A handbook of local therapeutics / edited by Harrison Allen.

Date:
1893
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    Thymol has been used with advantage to correct Offensive Lochia. In Inflammation and Ulceration About the Neck of the Uterus a tampon of cotton saturated with glycerine and thymol i-iooo to 1-3000 are indicated. Sponges are conveniently preserved in a eolution of one part of thymol in sufficient quantity of alcohol added to one thousand parts of water. Diseases of the Skin.—Thymol was introduced in 1878 by Crocker, of London {New Remedies, April 16, 1878), as a remedy in certain skin diseases. Crocker proposed the following formulae: R. Thymolis, gr. v-xxv; vaseline, §j. M. Solve. R. Thymolis, gr. v; alcoholis, glycerini, aa f,?j ; aquae, ad. fgviij. M. R. Potassii thymolat,* gr. v-9iv; aqu^, fgviij. M. When the vaseline ointment is stronger than twenty grains to the ounce the thymol should be first dissolved in alcohol in the proportion of one minim to the grain. Thymol is an irritant to the skin in a concentrated form, but when the strength is properly adjusted it is said to afford an agreeable substitute for tar. In Pityriasis Capitis Crocker recommends: R. Thymolis, 3]; liq. potassse, fgj; glycerini, fjss; aq. sambuci, fgviij. M. In Eczema G. H. Fox, of New York, recommends the following : R. Thymolis, gr. v; ung. aquae rosae, §j. M. In Tinea Tricophytina Capitis {ringworm of the scalp) Besnier, of Paris, uses: R. Thymolis, gr. viij; glycerini, fsiv; alcoholis, f^iv; aquae, ad. fgviij. In Psoriasis Crocker begins with an ointment of five grains to the ounce, gradually increased to thirty grains to the ounce. Diseases of the Nose and Throat.—Thymol is used in the treat- ment of the nose and the throat as a substitute for carbolic acid. It is especi- ally useful (i-iooo or 1-3000) in Pharyngitis and Laryngitis of the exanthemata, particularly when associated with putrid exhalation. As a mouth wash thymol is effective in removing the odor of tobacco after smoking. After the septic coagulant in Diphtheria is removed a pre- paration of thymol, from two to twenty grains to the ounce of water, either alone or in the presence of five grains of carbolic acid or a little glycerin, is a treatment commended by Da Costa and S. Johnston. R. W. Seiss {Med. News, April 2, 1887) finds that one-half grain of thymol by the addition of one-half drachm of alcohol and a drachm and a half of glycerin to the ounce of water forms a preparation of mini- * The thymolate of potassium results from mixing a saturating solution o^ potassium hydrate with thymol. 28