White cryst. powd.—Sol. in water.—Uses: Tubercular affections, scrofula, and wasting diseases generally.—Dose: 1/32—1/12 grn.
Strychnine Nitrate Merck.
Groups of silky needles.—Sol. in 50 parts water, 60 parts alcohol.—Uses, Doses, Etc.: About as the Alkaloid. Most frequently used in dipsomania.
Strychnine Sulphate Merck.—U.S.P.
Sol. in 50 parts water, 109 parts alcohol. Uses, Doses, Etc., same as of the Alkaloid.
Stypticin.
Cotarnine Hydrochlorate, Merck.—Yellow cryst.—Sol. in water.—Hemostatic, Uterine Sedative.—Uses: Uterine hemorrhage, dysmenorrhea, fibroids, subinvolution, climacteric disorders, etc.—Dose: 2—5 grn. 4 t. daily, in pearls.—Injection (urgent cases): 2—3 grn., in 10% solut.
Sulfonal.
Diethylsulphone-dimethyl-methane.—Colorl., tastel, cryst.—Sol. 500 parts in water; 135 ether; 110 dil. alcohol.—Hypnotic, Sedative.—Dose: 15—45 grn., in powd.
Sulphur Merck.—Precipitated.