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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    ter, with oil spread over it, until the inflamma- tion is abated; then dress, as directed, with the cerate. No. 3. Balsam Command.—This is good in inward strains or bruises, weakness and faint- ness of stomach, loss of appetite, bad diges- tion, &c. 25 or 30 drops may be taken for a dose, three or four times a day, upon sugar. It is also useful for fresh wounds, as under that head directed. No. 4. Red Precipitate.—In ulcers of long standing that are foul, and attended with a thin stinking discharge, some of this powder may be sprinkled into it, and a little of it also mixed with the basilicon salve, No. 1, spread on tow or lint and laid over it. Continue the sprinkling until the sore looks fresh, and the discharge becomes white, and loses its stench; then omit the powder and dress with the salve, mixed as above directed. Also for proud flesh it is a good application, when sprinkled on it, and assisted with moderate pressure. No. 5. Blue Vitriol.—Besides its use as di- rected under wounds, is good to destroy proud flesh. Wet it till it looks of a copper colour, and touch over the sore with it once or twice a day. No. 6. Caustic.—When the proud flesh in wounds will not give way by the use of the above methods, touch it with this at every dressing, and it will effectually answer the pur-