5777. Beach's Cure for White Swelling

5777.    Beach's Cure for White Swelling. Oil of hemlock, oil of sassafras, gum camphor, tincture of opium, 1/2 ounce each, and a pint of spirits of wine. When dissolved and properly mixed, bathe the part with it frequently. Then apply an oatmeal and bran poultice, mixed with a little finely powdered charcoal, salt, and cayenne pepper. If the pain is great, sprinkle on the poultice 1/4 ounce laudanum. Keep it on as long as possible, and then steam.

5778. To Relieve Sea-Sickness

5778.   To Relieve Sea-Sickness. Take camphorated spirit, sal-volatile, and Hoffman's anodyne, a few drops of each, mixed in a small quantity of water, or upon a small lump of sugar. This often relieves when other prescriptions fail.

5779. To Prevent Sea-Sickness

5779.    To Prevent Sea-Sickness. The neutralizing mixture (see No. 5666 (Neutralizing Mixture)) is a good preventive. So is a tea-spoonful of bicarbonate of soda in 1/2 pint of water. Take an aperient before a voyage. One of the best means of counteracting the tendency to seasickness, is to keep a horizontal position. A little chloroform has lately been suggested as a good remedy. 5 to 10 drops on a piece of lump sugar.

5780. Treatment of Debility

5780. Treatment of Debility. This arises from a diseased action of tho stomach; the occasional use of mild aperients, followed by bitters and tonics, is the best treatment. When, from a general laxity of the solids, and there are no symptoms of fever, nor a tendency of the blood to tho head, a course of iron tonics will prove advantageous. Either of the following may be adopted for this purpose: Pure sulphate of iron, 1 drachm; extract of gentian and powdered ginger, of each 11/2 drachms; beat together into a mass, and divide into 120 pills, 1 to be taken morning, noon, and night. Or: Sulphate of iron and powdered myrrh, of each 1 drachm; sulphate of quinine, \ drachm; conserve of roses, sufficient to form a pill mass. Divide into 120 pills, administered as the last.

5781. Remedy for Sick Stomach and Vomiting

5781.    Remedy for Sick Stomach and Vomiting. Mix 24 drops creosote, 1 drachm each white sugar and gum-arabic, with 3 ounces water. Administer a tea-spoonful every 2 hours, until vomiting ceases.

5782. Sunstroke

5782.      Sunstroke. This is a sudden prostration due to long exposure to great heat, especially when much fatigued or exhausted. It commonly happens from undue exposure to the sun's rays in summer, but the same effects have been produced in a baker from great heat of the bake-room. It begins with pain in the head, or dizziness, quickly followed by loss of consciousness and complete prostration. Sometimes, however, the attack is as sudden as a stroke of apoplexy. Tho head is often burning hot, the face dark and swollen, the breathing labored and snoring, and the extremities cold.