The workhouse and its medical officer / by Alfred Sheen.

  • Sheen, Alfred.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The workhouse and its medical officer / by Alfred Sheen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We!!eomc Library j m -Tfm:~m)RKHO USE FEMALE VENEREAL CASES. Treatment No. 1.—Wash out the parts three times a day, or oftener, with warm lotion (Condy’s Fluid, one teaspoonful to one pint of water) ; use a ITiggin- son’s syringe on all occasions. Keep the patient in bed. Treatment No. 2.—A warm hip bath twice a day, and the parts to be syringed whilst in the bath. Keep the patient in bed. Treatment No. 3.—Wash the sores twice daily with luke-warm water and a linen rag, then dry them care- fully hy simply daubing them gently with dry soft rag, then sprinkle the yellow powder over each sore, afterwards covering with a piece of lint or cotton wool. In washing the sore use but little water, a moist rag being all that is required in most cases. Keep the patient in bed. Treatment No. 4.—Take a thin layer of absorbent cotton wool two inches square, sprinkle 20 to 40 grains of the powder on it, fold it in, tie twice crosswise with thread and leave the thread 12 inches long. Dip in glycerine, introduce into vagina through speculum and withdraw the speculum. Use the syringe with warm water twice a day. On the third day remove the plug and introduce a fresh one of the same kind. The patient need not be kept in bed. (These directions are given to the Nurse, and the treatment indicated on the prescription card by the number.)
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