The inoculator, or, Suttonian system of inoculation ... / by Daniel Sutton.

  • Sutton, Daniel, 1735-1819.
Date:
1796
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Credit: The inoculator, or, Suttonian system of inoculation ... / by Daniel Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Firft, diflblve the gum in the water, then add the other ingredients ; and of this.emullion give one, two, or three table-fpoonfuls, accord- ing to the age of the patient, twice or three times a day, firll fliaking the vial. Should the vifion be affected, and the patient complain of feeing as thi'Ough a fmoaky me- dium, when the inflammation and pain arc go- ing off, to prevent fpecks forming on the eye, the following ointment may be ufed to vay great advantage. Take of—Purified hog’s-lard, one ounce ; White precipitate of mercury, one drachm.—Mix them uniformly together; and the eye, for the purppfe being fiuit, as in a ftate of fleep, rub over it the quantity of a large pea every night. The application of this ointment flmuld extend upwards and downwards, from the eye-brow to the cheek-bone, and from the ridge of the nofe near to the hair on the fide of the head ; taking care that the ointment be not^fubbed into the eye, becaufe it will induce, for a fhort time, the fame fenfation as is occa- fioned by foap and water getting into the eye in L 3 ■\v;ilhino-