A handbook of local therapeutics / edited by Harrison Allen.

Date:
1893
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    saccus conii and placed over the diseased surface, may prove useful as an anodyne dressing (Waring). In uterine and ovarian diseases conium has been found of service In Uterine Cancer Dewees advised an injection of the extract, three fluid ounces to one pint. Meadows regards conium as the best anodyne for the generative tract, especially in ovarian Menorrhagia, for which he advises that a vaginal suppository of one or two grains of conium, made with glycerin one part and gelatin four parts, be introduced once or twice daily. In Traumatic Tetanus Johnston, of Baltimore, has em ployed conium hypodermically with asserted success, injecting every two hours fifteen minims of a solution composed of two minims of conium one minim of dilute sulphuric acid, and one drachm of water Diseases of the Throat, etc.-Conium is held in high repute as a sedative in affections of the throat. Succus conii two drachms, water one pint to twenty ounces, form the basis for an inhalant which appears to be specially adapted for the relief of pain in Acute Laryngitis English writers recommend the addition of twenty grains of sodium car- bonate to the fluid, since this agent sets free the conine. Harley uses conium to produce relaxation of the oesophagus in cases of impacted foreign bodies. (Leffmann, Amer. System of Dentistry, Vol. ill, p. 694.) Conium has a disagreeable, mouse-like odor, which renders its use in the nose and throat objectionable to some persons. COPAIBA. The oleoresin of Copaifera langsdorffi. and other species of Copaifera. (U. S. P.) Copaiba is protectant, antiseptic, and antiphlogistic. General Surgery.—Copaiba was largely used a hundred years ago in the London hospitals as a topical application for the treatment of chronic and Indolent Ulcers. Within the last two years its use has been revived by Dr. Beach, in the Massachusetts General Hospital, in the treatment of similar conditions. Cotton waste, or charpie, saturated with the balsam, is laid on the ulcer and retained by a firm bandage. It is claimed that it is especially adapted to the flat, pale, granulating surfaces that commonly result from the Evulsion of the Scalp, Exten-, sive Burns and Scalds, Operations for the removal of Necrosed Bone, | etc. Diseases of the Throat.—Twenty-five minims in a half pint of water may be dropped in the presence of one-half drachm of magnesia. A drachm of this added to a pint of hot water is used for inhalation.