A treatise on diseases of the nose and its accessory cavities / by Greville Macdonald.

  • Macdonald, Greville, 1856-1944.
Date:
1890
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Credit: A treatise on diseases of the nose and its accessory cavities / by Greville Macdonald. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XVIII. Equal parts of eucalyptus oil and pine oil may be benefici- ally used in a similar manner in chronic rhinitis. OINTMENTS. XIX. In painful swelling of the middle turbinated. ]^ Morphise Sulph., gr. i.—ii. Hydrarg. oleati, 10%, 5ss. M. ft. ung. Sig.—To be gently rubbed over the bridge of the nose a often as necessary. XX. In ozgena, or ulceration of the septum. ^ lodoformi, gr. v.—x. Menthol, gr. iii.—v. Lanoline, §ss. Fluid vaseline, §ss. M. ft. ung. Sig.—To be applied with a camel-hair brush to the interior of the nose. XXI. Sometimes useful in spasmodic sneezing. ^ Menthol, gr. v. Lanoline, §ss. Fluid vaseline, §ss. M. ft. ung. Sig.—As Form. XIX. BUGINARIA. The basis of the nasal bougie is gelato-glycerine. It consists of gelatine, glycerine, and water in the following propor- tions :— Refined gelatine (by weight), 5 ounces. Glycerine ,, 6 ,, Water ,, 6 ,, Soak the gelatine in the water for twelve hours^ with occasional stirring, add the glycerine, dissolve in a water- bath, and evaporate to produce 15 ounces by weight of the gelato-glycerine. In making bougies the gelato - glycerine must be melted, the medicament added in the manner here- inafter described, and the substance poured into moulds of such a shape that each bougie has a length of eight centi- metres, and is of a tapering form, the diameter of the larger end being eight millimetres, and that of the smaller extremity three millimetres. 1 P^armacopceia of the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, fourth edition, 1881, p. 44.