Merck's 1899 Manual Part 46

Opium: the same as morphine.

Pilocarpine: in agalactia.

Poultices: warm, to hypogastrium, relieve.

Quinine: 5 to 10 gr. night and morning, in neuralgic after-pains which do not yield to opiates.

Viburnum.

~Ague.~--_See Intermittent Fever._

~Alb.u.minuria.~--_See also, Bright's Disease, Nephritis._

Acid, Gallic: lessens alb.u.men and hematuria.

Aconite: to lower a high temperature; and in the onset of acute nephritis in scarlet fever.

Alcohol: hurtful in acute stage; useful when a slight trace of alb.u.men is persistent.

Alkaline Diuretics: to prevent formation of fibrinous plugs in the renal tubules.

Aqua Calcis: in large doses has been found to increase the urine, and decrease the alb.u.men.

a.r.s.enic: beneficial in very chronic cases. Alb.u.men will return if the use of the drug be stopped.

Baths: warm water and hot air and Turkish, to increase action of skin after dropsy or uremic symptoms have appeared.

Belladonna: has been used to diminish the chronic inflammatory condition left by an acute attack.

Broom: as diuretic in chronic renal disease.

Caffeine: to increase secretion of solids, especially in cases dependent on cardiac disease. Should be combined with digitalis. Very useful in chronic Bright's disease; should be used with great caution in the acute stage.

Calcium Benzoate.

Cannabis Indica: as diuretic in hematuria.

Cantharides: 1 min. of tincture every three hours, when acute stage has pa.s.sed off, to stop hematuria.

Chimaphila: as a diuretic.

Cod-Liver Oil: as a tonic.

Copaiba: to remove ascites and alb.u.minuria dependent on cardiac or chronic Bright's disease, and in some cases of hematuria.

Counter-Irritation: dry cupping most useful when tendency to uremia.

Croton Oil: as liniment to the loins in chronic cases is sometimes useful.

Digitalis: the infusion is the most valuable in acute and tubal nephritis, and in renal disease attended with dropsy due to cardiac disease. Must be given with caution in granular kidney.

Elaterium: as hydragogue cathartic for dropsy; and when uremic symptoms have come on.

Eucalyptus: cautiously for a short time in chronic disease.

Fuchsine: In 1 to 3 grn. doses in the day, in alb.u.minuria of renal origin, in children.

Gaduol: as a tonic.

Glycerinophosphates.

Gold Trichloride: In contracted kidney, in the chronic disease, in doses of 1/20 grn.

Hemo-gallol: in anemia.

Hydrastis: lessens alb.u.men.

Incisions: over the malleoli, to relieve the anasarca of the lower extremities.

Iron: to diminish anemia with a flabby tongue, give the per-salts. In dropsy a.s.sociated with high tension, iron must be cautiously given, and withheld unless improvement is quickly shown. It always does harm if allowed to constipate.

Jaborandi: in uremia and dropsy due either to renal disease or occurring in pregnancy.

Juniper Oil: diuretic.

Lead: lessens alb.u.men and increases the urine.

Levico Water.

Lime Water.

Milk Cure: pure skim-milk diet very useful when tendency to uremia; it also lessens the alb.u.men.

Naphtol.

Nitroglycerin: in acute and chronic alb.u.minuria.

Nitrous Ether: as diuretic.

Oxygen: compressed, will, on inhalation, temporarily diminish alb.u.men.

Pilocarpine.

Pota.s.sium salts: especially the iodide and vegetable salts in syphilitic or amyloid disease.

Pota.s.sium Bitartrate: as hydragogue cathartic and diuretic.