Coca and Cocaine

by William Martindale

As pure Cocaine (the alkaloid) is soluble in fats and oils, and its salts are not, it should always be used when it has to be combined with fatty or oily substances, for use externally, e.g.:—

Bougies of Cocaine. ½ grain each or more, with cacao-butter.

Are useful in painful affections of the urethra.

Ceratum Cocainæ. 1 in 30 of petroleum cerate.

Is useful in burns, scalds, urticaria, pruritus, &c.

Collodium Cocainæ. 2 per cent. in flexible collodion.

Allays the itching, and is a cure for inflamed chilblains.

Emplastrum Cocainæ. 1 dissolved in 50 of lead plaster heated in a water bath.

Useful for intercostal neuralgia, sciatica, tender corns, bruises, &c.

Oleatum Cocainæ.