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Mercury for the treatment of syphilis. A patient prepared for the use of mercurial sublimations. A blanket having been pinned tightly around the neck after the patient is stripped, the fumigator shown at his feet is placed under his chair and the calomel placed on the central disk, as shown in the illustration. Water is in the little ditch around it and an alcohol lamp under it. The patient should be given a full, warm bath beforehand to cleanse and prepare the skin for absorption.

Identifier: textbookofp00hare (find matches)
Title: A text-book of practical therapeutics
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Hare, H. A. (Hobart Amory), 1862-1931
Subjects: Therapeutics
Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Fig. 53.—Lamp for mercurial fumigations. This lamp is made of wire gauze, andresembles the safety lamp of miners, thereby guarding against sudden explosions ofthe alcoholic vapors. Mercury is often administered by means of fumigations or inhala-tions both for the removal of local and general syphilitic disorders.The best apparatus for either purpose is one devised by Bumstead,and it is both simple and inexpensive. It consists of a sheet-iron MERCURY 367 cup so bent that the bottom of the vessel, instead of being flat,projects upward into the center of the cup, thereby forming a raisedcenter with a little ditch about it. The top of this projection isflattened, and on its apex is placed the calomel which is to be sub-limed. The surrounding ditch is then filled with hot water, andthe cup placed over an alcohol flame, which disengages the vaporof the calomel and water. (See Fig. 53.)
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Fig. 54.—A patient prepared for the use of mercurial sublimations. A blankethaving been pinned tightly around the neck after the patient is stripped, the fumi-gator shown at his feet is placed under his chair and the calomel placed on the centraldisk, as shown in the illustration. Water is in the little ditch around it and an alcohollamp under it. The patient should be given a full, warm bath beforehand to cleanseand prepare the skin for absorption. ^ When inhalations are used the face should be held some six oreight inches from the cup to permit the fumes to pass through theair. Under these circumstances the quantity of calomel used shouldnot exceed 4 to 5 grains (0.25-0.3), and the^mouth should be rinsedout to prevent mercurial stomatitis unless a local action on the 368 DRUGS buccal mucous membrane is desired. Not more than eight or teninspirations should be taken at one sitting. If general fumigations are to be practised, the patient places thelamp and cup with 30 grains (2.0) o

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