5708. Simple Remedy for Piles

5708. Simple Remedy for Piles. Take fresh white pine pitch in pills, from 12 to 20 a day, and sit in a tub of cold water 4 or 5 times a day, 30 minutes each time, for a month. A very obstinate case of piles was cured by this treatment.

5709. Internal Remedy for Piles

5709.      Internal Remedy for Piles. Pulverize in a mortar and mix thoroughly, 1 ounce each of cream of tartar, jalap, senna, flowers of sulphur, and golden seal, and 1/2 ounce saltpetre. Dose, a tea-spoonful 3 times a day.

5710. External Remedy for Piles

5710.  External Remedy for Piles. Boil some of the inner bark of white oak in water, and strain; evaporate to a thick extract. To J pint of this extract, add 1/2 pint of oil rendered from old, strong bacon. Simmer together till mixed, and let it cool. Apply with the finger inside the rectum every night and until cured.

5711. Persulphate of Iron for Piles

5711.    Persulphate of Iron for Piles. An ointment made of 1/2 drachm persulphate of iron, and 1 ounce simple salve, has been found especially beneficial in cases of ulcerated hemorrhoid. Dr. Geo. S. Cartwright describes a case of hemorrhoid in which there was an external tumor of the size of a large pea, protruding, at certain times, to the size of a walnut. He applied lead water freely to the part, with an application of this salve before the patient retired at night, and the effect was almost immediate, relieving the pain and cauterizing the part. The effect of this salve is permanent. The same physician occasionally uses the ointment with double the above proportion of the persulphate.

5712. Treatment for Irregular Menstruation, or Monthly Flow

5712.    Treatment for Irregular Menstruation, or Monthly Flow. Where the flow is absent, or irregular. The treatment of cases of this kind should embrace every possible means of improving the general health, particularly the enjoyment of pure air, and the use of the shower or hip-bath; moderate exercise, especially on horseback; with a wholesome nutritious diet. The medical treatment must not bo trifled with, as it requires considerable watching; it should therefore be carried out under the eye of a skillful physician. "When the slightest appearance of menstruation takes place, the patient should bo kept as quiet as possible; and, in order to encourage the flow, recourse should be had to the use of the warm hipbath; indeed, very frequently it will be found that a hot hip-bath, containing a handful of the flowers of mustard, used every night for the week preceding the regular time for the flow to appear, and accompanied by a good rubbing with a rough towel of the hips and lower part of the front of the body, will greatly assist in bringing on the flow.

5713. Treatment for Interrupted or Suppressed Menstruation

5713.      Treatment for Interrupted or Suppressed Menstruation. The same suggestions in the way of treatment apply as in No. 5712. When interruption has taken place suddenly, recourse should be had to the warm hip-bath, bed, and some warm drink, such as sherry and water, or a little brandy, or hot ginger water. "When cessation for one or more periods has occurred, then it is specially important to favor, as much as possible, its restoration by attention to those particulars of general treatment already adverted to.