Method of using the chlorides of soda, either for dressing ill-conditioned sores, or as a means of purifying unhealthy places, and of disinfecting animal substances. Transl. by Jacob Porter.

  • Labarraque, A. G. (Antoine Germain), 1777-1850.
Date:
1830
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    METHOD OF USING THE CHLORIDE OF SODA. From the numerous applications made by the most distinguished physicians, and followed with uniform success, it results that the chloride of soda should be used in the following manner : For ill-conditioned ulcers let a glass of the chlorated liquor be mixed with five times its quantity of pure water, and in this mixture dip the lint, with which the ulcers are to be dressed. The dressings should be applied twice a day. If the sore becomes red and in- flamed, this mixture should be still further diluted ; if, on the con- trary, the sore does not change its appearance, it should be dressed once or twice with some chloride diluted with only half its quantity of water, so as to bring on a slight inflammation, which is indispensa- ble for causing atonic ulcers to pass to the state of simple sores. The healing will then go on rapidly. At the time when the chloride is applied to the ulcer, the fetid smell is destroyed. Gangrene, hospital putrefaction, ill-conditioned burns and scalds, old syphilitic ulcers, corroding herpetic affections, and the like should be treated in the same manner. Cancer in a state of suppuration may be disinfected with some lukewarm or cold water, containing a twentieth of the chloride of soda. The same mixture, or weakened still more with from five to ten parts of water, should be used for ulcer of the uterus; the injec- tions should be made two or three times a day. Boiling water should first be passed through the syringe, and this liquid be imme- diately replaced by the chlorated water; the heat of the metal will be communicated to the chlorated water, the temperature of which will be sufficiently raised to answer for the injection. For ulcerations of the nasal organs, the throat, the palate and the gums, the chloride should be diluted with from eight to ten parts of water; it will, nevertheless, be necessary to touch these sores with a little lint moistened in some pure chloride.