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The catalogue of drugs, or medicine chest companion. Specifying their properties, the doses to ... / by Reece and Co.

  • Reece and Co.
Date:
1846
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Credit: The catalogue of drugs, or medicine chest companion. Specifying their properties, the doses to ... / by Reece and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    _ i ecres TREATMENT OF ScALps AND Burns.— We have re- ceived the following communication from Dr. Ev Skiers, been published of the late dreadful accident on board the Great Eastern to recommend through your journal an excellent mode of treatment for extensive bodily scalds or burns. The first thing to be done is to plunge the part into a bath of tepid or cold water, not whitened only, but thickened to a creamy consistency with com- mon chalk, or fuller’s earth (or till chalk can be got, wheaten flour, charcoal, or coal dust). The extensively scalded or burnt person should be immersed as quickly as possible into water with the clothes on, and when well soaked through, the clothes should be taken or cut off whilst in the bath, and the chalk in great abundance added ; then renew the tepid or cold water to keep up the temperature to the feeling of comfort to the unfortu- nate, to perform which allow the chalk of the bath to sink, and take out the clear water, adding its equivalent of fresh water; and the bath should be thus prolonged for hours, and accordingly to even one, two, three, or more days, living in fact in the chalk bath, only rising occasionally, and when so to have the body thickly pow- dered with the common chalk in powder ready prepared immediately and progressively, thus avoiding the irrita- tation in every sense of undressing and the peeling off of the skin with the clothes, and exposing the skin to the contact of the air, which, warm or cold, is stimulating, irritating, drying, andinflaming. If the head and neck are burnt or scalded, a chalk local dressing, asa cold cataplasm of chalk and water, should be applied, to be renewed as it gets too warm and dry. If only the hands cures ; it softens, imbibes with fluid to swell the skin, to avoid those horrid seams, scars, and contractions as and deepening of inflammation, the formation of exten- sive and exhausting sores. After the primary chalk bath, chalk dressings, as chalk cerate, chalk ointments, should be employed, with the use of powdered quick lime pure, or reduced with chalk in powder, to touch and keep down granulations of proud flesh, as the best and most tolerant of means as caustic, especially for children.” —Galignant. Rmae rat
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