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Styptic Paper

A mode for carrying about chloride of iron as a ready styptic has been invented in Paris, which congenerally be stopped by making the patient raise both his arms above his head, and hold them there for some time. Sponging with cold or iced water to the forehead and face, or applying a towel wet with cold water between the shoulders, will, in most cases, succeed. The application of a strong solution of sists in dipping paper in a decoction of 1 alum or iron-alum to the inside of the nostrils, pound benzoin and 1 pound alum in 4 gallons or plugging the nostrils with lint or cotton water, which has been kept boiling for 4 wool soaked in the solution, may be necessary hours, with renewal and skimming. The paper is left in the filtered solution for some time until saturated; it is then dried, and painted over with a neutral solution of perchloride of iron; this is then dried, folded, and wrapped in an impervious cover. if the bleeding is profuse. The health of persons subject to these attacks should be improved by nutritious diet, animal food, with potatoes, water-cresses, and fruit. The following prescription may be relied on: Tincture of steel, 2 drachms; dilute muriatic acid, Mix. For a