Medical directions for the use of navigators and settlers in hot climates / by Thos. M. Winterbottom.
- Thomas Masterman Winterbottom
- Date:
- 1803
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medical directions for the use of navigators and settlers in hot climates / by Thos. M. Winterbottom. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![2. Simple Ointments may be made by melting together as much yellow wax and oil as will become fuffieiently IHff for an ointment. They are ufeflil for FiCarly the fame purpofos as the laft article. 3. Red Preaphale is a very beneficial application to foul ulcers. One dram of it mixed with an ounce of either of the lail mentioned ointments, forms one of the beft common drellings for them. When the fore is covered with a foul, dead fkln or flough, a little pre- cipitate fprinkled over it renders it clean, and makes it look red and healthy. By the fame means the new flefli, or as it is called, the proud ilefli, is prevented froni rifing above the pYoper level. 4. Blue Vitriol.'—'Two drams of this diflblved in an ounce of water, may be applied by means of a little lint, to the edges of ulcers when there is proud flefh. Or a piece of lint the fize of the fore may be dipped in the folutlon and laid over its furfiice : if the new flefti (HU continues too high, it may be repeated at the next drefling, or as occafioa may rei^uire. 5. Bllfcer Plafur.—This mud be fpread upon thin leather, but not with a hot knife, which would dedroy the power of the flies. 6. Powdet^ed Spanijh Jlles.—In order to render the , efTed: of a blifter flronger, and more certain, feme of the powdered flies may be^fprlnkied over its furfjice and well preffed in with the finger. Bliders rec^uire in general twelve hours to produce their effedl. ']. Extrad of Lead.—Two or three fpoonfuls of this mixed with a quart of water.* two table-fpoonfuls of • Or hftlf v/atcr and half vinegar. fpirit](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21084750_0150.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
