Antiseptic therapeutics / by E.L. Trouessart ; translated by E.P. Hurd.

  • Hurd E. P. (Edward Payson), 1838-1899.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Antiseptic therapeutics / by E.L. Trouessart ; translated by E.P. Hurd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    For injections the practitioner may use zinc sul- phate or zinc sulpho-carbolate, one or two grains to the ounce; lead acetate, one grain to the ounce in de- coction of poppies; or tannic acid, according to the following formula; Acid,tannic ) .... raa i.o Alum ) Red wine ) ... , faa 100.o iter ) Rose-vvat M. Or 3 parts of tannin to loo of glycerin for a topical application. Permanganate of potash, lime-water, cor- rosive sublimate (in weak solution, 1:50000) have also been recommended. [The routine treatment at the Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Hospital is the injection of corrosive sublimate, night and morning, by means of a fountain syringe and suitable cannula; the strength of the injection is seldom greater than 1:50000]. Of the anti-parasitic injections, permanganate of potash has a high rank. The strength of the injec- tion should not be greater than one grain to five fluid- ounces of water. For other prescriptions, the reader is referred to any modern text-book on venereal diseases. M. Dreyfus prescribes salol internally as the best antiseptic of the urinary organs, because all its action is brought to bear on these organs. Salol breaks up in the intestine into phenic and salicylic acids, which are •both eliminated by the urine, the first in the state of