Substitol

The trade-name for dried fibrin from horses' blood. Used as a dusting-powder or paste for wounds.

Sucramin is the ammonia salt of saccharin.

Sulfidal

A trade-name for colloidal sulphur. See Sulphoid.

Sullacetin

A white powder, soluble in water, which is a combination of Guaiacetin (q.v.) and potassium guaiacol-sulphonate.

Dose: 8 grains for tuberculous affections.

Sulphaminol, or thio-oxy-di-phenylamine, is a greenish-yellow, antiseptic powder, insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol. Externally replaces iodoform; employed internally for cystitis, dose 5 grains, which is also the dose of the salicylate in rheumatism and cystitis.

Sulphoid

A trade-name for the colloidal form of sulphur in greyish-white powder, insoluble in alcohol, ether, and acetone, but soluble in water and normal saline solution. Contains 80 per cent. of sulphur and 20 per cent. of albumen. Lotions are made with 20 grains to the ounce.

Suprarenin

A trade-name for adrenalin, B.P.

Symphorol, also known as 'nas-rol,' is a name given to the caffeine sulphonates of the alkali and alkaline earth-metals, in particular the sodium, lithium, and strontium salts. Diuretics in kidney and heart complaints. Dose:10 to 15 grains.

Syrgol

A combination of oxidised colloidal silver and albumoses (Ag = 20 per cent.) in brownish-black scales, soluble in water and glycerin. Used as an injection {1/4 to 1/2 grain per oz.) in the treatment of gonorrhoea.

Tachiol is the trade-name for silver fluoride, which in 1-in-1,000 solution is used as an antiseptic.

Taka-diastase. - A form of diastase prepared by a symbiotic process from rice, and presented in the form of a brown powder. Dose: I to 5 grains.

Tanargentan

A tannin-silver-albumin preparation (Ag = 10 per cent.). Is soluble in water with difficulty, yielding a brownish-black solution. Dose:7 1/2 grains in diarrhoea, dysentery, and typhoid. Tanargentan pro infantibus is the same preparation, but containing only 1.5 per cent. of silver and 25 per cent. of tannin. Dose: 4 to 8 grains.

Tannalbin, or tannin albuminate, is a light-brown powder containing 50 per cent. of tannin, which is liberated in the intestines; hence is recommended as an astringent in diarrhoea, especially of children. Dose:5 to 15 grains.

Tannaphthol

A condensation-product of benzonaphthol and tannin albuminate. Used as an intestinal astringent and antiseptic. Dose: 8 to 16 grains.

Tannigen (diacetyl tannin).- A yellowish-grey, odourless, and tasteless powder, recommended as a remedy in diarrhoea. Dose:2 to 8 grains, with 1/5 grain of calomel.

Tannismut

A trade-name for bismuth bitannateBiOH(OCOC13H907)2 - a yellow powder, given in chronic dysentery in doses of 5 to 10 grains every four hours.

Tannisol

Methylene bitannin, a condensation-product of tannin and formaldehyde. A red, tasteless powder, for intestinal catarrh and as an antiseptic dusting-powder. Doses : For children, 1 to 4 grains ; for adults, 8 grains.