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.
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![222. Injections are also used in the genital organs, ears, nose and fistulas. For these purposes a small glass or metal syringe not liable to rust, is used. In the genital organs injections are made with milk warm tar water [209]; camphorated oil [153] is employed for the ears and nose, and more especially for fistulas ; and at each dressing the oil is washed out by an injection of tar water [209] These injections must be repeated whenever the pain is renewed and in diseases of the genital organs, at least four times a day. 223. Gargarism.—This is used to wash the mouth of morbid mu- cous and the virus which may have invaded the walls. I administer gargarisms either of salt water or camphorated vinegar diluted with water [247]. 224. Salt water gargles have a very beneficial effect in cases of strangulated glands, swelling of cheeks, of the wind pipe, diseases of respiratory organs. Salt water is made by dissolving in cold water common salt, and leaving it settle and then slowly emptied into another bottle. Gargles of camphorated vinegar [247] are used in cases of scor- butic affections, fetid virus, suspicious ulcerations. Camphorated alcohol [143 3o.] may be used with equal advantage, by mixing it with water. Camphorated vinegar and alcohol are mixed in twenty times the proportion of water. N. B. Injections for animals are made with bran water and half an ounce of essence of turpantine to a bucket full [155] or 4 litres of boiled tar water [209] passed through a bolting cloth. CHAPTER XIV. Infusion of Iceland moss, endive and hops. 225. Preparation.—Boil 15 grammes of moss in half a litre of water. After a quarter of an hour, throw out the water and let it drain The moss being thus deprived of its bitterness is to be reboiled in one litre of water. After boiling a few minutes, drink it hot with sugar. Effects.—This tizane is partly vermifuge by its bitter principle and softening by its mucilagineous property. I administer it in lieu of endive water in affections of the chest, jointly with the camphorated regimen (262). Moss found in woods may serve as well as the Iceland moss, if care is taken to employ only the top of the shrub in order to avoid the mixing of bark fragments. 226. Preparation of infusion of endive and hops. — Boil one litre of water and throw in when boiling two or three pinches of wild endive, or two or three female heads of hops. Withdraw from the fire and let it infuse. It may be taken a quarter of an hour after. Again.—Cut up the leaves of wild endive and place them in the bottom of a decanter which you fill up with water, and drink at meals. You renew this operation every day. You may equally use as a beverage the two preceding infusions. I make use indistinctly in my prescriptions of either of the above](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
