Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . the injection,but with the fact that persons using a drug like cocaine or mor-phine may be very apt to contract a habit of using these this account, a person should never be permitted, under anycircumstances whatever, to administer a hypodermic injectionof any powerful drug to himself or herself. Hops.—The hopplant is found inthe gardens allover this tincture re-lieves pain in ashort time, and isvery good for af-ter-pains and es-pecially in ca
Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . the injection,but with the fact that persons using a drug like cocaine or mor-phine may be very apt to contract a habit of using these this account, a person should never be permitted, under anycircumstances whatever, to administer a hypodermic injectionof any powerful drug to himself or herself. Hops.—The hopplant is found inthe gardens allover this tincture re-lieves pain in ashort time, and isvery good for af-ter-pains and es-pecially in caseswhere opium can-not be taken. Ithas been used as afomentation to re-lieve pain in thebowels and in thehead, and is a goodsedative after se-vere shock. Ichthyol, a dark,brown, thick liquidof offensive smell,is remarkable both for its source and for the benefit that attendsits use in several diseases. It is prepared by distillation froma deposit of fossil fish in the Tyrol. It is used in several chronicskin diseases, and also to diminish inflammatory conditionsround the womb. Perhaps its most successful use is, in twenty-. Hops HOPS—ICHTHYOL—IPECAC—INFUSIONS 1179 per-cent. strength mixed in glycerine, to smear over areas ofskin which are the seat of erysipelas. Ipecac. — Thisplant grows plentifully inSouth is valuable asan emetic be-cause there is nodistress after-ward. In smalldoses it acts as atonic, strength-ening the diges-tive organs, andis useful in livercomplaints. It isuseful also infevers to keepthe blood at thesurface. Thepowdered rootmay be given inmolasses. Thesyrup of ipecacis valuable as acough mixturefor children,especially forcroup. Infusions are preparations of vegetable drugs made by steep-ing them for some time in water and straining. In order thatan infusion may keep well it is usually concentrated and mixedwith alcohol, being diluted just before it is dispensed. Amongthe better-known infusions are those of calumba, chiretta,cinchona, d
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