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MERCK'S 1899 MANUAL

OF THE

MATERIA MEDICA

Together with a Summary of Therapeutic Indications and a Classification of Medicaments

A READY-REFERENCE POCKET BOOK

FOR THE

Practicing Physician

CONTAINING

Names and Chief Synonyms, Physical Form and Appearance, Solubilities,

Percentage Strengths and Physiological Effects, Therapeutic

Uses, Modes of Administration and Application,

Regular and Maximum Dosage, Incompatibles,

Antidotes, Precautionary Requirements,

etc., etc.,—of the

CHEMICALS AND DRUGS USUAL IN MODERN MEDICAL PRACTICE

Compiled from the Most Recent Authoritative Sources and Published by

MERCK & CO., NEW YORK

Copyright by Merck & Co., New York, 1899

MERCK'S MANUAL is designed to meet a need which every general practitioner has often experienced. Memory is treacherous. It is particularly so with those who have much to do and more to think of. When the best remedy is wanted, to meet indications in cases that are a little out of the usual run, it is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to recall the whole array of available remedies so as to pick out the best. Strange to say, too, it is the most thoroughly informed man that is likely to suffer to the greatest extent in this way; because of the very fact that his mind is overburdened. But a mere reminder is all he needs, to make him at once master of the situation and enable him to prescribe exactly what his judgment tells him is needed for the occasion.

In MERCK'S MANUAL the physician will find a complete Ready-Reference Book covering the entire eligible Materia Medica. A glance over it just before or just after seeing a patient will refresh his memory in a way that will facilitate his coming to a decision. In this book, small as it is, he will find the essential data found in the ponderous Dispensatories, together with the facts of newest record, which can appear only in future editions of those works.

Part I affords at a glance a descriptive survey, in one alphabetic series, of the entire Materia Medica to-day in general use by the American profession. Part II contains a summary of Therapeutic Indications for the employment of remedies, arranged according to the Pathologic Conditions to be combated. Part III presents a Classification of Medicaments in accordance with their Physiologic Actions.

The publishers may be allowed to state that they have labored long and earnestly, so to shape this little volume that it shall prove a firm and faithful help to the practitioner in his daily round of duty. They now send it forth in the confident hope that, the more it is put to the test of actual use, the more it will grow in the esteem of its possessor.

CONTENTS.

Pages 9 to 82.

Part First.—THE MATERIA MEDICA, as in actual use to-day by American Physicians. (Alphabetically arranged.)

This part embraces all those Simple Medicinal Substances (that is, drugs and chemicals) which are in current and well-established use in the medical practice of this country; or which, if too recently introduced to be as yet in general use, are vouched for by eminent authorities in medical science;—also, the medicinally employed Pharmaceutic Preparations recognized by the United States Pharmacopœia.

(Added thereto, for the convenience of those practitioners who prescribe them, are Medicamentous Mixtures advertised only to the Profession, but whose composition or mode of manufacture has not been made known with sufficient completeness or exactness to satisfy all members of the Profession. In the selection the publishers have been guided solely by the recognition accorded the various preparations by the Profession, according to the best information obtained.)

There has also been included, under the title of Foods and Dietetic Preparations, a list of such preparations as are frequently prescribed for infants' diet, or for the sick or convalescent.

Omitted from the Materia Medica chapter are: Medicaments that have become obsolete, or that are too rarely used to be of general interest; and such new remedies as are not yet safely accredited on reliable authority; also those galenic preparations (syrups, extracts, pills, essences, elixirs, wines, emulsions, etc.) which are not standardized according to the U.S. Pharmacopœia; likewise all articles that are put up and advertised for self-medication by the lay public.

Separate Titles in the alphabetic series are accorded, as a rule, to the botanical drugs and other pharmaceutical mother-substances, to proximate principles (alkaloids, glucosides, organic acids, etc.), and to chemical compounds (salts, synthetics, etc.); while the official galenic preparations, solutions and dilutions, derived from them, are mostly mentioned under the titles of their respective mother-substances. (Thus, for instance, Dover's Powder will be found under Opium, while Morphine is described under its own title.)

(Smaller type has been employed—in order to economize space—for botanic drugs, gums, and some others of the older drugs and preparations which are so long and well known that but little reference will need be made to them.)

