Merck's 1899 Manual Part 94

Castor Oil: 10 to 20 minims in a teaspoonful of brandy and peppermint water before breakfast.

Chloral Hydrate.

Cocculus: When montions are hard and lumpy, and much flatus.

Cod-Liver Oil: in obstinate cases in children.

Coffee: sometimes purges.

Colocynth: compound pill at night.

Croton Oil: when no inflammation is present, very active.

Diet.

Dinner Pill: aloes and myrrh; aloes and iron; with nux vomica and belladonna or hyoscyamus, taken just before dinner.

Enemata: soap and water, or castor oil; habitual use tends to increase intestinal torpor; should only be used to unload.

Ergot: to give tone.

Eserine.

Euonymin: cholagogue purgative in hepatic torpor.

Fig: one before breakfast.

Gamboge: in habitual constipation.

Glycerin: suppositories or enemata.

Guaiac.u.m: especially when powerful purgatives fail.

Gymnastics, horseback riding, or ma.s.sage.

Honey: with breakfast.

Hydrastis: useful in biliousness.

Ipecacuanha: one grn. in the morning before breakfast.

Jalap: along with scammony.

Leptandra.

Lime: saccharated solution after meals.

Licorice Powder, Compound: a teaspoonful at night or in the morning.

Magnesium Bicarbonate: solution useful for children and pregnant women.

Magnesium Oxide.

Magnesium Sulphate.

Manna.

Mercury: in bilious disorders with light stools.

Muscarine: to increase peristalsis.

Nux Vomica: 5 to 10 minims in a gla.s.s of cold water before breakfast or before dinner.

Oil Olives.

Opium: when r.e.c.t.u.m is irritable; also in reflex constipation.

Ox-gall.

Physostigma: 10 minims of tincture along with belladonna and nux vomica in atony of the walls.

Podophyllin or Podophyllum: very useful, especially in biliousness: ten drops of tincture at night alone, or the resin along with other purgatives in pill, especially when stools are dark.

Pota.s.sium Bisulphate.

Pota.s.sium and Sodium Tartrate.

Prunes: stewed, often efficient; if stewed in infusion of senna they are still more active.

Resin Jalap.

Rhubarb Compound Pill: at night; also for children, mixed with bicarbonate of sodium.

Saline Waters: in morning before breakfast.

Senna: as confection, etc.

Senna: with Cascara Sagrada.

Soap: suppository in children.

Sodium Chlorate.

Sodium Phosphate.

Stillingia: 10 minims of fluid extract.

Strychnine: in atony of the walls.