Dropsy

— See also, Ascites, Hydrocele, Hydrocephalus, Hydrothorax, etc. Aconite: at once in dropsy of scarlet fever if temperature should rise. Acupuncture: in œdem a about the ankles, to be followed up by hot bathing; not much use in tricuspid disease. Ammonium Benzoate: in hepatic dropsy. Ammonium Chloride: in hepatic dropsy. Anti hydro pin: a crystalline principle extracted from cockroaches; is a powerful diuretic in scarlatinal dropsy; 15 grn. as a dose for an adult; the insect is used in Ru ia. Apocynum. Arbutin. Arsenic: in dropsy of feet from fatty heart, debility, or old age. Asclepias Syriaca: may be combined with apocynum. Broom: one of the most useful diuretics, especially in scarlatinal, renal, and hepatic dropsy. Bryonia: as drastic purgative, and diuretic. Cactus Grand i flor us: tincture. Caffeine: in cardiac and chronic renal dropsy. Calomel. Cannabis Indica: as diuretic. Che no podium Ant helm int i cum: in scarlatinal dropsy. Chi map hila: in renal dropsy. Cimicifugin. Colchicum: in hepatic, cardiac, and scarlatinal dropsy. Colocynth. Con vallar i a: used by the Ru ian peasantry. Copaiba: especially in hepatic and cardiac dropsy: not certain in renal. in. is: in all dropsies, but especially cardiac dropsies. Infusion is best form. Digitoxin. Diet: dry. Elaterium or Elaterin: useful hydragogues cathartics, especially in chronic renal disease; should not be given in exhaustion. Erythrophleum: in cardiac dropsy instead of is. Ferropyrine. Fuchsine. Gamboge never to be used! Gold. Hellebore: in post-scarlatinal dropsy. Hemo-gallol: when marked anemia present. Iron: to correct anemia; along with saline purgatives. Jaborandi: in renal dropsy with suppre ion of renal function. Jalap: in some cases. Juniper: exceedingly useful in cardiac, and chronic, not acute renal trouble. Levico Water. Magnesium Sulphate. Mercury. Milk Diet. Nitrous Ether: useful alone, or with other diuretics. Oil Croton. Oil Juniper. Parsley: a stimulant diuretic. Paracentesis Abdominis. Pilocarpine Hydro chlorate. Pota ium Bicarbonate. Pota ium Bitartrate and Acetate with Compound Jalap Powder: most useful of the hydragogue cathartics. Pota ium Carbonate. Pota ium Iodide: in large doses, sometimes a diuretic in renal dropsy. Pota ium Nitrate: as diuretic. Pota ium and Sodium Tartrate. Resin Jalap. Resorcin. Rhus Toxicodendron. Sal i form in. Saline Purgatives. Scoparin. Scoparius Infusion. Senega: in renal dropsy. Squill: in cardiac dropsy. Strophanthus: in cardiac dropsy. Sulphate of Magnesium: a concentrated solution before food is taken. Taraxacum. Theobromine and salts. Turpentine Oil: in albuminuria.