The family physician; or, advice with respect to health. Including directions for the prevention and cure of acute diseases / Extracted from Dr. Tissot.

  • Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Date:
1810
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Credit: The family physician; or, advice with respect to health. Including directions for the prevention and cure of acute diseases / Extracted from Dr. Tissot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of an hour, till the;,pain is entirely removed. But when the Burn has blistered, a compress of very fine linen, spread ove,r with the pomatum, No. 64, should be applied over it, and changed twice a day. If .thp, true skid is burnt, and even the flesh under it be injured, the same pomatum may be applied; but instead of a,po}npress, jt should be spread upon a pledget of soft lint, to be applied vgry exactly over it, and qver the pledget again, a slip of, the simple plaister, Nip. 65, which every body may easily prepare; or, if they should pygfer it, the plais.ter, No. 66. .j,. But, besides this, whenever flie burn has been very violent, and is highly inflamed, the same means mast be recurred to, which pre used in violent inflamma- tions : the patient should be bled, put into a regi- men, and bpthing but the ptisans, No, 2, and 4. If. the ingredients for the ointment, galled Nutrir tnm, are not at baud to make the pomatum, No. 64 ; one part of should be melted in eight parts, of oil, to two ounces of which mixture, the volk of ,gn egg should be added. A still more, simple applica- tion, is that of, an,]egg, both the yolk and the white beat up with two?ftfmmon spoonfuls of the sweefest oil, vyitfiout ;any< rankness, Wdiep the pain of . the burn, and all its other symptoms have nearly .disap, peape/J, jikis sjwfhcpmbtp -a^jply the oiUcloth, No.66. Nt.uuu- ,15 i a v&vmm » ' ' : !! (i; ny. 'n.-. ■ v !. > • ' s .-! to f. 28$s If a, woundjha/i penetrated into any of the cavities,’ and has wounded any part contained in the breast, or in the bellyit.has opened some great blood vessel ; or ha^ wounded, a considerable nerve, there is an absolute necessity' f6r calling in a surgeon. But when the wound a-ffeks'only the1 fleshy 'parts,' and the small vessels, it may be easily dressed without such assistance ; since, ip general, all that is necessary in such cases is, to defencf the wound from the impres- sions of the air ; yet not so as to give any material ohati'uction to the discharge of the matter that is to issue from it; i ■ § •286. If the blood does not flow out of any consi.