(Those substances of the Materia Medica which can be had of the

Merck

brand are—for the convenience of prescribers—so designated).

Pages 83 to 184.

Part Second.—THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS for the use of the Materia Medica and other agents. (Arranged alphabetically under the titles of the various Pathologic Conditions.)

This part summarizes in brief form, the principal means of treatment for each form of disease, as reported to be in good use with practitioners at the present time. The statements hereon are drawn from the standard works of the leading modern writers on Therapeutics, and supplemented—in the case of definite chemicals of more recent introduction—by the reports of reputable clinical investigators.

Pages 185 to 192.

Part Third.—CLASSIFICATION OF MEDICAMENTS according to their Physiologic Actions. (Arranged alphabetically under the titles of the Actions.)

This part recapitulates, for ready survey, such statements as are already given in Part I, as to the modes of action of the various medicaments.

INDEX.

For Details, see Descriptive Table of Contents, on pages 6 and 7.

ABBREVIATIONS.

alm. = almost

amorph. = amorphous

arom. = aromatic

comp. = compound

cryst. = crystals or crystalline

D. = dose

decoct. = decoction

dil. = dilute or diluted

emuls. = emulsion

ext. = extract

extern. = externally

F.E. or fl. ext. = fluid extract

fl. dr. = fluid dram

grn. = grain or grains

infus. = infusion

inject. = injection

insol. = insoluble

intern. = internally

lin. = liniment

liq. = liquid or liquor

Max. D. = maximum dose

min. or ♏ = minim or minims

odorl. = odorless

oint. = ointment

oz. = ounce or ounces

powd. = powder

q.v. = which see (quod vide)

sl. = slightly

sol. = soluble or solubility

solut. = solution

spt. = spirit

syr. = syrup

tastel. = tasteless

tr. = tincture

wh. = white

3 t., 4 t. = 3 times, 4 times

Merck's 1899 Manual.

PART FIRST.

THE MATERIA MEDICA,

As in Actual Use To-day by American Physicians.

Reader please note:—

The GALENIC PREPARATIONS of the United States Pharmacopœia, when not listed under their own titles, will be found under the titles of the drugs from which they are derived.

FOODS AND DIETETIC PRODUCTS proper will be found under the title: Foods; while Digestants, Hematinics, etc., are listed under their own titles.

small type is employed for botanic drugs, gums, and some others of the older drugs and preparations which are so well known as to require but little description.

Those articles of which the MERCK brand is on the market, are—for convenience in prescribing—designated accordingly.

Absinthin Merck.

ABSINTHIIN—Yellow-brown, amorph. or cryst. powd.; very bitter.—Sol. in alcohol, chloroform; slightly in ether; insol. in water.—Bitter Tonic (in anorexia, constipation, chlorosis, etc.).—Dose: 11/2—4 grn.

Absinthium—U.S.P.

Wormwood.—Dose: 20—40 grn.—Infus. (1—2:64) and oil (D., 1—3 min.) used.

Acacia—U.S.P.

Gum Arabic.—Sol. in water, insol. in alcohol.—Preparations: Mucilage, Syr.—both vehicles.

Acetanilid Merck.—U.S.P.—Cryst. or Powd.

Antifebrin.—Wh. scales or powd.; odorl.; burning taste.—Sol. in 194 parts water, 5 alcohol, 18 ether; very sol. in chloroform.—Antipyretic, Analgesic, Antirheumatic, Antiseptic.—Uses: Intern., fever, rheumatism, headache, alcoholism, delirium, neuralgia, sleeplessness in children, etc.; extern., like iodoform, and as a preservative of hypodermic solutions (1:500).—Dose: 3—10 grn., in powd., alcoholic solut., or hot water cooled down and sweetened to taste. Max. D.: 15 grn. single, 60 grn. daily.—Caution: Avoid large doses in fever!

Acetyl-phenyl-hydrazine Merck.

Hydracetin; Pyrodin.—Prisms, or tablets: silky luster; odorl.; tastel.—Sol. in 50 parts water; in alcohol, chloroform.—Antipyretic, Analgesic, Antiparasitic—Uses: Intern., to reduce fever generally, in rheumatism, etc.; extern., psoriasis and other skin diseases.—Dose: 1/2—3 grn.—Extern. in 10% oint.

