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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![without mercury, will often be followed by secondary symptoms. To avoid this, if possible, it will be advisable to i^ive 2 grains of (^^aloniel with half an Opium ])ill, night and morning for some weeks. Jf this should cause soreness of the gums, discontinue its use for a time, and give the man a dose of ]^psom salts, and wash out the mouth with the Alum gargle (Recipe No. 12). Wlien the soreness has gone, the Calomel and Opium may be given again once a day. A medical man should be seen at the lirst opportunity. Chancres are often followed by sore-throat, spots on the skin, pains in, and swellings on, the bones, and ulcers, '^fhese are called secondary symptoms, and show that the disease has become constitu- tional. CJive all such cases d grains of Iodide of Potassium in a little water three times a day for several weeks, let them wash out their throats with the irarirle (Recipe No. P2), and dress the ulcers carefully with Vaseline. (Jive them also a double allowance of lime-juice daily, to prevent tke grent tendenctj to rciirvij that exUte in all these patients. (o) Rtbu.—A swelling in the groin, which becomes red, softens, and, if left to itself, bursts, and discharges matter by a small hole. 'I'reatinent.—Hot linseed-meal i)Oultices and rest; when the skin becomes very thin, the bubo may be opened. This should be dune by lancing the swelling](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28992349_0157.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
