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~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 of blood withdrawn from adult.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.
