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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![5G gentle balm and from 9 to 10 grains of aloes with a mouthful of su- gared water. In less than half an hour the left eye had recovered Its volume and functions, headache had disappeared. At noon the patient breakfasted with me, enjoying a fine appetite, and returned to his occupations laughing at the accident which he had encoun- tered. Chorea or st. vitus' dance see convulsions. Purulent focus see tumors drawing to a head. 281. Pimples, phlegmons, large tumors, carbuncle. Causes.—The sub cutaneous introduction of irritating foreign bodies, of a barbed splinter or large insect; wasp and midge bites whose darts have been poisoned in the pus of. dead animals left in open air; the introduction in the skin of the decomposed produce of a corpse by a cut or mucous ; eating flesh of animals dead of carbuncle. Effects.—The skin reddens, forms a hardened bump, red and inflamed at first, through which you can perceive a mass ol tissues infiltrated with blood. When the bump assumes a black color, it may become the focus of the most serious disorders and take the character of a malignant pustule and carbuncle. Fever augments with the growth of the bump, but is succeeded by a dangerous atony when the bump becomes decomposed. Wasp and midge bites may be attended with erisypelas and swelling of the body as if produced by the bite of a viper. Treatment. — Cover the inflamed part with a coating of camphor (126), on top of which you apply lint pledgets (233) cove- red with camphorated ointment (158); secure the whole by an agglutinative band (234). Wash with anodyne water (169) around the wound. Fever will cease immediately and the lump will pro- gressively diminish. The same dressing will prevent the lump turning into a malignant pustule, more especially if you apply compresses [230] of camphorated alcohol (130) around it. Use copious lotions of anodyne water (169) against erysipelas and inflammation until all the symptoms have disappeared. If carbuncle had already declared itself, it would be necessary to apply besides the above, co- pious lotions of camphorated vinegar diluted in a sufficient quantity of water (247), camphor internally [122]; uninterrupted rubbing of camphorated ointment (158) with copious washings of anodyne water [169]. Case cured.—The cures of pimples and bumps have been so numerous that it is hardly necessary to mention them, but I will eite the following case of a wasp bite accompanied with erysipelas. One evening in the month of August 1843, Mrs. Montazeau, keep- ing a distillery of oil, on the great route of Orleans, a young woman of excellent health, although of a delicate constitution, felt the bite of a wasp on her temple, which she killed with her hand on the seat of pain. In a few seconds a general infiltration began, the swelling ascended the head and from thence invaded the whole body ; the patient screamed that the pain was reaching the heart and fell into syncope.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0078.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
