SECTION 36.
CHLORINE.
Minute Dose
See Section 56, B.
Officinal Dose
Adult, Chlorine water 1 to 4 drachms. Child, see Section 56, B.
Spasm of the Glottis. Can breathe in, but not out - Crowing respiration. The One grand specific is Chlorine; weak solution in water, so that the odor of Chlorine can just be detected; to a Child 1 teaspoonful doses. The same 3 times a day for Chlorine Sore throat.
Freckles. If yellow, wash with Chlorine water, night and morning for several weeks; if brown, apply Chloride of Lime, weak solution in water, to suit the sensation, brush it on every night, and wash it off in the morning, until the freckles are bleached out.
Disinfectant. - Deodorizer - Antiseptic. - (Clean, stainless, free from odor, economical). Platt's Chlorides - valuable agent for dressing open cancers - Sloughing ulcers and gangrenous wounds.
A splendid Disinfectant, at 3 cents a bucketful (pour it down your sinks and sewers, wet cloths with it, and hang them in the foulest places, sweeten all the air) - Nitrate of Lead 1/2 drachm dissolve in 1 pint of boiling water, then dissolve 2 drachms of Common Salt in a bucket of water, now pour the two solutions together and allow the sediment to subside. Pour off the clear liquid, this is the disinfectant.
Bromo - Chloralum is a disinfectant free from poisonous qualities, and inodorous in itself. Open cancers and putrid ulcers, washed with a 10 per cent. solution in water, and covered with cloths saturated with the same, become divested of offensive odor. Floors sprinkled with the solution and cloths saturated therewith and suspended about the room, purify and sweeten the air.
Conjunctivitis. - (Lids raw) - keep the parts constantly wet with a solution of Bromo - Chloralum, 1 part to 9 water.
Sore Throat. - Ulcerated. - "Gargle with Bromo - Chloralum 10 per cent. solution in water, several times a day - rapid cures. "
Diphtheria. - "As a remedy for this disease Bromo - Chloralum has no superior. Of a 10 per cent. solution in water, gargle every 1/2 hour, and swallow a little each time; in 6 hours the terrible odor will be gone, 3 days the Cure will be effected. Inhaling freely thereof from a sponge greatly facilitates the Cure. "
Foul Breath. - "Gargle and rinse the mouth thoroughly 4 times a day, with 10 per cent. solution of Bromo - Chloralum in water. If it arises from the stomach, swallow a little each time. If it comes from Catarrh in the head, snuff the solution up the nostrils several times a day.
(A) The same cures Ozaena and Chronic catarrh in the nose. "
Scarlet Fever. - "Have treated 40 cases of Scarlet Fever in succession with Bromo - Chloralum; giving 5 to 10 drops, of a 10 per cent. solution, in a teaspoonful of water every 2 to 3 hours, also using the same as a gargle; and am happy to state that in every case I have effected a cure. The same treatment is eminently successful in Small - pox, aided by sponging the body therewith once or twice a day. "
In Typhoid fever, and all contagious ailments; Sponge the patient all over, at least once a day, with a 10 per cent. solution of Bromo - Chloratum, with dilute alcohol added in equal parts; the effect is twofold; it neutralizes the emanations, and prevents re - absorption of poisonous secretions. The recovery will be thus greatly promoted.
In Confinement. - when discharges are offensive, injects freely, several times a day, Bromo - Chloralum, 10 per cent, solution in water; and directly every trace of the foul odor will disappear, the patient feel refreshed, and puerperal fever be prevented. To keep the Lying - in Chamber as sweet as a May morning, suspend cloths about the room saturated with the same solution, and sprinkle the floors and bed with it; not even a fly will linger to annoy, and yet in itself the Bromo - Chloralum is inodorous.
Leucorrhea. - "This most obstinate complaint yields submissively to Bromo - Chloralum, and the more foul and offensive it is, the more urgently is the remedy indicated. Inject a 10 per cent. solution, 1 quart, warm, 2 or 3 times a day. ".