally if suppuration. Otitis pus destroyed with perox-
ide of hydrogen and boric acid. After effects of scarlatina
are sometimes deafness, meningitis, blindness, mental de-
fects. The contagium is usually conveyed by milk.
Sciatica.
Most often due to rheumatism. In acute attacks strong
antirheumatics and cathartics, and in chronic cases hot air
massage and piperazine. When from injury of sciatic nerve
there is danger of forming the morphine habit. Nerve
stretching by knee to chest, hypodermics of Duquesnel aco~
nitine in the sheath of the nerve and other heroic means
have been used with not very encouraging success. The
rheumatic kind is more amenable to treatment. Auto-
toxaemias and alcoholism or lead poisoning may also cause
sciatica. Ergot internally and antiphlogistine externally
benefit some.
Scirrhus. A hard connective cancer often of breast, see

Cancer.
ScleritJs. Inflammation of sclerotic of eye.

Potassium iodide, salicylates, wash with solution of
boric acid and 5 grains to the ounce, of pilocarpine hydro-
chlorate in distilled water.
Scleroderma. Hide bound skin disease with patches of

hardening.
Strychnia, arsenic, and externally salicylic acid. Diffi-
cult to treat.
Sclerosis. Hardening of structures, secondary to inflam-

mation or softening.
Iodide of potassium, arsenic, syrup iodide of iron. Us-
ually beyond remedy.
Scopalamine Hydrobromate.
Mydriatic. No good results in hypodermics for insane.
Scoparius.
Broom. Severe diuretic and purgative. See also Spar-
teine.
Scorbutus, see Scurvy.
Scrofula. A tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands.

Calomel, arsenic, iodides, ichthyol, iodine vasogen.
Scurvy. Spongy, bleeding gums, and debility from im-

proper diet.
v egetables, fruits especially lemons, limes, oranges.

Antiseptic mouth washes and astringents, as borax, eucalyp-
tol, alum, tannic acid. Tonics.
Sea-sickness. Mai de Mer.

Quiet and diet. Much harm has been done by brom-
ism and similar silly dosing for this disorder.
Seborrhoea, see Pityriasis.

Greasy excessive secretion of sebaceous glands can be
washed off with soap and water and astringents used to
scalp with lanoline.
Seidlitz Powder.
Effervescent laxative salts, rochelle salts, bicarbonate
of soda and tartaric acid.
Senecio Aureus. Ragwort.

Eclectic emmenagogue.
Senega.
Old stimulating expectorant and diuretic, not much
used now.
Senile Dementia.
An insanity of old age, but not the only one to which
the aged are liable, so every insanity of the aged is not senile
dementia. Loss of memory of recent events, suspiciousness,
sometimes aversion to relatives apoplectiform attacks, con-
vulsions and paralyses, with liability to undue influence and
the making of improper wills or gifts. Sometimes assault
young girls and make silly marriages. Incurable.
Senna.
Dose I to 4 drams of the leaflets. Old fashioned but
prompt and efficient purgative and made it popu-
its safety
lar, in spite of its was often taken with prune
griping. It
juice and enabled a purgative to be given in cooked prunes
without the knowledge of the patient. "A pinch of senna
leaves" being the dose. Cascara sagrada has largely super-
seded its use.
Septicaemia, see Antitoxins.
Septoforma.
A formaldehyde preparation unscientifically named.
Serpentaria.
Virginia Snakeroot. Old fashioned nauseating fever
remedy. Seldom used.
Shingles, Herpes Zoster.
Due to eruption usually on skin of ribs from nervous
conditions. Resinol and tonics.
Shock.
Stimulants and tonics.
Sidonal.
A patented piperazine quinate.
Silver Chloride.
Little use if any generally as a medicine and no use at
all in epilepsy.
Silver Citrate.
Too unstable as Antiseptic or Astringent.
Silver Cyanide.
No use in epilepsy and little if any otherwise in medi-

cine.
Silver Iodide.
Doubtful antisyphilitic.
Silver Lactate. Actol.
Dubious Antiseptic.
Silver Nitrate, see Nitrate of Silver.
Silver Oxide.
Useless as medicine. Explosive.
Singultus. Hiccough.
Sleeplessness, see Insomnia.

Smallpox. Variola.
Ichthyol and lanoline ointment to prevent pitting. Vac-
cination in early stage thought to reduce severity. Dark-
ened room, the Finsen light treatment on trial. Antiseptics,
antipyrine, morphine, chloralamid, ergot for hemorrhage.
Sneezing, Excessive.
As hay asthma, adrenalin or suprarenal capsule. Re-
in
cent alleged antitoxin for hay fever. Danger in catarrh
snuffs containing cocaine requiring increasing dose and
forming habit.
Soap Liniment.
Soap, camphor, oils of rosemary and origanum in alco-
hol, superseded in i860 the old fashioned similar liniment
called opodeldoc.
Sociological Therapeutics and Prophylaxis.

As with everything else in the world empirical remedies
have been used for social maladies before causes were
known. The favorite treatment for criminality, pathological
social conditions, was killing, in all instances. Only diag-
nostic ability was so poor that health was mistaken for dis-
ease, and the latter for health. Among many other mis-
treated cases the insane were considered as vagabonds, pos-
sessed of devils, the hysterical forlorn and aged were burned
as witches, and even at this day drunkards, the deliberate
poison products of commerce, are abandoned to the mur-
derous saloon-keeper who is often rewarded with political
positions and enabled to control the funds of the sick, in-
sane and paupers in public institutes provided for them, and
to thus absolutely chase his victims to their graves.
Criminality or social pathology is certainly infantile
when most monstrously deranged human specimens are
the
actually set up as models for imitation. Reptile hearted
Napoleons who filled the earth with death and woe are wor-
shipped as "great," and those who amass colossal fortunes
by heartless wholesale robbery and starvation of communi-
ties arelooked up to, feared, respected, and their names per-
petuated as philanthropists.
The Lombroso school of anthropologists catering to
sensationalism, though not to the extent of Nordau, exag-
gerate the importance of a study of the submerged classes,
as though all criminals were among the poverty stricken,
awkward, unsuccessful, caught, whereas the most dangerous
are the sleek, the highly successful, the fitter to survive,
whom society protects, emulates and practically worships.
A mental warp may enable one to suppress every decent
sentiment in the ability to amass wealth, while the owner-
ship of an inconveniently superior intellect has prevented
itspossessor from doing more than earn a living, and the
world seems to begrudge him that. Too many interfering
scruples are likely to divest one of the money making ca-
pacity while utter inconsideration for others and an eye
single for "Business" tends to success, as sharks are suc-
cessful.
Sodium Acetate.
Diuretic. Soluble in 2 parts water. Dose 15 grains to
dram. Same use as Potassium Acetate.
Sodium Arsenate.
Fowler's Solution is a better form for Arsenic adminis-
tration.
Sodium Benzoate.
Dubious antirheumatic.
Sodium Bicarbonate.
Alkaline, Antacid, minor Antirheumatic. It is the
household salaeratus and a component of baking powders.

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An English farmer's method of easing rheumatic pains is to

apply a hot solution of bicarbonate of sodium to the affected
muscles and joints. In rendering the blood and secretions
alkaline uric acid may be deprived of its activity in rheuma-
tism. The dose internally is 10 to 40 grains. It enters
largely into the composition of many spring waters and is
the bulk of Seidlitz Powder.
Sodium Bisulphate.
Soluble in 4 parts water. Dose 10 to 30
Antiseptic.
grains, sore mouth, diphtheria, yeasty vomiting, externally
in skin diseases.
Sodium Borate.
Borax, Sodium Biborate, Sodium Tetraborate. Anti-
septic. Soluble in 25 parts water. Useful in sore nose, con-
junctivitis, cystitis, and as an eye wash, but its alleged use in
amenorrhoea, epilepsy or for rheumatism is unjustified. It
is useful as a household antiseptic for external use.
Sodium Bromide, see Bromides.

