Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, Formulae for the use of surgeons : including, among a variety of remedies adopted in the private practice of the most eminent of the profession, all the principal formulae of the different hospitals.

  • Houlston, William, 1755-1815
Date:
1794
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    late Mr. Elfc of St. Thomas's Hofpita] in the radical cure of the hydrocele. The mode of ufing it, is by applying to the lower and an- terior part of the tumour, a common adhcfive plafter, fpread on leather, and confifling of feveral folds or thickneffes, through which is made a circular hole or well for the reception of the palte. This is buffered to lie on for about eight hours, at the end of which time, without having given the patient much pain, it will be found to have penetrated down to the tunica vaginalis, and the remaining treat- ment confiftsonly in applying poultices till the efehar Houghs, the water is evacuated, and the cure completed. Jt may not be improper however to add, that the application of kali purum anfwers equally well in the cure of the hydrocele, and the pain it occafions is inconft- derable. CERATUM CALOMELANOS. R Calomelanos drach. j. Cerati lapidis calaminaris unc. fs. mi fee. This is a good occafional application to ul- cers, and is more particularly ferviceablc in thofe of a venereal kind when previoufly cleanfcd by cauftic or irritating remedies.