Synopsis of lectures on obstetrics and the forms of disease peculiar to women and children : delivered to students of the Physio-Medical College of Ohio . zs.; castile soap 2 drs.;potash (not pearlash) 1 dr. Dissolve the soap in thebrandy warm, then add the potash and shake it well;when used for a wound or a bleeding gum, warm it, anddip lint into it and apply it to the wound. For Blindness from Gutta Serenna.—Take bestcapsicum 1 gr.; infuse in a wine glass of distilled water,let it stand 24 hours, and then filter it; and lay the pa-tient on the back and wash the eyes several times a dayuntil
Synopsis of lectures on obstetrics and the forms of disease peculiar to women and children : delivered to students of the Physio-Medical College of Ohio . zs.; castile soap 2 drs.;potash (not pearlash) 1 dr. Dissolve the soap in thebrandy warm, then add the potash and shake it well;when used for a wound or a bleeding gum, warm it, anddip lint into it and apply it to the wound. For Blindness from Gutta Serenna.—Take bestcapsicum 1 gr.; infuse in a wine glass of distilled water,let it stand 24 hours, and then filter it; and lay the pa-tient on the back and wash the eyes several times a dayuntil cured. Isolate the patient, charge her, and thendraw electricity from the eyes. Asthma.—Give composition, nervine, cayenne andastringents, in bed, with hot bricks to the body and feet;when in a free perspiration give a tea-spoonful of thetincture of lobelia every 10 or 15 minutes until emesis,or relieved. For a settled Cold in the Face.—Wormwood andhops, stewed in vinegar, and a little thickened with branand slippery elm. Styptic.—Blood root or geranium maculatum, for ex-ternal bleedings. EXPLANATION OF PLATES PLATE I. A WELL FORMED Front view, as in the skeleton. A A, (upper) os*ainnominata. A A, (lower) iliac bones. B, ischiaticbones. C D, os sacrum. E, os coccyx. F, lower ver-tebra. K, promonitory of sacrum, a a, iliac fossae, orfalse pelvis. H, symphysis pubis, or joining of the pubicbones over the arch, lb, P P, b I, brim of the truepelvis. V, head of the femor. rti, acetabulum, u,ischiatic holes. 12 3 4, holes through which the nervespass into the pelvis. 128 EXPLANATION OF PLATES. PLATE II. PERPENDICULAR VIEW OF THE UPPER
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