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To break up or modify cold.
Cubebs: powder as insufflation; also smoked; also the tincture in 2 dram doses with infusion of linseed.
Formaldehyde: by inhalation (2 per cent. solut.).
Hot Sponging: to relieve the headache.
Iodine: as inhalation.
Iodoform and Tannin: as insufflation.
Ipecacuanha: in moderate doses (10 grn.). Dover's powder at night will cut short an attack. The wine as spray to the fauces.
Jaborandi: as tincture. Or hypodermic injection of half a grain of pilocarpine hydrochlorate.
Menthol.
Nux Vomica: in dry cold in the head.
Oil: inunction to whole body to lessen susceptibility; locally to nose; sometimes ointment may be used.
Opium: as Dover's powder at commencement; but not in obstruction to respiration.
Peronin.
Pilocarpine Hydrochlorate (see Jaborandi).
Pota.s.sium b.i.+.c.hromate: solution locally, 1 to 10 grn. in 4 oz.
Pota.s.sium Chlorate: eight or ten lozenges a day to check.
Pota.s.sium Iodide: ten grn. at bedtime to avert acute coryza.
Pulsatilla: warm lotion applied to interior of nares; or internally but not in symptoms of intestinal irritation.
Quinine: ten grn. with 1/2 grn. morphine, at commencement may abort it.
Resorcin.
Salicylate of Sodium: two and one-half grn. every half-hour to relieve headache and neuralgia a.s.sociated with coryza.
Sanguinaria: internally, and powder locally.
Sea-water Gargle.
Silver Nitrate.
Spray: useful means of applying solutions such as ipecacuanha wine, already mentioned.
Sugar: finely powdered and snuffed up in the nose in catarrh due to pota.s.sium iodide.
Tartar Emetic: one-twentieth to one-twelfth grn. at commencement especially in children with thick and abundant secretion.
Turkish Bath.
Veratrum Viride: if a.r.s.enic fails.
Zinc Sulphate: as nasal injection 1 grn. to the oz.
~Catarrh, Broncho-Pulmonary.~--_See Bronchitis, Bronchorrhea._
~Catarrh, Cervical.~--_See Uterine Affections._
~Catarrh, Chronic Nasal.~--_See also, Ozena._
Acid, Benzoic: inhaled as vapor.
Acid, Carbolic: one to 100 as spray, or 1 to 200 as douche. One part with 4 of iodine tincture as inhalation or by spray.
Acid, Salicylic.
Acid, Tannic.
Alum: in powder by insufflation, or in solution by douche.
Ammonia: inhalation.
Ammonium Chloride: in thick and abundant secretion.
Asafetida: stimulant expectorant.
Balsam of Peru: stimulant expectorant.
Bis.m.u.th Subnitrate.
Bromine: as vapor, inhaled with great caution.
Calomel.
Camphor.
Cocaine.
Cod-Liver Oil.
Cubebs: in powder, by insufflation, or as troches.
