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.
Hot fomentations or mustard poultices can be next applied to the abdomen.
The local treatment commonly used with this medication consists in the application of alkaline and anodyne fomentations or of dry flannel or cotton.
He was also fond of Dover's powder in its relief, and preferred fomentations to opium, which "only palliates and augments the cause.
Hot fomentations and mustard plaster should be applied over the right hypochondrium, and an entire warm bath may be used if available.
Bran poultices sprinkled with laudanum or other warm fomentations should be applied over the abdomen, although in Germany ice-bags are preferred.
Hot poultices of flaxseed meal or hot fomentations of any sort applied over the entire abdomen have a soothing and beneficial effect.
In all cases of any severity the patient should be treated in bed in the recumbent posture, and warm fomentations should be kept over the region of the stomach.
The relief from pain procured by free evacuation of the intestine will be enhanced by the employment of hot fomentations to the abdomen.
The local application of moist heat orfomentations will more probably do good and give a grateful sense of relief to the sufferer.
Fomentations of aromatic plants may then be applied to the pit of the stomach, bladders of warm water placed to the left side, the soles of the feet rubbed with salt, and a little white wine dropped on the tongue.
When the contusion is slight, fomentations of warm vinegar and water, frequently applied, will generally relieve it.
Violent bleeding at the nose may sometimes be prevented by applying lint dipped in vinegar, or a strong solution of white vitriol, with fomentations of the temples and forehead made of nitre dissolved in water.
Warm fomentations should be applied to the neck, and mustard poultices to the feet.
Fomentations of marshmallows; a light diet of scalded shorts; an occasional drink of thoroughwort tea.
Suppose the secretion of milk to be arrested; then apply warm fomentations to the udder.
To him that is a slave to desire or to fear, house and estate do just as much good as paintings to a sore-eyed person, fomentations to the gout, music to ears afflicted with collected matter.
If now you could quit the cold fomentations of care; whithersoever heavenly wisdom would lead you, you would go.
Treatment: Mustard and hot fomentations over the stomach and bowels, and ice only allowed in the stomach until the inflammation ceases.
But when toothache proceeds from a decayed tooth either have it taken out, or put hot fomentations upon the face, and hot drinks into the mouth, such as tincture of cayenne.
The application of fomentations over the lower part of the abdomen, and the corresponding portion of the spine, or of hot bags, bottles, etc.
When great local irritation exists, with considerable pain and spasmodic muscular action, the application of hot fomentations to the perineum will be found the most effectual means of giving relief.
In some cases, alternate hot and cold applications are more effectual in allaying local irritation than hot fomentations alone.
Fomentations are usually not half carried out by grooms.
If it be desirable to withdraw more blood, hot fomentations should be applied to the bite.
Fomentations should be renewed as often as they cool.
The beneficial effects of hot fomentations and poultices depend on their causing a dilatation of the vessels, and so inducing a hyperæmia in the affected area.
To relieve the pain, warm fomentations or lead and opium lotion should be applied.
Hot fomentationsapplied to the bowels are very valuable.
Hot fomentationsapplied to the abdomen are beneficial.
Warm fomentations applied to the abdomen are sometimes very serviceable, and are objectionable only because of their liability to dampen the bed-clothes.
When the inflammation is located in an organ within a cavity, as the lungs, hot fomentations will be of great service.
Fomentations are effectual in relieving congestion and inflammation.
As local treatment, in the active stage of the disease, the knee-joint should be steamed, and hotfomentations applied.
If there is much inflammation, fomentations of hops may be used.
Hot fomentations or spirits of turpentine should be applied to the throat.
If inflammatory symptoms supervene, fomentations and poultices should be applied.
Hot fomentations should be applied to the throat and upper portions of the chest.
Hot fomentations made with stramonium leaves and lobelia, and applied over the painful parts, are beneficial.
Fomentations are chiefly employed to allay pain or irritation, or to promote suppuration or the healthy action of the parts.
Fomentations of vinegar are sometimes prepared with white, with rose, or with aromatic vinegar (Paris Codex) in the proportion of one of vinegar to four of water.
Fomentations are distinguished from lotions chiefly in being applied in a heated state, and in larger quantities, and for a longer period at a time.
In recent cases it is best to apply cold applications, but in protracted and chronic cases, hot fomentations will be found best.
When the pain is extreme, warm fomentations to the belly, or a carminative clyster, will generally give relief.
This should be combined with clysters and hot fomentations to the belly.
They are chiefly used as fomentations and clysters.
If, on the contrary, the head is cold, then warm fomentations to it will be the proper treatment.
When the case is a cold one with slow pulse, use no cold cloths, but apply fomentations over the liver, as well as to the feet and legs.
If the injury be to the muscular substance only, it is easily healed; hot fomentations should be given to the sprained parts, with perfect rest and every possible ease and comfort by position, etc.
Fomentations must be given to the feet and legs, if any feeling of chill is felt.
If he feels chilly, hot fomentations to the feet and legs, as described in article on Angina Pectoris, may be applied.
Give plenty of water; apply hotfomentations to loins.
If the pulse be low, fomentations to the feet should be applied, along with cooling action elsewhere, if necessary.
Cooling applications to a fevered stomach and warm fomentations to a cold one will often promote digestion marvellously.
The treatment will not be likely to cure in a day or in a week, but patient perseverance with the fomentations should eventually effect a cure.
