Ichthyol internally, and external applications of the same drug, and of resorcin, chrysarobin, and pyrogallic acid, have been extolled.
Or a similar paste with the glycerine in the foregoing replaced with ichthyol may be used.
When it has broken down the pus may be drawn out with a cupping-glass, and carbolized glycerine or carbolized water introduced into each opening, and the ichthyol ointment superimposed.
To allay pain the most useful local applications are ichthyolointment (1 in 6), or lead and opium fomentations.
When the glands in the groin are infected, the patient must be confined to bed, and a dressing impregnated with ichthyol and glycerin (10 per cent.
The whole of the inflamed area should be covered with gauze wrung out of a 1 in 10 solution of ichthyol in glycerine.
When an ulcer becomes acutely inflamed as a result of superadded infection, antiseptic measures are employed to overcome the infection, and ichthyol or other soothing applications may be used to allay the pain.
The symptoms may be relieved by ichthyol ointment, glycerin and belladonna, or a mixture of Venice turpentine, castor oil, and collodion applied on lint which is wrapped round the toe.
Cotton soaked in ichthyol and glycerin are frequently of benefit three times a week used as a tampon.
Tampons of ichthyol (ten per cent), mixed with glycerin, introduced twice a week against the cervix and permitted to remain forty-eight hours will often afford relief.
Dry the skin with a soft towel and apply a thick coating of equal parts of Ichthyol and vaselin, and over this place antiseptic gauze or sterilized absorbent cotton.
Between the soakings, the parts should be dressed with the lead and laudanum wash, and rubbed with ichthyol ointment or camphor and laudanum liniment.
For the same purpose:-- Ichthyol 1 dram Olive oil 1 ounce Mix and apply in the rectum on a piece of cotton.
When the symptoms are due to inflammation in the tube alone, ten per cent strength of ichthyol and glycerin tampons placed behind the lower part of the womb three times a week do much to improve the condition.
If seen early enough some cases can be cured by tampons of ichthyol used three times a week and prolonged hot water injections at bed time.
Cover the joints with gauze or absorbent cotton, after putting on the parts a thick coating of ichthyol ointment.
Ichthyol (ten percent) and glycerin tampons placed behind the lower back part of the womb three times a week.
Ichthyol when rubbed undiluted on the normal skin does not set up dermatitis, yet it is a resolvent, and in a high degree a soother of pain and itching.
Over ordinary sulphur preparations it has this advantage, that the sulphur is in very intimate and stable union, so that ichthyol can be united with lead and mercury preparations without decomposition.
Ichthyol has somewhat changed its character during recent years, being now almost completely soluble in water, and stronger in odour than formerly.
Succedaneum for Ichthyol internally as an Alterant, Antiphlogistic, and Assimilative.
Perhaps one of the most widely used is the early varnishing of the affected skin with ichthyol (one part ichthyol, one part distilled water), which is swabbed on after the skin has been cleansed with olive oil.
I apply ichthyol to the naso-pharynx to test the sensitive area described in Chapter III.
Ichthyol does not mix well with the albolene, but precipitates quickly.
In recent years I have hit on a treatment that is more comfortable than ichthyol and in many cases equally effective, though a little slower in giving relief.
If the patient is systematic and will attend to it, the ichthyol may be replaced by the frequent spraying with menthol and eucalyptol, as described in Chapter IV.
It is a case of the technique being more important than the remedy; for I have no doubt that there are other medicines than ichthyol and menthol that will relieve if put on the right spot.
With those adults who can learn to spray the naso-pharynx and who are heroic enough to bear the sharp burning for a few minutes for the sake of ultimate relief, I mix one-tenth ichthyol with the albolene spray solution.
Ichthyol leaves the throat raw and uncomfortable for a few minutes.
If you swab each side of the naso-pharynx with plenty of ichthyol, the reflex contraction of the pharynx while the swab is in it will spread the ichthyol over the right territory.
The manufacturers, McKesson and Robbins, were good enough to experiment in their laboratory with mixtures of ichthyol and albolene.
Ichthyol and the Point in the Naso-pharynx that Controls the Symptoms 17 IV.
Hollister tells me that he had one patient who learned to apply the ichthyol to her own naso-pharynx and, what is more wonderful still, kept up the treatment long enough to get well.
About this time ichthyol was introduced by Merck for the treatment of catarrh of all mucous membranes and I found that ichthyol, used in a certain manner, relieved the symptoms completely.
A brownish oil; principally used in the form of ammonium ichthyol as an antiseptic.
Between these soakings, the part should be dressed with lead and opium wash, and rubbed with ichthyol ointment or camphor liniment.
A dressing of ichthyol and glycerine should be employed for a few days.
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