Sodium Cacodylate.
Fowler's Solution of Arsenic is better.
Sodium Carbonate.
Quality varies so much was dried by driving off water
it
of crystalization for making pills, but it has no advantage

over the bicarbonate or other antirheumatics. The impure,
undried carbonate of soda is known as sal soda or washing
crystals.
Sodium Chlorate.
Formerly used in diphtheria. Seldom used now.
Sodium Cinnamate.
Hetol. Theoretical Antitubercular for injections.
Fresh air is better.
Sodium Citrate.
Former diuretic and antilithic. Not much used now.
Sodium Ethylate, Liquid.
Escharotic for warts. The dry is similarly used. Any
caustic will do as well.
Sodium Fluoride.
Foolishly recommended in epilepsy by inexperienced,
and doubtful if it has any legitimate medical use otherwise.
Sodium Formate.
Used in surgical tuberculosis by injection.
Sodium Glycerino-phosphate.
Theoretical, unassimilable alleged tonic for neuras-
thenia.
Sodium Hydrate.
Caustic Soda. Inferior as caustic owing to spreading
too far.
Sodium Salicylate.
It is well to specify "Natural" or "From Oil of Winter-
green" in prescribing this useful antirheumatic. The com-
mercial synthetic or artificial sodium salicylate should not
be used in medicine. Dose 5 to 40 grains.
Sodium Santoninate.
Anthelmintic less powerful than santonin. Dose 2 to 6
grains in keratinized pills, children I to 3 grains.
Sodium Sulphate.
Glauber's Salt. Ingredient of many spring waters upon
which cathartic property depends. Harsher and more grip-
ing than Epsom Salts, the Sulphate of Magnesia. Dose
crystals 2 to 8 drams, dried 1 to 4 drams dissolved in suffi-
cient water, about a glassful.
Sodium Sulphite.
Soluble in 4 parts water. Antiseptic. Used in skin dis-
eases, sore mouth, sarcina ventriculi and chronic mercurial
affections. Dose 10 to 60 grains, well diluted, in aromatized
solution. Less used yearly.
Sodium Sulphocarbolate.
Soluble in 6 parts water. Antiseptic, Disinfectant.
Used internally in some forms of dyspepsia, in phthisis, ty-
phoid fever, dysentery, and externally in gonorrhoea, putrid
wounds, etc. Dose 5 to 20 grains, and for external use a
half to one per cent solution. Internal antisepsis has not
afforded in practice the satisfaction anticipated.
Sodium Thiosulphate.
Sodium Hyposulphite. Soluble in one part water, used
in parasitic skin diseases, sore mouth, diarrhoea, flatulent
dyspepsia. Dose 5 to 20 grains.
Sodium Hypophosphite.
Unassimilable. Explosive.
Sodium Hyposulphite, see Sodium Thiosulphate.
Sodium Iodide.
Potassium Iodide preferred for all purposes.
Sodium Metavanadate.
Dubious substitute for arsenous acid in other forms.
Sodium Nitrate.
Chili Saltpetre. Externally in rheumatism in water 1
to 3 solution. Internally in inflammatory condition of the

intestines, dysentery, etc. to 60 grains. Not much
Dose 10
used, and in rheumatism bicarbonate of soda is doubtless
better and cheaper.
Sodium Nitrite.
Antispasmodic used in angina pectoris, etc., but glonoin

or amyl nitrite are more commonly used. Dose I to 3
grains.
Sodium Phosphate.
Formerly used rheumatism, before salicylates proved
in
to be better. many deaths were caused in England
In 1900
before traced to arsenic as an impurity in phosphate of soda
which had been widely sold. It is at present used mostly as
a biliary stimulant in doses of 5 to 40 grains. Little in use.
Sodium Pyrophosphate.
There are better things for lithiasis. Piperazine for
example.
Softening of the Brain.

An old term to designate many mental derangements
by those who know nothing about insanity diagnosis or
pathology.
Solution Aluminum Acetate.

-8% basic aluminum acetate. External antiseptic 1 to
15. Little used.
Solution Ammonium Acetate.

Spirit Mindererus. Diaphoretic, Antipyretic, Diuretic.
Dose half to 8 fluid drams according to effect desired and
age of patient, warmth in bed promotes sweating, and mov-
ing about or coolness of surface diuresis.
Solution Arsenic and Mercuric Iodides.

Donovan's Solution. Dose 5 to 10 minims well diluted,
after meals. Seldom used.
Solution Calcium Hydrate.

Lime Water, Aqua Calcis. Dose 1 to 4 fluid ounces.
Externally in Liniment.
Solution Donovan's, see Solution, Arsenic and Mercuric

Iodides.
Solution Fowler's, see Potassium Arsenite.
Solution Gutta Percha, see Traumaticin.
Solution Hydrogen Peroxide.
3% H 2 °2 affording ten volumes of available oxygen,

miscible with water alcohol or glycerine. Disinfectant, de-
odorant. Used chiefly externally in wounds, abscesses, es-
pecially to destroy pus in the ear. See Hydrogen peroxide

also.
Solution Iodine Compound.

Lugol's Solution. 5% iodine, 10% potassium iodide.
Alterative. Dose 2 to 10 minims.
Solution Iron Chloride, Ferric.

Z/.Syc Styptic, chiefly in post-partum hemorrhage:
fluid dram to the pint.
Solution Iron Nitrate.

6.2% Ferric Nitrate. Internal astringent. Dose 5 to
15 minims, diluted well.
Solution Iron Subsulphate, Ferric.

Monsel's Solution. Styptic externally pure or in strong
solution.
Solution, Iron and Ammonium Acetate.

Basham's Mixture. Hematinic, Diuretic. Astringent.
Formerly used in Bright's disease, rather empirically in
routine way.
Solution, Labarraque's, see Solution of Soda, Chlori-

nated.
Solution Lead Subacetate.

Goulard's Extract. 25%. Astringent, Antiseptic. Used
chiefly to make cerate and lead water, the diluted solution.
Too free use induces lead poisoning.
Solution Lugol's, see Solution, Iodine, Compound.

Solution Magnesium Citrate.
A pleasant substitute for Seidlitz Powders, Laxative,
Refrigerant. Dose 6 to 12 fluid ounces. Effervescent.
Solution Mercury Nitrate Mercuric.

60%. Caustic. Externally only, pure.
Solution Monsel's, see Solution, Iron Subsulphate.
Solution Potassium Arsenite, see Solution, Fowler's, also

Potassium Arsenite.
Solution, Potassium Hydrate.

Potassa Solution. 5% K O H. Antacid, Antilithic, but
little used. Dose 5 to< 20 minims well diluted.
Solution Soda Chlorinated.

Labarraque's Solution. 2.6% available Chlorine. Dis-
infectant. Externally in 3 to 10% solution. Internal use
antiquated.
Solution Sodium Arsenate.

1%. Alterative. Dose 3 to 10 minims. Fowler's So-
lution better.
Solution Sodium Hydrate.

Soda Solution. Similar to Solution Potassium Hydrate.
Solution Trimethylamine, 10%.

So called Propylamine. Uses, Rheumatism, Chorea.
Dose 10 to 45 minims. Doubtful efficiency.
Somatose.
Tonic nutrient for invalids. Taste slightly offensive
and not so useful as Trophonine.
Somnoform.
Ethyl and methyl chloride and ethyl bromide. General
anesthetic. Not much used.
Sore Throat, see Tonsillitis.
Sparteine Sulphate.
Soluble in water or alcohol. Heart stimulant, Diuretic,
in place of Digitalis. Dose a quarter toone grain.
Spasm of Glottis, see Laryngismus Stridulus.

Spearmint.
Oil 2 to 5 minims, spirits 15 to 40 minims or Water.
Vehicle.
Spermatorrhoea. Emission involuntary.

Monobromate of camphor, cathartics, cold bath in
morning and warm bath at night, light diet.
Spinal Conoussion.
A cause of Erichson's Disease, a derangement of the
cord by injury.
Spirillum Fever, see Anthrax.
Spirit, Mindererus, see Solution, Ammonium Acetate.
Spirit, Nitrous Ether.

Sweet Spirits of Niter. Diuretic. Dose half dram to
one and a half drams, diluted. A popular and effective pro-
moter of urine flow.
Spleen Enlargement.
Quinine, iodide of potassium, arsenic if curable, which
is not always.
Splenic Fever, see Anthrax.
Sprain-
Rest, hot water soaking, antiphlogistine, reduce dislo-
cation if any.
Squill.
Compound Syrup most used, old cough mixture, nau-

seating expectorant. Dose 20 to 60 minims. Much used
formerly for children in croup.
Staphisagria.
Stavesacre. Old Parasiticide. Too poisonous as there
are safer preparations of other things.
Stiff neck. Torticollis.
Usually incurable.
Stillingia.
Queen's Root. Alterative. Dose fluid extract 15 to 60

minims. Little used.
Stings of insects.
Dilute ammonia water.
Stings of reptiles, see Bites, also see Antitoxins.
St. Jacob's Oil.
Contains aconite, according to Squibb. Patent medi-

cine may poison with no one to blame, while educated phy-
sicians would fear to use such stuff.
Stomatitis, see Aphthae.
Strabismus. Squint.
May be due to rheumatism or syphilis, indicating its
treatment.
Stramonium Leaves, or Seed.

Seldom used. Delirifacient.
Strangury, see Dysuria.
Streptococcus, see Antitoxins.
Stricture, Urethral.
Surgical dilatation, if spasmodic sedatives.
Strontium Arsenite, Bromide and Iodide.

These salts have a temporary place in medicine, as
have also the Salicylate, Lactate, etc.
Strophanthus.
Heart tonic, as Digitalis. Dose of tincture 3 to 10 min-
ims. Dose of Strophanthin, one-two hundred and fortieth
oi a grain to a sixtieth.
Strophulus. Tooth or gum rash of infants.
Ichthyol externally, spirits of nitrous ether and acetate

of potassium internally.
Struma, see Scrofula.

