Medical advice to seamen : with directions for a medicine chest.

  • Lee, Samuel H. P. (Samuel Holden Parsons), 1772-1863
Date:
MDCCXCV [1795]
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Credit: Medical advice to seamen : with directions for a medicine chest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    [ » ] Colics are cured by taking clyfters, purging powders,. No. 3. fomenting the belly with flannels wrung out of boiling water, and applied warm to the belly. Jaundice is cured by purging with No. 3. taking a pill of Caftile foap two or three times a day j exerciie; good diet, bitters, No. n. bark, No. 4. brandy, wine, &c. Sudden maladies, as convulfion fits, fupprefiion of the urine, &c. often occur at fea ; the former requires thirty or forty drops of No. 5. every hour till relief; the latter, fomenting the belly and bladder, as in colic, drinking flaxfeed tea, crem. Tartar water, &c. &c. Wounds ; fuch as cuts and bruifes, are to be treated with fome confiderable care : If an important part is cut deep, and large blood veffels are feparated, the bleeding muft be flopped by comprefling the edges of the wound together, filling it with lkit, and if it bleeds much, cover it with lint and flour, and comprefs it clofe, letting the lint and flour remain on till the parts are united : It is beft to few up an incited wound* when it can be done. VENEREAL DISEASE. A simple gonorrhoea or running, without any taint in the blood, may be cured by taking a powder, No. 3. every other morning, till the patient has taken three ; by injecting fweet oil into the yard two or three times a day; this is highly recommended. When the virus of the difeafe has entered the blood, and
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