FORMALINUM
Aqueous Solution (35 per cent) of Formaldehyde Gas
(FORMALIN)
Is a effective disinfectant and deodorant; a strong poison. Prevents increase and kills nearly any pathogenic micro-organism. It looks to have the bizarre property of ingesting into malignant tumors, leaving the surrounding healthful tissue uncharred and unchanged. A plug of cotton wool soaked in a 20 per cent answer of Formaldehyde, and utilized for a few hours, will produce a necrotic slough, which ought to be scraped away earlier than the subsequent application, in any other case it hardens.
Formalin in warm water as vapor most precious therapeutic agent in pertussis, phthisis, in catarrhal affections of higher air-passages.
Mind.–Forgetfulness. Anxiety. Unconscious.
Head.–Coryza; eyes water; vertigo.
Mouth.–Ptyalism, thick saliva; loss of taste.
Stomach.–Food feels as if it had been a ball in stomach. Burning in mouth and stomach.
Abdomen.–Intense urging to stool, watery stools.
Urinary.–Anuria; albuminous urine.
Respiratory.–Dyspnoea. Laryngismus stridulus. Whooping-cough.
Fever.–Chills in forenoon, accompanied with the aid of lengthy fever. Bones agony at some stage in entire paroxysm. During fever forgets the place he was.
Skin.–Puckers skin like leather; wrinkles; scales off. Eczema in regional of wound. Damp sweat most marked on proper top extremity.
Relationship.–Antidote: Ammonia water. Compare: Ammonium formaldehyde, regarded commercially as Cystogen (Dose, 5 to seven grains two to 4 instances daily, dissolved in warm water, after meals. Prevents the decomposition of urine in the bladder, kidneys, and ureters. Turbid urine rendered clear and non-irritating; phosphatic deposits dissolved, and boom of pyogenic micro organism arrested). Also, Urotropin (A diuretic and solvent of uric acid concretions; relieves cystitis related with putrefaction. Three to 5 grains nicely diluted. When administered forever seems in the cerebro-spinal fluid and consequently cautioned in threatened meningeal infection).
Dose.–As vapor in warm water in respiratory affections; 1 per cent spray, in any other case 3x potency.
