Astringents are medicines given for the purpose of diminishing excessive discharges, and to act indirectly as tonics.
If the injury leads to paralysis of the penis and hanging out of its sheath, it should be supported in a sling and astringents used freely until inflammation subsides.
Great harm is often done by giving opium and astringents at the outset.
Should laxatives fail, aromatics and astringents are called for, and 1 oz.
The remedies containing astringents are the most efficacious.
If there is much diarrh[oe]a, astringentsmay be afterwards given.
It is the custom to combine astringents with opium, but in acute cases of short duration it is a question whether astringents do not do more harm than good.
Astringents and caustics of various kinds have been extensively employed, carefully applied to the floors of the fissures, but it is very rarely that any benefit ensues.
With the laudanum, or without it, the mineral astringents can be used by enema.
To the water used in irrigation astringents may be added in small doses.
Much testimony is to be found in its support in cases tending to become chronic and where astringents combined with opiates have failed after some days' trial.
Various astringents may be employed, while the use of opium often secures most gratifying relief.
Mild astringents are applicable, but strong astringents are often actually injurious.
In the earlier stages the increased vascularity and hypersecretion call for mild astringents or for medicines which are believed empirically to oppose these conditions.
Should ulceration attack the legs, as is often the case, the application of mild astringents and stimulative ointments will be all that is required.
Far more probable is it that, in so far as they are of use, it is because they act as astringents upon the digestive mucous membrane.
What is true of leucorrhea is also true of all other functional troubles affecting the female genital canal; they are all treated best by astringents and antiseptics.
Hence, the proportion of the sulphate, or of any other salt of iron, and that of the astringents, should vary according to the astringents made use of, and according to their respective quantities.
Astringents differ from one another as to the quantity of the principle which enters into combination with the oxide of iron.
The mixture of logwood with astringents contributes to the beauty of the black in a twofold way.
Among other powerful astringents I may notice the root of a species of Sea Lavender (Statice Caroliniana), Myrica cerifera, and Heuchera Americana, all natives of North America.
That such simple astringents and feeble antiseptics as alum, borax and boric acid could have such remarkable curative effects on uterine diseases is absurd.
The formula showed a rare combination | | of astringents and sedatives.
The ulcerations may be touched with a little honey or borax; and if they assume a dark colour, or there be much debility, astringents and tonics should be had recourse to.
They are now rarely made use of; though both the fresh leaves and roots might doubtless be of service in cases where mild astringents are required.
They are recommended as vulnerary medicines, and in all cases where mild astringents or corroborants are proper.
Astringents are irritant and poisonous in large doses.
Astringents act very much alike on external parts; only that some are more soluble than others, and some excel the rest in chemical activity.
The circumstance that the astringents just mentioned are efficacious in diarrh[oe]a seems to point to their access to the intestinal surface from the blood.
Nearly all astringents have the power of coagulating or precipitating albumen.
When thus applied as Astringents externally, their solutions must be very dilute, for all the mineral Astringentsare caustic and corrosive, destroying texture, when in the solid state, or in strong solutions.
They affect the muscular system; but it is altogether an assumption to assert that these medicines, Astringentsand Tonics, do so by influencing the nerves.
It is a very useful remedy in all cases whereAstringents are required.
The principal vegetable substances that are employed as Astringents are said to contain Tannic acid in the following proportions:-- Kino 70 per cent.
All the mineral Astringentshave the power of precipitating an albuminous solution.
From this it follows that the mineral acids, Alum, and the salts of Iron, are the only astringents of this order which can in all cases be given internally with advantage.
Thus vegetable acids act as diuretics; and mineral, as astringents to the glands generally.
Thus Acetate of lead is employed in haemoptysis; Creosote and Uvae Ursi are used in haemorrhage from the stomach or bladder; and the vegetable Astringents are prescribed in Dysentery.
Astringents constitute the third class of medicines which operate on the system after being introduced into the stomach.
It is the best and safest of all Astringents for internal use, excepting only Gallic acid.
When the animal begins to recover, gentle astringents and tonics may be given.
Astringents are medicines which condense and coagulate the tissues, thereby arresting discharges.
The term styptic is used as a synonym of astringent, but is generally employed to designate those astringentswhich arrest hemorrhage, or bleeding.
All the astringents of the pharmacopoeia have been employed with more or less advantage, and some particular one seems to suit particular cases or patients.
After this the astringents spoken of for diarrhea may be given.
The various preparations of iron are astringents and excitants to the digestive system.
The simple astringents of mineral origin, sulphates of iron, copper, etc.
The formation of scab is favored by astringents and styptics, such as tannic acid, iodoform, and 5 per cent solution of zinc chlorid.
The vegetable or mineralastringents are also to be given.
All Astringents that are not Causticks, are proper for the Syringe.
Whensoever it is necessary to apply Desiccatives and Astringents to any Part, this Cerate may be mingl'd with Unguentum de Cerussa.
But all Repercussives and Astringents must be avoided.
In the mean while Aromaticks, Resolutives, and moderate Astringentsmay be apply'd outwardly.
If the Purging still continued, we were obliged to join the Use of Astringentsalong with the Opiates.
By the Use of some of the mild Astringents and Corroborants.
In other kinds of looseness, astringents are useful; but it is also well that the patient should speak but little, that he should not touch or move the loose tooth, nor use it in masticating.
If looseness of the teeth follows a blow, it is well, first of all, to let blood, and then to use astringents and excitants.
The cure must consist in acting upon such vicious humors by means of local or general medicaments according to circumstances and also in strengthening the substance itself of the teeth by the use of astringents and tonic remedies.
The use of astringents in dyeing depends upon the tannic acid they contain.
The astringents mostly used are tannic acid, gall nuts, sumach and myrobalams.
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