The female's medical guide and married woman's adviser : containing a description of the causes, symptoms and cure of diseases peculiar to females, whether married or single, from early childhood to old age, such as retention, suppression and cessation of the menses - difficult and irregular menstruation - pregnancy, its indications and attendant diseases - miscarriage or abortion - midwifery, the turn of life -causes and cure of barrennness, and female complaints generally. The whole adapted to the private use of families / by H. B. Skinner.

  • Skinner, Henry Burchstead, active 1849.
Date:
1849
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The female's medical guide and married woman's adviser : containing a description of the causes, symptoms and cure of diseases peculiar to females, whether married or single, from early childhood to old age, such as retention, suppression and cessation of the menses - difficult and irregular menstruation - pregnancy, its indications and attendant diseases - miscarriage or abortion - midwifery, the turn of life -causes and cure of barrennness, and female complaints generally. The whole adapted to the private use of families / by H. B. Skinner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

    106/116 (page 106)
    Decayed Teeth.— If the tooth is habitually painful, clean it and drop in some oil of cIovps or powdered opium. If these fail, dip a splinter of any kind into nitric acid, and insert it at the bottom of the tooth ; this is to destroy the nerve : if necessary, repeat, and cover with cotton. Great care must lie taken not to suffer the acid to get on the gums. The tincture of capsicum is also excellent for pain in and about the teeth ; apply it to the tooth, between the lip and gums, and outside of the cheek : vcrv effectual for ague in the face. If these means fail, cut the gum around the tooth, then apply the forceps, (not a turnkey,) and work it backward and forward till a little loose ; after which draw directly out in a line with the tooth. In this way it is drawn with one-half the pain produced by the old method. Where the subject of the complaint has not fortitude to have it extracted, an opium pill may be taken. Most of the pain, however, is in anticipation I once had a patient dreadfully tortured with tooth- ache, who strove several days to obtain courage sufficient to have it taken out ; at l ist she sealed herself before me to have it extracted, when the fear of it caused the most exquisite sufferin<r. She brjvi to pray, when in a second I took it out, without pain, being loose and having no prong. M. Cadet de Gassicourt recommends the following compound as a safe and excellent dentrifice, vi/ : of white sugar and powdered charcoal each one ounce, of Peruvian bark half an ounce, of cream of tartar one drachm and a half, and of canella twenty-four grains, well rubbed together into an impalpable pow- der. II<' describes is as strengthening to the ;ums and cleansing to the teeth, ami as destroying the dis- agreeable odour in the breath w hich so often arises from decaying teeth, and, as a preventive of tooth-