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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...C. H. Oakman, D.D.S., Detroit, Mich., makes use of a 25% solution and predicts that if once used it will never be superseded by any other remedy. (See Dentalone.) COCAINE. The alkaloid of Erythroxylum Coca, employed in dentistry and medicine usually in the form of the hydrochlorate. Colorless acicular crystals or a crystalline powder. Readily soluble in water, less so in alcohol. Local anesthetic; obtundent; anodyne. Cocaine is employed hypodermatically for extraction of teeth and stumps. Not more than % grain should ever be used at one sitting. It is topically applied wherever pain is present, in acute periodontitis, odontalgia, sensitive dentine, etc., and for anesthetizing pulp, a 6% to 10% solution being used for this purpose. A solution of 4% of Cocaine, applied in the form of a spray to the palate and fauces, is sometimes useful in checking retching during the taking of an Impression. Regarding the action of Cocaine it is to be noted that an interval of from five to ten minutes is required before the full anesthetic effect is produced, and that the anesthesia passes off in half an hour. (Concerning its physiological action, and comparison with chloretone, see Chloretone.) For dental uses Cocaine may be obtained in the form of crystals of the hydrochlorate. The hypodermatic tablets of Cocaine hydrochlorate, 1-10 gr., 1-8 gr., 1-6 gr., 1-4 gr., and 1-2 gr.; tablet triturates of Cocaine hydrochlorate, 1-100 gr., 1-50 gr., 1-20 gr., 1-16 gr., 1-10 gr., 1-8 gr., 1-5 gr., and 1-4 gr., and of Cocaine hydrobromate, 1-16 gr. and 1-8 gr., are suitable for the preparation of solutions. For the ready preparation of Cocaine solutions of definite strengths, are supplied lj-gr., 2J4gr. and 8-gr. tablets of Cocaine hydrochlorate. The question of making a...