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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![grey kichen salt; and when drawn from the fire 10 grammes of camphorated alcohol [139]; sprinkle the linen with anodyne water (169). , 168. Dry poultices or satchels.—In cases, where the tissues are infiltrated with water, producing oedema, I have used satchels filled with substances greedy of moisture and free of any disorganizing agent6. I place in the first rank, satchels filled with kitchen salt reduced to fine powder: they are very efficacious in cases of strangulated breast, inflammation of the cheek, and swelling of glands. For in- filtration in the members, wash with camphorated alcohol and apply satchels filled with but grains of oats, or plaster in powder, or any other kind of flour, heated in an oven or pan. CHAPTER VI. Anodyne water. 169. Recipe.—1st formula—Common anodyne water. Liquid ammoniac at 22 ° . . . . 60 grammes. Camphorated alcohol [139], Kitchen salt, Common water .... 2nd formula.—Mean anodyne water: Liquid ammoniac at 22 ° Camphorated alcohol [139] Kitchen salt, .... Common water, .... 3rd formula.—Very strong anodyne water. Liquid ammoniac at 22 ° Camphorated alcohol [130], Common water, .... 1 litre. N. B. A email quantity of the essence of rose or any other essence may be added to give it a good flavor. But generally, patientB alwaya find whatever relieves them good enough. 170. How to prepare this water.—Place in a separate bottle camphorated alcohol in the prescribed quantity of liquid ammoniac; cork well and shake the bottle ; let the mixture settle down a while. In another vase dissolve the kitchen salt in the required quantity of water and throw in a few drops of liquid ammoniac; when the salt is entirely dissolved, decant slowly in another vase or pass it through a paper filter:—then mix quickly the camphorated ammoniac in the bottle of salt water, cork it well and shake it.—The water is then fit for use. Remember to keep your bottle always well corked. 171. Very strong anodyne water is used on persons who have a hard and callous skin, and for the treatment of animals. 172. Mean anodyne water is used against the biting of vipers, scorpions and venomous insects. 173. I generally use the weak anodyne water; sometimes I find it too strong: and I am obliged to add water, especially when I treat per- B 10 60 1 litre. 80 grammes. 10 60 1 litre. 100 grammes. 10](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
