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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![2°. The keeper of clamnrt [a dissecting room for young medi- cinal KodAits], a shortman, strong limbs, and rather plethoric was often attached with strangulating asthma, more especially during the Bight. Three days of our treatment were sufficient to cure him and he now enjoys the most luxurious slumbers. N. B. Asthma is a predisposition which does not always disappear for ever. We consequently recommend the use of our treatment, even after it has brought relief: it will then be employed as a pre- servative instead of a curative trectment. Relief is experienced on the very first night. 270. Asphyxy by strangulation ok by immersion.— belief to persons hung or drowned. Relief to fersons hung.—Hasten to cut the rope with the usual precautions in such cases. Surround the neck with a cravat soaked in anodyne water (169); sprinkle the head carefully with tije same water, and wash the whole body; make light frictions with camphorated ointment [158] on the belly, chest and back and continue until signs of recovery are perceptible. Place a flask of anodyne water under the nose and press the chest in order to facili- tate the inspiration and expiration. Do not cease this manoeuvre until you despair of bringing back life in the body. Relief to drowned bodies.—As soon as the body is out of water remove it to a warm place; stretch and keep the body alternately on one side and then on the other with the head downward. Wash the body from head to foot, with camphorated alcohol [139]; rub energetically with camphorated ointment [158] and press lightly the to chest re-establish the motion of inspiration and expiration. Sprinkle the head with anodyne water [169] place around the neck a cravat soaked in camphorated alcohol [139], use the same under the nose. This treatment is to be followed until you despair of bringing back life. Maintain the heat of the room to the same degree and renew the air often. Asphyxy by coals and other causes altering the breathing air, see POISONING. 271. Wounds, dressings of sores, amputations, cuts. Treatment.—The horror we have of shedding human blood must not lead us to disdain the means of staunching it. When- ever yon meet a wounded, person who profusely loses his blood your first care, even before the arrival of a physician, should be to bind up the arteries from which blood flows. To effect this, pinch the artery and twist it round ; bind it tightly with a thread waxed or greased with camphorated ointment. Clean the wound with pure water ; extract carefully all strange bodies ; and if there is no bone fracture, draw the flesh together, provided the cut will permit it This being done, and if the surgeon does not arrive, keep the flesh together by means of small bands of aglutinative linen (235) placed around the limb in such a manner that the flesh will be prevented](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0066.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
