Typhoid Fever

— See also, Hemorrhage, Intestinal; Rectal Ulceration; Tympanites. Acetanilid. Acid, Carbolic. Acid, Hydrochloric: to diminish fever and diarrhea. Acid, Phosphoric: cooling drink. Acid, Salicylic: some hold that it is good in the typhoid of children, many that it does great harm. Acid, Sulphuric, Diluted. Aconite: to reduce the pyrexia. Alcohol: valuable, especially in the later stages. Alum: to check the diarrhea. Antipyrine: to lower the temperature. Argenti Nitras: to check diarrhea; in obstinate cases along with opium; should not be given until the abdominal pain and diarrhea have begun. Aristol. Arnica: antipyretic. Arsenic: liquor arsenical is with opium to restrain the diarrhea. Asafetida. Asaprol. Bath: agreeable to patient, and reduces hyperpyrexia. Belladonna: during the pyrexial stage it lowers the temperature, cleans the tongue, and steadies the pulse; afterwards brings on irritability of heart. Benz anil ide: antipyretic. Bismuth Sub nitrate: to check diarrhea. Bismuth Sub gallate. Brand's method of cold bathing. Calomel: 10 grn. first day, and eight each day after, the German specific treatment. Or: in small continuous doses without producing stomatitis. Calx Sac char at a: in milk, when the tongue is black and parched. Camphor. Carbo late of Iodine: one drop of tincture of iodine and of liquefied carbolic acid, in infusion of digitalis, every two or three hours. Carbonate of Ammonium. Cascara Sagrada. Charcoal: to prevent fetor of stools, accumulation of fetid gas, and to disinfect stools after pa age. Chloral Hydrate. Chlorine Water. Chloroform Water. Copper Arsenite. Copper Sulphate. Creosote. Creolin. Digitalis: to lower temperature and pulse-rate; death during its use has been known to occur suddenly. Enemas: to be tried first, if constipation lasts over two days. Ergot: for intestinal hemorrhage. Eucalyptol. Eucalyptus: thought to shorten disease. Ferri Per chlorid i Tinctura. Glycerin and Water, with lemon juice, as mouth wash. Guaiacol. Guaiacol Carbonate. Hydrastine. Hyoscyamus. Iodine: specific German treatment; use either liquor or tincture. Iron. Lac top hen in. Lead Acetate: to check diarrhea. Lime Water. Licorice Powder. Magnesium Salicylate. Mercury Bichloride: 10 min. of solution 1/2 grn. in 1 oz. water, every two or three hours. Milk Diet. Morphine: in large doses, if perforation occur. Naphtalene. Naphtol. Naphtol Benzoate. Neurodin. Opium: to check delirium and wakefulne at night, and to relieve the diarrhea. Phosphorus: if nervous system is affected. Pota ium Iodide: alone or with iodine. Quinidine: equal to quinine. Quinine: in large doses to reduce the temperature. Resorcin: antipyretic. Rest and Diet. Salol. Sodium Benzoate: antipyretic. Sodium Par acre so tate. Sodium Thiosulphate. Starch, Iodized. Tannalbin: with calomel. Tannopin. Tartar Emetic: in pulmonary congestion. Thalline Sulphate. Thermodin. Thymol. Tribromphenol. Trip hen in. Turpentine Oil: at end of the second week, 10 minims every two hours, and every three hours in the night; specific if the diarrhea continues during convalescence. Veratrum Viride. Xeroform. Zinc Sulphocarbolate.