Catarrh, Acute Nasal

— See also, Cough, Hay Fever, Influenza. Acid, Carbolic: as inhalation or much diluted as spray. As gargle, 1 in 100, when catarrh tends to spread from nose into throat and chest, or to ascend from throat into nose. Acid, Sulphurous: as inhalation, spray or fumigation. Acid, Tannic: injection of a solution in rectified spirit. Aconite: internally at commencement, especially in children. Aconite and Belladonna: in sore-throat and cold with profuse watery secretion, one drop of tinct. of aconite to two of belladonna every hour. Aconite Liniment: to outside of nose in paroxysmal sneezing and coryza. Aluminium Aceto-tartrate. Ammonia: as inhalation in early stage, while discharge is serous. Ammonium Chloride: in young children. Ammonium Iodide: one grn. every two hours. Argenti Nitras: injection of a solution of 10 grn. to the oz. Arsenic: internally, or as cigarettes, in paroxysmal and chronic cases: valuable In cases which exactly simulate hay fever. Baths: hot foot-bath before retiring, Turkish, at commencement; cold bath is prophylactic. Belladonna: 5 min. of tinct., and afterwards one or two doses every hour until the throat is dry. Benzoic Acid: in ordinary catarrh, for its stimulant effects. Bismuth: as Ferrier's snuff. Bismuth sub-nit., 2 drams; acaciæ pulv., 2 drams; morph. hydrochlor., 2 grn. Camphor: as inhalation. Chloral. Chloroform: by inhalation. Cimicifuga: in coryza accompanied by rheumatic or neuralgic pains in head and face. Cocaine Hydro chlorate. Codeine. Cold Powder: camph. 5 parts di olved in ether to consistence of cream, add ammon. carbon at. 4 parts, and pulv. opii 1 part. Dose, 3 to 10 grn. To break up or modify cold. Cubebs: powder as insufflation; also smoked; also the tincture in 2 dram doses with infusion of linseed. Formaldehyde: by inhalation (2 per cent. solut.). Hot Sponging: to relieve the headache. Iodine: as inhalation. Iodoform and Tannin: as insufflation. Ipecacuanha: in moderate doses (10 grn.). Dover's powder at night will cut short an attack. The wine as spray to the fauces. Jaborandi: as tincture. Or hypodermic injection of half a grain of pilocarpine hydro chlorate. Menthol. Nux Vomica: in dry cold in the head. Oil: inunction to whole body to le en susceptibility; locally to nose; sometimes ointment may be used. Opium: as Dover's powder at commencement; but not in obstruction to respiration. Per on in. Pilocarpine Hydro chlorate (see Jaborandi). Pota ium Bichromate: solution locally, 1 to 10 grn. in 4 oz. Pota ium Chlorate: eight or ten lozenges a day to check. Pota ium Iodide: ten grn. at bedtime to avert acute coryza. Pulsatilla: warm lotion applied to interior of nares; or internally but not in symptoms of intestinal irritation. Quinine: ten grn. with 1/2 grn. morphine, at commencement may abort it. Resorcin. Salicylate of Sodium: two and one-half grn. every half-hour to relieve headache and neuralgia a ociated with coryza. Sanguinaria: internally, and powder locally. Sea-water Gargle. Silver Nitrate. Spray: useful means of applying solutions such as ipecacuanha wine, already mentioned. Sugar: finely powdered and snuffed up in the nose in catarrh due to pota ium iodide. Tartar Emetic: one-twentieth to one-twelfth grn. at commencement especially in children with thick and abundant secretion. Turkish Bath. Veratrum Viride: if arsenic fails. Zinc Sulphate: as nasal injection 1 grn. to the oz.