Directions for the medicine chest / prepared by Lewis Heermann.

  • Lewis Heermann
Date:
1811
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Credit: Directions for the medicine chest / prepared by Lewis Heermann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V ] ho are affected with looseness, and who are not these evacuations from weakness ; but in the first stage bloody fluxes, the addition of No. 20 ought to be omitted in the in. tion. 4~. SPONGE.—In washing a wound or ulcer, milk warm water is loyed, and the sound skin round about it should at each dressing leaned, by stroking the moistened sponge in every direction to- i is the sore, so as not to tear it ; and the sore or wound is to be :ed clean by pressing a filled sponge at some distance above it. 48. LINT.—The softness of its pressure and the readiness with which it absorbs the matter from wounds and ulcers, renders it the itcoveringto dress them with. In immoderate or excessive bleeding also, from external injury, it 'urms, from the close manner in which it lies to the wound, and the blood which coagulates in it, a very good plug to stop the bleeding. 49. SHEEP-SKIN.—Designed for blistering and sticking plaster., which are spread on the rough side of it. 50. BANDAGES—Are used in the common operation of bleeding at the arm, and they are employed for the retention of dressings to wounds and ulcers. Poultices and dressings at the groin are best se- cured by passing one handkerchief circularly around the body above 'the hips, and .-mother between the thighs, the ends of which are to be fastened to the first. A handkerchief also, made triangular by doubling it, forms a tole* rable good bandage for the head, when tied on in the manner of a night-cap ; but if great pressure at a particular part of the hear! should be desirable, a handkerchief when folded like a cravat, is to be applied with one turn, and tied with a single knot nearly opposite to the part wounded ; and the ends are to be reversed upon the first turn, an tied tightly with a double knot, or a slip knot opposite to the first and single knot. A handkerchief likewise, folded in the manner just mentioned, is frequently used to support the testicles, which are to be suspended at the middle of the bandage, or equi-distant from either end ; and the ends themselves are to be passed above the hips around the body^ and tied behind. APOPLEXY. TREATMENT.—Immediate and large blood-letting, (see No. 43.) purging freely with No 23. A cool birth, with head 8c shoulders pretty well elevated. An early repetition of bleeding or purging, if not recovering, if disposed to relapse, or if the pulse continues lull and bard, and there remains palsy of some part of the body. Blisters next e
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