The administration of a mild aperient or an enema, rest, starvation and fomentation will probably put matters right again--at any rate for a time.
The patient should be put to bed with his knees resting over a pillow, and a large fomentation under oil silk should be laid over the lower part of the abdomen.
The infusion of Wormwood makes a useful fomentation for inflammatory pains, and, combined with chamomile flowers and bay leaves, it formed the anodyne fomentation of the earlier dispensatories.
Further, "there be nothing more excellent to ease the pains of the haemorrhoids than a fomentation made of the flowers of the Elder and Verbusie, or Honeysuckle, in water or milk, for in a short time it easeth the greatest pain.
Fomentation with hot water and the application of camphorated soap liniment or camphorated oil may produce a revulsive action and prevent suppuration.
When active inflammation is present, fomentation with warm water may be kept up for an hour and followed by the application of the camphorated oil, to which has been added some carbonate of soda and extract of belladonna.
Fomentation of the abdomen, or the application of a warm flaxseed poultice, may greatly relieve.
If the bruise or contusion is not so severe, many cases are quickly cured by constant fomentation with hot water for from two to four hours.
Cold fomentation must then be kept up for another hour or two.
To relieve the toothache, pain in the face, or any other acute pain, the following anodyne fomentation may be applied.
A fomentation of vinegar, or camphorated spirits of wine, if applied immediately, will generally be sufficient: if not, a few drops of laudanum should be added.
The fomentation should be frequently renewed, and the sprained part kept in a state of rest and relaxation.
This Fomentation may be apply'd very hot to very good purpose, viz.
Let the Belly be often fomented in pretty warm Water, which is the most preferable Fomentation of any.
If the redness and pain about the part, and the general feverish symptoms, are great, from eight to twelve leeches are to be applied round the wound, and a warm poppy fomentation or warm bread poultice applied after they drop off.
As the real agent of relief is heat, the fomentation should always be as hot as it can comfortably be borne, and, to insure effect, should be repeated every half-hour.
If it can be procured, oil-silk may be put over the warm-fomentation flannel, instead of the dry piece of flannel.
Another kind of fomentation is composed of dried poppyheads, 4 oz.
If abscess threatens, it may be favored by fomentation and opened as soon as fluctuation from finger to finger shows the formation of matter at a point formerly hard.
One may be made by putting halves of a broom handle through the ends of a short roller towel in the middle of which the fomentation has been placed.
By twisting the sticks in the opposite direction the fomentation can be wrung very dry.
The stupes should be wrung as dry as possible and as they must be very hot to do any good, a fomentation wringer is a great protection for the hands.
Put a little oil or vaseline on the skin and apply the fomentation gradually.
The treatment consists of rest, the recumbent posture, support of the swelling on a small cushion, and the employment of fomentation when the parts are painful.
Inflammation must be subdued by the usual means, and suppuration encouraged by fomentation and poulticing, or warm water dressing.
Fomentation and poultice are also the best applications when a day or two has elapsed between the receipt of the injury and the patient’s application for cure.
Ordinary earache—inflammation extending along the meatus externus, and confined to the lining membrane—will be relieved by leeching behind the auricle, and by assiduous and regular fomentation afterwards.
Fomentation and poultice are used till the swelling begins to disappear, and the discharge to diminish; and the hardened cuticle is removed, when detached.
Fomentation over the abdomen, and sedatives either by the mouth or by the anus, soothe the patient, and render his last moments more calm.
If discharge follow, part of the bandage may be undone from day to day, for the purpose either of employingfomentation or of applying suitable dressing, and still the limb is kept perfectly steady.
Some days after, this dressing is removed, having been previously softened and loosened by fomentation and poultice.
The decoction of the leaves and branches is a good fomentation for women that have not their courses.
In many cases pretty frequent friction, with the hand anointed with a little oil, will be all sufficient, especially if a hot fomentation be used afterwards.
