Liniments and lotions are applied to the skin for the relief of some near-lying part, such as a muscle, tendon, or joint.
As anodynes may be mentioned liniments and ointments containing salicylic acid or sodium salicylate in combination with laudanum, aconite, or chloral hydrate.
There are some whose opinion is not to be put aside lightly, who think that the rubbing alone is the most important part of these external treatments and that the liniments and counter-irritants are only of secondary importance.
In our day the liniments have been neglected, more perhaps than was proper, considering how many generations of physicians found them beneficial.
Liniments for these conditions, however, though introduced on merely empirical grounds, are very old and have the testimony of many generations as to their therapeutic efficiency.
Mild, stimulating liniments are usually used in connection with hand-rubbing or friction.
The local treatment consists in applying mildliniments or blisters to the shoulder.
As a dressing for scald-head, after the scabs have been removed by emollient liniments or poultices.
The greater number of cerates and ointments may be converted into liniments by simply reducing their consistence with almond or olive oil, or oil of turpentine.
Liniments are generally administered by friction with the hand or fingers, or with some substance (as a piece of flannel) capable of producing a certain amount of irritation of the skin.
In most cases in which liniments are found beneficial, the advantage obtained from them is attributable rather to the friction or local irritation than to any medicinal power in the preparation itself.
All the above liniments with lime water should be used as soon as possible after being prepared, as the ingredients separate by keeping.
Externally, fly blisters or strong, irritant liniments may be applied to the paralyzed parts.
Blankets dipped in very hot water to which a small quantity of turpentine has been added should be placed around the belly and covered with dry blankets or the abdomen may be rubbed with stimulating liniments or mustard water.
Rubbing or kneading of the abdominal walls and the application of stimulating liniments or strong mustard water also, at times, favor the expulsion of this mass.
Blisters and irritating liniments should not be applied to the throat.
In purpura rheumatica the arthritic pains will be alleviated by anodyne liniments and plasters, and the often accompanying abdominal pains and colic by anodynes internally administered.
Sinapisms, turpentine stupes, and stimulating and rubefacient liniments answer well in some cases, and should be tried.
Rubbing the spine with stimulating or anodyneliniments frequently promises well.
Small fly blisters or strong iodine paint may be applied close to the joints, or the ordinary iodine tincture may be brushed over them, or the above ointments or liniments and one of the bland oils may be more forcibly rubbed in.
As a local remedy, blistering is by far the most prompt and effectual, and worth all the liniments and unguents that have ever been devised.
When swelling exists without pain, considerable advantage may be derived from frictions and liniments of various kinds, with careful bandaging.
It may be observed generally, that no benefit can be derived from external applications to tumours, such as friction withliniments or ointments containing iodine, mercury, &c.
Embrocations do not differ, materially, from liniments and lotions, and are applied in the same manner.
Externally, it is employed in linimentsfor rheumatic pains.
It is always necessary to apply liniments to the throat, and I would advise the application of Aqua Ammonia Fort.
It is always necessary to apply strong liniments to the throat, as they relieve inflammation and stimulate the formation of an abscess.
Acute inflammation is treated by means of local application of cold or hot packs until the pain and acute stage of inflammation has subsided and later stimulating liniments are indicated.
Anodyne liniments are of service and should be employed throughout the acute stage of inflammation during intervals between the hydrotherapeutic treatments.
You could see plain by their linimentshow glad and proud they wuz to be in Chicago, a-lookin' down on that seen of beauty all round 'em.
They wuz first-rate lookin' men, too, and you could see plain by their liniments how much store they sot by each other.
The muscular hyperæsthesia common to both forms of the disease may be generally greatly relieved by anodyne linimentscontaining aconite.
If such liniments are used, care should be taken that they do not contain ingredients that may disorganize the skin either immediately or subsequently.
For the latter purpose it is preferable to the frictions with flannel or with stimulating liniments which are generally employed.
Still, the neuralgic pains felt in the spinal nerves may be mitigated by stimulant and anodyne liniments applied with friction to the spinal column.
When this is slight it demands no special modification of the previous treatment, and it is sufficient to apply mustard poultices or stimulating liniments to the chest.
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