46 INFLAMMATION OF THE LINING MEMBRANE. 



detain the lotion within the cavity until slight 

 pain be produced. 



One or two grains of the nitrate of silver dis- 

 solved in an ounce of distilled water, and gradually- 

 increased in strength, is perhaps the best injec- 

 tion to begin with. It should be administered 

 with a glass or India-rubber syringe, after the 

 cavity has been freely washed, and may be 

 changed in turn for solutions of the Sulphate of 

 Copper, Alum, Chloride of Zinc, Biborate of Soda, 

 Sulphate of Zinc, Iodide of Potassium, Tannin, 

 Bichloride of Mercury, Sesquichloride of Iron, 

 Chloride of Lime, Permanganate of Potass, &c. 

 The two latter remedies are particularly indicated 

 when the discharge is fetid. Individual expe- 

 rience of comparatively rare diseases must of 

 necessity be limited. The chief object of the 

 foregoing observations has been to suggest a more 

 cautious application of remedies in the treatment 

 of inflammation of the lining membrane of the 

 antrum by injection, and to call attention to some 

 irregular formations of this cavity, which it is 

 beheved are not generally known. 



