The Seaman's Medical Instructor / In a Course of Lectures on Accidents and Diseases Incident to Seamen

by N. D. Falck

Sect. I.	Of the pulse	[50]
Sect. II.	Of the effects of bleeding	[55]
Sect. III.	Of the operation of bleeding	[58]
Sect. IV.	Of the requisite medicines useful at sea	[63]
	A plan of a medicine box—[64]. Of utensils, and medicines—[65]. Lancets, ibid. scissars, probe, spatula—[66]. Bistouries, and incision lancets, teeth instruments, syringes—[67]. Clyster pipes and bladders, clyster syringe, scales and weights—[68]. Splints—[69]. Bandages, rags, tow, lint, tape, needles, thread and pins—[70]. Camomile flowers, balm, sage, sassafrass—[71]. Oatmeal, cinamon, allum, chalk—[72]. Salts, diachylon plaister—[73]. Mercurial plaister, blistering plaister—[74]. Spirits of wine and camphire—[75]. Liniment of soap, sweet oil, sweet spirit of nitre—[76]. Honey, yellow basilicon; elixir of vitriol—[77]. Elixir proprietatis, lenitive electuary—[78]. Turner’s Cerate, fever powders, stomachic powder—[79]. Calomel—[80]. Precipitate—[81]. Mercurial ointment—[82]. Rhubarb, jalap, ipecacuanha, liquid laudanum—[83]. Essential oil of peppermint, Turlington’s balsam	[84]

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LECTURE III.

On accidents, and their proper method of treatment

Sect. I.	Of falls	[89]
Sect. II.	Of wounds—91. Cut wounds	[92]
	bruised wounds—94. Gun-shot wounds	[96]
Sect. III.	Of bruises	[98]
Sect. IV.	Of dislocations	[99]
	Dislocation of the arm with the shoulder	[101]
	Dislocation of the elbow or the knee	[103]
	Of spraining the wrist, or ancle	[103]
	Dislocation of the thigh bone	[104]
Sect. V.	Of fractures	[107]
	A fracture of the skull	[108]
	Fracture of the arm	[109]
	A fracture of the thigh bone	[110]
	A fractured leg	[111]
	Compound fractures	[114]
	Conclusive observations on fractures	[115]
Sect. VI.	Of scalding	[118]
Sect. VII.	Of burning	[119]
Sect. VIII.	Of drowning	[120]
	The method to recover a drowned person	[123]

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LECTURE IV.

On external diseases, and their cure

Sect. I.	Of inflammation	[130]
	Of resolution	[132]
	Of suppuration	[133]
	Of tumours	[134]
	Of mortification	ibid.
Sect. II.	Of ulcerations	[137]
Sect. III.	Of the diseases of the skin	[142]
	Of the itch	ibid.
	Of boils	[144]
	Of ring-worms, daw-worms, &c. &c.	[145]
	Of the lousy disease	ibid.
Sect. IV.	Of promiscuous disorders	[148]
	Of the tooth-ach	[149]
	To draw a tooth	ibid.
	Of sore eyes	[152]
	Of the ear-ach	[153]
	Of hoarseness and sore throat	[154]
Sect. V.	Of the venereal disease	[156]
	Of the gonorrhœa	[157]
	Of the phimosis and paraphimosis	[158]
	Of the chordee, and priapism	[159]
	Of the dysuria	ibid.
	Of shankers	[160]
	Of the bubo	[161]
	Of swelled testicles	[162]
	Of venereal excrescences	[163]
	Of the second infection	[164]
Sect. VI.	Of the bite of venomous animals	[166]
	To cure the bite of a rattle snake	[167]
Sect. VII.	Of the bite of a mad dog	[170]
	The signs of a mad dog	[171]
	The effect of a bite of a mad dog	[172]
	Of the cure of the bite of a mad dog	[173]

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