A handbook of therapeutics / by Sydney Ringer.

  • Ringer, Sydney, 1835-1910.
Date:
1872
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Credit: A handbook of therapeutics / by Sydney Ringer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    chronic ulcer, or of cancer of the stomach. It may be applied to the vulvse when these parts are affected with prurigo; other treatment, however, is generally to be preferred. A lump of ice is sometimes inserted into the uterus, or pushed into the rectum, to arrest uterine hsemorrhage after delivery. It is used internally for a variety of purposes. Sucking ice allays the thirst, and is very grateful to fever patients. It is likewise sucked to check bleeding from the mouth or throat, stomach or lungs. To check bleeding from the stomach, small pieces should be swallowed. Few means are so successful in combating acute inflamma- tion of the tonsils or throat as the constant sucking of ice. Tonsillitis, the sore throat of scarlet fever, and other acute speci- fic throat diseases, even diphtheria, are much benefited by this treatment. It often proves most grateful, allaying the heat and pain, and checking the abundant secretion of mucus which is so annoying from the constant hawking and degluti- tion it occasions. In diphtheria, and indeed in all inflamma- tions of the throat, the good effects of ice are most marked when it has been adopted at the very beginning of the attack. The ice should be sucked as constantly as possible, and be continued till the disease has fairly declined. Ice is employed in the same way to allay the nausea, sick- ness, and pain of disease of the stomach. Ice may be applied to an inflamed and prolapsed rectum or uterus, to reduce the inflammation and swelling, so as to enable these parts to be returned to their proper place. Some apply ice to the head in delirium tremens, and in the convulsions of children. After an operation for piles or fissure of the anus, pain may be dulled or even removed by the application of a small blad- der or india-rubber bag of ice. M. Diday strongly recommends the local application of ice in painful affections of the testes as neuralgia and blenorrha- gic orchitis. Two pigs’ bladders partially filled with ice are