Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners: A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And MarriageJefferis, B. G. (Benjamin Grant)
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Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners: A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
Jefferis, B. G. (Benjamin Grant)
Marriage; Medicine, Popular; Sexual ethics
Mix turpentine and lard in equal parts. Warmed and rubbed on the chest, it
is a safe, reliable and mild counter irritant and revulsent in minor lung
complications. {347}
TREATMENT FOR MUMPS.
It is very important that the face and neck be kept warm. Avoid catching
cold, and regulate the stomach and bowels, because, when aggravated, this
disease is communicated to other glands, and assumes there a serious form.
Rest and quiet, with a good condition of the general health, will throw off
this disease without further inconvenience.
TREATMENT FOR FELON.
All medication, such as poulticing, anointing, and the applications of
lotions, is but useless waste of time. The surgeon's knife should be used
as early as possible, for it will be required sooner or later, and the more
promptly it can be applied, the less danger is there from the disease, and
the more agony is spared to the unfortunate victim.
TREATMENT FOR STABS.
A wound made by thrusting a dagger or other oblong instrument into the
flesh, is best treated, if no artery has been severed, by applying lint
scraped from a linen cloth, which serves as an obstruction, allowing and
assisting coagulation. Meanwhile cold water should be applied to the parts
adjoining the wound.
TREATMENT FOR MASHED NAILS.
If the injured member be plunged into very hot water, the nail will become
pliable and adapt itself to the new condition of things, thus alleviating
agony to some extent. A small hole may be bored on the nail with a pointed
instrument, so adroitly so as not to cause pain, yet so successfully as to
relieve pressure on the sensitive tissues. Free applications of arnica or
iodine will have an excellent effect.
TREATMENT FOR FOREIGN BODY IN THE EYE.
When any foreign body enters the eye, close it instantly, and keep it still
until you have an opportunity to ask the assistance of some one; then have
the upper lid folded over a pencil and the exposed surfaces closely
searched; if the body be invisible, catch the everted lid by the lashes,
and drawing it down over the lower lid, suddenly release it, and it will
resume its natural position. Unsuccessful in this attempt, you may be
pretty well assured that the object has become lodged in the tissues, and
will require the assistance of a skilled operator to remove it.
CUTS.
A drop or two of creosote on a cut will stop its bleeding. {348}
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