A handbook of local therapeutics / edited by Harrison Allen.

Date:
1893
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    aristol. He suggests that it may prove useful in the treatment of Var, OLOus Eruption. Diseases of the Ear, Throat and Nose.-Insufflations of the powder of anstol have been employed by Rorer ^Archives Internacionales de Laryngologia, 1890, No. 2) for Acute Catarrhal Otitis Lowen stem {^Int. klin. Rundschau, May, 1890) has used aristol in the treatment of Oz^NA, m a ten per cent, ethereal solution (in the proportion of a drachm to the ounce) with good results. It also proves available for Chronic Nasal Catarrh, by being .dissolved in one of the forms of petrolatum. Exhibited as a flexible collodion, one drachm to the ounce, W. C. Phillips {N. Y. Med Jour., May 23, 1891) applies aristol in Chronic Atrophic Rhinitis in Oztena and in Ulcers of the Septum, both specific and non-specific. The agent is highly extolled by some practitioners in the' treatment of Syphilis of the Nose accompanied with ulceration, when used in the form of a powder and blown on the parts. The objections to iodoform are obviated and the powder does not as a rule irritate. A small proportion of morphine may be added to the mass or it can be combined with borax and tannic acid. Aristol has come largely into use as an adjuvant in the after-treatment of intra-nasal operations. Cotton plugs, if covered with cosmoline and thoroughly dusted with aristol, remain free from odor a longer time and with less irritation than if prepared in any other way. A. B. Kirkpatrick, of Philadelphia, claims that aristol prevents the formation of exuberant granulations, after operations on the nasal septum. In Laryngorrhcea, aristol may be blown into the larynx. Diseases of the Eye.—Aristol has been recommended as an antiseptic dressing in operations upon the eyelids and Enucleation of the Ball, as a substitute for iodoform; experience has still to prove if it is equally etfective. It is unirritating, even to the conjunctiva, and may be dusted freely on the parts involved in the operation. It has also been recommended in the treatment of Phlyctenular ■ Conjunctivitis, dusted lipon the ulcer in the same manner as calomel has long been used. An ointment containing five grains of aristol to one drachm of cosmoline is said to be of value in Blepharitis Mar- ginalis and in Eczema of the Eyelids. ARNICA. Arnica. Both arnica d^owexs {Arnica Flores), and the root {Arnica i^<7r/2>), respectively the *' flower heads and the rhizome and the rootlets of Arnica montana, are ofhcial in the U. S. P. Tincture of Arnica^^ is a tincture of arnica flowers, containing the activity of twenty parts of the flowers in one hundred of alcohol. There is also official in the U. S. P. and Ph. Br. a Tincture of Arnica Root, that of the U. S. P. contain- ing the activity of twenty parts of the root in one hundred of tincture. When tincture