Merck's 1899 Manual Part 108

Copper a.r.s.enite.

Copper Sulphate: one-tenth grn. along with opium in acute and chronic diarrhea, a.s.sociated with colicky pains and catarrh.

Corrosive Sublimate: in small doses in acute and chronic watery diarrhea, marked by slimy or b.l.o.o.d.y stools of children and adults; and diarrhea of phthisis and typhoid.

Coto Bark: in catarrhal diarrhea.

Cotoin.

Creolin.

Creosote.

Diet: for summer diarrhea.

Dulcamara: in diarrhea of children from teething and exposure.

Enteroclysis: when mucous form becomes chronic.

Ergot: in a very chronic diarrhea succeeding to an acute attack.

Erigeron Canadense.

Eucalyptol or Eucalyptus.

Eudoxin.

Flannel Binder: adjunct in children.

Gaduol: as tonic in scrofulous and weakly children.

Galls: in chronic diarrhea.

Geranium.

Ginger.

Guaiacol.

Guaiacol Carbonate.

Guarana: in convalescence.

Hematoxylon: mild astringent, suitable to children from its sweetish taste.

Ice to Spine.

Injection: of starch water, at 100 F., with tinct. opii and acetate of lead or sulphate of copper, in the choleraic diarrhea of children.

Iodine.

Ipecacuanha: drop doses of the wine every hour in the dysenteric diarrhea of children, marked by green slimy stools.

Iron Sulphate.

Kino: astringent.

Krameria: astringent.

Lead Acetate: in suppository or by mouth; in summer diarrhea (simple in children, with morphine in adults); with opium in purging due to typhoid or tubercular disease, in profuse serous discharge, and in purging attended with inflammation.

Magnesia: antacid for children.

Magnesium Salicylate.

Menthol.

Mercury: the gray powder in diarrhea of children, marked by derangement of intestinal secretion and stinking stools; to be withheld where ma.s.ses of undigested milk are pa.s.sed; in adults, see Corrosive Sublimate.

Monesia Extract.

Morphine Sulphate.

Mustard: plaster.

Naphtalin.

Naphtol.

Naphtol Benzoate.

Nutmeg.

Nux Vomica: in chronic cases.

Oak Bark: infusion, astringent.

Opium: in tubercular and typhoid diarrhea; in acute, after expulsion of offending matter; as an enema, with starch, in the acute fatal diarrhea of children.

Pancreatin.

Paraformaldehyde.

Pepsin: along with nitro-hydrochloric acid.

Podophyllin.

Podophyllum: in chronic diarrhea, with high-colored pale or frothy stools.