Merck's 1899 Manual Part 47

Pota.s.sium Bromide: in uremic convulsions.

Strontium Acetate.

Strontium Lactate: if due to renal atony.

Tannalbin.

Tartrates: as diuretics.

Turpentine: as diuretic, 1/2 to 1 minim dose every two to four hours.

Water: in large draughts as diuretic when excretion of solids is deficient; and in dropsy.

~Alcoholism.~--_See also, Delirium Tremens, Vomiting, Neuritis._

Actaea Racemosa: in irritative dyspepsia.

Ammonia: aromatic spirit of, as subst.i.tute for alcohol, to be taken when the craving comes on.

Ammonium Chloride.

Ammonium Acetate.

a.r.s.enic: to lessen vomiting in drunkards, in the morning before food is taken; and also in the irritable stomach of drunkards.

Bis.m.u.th: with hydrocyanic acid, to relieve acidity and heartburn.

Bromides: useful during delirium tremens, or to lessen irritability, in 1 dram doses in the wakeful condition which immediately precedes it.

Capsic.u.m: as a subst.i.tute for alcohol, and also to relieve the restlessness and insomnia.

Chloral Hydrate: to quiet nervous system and induce sleep in an acute attack. Must be used with caution in old drunkards.

Cimicifuga.

Cocaine: to remove the craving.

Faradization.

Gelsemium: same as bromides.

Gold and Sodium Chloride.

Hydrastine.

Ichthalbin.

Levico Water: as tonic.

Lupulin: along with capsic.u.m as subst.i.tute for alcohol, also to quiet nervous system in delirium tremens.

Milk: at night.

Nux Vomica: as tonic and stimulant, both to nervous system and generally to aid digestion.

Opium: May be necessary to produce sleep; to relieve the pain of the chronic gastritis and the want of appet.i.te.

Orange: slowly sucked, a subst.i.tute for alcohol.

Phosphorus: in chronic cases as nerve tonic.

Picrotoxine: for tremors.

Pota.s.sium Bromide.

Quinine: in the "horrors" stage it acts as a sedative to the brain and restores the digestive functions.

Strychnine Nitrate.

Sumbul: in the headache of old drinkers.

Water, cold: a gla.s.s taken in small sips at a time as subst.i.tute for alcohol.

Water, hot: one pint drunk as hot as possible an hour before meals will remove craving.

Zinc Oxide: in chronic alcoholic dyspepsia, and nervous debility. It also allays the craving.

~Alopecia.~--_See also, Tinea Decalvans._

Acid, Carbolic: in Alopecia areata.

Acid, Gallic.

Acid, Nitric: with olive oil in sufficient quant.i.ty just to make it pugnant.

Alcohol.

Ammonia: very useful; take Ol. amygd. dul., Liq. ammoniae, each 1 fl.

oz., Spt. rosmarini, Aquae, Mellis, each 3 fl. drams; mix; make lotion (E. Wilson).

Antimonium Tartaratum: as lotion, 1 grn. to 1 fl. oz. water.

a.r.s.enic: internally.

Cantharides Tincture: one part to eight of castor oil rubbed in roots of hair morning and night.