Advice to a wife and mother in two parts

by Pye Henry Chavasse

Spirits of Wine), half a drachm;

Prepared Lard, two ounces:

Mix, to make an ointment.

310. If there be great irritation and intense pain, let some very hot water be put into a close stool, and let the patient sit over it. “In piles attended with great irritation and pain, much relief is often obtained by sitting over the steam of hot water for fifteen or twenty minutes, and immediately applying a warm bread-and-milk poultice. These measures should be repeated five or six times a day (Greeves).”[^[63]]

311. If the heat be not great, and the pain be not intense, the following ointment will be found efficacious:

Take of—Powdered Opium, one scruple;

Camphor (powdered by means of a few drops of

Spirits of Wine), half a drachm;

Powdered Galls, one drachm;

Spermaceti Ointment, three drachms: