Bleaching Liq′uid. Solution of chloride of lime.
Bleaching Pow′der. Chloride of lime.
Bleaching Salts. The commercial hypochlorites.
BLEAR′-EYE (blēre′-ī). Syn. Lippitu′do, L.; Chassie, Lippitude, Fr. An exudation of a puriform matter from the margins of the eyelids, which are red, tumid, and painful; and frequently, during the night, glued together by the discharge.
Treatm. Mild astringent collyria, as those of sulphate of zinc or alum (6 or 8 gr. to 1 oz. of water). An ointment formed of 1 part of the ointment of nitrate of mercury (Ph. L.), diluted with 11 parts of sweet washed lard, may be advantageously applied nightly, by means of a camel-hair pencil, the smallest quantity possible only being used. Excess in eating and drinking should be avoided, and some aperient medicine taken.
BLEAK (blēke). Syn. Blay‡, Bley‡, (blā). The cypri′nus albur′nus (Linn.), a small river-fish, the scales of which are used in making artificial pearls (which see).
BLEB. A vesicle or blister. In some states of general derangement of health this arises spontaneously. It should be treated in the same way as scalds.
BLEED′ING (blēde′-). In the sense of a flow or loss of blood, see Hæmorrhage; in that of bloodletting, see Cupping, Leeching, Venesection, &c.
Bleeding Piles. Take every morning aperient doses of milk of sulphur, then a small teaspoonful of confection of black pepper every day. Wash externally with a sponge and cold water. Apply compound gall. ointment to the piles if external.
Bleeding from the Air Passages and Lungs. Let the patient at once go to bed, and keep perfectly quiet, avoiding movement of any kind as much as possible. Administer dilute acids in frequently repeated doses, with five drops of tincture of digitalis. The bowels should be kept open by means of Epsom salts in infusion of roses. Give iced drinks and let solid ice be sucked. Mustard plasters may be applied to the chest. A morphia lozenge may now and then be sucked gradually away, as well as a small piece of sal prunella. The cough must be allayed by the administration of small doses of morphia in gum water or barley water. All food should be taken cold.