Yellowish-green powd.—Sol. in alkalies; slightly in water.—Intestinal Antiseptic, Antispasmodic, Sedative.—Uses: Cholera infantum, dysentery, whooping-cough, dysmenorrhea, etc.—Dose: 1/120 grn. every 1/2 hour until relieved, then every hour.—Max. D.: 1 grn. single and daily.
Copper Sulphate Merck.—U.S.P.—Pure, Cryst.
Dose: Nervine and alterative, 1/6—1/3 grn.; emetic, 2—5 grn.
Cornutine Citrate Merck.
Brown, very hygroscopic scales or mass.—Sol. in water (incompletely).—Uses: Hemorrhage from genito-urinary organs, paralytic spermatorrhea, etc.—Dose: Hemostatic, 1/12—1/6 grn.; spermatorrhea, 1/20—1/10 grn. daily.
Cotarnine Hydrochlorate,—see Stypticin.
Cotton-Root Bark—U.S.P.
Emmenagogue, Oxytocic.—Preparation: F.E. (D., 30—60 min.).
Creolin.
Saponified Dephenolated Coal-tar Creosote, Pearson.—Dark syrupy liq.; tar odor.—Sol. in alcohol, ether, chloroform; milky emulsion with water; sol. in water to 21/2%.—Disinfectant, Deodorizer, Styptic, Anticholeraic, etc.—Uses: Non-poisonous substitute for carbolic acid, etc. Removes odor of iodoform. Intern., dysentery, diarrhea, meteorism, gastric catarrh, worms, thrush, diphtheria, etc.; enema 1/2% solut. in dysenteric troubles; extern., 1/2 to 2% solut. in surgical operations, 1/10—1/2% injection for gonorrhea, 2—5% ointment in scabies and pediculi, erysipelas, cystitis, burns, ulcers, etc.—Dose: 1—5 ♏ 3 t. daily, in pills. In cholera 16 ♏ every 1/2—1 hour for 5 doses, then at longer intervals.—Caution: Aqueous solut. should be freshly made when wanted.