Also designates goiter.
Strychnine.
Alkaloid. Strong and effective tonic, often combined
in elixirs with quinine and iron, affording prompt and satis-
factory results. Dose a sixtieth to a fifteenth of a grain.
Nux vomica too variable.
The arsenate, arsenite and hyposphite can be disregard-
ed as rot very useful.
Strychnine Nitrate.
Affords combined glonoin and strychnine effect. Dose
same as Strychnia.
Strychnine Sulphate.
Same as the alkaloid and most used.
Stye, see Hordeolum.

Styptjcln, Merck.
New Styptic, on trial. Several preparations, doses
small.
Sublamin.
A suggested substitute for corrosive sublimate.
Suggestion.
Mental impressions during treatment may retard or aid,
according to individual temperament or the nature of the
suggestion. Much drug gulping is practically faith cure.
Eventually instruction will replace the present imperfect re-
liance upon suggestion.
Sulfonal.
Hypnotic. Dose 15 to 45 grains. Useful in acute
mania, delirium tremens, and dynamic states generally, but
Chloralamid is better in melancholia. An unpleasant effect
is the prolongation of its influence into the daytime follow-
ing, with a stupid and constipation. But even
lassitude
with these drawbacks and more reliable than
it is safer
many of the suffocants used as narcotics. It is second to
Chloralamid in usefulness. These two hypnotics are of com-
plementary value. The Chloralamid where there is sleep-
lessness from depression and especially where the heart
needs sustaining; the Sulfonal when there is fury and
strength to spare.
It is practically insoluble but may
be mixed with the
sugar before pouring coffee over and the patient may not
it
know that the sulfonal is in the cup from which he drinks

his coffee, when it is desired that he should not know that
he is taking medicine.
Sulpho-carbolate of zinc.
Internal astringent in intestinal fermentative diar-
rhoeas, dose 5 grains in pill after each discharge.
Sulphur.
Precipitated, Lac Sulphuris Milk of Sulphur. Dose one
or two drams. Laxative.
Sulphur, Flowers of.
External use in scabies, etc.
Sulphuric Acid.
The very starting point of chemical manufacturing, but
has a limited use per se in medicine, except as a solvent for
other things. The 10 per cent, dilute has been used in phth-
isical sweats, intestinal complaints and as a destroyer of the
cholera bacillus, internally 15 to 30 minims well diluted. Its
range of incompatibles is great.
Sulphur Iodide.
80% iodine. Antiseptic, Alterative internally in scrof-
ula and skin diseases in doses of 1 to 4 grains, externally in
5% to 10% ointments in eczema, psoriasis, prurigo, etc.
Sulphurous Acid.
Antiseptic in 15 minim doses or externally in 10 to 25
per cent solution. Not often used.
Summer Complaint, see Diarrhoea.
Sunburn.
Cold cream or other grease as preventive or to allay
inflammation.
Sunstroke, see Thermic Fever.
Suppuration, see Abscess.
Suprarenal Capsule. Adrenalin.

Various grades and strengths of this powerful prepara-
tion are marketed, hence the dosage varies with each speci-
men. Used in Addison's Disease, and as a styptic in nasal
hemorrhages such as operative means induce. It acts

strongly on the heart and must be used with caution.
Suprarenal Extract.
Powerful hemostatic and constringent in congestions,
but adrenaline chlorideis purer and more available for all
purposes, in rhinology, edema of glottis, etc.
Surgical Fever, see Pyemia.
Svapnia.
Disguised opium.
Sweating, see Bromidrosis, Hyperidrosis.
Swooning, see Syncope.

Sycosis. Hair follicle suppuration as in ringworm.
Sulphur, ichthyol, oil of cade with lanoline.
Syncope. Fainting.
Aromatic spirits of ammonia, whisky, amyl nitrite pearl
inhalation.
Synovitis. Joint-lining inflammation.
Anti-rheumatics, antisypbilitics, massage, hot air.
Syphilis.
Iodide of potassium and mercurials, usually biniodide

of mercury. The substitutes are disappointing.
Syphilitic Dementia.
Stupidity, obstinacy, headaches, fleeting pains and
paralyses. If promptly treated with iodide of potassium and
mercury recovery may occur, otherwise incurable.
Syringomyelia.
Congenital malformation of spinal cord, causing inco-
ordination.
Syrup Hydriodic Acid.

Dubious usefulness.
Syrup Hypophosphltes.
The and proprietary preparations of Hypophos-
official
phites can be readily spared as ineligible and inert when

compounded with strychnia and then they are dangerous if
not dishonest, as the title is misleading and dosage cannot
be properly adjusted.
Syrup, Iron Iodide.

10% Ferrous Iodide. Alterative, Hematinic, Anti
scrofulous. Dose 15 to 30 minims.
Syrup of Iron, Quinine and Strychnine Phosphates.

An Elixir of these drugs is more useful.
Syrup of Lime.
Antacid, little used. Antidote to carbolic acid poison.

Dose 30 to 60 minims.
Syrup Roborans.
Alleged alterative and substitute for iodides. Dubious
usefulness.
Tabes Dorsalis. Locomotor Ataxia.
Tabes Mesenterica. Tuberculosis of Mesentery.
Tachiol.
Silver fluoride. Antiseptic.
Tachycardia.
Rapid painful vagus paresis. In ex-
heart, transitory
ophthalmic goiter. Hoffman's anodyne, digitalis, ergot.
Taka-Diastase.
Diastase discovered bv Takamine. Soluble in water.
Starch digestant, used in amylaceous dyspepsia. Dose i to
5 grains.
Tamarinds.
A laxative fruit used in confectio sennae.
Tannalbin.
Dry Albuminate of Tannin. and
Intestinal astringent
diarrhoeal. Dose 15 to 30 grains hourly, after emptying ali-
mentary canal of offending materials whose evacuation
alone often in children ends gastro intestinal disturbance
and even convulsions due to it.
Tannic Acid.
Astringency of most vegetation depends on tannin.
Used in preparing styptic collodion 20 per cent, glycerite 20
per cent, ointment also 20 per cent and in troches 1 grain.
Large range of incompatibles. General use in pharmacy
preparations.
Tannigen.
Triacetyl-tannin. Intestinal astringent. Dose 5 to 30
grains.
Tannin, see Tannic Acid.
Tannoform.
Tannin-formaldehyde. Antiseptic and Deodorant in
hyperidrosis, bromidrosis, wet eczema, ozena, etc. Pure or
25 to 50% triturations.
Tannopine.
Intestinal Astringent. Dose 3 to 15 grains.
Tanocol.
Intestinal astringent, a gelatine tannate in one ounce
bottles, Dose *]\ to 15 grains 3 to 5 times daily in diarrhoea.
Tape Worm, see Worms.

Tar.
Ointment 50%, Syrup Dose i to 4 fluid drams.
Taraxacum.
Dandelion. Bitter hepatic stimulant, not much used.
Tartar Emetic, see Antimony and Potassium Tartrate.
Tartar, see Potassium Tartrate.
Tartaric Acid.
Main modern use in Seidlitz powder making.
Tartrate of Potassium and Sodium, see Rochelle Salts.
Telangiectasis.
Overgrowth of capillaries, acquired, resembling the
nevus, which is congenital. Electrolysis.
Telepathy. Mind Reading.

Superstitious nonsense of ignorant and illogical, some-
times pretended by the designing.
Tenesmus. Bearing down, straining, see Dysentery and

Dysuria.
Terebene.
Expectorant, Antiseptic, Antifermentative. Internally
in bronchitis, flatulent dyspepsia, emphysema, phthisis, dys-
pnoea, externally in skin diseases, uterine cancer, gangren-
ous wounds. Inhalation in phthisis. Dose 4 to 30 minims
with syrup or on sugar.
Terpin Hydrate.
Expectorant, Antiseptic, used in bronchial affections.
The best form for administration is in the Elixir. If Heroin
isused with it there should be a return to the plain Terpin
Hydrate.
Tetanus. Lock-jaw.
Tetanus antitoxine quickly, keep wound open, washed
with strong antiseptics. Gonium maculatum antagonizes
the spasms.
Tetany. Hysterical Cramps.

