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Sprain in the Back

The first to it so simple a thing as water, hot or cold, thing is rest; take nigat and morning 15 or but let it alone, and omit a meal or two; if it 20 drops of the balsam of copaiba. If the does not abate, consult a physician. If one part is inflamed, apply cold water cloth :. is not at hand, then live on half allowance Let the bowels be kept gently open by aper: until it disappears. ents. When the inflammation is gone, rub 5491. Glyconine, or Glycerine Var- the part with stimulating liniment. (Sec No. nish for Cutaneous Affections. Take 4888.) yolk of egg, 4 parts by weight; rub in a 5498. Treatment of Scratches. Do mortar with 5 parts glycerine. Applied to not neglect them. Wash them in cold water; the skin it forms a varnish which effectually close them as much as you can, and cover excludes the air, and prevents its irritating with diachylon plaster. If there is inflanimaeffects. It is unalterable (a specimen having tion, apply a bread poultice, or one of slippery laid exposed to the air for 3 years unchanged), elm. and is quickly removed by water. These 5499. To Extract Splinters. Thores properties render it serviceable for erysipelas and splinters finding their way under the and cutaneous affections, of which it allays skin frequently give considerable pain, and, the action. It is also very valuable for soothing the irritation resulting from burns.