Acid, Acetic, Merck.—Glacial.—U.S.P.—99.5%.—C.P.

Caustic (in warts or corns) and Vesicant. Not used internally.—Antidotes: Emetics, magnesia, chalk, soap, oil, etc.

Acid, Acetic, Merck.—U.S.P.—36%.

Dose: 15—40 ♏, well diluted.

Acid, Acetic, Diluted—U.S.P.

6 per cent.—Dose: 2—4 drams.

Acid, Agaricic, Merck.

Agaric, Laricic or Agaricinic, Acid.—Powd.; odorl.; almost tastel.—Sol. in ether or chloroform; in 130 parts cold and 10 parts boiling alcohol.—Antihidrotic.—Uses: Night-sweat of phthisis, and to check the sudorific effects of antipyretics.—Dose: 1/6—1/2 grn., at night, in pills.

Acid, Arsenous, Merck.—U.S.P.—Pure, Powder.

White powd.; odorl.; tastel.—SOL. very slightly in water or alcohol.—Antiperiodic, Antiseptic, Alterative.—Uses: Intern., malarial fever, skin diseases, chorea, neuralgia, gastralgia, uterine disorders, diabetes, bronchitis; extern., to remove warts, cancers, etc.—Dose: 1/60—1/30 grn. 4 t. daily.—Max. D.: About 1/12 grn. single; about 1/6 grn. daily.—Preparation: Solut. (1%).—Extern. on neoplasms in large amounts to get quick results: otherwise it is dangerous. Keep from healthy tissues, lest dangerous absorption may occur.—Antidotes: Emetics; stomach pump or siphon if seen immediately; hot milk and water with zinc sulphate or mustard. After vomiting, give milk or eggs, and magnesia in milk. If saccharated oxide of iron or dialyzed iron is handy, use it. If tincture of iron and ammonia water are within reach, precipitate former with latter, collect precipitate on a strainer, and give it wet. Always give antidotes, be the case ever so hopeless.—Incompatibles: Tannic acid, infusion cinchona, salts of iron, magnesium, etc.

Acid, Benzoic, from Benzoin,—Merck.—U.S.P.—Sublimed.

Pearly plates, or needles; aromatic odor and taste.—Sol. in 2 parts alcohol; 3 parts ether; 7 parts chloroform; 10 parts glycerin; 500 parts water. (Borax, or sod. phosphate, increases sol. in water.)—Antiseptic, Antipyretic, Expectorant.—Uses: Intern., to acidify phosphatic urine, reduce acidity of uric-acid urine, control urinary incontinence, also in chronic bronchitis and jaundice; extern., wound dressing (1:100), in urticaria, etc.—Dose: 10—40 grn. 6 t. daily.—Incompatibles: Corrosive sublimate, lead acetate, etc.

Acid, Boric, Merck.—U.S.P.—C.P., Cryst. or Impalpable Powder.

Dose: 5—15 grn.

Acid, Camphoric, Merck.—C.P., Cryst.

Colorl. needles or scales; odorl.; feebly acid taste.—Sol. in alcohol, ether; very slightly in water; 50 parts fats or oils.—Antihidrotic, Antiseptic, Astringent, Anticatarrhal.—Uses: Extern., 2—6% aqueous solut., with 11% of alcohol to each 1% of acid, in acute skin diseases, as gargle or spray in acute and chronic affections of respiratory tract; intern., night-sweats, chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, gonorrhea, angina, chronic cystitis, etc.—Dose: 8—30 grn., in powd.—Max. D.: 60 grn.

Acid, Carbolic, Merck.—Absolute, C.P., Loose Crystals or Fused.—U.S.P.

Phenol.—Dose: 1/2—2 grn., well diluted or in pills.—Preparations: Glycerite (20%); Oint. (5%).—Antidotes: Soluble alkaline sulphates after emesis with zinc sulphate; raw white of egg; calcium saccharate; stimulants hypodermically.—Incompatibles: Chloral hydrate, ferrous sulphate.

Merck's Silver Label Carbolic Acid is guaranteed not to redden under the proper precautions of keeping.

Acid, Carbolic, Iodized, Merck.—N.F.

