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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![CEROLIN.—Fatty substance from yeast, and representing the specifi- cally active constituent of yeast.—Uses: Acne, furunculosis, scurvy, etc.—Dose: 1^—5 grains (0.1—0.3 Gm.) 3 times daily in pill (marketed in pills each cont. 1^ grains [0.1 Gm.]). CHALK,—see Calcium Carbonate. CHAMOMILLA COMPOUND (FRASER'S).—Nerve Tonic, and Stomachic.—Dose stated: 1 fl. dr. (4 Cc), before meals and at bedtime. CHARCOAL.—Wood Charcoal.—Uses: Dyspepsia, flatulence, etc.— Dose: 10—60 gm. (0.6—4 Gm.).—In compatibles: Chlorates, perman- ganates and other oxidizers. CHINAPHENIN.—Phenetidin Quinine-carbonic-acid Ester.— White powd.—Sol. in alcohol, ether, and acids; insol. in water.—Febri- fuge, Antipyretic.—Uses: Whooping-cough, malaria, fevers, etc.— Dose: 5—15 grn. (0.3—1 Gm.). CHINAPHTHOL,—see Quinaphthol. CHINOIDINE,—see Quinoidine. CHINOSOL.—^Antiseptic.—Uses: Gynecology in 5—10:10000 solut.; as eye wash in 1:8000 solut. CHLORAL, BUTYL- OR CROTON-,—see Butyl-chloral Hydrate. CHLORALFORMAMIDE.—CHLORALAMiDE.—Colorl., bitter cryst.— Sol. in abt. 20 parts water (slowly), 2 alcohol; decomp. by hot solvents. Hypnotic, Sedative, Analgesic.—Uses: Insomnia of alcoholism, cardiac affections, pulmonary affections, neuralgia, and hysteria.—Dose: 15—45 grn.(i—3 Gm.).—Max. D.: 60 grn. (4 Gm.) single; 120 gm. (8 Gm.) daily. Incompatibles: Alkalies; silver nitrate; heat. CHLORAL HYDRATED MERCK.—Loose Cryst.; also Crusts.—Sol. in less than 1 part water, alcohol, ether or glycerin; in abt. 1 part olive oil, 3 chloroform.—Hypnotic, Antispasmodic, Analgesic, Antiseptic.— Uses: Intern., insomnia, puerperal eclampsia, mania, delirium tremens, convulsions, chorea, tetanus, night-sweats of phthisis, hysteria, epilepsy, local spasms, asthma, strangulated hernia, incontinence of urine, spas- modic croup, spasm of glottis, and as antidote to cocaine. Recently recommended also in typhoid fever and in nervous dyspepsia.—Dose: 10—30 grn. (0.6—2 Gm.), in sweetened solut. well dil.; in nervous dys- pepsia, 2—5 grn. (0.12—0.3 Gm.) after meals.—Max. D.: 75 grn. (5Gm.) per day.—Contra-indicated in gastritis; large doses must not be given in heart disease; in children and the aged, use with caution.—Antidotes: Emetics, stomach siphon, cocaine,camphor (3 grains [0.2 Gm.]), sulphuric ether, 20 drops, strychnine (ji^y—sV grain [0.0005—0.001 Gm.]), or atro- pine, hypodermically; stimulants; inhalations of oxygen or amyl nitrite. See also Poisoning and its Treatment, p. 431.—Incompatibles: Al- cohol, potassium iodide or cyanide or permanganate; borax; alkali hy- droxides and carbonates; euphorin; lead acetate; monobromated cam- phor; diuretin; exalgine; phenacetin; quinine sulphate; salol; sodium phosphate; urea; urethane. Liquefies when triturated with an equal quantity camphor, carboKc acid, menthol, or thymol. CHLORALOSE MERCK.—Small colorl. cryst.; bitter, disagreeable taste.—Sol. in alcohol; si. in water or ether.—Hypnotic.—Uses: In- somnia.—Dose: 3—10 grn. (0.2—0.6 Gm.). CHLORETONE.—Acetone-chloroform.—Wh. cryst. of camphora- ceous odor and taste.—Sol. freely in chloroform, alcohol, ether; in 100 parts water, 7 glycerin.—Local Anesthetic, Hypnotic, Antiseptic.— Uses: Painful wounds, burns, etc.; ins9mnia in the aged; seasickness, gastric carcinoma; also as inhalant in rhinitis, bronchitis, sore throat, and catarrh.—Dose: 5—20 grn. (0.3—1.3 Gm.) in insomnia; to reduce nausea in chlorof. or ether anesthesia, 10—15 grains (0.6—1 Gm.) i hour before etherization; in gastric carcinoma up to 30 grains (2 Gm.); in sea- sickness, 3—5 grains (0.2—0.3 Gm.) every ^ hour.—Extern, in satu- rated aqueous solut. or 10% oint. or 1—5% dusting-powder. CHLORINE WATER.—Clear, pale-greenish liquid.—Abt. 0.4 per cent. 01.—Deodorizer, Antiseptic.—Uses: Intern., disinfect, in infectious dis-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21170551_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
