A handbook of local therapeutics / edited by Harrison Allen.

Date:
1893
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    SODIl CHLORIDUM. , 4°? be saturated and kept constantly over the part. In the treatment of the Stings of Insects, such as bees, wasps, etc., a saturated solution of table-salt used as a lotion will afford relief. An application of solution of ammonia is, on the whole, more efficient. Table-salt is often applied to leeches to cause them to cease biting. Solutions injected into the rectum will dislodge leeches which sometimes make their entrance while the individual is bathing. Salt given in an enema of water to children is an effectual remedy for Thread Worms. A few ounces of a solution of sodium chloride, in strength of a drachm to a pint of warm water, is highly commended by Reginald Harrison as a solvent for the tenacious cystic mucus so frequently found associated with enlargement of the pros- tate gland. A similar lotion is of value in removing masses of dried secretion on muco-cutaneous surfaces. Diseases of the Skin.—As a stimulating bath chloride of sodium is employed in the strength of eight pounds to thirty gallons of water, which is about the strength of sea water. Its employment in baths as an application to various skin diseases, par- ticularly Eczema, has been strongly urged by Piffard {Jour. Cutaneous and Venereal Diseases, v, 1887, p. 42 0- '^X^ that the addition of half a pound to a pound of rock-salt to a bath of twenty-five gallons makes the water agreeable instead of being irritating to the skin of ecze- matous patients. A proportion of ten pounds of salt to the bath is, according to Piffard, appropriate in Furunculosis, Subacute Eczema, Psoriasis, the Irritable Summer Rashes, in Urticaria, in the Scrofu- lodermata, and Ulcerative Syphilodermata. Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat.—A solution of five grains to the ounce may be injected into the tympanic chamber in Puru- lent Otorrhcea. Largely diluted—two drachms to the pint—chloride of sodium is used to dislodge tenacious mucus. It forms a cheap and con- venient remedy, but is open to the objection that, when the agent is habitually employed, the membranes lose tonicity. Weak lotions coun- teract the over-effects of application of nitrate of silver. By increasing the specific gravity of the thin, acrid discharges of Acute Coryza solutions of chloride of sodium may be added to the list of remedies for this disease. It is an ingredient of the popular mixture of carbolic acid, borax, and bicarbonate of soda in the treatment of Chronic Nasal Catarrh. Valentin {^Correspondenzblatt fur schweizer Aerzte, No. 5, 1887) treats Oz^NAby irrigating with salt solution. A spray of from five to ten grains to the ounce is an admirable adjuvant in the treatment of Chronic Laryngitis accompanied by diminished secretion. Diseases of the Eye.—Common salt is a favorite domestic remedy in mild cases of Conjunctivitis, and a very good one. About ten grains to the ounce of water is a good proportion, and the eyes may be