Iodized Phenol.—Solut. of iodine in carbolic acid.—Antiseptic, Escharotic.—Uses: Uterine dilatation.—Applied pure, by injection.

Acid, Caryophyllic,—see Eugenol.

Acid, Cetraric,—see Cetrarin.

Acid, Chloracetic, caustic, Merck.

Mixture of chlorinated acetic acids.—Colorl. liq.—Uses: Escharotic.

Acid, Chromic, Merck.—Highly Pure, Cryst.; also Fused, in Pencils.

Incompatibles: Alcohol, ether, glycerin, spirit of nitrous ether, arsenous acid, and nearly every organic substance.—Caution: Dangerous accidents may occur by contact with organic substances. Avoid cork stoppers!

Acid, Chrysophanic, medicinal,—so-called,—see Chrysarobin.

Acid, Cinnamic, Merck.—C.P.

Cinnamylic Acid.—White scales; odorl.—Sol. in alcohol, ether; very slightly in water.—Antitubercular, Antiseptic.—Uses: Tuberculosis and lupus, parenchymatously and intravenously.—Applied in 5% emulsion or alcoholic solut.—Injection (intravenously): 3/4—3/4 grn., in 5% oily emulsion, with 0.7% solut. sodium chloride, twice a week.

Acid, Citric, Merck.—C.P., Cryst. or Powd.

Sol. in water, alcohol.—Antiseptic, Antiscorbutic, and Refrigerant.—Uses: Extern., post-partum hemorrhage; pruritus; agreeable application in diphtheria, angina or gangrenous sore mouth; intern., cooling beverage to assuage fever, and remedy in scurvy.—Dose: 10—30 grn.—Preparation: Syr. (1%).—Extern., for painting throat, 5—10% solut. in glycerin; gargle, 1—2%; cooling drink, 80 grn. to 1 quart.

Acid, Cresotic, Para-, Merck.—Pure.

White needles.—Sol. in alcohol, ether, chloroform.—Children's Antipyretic, Intestinal Antiseptic.—Uses: Febrile affections, gastro-intestinal catarrh. Mostly used as Sodium paracresotate (which see).—Dose (acid): Antipyretic, 2—20 grn., according to age; intestinal antiseptic (children's diseases), 3/4—1 grn., in mixture.—Max. D.: 60 grn.

Acid, Dichlor-acetic, Merck.—Pure.

Colorl. liq.—Sol. in water, alcohol.—Caustic.—Uses: Venereal and skin diseases.

Acid, Filicic, Merck.—Amorph.

Filicinic Acid.—Amorph., sticky powd.; odorl.; tastel.—Anthelmintic.—Dose: 8—15 grn.

Acid, Gallic, Merck.—U.S.P.—Pure, White Cryst.

Dose: 5—20 grn.—Incompatibles: Ferric salts.

Acid, Hydrobromic, Merck.—Diluted.—U.S.P.—10%.

Dose: 30—90 ♏, in sweet water.

Acid, Hydrochloric—U.S.P.

31.9 per cent. HCl.—Dose: 5—10 minims, well diluted.—Antidotes: Chalk, whiting, magnesia, alkali carbonates, and albumen.—Incompatibles: Alkalies, silver salts, chlorates, salts of lead, etc.

Acid Hydrochloric, Diluted—U.S.P.

10 per cent. HCl.—Dose: 10—30 minims, in sweet water.

Acid, Hydrocyanic, Diluted—U.S.P.

2 per cent. HCN—Dose: 2—5 min.—Max. Dose: 10 min.—Extern. 1: 8—16 as lotion, only on unbroken skin.—Caution: Very liable to decomposition. When brown in color it is unfit for use.

Acid, Hydro-iodic, Merck.—Sp. Gr. 1.5.—47%.

Deep-brown, fuming liq.—Antirheumatic, Alterative.—Uses: Rheumatism, bronchitis (acute or chronic), asthma, syphilis, obesity, psoriasis, to eliminate mercury or arsenic from the system, etc.—Dose: 5—10 ♏, in much sweet water.

Acid, Hypophosphorous, Merck.—Diluted.—10%.

Dose: 10—60 ♏.

Acid, Lactic, Merck.—U.S.P.—C.P.

Caustic—Applied as 50—80% paint.

