Merck's manual of the materia medica : a ready reference pocket book for the physician and surgeon: containing names of the chemicals and drugs ... / compiled from the most recent authoritative sources and published by Merck & Co.

Date:
1911
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Credit: Merck's manual of the materia medica : a ready reference pocket book for the physician and surgeon: containing names of the chemicals and drugs ... / compiled from the most recent authoritative sources and published by Merck & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BROMALIN.—Hexambthylenamine Tetrabromethylate Merck; Bromethylformin Merck.—Colorless cryst.—Sol. water.—Nerve Sedative; Antiepileptic.—Uses: Instead of bromides; causes no bro- mism.—Dose: 30—60 grains (2—4 Gm.) several times daily in wafers or in sweetened water. BROMETONE. — Acetone-bromoform. — Fine white cryst. — Sol. slightly in water; alcohol, and ether.—Sedative like the bromides.— Uses: Insomnia, hysteria, and nervous affections.—Dose: 5 grains (0.3 Gm.) 2—3 times daily. BROMIDES (PEACOCK'S).—Sedative, Antiepileptic.—Dose stated: 1—2 fl. dr. (4—8 Cc), in water. BROMIDIA.—Hypnotic, Sedative.—Dose stated: 1—2 fl. dr. (4—8 Cc). BROMINE MERCK.—Sol. in alcohol, ether (with gradual decomp.); chloroform; solut. of bromides; also in abt. 30 parts water.—Antiseptic, Disinfectant.—Uses: Extern., csiustic, pure or in 1.5—10% solut.; in gan- grene, uterine cancer, chancroids, hemorrhoids; by inhalation, as spray, in form of mixture of bromine solution and potassium bromide, each 0.2 part, with water, 100 parts, in diphtheria and croup.—Intern., rarely in diphtheria in dose of -^^—i TTl (0.005—0.02 Cc.) sev. t. p. d..- laryngitis, membranous croup, bronchocele, croup, tumors, syphiUs.—Dose (adult): 1—3 W\ (0.06—0.2 Cc), well diluted.—Incompatibles: Alkali hydrox- ides; arsenites; ferrous salts; hypophosphites; hydriodic acid; mercurous salts.—Antidotes: Stomach irrigation; albumin, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate: inhalation of ammonia. See also Poisoning and its Treatment, p. 430. BROMIPIN.—10% Brominized Sesame Oil Merck.—Bromine addi- tion-product of sesame oil.—Yellow oily fluid, of purely oleaginous taste; contains 10% bromine.—Nervine and Sedative.—Very efficient succeda- neum for bromides; rarely causes bromism. Uses: Epilepsy, neuras- thenia, nervous cardiac disturbances, convulsive cough, insomnia, head- ache, sea-sickness, etc—Dose: In epilepsy, 2 tea- to 2 tablespoonfuls 3 or 4 t. daily, in emulsion with peppermint water and syrup; or pure, flavored with oil peppermint; children about half as much. Usual adult dose about 1 teaspoonful.—[Literature on Bromipin on request.] BROMOCOLL.—Gelatin Dibromotannate.—Sedative.—Uses: As of the alkaline bromides; extern., in pruritus and eczema.—Dose: 15—75 gm. (1—5Gm.). BROMOFORM MERCK.—Heavy, colorless liquid; odor and taste like those of chloroform; darkens on exposure.—Sol. in alcohol, ether; in abt. 80 parts glycerin; insol. in water.—Antispasmodic, Sedative.—Uses: Chiefly whooping-cough.—Dose (3 or 4 t. daily): Under 1 year, 1—3 drops; 1-4 years, 4—^5 drops; 5-7 years, 6—7 drops, in hydroalcoholic solut. or in emulsion.—Incompatibles: Caustic alkaUes; water.—Anti- dotes: As of Chloroform.—Caution: Keep well-stoppered! BROMO-HEMOL MERCK.—Hemol with 2.7% bromine organically combined.—Brown powd.—Organic, easily assimilable Nerve-tonic, An- tiepileptic, and Sedative; without the deleterious effect on the blood com- mon to the inorganic bromides.—Uses: Hysteria, neurasthenia, epilepsy. —Dose: 15—30 gm. (1—2 Gm.) 3 t. daily. BROMURAL. — Alphamonobromisovalerylurea Knoll. — Wh. powd.—Sol. easily in hot water, ether, alcohol; sparingly in cold water. —Nerve Sedative and Mild Soporific.—Dose: Sedative, 5 grn. (0.3 Gm.) 3 t. p. d.; as soporific, 10 grn. (0.6 Gm.) at bedtime. BRUCINE MERCK.—White cryst. powd.—Sol. in alcohol, chloro- form; very slightly in water.—Nerve-tonic, like stychnine, but about \ as powerful.—Dose: yV—^ gm. (0.005—0.03 Gm.) in pills or solut.—Max. D.: i gm. (0.05 Gm.) single; 3 gm. (0.2 Gm.) daily.—Antidotes: Hy- drated choral, chloroform, tannic acid. See also '* Poisoning and ita Treatment, p. 441.