Volume 1

Napheys' Modern therapeutics, medical and surgical : including the diseases of women and children a compendium of recent formulae and therapeutical directions from the practice of eminent contemporary physicians, American and foreign / [edited by Allen J. Smith and J. Aubrey Davis].

  • Napheys, George H. (George Henry), 1842-1876
Date:
1892-1893
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Credit: Napheys' Modern therapeutics, medical and surgical : including the diseases of women and children a compendium of recent formulae and therapeutical directions from the practice of eminent contemporary physicians, American and foreign / [edited by Allen J. Smith and J. Aubrey Davis]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    anaemia and debility of constitution, the syrup of the iodide of iron has produced good results. This maybe given in combination with the compound syrup of sarsaparilla, in the dose of from gtt. ij to gtt. v of the former, diffused in from a quarter to a half teaspoonful of the latter, three times a day, for children of one or two years of age. Where the tongue is heavily coated and the bowels constipated, with whitish or clay-colored stools, minute doses of blue pill or calomel, in combination with bicarbonate of soda, may be given from time to time with manifest advantage. Local Treatment.—All possible sources of local irritation must be removed. Whenever crusts .or scales cover the affected surfaces they should be removed very gently by first softening or loosening them by oily applications or poultices, and then by using tepid water with or without soap. In the acute stage great relief may often be obtained by the use of compresses repeatedly wet with water, either cool or hot, or with some emollient decoction, as of marshmallow, poppy heads, bran or flaxseed, sassafras pith or slip- pery elm bark. Weak lotions, as of one drachm of bicarbonate of soda, or of half a drachm of borax with a little morphia to a pint of water, or of diluted lead-water or carbolic acid, ]/2 to I drachm to a pint of water, may be found more soothing in other cases. The surface maybe powdered from time to time with finely-powdered lycopodium, carbonate of zinc, or with the followim 1490. R. Pulv. amyli, 5vj Pulv. zinci oxidi, 5SS Pulv. campohrse, gr. xv_ When ointments are preferred, we may use: I49I- R- Fulv. camphone, £)j Pulv. zinci oxidi, 1 gjj Glycerinse, f, 3 ss Adipis benzoat., 3 vi. M. et. ft. ung. When the patches of eruption are small, our authors have success- fully used ointment containing mercury; using one part of ung. hydrarg. nitratis to three or four parts of simple cerate or cosmoline. The following ointments are also recommended: 1492. R. Hydrargyri protiodidi, gr. xij Camphorse, grt v Axungire, M. and ft. ung. S.—Apply twice daily. i |.