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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    and to restore a healthy condition of the buccal cavity, and promote healing of the ulcers by soothing, cleansing, and antiseptic applications. Potassium chlorate appears to exert almost a spe ific influence over this disease, and it should be given internally and applied locally. Children may take 2 to 5 grains and adults 10 to 20 grains three or four times a day, and it may be prescribed locally in a mouth wash containing 10 to 20 grains to the ounce. This salt when swallowed is said to be excreted unchanged in the saliva. Other useful local applications are washes containing boric acid, salicylic acid, or carbolic acid. The sensitiveness and tenderness of the mouth may be allayed by adding a little opium to the washes that are used. The mouth should be thoroughly cleansed with warm water after every meal, and the gums and teeth may be cleaned with a bit of absorbent cotton wool. After this it has been recommended to wash the gums with a mixture of 2 parts of glycerine of borax and 1 part of tincture of myrrh. If the ulcers are slow to heal, they may be touched twice daily with a solution of nitrate of silver (10 grains to the ounce), or with dry alum, or with tincture of iodine, or with iodoform. As these applications are very painful, the ulcers may be first mopped with a solution of cocaine hydrochloride. Loose teeth and loose fragments of necrosed bone should be promptly removed. Tonics of quinine and iron, together with cod- liver oil, will be needed in most cases, with good air and good food ; the latter should be nourishing, but unirritating and easy of digestion. During the acute period, milk, beef-tea, soaked bread, and other nourishing fluids will be best. Antineptio and Soothing Mouth Wash for Adults. Potassii chloratia grana octoginta (gr. Ixxx). Extract! opii liquidii ... drachmas duas (5!j). Aqute laurocerasi unciam (*]'). Dococti hordei ad uncias octo (5viij). Miace, fiat lotio.