Merck's Lactic Acid is perfectly colorless and odorless.

Acid, Laricic,—see Acid, Agaricic.

Acid, Monochlor-acetic, Merck.

Very deliquescent cryst.—Sol. in water.—Caustic.—Uses: Warts, corns, etc.—Applied in concentrated solut.

Acid Nitric—U.S.P.

68 per cent. HNO3.—Applied (as an Escharotic) pure.—Antidotes: Same as of hydrochloric acid.

Acid Nitric, Diluted—U.S.P.

10 per cent. HNO3.—Dose: 5—30 minims, well diluted.

Acid, Nitro-hydrochloric, Diluted—U.S.P.

One-fifth strength of concentrated, which is not used therapeutically.—Uses: Intern., jaundice, biliary calculi, dyspepsia, chronic rheumatism, etc.; extern., diluted, as sponge- or foot-bath, 2 or 3 t. a week.—Dose: 5—20 minims, well diluted.—Antidotes and Incompatibles: Same as of hydrochloric acid.

Acid, Osmic,—see Acid, Perosmic.

Acid, Oxalic, Merck.—C.P., Cryst.

Transparent cryst.; very acid taste.—Sol. in water, alcohol; slightly in ether.—Emmenagogue, Sedative.—Uses: Functional amenorrhea, acute cystitis.—Dose: 1/2—1 grn. every 4 hours, in sweet water.—Antidotes: Calcium saccharate, chalk, lime-water, magnesia.—Incompatibles: Iron and its salts, calcium salts, alkalies.

Acid, Oxy-naphtoic, Alpha-, Merck.—Pure.

White or yellowish powd.; odorl.; sternutatory.—Sol. in alcohol, chloroform, fixed oils, aqueous solut's of alkalies and alkali carbonates; insol. in water.—Antiparasitic, Antizymotic.—Uses: Intern., disinfectant intestinal tract (reported 5 times as powerful as salicylic acid); extern., in parasitic skin diseases (in 10% oint.), coryza, etc.—Dose: 11/2—3 grn.

Acid, Perosmic, Merck.

Osmic Acid.—Yellowish needles; very pungent, disagreeable odor.—Sol. in water, alcohol, ether.—Antineuralgic, Discutient, Antiepileptic.—Uses: Intern., muscular rheumatism, neuralgia; extern., remove tumors, and in sciatica (by injection).—Dose: 1/64 grn., several t. daily.—Injection: 1/20—1/6 grn. as 1% solut. in aqueous glycerin (40%)—Antidote: Sulphuretted hydrogen.—Incompatibles: Organic substances, phosphorus, ferrous sulphate, etc.—Caution: Vapor exceedingly irritating to the air-passages.

Acid, Phosphoric, (Ortho-), Merck.—Syrupy.—85%.

Dose: 2—6 ♏, well diluted.

do. Merck.—Diluted.—10%.

Dose: 20—60 ♏.—Incompatibles: Ferric chloride, lead acetate, etc.

Acid, Picric, Merck.—C.P., Cryst.

Picronitric, Picrinic, or Carbazotic, Acid.—Yellow cryst.; odorl.; intensely bitter.—Sol. in alcohol, ether, chloroform; sl. in water.—Antiperiodic, Antiseptic, Astringent.—Uses: Intern., in malaria, trichiniasis, etc.; extern., in crysipelas, eczema, burns, fissured nipples, etc.: 1/10% solut. for cracked nipples, 1/2—1% hydro-alcoholic solut. on compress renewed only every 3 to 7 days in burns.—Dose: 1/2—2 grn., in alcoholic solut.—Max. D.: 5 grn.—Antidote: Albumen.—Incompatibles: All oxidizable substances. Dangerously explosive with sulphur, phosphorus, etc.—Caution: Do not apply in substance or in oint., lest toxic symptoms appear!

Acid, Pyrogallic, Merck, (Pyrogallol, U.S.P.)—Resublimed.

Used only extern., in 5—10% oint.

Acid, Salicylic, Merck.—U.S.P.—C.P., Cryst.; and Natural (from Oil Wintergreen).

Dose: 10—40 grn.

Acid, Sozolic,—see Aseptol.

Acid, Sulpho-anilic, Merck.—Cryst.