A warm bath, or fomentation with warm water and Laudanum, will assist, and sometimes relieve alone.
Warm water held in the mouth frequently, as a fomentation to the inflamed throat.
A blister may also be applied on the head, and the fomentation nevertheless occasionally repeated.
In this delirium, if the pulse will bear it, venesection should be used, and three or four grains of calomel, with fomentation of the head with warm water for an hour together every three or four hours.
Fomentation clyster with oil and laudanum, push the stone back with a bougie; if from cantharides give half a pint of warm water every ten minutes.
A feeble woman about 40 years of age sprained her ancle, and bruised her leg and thigh; and applied by ill advice a solution of lead over the whole limb, as a fomentation and poultice for about a fortnight.
Could a warm bath made of decoction of bark, or a cold fomentation with it, be of service?
A poultice made in the manner now described, will keep hot for three hours at least, and is by far the most effective form of fomentation which can be employed.
Sarah Gailey's life had indeed latterly developed into a continual fomentationand a continual rocking.
The doctor, who had been and gone, had arranged a system of fomentation and hot-water bottles surpassing anything in even Sarah's experience.
In India they make a decoction of the plant, mix it with onion juice and apply it to the head as a fomentation in hemicrania.
Wight states that the leaves and tops are useful in nervous troubles resulting from debility and that a decoction of them makes a good fomentation for phagedenic ulcers.
These are very effective applied in fomentation to rheumatic joints and their use is extensive both in India and the Malay Archipelago.
At intervals, as the patient feels it desirable, this fomentation may be renewed.
If there is coldness in the feet in such fevered cases, a fomentation may be applied over the legs, or even up to the haunches.
For treatment, pack the feet and legs in hot fomentation over the knees, and apply cold cloths over the stomach and heart, taking care in applying the cold if the patient is weak.
Where the nervous system has been seriously affected, the fomentation must be gradual, and the moist heat gently insinuated into the parts affected.
Of course, if the feet and legs are the parts affected, the fomentation must be applied elsewhere, say on the back, or on the haunches.
If the patient is too weak for bathing, a fomentation may be applied as described in article on Angina Pectoris, only extending, however, over the knees.
Generally this will induce sleep, in which case leave the child warm in the fomentation until it awakes (see Teething).
For more serious injuries, such as bruised nails of the fingers or toes, or such as result from violent knocks on any part, the best remedy is hot fomentation or hot bathing, whichever may be most convenient in application.
Renew the cold cloth as often as the patient feels it agreeable, keeping up the heat of the fomentation all the time.
This explains our hot poultice and fomentation as used with cold cloths.
The fomentationmay then be given once a day until the pain is removed.
The fomentation must never be so hot or so long at a time as to cause discomfort.
As a tepid bath orfomentation it is sedative, and its sedative action is increased by the addition of various substances, such as oatmeal, starch, gelatine, and soda in small quantities.
He begun this night the fomentation to my wife, and I hope it will do well with her.
The object is, to make it act as a fomentation in the immediate vicinity of the parts.
Should not this treatment give relief, make a fomentation of hops, and apply it to the belly; and give half an ounce of manna.
When it is not practicable to confine a fomentation to the injured parts, as in shoulder or hip lameness, constant bathing with the decoction will answer the same purpose.
Carbolic acid, even in comparatively weak solution, is liable to induce dry gangrene when applied as a fomentation to a finger, especially in women and children.
The plaster should be left on from eight to ten hours, and if it has failed to raise a blister, a hot fomentation should be applied to the part.
The warm bath acts as a fomentation to the stomach and the bowels, and gives ease where the usual remedies do not rapidly relieve.
A warm bath (where he is suffering severely) generally gives immediate ease in flatulence, it acts as a fomentation to the bowels.
Day by day the morality in the administration of the funds became worse, and so intense did the ill-feeling engendered by pride become, that the members forgot all about the fomentation of the culture and advancement of the country.
