Merck's manual of the materia medica : a ready reference pocket book for the physician and surgeon: containing names of the chemicals and drugs ... / compiled from the most recent authoritative sources and published by Merck & Co.

Date:
1911
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Credit: Merck's manual of the materia medica : a ready reference pocket book for the physician and surgeon: containing names of the chemicals and drugs ... / compiled from the most recent authoritative sources and published by Merck & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ACOIN.—^White cryst. powd.—Sol. in water.—Local Anesthetic.— Uses: In infiltration anesthesia by Schleich's method in a 1:1000 solut. of 0.8% solut. of sodium chloride. Employed also as 1% solution in ophthalmology. ACONITE ROOT.—Uses: As of Aconitine.—Dose: 1—2 grains (0.06— 0.12 Gm.).—Preparations: Ext., i—i grn. (0.015—0.03 Gm.); Fl'extr., i—1 ni (0.015—0.06 Co.); Tr., 3—10 TTl (0.2—0.6 Cc). ACONITINE (ALKALOID) MILD MERCK.—Amorph.—(Da not con- found with Aconitine [Alkaloid], Potent; or with the eclectic Aconitin.)— Yellowish white, amorph. powd.—Sol. Alchohol, ether, and chloroform. —Uses: As aconitine, potent, cryst.; but only about j^ as powerful.— Dose: g^j—^\ grn. (0.001—0.003 Gm.), very carefully increased.—Max. D.: tS grain (0.004 Gm.) single.—Extern. |—2% oint. or solut. ACONITINE (ALKALOID) POTENT MERCK.—Cryst.—(Do not con- found with Aconitine [Alkaloid], Mild; or with the eclectic *' Aconitin)— Alkaloid from Aconite, prepared according to process of Duquesnel.— White cryst.; feebly bitter taste.—Sol. in alchol, ether, chloroform; insol. in water—Antineuralgic, Diuretic, Sudorific, Anoydne.—Uses: Intern., neuralgia, acute or chronic rheumatism, gout, pleurisy, pneu- monia, pericarditis, tonsillitis, toothache, etc.; extern., rheumatism, other pains.—Dose: ^U—joo grn. (0.0001—0.0003 Gm.) several t. daily, in pill or solut., with caution.—Max. D.: gV gm. (0.001 Gm.) single, ^^ grn. (0.003 Gm.) daily.—Extern.: 1:2000—500 parts lard.—Antidotes: Small repeated doses of stimulants; artificial respiration, atropine, digi- talis, ammonia; 3 grains (0.2 Gm.) tannin every ^ hour; chloroform in- halation in spasms. See also Poisoning and its Treatment, p. 427.— Incompatibles: Physiol., atropine, morphine, digitalis, ammonia* Chem., alkalies, tannin, mercury salts.—CJaution: Never use on abraded sur- faces. Danger of absorption 1 About 10 times as toxic as the mild amorph, aconitine (above)! ADEPS LAN.^,—see Lanum Anhydrous. ADEPS LAN^ HYDROSUS,—see Lanum. ADONIDIN MERCK.—Adonin.—Yellowish-brown, very hygroscopic, odorl., intensely bitter, powd.—Sol, in water, alcohol; insol. in ether, chloroform.—Cardiac Stimulant, mild Diuretic.—Uses: Heart disease, instead of digitalis, especially mitral and aortic regurgitation, and reliev- ing precordial pain and dyspnea; also in nicotine poisoning, and in chronic, diffuse nephritis.—Dose: -^q—\ gm. (0.004—0.015 Gm.) 4 t. daily, in pill, tablet-triturate, or solut. in chloroform water with ammo- nium carbonate.—Max. D.: ^ grn. (0.03 Gm.) single; H grn. (0.1 Gm.) daily.—Inject. 15—30 TTl (1—2 Cc.) of a0.5% solut.—Antidotes: Emet- ics, stomach tube, tannin, spirit glyceryl nitrate, morphine, alcohol stimu- lants, camphor, mustard cataplasms. ADRENALIN.—Blood-pressure-raising principle of suprarenal gland. ~—White or yellowish powd.; slightly bitter taste.—Hemostatic and As- tringent.—Used in 1—10:10000 solut. (as chloride) in hay fever, inflam- mation of tonsils, larynx, etc., and in conjunctivitis, iritis, etc.; also in minor surgical operations to prevent bleeding.—Dose: hypoderm. 1—15 drops diluted w. water. AFERMOL.—A dry powdered blood serum obtained by a special process from horses.—Uses: In acute purulent processes, and ichorous purulent wounds.—Applied in powder form direct to the wound. AGARICIN MERCK.—Yellowish powd.; sweet, with bitter after-taste. —Sol. in alcohol; slightly in water, ether, or chloroform,—Antihidrotic. —Uses: Phthisical night-sweats, sweating from antifebrin, antipyrine, exalgin, resorcinol, phenacetin, and salicylates.—Dose: i—1 gm. (0.015 —0.06 Gm.); Max D.: 1^ grains (0.1 Gm.). AGURIN.—Acet-Theobromine Sodium.—White hygrosc. powd.—• Sol. in water.—Diuretic.—Uses: Cardiac and renal diseases. Dose: 8—15 gm. (0.5—1 Gm.) 3—41. p. d.