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TfiNiiB : The various Tceniafuges, 774 et seq., Resor-cin, 404, and Salicylic Acid, 395, have killed taenia, so that a purgative only was necessary. Chloroform, 597, lately much used. Turpentine, 779, is one of the most efficient remedies, although unpleasant in the highest degree. Ailanthus, 726, has succeeded. Papain, 109, and other digestive ferments.
Tetanus: Atropine, 532, injected into the rigid muscles, has done good. Strychnine, 483, is alleged to be curative in some cases, but more than doubtful. Chloral, 618, is certainly a remedy of great value. Amyl Nitrite, 706, has been used with success ; Nitro-glycerin, 709, should also be fairly tried. Oelsemi-um, 674, has succeeded, and is a promising remedy. Curara, 670, valuable, but uncertain. Potassium Bromide, 653, seems to be the most successful remedy. Physo-stigma, 689, has also been used with advantage in a number of cases, but its real value remains to be determined. Hyoscya-mine, 539, or Duboisine, 542, may be used. Nicotine, 654, has effected a cure, but its use requires caution. Ancestlietics, 607, give temporary relief. Morphine, 641, injected into the tetanized muscles, gives great relief. New remedies that have proved useful are Paraldehyde, 585, Ure-than, 588, and Hypnone, 590, especially the first named.
Thermic Fever, or Sunstroke : Cold Baths, 84, for the hyperpyrexia. Morphine, 638, subcutaneously, when convulsions occur, or the insensibility and high temperature persist. Pilocarpine, 683, should be tried. Quinine, 202, Antipyrin, 411, Salol, 409, Acetanilid, 426, and other antipyretics should be administered subcutaneously.
Thrombosis and Embolism : Ammonia, 238, by the stomach or by intravenous injection, to liquefy the obstructing clot. Ergot, 500, Quinine, 201, and Digitalis, 509, for the collateral hyperaemia and oedema.
Tic-Douloureux. (See Neuralgia.) Atropine and Morphine, 641, 644 ; these alkaloids in combination subcutaneously give relief. Croton-Chloral, 619, has special effects on the fifth nerve. Aconitine, 715, has lately been given with good results. Galvanism and Magnetism relieve the pain, 468. Antipyrin, 411, and Acetanilid, 426, for pains of locomotor ataxia and of neuritis. Cocaine, 561, and Cocaine-Atropine, 563, subcutaneously, are effective anodynes. Teucrin, 431, subcutaneously, Phe-nacetin, 418, Thymol, 428, Hypnone, 590, Vrethan, 588, and its congeners, are active analgesics.
Tinea : Boric Acid, 420, is an excellent topical application. Mercury, 294, corrosive sublimate, as an ointment or lotion for tinea tonsurans ; oleate of mercury in oleic acid, also, 309, of Copper, and an ointment of the carbonate. Carbolic Acid, 382, applied directly or in glycerin to the part affected. Sulphites, 248, in solution, also useful. Sulphides, 250, sulphur-baths, 250, faithfully carried on, are curative.
Tonsillitis : Aconite, 713, the tincture of the root, in cases accompanied by fever. Ouaiacum, 357, a full dose is said to abort an attack. Ice, 81, held against the inflamed part, diminishes the congestion. Mercury, 286,' small doses of calomel or gray powder reduce the inflammation. Quinine, 200, in a full dose at the outset may abort an attack. Alum, 337. in powder, solution, or whey, does good after the acute symptoms. Tincture of Iodine, 264, injected, will gradually diminish the hypertrophied tonsil.
Toothache: Alum, 337, a solution in nitrous ether is said to be effectual. Tannin, 345, dissolved in ether, also relieves the pains of a carious tooth. Carbonate of Soda, 225, a saturated solution held in the mouth relieves. Opium, 604, or morphine, a solution of, put in a carious cavity. Oil of Cloves, 428, Carbolic Acid. 382, or Resorcin, 404, and Phenore-surcin put in a cavity stop the pain. Xanthoxylum, 362, is a domestic remedy.
Torticollis : Galvanism. 466, to the muscles in a state of spasm, and faradic applications to the antagonist muscles in a paretic state. Massage, 102, Water, 87, hot douche.
Tuberculosis : Grape-Cure, 56, Whey-Cure, 60, Cod-liver Oil, 125, Iron, 150, valuable in so far as it improves nutrition. Creosote, 380, Iodoform, 272. Iron and Manganese Iodide, 156; also Europhen, 276, Sozoiodol, 277, Aristol, 277, Chiaiacol, 380. Chloride of Calcium, 223, apparently exercises a real curative influence.
Typhlitis : Ice, 88, in form of a poultice to the seat of inflammation. Opium, 638, in form of ene-mata of the tincture, or deodorized tincture by the stomach, or morphine subcutane-ously, which is the more effective. Leeches, 814, to the inflamed region as soon as tenderness is manifest, and should not be omitted unless the subject is feeble. Purgatives, 750, saline, especially Epsom salts, alone admissible in typhlitis due to impaction of the caecum, and positively contra-indicated in the other forms of the disease.
Typhoid Fever: (See Fever.) Aliment, 63, a milk-diet, usually most suitable. Acids, Mineral, 117, the muriatic, has been much employed as a remedy to diminish fever and restrain diarrhoea. Iodine, 261, in the form of the compound tincture or solution, is a remedy of great value—lessens the violence and shortens the duration (German " Specific Treatment"). Mercury, 289, calomel in ten-grain doses for several days during the first week or ten days—" specific treatment "—shortens the duration and moderates the violence of the disease. Carbolic Acid, 380, and creosote have been used with great success; may be administered with iodine advantageously. Chlorine, 371. The antipyretic and antiseptic treatment includes, besides the remedies just named. Quinine, 202, in large doses, Cold Baths, 83, Salicylic Acid, 396, Resorcin, 404, Sodium Benzoate, 422, Digitalis, 511. Silver Nitrate, 302, Bismuth, 163, Fowler's Solution with Tincture of Opium, 176, are employed to restrain diarrhoea.
 
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