White efflorescent needles.—Sol. slightly in alcohol; 112 parts water.—Anticatarrhal, Analgesic.—Uses: Intern., coryza, catarrhal laryngitis, etc.—Dose: 10—20 grn. 1 to 2 t. daily, in aqueous sol. with sodium bicarb.

Acid, Sulpho-salicylic, Merck.

White cryst.—Sol. in water, alcohol.—Uses: Delicate urine-albumin test.

Acid, Sulphuric, Aromatic—U.S.P.

20 per cent. H2SO4.—Best form for administration.—Dose: 10—20 min.

Acid, Sulphuric, Diluted—U.S.P.

10 per cent. H2SO4.—(Concentrated Sulphuric acid is not used medicinally.)—Uses: Intern., gastro-intest. disorders, phthisical sweats, exophthalmic goiter, etc.; also as solvent for quin. sulph., etc.—Dose: 15—30 min., well diluted.—Antidotes: Same as of hydrochloric acid.

Acid, Sulphurous—U.S.P.

6.4 per cent. SO2.—Antiseptic, Antizymotic.—Dose: 15—60 min., well diluted. Extern. 10—25 per cent. solut.

Acid, Tannic, Merck.—U.S.P.—C.P., Light.

Dose: 2—20 grn.—Preparations: Styptic Collodion (20%); Glycerite (20%); Oint. (20%); Troches (1 grn.).—Incompatibles: Ferrous and ferric salts, antimony and potassium tartrate, lime water, alkaloids, albumen, gelatin, starch.

Acid, Tartaric, Merck.—U.S.P.—C.P., Cryst. or Powd.

Dose: 10—30 grn.

Acid, Trichlor-acetic, Merck.—Pure, Cryst.

Deliquescent cryst.; pungent, suffocating odor; caustic. Sol. freely in water, alcohol, ether.—Escharotic, Astringent, Hemostatic.—Uses: Venereal and cutaneous warts, papillomata, vascular nævi, pigment patches, corns, nosebleed, obstinate gleet, gonorrhea, nasopharyngeal affections and indolent ulcers.—Applied: As escharotic, pure, or in concentrated solut.; astringent and hemostatic, 1—3% solut.—Caution: Keep in glass-stoppered bottle.

Acid, Valerianic, Merck.

Oily liq., strong valerian odor; bitter, burning taste.—Sol. in water, alcohol, ether, chloroform.—Antispasmodic, Sedative.—Uses: Nervous affections, hysteria, mania, etc.—Dose: 2—10 drops, in sweetened water.

Aconite Root—U.S.P.

Preparations: Ext. (D., 1/4—1/2 grn.), F.E. (D. 1/4—1 min.); Tr. (q.v.).—See also, Aconitine.

Aconitine, Potent, Merck.—Cryst.—(Do not confound with the Mild!)

Alkaloid from Aconite, prepared according to process of Duquesnel.—White cryst.; feebly bitter taste.—Sol. in alcohol, ether, chloroform; insol. in water.—Antineuralgic, Diuretic, Sudorific, Anodyne.—Uses: Intern., neuralgia, acute or chronic rheumatism, gout, toothache, etc.; extern., rheumatism, other pains.—Dose: 1/640—1/200 grn. several t. daily, in pill or solut., with caution.—Max. D.: 1/64 grn. single; 1/20 grn. daily.—Extern.: 1:2000—500 parts lard.—Antidotes: Small repeated doses of stimulants; artificial respiration, atropine, digitalis, ammonia.—Caution: Never use on abraded surfaces. Danger of absorption! 10 times as toxic as the mild amorph. aconitine (below)!

Aconitine, Mild, Merck.—Amorph.—(Do not confound with the Potent!)

Uses: As aconitine, potent, cryst.; but only 1/10 as powerful.—Dose: 1/64—1/20 grn., very carefully increased.—Extern. 1/2—2% oint. or solut.

Aconitine Nitrate Merck.—Cryst.

Dose: Same as of aconitine, potent, cryst.

Adeps Lanæ Hydrosus Merck.—U.S.P.

Hydrous Wool-fat.—Yellowish-white, unctuous mass. Contains about 25% water. Freely takes up water and aqueous solut's.—Non-irritant, permanent emollient, and base for ointments and creams; succedaneum for lanolin in all its uses.

