Merck's 1899 Manual Part 48

Eucalyptus.

Europhen.

Glycerin: very useful: either alone or in combination appears greatly to a.s.sist.

Jaborandi.

Naphtol.

Nutgall.

Pilocarpine: subcutaneous injection has been useful.

Quillaja.

Resorcin.

Savine Oil: Prevents loss of hair in Alopecia pityroides.

Sapo Viridis: very useful as a shampoo night and morning--Take Saponis virid. (German), Alcoholis, each 3 fl. oz. Ol. lavandulae, 30 drops.

Shaving: sometimes useful after illness.

Sodium Bicarbonate: as a lotion in Alopecia pityroides.

Sulphur Iodide: useful both internally and externally.

Tannin: watery solution or made up into ointment.

Thymol.

Thyraden, and other Thyroid preparations.

~Amaurosis and Amblyopia.~

Amyl Nitrite: useful in many cases of disease of the optic nerve.

Antipyrine.

Arnica: sometimes useful.

Digitalis: in toxic cases.

Electricity.

Emmenagogues: if due to menstrual disorders.

Mercury: when due to syphilis.

Myotomy: in asthenopia and hysterical amblyopia.

Nitroglycerin.

Nux Vomica.

Phosphorus.

Pilocarpine: in tobacco and alcoholic abuse.

Pota.s.sium Bromide.

Pota.s.sium Iodide.

Rue: in minute doses in functional dimness of vision, _e.g._ hysterical amblyopia.

Salicylates.

Santonin: sometimes useful in later stages of iritis and chloroiditis, and in loss of power of optic nerve.

Seton: on temple; or blisters, along with iodide of pota.s.sium, in amaurosis coming on suddenly, and a.s.sociated with tenderness of the eyeball on pressure; the disc is sometimes congested.

Silver Nitrate.

Strychnine: very useful in cases of tobacco amaurosis, alcoholic excess, nerve atrophy (without cranial disease), and in traumatic amaurosis.

Veratrine: to eyelids and temples. Care must be taken to keep out of the eye.

Zinc Lactate.

~Amenorrhea.~--_See also Anemia, Chlorosis._

Acid, Oxalic.

Aconite: when menses are suddenly checked, as by cold, etc.

Actaea Racemosa: to restore the secretion, and remove the headache, ovarian neuralgia, etc., produced by its sudden stoppage.

Alcohol: in sudden suppression after exposure.

Aloes: alone or with iron. In torpor and anemia; best administered a few days before the expected period.

Ammonium Chloride: in headache.

Apiol: 5--10 min. twice a day for some days before the expected period; if there is a molimen, 15 grn. in a few hours. Useful in anemia and torpor only.

Arnica.