A handbook of local therapeutics / edited by Harrison Allen.

Date:
1893
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    CREOLINE. partum hemorrhage had occurred which might produce these symptoms, he thinks it possible that they were due to creoline poisoning. Hirst, in his lectures to the class at the University of Pennsylvania, commends creoline as the safest antiseptic used in midwifery, and of equal efficiency to bichloride of mercury. Chiron {Gazette de Gynecologies May i, 1889) has used this antiseptic extensively in female Blennorrhagia and Endo- metritis with success. Wackez (^Therap. Monatsh., June, 1889) has used creoline as a dress- ing, but complains that a peculiar eczematous rash appeared on the third day, followed by large blebs. A similar action was noted by Boschmeyer {Therapeutic Gazette, p. 632, 1890), who adds that children are more susceptible than adults to this complication. Diseases of the Skin.—Creoline has been recommended as an anti- septic and parasiticide. It has been employed in ointment, half a drachm to the ounce of lard in Scabies. It is said to cure the disease very quickly, without irritating the skin. Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat.—L. Lichwitz {Le Bul- letin Medicate, No. 78, 1888) believes that creoline is useful in the strength of one part to one thousand for Otorrhea. Urbantschitsch recommends ten drops to a half litre of water. The solution can be greatly increased in strength. The fact that solutions of creoline are opaque is objec- tionable, since the presence of the fluid at the bottom of the meatus disguises the appearance of the parts and changes the color of the dis- charges. All observers agree that secretion lessens. One of the advan- tages acknowledged is the retention of antiseptic powers below that strength which excites irritation of the tissues. A. Eitelberg (Wiener Med. Presse, 1888, No. 13) recommends a solution of ten drops to a half litre of warm water for syringing the ear and for applications to the auditory passage in active Inflammation. Schnitzler used it extensively in form of a gargle, one to five per cent., in different diseases of the throat. A gargle of a two per cent, solution of creoline is advocated for Diphtheria by Roos, and Amon {Miinche7ier Med. Wochenschr., 1888, 26). Owing to its cheapness it is well adapted for dispensary practice. An efficient though not an agreeable gargle can be made by adding two to five drops in a glass of water. Many observers recently have recommended creoline in Oz^na, Chronic Nasal Catarrh, and Pharyngitis Sicca ; a solution of one per cent, is sufficiently strong. Pleskoff prepares tampons ten to fifteen centimeters long and about the thickness of the little finger, which, after being wrung out in the creoline solution, are inserted deep into the an- terior nares and allowed to remain for twenty minutes, in Atrophic Catarrh. In Pharyngitis Sicca the tampons are inserted as far as the