Merck's 1899 Manual Part 291

a.r.s.enic.

Belladonna.

Ice Bag: or poultice over the cec.u.m.

Leeches: at once as soon as tenderness is complained of, unless subject is too feeble.

Levico Water.

Magnesium Sulphate: only when disease is due to impaction of cec.u.m.

Metallic Mercury.

Opium: better as morphine subcutaneously.

Purgatives.

Veratrum Viride.

~Typhoid Fever.~--_See also, Hemorrhage, Intestinal; Rectal Ulceration; Tympanites._

Acetanilid.

Acid, Carbolic.

Acid, Hydrochloric: to diminish fever and diarrhea.

Acid, Phosphoric: cooling drink.

Acid, Salicylic: some hold that it is good in the typhoid of children, many that it does great harm.

Acid, Sulphuric, Diluted.

Aconite: to reduce the pyrexia.

Alcohol: valuable, especially in the later stages.

Alum: to check the diarrhea.

Antipyrine: to lower the temperature.

Argenti Nitras: to check diarrhea; in obstinate cases along with opium; should not be given until the abdominal pain and diarrhea have begun.

Aristol.

Arnica: antipyretic.

a.r.s.enic: liquor a.r.s.enicalis with opium to restrain the diarrhea.

Asafetida.

Asaprol.

Bath: agreeable to patient, and reduces hyperpyrexia.

Belladonna: during the pyrexial stage it lowers the temperature, cleans the tongue, and steadies the pulse; afterwards brings on irritability of heart.

Benzanilide: antipyretic.

Bis.m.u.th Subnitrate: to check diarrhea.

Bis.m.u.th Subgallate.

Brand's method of cold bathing.

Calomel: 10 grn. first day, and eight each day after, the German specific treatment. Or: in small continuous doses without producing stomat.i.tis.

Calx Saccharata: in milk, when the tongue is black and parched.

Camphor.

Carbolate of Iodine: one drop of tincture of iodine and of liquefied carbolic acid, in infusion of digitalis, every two or three hours.

Carbonate of Ammonium.

Cascara Sagrada.

Charcoal: to prevent fetor of stools, acc.u.mulation of fetid gas, and to disinfect stools after pa.s.sage.

Chloral Hydrate.

Chlorine Water.

Chloroform Water.

Copper a.r.s.enite.

Copper Sulphate.

Creosote.

Creolin.

Digitalis: to lower temperature and pulse-rate; death during its use has been known to occur suddenly.

Enemas: to be tried first, if constipation lasts over two days.