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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![from gaping; spread on the lips of the wound; a thick coating of camphor p°wder [126], and on top a coating of lint pledgets well covered with camphorated ointment (158); the whole to be covered with large linen bands [231]. Above and below the wound, sprinkle the bands with camphorated alcohol [139]. At the smallest sympton of fexer, surround the neck and wrists of the patient with anodyne watw compresses [169]. The patient may eat with impunity as soon as h% feels hungry. The first dressing is not to be removed before four days, for fear of sundering the adhesion of flesh. This dressing is to be renewed every twenty four hours afterwards ; the wound must be carefully washed at each dressing with a sponge soaked in milk warm water lightly camphorated. When the lips of the wound cannot be brought together and it requires a flat dressing, it must be renewed on the day following. When you have well washed the wound with milk warm water, cover it with a fenestre linen [232] soaked in camphorated oil- Spread over this linen a coating of camphor powder; cover the coating with lint pledgets [233] covered with camphorated ointment [158]secure the whole by bandages [231], the remaining treatment as recited above. With this dressing you avoid traumatic fever, gangrene, tetanus and the formation of baneful pus. Every physician and surgeon who has witnessed our dressing has rendered full testimony to its efficacy. Scarcely does there exist a light purulency and the next day cicatrisation is visible. . , We will cite examples of remarkable results obtained, and which have never failed, under the heads of cancer, white swelling and ence- vhaloides, ulcerations, &c. If at this period, the system of dressing patients amputated in the civil and military hospitals, with poultices, dried lint, diet, bleeding, ice, &c. was persisted in, we would be campelled to accuse the scholastic medicinejwith inhumanity,and snow, proof in hand, the frightful mortality produced by dressing according to the old method, for surgeons have been duly notified that by our method no serious consequences can take place. The patient operated on will sleep and eat as if in his usual state of health, and will even walk about the next day if his lower limbs have not been amputated How many lives would have been saved in Algeria if the taculty had enjoined surgeons to follow our system of dressing in the hospitals . It would be unworthy the good faith and impartiality of hospital surgeons were they more scrupulous on this point than their brethren of the provinces who have adopted our system with such eagerness. Our excellent friend, Mr. Bravard, surgeon at Jumeau, [fay-ae- Domel has written to us that ever since he follows our complete treatment, he has not failed in one single case. We might cite other names, had we been authorised to do so. I will repeat and write it down again because 1 tear not tne exposure of a single case of failing : . , That with the above mode of dressing, no accidents caused by chirurgical operations of the greatest magnitude, are to be dreaac.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