Mental impression suffices to remedy, as in the case of
a young girl with opisthotonus hysteria, when white hot iron
application to spine was mentioned in her hearing there were
no more spasms, Quackery also may end the attacks.
Tetra-ethyl-ammonium Hydroxide.
Unstable, dubious uric acid solvent.
Tetraiodo-phenolphtalein, see Nosophen.
Tetraiodo-pyrrole, see lodole.
Tetter. General popular term for any skin disease.
Thalline Sulphate.
Antiseptic, Antipyretic in typhoid fever, malarial fever.
Dose 3 to 8 grains, alleged use in gonorrhoea also, but
doubtful benefit.
Thallium Acetate.
Used in phthisical night sweats. Dose I to 3 grains at
bedtime.
Theine, see Caffeine.
Theobromine.
Alkaloid. Diuretic, Nerve stimulant. Dose 5 to 15
grains.
Theobromine Salicylate.
Merck claims this to be stable and uniform and a pow-
erful diuretic and genito-urinary antiseptic. Dose 15 grains.
Other Theobromine salts unstable, decompose on ex-

posure, so no use in medicine.
Therapeutics.
The application of remedies to diseases is of earlier date
than medicine itself, simply because from the earliest of be-
nighted times, before anyone knew what was the matter
when one was sick, everyone knew what to do for it.
Out of the multitude of guessed at, hap-hazard, non-
sensical, often harmful dosing, drugging and mummery so
unhesitatingly used by ignorance would be remarkable if
it
among the thousand slain some did not escape and a few
even happen to be benefited. Upon this latter admission,
forthwith, the hap-hazard doser claims justification, and be-
cause all persons are not killed by Indian and Pennsylvania
Dutch "pow-wow," granny's "roots and yarbs," and so on,
therefore it is not necessary to know what you are about to
be able to cure diseases.
The Indian uses his mysterious methods, for which so
many have regard because they like to be mysti-
"civilized"
doings as well as in treating disease. He beats
fied, in all his
a drum and shoots off guns to scare away the devil of small-
pox, but he also does the same to frighten away the goblin
that swallows the sun in an eclipse; and just as the sun is
preserved by the Indian medicine man's noises, so is the sick
man restored by the same wonderful power, and fees are as
complacently collected by him for his work as white ignor-
ance pockets money for telling you that there is no disease,
but you are cured of what you did not have.
Scientific medicine may use the results of empiricism,
or even empiricism itself, intelligently, but charlatanry de-
fies logic and cares for no results but cheating.
Unscientific medicineis divisible into Indian and Old
Granny methods. Regulars and irregulars have, at times,

practised one or both of these, to a great or less extent. For
example some of the doctors in the benighted Pennsylvania

Dutch regions finding it impossible to instruct their patients
away from witchcraft ideas, yield to their un-American ig-
norance enough to pow-wow or charm away disease, giving
legitimate remedies, however, at the same time.
About as rarely as apples are found in the gutter, so
may humbuggery "cure" disease; therefore, argue those in-
capable of logical reasoning, we should practice humbug-
gery upon patients, not realizing that therefore, also, we
should seek apples in the gutter and not on trees. But the
most astounding statement is often heard, from those, even,
who do not want to be humbugged themselves, that as
quackery is preferred to honest medicine the people should
be allowed to have humbug treatment, and honest doctors
should become dishonest. Such notions keep Africa, Asia
and heathendom generally degraded, and would send Eng-
land and America after them were no one to oppose such
knavery. The real physician, who loves his profession and
does not wish to drag it mud of commercialism; who
in the
regards the welfare, livesand health of his fellow-mortals
more than money, and who has enough of the stuff martyrs
are made of to stick to honest methods, in the belief that
thereby he can accomplish more good, should be prepared
to be misunderstood, to be unappreciated and to see the re-
wards of merit showered upon ignorant, presumptuous,
harmful quackery. If big-minded men like Savonarola, Lu-
ther, Washington, William III, Abernethy, Hunter, Mr-
chow, Pasteur and many earnest thinkers in varied pursuits,
had lowered themselves to that contemptible level, where
would we be to-day? To the fact that hundreds of thous-
ands of single-hearted, honest thinkers in ages past fought
humbuggery and were often defeated by it, you owe to-day
the shelter over your head, the shirt upon your back and the
food you eat. If your progeny is to endlessly descend to
far-off ages which idea would you rather have prevail for
them to live under, the onewhich greed and ignorance
in
will fatten upon and while pretending to
their sufferings,
help them really harm them, or where enlightenment goes
hand in hand with mercy?
The cart has been put before the horse, in this old world
of ours continually, as we evolved from childish, savage
ways of thinking and doing things. Results are mistaken
for causes, things having nothing to do with either cause or
effect have been literally worshipped as the "whole thing."
What to do in any and all cases have been confidently as-
serted by impudence and gulped by ignorance, both being
too lazy or imbecile to study out what was the matter before
trying to do any thing for it. So therapeutics, or what to
do, preceded pathology, or what was the matter, though
every baby thinks he knows what is the matter, when instead
of the moon he bawls for he needs a spanking, and untrained
unmedical people are just as sure as the baby is that they
know both what ails them and what they should do for it.
The grave-yards are choked with self-dosers, patent medi-
cine gulpers, people who treated themselves for fancied ail-
ments, diagnosed with infantile ability symptoms they dwelt

upon as important, that were of no consequence, and passed
over as unimportant things the educated doctor regards with
alarm. It is granted that an engine needs an instructed en-
gineer, but the body which is more complicated than any
engine can be treated by Indians and old grannies. Blind-
ness may body cannot be
take refuge in the claim that the
regarded as an engine; then, it may be asked, why oil it and
dope it and scour it upward and downward with your roots
and "yarbs" and opiates, and other things of which you
know as little as of the body?
Whatever contributes to the recovery of a sick person
may be included under Therapeutics. Therefore even the
withholding of drugs, at times, may be a therapeutic means,

giving nature a chance to help, and instruction in all that
pertains to medicine assists in determining when to dose and
when to refrain from dosing. So Therapeutics can be very
comprehensive in discussing the sick person, remedies for
him, his environment and what it contains toward helping
or hindering recovery.
Aside from merely generalising the effects of drugs,
then, the patient himself, his idiosyncarasies, the logicality,
or want of it, of all concerned, such as patient, doctors,
nurses; their psychology, superstitions, training, all are
legitimate subjects in a therapeutical discussion. But ob-
serving the proper proportionate regard for things of the
most importance, to avoid wandering afield, justifies the
average work on therapeutics in restricting itself closely to
materia-medica and the influence of drugs upon disease.
Nevertheless the entire matter needs vigorous overhauling
in the very nature of things. The fact is that most of our
books on therapeutics have been written by young, inex-
perienced men who merely copy from predecessors without
being able to eliminate the errors or preserve any better bal-
ance in topic handling. On the other hand this very juven-
ility assures a far better knowledge of modern chemistry
than the old practitioner possessed, so from that standpoint

many compilations of medical infants have the chemistry,
inorganic especially, brought down to date, as a rule, though
in everything else, pedanticism, blunder perpetuating, owl-
ishnonsense and ignoring of important discoveries become
apparent to the practitioner of a few years experience out of
college.
Away back in the days of pure empiricism, when bleed-
ing and great calomel dosing were mainstays, Philadelphia
was our medical center, and a few bright men such as Rush,
Maisch, Stille, though not contemporaneous, and several
others, began the publication of important and, at that time,

really valuable treatiseson several medical subjects, but later
occupants of their college chairs have overhauled these
musty tomes, often with reference solely to personal prece-
dence, even where it entailed the misleading of readers. Some
valuable discovery may have been made by one outside of a
particular clique, and this needed ignoring, even though in-
jury of the discoverer was occasioned, precisely as naval and
military politicians seek to destroy merit, fearing that the
pretender will be eclipsed. Often some callow son-in-law of
a publisher thrusts his immature, but prettily printed, rub-
bish upon learners, and where anything of worth happens to
be included it is most likely to be plagiarized, often with de-
traction of the real author.
Taking the books themselves the dispensatories are
great expensive affairs which sell so readily that any real re-
vision requiring outlays of many thousands would

of dollars
be looked upon as commercial nonsense; and the word
"Business" justifies crimes of omission as well as those of
commission. The fault then really lies with a medical com-
munity that is satisfied with this state of things, content to
remain a hundred years behind in many respects to appease
the vanity of some incapable who has foisted himself as
"authority" and who has business acumen enough to be
able to intrigue against competition, though multitudes per-
ish in consequence. As for the works on materia-medica
and therapeutics their chief and obvious faults are pedanti-
cism and uselessness due to insufficient study, to incorrect
legendary assumption and bad logic.
The practitioner has to outgrow his books, and in
thumbing them over in riper years, he smiles at the old lies.
the gravely asserted rot, the emphasis placed upon trifles
and how things of prime importance were left out from var-
ious motives, usually because the writer knew nothing of
them or did not like the way in which the one who had made
the important contribution wore his hair or because he pro-
nounced bronchitis differently from the acceptable way. The
most frequent cause of dislike, however, was due to failure
to worship at the shrine of some self elected authority who
had pull enough to secure a school professorship or had
married money enough to be able to assert himself, like the
monkey who owns and climbs a pole from the top of which
he may look down upon other monkeys.
One who essays a protest against an accepted condition
of things has a thankless task before him, the doctrinaire,
the kicker, the reformer, are disagreeable folks and often
wrong in their methods even if right in their intentions; the
ancient way of rewarding messengers of unwelcome truths
to royalty was to kill them. Nowadays it only needs the
sneer to accompany mention of a "reformer" and he is slain
in estimation. But it is always at the risk of being slain that
battles are won, and whoso is content with complacent ig-
norance and retrogradation is practically dead anyway.
All this is preliminary to asking for a better regard of
the interest of the patient, and that we should never lose
sight of the fact that any medical work should place the care
of the sick person as first and foremost and the
; least regard
should be given literary or any other kind of swagger, for
youngsters in medical writing think it necessary to display
their learning, even though it has no relation to the subject
in hand. And when a medical author arrives at the limit of
his information he should stop. Which sounds trite, but
books are crammed with what their writers know nothing
about in their desire to "complete" a description of a certain
group of subjects. If writers would but confine their efforts
to matters in which they are versed they would benefit the
world and confer immortality upon their work instead of
oblivion. Even with concerted action as when a collabo-