Adeps Lanæ Anhydricus.

(Anhydrous Wool-fat).—Contains less than 1% of water.

Adonidin Merck.

Adonin.—Yellowish-brown, very hygroscopic, odorl. powd.; intensely bitter.—Sol. in water, alcohol; insol. in ether, chloroform.—Cardiac Stimulant, mild Diuretic.—Uses: Heart diseases, especially mitral and aortic regurgitation, and relieving precordial pain and dyspnea.—Dose: 1/16—1/4 grn. 4 t. daily, in pill, or solut. in chloroform water with ammonium carbonate.—Max. D.: 1 grn.

Agaricin Merck.

White powd.; sweet, with bitter after-taste.—Sol. in alcohol; slightly in water, ether, or chloroform.—Antihidrotic.—Uses: Phthisical night-sweats, sweating from drugs.—Dose: 1/4—1 grn.

Airol.

Bismuth Oxyiodogallate, Roche.—Grayish-green, odorl., tastel. powd.—Insol. in water, alcohol, etc.—Surgical Antiseptic, like iodoform; also Antigonorrhoic and Intestinal Astringent.—Dose: 2—5 grn. 3 t. daily.—Extern. pure, 10% emuls. in equal parts glycerin and water, or 10—20% oint.

Alantol Merck.

Amber liq.; odor and taste like peppermint.—Sol. in alcohol, chloroform, ether.—Internal Antiseptic, Anticatarrhal.—Uses: Instead of turpentine, in pulmonary affections.—Dose: 1/6 ♏, 10 t. daily, in pill, powd., or alcoholic solut.

Alcohol—U.S.P.

91 per cent.—Sp. Gr. 0.820.

Aletris Cordial.

Not completely defined.—(Stated: "Prepared from Aletris farinosa [or True Unicorn], combined with aromatics.—Uterine Tonic and Restorative.—Dose: 1 fl. dr. 3 or 4 t. daily.")

Allyl Tribromide Merck.

Yellow liq.; cryst. mass in cold.—Sol. in alcohol, ether.—Sedative, Antispasmodic. Uses: Hysteria, asthma, whooping cough, etc.—Dose: 5—10 ♏, 2 or 3 t. daily, in capsules.—Injection: 2 or 3 drops, in 20 drops ether.

Almond, Bitter—U.S.P.

Preparations: Oil (D., one-sixth to 1/2 min.); Spt. (1 per cent. oil); Water (q.v.).

Almond, Sweet—U.S.P.

Preparations: Emuls. (as vehicle); Oil (D., 2—8 drams); Syr. (as vehicle).

Aloes, Barbadoes—U.S.P.

Dose: 2—20 grn.

Aloes, Purified—U.S.P.

From Socotrine Aloes.—Dose: 1—10 grn.—Preparations: Pills (2 grn.); Pills Aloes and Asafetida; Pills Aloes and Iron; Pills Aloes and Mastic; Pills Aloes and Myrrh; Tr. (1:10); Tr. Aloes and Myrrh.

Aloes, Socotrine—U.S.P.

Dose: 2—10 grn.—Preparation: Ext. (D., 1—5 grn.).

Aloin Merck.—U.S.P.—C.P.

Barbaloin.—Dose: 1/2—2 grn.—Max. D.: 4 grn. single, 10 grn. daily.—Injection: 1/4 grn. dissolved in formamide.

Merck's Aloin, C.P., is clearly soluble, and meets all other requirements of U.S.P.

Althea—U.S.P.

Marshmallow.—Preparation: Syr. (1:20), as vehicle.

Alums:—Ammonium; Ammonio-ferric; Potassium,—see Aluminium and Ammonium Sulphate; Iron and Ammonium Sulphate, Ferric; and Aluminium and Potassium Sulphate.

Aluminium Acetate Merck.—Basic.

Gummy mass or granular powd.—Insol. in water.—Uses: Intern., diarrhea and dysentery; extern., washing foul wounds.—Dose: 5—10 grn. 3 t. daily.

Aluminium Aceto-tartrate Merck.

Lustrous, yellowish granules; sour-astringent taste.—Sol. freely but very slowly in water; insol. in alcohol, ether,