General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . omiting, not arising from inflammation or other organic diseaseof the stomach, creasote has been very efficacious ; and even inAsiatic cholera and sea-sickness, it appeared to allay the the vomiting of the pregnant female, and in that originating fromnervous excitability, it was equally beneficial. The testimony in re-gard to it has, however, been discordant. Drs. Elliotson, Shortt, Thomson, and Christison, consider it to be a valuable means ofarresting vomiting. Drs. McLeod and Pereira speak
General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . omiting, not arising from inflammation or other organic diseaseof the stomach, creasote has been very efficacious ; and even inAsiatic cholera and sea-sickness, it appeared to allay the the vomiting of the pregnant female, and in that originating fromnervous excitability, it was equally beneficial. The testimony in re-gard to it has, however, been discordant. Drs. Elliotson, Shortt, Thomson, and Christison, consider it to be a valuable means ofarresting vomiting. Drs. McLeod and Pereira speak doubtfully of it,and with Dr. Paris it entirely failed. The authors success has beenby no means striking. Frequently, it has been devoid of efficacy,and in many cases it developed irritability of the stomach, whenthis did not previously exist. To very impressible persons, indeed,its odour and taste are extremely repulsive, and apt to produce nauseaand vomiting. Externally applied, creasote is a valuable styptic. A^It was discovered at a time when Acqua Binelli enjoyed more confi-. Statice Caroliniana. 136 SPECIAL ASTRINGENTS. dence as a styptic than it does now ; and the fancied probability, thatthe nostrum was indebted to creasote for its virtues, gave rise to manyexperiments with the latter in cases of hemorrhage. When placed incontact with a bleeding vessel, it coagulates the albumen of the blood,forms a clot, and at the same time causes contraction of the bleedingvessel. It has been used extensively as a haemastatic in epistaxis,bleeding from leech bites, and hemorrhage from large wounded sur-faces; as an astringent in profuse suppuration, and in excoriations ofchildren, as well as in those induced by lying ; in gonorrhoea and leu-corrhcea, in ophthalmia tarsi, and in prolapsus vaginae, besides the vari-ous morbi externi, mentioned under Excitants, (Vol. i. p. 499,^ inwhich its remedial agency was rather excitant than astringent. The dose of creasote, as an astringent, is
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