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rated Practice, a cyclopaedia of medicine by several authors,

is published, how it is, from well
wonderfully unsatisfactory
known causes. A few good by competent
articles special-
ists, and these may not have been on topics with which they
were most familiar, are smothered among groups of per-
functorily written essays, not as good as many graduating
theses, exhibiting how fallible is "authority" in assigning
topics to writers and in selecting the most competent stu-
dents of special subjects.
If, then, "authority" fails in judging as to where knowl-
edge lies, how impossible will itbe for any writer to com-
pass all that there may be in so vast a science, art, or what-
ever it may be, as Therapeutics.
Thermal Fever.
The prostration and high temperature demand stimu-
lating and tonic treatment, such as whisky, quinine, strych-
nine and in aged persons a cautious use of digitalis. Ice ad-
ministered in small pieces by the mouth, and applied to the
head and wrists assist in cooling the system and reducing
the fever. The shock of sudden immersion of the body into
ice water must be remembered as too severe unless the case
is extreme and needs such rousing, but guardedly and grad-
ually ice applications can be extended to other parts of the

body beside the wrists and head if not done to excess as is
often practised.
The former division of cases of heat prostration into
asthenic and dynamic led to so many deaths by improper
use of heart depressants like acetanilid, antifebrin and the
many "headache powder" disguises of these dangerous
drugs, that in the absence of very clear differential diagnosis
it would be far safer to treat all cases as prostrated and
needing sustentation, as in reality the vast majority do, and
anyway the dynamic instances soon pass to the debility stage
which depressants will but have made extreme, if used.
Therein.
A synthetic diuretic, on trial.
Thermodin.
Antipyretic, Analgesic. Dose 5 to 20 grains.
Thigenol.
Ichthyol substitute. 10% sulphur in organic combina-
tion.
Thiocol.
Potassium Guiacol-sulphonate. Soluble. Antituber-
cular, Anticatarrhal, said to be unirritating. Dose 5 to 20
grains.
Thiol.
Synthetic ichthyol and less expensive than ichthyol.
Thiosinamine.
Urea compounds are of doubtful justification, more
theoretical than useful.
Thread Worms, see Worms.

Thrombus. Clot in blood vessel.
Thrush, see Aphthae.

Caused by a fungus, oidium albicans.
Thuya Occidentalis. Arbor Vitae.

Ancient terebinthinate, lately Merrill advertises a nor-
mal tincture thuja useful in so many different ailments that
it is puzzling as to rationale and why any one need be sick
at all. It is probably as useful as tar or turpentine as an an-
tiseptic.
Thymol.
Thymic Acid. Used internally in rheumatism, gout,
chyluria. worms, particularly the Puerto Rico uncinariasis
parasite that causes anemia, and in gastro-intestinal fermen-

tation. Externally for skin diseases, toothache, ulcers,
wounds, mouth wash and inhaled in coughs, bronchitis,
coryza. Dose I to 10 grains.
Thyroidectin.
An antagonist of thyroid extract, made from the blood
of animals deprived of thyroid glands, said to control the
paroxysms of exophthalmic goiter. The claims sound
rather theoretical but it is worth trying their justification in
the absence of any other help for this distressing organic
defect. Dose one or two capsules after meals.
Thyroid Gland.
This very useful substance has been prepared for med-
ical use under a variety of names. Its principal uses are in
cretinism, imbecility, faulty development of mind or body
in children, due to other than trauma or syphilis. In myxe-
dema it is excellent and is an anti-fat,
said to be useful as
but it is not proper to use exophthalmic goitre as it in-
it in
creased the disease. Merck makes Thyraden and Thyroidin

dried extracts, and the Phospho-Albumen Co. a Thyroid
Extract in tablets.
Thyro-iodine, see lodothyrine.
Tic Doloureux. Trigeminal Neuralgia? see Neuralgia.
Tinea Tonsurans or Circinata, see Mentagra and Ring

Worm.
Tinnitus Aurium. Ringing in the ears.
Often due to wax accumulation, see Cerumen impac-
tion. Congestion of blood vessels relieved by ergot, calo-
mel, hot foot baths, cathartics, sometimes want of blood in
'the head as in anemia, or to various ear or brain diseases.
Tobacco.
Nauseant depressant. In epididymitis a bread or flax-
seed poultice containing fine cut tobacco relieves the pain
and reduces the inflammation, but if left on too long vomits
and slows the heart. The habit of smoking and chewing if
continued into old age subtracts from the heart muscle
strength at a period when such weakening is prejudicial, but
by that time the habit is fastened. Stimulants are better for
the old.
Toluene.
Toluol. Benzine like odor used topically in diphtheria
as Loefrler's Solution containing Toluene 18, solution iron
chloride 2, menthol 5, alcohol 30 parts applied with swab
every three hours.
Tongaline.
Secret.
Tonsillitis.
Treat same as pharyngitis. Calomel, guiac, antirheu-

matics, astringent as nitrate silver 8 grains to ounce of water
painted on tonsils with camel hair pencil.
Toothache.
Dentistry. Exclude air from exposed nerve by wax or
cotton plug, apply creosote to cavity. Ergot reduces throb-
bing pain, antiseptic mouth washes, cathartics, antirheu-
matics. Avoid opiates and acetanilids.
Torticollis. Wry Neck, see Stiff neck.
Trachoma. Granular eye-lids, see Conjunctivitis.

Resinol ointment ordinarly relieves. Severe granula-
tions may need granulations cauterized with blue-stone, cop-
per sulphate. Infectious through towels. Antiseptics.
Trance. Lethargy, Ecstasy.

Transitory Frenzy.
Technically includes definite fury and unconsciousness.
Traumaticin.
Solution of gutta-percha in chloroform used in den-
tistry and surgery as protective covering for bleeding sur-
faces, also as vehicle for dermics.
Traumatic Insanity.
A defined set of symptoms after head injury, sometimes
homicidal and suicidal.
Traumatic Neuroses.
Neurasthenia or hysterical from injury.
Tremor or Trembling.
Many functional or organic causes, usually indicating
weakness, as after debauch, when a stimulant stops the tre-
mor, during debility as in aged when a tonic may answer,

but in organic disease of brain or spinal cord little can be
done. See also Chorea.
Trichiasis.
Eye lash irregularity rubbing against the irritating eye-
ball. Surgery.
Trichinosis.
Dangerous boring parasite from eating raw meat,
passes from intestines to anterior spinal muscles, where
they encapsulate. Prevention is easier than remedy. Anti-
septics and pain relief.
Triferrol.
A ferruginous tonic. Dose tablespoonful.
Trikresol.
Antiseptic and disinfectant, said to be three times as ef-
fective and a third as toxic as carbolic acid.

Tri-iodides.
Partly secret.
Tri-iodo-cresol, see Losophan.
Trimethylamine Solution, see Solution, Trimethylamine.
Trional and Tetronal.

Improved sulfonal, but apparently not so well known
or used as much. Numerous poisoning cases.
Trioxymethylene.
Escharotic for warts. Generates formaldehyde gas on
heating.
Triphenin.
Propionyl-phenetidin. Antipyretic, Antineuralgic, on
trial reported prompt and no after effects. Dose 4 to 10
grains.
Trismus. Lock-jaw.
A localized symptom of tetanus.
Trismus Neonatorum. Lock-jaw in new born.

Caused by using septic instruments as scissors in cut-
ting naval cord.
Triticum.
Couch grass. Old diuretic not much used now except
in quack remedies for ignorant to dose their kidneys with.
Tropacocaine Hydrochlorate.
Benzoyl-pseudatropine Hydrochlorate. Substitute for
and said to be poisonous than cocaine, less reliable as
less
mydriatic. Used 3% solution with 0.6% sodium-chloride
solution.
Trophoneuroses.
Impaired nerves controlling- nutrition, causing wasting
and sloughing of tissues, usually symmetrical.
Trophonine.
An excellent predigested nutriment in liquid form, that
can be used in all complaints where strength must be con-
served and solid food must not be taken. In gastric ulcer,
dysentery and other conditions requiring concentrated liq-
uid food. For gastric wounds it is safer than solids and

more effective than food suppositories, which cause inflam-
mation and are innutritious beside.
Trypsin.
Practically pancreatin.
Tuberculosis. See also Phthisis.

