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WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.

Physician's Materia Medica on Terpin Hydrate

TERPIN HYDRATE
   Derivative from OIL OF TURPENTINE. A crystalline substance. soluble in alcohol but not in water, a fact to remember in prescribing. Used chiefly as a stimulant expectorant and said to be very eflicacious in hay fever. Dose, 0.06 to 0.30 Grm. (1 to 5 grs.) in hay fever; as adiuretic as much as 1 Grm. (15 grs.), three times a day.1


WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.

Physician's Therapeutics Memoranda on Terpin Hydrate

BRONCHITIS
   In the incipient stage, quinine with a little Dover powder and a laxative may ward off the... / ...loride, ammonium carbonate, lobelia, senega, etc., combining these with henbane, heroine or codeine to allay excessive cough. As case progresses, use terpin hydrate or terebene, oil oi sandalwood, eucalyptol and similar remedies. Eucalyptol in spray or by inhalation is very eflicient. When there is ...1

COUCH
   For a dry cough, ipecac and ammonium chloride are the best remedies; for spasmodic cough, chloroform, bromoform, hydrocyanic acid; for irritative cough, henbane, heroine, codeine, morphine; for chronic cough, terpin hydrate, terebene, benzoic acid.1


References

1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.