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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    of great utility. They are still more useful if applied im- mediately after a warm hip bath, or after ironing the back witli a hot flat iron, in which case much more of the liniment will be absorbed. What is applied to the back must be rubbed off, but it is well to leave the whole surface of the abdomen well greased with the liniment, covering it with flannel, cotton-wool, oil-silk or oil-cotton. During the day this is kept in place by the stays and dress, and I seldom advise these applications to be retained during the night on account of the difficulty of keeping them in place, for it is useless to attempt making women do, for any considerable time, whatever entails the frequent soiling of linen. Ointments.—The last remarks should be borne in mind when prescribing ointments. The extracts of belladonna and opium make such filthy ointments that they seldom have a fair trial. It is better to dissolve the salts of morphia, veratria, and atropia in alcohol, and add them to lard as in the formulary at the end of this work. Those who can bear the contact of oil-silk next the skin, will find these remedies more effectual if they wrap a strip of it over the loins, one end being folded over the other, so that the lower part of the abdomen may be enclosed in a sedative vapour bath. It is necessary to add that ointments are more efficacious when applied to a heated surface, and when long retained in contact with it. Plasters.—When patients can be made to practise cold sponging, or the alternate use of hot and cold water, it is wrong to apply plasters, which would become wet and dis- agreeable. Others, and those who are bedridden, are benefited by plasters applied to the back and chest, for it is well to keep the abdominal surface available for emer- gencies. Undermic MetJiod.—This is a well-known mode of exhibit- ing the potent vegetable alkalies that figure among the brightest conquests of modern chemistry. Hypodermic Method.—I have found benefit in some trouble-