A handbook of uterine therapeutics and of diseases of women / by Edward John Tilt.

  • Tilt, Edward John, 1815-1893.
Date:
1868
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Credit: A handbook of uterine therapeutics and of diseases of women / by Edward John Tilt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    equare of wadding, the soft side of which should bo applied next the skin. Stimulant and sedative liniments can be sometimes made more eflBcacious by previously heating the skin with a flat iron, which enables it to absorb more of the medicated ingre- dients, and the nervous expansions are thus more powerfully acted upon. Mustard applications are often useful as house- hold counterstimulants, the usual mustard plaster of equal quantities of wheat flour and mustard made into a thick paste with boiling water, and spread on brown paper, or a linseed- meal poultice sprinkled with mustard flour or with coarsely powdered camphor. Plasters owe their utility to the warmth they impart as well as to their ingredients. They often quell pain, but they had better be replaced by other external applications if the patient has to take baths. In the chronic stage of inflamma- tory aff'ections it is often good to well foraent the abdomen with hot water, and then to apply the cold water compress to it, covering it with oil-silk. This may be kept on all day, or renewed two or three times a day, whenever it becomes warm and makes the patient feel uncomfortable. In acute ovaritis, when pain is intolerable and the patient too much reduced to bear leeches, I have sometimes advised the appli- cation of a bag of ice to the painful spot, and have had it kept on for many hours with marked though temporary benefit. 4. Vaginal Injections.—Vaginal injections are of vital im- portance, for by their judicious administration is one enabled more speedily to cure inflammatory diseases of the womb, and the patient can generally prevent inflammation by con- tinuing their use. Very few of those who come to consult me have used injections in a rational way, and it is certainly strange that medical men, when advising injections, should ever recommend their patients to use a small glass or pewter syringe, with which scarcely two to four ounces of fluid can be injected. Should such an instrument be only once emptied.