Out door life as much as possible, avoidance of germs
which arise from dried sputum, are the simple therapeusis
and prophylaxis of "consumption." Open air sanitariums
are springing up all over the country, but all cases nearly
can be cared for at their own homes if windows are left open
day and night, winter and summer in sleeping rooms,
though city air is not good in any instance, as it is too much
laden with impurities of all kind and a city sanitarium is
simply foolishness. The best site would be a pine tree dis-
trict on a mountain, such as New Mexico and Colorado af-
ford. Many a case of incipient and even worse "consump-

tion" has been completely cured by exclusively out-door
life, such as a tramp lives. I recollect a photographer who
intended to throw away his life in a tramp along the Yel-

lowstone river among hostile Indians in the middle of the
last century but returned unharmed with healed up lungs
within the year. Another took a similar tramp to reduce his
weight, which, was somewhere about 250 pounds, and got
rid of all that was superfluous, about 70 pounds, in one

spring and summer.
The average consumptive is so hopeful, a condition
recognized by Hippocrates and called the spes phthisica,that
he falls an easy prey to pretenders, who rob him cruelly. The
various serums from that of Koch to those in use to-day are
failures, but occasionally a sure cure fraud or fool is a can-
didate for ovations. A good cod liver oil with or without
creosote is the best to allay many symptoms, and whisky cer-
tainly conserves tissues against destructive diseases as phth-
isis. The toleration for alcoholics is strong in consumption.
Tuberculin.
A toxine of Koch. Very dubious usefulness.
Tumors, see Cancers.
Turpentine, Chian.
Externally in cancer.
Turpentine.
Used in scarlet fever, especially with nephritis. Also in
pneumonia after giving calomel. Antiseptic and rubefac-
ient on flannel to back or abdomen with linseed meal poul-
tice to relieve congestion of bowels or kidneys.
Turpeth Mineral. Yellow Sulphate of Mercury.

Emetic and too poisonous for medical use.
Tyalid.
A starch digestant from the salivary glands of bovines.
Effective.
Tyloma, see Callosity.

Tympanites.
Air distention of abdomen, sometimes in peritonitis.
Typhoid Fever. Intestinal disease from foul water con-

taining typhoid bacillus.
Begins with stupidity and headaches, tenderness right
iliac region, bowel gurgling, appetite loss, fever rising in
evening, nosebleeding sometimes prostration lasting usually
six weeks, yellow diarrhoea at times. Strict milk diet, ex-
clusively, as solid food rasps the sore intestines and may
tear them open. So call abortive treatment more often
aborts the patient. No antipyretics unless temperature con-
tinues over 103 degrees Fahrenheit, and if constipation an
enema corrects it and lowers temperature. Constipation
also causes headache increase, so that enemas are better
than headache medicine in such cases. hemorrhage from
If
bowels antipyrine or ergot. Mild antiseptics and not too

much them internally, for overdosing with antiseptics
of
was bad as the disease when that method was first intro-
as
duced. Use mouth wash for sordes. Whisky and quinine
if debility, supporting treatment in convalescence, quiet and
slow return to other food in convalescence. At the outset

doses of calomel abridge the disease and modify it. Six
weeks is the usual duration, the third week being the crisis,
after which subsidence of the fever is favorable. Salol splits
into carbolic acid and salicylic acid or oftener does not dis-
solve but passes through the bowels inert. Labarraque's
solution or 5% Lysol solution for disinfecting stools, urine,
laundry, etc. Animal broths make a good culture medium
for typhoid germs.
Typhus Fever. Ship or Jail Fever.

Epidemic in wretched countries like Russia, where
there is more religion than sanitation or mercy. Infectious
continued fever not related to typhoid.
Ulcer of Stomach.
Avoid too much bismuth and feed with trophonine.
Rectal feeding inflames rectum.
Ulcers, see also Abscess.

Antiseptics and caustics, sometimes tonics.
Ulmaria.
Ethyl and Amyl salicylates, for external use in gout and
rheumatism.
Unguentum Hebrae.
Boro-vaseline or boro-lanoline.
Uranium Nitrate.
Doubtful use in diabetes.
Urea.
Carbamide. Doubtful use in cirrhosis, pleurisy, calcu-
lus, etc.
Urecedin.
Secret.
Uremia.
A pathological condition to arbitrarily include pheno-
mena attending renal disturbance, such as eclampsia or con-
vulsions in Bright's disease and the puerperal uremia. The
nature of the blood deterioration has not been definitely as-
certained. Generally the blood contains materials that
should have been excreted by the kidneys and which other
organs as the skin and bowels insufficiently compensate. The
salivary glands, stomach, axillae, soles of the feet also sur-
charge with urea when the kidneys are insufficient. Uremic
bronchitis with its frothy mucus exudate and danger of ed-
ema of the glottis is a laryngeal dropsy, convulsions could
be due to their blood deterioration or dropsy of the br.ain,
practically the same thing

as to results. The determining
factor being as to the organ most exercised. Talking can
congest the larynx and worry or mental over application the
brain.
Elaterium, calomel, sulphate of sodium, potassium ace-
tate, pilocarpine hydrochloride, dry cups and turpentine or
mustard to back, or hot applications to back if urine scanty.
Amyl nitrite, nitro-glycerine, digitalis, strychnia,normal
salt solution injections subcutaneously or by enema. Strych-
nia nitrate hypodermically.
Urethane.
Ethyl carbamide, on trial as a hypnotic.
Urethritis. Inflammation of the urethra.

Antiseptics and astringents locally, calomel internally.
Uricacidemia, see Rheumatism, Gout.
Uridrosis. Urine sweat.

Sweat normally contains small quantities of urea, in
Bright's disease and cholera the sweat glands eliminate an
excess of urine constituents, deposited on the skin, little
scales of urea may be seen alongside the nostrils, and the

skin smells urinous. Hot baths remove the offensiveness.
Uriform.
Ammonium-formaldehyde. Internal antiseptic in uri-
nary diseases, as cystitis, urethretis, prostatitis, etc. Dose
teaspoonful.
Urol.
Quinate of urea, suggested for rheumatism and gout.
l>ropherin Benzoate.
Theobromine and Lithium Benzoate.
Uropherin Salicylate.
Theobromine and Lithium Salicylate. Both these salts
are diuretic with 50% theobromine. Unstable. Dose 5 to
15 grains.
Urosin.
Quinate of lithium.
Urotropin. Formin.
Antiseptic from formaldehyde and ammonia. Expen-
sive.
Urticaria. Hives. Nettle Rash.

Eruption like nettle stings. Ammonia, Ichthyol, Re-
sorcin. Carbolic acid ointments, 3% in lanoline. Cathartics.
Ustilago Maydas. Corn ergot.

Resembles secale cornutem in therapeutic effect, quick-
er and harsher.
Uterine Colic.
Viburnal, asafoetida, valerianate of ammonia, if from
prolapse replace.
Uterine congestion.
Glycerine tampons.
Uterine Inflammation, see Metritis.
Uterine Prolapse, see Prolapsus Uteri.
Uterine Subinvolution.
Ergot, rest, support of organ with tampons.
Uva Ursi.
Bearberry. Old Diuretic, not much used.
Uvula or soft palate relaxation or elongation.

Astringents as nitrate of silver 8% solution, or alum.
If chronic a small piece of the tip can be excised, but care

taken not to make the uvula too short as it modifies the
voice.
Vaccination.
Small ivory lancets with lymph at the end enough for a
single vaccination are the safest to use, as septic instruments
such as needles are dispensed with. With such precaution
syphilis or tuberculosis must be in the blood previously if it
manifests itself, and cannot be blamed upon the vaccination,
as it properly was at times when arm to arm transfers of
lymph were made.
Vaginismus. Spasm of vagina muscles with pain.
If habitual, forcible distention after anesthesia, other-
wise monobromate of camphor, internally and locally co-
caine infrequently.
Vaginitis. Inflammation of the vagina.

Boro-glyceride suppositories, aseptic washes or
douches, astringents as ichthyol, hydrastine, potassium per-
manganate, boric acid.
Valerian.
The offensive odor of Valerian preparations prevent
theirbecoming popular with either physicians or patients,
but in the form of an elixir of valerianate of ammonia in
teaspoonful doses as needed, its efficiency and harmlessness
in all hysterical cases commends it to the neurologist. As a
nerve sedative it is vastly preferable to opium or the bro-

mides.
Valerianic Ether.
Antispasmodic, in spherical capsules.
Valvular Heart Disease.

