Mastitis, or commonly known as inflammation of the
breast, may result from blows or other external injuries, but
it most often occurs during lactation. The following is said
to be a successful method of treating it: Take of carbonate
of ammonia, 2 drachms; boiling water, 8 ounces; saturate
in this solution a flannel bandage three inches wide and two
feet long✪ Mastitis Treatment, and apply to breast, covering with oil silk. Use
hot as can be borne, and renew every two or three hours.
Relief will be derived from first application, and will prevent
the formation of matter.
Nasal Catarrh. The chief characteristics are langour,
lassitude, debility; headache with a sense of tightness across
the forehead; excessive purulent discharge from the nostrils,
or tickling down the throat, which creates hawking, or it
may dry up and become impacted in the nostrils. Deafness
may be caused and hoarseness. If it invades the bronchial
tubes, there is increased hawking, cough, emaciation, and
discoloration of the skin, due to imperfect oxygenation of
the blood. It is a loathsome disease, and liable to give rise
to many other affections, as epilepsy, consumption, etc.
Predisposition to nasal obstruction appears to have, in some
persons, an anatomical origin; in a symmetrical growth of
the bony structure of the nasal cavities. Usually, however,
chronic nasal catarrh is the result of repeated or prolonged
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exposure to changes of temperature, and especially cold and
damp, such as abound in our American climate. In treat-
ing this affection, full information must be had about the
constitutional history of the patient. If there is a syphilitic
cause, iodide of potassium in five or ten grain doses three
times a day, or iodide of iron pills must be taken. Scrofulous
subjects will be benefited by taking the iodide of iron and
cod liver oil. Local treatment, however, is not to be neg-
lected. The parts should be cleansed and disinfected. The
nasal cavities should be douched. For this purpose, many
sorts of instruments have been invented, which generally
can be gotten in any drugstore. For simple cleansing, a
solution of common salt in warm water (a teaspoonful in a
pint) will be very suitable. Other lotions are employed,
containing some of the following substances: Alum, borax,
boracic acid, chloride of ammonium, chlorate of potassium,
tar water, corrosive sublimate, chlorinated soda, iodoform,
carbolic acid, glycerine, etc. Another mode of application to
the nostrils is with the atomizer. Many prefer the insufflation
of powders, as tannin, bismuth. Excellent snuffs are pul-
verized horse chestnut, boracic acid, chlorate of potash. In
obstinate cases, resort may be had to a surgeon for the re-
moval of some of the obstructive masses. Some of the fol-
lowing prescriptions may be tried: Carbolic acid, one grain;
borax and bicarbonate of soda each two grains; glycerine,
a fluid drachm; water enough to make a fluid ounce. Mix;
to be sprayed into the nostrils. Or, take of powdered gum
arable, myrrh and bloodroot, equal parts, and use as snuff.
Or, take of powdered golden seal, 40 grains; camphor, 15
grains; carbolic acid, 15 grains; common salt, i ounce.
Mix; snuff. Or, thymol, 5 grains; alcohol and glycerine,
each half an ounce. Mix, and apply locally with cotton.
Or, porphyrized iodoform, i drachm; camphor, i drachm,
and gum arable 2 drachms. Mix, and use locally.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Mastitis, or commonly known as inflammation of the breast, may result from blows or other external injuries, but it most often occurs during lactation. The following is said to be a successful method of treating it: Take of carbonate of ammonia, 2 drachms; boiling water, 8 ounces; saturate in this solution a flannel bandage three inches wide and two feet long, and apply to breast, covering with oil silk. Use hot as can be borne, and renew every two or three hours. Relief will be derived from first application, and will prevent the formation of matter.
Nasal Catarrh. The chief characteristics are langour, lassitude, debility; headache with a sense of tightness across the forehead; excessive purulent discharge from the nostrils, or tickling down the throat, which creates hawking, or it may dry up and become impacted in the nostrils. Deafness may be caused and hoarseness. If it invades the bronchial tubes, there is increased hawking, cough, emaciation, and discoloration of the skin, due to imperfect oxygenation of the blood. It is a loathsome disease, and liable to give rise to many other affections, as epilepsy, consumption, etc. Predisposition to nasal obstruction appears to have, in some persons, an anatomical origin; in a symmetrical growth of the bony structure of the nasal cavities. Usually, however, chronic nasal catarrh is the result of repeated or prolonged
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exposure to changes of temperature, and especially cold and damp, such as abound in our American climate. In treating this affection, full information must be had about the constitutional history of the patient. If there is a syphilitic cause, iodide of potassium in five or ten grain doses three times a day, or iodide of iron pills must be taken. Scrofulous subjects will be benefited by taking the iodide of iron and cod liver oil. Local treatment, however, is not to be neglected. The parts should be cleansed and disinfected. The nasal cavities should be douched. For this purpose, many sorts of instruments have been invented, which generally can be gotten in any drugstore. For simple cleansing, a solution of common salt in warm water (a teaspoonful in a pint) will be very suitable. Other lotions are employed, containing some of the following substances: Alum, borax, boracic acid, chloride of ammonium, chlorate of potassium, tar water, corrosive sublimate, chlorinated soda, iodoform, carbolic acid, glycerine, etc. Another mode of application to the nostrils is with the atomizer. Many prefer the insufflation of powders, as tannin, bismuth. Excellent snuffs are pulverized horse chestnut, boracic acid, chlorate of potash. In obstinate cases, resort may be had to a surgeon for the removal of some of the obstructive masses. Some of the following prescriptions may be tried: Carbolic acid, one grain; borax and bicarbonate of soda each two grains; glycerine, a fluid drachm; water enough to make a fluid ounce. Mix; to be sprayed into the nostrils. Or, take of powdered gum arable, myrrh and bloodroot, equal parts, and use as snuff. Or, take of powdered golden seal, 40 grains; camphor, 15 grains; carbolic acid, 15 grains; common salt, i ounce. Mix; snuff. Or, thymol, 5 grains; alcohol and glycerine, each half an ounce. Mix, and apply locally with cotton. Or, porphyrized iodoform, i drachm; camphor, i drachm, and gum arable 2 drachms. Mix, and use locally.
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