Directions for the medicine chest / prepared by Lewis Heermann.

  • Heermann, Lewis, 1779-1833.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Directions for the medicine chest / prepared by Lewis Heermann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    into the neck ; friction of the palsied parts with No. 19, and a coriti nuation of purgatives are to be depended upon. Low and vegetable diet. BLOOD, SPITTING OF.—If the quantity lost has not reduced too much the pulse and strength of the patient, bleed, (see Fo. 43.) and give of No. 6 and No. 37, or of No. 37 with an addition of No. 15. If the pulse is weakened and a return of it is apprehended, a table spoonful of com. mon salt, taken into the mouth drv, and swallowed, is to be* immedi- ately directed. The person is also to be kept cool, on low diet, and at rest. BOILS. TREATMENT.—Give No. 23, apply warm poultices, and when ripe and opened, dress them with No. 30, and afterwards with No. 31. BRUISES AND SPRAINS OF JOINTS. TREATMENT—Keep the joint perfectly at rest until recovered ; apply to it lead water, (see No. 12.) When pain, swelling' or redness lessen, No. 7 may be added to it; and when on the recovery No. 7 by itself, and plentiful rubbing. For internal bruises see hurts and falls. CHOLERA MORBUS. CHARACTER.—Sudden and violent vomiting and purging of bilious matter with cramp, at first in the stomach and bowels, and after wards extending to the calfs of the legs, great anxiety about the sto. mach and loss of strength. TREA TMENT 1st. Immediate large draughts of weak camomile tea, (see No. 48.) of warm water, with well browned toasted brea^ soaked in it, weak warm chicken water, or water thickened a lilth, with No. 42, or with starch or sago, are to be directed ; and if the pulse is very full in the beginning and the pain excruciating, bleeding and a dose of No. 24. 2ndly. When by these means a great quantity of bilious fluid has been discharged, and the vomiting continues, it is to be stopped by giving of No. 20 in a little warm grog, or in some hot and strong coffee by rubbing in at the stomach No. 19 combined with No. 20, by bathing the legs and feet in warm water, and by applying warm bricks or warm flannels, sprinkled with No. 7, to the stomach. The occurrence of cold sweats, and of cold feet and hands, witfa great weakness and a shrinking of the countenance, demands the greatest resolution and perseverance in adopting and pushing the se_ cond method of treatment at once, without encouraging any further vomiting by thin slops.—Refer to No. 23.