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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    a small spoonful of common salt, and a piece of fresh batter of the size of an egg. 3. Folds of linen dipt in ice-water must be applied all over the tumour, and renewed every quarter of an hour. This remedy, when immediately applied, has produced the most happy effects, but if the symp- tom has endured violently more than ten or twelve hours, it is often too late to apply it ; and then it is better to make use of flannels dipt in a warm de- coction of mallow and elder-flowers, shifting them frequently. It has been known however, that ice- water, or ice itself has succeeded as late as the third day.* 4. When these endeavours are insufficient, clysters of tobacco smoke must be tried, which has often cured ruptures, when every thing else has failed. Of Boils. § 312. Whenever their inflammation is very con- siderable ; when there are a great many of them at once, and they prevent the patient from sleeping, it becomes necessary to enter then into a cooling regi- men ; and to make them drink plentifully of the pti- san, No. 2. Should the inflammation be very high, a poultice of bread and milk, or of sorrel a little boiled and bruised, must be applied to it. But if the inflamma- tion is moderate, a plaister of simple diachylon, may be sufficient. The boil commonly terminates in suppuration, of a singular kind, It breaks open at first on its top, when some drops of Pus come out, after which the core of it may be discerned ; which may be drawn * Pieces of icc applied between two pieces of linen, directly upon the rupture, as foon as poffible after its first appearance, is one of thole extraordinary remedies, which we should never hefitate to make immediate ufc of. We may be certain by this application, if the rupture is fimple, and not complicated from fome aggravating caufe, to remove fpeedily, and with very little pain, a diforder that might be attended with the molt dreadful confequences. But the continuance of this application inuft be proportioned to the flrength of the perfon ruptured which may be fufficicntly eftimated by the pulfe.