Equal parts of alcohol and water is an excellent evaporating lotion for the relief of superficial inflammations—bruises, inflamed joints, orchitis, etc. Alcohol is an excellent haemostatic for restraining oozing from a large surface. For suppurating wounds alcohol is an efficient antiseptic dressing—it destroys germs, removes fetor, and stimulates the tissues to more healthy growth. It favors the cicatrization of open wounds by coagulating the albumen and thus making an impermeable covering. It is a useful practice to wash the parts threatened with bed-sores with whisky or alcohol; it hardens the cuticle, and prevents ulceration. Sore nipples may be prevented by washing them with brandy after the child nurses, and then dusting them with bismuth carbonate. Brandy-and-water is an excellent lotion for mercurial and other forms of stomatitis requiring stimulant applications. Brandy-and-water is one of the thousand injections used in gonorrhoea.

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