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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    af a highly bilious fever, it demands the greatest attention; and a blis- ter to the stomach with the saline mixture, [see No. 10.] internally, are perhaps best calculated to remove it. SORE MOUTH AND TONGUE, Depends generally upon a disordered state of the stomach, and af- ter exhibiting a dose of No. 24 and 25, or of No. 22, a mouth-water of No. 41, &c. relieves it; but sometimes the internal use of No. 3 is requisite to cure it entirely. SORE THROAT. If attended with much fever, bleed ; give a dose of No. 23, and on the next or on the third day a dose of No. 37 and No. 6; and use on those days that none of the above medicines are given, No. Sin quan- tity of 30 or 40 drops, 8tc. Externally No. 19 or a blister is of the greatest service; and a gargle made according to the directions of No. 41 is to be frequently used. ULCERS. Whilst attended with considerable redness of the surrounding skin, and whilst their surface has a dirty grey or dark appearance, poultice them and give a dose of No. 23 ; and afterwards dress them with No. 30 and No. 31. Occasionally No. 33 succeeds best in old standing ul- cers ; and when they continue at a stand without a disposition to hesAy their edges are occasionally to be touched with No. 11. No. 29 also is a very appropriate dressing; and sometimes in scorbutic habits, vine- gar poultices are of use. VENEREAL DISEASE. CLAP.—During the height of the disease from the commencement of iU dip rags into lead water, wrap them around the penis, and re- new them frequently. Take also one tablespoonful of No. 37 and two teaspoonsful of No. 9, dissolve them in a black-bottle^ful of water, and drink one fourth of it erery night and morning to keep the bowds open. Scalding and pain is abated by the use of No. 9, No. 38, and No. 42 ; and if excessive and not relieved, take three times a day as much of No. iO as will lay on a 9d. (a bit) in half a pint of water or m common drink. Chordee is to be treated with No. 33, rubbed ii> underneath the penis ; or No. 20 may be added to the preparation of No. 12. If the violence of the symptoms still progresses, use warm fomentations to the genitals and the lower part of the belly; and as soon as they abate, and not before, have recourse to No 28 and No. 45,- and should the discharge continue in the form of a gleet withou pain, use No. 17, and continue with No. 28, prepared with rather lesa water than is directed. SWELLED TESTICLE—AX. about the time that the symptoms cf clap lessen, one of the testicles is apt to become painful and swell- ed : it ought therefore to be a golden rule in clap to suspend them
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