CATARRHAL DISORDERS.—We find it beneficial, as a rule, in subacute or chronic catarrhal troubles: in chronic gastrointestinal catarrh, in catarrh of the duodenum and gall-ducts with sub acute jaundice, in catarrh of the uterus and vagina with lencorrhcea, in catarrh of the bladder and urethra, chronic nasal catarrh, etc.
Not only does hydrastis possess de cided tonic action, but it is also useful in all chronic, subacute, or catarrhal in flammations of those organs lined with mucous membrane. W. C. Quincy (Chicago Med. Times, Nov., '91).
Inhalations of a solution of the ex tract 1 part, in salt-water (3 parts), used with decided satisfaction in simple and tubercular bronchitis. Judson Palmer (Med. Age, No. 3, '91).
Good results obtained from use of fluid extract of hydrastis, in doses of 20 or 30 drops four times a day, in tuberculous subjects. The drug is superior to all others for phthisieal cough. Sanger (Re vile Inter. de Med.; Revue _Sled., Jan. 5, 'OS).
The conditions resulting from, or due to, the above are relieved by hydrastis: atonic dyspepsia, constipation due to de ficient secretion, and spermatorrhiea. MALARIA.—Hydrastis is an excellent remedy in the treatment of intermittent and in chronic malarial poisoning, when cinchona preparations cannot be ob tained.
ILEMORRHAGE.—In the Imnorrhage of puberty and the menopause in Inemor rhage associated with lesions of the pendages, and in the uterine congestion of dysmenorrhoea, hydrastine hydro chlorate, in doses of 1 V., grains per diem (in divided closes), will be found effi cient. The fluid extract, in daily doses of 100 to 150 drops, given in divided doses, will arrest the haemorrhages occur ring during pregnancy and the puer perium.
Administered to 97 cases of uterine hwmorrhage from various causes, with complete or partial success in 47 of them. Recommended for preventing flooding of any kind. Hach (Proceedings Riga So ciety Med. Practitioners, 'S7).
Drug found useless in the humoptysis of phthisis. Krannhals (Proceedings Riga Society Med. Practitioners, 'S7).
Fluid extract of hydrastis, 20 to 30 drops, repeated several times daily, recommended in cases of lnemoptysis.
Koeniger (Then. Monats., No. 1], 'SS).
Twenty minims of the fluid extract four times daily used for menorrhagia in a case of uterine fibroids. The bleeding was completely arrested, and in three months' time the patient menstruated regularly. J. M. Fuchs (Med. Press and Circular, Jan. 25, 'SS).
The drug is of especial value in haem orrhages of the menopause, when there is no organic change in uterine tissues.
In cases of myoma the results were unsatisfactory. The tincture of hydras tine produced good effects in cases of atonic dyspepsia and general debility, commonly met with in women who have suffered from menorrhagia. Local use as important as internal administration; it has given excellent results in chronic endometritis, cervical erosions, and con gestive states of the uterine cervix. It may be applied as a cervical dressing on the vaginal tampon, or added to the water used for the hot douche. H. Jones (Med. Press and Circular, June 25, 'DO).
In obstetrical cases hydrastis is dan gerous neither to the mother nor the child. It exercises a curative and prophylactic hemostatic action on the uterus during pregnancy and at the time of aceouchement. The fluid extract rec ommended in the hemorrhages during pregnancy and during the puerperal period, in amounts of from 100 to 150 drops per diem, divided into five doses; as an immediate curative agent in hrem orrhage during accouchement, given to the extent of from 150 to 200 drops, in three or four divided doses; at the be ginning of labor-pains in cases of pla centa pmvia; during dilatation, and in other cases; and. finally, as prophylac tic measure against the frequent uterine haemorrhages occurring at delivery or post-partum in cases of hydramnion, uterine inertia, and excessive develop ment of the Reins and its membranes, or as the result of a profound anaemia of the patient or of the predisposition to flooding persisting from previous labors. Bossi (Nouvelles Arch. d'Obstet. et de Gynee., '91).