Advice to a wife and mother in two parts

by Pye Henry Chavasse

Mix.—The ointment to be applied to the piles three times a day.[^[64]] Or the compound Gall Ointment (B.P.) may, in the same manner, be applied.

312. If the heat and the pain be great, the following liniment will be found useful:

Take of—French Brandy,

Glycerin, of each, half an ounce:

Mix.—The liniment to be frequently applied, by means of a camel’s-hair pencil, to the piles, first shaking the bottle.

313. The bowels ought to be kept gently and regularly opened, either by taking every morning one or two teaspoonfuls of compound confection of senna, or by a dose of the following electuary:

Take of—Sublimed Sulphur, half an ounce;

Powdered Ginger, half a drachm;

Cream of Tartar, half an ounce;

Confection of Senna, one ounce;