Annual diary of health, or, Family physician & druggist : containing the necessary theoretical and practical manner of preparing medicines and preserving or curing yourself of disease, at small cost and with promptitude, of all curable evils, and of giving relief to those who labor under chronic or incurable diseases / by F.V. Raspail ; translated from the Paris edition of 1846 by A. Fortier.
- François-Vincent Raspail
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual diary of health, or, Family physician & druggist : containing the necessary theoretical and practical manner of preparing medicines and preserving or curing yourself of disease, at small cost and with promptitude, of all curable evils, and of giving relief to those who labor under chronic or incurable diseases / by F.V. Raspail ; translated from the Paris edition of 1846 by A. Fortier. 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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![10 Above the bands place some thick paper, which will prevent the ointment from passing too quicklv through the linen. 1 he whole to be secured by a bandage. Caoutchouc, cerecloth or waxed linen may be used in lieu of paper: cerecloth is more beneficial by its adhesion on the sound flesh, thereby preventing the air from penetrat- ing to the wound until the next dressing. 161. Camphorated ointment is introduced in the nose against internal ulceration and rebellious colds in the head; in the lunda- ment against fissures, piles excoriations; but above all in the genital organs against all the diseases of those organs, white emis- sions, runnings, urinary affections, &c. 162. Theoretical explanations of the effects of campho- rated ointment on the animal ststem.—Camphorated oint- ment is eminently antiseptic or anti-putrid, 1st. by the action oi camphor which checks all normal fermentation ; 2nd by the action ol the greasy substance which forms on the surface a varnish impene- trable to air. Hence, without air, no decomposition can take place. CHAPTER V. Poultices. 163. Skin absorbs as well as the mucous, with this difference that absorbtion is slower and necessitates the agency of water. But water is sooner absorbed by our clothing than through our skin. Hence the necessity ol employing agents having the faculty of retaining water continually in contact with the skin. This agent is found in poul- tices. Consequently poultices are an excellent means of introducing medicine in the circulation, through the skin, by the agency of water. 164. Preparation of poultices.—The poultice is to be placed between two pieces of linen folded at each end and applied on the skin. In this manner, when the poultice is withdrawn, it leaves no soiling either on the skin or on the linen. 165. Softening poultices.—In a pint of boiling water put an hecto gramme of linseed; take from the fire when it becomes like glue; empty in about two grammes of camphorated alcohol, (139) and a small wine glass of anodyne water (169); stir up the whole with a spoon and spread your poultice on linen as indicated above. 166. Vermifuge poultices.—Add to the linseed of the poultice above described, two heads of ground garlic and a few leeks, and two grammes of assa foetida mixed in a sufficient quantity of campho- rated ointment. Having placed it on the linen as above [164], apply it more particularly on the abdomen and renew the poultice every two hours. To the preceding poultice we may sometimes, with advantage, substitute the softening poultice (166) well sprinkled with a large quantity of anodyne water [165]. In most cases I employ no other. 167. Salinous poultices.—At the commencement of a cure, employ the following poultice, which is to be applied an hour before dressing. In the softening poultice (165) add 60 grammes' ol](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
