An army physician prescribed for a patient an emollient clyster.
In cases of local injury the inflammation should first be subdued by astringent and emollient lotions, and in all cases the system should be invigorated by nourishing diet, while 30-grain doses of nux vomica are given twice a day.
The bath should be at an extreme of temperature--either ice cold to constrict the tissues or hot water to act as an emollient and to favor circulation.
The leaves are used externally as a fomentation, and the boiled roots are bruised and applied as an emollient poultice.
This combination of the astringent and the emollient principle seldom fails to produce the desired effect.
The toilet soap and tar soap made from vaseline are superior in emollient and healing properties, to similar preparations from glycerine.
This should be followed by emollient cataplasms, reaching from ear to ear, to favor continuous hemorrhagic oozings from the leech-bites.
The root bark is used internally in an infusion (4-8 grams to 1 liter of water) as an emollient in irritability of the bladder and urethra and has been recommended for such a purpose by Mooden Sheriff.
An infusion of the leaves and flowers is used as an emollient in place of mallows.
They possess emollient qualities and are official in the codex.
The entire plant isemollient and its principal use is as a poultice for inflammations, bruises, etc.
The fruit is emollient by virtue of the large quantity of mucilage it contains, but it is more interesting for other properties.
The root is a good substitute for licorice, is emollient and has an agreeable taste.
In some places the decoction of the leaves is given internally as an emollientand diuretic for gonorrhoea.
It is then strained and given in doses of 4-5 glassfuls a day, at the same time with refreshing and emollient drinks, and prolonged tepid baths.
It is emollient and, in decoction, is used as a substitute for flaxseed.
The infusion of the root is used internally as an emollient and refrigerant; externally in skin diseases accompanied by smarting and inflammation.
The leaves are emollient and in the Philippines, India and the Southern States of North America they are commonly used to make poultices, as a substitute for linseed.
The flowers areemollient and are widely used by the Filipinos as a domestic remedy; they are bruised and applied to boils, tumors and all sorts of inflammations.
On account of its emollient properties and probably on account of its twisted form, it is used internally as a decoction, in flatulence and the intestinal colic of children.
The seeds are used in North America in dysentery and as a galactagogue, and the juice of the leaves as an emollient in diarrhoea and mild dysentery.
The dried leaves, when soaked out in warm water, will serve as an excellent emollient poultice.
The pulp of Turkey Figs is mucilaginous, and has been long esteemed as a pectoral emollient for coughs: also when stewed and, added to ptisans, for catarrhal troubles of the air passages, and of other mucous canals.
The white Cabbage is most putrescible; the red most emollient and pectoral.
The laxative properties of the Mallow, both as regards its emollient leaves, and its radix altheoe efficacior, were told of by Cicero and Horace.
Furthermore, a poultice prepared from the fresh green juicy leaves, is emollient and cooling, whilst an ointment made from them with hog's lard, is manifestly healing.
In conjunction with general and local bleeding, fomentations were had recourse to in almost every case, and applied to the epigastrium in the form of poultices, or flannels wrung out of warm emollient decoctions.
Emollient poultices were now applied; these, however, did not prevent the formation of an abscess, which was opened by means of caustic potash.
Emollient poultices and drinks were prescribed, and a low diet enjoined.
They terminated in death; after a treatment by lotions of honey of roses and spirit of vitriol, with emollient and resolvent cataplasms.
To Saint Fiacre is dedicated the mullein, with its emollient leaves; boiled to make a poultice, it relieves colic, which this saint has a reputation for curing.
No stimulating applications to the feet are to be used, such as salt water, ley, fish brine, or urine, but rather emollient poultices and cooling washes.
Leeches were again employed; emollient lotions and aperient medicines were resorted to.
This species of ophthalmia is best subdued by the application of emollient poultices, depletion, purgation and cooling washes.
The pain and suppuration are inevitable, but generally yield to emollient applications.
Let her also anoint the woman's privities with emollient oil, hog's grease, and fresh butter, if she find they are hard to be dilated.
The Prussian belief in sand-paper as an emollient must be by now rudely shaken.
They eulogised, at the same time, the emollient properties of the dog's-tooth.
A cupping-glass is next applied, and after this has remained on for several hours, the sore is to be dressed with an emollient poultice or some simple unguent, or fomented with cloths wrung out of warm water and laudanum.
The vesicles are then opened with a needle, and the part covered with a light emollient poultice or the warm-water dressings.
The application of an emollient poultice, with the addition of hyoscyamus, is beneficial when it has been found impossible to remove the whole of a fine powder.
The author, moreover, commends external fomentations made by means of sponges soaked with emollient decoctions and afterward squeezed; and also the application of moderately hot cataplasms.
His eyes lighted up with the advent of an emollient hope, and a half-smile touched his lips.
When the swellings break, apply emollient ointments for a few days.
This combination of the astringent and emollient principle seldom fails to produce the desired effect.
A blister should be employed as soon as possible, and mildemollient injections of gruel or barley water, till stools be obtained.
Nothing can be applied with safety but emollient clysters and fomentations, and to drink copiously of camomile tea, or any other diluting liquor, till the spasms be relieved, and the nature of the disease more clearly understood.
In external inflammations, attended with heat and swelling of the part affected, cooling applications and a little opening medicine are the best adapted; and in some cases, cataplasms of warm emollient herbs may be used with advantage.
A useful liniment for this disorder may be made of two ounces of emollient ointment, and half an ounce of laudanum.
An emollient ointment, for anointing any external inflammations, may be made as follows.
The first object is to cleanse the wound with emollient poultices, and soften it with yellow basilicon ointment, to which may be added a little turpentine or red precipitate.
As a dressing for scald-head, after the scabs have been removed byemollient liniments or poultices.
Dose, 2 or 3 table-spoonfuls, ad libitum; as a demulcent and emollient in coughs and colds, or as a vehicle for more active medicines.
As anemollient and soothing dressing to excoriations, irritable ulcers, &c.
The decoction or jelly is a useful and popular demulcent and emollient in pulmonary affections, dysentery, scrofula, rickets, &c.
Soap plaster is emollient and resolvent, and is used in abrasions and excoriations, and as a dressing to soft corns, lymphatic tumours, &c.
Emollient and stimulant; seldom used in regular practice, but in great repute amongst the common people.
The above ointment is reputed to be emollient and cooling, and has always been a great favourite with the common people.
It is added to poultices as an emollient in pneumonia and skin diseases.
Emollient (soothing) enemata for soothing irritated and painful mucous membrane; starch and drugs are also used.
From their demulcent and emollient properties, the leaves and immature fruit have long been in repute in the East for the preparation of poultices and fomentations.
The pulp of roasted onions, with oil, forms an excellent anodyne and emollient poultice to suppurating tumours.
Poultices are emollient and sedative, but their protracted use, as of all aqueous applications, macerates and weakens the skin, and tends to perpetuate the disease or cause boils.
We think that Sir Erasmus Wilson mentions that terribly distressing ailment eczema among those which yield to the emollient and cleansing effects of the bath.
It is emollient when used as a water dressing or in the condition of steam, and it is stimulant when cold or hot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "emollient" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
