On the management of the nipples / by Samuel Sloan.

  • Sloan, Samuel, 1843-1920.
Date:
1878
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Credit: On the management of the nipples / by Samuel Sloan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sometimes the consequence of excoriation, first use a soft i bread-and-milk poultice and then lead and opium lotion. After the inflammation is so much subdued that nursing can be borne, apply a lotion of the glycerine of tannic acid. Dr. Tilbury Fox says :—First, great cleanliness and care tto remove all the milk after each time the child comes from ithe breast, and if the nipples are tender and excoriated use I the following :—Liq, plumb., prepared calamine, glycerine, ,and lard, with lead nipple-shields to exclude the air and 1 protect the parts. Mr, Birkett's treatment may be summed up in frequent : ablutions with warm water, avoiding irritating lotions and I ointments, and using glycerine, almond oil, and dry ] powders. M. Cazeaux writes :— Unfortunately the curative means 1 hitherto employed leave much to be desired. They are, 1 however, numerous, and I know of no disease against which :so many ointments, solutions, &c., have been recommended ; I but here, as is always the case in therapeutics, abundance I means dearth ; there is much less searching when an infal- llible remedy is at hand. And then he proceeds to enumerate Ithe means adopted by different writers. For example :— 'Trousseau advises, for excoriations or fissures, to try, first, notions of warm water, followed by a weak solution of nitrate (of silver ; if not sufficient, solution of sulphate of copper or : zinc ; and finally, if persistent, white precipitate (precipitated (calomel) ointment. M. Dubois tried without advantage oil of (cocoa, nitrate of silver, collodion, and creosote. The first acts, like other fats, by protecting from the air ; the collodion i became detached ; creosote was painful, and the smell repug- I nant to the child. Cazeaux believes that cauterisation may give rise to {phlegmonous inflammation of the breast; and that, if nurs- iing be resumed too soon, the ulcers are torn up again. 'Mr. Startin, a London physician, extols glycerine ; it absorbs : moisture from the air. The following are his formulae for . excoriations and fissures :—Gum tragacanth pure, 5ij to 5iv ; : lime-water, ^iv ; rose-water, 5U 5 purified glycerine, 5j- 'M. A soft jelly. To be used as an ointment or embrocation.
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