Mother, Nurse and Infant / A Manual Especially Adapted for the Guidance of Mothers and Monthly Nurses, Comprising Full Instruction in Regard To Pregnancy, Preparation for Child-birth, and the Care of Mother and Child, and Designed to Impart so Much Knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology, Midwifery, and the Proper Use of Medicines as Will Serve Intelligently to Direct the Wife, Mother and Nurse in All Emergencies.

by S. P. Sackett

The vaginal injections most used when disinfection is the special object, and the usual proportions are the following:

℞ Corrosive sublimate, 1 to 1000 or 2000; carbolic acid, 5 or 10 to 1000; thymal, 1 to 1000; sulphite of soda, 5 to 1000; permangenate of potash, 5 to 1000; liquor sodii chlorinatæ (Labaraques solution), 1 to 2; chlorine water, 1 to 2; salacylic acid, 1 to 1000 hot water.

For medicinal astringent vaginal injections, give alum, sulphate of zinc, or lead, copper, and iron, salts of the strength of one or two per cent.

The permangenate of potash, silver nitrate, and iron solutions all make almost indelible stains on the linen.

If the injections are corrosive, a large straight glass syringe should be used.

154. INJECTION FOR LEUCORRHŒA.

℞	Alum,
	Sulphate of zinc,
	Borate of soda,
	Pure carbolic acid	aa. ℥ jss.
	Water	Oij. M.

Of this two table spoonfuls in a pint of water.

155. VAGINAL INJECTION.

℞	Zinci sulphatiz,
	Aluminis exsiccata	aa. ℥ j.
	Acidi tannici	℥ ij. Mix. Label.