Volume 1

A manual of medical treatment or clinical therapeutics / by I. Burney Yeo.

  • Yeo, I. Burney (Isaac Burney), 1835-1914.
Date:
1902
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    of the alkalies exert a solvent action on mucus, and so serve to detach and wash away the foul sticky mucous secretions covering the inflamed mucous membrane. Lime water, borax washes, and borax tabloids are useful. A wash containing salicylic acid 1 part, dissolved in 5 parts of alcohol, and added to 250 parts of water, has the advantage of acting both as an antiseptic and an anaesthetic, or boric acid solu- tion may be used. Preparations of eucalyptus or hydrastis may be added to borax washes. As an astringent lotion a solution of alum (5 grains to the ounce) is sometimes useful. In troublesome cases the mucous membrane may be brushed with a solution of corrosive sublimate (1 in 5,000) or of nitrate of silver (2 grains to the ounce). If there is diarrhoea astringents and opiates may be needed. Sucking fragments of ice will often relieve the heat and sensitiveness of the mouth. The following is a good formula for a mouth wash :— ly Boi-acis ... ... ... drachmas duas (51]). Sodii bicarbonatis grana qiiadiaginta (gr. xl). Tincturae eucalypti foliorum unciam Glycerini ... ... ... semi unciam (^ss). Aquae ... ... ... ad uncias octo (jviij). Misce, fiat lotio. To be used freely mixed with an equal quantity of wai'm water. 2. Vesicular stomatitis, also termed aph- thous stomatitis, and herpes of mouth, and aphthae.—In this affection small white spots (often termed aphthae) appear on the mucous membrane of the mouth, the spots are surrounded by a red border, and are said to be at first vesicular, but this is doubtful. The white spots are probably an exudation from the free surface of the mucous membrane beneath the epithelium ; these spots are thrown off, and raw ex- coriated surfaces left. They occur on the anterior half of the tongue, on the inner surface of the lips and cheeks, and on the hard palate ; they are round, about the size of lentils, often numerous and apt to run together into confluejit irregular patches. There