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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![riX’EKS 11;] I'LCKKS I)El‘KNI)IX(r ENLARGED VeINS. This variety is always found on tlie legs. The skin near the ulcer is of a |)ii|dii:h-brown, and beneath it are seen the swollen knott}^veins. The edges of the ulcer are hard and thick, the surface smooth and dead-looking, and there is but little discharge. These ulcers may open one ot the enlarged veins and cause serious bleeding. If this occur, let your patient lie down, with his leg raised, and while he is in this position make steady pressure on the bleeding spot, and keep up the leg and the pressure until the blood ceases to flow. Dress the ulcer with (Joulard lotion, and bandage the affected limb as smoothly and evenly as possible. Every person with enlarged veins should wear an elastic bandage. A aseline or Salvo Eetrolia is also a useful application for ulcers. It must be spread on lint. Horic-acid ointment is another excellent application for ulcers that show no tendency to heal. Varicose or enlarged veins, if treated at the com- Tnencement, may often be cured by AVitch Hazel. Give the AVitch Hazel mixture (Eecipe No. 10) three times a day, and lay a piece of lint dipjied in the lotion (Ib^cipe ISo. 1 1) along the courst^ of tlie vein, and keep it wet with it.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28992349_0165.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
