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Iodole.
Magnesia.
Solution Gutta-percha.
Sozoiodole salts.
~Abscess.~--_See also, Suppuration, Boils, Anthrax._
Acid, Boric: a powerful non-irritating antiseptic dressing.
Acid, Carbolic: as dressing and as injection after evacuation.
Acid, Tannic.
Aconite: in full dose often aborts.
Alcohol: as a pure stimulant where a large quant.i.ty of pus is being poured out, draining the system.
Ammoniac and Mercury Plaster.
Arnica Tincture.
Belladonna: internally, and locally as a liniment or plaster, to abort the preliminary inflammation--e.g. of breast--afterwards to ease pain in addition.
Calcium Phosphate: where abscess is large or chronic, as a tonic.
Calcium Sulphide: small doses, frequently repeated, to hasten maturation or healing, especially in deep-seated suppuration.
Caustic Pota.s.sa: for opening abscess in liver, also in chronic abscess where the skin is much undermined, also used to prevent scarring if otherwise opened.
Chlorine Water.
Cod-Liver Oil: in scrofulous cases and in the hectic.
Counter-irritation: to surrounding parts, to check formation or hasten maturation.
Creolin.
Creosote: same as Carbolic Acid, as a stimulant to indolent inflammatory swellings.
Ether: to produce local anesthesia, used as a spray before opening an abscess.
Formaldehyde.
Gaduol: in scrofulous and hectic cases.
Gold Chloride.
Hydrogen Peroxide: to wash out cavity of tubercular or slow abscess.
Ice: after opening.
Iodine: as injection into the sac, and internally to cause absorption of products of inflammation.
Iodoformogen.
Iodoform Gauze: packed into cavity.
Iodole.
Lead Water.
Menthol: in ethereal solution 10 to 50 per cent., locally applied with camel's hair pencil.
Morphine.
Naphtalin.
Naphtol: 75 grn., alcohol, 10 fl. drs., hot distilled water q.s. to make 3 fl. oz. Inject a few drops.
Oak.u.m: as a stimulating and antiseptic dressing.
Oleate of Mercury and Morphine: relieves the pain, allays the inflammation, and causes the absorption of the products.
Pota.s.sium Permanganate: as antiseptic.
Poultices: advantageously medicated, e.g. with belladonna or opium, to allay pain or inflammation.
Quinine.
Resorcin: in syphilitic and other unhealthy sores as an antiseptic.
Salicylic Acid: as antiseptic dressing.
Sarsaparilla: in chronic abscess with profuse discharges.
Sheet Lead: is useful in the chronic abscess of the leg as a dressing.
Silver Nitrate: a strong solution in spirit of nitrous ether, painted around the area of inflammation, will check it in superficial parts.
Sodium Gold and Chloride: in scrofulous abscesses as a tonic.
Sozoiodole salts.
Strontium Iodide.
