A handbook of local therapeutics / edited by Harrison Allen.

Date:
1893
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    AMMONII CHLORIDUM. ammonia, is used in pityriasis and other diseases of the scalp, where it is employed to dissolve the fats and hasten the cleansing of the diseased parts of scales. • i r n It is sometimes combined with more active stimulants, as in the follow- ing: B. Sp. ammonia aromat., tinct. cantharidis, aq. rosae, aa gss. Diseases of the Throat.—A teaspoonful of the aromatic spirit in a pint of water at 80° F. to 100° F. is recommended by Lefferts as a stimulant in the first stage of acute inflammation of the throat. F. H. Hooper (Trans. Amer. Laryngol. Ass'n., 1887, p. 159) directs that a • gargle composed of thirty to forty drops in a half tumbler of soda water be used, for the relief of the distress arising from straining the throat muscles in singing. The vapor from common smelling salts is of popular esteem in Acute Coryza. AMMONII CHLORIDUM. Chloride of Ammonium. Muriate of Ammonia. Sal Ammoniac. This occurs in both a crude and purified condition. The purified salt only is intended. Soluble in three parts of water at 15° C. (59° F.), and in one and thirty- seven hundredths parts of boiling water ; very sparingly soluble in alcohol. (U. S. P.) Nascent chloride of ammonium (in a gaseous or vaporous condition) for inhalation may be made by mingling, by means of a proper apparatus, the vapors of hydrochloric acid and of ammonia. This nascent, gaseous salt should be vvashed by being passed through water before inhalation, in order to free it from any excess of either constituent. There are many cheap and efficient inhalers for its generation and inhalation in the shops. General Surgery.—The chloride of ammonium has a much more extensive range of application than have other salts of ammonium. A solution is useful in the treatment of Inflammatory Swellings. It is also indicated in the removal of the Ecchymosis of Bruises. In resolv- ing the induration following Suppurative Mastitis, the following lotion, originally prescribed by Justamond, has been found of service: B. Ammonii chlor., §j ; spr. rosmarini, Oj. Lint is saturated with this and kept constantly over the part. Solutions of chloride of ammonium may also be used in other glandular enlargements, such as Indolent Buboes, which are said to subside rapidly under the application of a hot solution, two drachms to an ounce. In Epididymitis and Orchitis a solution of chloride of ammonia, half an ounce to one pint, will often be found a valuable application. We have employed it with advantage in the treatment of Congenital Hydrocele in the strength of ten grains to the ounce of water. A lotion of three drachms to the pint is available in the treatment of Vaginitis, used either as an injection or tampon. In the form last named strips of lint are saturated with the solution and