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Stimulants, Local: such as Ung. Resinae, afterwards followed by astringents.
Thymol: one per cent. in olive oil, local anesthetic.
Warm Bath: keep whole body, with exception of head, totally immersed for some days in very extensive burns or scalds. It relieves pain, although it may not save life.
Whiting and Water: mixed to the thickness of cream and smeared over, excluding the air, gives instant relief.
Zinc Ointment and Vaselin: in equal parts for dressing.
Zinc Oxide: as dusting powder.
~Bursitis.~
Acid, Carbolic: as injection.
Blisters: most useful.
Fomentations: to relieve pain.
Ichthyol.
Iodine: When chronic, Lin. Iodi may be used as a blister, or the liquor, after blistering or aspiration.
~Cachexiae.~--_See also, Anemia, Scrofula, Syphilis, etc., and the list of Tonics._
Acid, Nitric: in debility after acute disease; in combination with the fresh decoction of bark.
Air: fresh.
Aliment: nutritious.
Ammonium Carbonate: with bark; after acute illness.
Arnica: Internally, in bad cases.
a.r.s.en-hemol.
a.r.s.enic: in malarial, also in cancerous, cachexia; in chronic malaria, combined with iron.
Baths: Turkish bath, useful.
Calcium Phosphate.
Chalybeate Waters.
Cholagogues: most useful before, or along with other remedies, and especially in malarial cachexia before the administration of quinine.
Cupro-hemol.
Electricity.
Eucalyptus: in general cachectic conditions.
Euonymin: as cholagogue.
Gaduol.
Glycerin: as a food.
Glycerinophosphates.
Gold.
Grape Cure.
Hemo-gallol.
Hemol.
Hydrastine.
Hydrastis: in malaria.
Ichthalbin.
Iodine.
Iron: generally in all anemic conditions.
Levico Water.
Manganese: along with iron and as syrup of double iodide.
Ma.s.sage: exceedingly useful.
Mercury: in syphilitic cases.
Oils and Fat: cod-liver oil very useful. Cream as an addition to food; oil as inunction.
Phosphates: in scrofula, phthisis and malnutrition.
Podophyllin: as cholagogue, in children of a few months old improperly fed; in alcoholic excess; chronic morning diarrhea.
Pota.s.sium Iodide: in syphilitic and resulting conditions.
Purgatives, Saline: as adjuncts to cholagogues.
