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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CALCIUM CHLORIDE MERCK.—Pure.—Colorless, deliquescent crys- tals, sticks, or masses.—Sol. in abt. 2 parts water, 8 alcohol; insol. in ether.—Dose: Intern., in large doses (20—40 grns. [1.3—2.6 Gm.]) 3 t. p. d. in chronic itching (pruritus, urticaria, prurigo); also intern, and extern., in hemorrhages; 5—20 grn. (0.3—1.3 Gm.) 3 t. daily in solut, flavored with tincture orange-peel, in rachitis and arthritis. CALCIUM GLYCERINOPHOSPHATE MERCK.—White cryst. powd. —Soii. in 30 cold water; aim. insol. in boil, water or in alcohol.—Directly assimilable Nerve-tonic and Reconstructive.—Uses: In rachitis, wasting diseases, neurasthenia, scrofula, difficult dentition, incontinence of urine and convalescence.—Dose: 2—5 grn. (0.12—0.3 Gm.) 3 t. daily, in syrup orsolut.—Incompatibles: Soluble carbonates, sulphates; acids. CALCIUM HYPOPHOSPHITE MERCK.—Purified.—White cryst.— Sol. in abt. 8 parts water; insol. in alcohol.—Reconstructive.— Uses: Phthisis, rachitis, chlorosis, defective nutrition of nervous and bone tissue; contraindicated in fever.—Dose: 10—30 grn. (0.6—2 Gm.). CALCIUM LACTOPHOSPHATE MERCK.—Cryst, Soluble.—White cryst. or powd.—Sol. in water.—Stimulant and Nutrient.—Uses: Rachi- tis, and conditions of malnutrition.—Dose: 3—10 grn. (0.2—0.6 Gm.) 3 t. daily.—Preparation: Syr., 1—2 fl. drs. (4—8 Cc). CALCIUM PERMANGANATE MERCK.—Deliquescent, violet cryst. Sol. in water.—Uses: Intern., gastro-enteritis and diarrhea of children; extern., as other permanganates for mouth lotions and for sterilizing water. —Dose: 1—2 grn. (0.06—0.12 Gm.). CALCIUM PHOSPHATE MERCK.—Tribasic—Precipitated Calcium Phosphate.—Wh., insol. powd. — Sol. acids; insol. water. — Recon- structive.—Uses: Disturbances of nutrition and for repairing waste of bone tissue.—Dose: 10—20 grn. (0.6—1.3 Gm.). CALCIUM SULPHIDE, so-called,—see Lime, Sulphurated. CALCIUM SULPHITE MERCK.—Pure.—White powd.—Sol. in abt. 20 parts glycerin, 800 water.—Antizymotic.—Uses: Flatulence, diarrhea, tonsillitis, and fermentative dyspepsia.—Dose: 1—5grn. (0.06—0.3 Gm.). CALOMEL,—see Mercury Chloride, Mild. CALOMELOL.—Colloidal Calomel.—Whitish-gray, odorl. powd.— Sol. alcohol, ether, and water.—Antisyphilitic.—Uses: Extern., Syphi- litic ulcers as dust, powd.; dressing, oint.; intern., like calomel. CALUMBA.—Columbo.—Bitter tonic.—Uses: Dyspepsia, debility, flatulence.—Dose: 5—60 grn. (0.3—1.3 Gm.).—Preparations: Fl'extr., 5—60 rn (0.3—4 Cc.); Tr., 1—4 fl. drs. (4—15 Cc). CAMPHOR.—Sol. in abt. 1 part alcohol, \ chloroform, 1 ether, 4 olive oil (slowly), 2 turpentine oil; aim. insol. in water.—Stimulant, Diapho- retic, Sedative, Expectorant, Carminative, Antiseptic, Analgesic, Anti- pruritic.—Uses: Intern., nervous diarrhea, flatulence, colic, headache, rheumatism, gout, chorea, cramps, asthma, collapse, chordee, spasmodic cough, etc.; extern., neuralgia, indolent ulcers, parasitic skin diseases, coryza.—Dose: 1—5 grn. (0.06—0.3 Gm.).—Subcut. in 1:10 oily or ethe- real solut. as analeptic.—Max. D.: 20 grn. (1.3 Gm.).—Incompatibles: Butyl-chloral hydrate, cabolic acid, hydrated chloral, euphorin, menthol, betanaphthol, resorcinol, salol, salicylic acid, thymol, or urethane, in dry trituration; potass, permanganate. Camphor water is incompatible with concentrated solutions of salts.—Antidotes: Alcohol hypoderm.; ether by inhal. See also Poisoning and its Treatment, p. 430.—Preparations- Cerate (1:50); Lin. (1:5); Spt., 20—60 TTl (1.3—4 Cc.); Water (as vehicle). CAMPHOR MONOBROMATED MERCK.—Colorl. cryst. or powd.— Sol. in chloroform, ether, alcohol and oils; aim. insol. in water.—Soporific, Antineuralgic, Antispasmodic.—Uses: Delirium tremens, hysteria, insom- nia, spermatorrhea, whooping-cough, chordee, infantile diarrhea, epi- lepsy, neuralgia, chorea, and with codeine for the morphine habit.—Dose: 2—5 grn. (0.12—0.3 Gm.), in pill or emulsion.—Inj. 1^ gm. (0.1 Gm.), in oil.—Incompatibles: Carbolic acid, hydrated chloral, euphorin, salol, menthol, or thymol, in trituration.