Merck's 1899 Manual Part 67

~Bronchitis, Capillary.~--_See also, Cough._

Alum: as a nauseating expectorant and emetic.

Ammonium Carbonate: when much fluid or viscid expectoration and commencing lividity; also as an emetic.

Ammonium Chloride: to promote secretion.

Ammonium Iodide: in small rapid doses relieves much.

Antimony.

Apomorphine: to produce a plentiful fluid secretion; also as nauseant expectorant.

Camphor: as expectorant and stimulant.

Cupping: four to six dry cups over the back often give very great relief, and if the pulmonary congestion appears very great wet cups should be placed instead, and 8 to 10 oz. of blood withdrawn from adult.

Ethyl Iodide: as an inhalation.

Iodides: are very serviceable to diminish viscidity of expectoration if given in very low doses.

Ipecacuanha: as expectorant and emetic.

Mustard: as poultices.

Oil Amber with Olive Oil (1:3): applied to back and chest.

Pilocarpine: in abundant non-purulent exudation; not to be used in dilatation of veins and right side of the heart.

Poultices: over whole chest.

Quinine.

Serpentaria: in children as a stimulant expectorant.

Subsulphate of Mercury: as nauseant, expectorant and emetic.

Turpentine Oil: in languid circulation in the capillaries.

Water: hot and cold dashes if death is imminent from suffocation.

~Bronchitis, Chronic.~--_See also, Cough, Emphysema._

Acids: to diminish a chronic copious expectoration.

Acid, Carbolic: as inhalation or as spray.

Acid, Gallic: in profuse discharge.

Acid, Nitric: in mixtures, to remedy the effect on digestion produced by sedatives like opium.

Acid, Sulphurous: as inhalation or spray.

Alum: in children with copious expectoration in doses of 3 grn.

Ammonia: when there is difficulty in bringing up expectoration.

Ammoniac: very useful, especially in elderly people.

Ammonium Chloride: to render the secretion less viscid.

Anemonin.

Antimony: when secretion is scanty.

Apocodeine Hydrochlorate.

Apomorphine Hydrochlorate.

a.r.s.enic: in emphysema and asthmatic attack as cigarettes, where there is much wheezing and little bronchitis following the sudden disappearance of eczematous rash.

Asafetida: like ammoniac.u.m.

Balsam of Peru: when expectoration is copious.

Balsam of Tolu: the same.

Belladonna: to children choked with secretion give 1 minim of tincture every hour to stimulate respiratory centre. It also lessens the secretion.

Benzoin: as inhalation or as spray.

Burgundy Pitch: emplastrum in chronic bronchitis.

Camphor.

Cannabis Indica: in very chronic cases.

Carbonic Acid Gas: inhaled.

Chamois Waistcoat.

Cheken: the fluid extract renders expectoration easier, and paroxysms less frequent.

Chloral Hydrate: a solution of 10 grn. to the oz. used as a spray to allay cough.

Cimicifuga: sometimes relieves the hacking cough.