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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    AMMONIUM CARBONATE MERCK.—Sol. in abt. 5 parts water, 5 glycerin, partially in alcohol; decomp. by hot water.—Rubefacient, Car- diac Stimulant, Expectorant.—Uses: Intern., in syncope, heart failure, Bneumonia, phthisis, and hysteria; extern., by inhalation in fainting.— ►ose: 5 gm. (0.3 Gm.) every 2 hrs.—Incompatibles: Salts of iron, lead, silver, and alkaloids; acids and acid salts; alum; calomel, mercury bichloride; potass, bitartrate or bisulphate; tartar emetic; zinc sul- phate. AMMONIUM CHLORIDE MERCK.—White cryst. powd.—Sol. in abt. 3 parts water, 5 glycerin; slightly in alcohol; insol. in ether.—Stimulant, Expectorant, Antineuralgic.—Uses: Bronchial affections, hepatic conges- tions, muscular rheumatism, neuralgia, chronic glandular enlargement, hemicrania, dysmenorrhea, leucorrhea, etc.—Dose: 5—30 gm. (0.3—2 Gm.).—Incompatibles: Alkalies and their carbonates; salts of lead and silver.—Preparation: Troches (1^ gm. [0.1 Gm.]). AMMONIUM FLUORIDE MERCK.—Very deliquescent, colorless crystals; strong saline taste.—Sol. in water; slightly in alcohol.—Anti- periodic, Alterative, Antizymotic.—Uses: Hypertrophy of spleen, flat- ulent dyspepsia, goiter, etc.—Dose: \—f gm. (0.015—0.05 Gm.) after meals, in water. AMMONIUM ICHTHYOLSULPHONATE,—see Ichthyol. AMMONIUM IODIDE MERCK.—White to yellowish-white, deliques- cent, unstable, cryst. powd.—Sol. in abt. 1 part water, 9 alcohol, 1^ glycerin; insol. in ether.—Alterative, Resolvent.—Uses: Syphilis, scro- fula; rheumatism, and phthisis.—Extern., in lepra and psoriasis.—Dose: 3—lOgm. (0.2—0.6 Gm.). AMMONIUM PHOSPHATE DIBASIC MERCK.—Colorless, odorless Erisms; cooling, saline taste.—Sol. in abt. 4 parts water; insol. in alco- ol. Uses: Rheumatism, gout.—Dose: 5—20 gm. (0.3—1.3 Gm.), 3 or 4 t. daily, in water. AMMONIUM SALICYLATE MERCK. — Colorl. cryst.—Sol. in 1 water; abt. 3 alcohol.—Antirheumatic, Antipyretic, Germicide, Expec- torant.—Uses: In febrile conditions, bronchitis, etc.—Dose: 2—20 grn. (0.12—1.3 Gm.) in wafers. AMMONIUM SULPHOICHTHYOLATE ,—see Ichthyol. AMMONIUM VALERATE MERCK.—Colorl., deliquescent, cryst.— Sol. freely in alcohol or ether; less readily in water.—Nerve Tonic.— Uses: In nervous headache, insomnia, and hysteria.—Dose: 2—8 grn. (0.12—0.5 Gm.); best taken as the Elixir of the N. F. AMMONOL.—Analgesic.—Dose stated: 5—20 gm. (0.3—1.3 Gm.), 3—6 t. daily. AMYL NITRITE MERCK.—Pure.—Also in Pearls (1—3 drops).—Yel- lowish, volatile, unstable liq.—Sol. in alcohol, ether, chloroform; insol. in water.—Antispasmodic, Depressomotor, Vasodilator.—Uses: Angina pectoris, asthma, tetanus, epilepsy, syncope, dyspnea, and as antidote to poisoning by cocaine.—Dose: 2—5 drops, in brandy. Used mostly by inhal., 1—5 drops. In biliary colic, 4—8 V([ (0.25—0.5 Cc.) in capsules, every 30 minutes; in hiccough, 3 drops.—Incompatibles: Alcohol, anti- §yrine.—Antidotes: Atropine, ergotin or strychnine, hypodermically. ee also Poisoning and its Treatment, p. 428. AMYLENE HYDRATE MERCK.—Colorl., oily liq.; etheral, camphoric odor and taste.—Sol. in abt. 8 parts water; all proportions alcohol, ether, chloroform, glycerin.—Hypnotic, Sedative v/ithout effect on heart.— Uses: Insomnia, alcoholic excitement, epilepsy, whooping-cough, dia- betes insip., etc.—Dose: Hypn., 45—90 TTl (3—6 Cc); sedat., 15—30 TTl (1—2 Cc), in beer, wine, brandy or syrup, or in capsules. AN-ffiSTHESIN.—Wh., odorl., tastel. powd.—Sol.: Alcohol, ether, chloroform, oils; very slightly in water.—Local Anesthetic.—Dose: 5 gm. (0.3 Gm.) 2 or 3 t. daily.—Applic: Pure or diluted, as powd., oint., or suspension in mucilage acacia. In suppository, 3 grains (0.2 Gm.) I Iji vaginal suppos., 5 grains (0.3 Gm.).