Special hygienic and medical information for parents . ollowingastringent is often used: Take tannin, ten grains; morphine, fourgrains; lard, one ounce — mix, and apply toparts on going to bed. If possible insert someabove the sphincter. Be sure and inject cold,and not warm water, before each defection. 246 PHENOMENA OF DISEASE. RADICAL CURE. The tumors are sometimes excised and no illconsequences follow. The great danger wouldbe hemorrhage, and on account of the highlycongested state of the tissue, it is almost un-controllable. The safest, and just as sure if notquite so quick a mode, is reso
Special hygienic and medical information for parents . ollowingastringent is often used: Take tannin, ten grains; morphine, fourgrains; lard, one ounce — mix, and apply toparts on going to bed. If possible insert someabove the sphincter. Be sure and inject cold,and not warm water, before each defection. 246 PHENOMENA OF DISEASE. RADICAL CURE. The tumors are sometimes excised and no illconsequences follow. The great danger wouldbe hemorrhage, and on account of the highlycongested state of the tissue, it is almost un-controllable. The safest, and just as sure if notquite so quick a mode, is resorting to the in ano, abscess exterior to the rectum,prolapsus ani, and many of the urinary affections,are the result of or aggravated by piles. To control the profuse hemorrhage that manyafflicted with the piles are subject, either injectsome highly astringent liquid or perhaps resortto the tampon. Burne, a noted writer, recom-mends the following: one half teaspoonful ofturpentine, mixed with yolk of &gg, to be CHAPTER V. DISEASES OF THE URINARY —ITS CAUSE AND CURE. HEALTHY urine is of a straw color, and hasa specific gravity a little higher than water,for the reason that it holds in solution certainsolids. The gravity varies in a state of health,in the same person, at different times during theday ; it is least in the morning and greatest aftermeals. The more profuse the urination, as arule, the less the gravity. Ordinarily about twopints are passed in twenty-four hours. Whenurine is tested it reddens vegetable blues thesame as acids do. If healthy urine is allowed toremain for some time in a vessel there is scarce-ly any deposit, except a small amount of mucus,but when there is any departure from health itdeposits a sediment which varies in quantity,quality and appearance. There are at least fivedifferent kinds of deposits, but we have spaceto refer to but three of the most common, andmost important to the general reader. i.
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