Monthly Cyclopedia and Medical Bulletin Volume 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...surrounding skin from citrate with ointment, and over citrate gauze apply waxed paper or oiled silk, covered by compress and bandage. Cupping and dressing may be repeated every four hours until slough loose, when latter is removed with small forceps. Apply citrate only three days. Also give citrate internally, 15 grains (1 Gm.) t. t. d. after meals. Where bluish, flabby granulations: Strap edges of wound with adhesive strips, dry granulations, mop with iodine tr., and dust with Bier's powdered silver nitrate. Snip off exuberant granulations. To promote epithelial regeneration, use 8 per cent, scarlet red ointment or amidoazotoluol. Prevent autoinoculation by shaving skin around furuncle and disinfecting with 70 per cent, alcohol, tincture of iodine with benzine, diluted liquor formaldehydi, or aluminum acetate solution. Repeat local disinfection with benzine at each dressing. Where furuncle first seen in stage of softening, incise and drain; latter may be assisted with a Bier cup. For very large lesions or in furuncles of face, inject 3 per cent, novoeaine under base, wait five minutes, and remove core from tumor with small curette. Where supposed boils become carbuncles, excise the whole area, controlling bleeding with cautery and compresses, and apply pure liquefied phenol. For recurring furunculosis: Bacterin therapy with killed staphylococci; initial dose, 100 million bacteria, increased by weekly doses up to 1 billion. Yeast also useful. Skillern. 99 Solution of aluminum acetate recommended for local use. Made with aluminum sulphate and acetic acid, of each, 300 Gm.; calcium carbonate, 130 Gm.; distilled water, 1000 c.c. For use. dilute with distilled water, 1 to 7 or 10, and apply to parts on several thicknesses of gauze, covered with rubber tissue or...