Strong fomentations are also applied for half-an-hour daily (see Armchair Fomentation).
At this stage two or three fomentations (see) well applied may very likely cure it entirely.
In such a case it may be supported; but means must be used by hot fomentations to strengthen the joint, and general rubbing, especially on the spine, must be used to increase vital force.
Strong fomentations round the lower part of the body may be used.
After a few such fomentationsit begins to act as perhaps it has ceased to act for months, and even for years.
Fomentations of warm Water should also be applied to the Throat, the Breast and Belly, with Glysters of the same, and a little Milk.
Drachm of which must be taken every two Hours; Scarifications throughout the whole gangrened Part; and Fomentations with a Decoction of the Bark, and the Addition of Spirit of Sulphur.
Fomentations of warm Water and Half-baths are also very proper.
If Fomentations should be thought preferable, take the same Herbs, or some Pugils of the Ingredients for Faltrank: throw them into a Pint and a Half of boiling Water: and let them infuse some Minutes.
Opiates, emollient enemata, andfomentations to the abdomen will subsequently be found useful.
Henbane or opium, in many instances combined with stimulants, ice internally, and hot fomentations externally, will frequently be found of great service.
This should be treated like the above, though it may sometimes demand fomentations with warm water to ward off inflammation, and it may be a week before the natural condition of the gland is restored.
To this end soothing applications, such as antiseptic fomentations and poultices, are plainly indicated.
Fomentations with warm water over the loins should be persisted in without intermission until relief has been secured.
Afterwards treat the ear with frequent warm water fomentations and the injection of soapy water or oil and water.
When any of these symptoms are absent, the suppuration should be encouraged by the means of hot fomentationsand poultices.
Hot fomentations may then be applied to hasten the absorption of the inflammatory fluids.
Applications of cold water to check the inflammatory processes is indicated for the first few days in aseptic periostitis, followed by hot fomentations to hurry resorption of fluids.
At first, hot fomentationsto reduce pain and fever, followed by a sharp blister below the ear.
If the cause is rheumatic in its nature, fomentations should never be employed, for fear of increasing the flux.
When the wound is a very large one, the application of warm poppy fomentations is better than that of the lint dipped in cold water.
When the breathing is very laboured and difficult in consequence, from fifteen to twenty leeches are to be immediately applied to the outside of the throat, and when they drop off, warm poppy fomentations constantly kept to the part.
If inflammation should take place, it is to be treated by applying leeches and warm poppy fomentations to the part where the pain is most felt, and giving two tablespoonfuls of the fever mixture every four hours.
Fomentations of warm oil of turpentine, if they can be obtained, should be put over the whole of the belly.
Hot fomentations over the appendicular region are valuable.
Hot fomentationsapplied to the back, over the region of the kidneys, will relieve the pain, and gentle massage in the same locality will be found beneficial.
It is only in passing, that their presence becomes known, when all that can be done is, to favor their passage by copious fomentations of hot water and diligent use of the "Cascade.
Fomentations with warm water may also be used to favor oozing from the incisions and to encourage the formation of white matter in the original wounds, which must not be allowed to close again at once.
When portions of the skin are destroyed, their early separation should be hastened by warm fomentations and poultices.
Suppuration follows, and this should now be encouraged by hot fomentations and poultices.
This is greatly favored at times if we apply hot fomentations immediately about the obstruction.
Warm fomentations and douches with cold water will often promote permanent recovery, and liberty in a box stall or in the field will in many cases insure constant relief.
Repeated hotfomentations over the region of lacerated wounds afford much relief and should be persisted in.
Hot fomentations or poultices are sometimes required for a day or two after an abscess has opened, and are particularly indicated when the base of the abscess is hard and indurated.
Simple frostbites are best treated by cold fomentations followed by applications of a 5 per cent solution of carbolized oil.
Hot fomentations and poultices are to be constantly used, and as soon as the presence of pus can be detected, the abscess wall is to be opened at its lowest point.
For simple bruises, like those which appear in the form of broken knees or of carpitis, simple remedies, such as warm fomentations or cold-water applications and compresses of astringent mixtures, suggest themselves at once.
In suppression of urine, fomentations with warm water or with infusion of digitalis leaves is a safer resort than diuretics, and cupping over the loins may also benefit.
To the same end use warmfomentations across the loins, and these should be kept up persistently until relief is obtained.
Fomentations with warm water over the loins are always useful in calming the excitable conditions of the spinal cord, muscles, liver, and kidneys, and also in favoring secretion from the two latter.
Fomentations or sponges, wet in some decoctions, &c.
Vaseline is also used to grease such utensils as nozzles and to put on the parts to which poultices or fomentations are to be applied.
After the hæmorrhage has ceased and the purulent contents of the abscess, if present, have drained away, fomentations should be applied and changed frequently during the first twenty-four hours.
But no time should be lost in laying the wound freely open, searching for any shut-off focus of pus, and applying hot boric fomentations diligently.
Energetic treatment with atropine and hot fomentations locally, with the internal administration of iron, is indicated.
If a distressing feeling be experienced about the bladder, give warm and copious draughts of linseed tea, milk, or decoction of quince seeds, and apply warm fomentations of milk and water to the blistered surface.
Apply poppy-head fomentations to bowels, and leeches if the belly is very tender.
Leeches to the throat, with hot fomentationsas long as the attack lasts; the emetic, No.
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