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hydrochloras o. i grams: aquae amygdal. amar. 10 grams, 

 aquae distill. 150 grams. M. A teaspoonful three or more times 

 a day. Frdhner). As expectorants, ammonium chloride (5 grs) , 

 or acetate, senega, or apomorphia (rir&''-). may be used. In 

 vigorous subjects ipecacuan (|tof gr.), or antimonial wine (i 

 drop). Hydrogen peroxide in doses of a teaspoonful is often 

 useful. Among counterirritants and derivatives the warm bath 

 and cold compresses are especially valuable, or tincture of iodine, 

 or camphorated spirit, or equal parts of aqua ammonia and olive 

 oil serve a double purpose as furnishing at the same time an ex- 

 pectorant inhalant. 



Special pulmonary complications must be dealt with on gen- 

 eral principles as advised for the special diseases, bearing in mind 

 always the profound prostration and the need to avoid depressing 

 agents. 



For cotijunctival symptoms bathing with tepid water to soothe 

 irritation and remove adhe.sions and crusts, may be followed by 

 a drop of aqueous solution of pyoktanin (1:1000) under each lid, 

 twice aday, or cocaine (3:100), or .silver nitrate (}^:ioo); may be 

 used. Frohner advises creoHn (}^:ioo); Cadeac, cre.syl (J^:ioo); 

 Miiller, mercuric chloride (i: 2000) or boric acid (1:40). Other 

 Collyria may be substituted (see diseases of the eye). In violent 

 inflammations atropia will find a place and in ulcerations boric 

 acid, silver, pyoktanin, calomel, or hydrogen peroxide. When 

 irritation and rubbing are persi.stent a cocaine solution may be 

 dropped into the eye every few hours. When the ocular troubles 

 persist during general convalescence tonics with good nourish- 

 ment and hygiene are demanded. 



With digestive symptoms the attendant vomiting will u.sually 

 have cleared the stomach of irritant contents. In the exceptional 

 cases it may be unloaded by apomorphia (y^j- gr. subcutem) , or 

 ipecacuan wine a teaspoonful by the mouth. More commonly a 

 check must be placed on persistent vomiting by bismuth nitrate 

 (3 grs.), laudanum (5 to 10 drops), creosote (5 drops), or chloro- 

 form (5 to 10 drops), and small pieces of ice. A derivative to 

 the epigastrium is sometimes useful. The food should be of the 

 simplest and most easily digested kind, milk, meat-soup skimmed 

 of fat, meat juice, scraped or pulped raw meat. Demulcents like 

 gum water, slippery elm bark, or decoction of marsh mallow may 



