Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . 6 h 5l m 7 / «- AND MOST RECENT METHODS OF TREATMENT 873 A large variety of syringes are now used by physicians. Besidesthe ordinary rubber and other syringes for injecting into the bowels,we have the posterior nasal syringe for injecting behind the softpalate in the nares. This is much used in the treatment of catarrhof the nose. (See Catarrh.) We also have syringes for the ear, thelarynx, the urethra, the vagina, and


Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . 6 h 5l m 7 / «- AND MOST RECENT METHODS OF TREATMENT 873 A large variety of syringes are now used by physicians. Besidesthe ordinary rubber and other syringes for injecting into the bowels,we have the posterior nasal syringe for injecting behind the softpalate in the nares. This is much used in the treatment of catarrhof the nose. (See Catarrh.) We also have syringes for the ear, thelarynx, the urethra, the vagina, and the womb. Some of these arerepresented in the accompanying cuts. Every family should be provided with some convenient syringefor the bowels. (See Constipation, Treatment of.) ,. LARYNGEAL SYRINGE. POSTERIOR NASAL SYRINGE. SYEUP OF HYPOPHOSPHITES OF LIME AND SODA. This remedy has been proposed for consumption. The state-ment has been made that the tonic effects of this preparation arevery decided; but it is yet on trial. TAPTAK-EMETIC. Tartar-emetic, or the tartrate of antimony. Of all the prepara-tions of antimony, this is the most to be depended on, and when 874 DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES, given in appropriate doses is capable of fulfilling every purpose forwhich antimonial remedies are employed. The action of this saltvaries according to the dose, and the state of the system at the timeof its administration. In doses of three or four grains it acts power-fully as an emetic, and the safest plan of exhibiting it with thisintention is by dissolving three or four grains in half a teacupfulof water, and giving a tablespoonful of the solution every ten min-utes till free vomiting takes place. Tartar-emetic is not so muchused as formerly. Tartar emetic,


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