Abscesses:
Symptoms: Swellings, the result of the formation of pus—commonly called matter—accompanied by fever.
Treatment: Apply hot linseed meal poultices, over which should be placed a piece of oil silk to keep in the heat. Repeat poultices often. When swelling quite soft, it should be freely opened, all matter carefully squeezed out, and the cavity washed out with warm boracic lotion. The wound should afterwards be covered over with a few layers of boracic or carbolic gauze, and a bandage applied. Keep wound open two or three days.
Acidy, or Gastric Catarrh:
Symptoms: Great thirst, occasional sickness, loss of condition, and the passing of a quantity of clear-coloured urine.
Treatment: For few days give following mixture:—
Recipe:
| Bicarbonate Soda, | 1 scruple to 2 drachms. |
| Tincture of Rhubarb, | 1 drachm to 4 drachms. |
| Tincture Nux Vomica, | 12 minims to 1 drachm. |
| Tincture of Gentian, | ½ drachm to 3 drachms. |
| Liquor Bismuth, | 2 drachms to 1 ounce. |
| Water to | 1½ ounces to 6 ounces. |
Dose: Half a teaspoonful to one tablespoonful[1] three or four times a day one hour before food.