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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!['rrcatmr/nf.—Little can be done at sea in the way of treatment. If tha patient be a lad, and he wets his bed-clothes at night, let him })e roused at the end of every watch and mad» to pass water. In older patients, no satisfactory treatment can be adopted by a non-professional man, except by giving a dose of the Soothing mixture (Recipe No. 4) now and then at bedtime. HOILS. Hoils.—These are very common among sailors, and are generally caused by constant irritation of skin from salt water—hence the term ‘ salt-water Ixhls.’ 'rreatment.—When the boil is beginning to form, rub it with Caustic, and, if very painful, put over it lint dipped in a weak inixture of rum and water. Linseed-meal poultices should afterwards be used, and in time the boil will soften, the core come out, and the hole close. You will help the healing by using the Roric-acid ointment. If the patient be of full habit, give him a Black draught twice a week. Whitlow.—Inflammation of the finirers with great ])ain and swelling. The pain is deep and throbbing, and the skin red, swollen, and shiny. It is most frequently caused by running a splinter of wood under the nail or into the linger.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28992349_0163.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
