Bed-Sores

Alcohol: as wash to prevent; afterwards dust with powdered starch. Alum: with white of egg, as local application. Aristol. Balsam of Peru and Unguentum Resinæ: equal parts spread on cotton wool. Bismuth Sub nitrate. Catechu: with lead sub-acetate, to harden skin. Charcoal: as poultices, to stop bed-sores. Galvanic Couplet: of zinc and silver; one element on sore, the other on adjacent part. Glycerin: prophylactic local application. Hydrargyri Perchloridum: a solution mixed with diluted alcohol. Ichthyol. Incisions: followed by irrigation, if sores tend to burrow. Iodoform. Iodoformogen. Iodole. Iron Chloride: as tonic. Medicated Poultices: patient to lie with poultices under the parts likely to be affected; if fetor, cataplasm a carbon is; if sloughing, addition of Balsam of Peru. Pyoktanin. Quinine: local dre ing. Salt and Whisky: topically to harden skin. Silver Nitrate: dusted over open bed-sores. Soap Plaster: applied after washing with bichloride solution (1 in 5000) and dusting with iodoform or iodoformogen. Sozoiodole Pota ium. Styptic Collodion. Tannate of Lead: at an early stage. Zinc Oxide: ointment.