Medicine chest and instructive advice : with directions for ships and family use / prepared and put up by George W. Hoppin.

  • Hoppin, George W.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Medicine chest and instructive advice : with directions for ships and family use / prepared and put up by George W. Hoppin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of laudanum may be taken, at any time, and repeated as occasion may require, to ease the pain. Should the testicles swell, follow the same course as above, for swellings in the groin, with the addition of a handkerchief round the body to suspend them. If the swel- lings in the groin break, dress with the basili- con salve, No. 1. If proud flesh appear, use the precipitate; as there directed. If after the heat and scalding of water is gone with the pain and soreness, a running or gleet still remains, and there is no swelling in the groin or testicles, use the mercurial injection, No. 30, as follows: Mix a tea spoonful of it with a large spoonful of common water, and throw up a syringe full, three or four times a day. Shake up the bottom every time before it is poured out. Mix the contents of one of the papers marked injections, with half a pint of water, it will then be fit for use. No. 29. Mercurial Ointment—Besides the use of this, in the disorder just mentioned, it will kill lice, bugs, and all troublesome insects. It is also a certain cure for the itch, but must be used with care. No. 30. Mercurial Injection—To be used as directed under No. 28. It is good also to wash chancres with, or without, any venereal ulcers. No. 31. Corosivc Sublimate—If the venereal disorder has been of long standing, or will not give way to the course above and before 2