Creolin And Cyllin

Proprietary antiseptic solutions, used in surgery, and administered internally in doses of 2 to 5 minims, in capsules.

Creosoform

A solid condensation-product of creosote and formic aldehyde, used as a disinfectant.

Creosotal (Carbonate of Creosote) is an amber-coloured, viscid fluid containing 92 per cent. of creosote, and used in the treatment of tuberculosis. Insoluble in water, glycerin, and alcohol, but soluble in oils, and best given along with cod-liver oil, or in capsules. Dose:20 minims, gradually increased to four times as much, three times a day. For catarrh the dose is 5 to 15 minims.

Crurin is the name given to quinoline bismuth sulphocyanide, a yellowish-red powder used in place of iodoform.

Cuprol

A combination of nuclein with copper, of which it contains 6 per cent. Readily soluble in water, and used in 5-percent. solution for granular ophthalmia.

Cusol

The trade-name for copper citrate made soluble by addition of sodium chloride and boro-citrate. Powder, ointment, and solutions are used in ophthalmic practice.

Cycloform

Para-amido-ben-zoic isobutyl ester. A yellowish, crystalline powder slightly soluble in water, readily soluble in alcohol and in ether. Used as a local anaesthetic in the form of a 5 or 10 per cent. ointment, or as a dusting-powder.

Deba

A trade-marked name for barbitone, B.P.

Decilan

A potassium-oleate (soft soap) solution containing formaldehyde as trioxymethylene. A yellow, alkaline, antiseptic and disinfectant liquid which mixes clear with water, alcohol, and glycerin.

Dedosal

A physiologically standardised tablet of digitalis active principles, each representing 1 1/2 grain of the leaf.

Dermatol (Subgallate of Bismuth).- A heavy, pale-yellow, and odourless powder, employed as an iodoform-substitute. May be used alone as a dusting-powder, but preferably diluted {e.g.,dermatol 3j., starch 3j., talc 3vij.). The ointment may be made with lanoline or vaseline (3j. or 3ij. to ).

Dermogen is the trade-name of zinc peroxide (55 per cent.). Used as a dusting-powder for wounds.

Desalgin

Colloidal chloroform, employed in hepatic and abdominal colic in doses of 4 to 15 grains.

Dextroform

A combination of formaldehyde and glycerin, occurring as a white powder, soluble in water. Used in venereal complaints.

Diabetin is levulose, and is given to diabetics in place of sugar.

Dial-ciba. - Di-allyl barbituric acid. A hypnotic issued in 0.1-gramme tablets.

Dianol

The trade-name of three glycerin lactic esters employed in nose and throat practice: Dianol I. = 54.8 per cent. lactic acid, Dianol II. = 76.3 per cent., and Dianol III. = 877 per cent.

Diaphanite

A mixture of cocoa, sugar of milk, salep, and finely powdered lodestone, used in x-ray work instead of bismuth sub-nitrate. For an examination of the stomach 4 to 6 oz. is mixed with 8 oz. of water and swallowed.

Diaphtherin, or oxychinaseptol. Occurs as a crystalline powder, and is used in 1/2 to 2 per cent, water solutions as an antiseptic. Dose in rheumatic fever: 1/8 to 1/4 grain for children, and 7 1/2 to 15 grains for adults.