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Sulphides: of pota.s.sium, sodium, ammonium, and calcium. They must be used in low doses, and are indicated in scrofulous abscess and in the chronic boils of children. To hasten suppuration.
Tonics.
Veratrum Viride: in full dose often aborts.
~Abscess of the Liver.~--_See Hepatic Diseases._
~Acidity of Stomach.~
Acids: before meals, or as an acid wine during meals. For acid eructations, especially of sulphuretted hydrogen.
Acid, Carbolic: to stop fermentation or to relieve an irritable condition of the stomach.
Alkalies: after meals, best as bicarbonates; with flatulence give magnesia if there is constipation; lime water if there is diarrhea.
Ammonia: in headache from acidity.
Ammonium Bicarbonate.
Atropine: for gastric hypersecretion.
Bis.m.u.th: in gastritis due to chronic abscess or chronic alcoholism.
Very well combined with a.r.s.enic in very chronic cases, with hydrocyanic acid in more acute cases.
Calcium Carbonate, precipitated.
Cerium Oxalate.
Charcoal: as biscuits.
Creosote: same as carbolic acid.
Ichthalbin.
Ipecacuanha: in small doses in pregnancy where flatulence and acidity are both present.
Kino: useful along with opium.
Lead Acetate: in gastric catarrh and pyrosis.
Lime Water.
Liquor Pota.s.sae: useful for both gastric and urinary acidity.
Magnesium Carbonate.
Magnesium Oxide.
Manganese Dioxide: sometimes relieves, probably acting like charcoal.
Mercury: When liver deranged and stools pale.
Nux Vomica: in small doses before meals, especially in pregnancy, or in chronic alcoholism.
Pota.s.sium Bitartrate.
Pota.s.sium Carbonate.
Pulsatilla: every four hours in hot water.
Silver Nitrate: same as silver oxide.
Silver Oxide: especially useful when acidity is accompanied by neuralgic pains in stomach.
Sulphurous Acid: if a.s.sociated with the vomiting of a pasty material, presence of sarcinae.
Tannalbin: when there is abundance of mucus.
Tannic Acid: in acidity a.s.sociated with chronic catarrh and flatulence.
Glycerin 1 minim, tannic acid 4 grn., as pill.
~Acne.~
Adeps Lanae: topically.
Alkaline lotions: when skin is greasy and follicles are black and prominent.
Aristol.
a.r.s.enic: in chronic acne; generally, though not always, prevents the acne from bromide or iodide of pota.s.sium.
Belladonna: as local application to check a too abundant secretion.
Berberis: for acne of girls at p.u.b.erty.
Bis.m.u.th: as ointment or powder. In acne rosacea, if acute.
Borax: solution very useful.
Cajeput Oil: as stimulant in acne rosacea.
Calcium Sulphide: same as sulphur. For internal use.
Chrysarobin.
Coca.
