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Pancoast's Styptic

Take car- and increase the action of the heart. A low bonate of potash, 1 drachm; castile soap, 2 diet should be strictly observed, and external drachms; alcohol, 4 ounces. Mix. This styp- heat and bodily exercise avoided; the air of tic has been found preferable to the persulphate the room should be cool, and the drink of iron in many of the minor cases of hemor- (which should consist chiefly of barley-water, rhage, inasmuch as it leaves the surface of acidulated with lemon-juice), taken cold, and the stump in a healthy condition, and does the patient not suffered to exert his voice. not produce the thick incrustation so often After the operation of a little gentle aperient objectionable after the application of the iron. medicine, as lenitive electuary, or an infusion