A text-book of practical therapeutics . ffiness. It is not to be onlysmelled, but also inhaled. Careshould be taken that the crystalsare not allowed to enter the nos-trils, as they are almost cauterant inpower. Sometimes where great ex-coriation of the alse of the nose exists, the too persistent use of thementhol may produce small herpetic spots about the nostrils. Whenmenthol is inhaled for a long time or swallowed in any quantity itis apt to produce severe congestive headache. Still another method is by the use of a nebulizer. (See Fig. 60;also article on Inhalations, Part III.) The followin
A text-book of practical therapeutics . ffiness. It is not to be onlysmelled, but also inhaled. Careshould be taken that the crystalsare not allowed to enter the nos-trils, as they are almost cauterant inpower. Sometimes where great ex-coriation of the alse of the nose exists, the too persistent use of thementhol may produce small herpetic spots about the nostrils. Whenmenthol is inhaled for a long time or swallowed in any quantity itis apt to produce severe congestive headache. Still another method is by the use of a nebulizer. (See Fig. 60;also article on Inhalations, Part III.) The following mixture isplaced in the glass jar, and the air being driven through the tube avapor of the drugs is given off which is a valuable sedative to theentire respiratory tract. 3—Chloretone gr. ij () Mentholis gr. xx () Camphorae gr. xx () Olei cinnamomi TUij () Petrolati liquid! f5j ().—M. S.—Use in a vaporizer every three hours for a period of about ten minutes. Oftenit is well to use this formula in half Fig. 60.—Nebulizer. The smallpump on the right side forces airthrough the black tube in the glassjar. This air escapes from an aper-ture in the side of the tube and drawsup the medicated liquid, which is thendriven forcibly against the side of theglass. The finely comminuted fluidthen passes as a vapor through theexit tube. PERMANGANATE OF POTASSIUM 429 Sometimes menthol in 10 per cent, alcoholic solution is dropped on the cone with which ether is given, to diminish the irritation caused by that drug when it is inhaled. Menthol vapor is also useful in spasmodic croup. (See Part IV.) Emplastrum Menthol, B. P., is used as a mild local irritant and anesthetic. PEPSIN. Pepsinum, U. S. and B. P., is the digestive ferment of the gastricjuice. That sold in the shops is generally derived from the pig,and is prepared by manufacturers in many ways. Much of thepepsin of the market contains more peptone than pepsin, and muchmucus and albumin. Used with hy
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