366 Miscellanies. 



Cancer in a state of suppuration may be disinfected with some 

 lukewarm or cold water, containing a twentieth of the chloride of 

 soda. The same mixture, or weakened still more with from five to 

 ten parts of water, should he used for internal ulcer ; the injec- 

 tions should be made two or three times a day. Boiling water 

 should first be passed through the syringe, and this liquid be imme- 

 diately replaced by the chlorated water ; the heat of the metal will 

 be communicated to the chlorated water, the temperature of which 

 will be sufficiently raised to answer for the injection. 



For ulcerations of the nasal organs, the throat, the palate and the 

 gums, the chloride should be diluted with from eight to ten parts of 

 water ; it will, nevertheless, be necessary to touch these sores with a 

 little lint moistened in some pure chloride. 



For the scald head the chloride should be mixed with only an 

 equal quantity of pure water, and the parts affected be moistened 

 with this liquid twice a day. 



The lint and cloths, that have been used in dressing fetid ulcers, 

 instantly lose their smell on being dipped into water containing a thir- 

 tieth of the chloride. 



Great advantages have been obtained from using the chloride very 

 much diluted in water, for all the purposes of the toilet. In a dose 

 of from twenty to twenty-five drops, it acts as a bracing and preserv- 

 ing wash, prevents the spread of herpetic eruptions, and cures cer- 

 tain diseases of the skin. 



For carbuncle the chloride of soda should be applied pure ; but, 

 in this case, it will be necessary to have recourse to a physician, who 

 will precede the use of this medicine with the means required by the 

 rules of surgery. In order to determine the real nature of the sores, 

 it will be prudent likewise to recur to his experience. 



Every person affected with a severe disease, or with sores of a 

 bad character, vitiates the air of the chamber where he is confined, 

 both patient and attendants suffering from the unwholesome taints. 

 This air may be purified by mixing a spoonful of the chloride with 

 six spoonsful of water in a plate, and setting it under the patient's 

 bed : indeed, several plates of the diluted chloride may be placed in 

 the same apartment, if necessary. In this way, the exhalations will 

 be destroyed as soon as they are produced. It will be necessary to 

 renew daily the chlorated water contained in the plates, and turn it 

 into the vessels where the cloths, that are used for the dressings, are 

 soaked. 



