Surgical appliances and minor operative surgery / by Thomas Annandale.

Date:
[1866]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Surgical appliances and minor operative surgery / by Thomas Annandale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    allay excited action in a part, and to soothe and relieve pain or uneasiness. The best lotions for this purpose are solutions containing sugar of lead with or -without the addition of opium.:— Lotio Plumbi diacet., or Goulard's Lotion. Ii Liq. plurabi diacet at . m ivss. Aquae distillatae . 3L Ft. It. Pluinbi lotio et Opii. R Pulv. opii . . gr. iss. Plumbi acet. . . gr. iij. Aquae bullientis . . §i. Ft. It. This latter lotion may be applied warm, or may be allowed to cool first. In applying this lotion to broken surfaces, care must be exercised, as the opium may be absorbed, and act upon the general system. A good cooling and evaporating lotion is the fol- lowing :— ]& Ammonia muriatis . Gii. Acid acet. dil. . . £ss. Spts. vini rect. . . §ss. Aquae . . . gviii. There is a lotion which is principally used as an application to venereal sores or chancres, and to cer- tain ulcers. This lotion is called Black Wash, or Lotio Nigrum. R Calomelanos, . . gr. fiii. Aquae calcis, . • o^- Ft. It. Solutions of nitrate of silver (from one to ten grains to one ounce of distilled water) are employed as lotions or applications to sores, and also to mucous or cutaneous surfaces, to stimulate them or relieve exces-
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