Bismuth Disalicylate

A white, odourless powder, insoluble in water and alcohol. Dose: 8 to 12 grains in gastric and intestinal catarrh.

Bismuthol

A mixture of bismuth phosphate and sodium salicylate, which is used, diluted with French chalk, as a dusting-powder, and as an ointment, I to 5, in combination with any approved base.

Bismuthose contains 22 per cent. of bismuth in combination with 66 per cent. of albumen. Dose: 15 to 30 grains or more for children. Also used as a dusting-powder. This should not be confounded with the true Bismuth Albuminate, which is a grey powder containing 9 per cent. of bismuth. Dose: 5 to 15 grains, thrice daily, in cholera and diarrhoea.

Bismuth Oxyiodide

A brownish-red amorphous powder, chiefly errlployed as a dusting-powder in place of iodoform, but also given internally in 3 to 10 grain doses for gastric ulcer and in enteric fever. Also in gonorrhoea as an injection (1 per cent. with tragacanth to suspend).

Bismuth Compounds not other-wise mentioned are the following: Benzoate, dose 5 to 15 grains; Lore-tinate (meta-iodo-ortho-chinolin-ana-sulphonate of bismuth), dose 7 1/2 grains in the diarrhoea of consumption; Beta-naphtholate (orphol), dose 5 to 15 grains; Pyrogallate (hel-colsol), a yellow, odourless, tasteless powder, insoluble in water, used as a dusting-powder in certain skin-diseases, and as an antiseptic internally in 2 to 8 grain doses.

Boral

The trade-name of aluminium boro-citro-tartrate, a proprietary antiseptic and disinfecting-powder.

Boralite

A mixture of boric acid and acetanilide.

Borogen (Boric-ethyl Ester). - Used by inhaling in the treatment of certain nasal and lung complaints.

Borosal

Said to be an aqueous solution of borax, alum, glycerin, and salicylic acid.

Borovertin

Hexamethylene-tetramine-triborate. Dose: 15 to 60 grains daily as a bladder antiseptic.

Brandol

A 1-per-cent. aqueous solution of picric acid, used in the treatment of burns.

Bromal Hydrate CBr3.COH.H20 - a colourless, crystalline compound, soluble in water, similar in action to chloral hydrate. Dose: 3 to 15 grains as a hypnotic.

Bromalbacid

A substitution-product of albumen occurring as a brownish powder. Dose, 7 1/2 grains. Allied products are Chloralbacid (dose 15 to 30 grains as an appetiser) and Iodaldacid (dose 15 grains thrice daily in syphilis, bronchial asthma, catarrhal affections, arthritis, and psoriasis).

Bromalin is the short name for hexamethylene - tetramine - brom-ethylate, a white powder used in epilepsy as a substitute for bromides, in 30 to 60 grain doses.

Soluble in water. Sometimes called Bromethylformine.

Bromamide

A colourless, crystalline powder (C6H5NBr4). Dose: 10 to 20 grains in neuralgia.

Bromelin

The active digestive ferment of the pineapple. Must be distinguished from bromalin.