A sketch of a popular and a novel treatment for diarrhoea, dysentery, and English and Asiatic cholera : with illustrative cases of the diseases / by Edmund Skiers.

Date:
1849
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Credit: A sketch of a popular and a novel treatment for diarrhoea, dysentery, and English and Asiatic cholera : with illustrative cases of the diseases / by Edmund Skiers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    skins, a mackintosh, blankets, &c., so as to confine tlie heat. The drink to be cold water, and to have ice if pos- sible, and to watch the reactions under the effects of the plasters—the stimulant being placed on the naked skin. If head ache, apply cold water, or one part of vinegar to five of water, or a spoonful of salt to a pint of cold water, or blister behind the ears. If pain of throat, and g]:eat dryness and viscosity of clammy mucus, or sore-throat, apply round the neck a pad or poultice in a cloth, made of well-boiled huseed meal, bran, or chaff, &c. If great oppression, sense of suffocation, is felt at the chest, apply twenty or more leeches, and a simple poultice—allowing the bites to bleed, or else to fonu a blister instanter by the application for a moment of a double of linen, of the size of the hand, steeped into boiling water, the water being compressed pre- viously out—fearing it would spread; or better far to use an iron steeped in boiling water. If violent spasms and cramps in the arms, raise, suddenly, a similar blister between the shoulders, covering it with a soft poultice of the above, or of the boiled carrot, turnip, leeks, greens, marsh-mallow,— indeed the water they are boiled in will form the blister,—preparing, in anticipation, the means for the poultice; if objected to, apply a mustard plaster. If violent cramps and spasms of the limbs, the thighs, or legs, apply the instanter blister to the loins, either side, or both sides, and poultice after, or apply a long and large mustard plaster along the spine.