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is claimed that campho-phenique, pure, is equal to i to 85 of
bichloride of mercury which is six times as strong as it can be
used even on the unbroken skin, and about 25 times as strong as
is considered safe on cut surfaces. Campho-phenique is alto-
gether free from toxic or caustic properties, and is one of the
safest of germicides ; it also maintains an unchanged integrity,
and is well adapted to a large proportion of pathological dental
cases. It should never be combined with water or glycerin, but
it will mix in all proportions with alcohol, ether, chloroform, and
all fatty substances.
Employed as an antiseptic, it penetrates the tissues as rapidly as
carbolic acid, and also slightly hardens them.
Dental Uses.—As a pulp-canal dressing, campho-phenique has
given very satisfactory results as a substitute for corrosive subli-
mate, carbolic acid, creasote, oil of cloves, iodoform, etc. If
thoroughly applied to the gum or injected with a hypodermic
syringe, it acts as an efficient local anaesthetic, and causes no
constitutional disturbance. It is also employed as an obtunder
of sensitive dentine, and relieves the pain following the extrac-
tion of abscessed teeth when applied on a pledget of cotton : it
also relieves the pain attending the separation of teeth, and irrita-
tion of the dental pulp. It is also used as the menstruum for the
arsenic and morphia of pulp devitalizing preparations : also for
putrescent pulps, and as an antiphlogistic in the earlier stages of
periodontitis. It will mitigate the pain attending the induction
of suppuration, and either in full strength or diluted, give satis-
factory results when injected into fistulas. It is also useful as an
antiphlogistic in the earlier stages of sthenic pericementitis ap-
plied to the gum on small pads of linen and renewed. Also
useful in eczema, intolerable itchings, burns, sprains, etc.

DENTAL FORMULAE.
For Chapped Phuids. Campho-phenique Dentifrice,
]. W. Downey, M. D.
B. Campho-phenique . . . 4 parts
R. Campho-phenique . . aa^j Myrrh . . . 2 parts
Oil of Amygd. Amarse . TTL'U Cuttle-fish bone 4 parts
. . .
Rose cosmolene . . . ^j. M. Prepared chalk . . . 16 parts
.
SiGNA.—Apply frequently. Lake or rose pink . . . I part.