DISEASES CLASS II. 1. 3. 2.. 



twice a day with cold vinegar and water, or cold salt and water> 

 or cold water alone by means of a sponge. If some parts are 

 too cold, as the extremities, while other parts are too hot, as the 

 face or breast, cover the cold parts with flannel, and cool the hot 

 parts by a current of cool air, or bathing them as above. 



4. For the healing of ulcers, if in the mouth, solution of alum 

 in water about 40 grains to an ounce, or of blue vitriol in water, 

 one grain or two to an ounce, may be used to touch them with 

 three or four times a day. Of these perhaps a solution of alum 

 is to be preferred, as it instantly takes away the stench from 

 ulcers, I suppose by combining with the volatile alkali which at- 

 tends it. For this purpose a solution of alum of an ounce to a pint 

 of water should be frequently injected by means of a syringe into 

 the mouth. If there are ulcers on the external skin, fine powder 

 of bark seven parts, and cerussa in fine powder one part, should 

 be mixed and applied dry on the sore, and kept on by lint and a 

 bandage. 



As sloughs in the mouth are frequently produced by the previ- 

 ous dryness of the membranes which line it, this dryness should 

 be prevented by frequently moistening them, which may be af- 

 fected by injection with a syringe, or by a moist sponge, or last- 

 ly in the following manner. Place a glass of wine and water, or 

 of milk and sugar, on a table by the bed side, a little above the 

 level of the mouth of the patient; then, having previously mois- 

 tened a long piece of narrow listing, or cloth, or flannel, with the 

 same liquor, leave one end of it in the glass, and introduce the 

 other into the mouth of the patient; which will thus be supplied 

 with a constant oozing of the fluid through the cloth, which acts 

 as a capillary syphon. 



The viscid phlegm, which adheres to the tongue, should be coa- 

 gulated by some austere acid, as by lemon-juice evaporated to 

 half its quantity, or by crab-juice; and then it may be scraped 

 off by a knife, or rubbed off by flannel, or a sage-leaf dipped in 

 vinegar, or in salt and water. 



2. Erysipelas. St. Anthony's fire may be divided into three 

 kinds, which differ in their method of cure, the irritated, the in- 

 irritated, and the sensitive erysipelas. 



Erysipelas irritatum is attended with increase of irritation be- 

 sides increase of sensation; that is, with strong, hard and full 

 pulse, which requires frequent venesection, like other inflamma- 

 tions with arterial strength. It is distinguished from the phleg- 

 monic inflammations of the last genus by its situation on the 

 external habit, and by the redness, heat, and tumour, not being 

 distinctly circumscribed; so that the eye or finger cannot exactly 

 trace the extent of them. 



