The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach ; revised and enlarged by William Spooner.
- Leach, Harry.
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach ; revised and enlarged by William Spooner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![swells, cannot be drawn back, and external cla]), as well as ordinary clap, appears. Treatment.— Keep the ])atient on low diet, and let him drink freely of barley-water, toast and water, or linseed tea. Give a purging pill, followed by a dose of Epsom salts, which may be re})eated every other morning. When the symptoms hrst appear, if there is only a little itching with a slight dis- charge and no scalding, an injection of i drachm of Crimson fluid, 1 drachm of Laudanum, and ^ pint of water, may be used frequently, and this may cut it short. Where, however, there is much inflammation and scalding, leave oft’ the injection and give the Saline mixture (Recipe No. 1) with 15 grains of Rromide of Ammonium added to each dose, three times a day. Let the yard be soaked frequently in hot water, and su])port it with a handkerchief or a \ triangular bandage fastened to the waist. When the inflammation is subdued and the scalding has ceased, the injection of Sulphate of Zinc (Recipe No. 18) may be used night and morning, and should the discharge still continue, the Clap mixture (Recipe No. 5) should be given three times a day. If, after some weeks, a thin watery discharge, called a gleet, is left, use an injection of 1 2 grains of Sulphate of Zinc to b oz. of water twice a day, and give, instead of the Cla}) mixture, 2U drops of Tincture of Steel in a little water three times a day. lion' to use the Injection—A squirt is to be filled](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28992349_0154.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
