SUBDIVISION X.

SIMPLE APPLICATIONS,

In the order of their value.

1. WARM POULTICES AND WARM FOMENTATIONS. Lacerated wounds, compound fractures, various ulcers, abdominal pain and irritation, inflamed tumors, irritable blistered and excoriated surfaces, ear-ache, &c.

2. UNGUENTUM SIMPLEX. Simple Ointment. Dressing for blisters, scalds, &c.

3. EMPLASTRUM RESINOSUM. Resinous Plaster. Adhesive Plaster.

Especially useful in the treatment of ulcers, where, in connection with the tight bandage, it operates mostly by pressure.

4. SPERMACETI.

Obtained from the Physeter Macrocephalus. Great Headed Cachalot.

Formed into cerate. Same uses as No. 2.

5. OLEA EUROPEA.

oil of the fruit.

Diandria, Monogynia.

Hab. Europe.—Tree.

European Olive. Expressed

Mostly compounded with Wax, Water of Ammonia, Lime Water, &c.

6. ADEPS BOVIS TAURI. Beef Suet. Same uses as No. 2, sometimes better.

7. ADEPS OVIS ARIETIS.

Mutton Suet.

Same uses as No. 2, sometimes better.

8. CERA. Bee's Wax.

A secretion from the ventral scales of bees, being a true product by the animal. A component part of many ointments.

9. UNGUENTUM RESINOSUM. Resinous Ointment. Same uses as No. 2. Also, to ulcers, wounds, etc. Rather stimulant.

10. ADEPS SUIS.

Hog's Lard.

Mostly employed as No. 4.

11. OLEUM LINI USITATISSIMI.

Flaxseed Oil.

Mostly used in combination with lime water, as a dressing for scalds and burns.

12. CATAPLASMA CARBONIS LIGNI. Charcoal Cataplasm.

Foul ulcers, gangrene.

13. EMPLASTRUM OXYDI PLUMBI SEMIVITREI. Litharge Plaster.

14. MYRICA CERIFERA. Myrtle Wax.

Diœcia, Tetrandria.

Hab. United States.-Shrub.

Obtained from the berries by boiling. A fatty sub

stance.

The berries boiled, wax exudes.

15.

CEROXYLON ANDICOLA. Wax Palm of the

Andes. Wax, from the rings of the Plant.

Monœcia, Polyandria.

16. SILK HANDKERCHIEF.

Dressing for blisters.

17. ACACIA VERA. (Mimosa Nilotica.) Egyptian Thorn.

The gum.

Polygamia, Monœcia,

Hab. Egypt; Arabia.-Tree.

INJECTIONS.

SUBDIVISION I.

ENEMAS,

In the order of their value.

Enemas should always be slowly introduced. The best syringe is a pipe and bladder. The quantity varies from half a pint to two pints, one pint being generally ample. More than two or three pints is liable to distend the intestine injuriously. In a majority of cases simple warm water is sufficient. Where irritants are had to the existing

added, a strict reference must be irritability of the intestine, both as to the nature and the quantity of the irritant. The common addition of molasses, lard, etc., is of little, if of any use. Enemas are among the best means for removing habitual constipation; a process which involves an interesting philosophy. (See Institutes, p. 323, § 498, g; p. 366, § 556, b; and references there.)

1. SIMPLE WARM WATER.

This, to take effect, must commonly be administered in the quantity of one or two pints.

2. AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS OF Chloride of Sodium, or SULPHATE OF SODA, OR SULPHATE OF MAGNESIA.

3. SOLUTION OF CASTILE SOAP IN WATER.

The brown soap is very active.

4. OPIATE ENEMA.

B. Decoction of Starch, 3 iv.; Tinc. Opium, drops xxx.; M.-. Decoc. or Water, 3 iv.; Sulph. Morphine, gr. to; M.

The tincture of Hyosciamus may be often advantageously substituted for the opiates where anodyne or soporific effects are alone wanted; but to allay intestinal irritability, or to restrain evacuations, the opiate is the appropriate means.

5. ENEMA OF ALOES.

B. Aloes,

ij.; Carb. Potash, grs. xv.; Water, 3

viij. to x.; M. For ascarides, etc.

6. ENEMA OF CASTOR OIL. For ascarides.

7. OIL OF TURPENTINE ENEMA.

R. Oil of Turpen

tine, 3 vj.; Yolk of Egg.

Rub together and add Water,

3 xvj. For ascarides, colic, obstinate constipation, tympanites.

8. ENEMA OF COLOCYNTH.

B. Ext. Colocynth Comp., ij.; Soft Soap, 3 j.;

Water, 3 xvj.; M. Powerful. In obstinate constipation, paralysis, etc.

9. FŒTID ENEMA.

B. Add to Enema 1, 2, 3, or 4, Tincture of Asafœtida, 3 ij. Used in hysteria, flatulent colic, convulsions of children, etc.

10. SOLUTION OF HYPOCHLORITE (Chloride) or LIME. See p. 210, No. 23.

B. Chloride of Lime, grs. v. to x.; Water, 3 ij.; M. To correct the fœtor.

Also, HYPOCHLORITE (Chloride) OF SODA. See p. 211, No. 24.

SUBDIVISION II.

UTERINE INJECTIONS, ETC.,

In the order of their value.

1. COLD WATER, OR ICE.

In uterine hemorrhage after childbirth. See Local Astringents, p. 236, No. 13.

2. DECOCTION OF OAK BARK, AND ANALOGOUS AGENTS.

Hemorrhage, discharges arising from retained placenta, and as a preventive of hemorrhage in such cases, prolapsus uteri, etc.

3. OINTMENT OF IODINE.

R. Iodine, grs. xv.; Simp. Ointment, 3 j.; M.— B. Iodine, grs. xv.; Potass. Iodide, ij.; Simp. Ointment, 3 iss.; M. Half a drachm of either rubbed for