Hemol.
Hemoglobin Reduced by Zinc, Merck.—Dark-brown powd. containing easily assimilable iron, with slight traces of zinc oxide.—Hematinic, Antichlorotic—Uses: Anemia and chlorosis, neurasthenia, etc.—Dose: 2—8 grn., before meals, in powd. with sugar, or in wafers.
Hexamethylene-tetramine,—see Formin.
Hexamethylene-tetramine Salicylate,—see Saliformin.
Holocaine.
Wh. needles—Sol. in 40 parts water; undecomposed on boiling.—Local Anesthetic, like cocaine.—Uses: Chiefly in eye diseases in 1% solut.
Homatropine Hydrobromate Merck.
Small white cryst.—Sol. in 10 parts water, 133 parts alcohol.—Uses: Mydriatic in ophthalmic surgery; in night-sweats of phthisis, and as Sedative. Mydriatic effect commences in 1/4 to 1/2 hour, reaches maximum in 1 hour, and disappears in 6 hours. Accommodation paresis ceases earlier. Dose: 1/120—1/60 grn.—Extern., to the eye, in 1% solut.
Honey—U.S.P.
Preparations: Clarified Honey; Honey of Rose; Confect. Rose—all vehicles.