Bad-Nauheim treatment, see Carbonated Bath Salts.
Vapo-cresoline.
Apparatus for vaporizing cresol to inhale in whooping
cough and infectious disorders of the respiratory organs.
Varicella, see Chicken Pox.
Varicocele. Enlarged veins of scrotum and spermatic

cord.
Ergot internally and ichthyol externally. Support
scrotum.
Varicose Veins. Dilated veins.

Ichthyol, resorcin, and if ulcerated antiseptics exter-
nally and tonics internally.
Variola, see Small Pox.
Vasogen.
A vehicle for applying iodine, ichthyol, mercury, creo-
sote, etc.
Veronal.
Hypnotic. Crystals soluble in 145 parts water at 68 de-
grees F., and 12 parts boiling water. Dose 10 grains. Simi-
lar to trional but less dangerous.
Verruca, see Warts.
Vertigo. Dizziness.
Variable causes, as anemia or hyperemia of brain, ear
diseases, brain diseases, stomach or heart derangement, so
that very opposite methods of treatment may be required
in different cases. A hot foot bath or cathartic if too much
blood in head, a stimulant if too little blood there.
Venene.
For snake bites, see Antitoxins.
Venereal Diseases, see Chancre, Gonorrhoea and Syph-

ilis.
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Veratrine.
Exceedingly irritating to mucous membranes and be-
ing so poisonous and temporary in effect and of dubious
medical use generally it could be spared from materia med-
ica with other injurious outworn things.
Veratrum Viride.
American hellebore. A cardiac depressant that may be

shelved with old granny black hellebore as a mere poison.
Vibrations.
Like all new means useful in a limited number of cases
the exploiters are claiming to be able to cure everything
with it. The machines can be used with advantage in
ameliorating paralysis agitans, liver torpidity and similar
disorders, though I hold that instruction is more service-
able to the patient, however resented and unprofitable pe-
cuniarily to the doctor.
Viburnal.
A compound of viburnum prunifolium and cimicifuga
for dysmenorrhoea. Dose tablespoonful in hot sweetened
water hourly before menstrual period. The practice of giv-
ing morphine for painful menses leads to the habit of using
opiates. Viburnum avoids this.
Viburnum Compound.
Another uterine sedative.
Viburnum Opulus. Cramp Bark.

Antispasmodic, but the prunifolium is preferred.
Viburnum Prunifolium.
Black Haw. Uterine nerve sedative, particularly when
with cimicifuga as in viburnal. Dose fluid extract 15 to 60
minims.
Vichy Water.
Bicarbonate of soda solution.
Vioform.
Iodoform substitute.
Vitiligo. Leukoderma.
Vitogen.
Secret. External use.
Vomiting and Nausea.

Cerium oxalate, small pieces of ice held in mouth until
corners are melted and then swallowed, a solution contain-
ing a drop of creosote or carbolic acid to the pint of water,
tablespoonful doses, antiferments, emetics, cathartics, lemon
juice in bilious cases.
Vulvar Pruritus.
Resinol or resorcin ointment.
Vulvitis. Inflammation of vulva, see Vaginitis.
Wahoo, see Euonymus Atropurpureus.
Warts. Papillomata, Verrucae.

Trim and cauterize with silver nitrate or any acid. Sali-
cylic acid in paste will soften warts and formaldehyde disin-
tegrate them by the opposite process of hardening them.
Water-brash. Eructations usually from Gastritis.

Alkalies and buttermilk diet.
Water Cure, see Hydrotherapy.
Water of Bitter Almond.

Contains one per cent of hydrocyanic acid. Used
chiefly as a vehicle. Dose 10 to 20 minims.
THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AKD PRACTICE. 303
Waters, Mineral.
The chemical bureau of the government department of
agriculture procured specimens of all the advertised spring

waters and found the most of them to be fraudulent. The
use of such waters by thosewho can afford them constitutes
a fad or superstition.Ignorance of the rudiments of chem-
istry enable the people to be imposed upon. Even when
pure such waters for the most part have merely glauber or
epsom salts in varying amounts.
Wens. Sebaceous Cysts.
Dissect out the capsule for if this membrane remains
the wen will grow again.
White-Leg, see Phlegmasia Alba Dolens.
White Precipitate, see Mercury Ammonium Chloride.
Whites, see Leucorrhoea.
Whitlow, see Onychia.
Whooping Cough, see Pertussis.

Widal's Test for Typhoid Fever.
A few c.c. of blood serum from patient, if a few drops
of active culture of bacillus typhosus added and the bacteria
are pptd in flakes, leaving the supernatent fluid clear, there
is typhoid fever.
See also Ficker's Typhoid Diagnostic.
Wild Cherry Bark.

Sedative. Depends upon hydrocyanic acid for flavor,
odor and Dose fluid extract 20 to 60 minims, in-
effects.
fusion 1 to 4 ounces, Syrup 1 to 4 drams. Expectorant and

frequent ingredient of cough medicines. Quacks use it in
"Consumption Cures" as it allays the throat irritability a
little and the uninformed imagine that therefore a remedy
has been found for an incurable disease.

Wintergreen, see Gaultheria.

The oil is useful in rheumatism, if pure.
Witch Hazel.
Hamamelis, Pond's extract. Lotion for injuries and
burns of minor degree.
Wool-sorter's Disease, see Anthrax.
Worms. Intestinal parasites of various kinds.

Ascarides or round worms, santonin 3 grains, calomel
4 grains in sugar, or a teaspoonful of a mixture of equal
parts of spigelia and senna fluid extracts and syrup. For
oxyuris or thread or seat worms, the simple introduction
once or twice daily up the rectum of a capsule containing 2
movement.
grains of quinine, after a bowel
For tape worms Tanret's Pelletierine Syrup on an
empty stomach with cathartic later, or oleoresin of male
fern a dram and a half with 15 minims each of turpentine
and chloroform in an ounce of acacia mucilage, half at
night, rest next morning, with purge later, or tannate of Pel-
letierene and koussein each 15 grains in 3 capsules, dose one
to three according to age with cathartic later, 5 grains of
thymol hourly and castor oil at beginning and end of dos-
ing six to ten times.
The young practitioner is discomfited by an old granny
diagnosing and treating children for "worms" when there
is an intestinal trouble, with paleness about the mouth and
picking at the lips, with irritability and sleeplessness, and

many an old practitioner overlooks such simple matters but
isreminded of old granny success again when she slyly rids
the youngster of the worms, but all such things are mere
matters of experience and we seldom if ever hear of the mul-
titude of cases in which old granny was not only in error but
harmed the child in ignorant attempts to relieve it of worms
it did not have.
THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA MEDICA AM> PRACTICE. 305
Wounds.
Antiseptics, protectives.
Writer's Cramp.
Spasm of hand muscles when attempting to write,
through overuse of the hand in one predisposed. Incurable.
Massage and tonics with rest palliates.
Writer's Paralysis.
An extreme condition of writer's cramp, same prog-
nosis and palliation.
Wry-Neck, see Torticollis or Stiff neck.
Xanthoxylum.
Prickly Ash. Diaphoretic alterative. Dose fluid ex-
tract 15 to 60 minims. Little used.
Xeroform.
Tribromphenol-bismuth. Half bismuth, Surgical and
intestinal antiseptic. Externally infected wounds and bu-
boes, internally diarrhoeas. Dose 5 to 15 grains.
X Ray, also Roentgen Ray.

Useful in diagnosis to enable certain opaque parts, as
bones, hard tumors, metallic and some other foreign ma-
terials to be seen in deep parts of the body, other tissues
being rendered practically transparent.
In therapeutics the stimulation afforded by the ray
seems tohave removed, more or less permanently, lupus
vulgaris, and has been tried in pulmonary tuberculosis and
some other complaints, but with how much success remains
to be discovered from the mass of contradictory writings.
Yellow Fever.
Indigenous to Cuba, nearly eradicated by sanitary
measures. Calomel, antiseptics, antipyretics and symp-
tomatic treatment, avoiding stimulants unless collapse or
exhaustion.
Yersin's Serum, see Antitoxins.
Yohimbin.
Aphrodisiac. Tablets containing a twelfth of a grain,
i to 3 daily.
Zinc Acetate.
Formerly used in eye washes and gonorrhoea, but has
been superceded by more useful and less injurious sub-
stances. Opacity of the cornea has been caused by it and
lead acetates. It was formerly an ingredient of quack gon-
orrhoea remedies.
Zinc Bromide.
Dubious use.
Zinc Carbonate.
Used for wounds, ulcers, skin diseases, also face pow-
der in which it is less injurious than lead preparations.
Zinc Chloride.
Antiseptic. Tuberculous joints i to 1,000 or stronger.
Zinc Iodide.
Soluble. Dose i to 2 grains. Scrofula and Syphilis.
Zinc Oxide.
Ointment 5 to 20% for wound and skin diseases.
Zinc Permanganate.
Soluble in water with residue. Antiseptic. Use 1 to
4,000 in gonorrhoea solution injected, but instability ren-
ders ordinary permangante of potassium preferable. Ex-
plosive.
Zinc Phosphide.
Useless in sexual exhaustion and other things for
which it has been tried on mistaken theoretical grounds.
Zinc Sulphate.
White Vitriol. Emetic in doses of 10 to 30 grains.
Zinc Sulphocarbolate.
Effective antiferment in diarrhoeas caused by gastro-
intestinal fermentation. Dose 2 to 4 grains after each dis-
charge. It is used also as an astringent wash in foul ulcers.
Zinc Valerianate.
Decomposes on exposure, so not available in the ner-
vous affections for which it has been advised in a routine
way by neurologists who do not verify their formularies as
to results secured. The bad smelling elixir of ammonia is
better than a valerianate prescribed by mere name and

which if it acts at all does so by faith cure.
Zomol.
Juice of 200 times its weight of raw meat, in scales.
Zoster. Shingles.
OTHER WORKS OF THE SAME AUTHOR.
Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity.

2 volumes, 1400 pages; sheep, $12.00; cloth, $10.00.
Describes all forms of Insanity and its Treat-
ment. Complete from the Medical as well as Legal

sides. Based on asylum experience and the literature
of all languages. Exact, Reliable, Standard.
Law and Insane Asylum Libraries value it as
leading books on the subject. Highly endorsed
all
by Journals on the subject of Insanity such as the

American Journal of Insanity, London Journal of
Mental Science, Journal of Nervous and Mental
Disease, also law periodicals as the New York Law
Journal, American Lawyer, Albany Law Journal, etc.
Published by The Lawyers' Co-operative Pub-
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For sale by The Evolution Publishing Company, Atlantic City, N. J.
The Evolution of Man and His Mind.

623 pages ; cloth, $5.00.
A Popular series of easily read essays describing

the gradual development of animals, man and mental-
ity, reviewing the discoveries of all evolutionists.
Written for all classes of readers, especially medical,
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Favorably reviewed generally. Ordered by prin-
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Mentioned as encyclopaedic, intensely interest-
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Published by The Evolution Publishing Company, Atlantic City, N. J,
OTHER WORKS OF THE SAME AUTHOR.
Spinal Concussion.
Surgically considered as a cause of spinal in-
juries and neurologically restricted to designate a
form of the traumatic neuroses, for which was sug-
gested the term Erichsen's Disease.
SirJohn Eric Erichsen, surgeon extraordinary
to the queen commended this book as an improve-
ment upon his celebrated Concussion of the Spine, a
historical classic in the advance of medicine, concern-
ing a subject involving billions of dollars in damage
suits against railways, and necessarily arousing bitter
partisanship. This book is impartial but as it is also
truthful it is not welcome to professional perjurers
and organized incorporated criminality.
Published by the F. A. Davis Publishing Com-
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is still standard in universities and with surveyors and
and civil engineers for practical field use. Published

by D. VanNostrand Co., N. Y.
Artistic Anatomy, and the Sciences useful to the Artist.
Lectures delivered at the Art Institute, Chicago;
published serially in the American Lithographer,
1887.
Comparative Physiology and Psychology.

247 pages. Out of print. Published in 1884.
A discussion of the relations of the mind and

body of man and animals. Too technical in chemi-
cal and biological studies for general reading. The
later work Evolution of Man and His Mind is a
popular form of these subjects.
VanNostrand's Engineering Magazine : — Engineering Instruments of
Aluminum, Feb., 1874 Construction of a Mean Noon Sun
; Dial, July,
1874; American Cartography, May, 1875.
Chicago Medical Gazette. Feb. 20th, 1880: Therapeutic Action of Mer- —

cury Guide to Post Mortem Examinations of the Brain Editorials.
; ;
American Journal of Microscopy, June and July, 1880, Examination of

Tissues after the Administration of Mercury.
Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner Mechanical Therapeutics, :

—
Chemistry and Toxicology of Mercury, April, 1880 Cerebral Anatomy ;
Simplified, Nov. 1880; Schmidt on Yellow Fevei, April, 1881; Medical

Electricity, vice president address Chicago Electrical Society, Nov. 1881
Insanity in Chicago, Nov. 1883 Asylum Reports, 1883, to 1885 Rea
; ;
sons for resigning position of pathologist, 1 884.
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Cerebral Topography, Oct. : —

1879; The Sulcus of Rolando as an Index to the Intelligence of Ani-
mals, April, 1880 Plan of the Cerebro- Spinal Nervous System,
; >ct. '
1880.
Sidereal Messenger :
—Optical Appearances of Comets, March, 1887.
Open Court: — Numerous scientific articles, (887.
Alienist and Neurologist — An Infant Prodigy, July, 1890.

:
Philadelphia Times and Register: — Address

to Academy of
Chicago
Medicine, Oct. II, 1890 Medico- Legal Testimony, July 9, 1892;
;
Acid Prevention of Cholera, Sept. 10, 1892, Dec. 7, 1892, Boodler

Insane Asylums, 1893.
Science, N. Y. —
Probable Branchial Origin of the Thyroid and Thymus
:
Glands, June 25, 1881 Hunger, the Primitive Desire, Jan. 1881
; Con- ;
tributions to Comparative Psychology, May, July, 1881 Celestial Photo- ;
micrography, Sept. 2, 1892; Brain and Skull Correlations, Oct. 21,

1892; Comparative Longevity, Jan. 27, 1893; Unconscious Cerebra-
tion, Feb. 10, 1893.
American Naturalist :
—
Origin and Descent of the Human Brain, July, 1881;
Disadvantages of the Upright Position, July, 1883, a lecture delivered to
Chicago University Club, April, 1882 and Philadelphia Academy of
Natural Sciences, May 23, 1883; The Coming Man, July, 1891 Cere- ;
brology and Phrenology, July, 1888 Language and Max Miiller, Nov.
;
1891 Analogies, March, 1892

; Brain Centers, Sept. 1892.
;
Journal of the American Medical Association : — Sleep, Sleeplessness

and Hypnotics, March 1894; Conservative Brain Surgery, June 29,
10,
1895 Post Alcoholism, Oct. 1895
; The Mercurials, Feb. 22, 29, 1895;
'>
Treatment of the Insane, Oct. 24, 1896 Pain and Its Therapeusis, Jan.
;
30, 1897.
And many other articles, of which some are reproduced in the books above
mentioned.
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Usefulness and reliability were kept constantly in view in the

construction of this book; pedanticisms, serving merely to fill space in

omitted ; nor is there adherence to any cumbrous system for consistency

dom from the dignified drivel of the average Therapeutics.

in a few instances can be compared with the unhesitating denunciation

condemn the rest.

The publications of such reputable houses as those of Squibb

but this work, while embodying information from many sources, to be

found in no other single volume, is intensely original, particularly with

Under Prescribing, Therapeutics, etc., other dissertations occur

to paralysis from disease of brain base, especially syphilitic

bleeding abrasion styptics. To determine minute abrasions

nourishing, as Africans and apes sometimes subsist on it.

Acetanilid, see also Antifebrin.

To be used, if at all, with caution as it is the ingredient

fever itmust be watched in its effects, and it is safer to use

move the cause of the disease, which mere pain alleviators

Acetic Acid, the base of Vinegar.

Not used internally in concentrated form, the glacial is

used now in medicine.

cess of alkalinity was present and as hyperacidity is the most

preventive of Asiatic Cholera, the germ of which requires

puberty. Fowler's solution internally and antiphlogistine

There are several varieties of acne, so that treatment must

tioner who has allayed pain with aconite, in case a patient

would be as sensible to claim that it was owing to an en-

Acute Delirious Mania.

usually recovered from, if not ignorantly dosed with hyp-

organically destructive we can expect palliation at best, and

Adenitis. Inflammation of lymphatic glands.

Adeps Lanae Hydrosus, see Lanolin or Lanum.

Ordinary Ichthyocolla or court plaster has minor uses for

Adreniline, see Supra-renal capsule.

Adynamia. Loss of vitality.

As the causes and consequences vary widely it is best

Agalactia. Deficiency or absence of milk.

rest, good food, especially cow's milk, plenty of drinking

caused by the phagocytes that destroy hostile germs in the

the phagocytes merely continued their regular performance

Ague, see Intermittent Fever.

An unstable bismuth vulnerary. Not much used.

Loss of power of speech, complete or incomplete. Cur-

Albuminuria, see Nephritis, Scarlatina, Eclampsia, Ure-

Alcoholic acute poisoning.

Alcoholism, see Inebriety.

lepsy by ligation of the carotid arteries, cutting off part of

Antirheumatic, composition not fully stated. Dose:

Transferred reflex. A foot sole tickle causes the other

only scientific and honest, and contains the fewest quacks.

Flavor, see Oil.

Alopecia, loss of hair.

Burnt Alum, alumen exsiccatum, it is a caustic through its

Amenorrhoea. Absence or arrest of the menses.

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