Nevertheless, despite this belief in the supernatural, many drugs and healing lotions were employed, and the Greek physicians possessed considerable skill in dressing wounds and bandaging.
But of what use would have been these resinous matters, with which the alkali of the natrum would soon form a soapy mass, which the lotions would have carried off, at least, in great part?
In general, it may be said that cooling lotions afford relief, and that scratching, with the possibilities of secondary infection, should be avoided, in so far as possible.
Ice-bags and evaporating lotions are to be used with caution, as they are liable to lower the vitality of the damaged tissues and lead to necrosis of the skin.
Stronger lotions are to be avoided as being likely to depress the tissues, and so interfere with protective phagocytosis.
Leeches were again employed; emollient lotions and aperient medicines were resorted to.
He, however, soon began to eat; the lotions were continued; and five months afterwards, the mouth of the dog was not in the slightest degree offensive.
Cold lotions were employed, and tonic and astringent medicines administered, with castor oil.
Some persons are relieved by lotions of camphor, or laudanum, and others by washes of cayenne tea, or alum water.
Warm poultices and lotions should also be used afterwards, to promote the discharge as much as possible, but they should not be used after it has evidently begun to cease naturally.
The treatment consists in first attending strictly to the diet, which must be light and unirritating, and to the regular action of the bowels and womb; and in using the cooling washes and lotions before mentioned.
Lotions can be put on an hour or so before one goes to bed, and by that time they are usually pretty well absorbed into the cuticle.
Listerine, witch hazel and eau de cologne are all good as external lotions for pimples.
It can be got for the asking, which is more than one can say for the various beauty pomades and lotions that beckon us toward poverty.
Creamy lotions for the face, made mostly of almond oil and the oil of cocoanut, were their complexion solaces.
The same lotions may also be used if the hair is disposed to become gray too early; as they invigorate the apparatus situated beneath the skin, and enable it to take up coloring matter.
If irritating to the skin, these lotionscan be made weaker, or less frequently applied than might otherwise be necessary.
The treatment by suspensory bandage and lotions is necessarily somewhat slow in producing remedial results; yet, many quite well marked cases have, in our experience, been cured by such means perseveringly applied.
If there be no great tenderness in the vagina, or if the acute, inflammatory symptoms have yielded to the lotions already suggested, then a tonic and astringent injection should be employed.
They terminated in death; after a treatment by lotions of honey of roses and spirit of vitriol, with emollient and resolvent cataplasms.
It had been previously used, in lotions of the strength of gr.
He had various lotions for the healing of ulcers; some of these lotions were antiseptic and have been in use in recent times.
He recommended lotions and salves for the treatment of some eye diseases.
It was not without difficulty that the chloruretted lotions and the nitrate of silver overcame the gangrene.
The palliative treatment of piles consists in obtaining a daily and easy action of the bowels, in rest, cold bathing, astringent injections, lotions and ointments.
The only treatment required is rest, with vaginal douches of warm unirritating lotions such as boracic acid or subacetate of lead.
The occasional passage of a large metal bougie, the use of weak lotions of nitrate of silver, the administration of quinine and iron, and the application of blisters to the perineum, may be tried as circumstances direct.
If the urine is foul, the bladder should be frequently washed out by a soft catheter and two or three feet of india-rubber tubing with a funnel at the other end, weak and abundant hot lotions of Sanitas or Condy's fluid being used.
Then I began to try local remedies, applications of cold water on the ball of the eye, cupping on the neck, a general hydropathic treatment, and alcoholic lotions around the eyes.
Watery lotions are frequently required to assist in cleansing the nose.
When the scab begins to break down its removal is assisted by warm alkaline lotions (see p.
All nose lotions should be alkaline, and isotonic with the blood plasma.
The local treatment consists in the application of antiseptic lotions or powders to the eye.
Such washes or lotions may be applied with a small piece of absorbent cotton, using a fresh piece each time the eye is dressed.
Irritating lotions should be avoided, if possible, in the treatment of eye diseases of horses, because of the danger of making the animal disagreeable to handle.
Wine was the one thing she could trust to in this crisis; for of the doses and lotions on yonder table she knew nothing, nor had her experience made her a believer in the happy influence of drugs.
In all the scaly eruptions, iodide of potassium internally, and ioduretted or sulphuretted lotions or baths are invaluable.
The effect of all theselotions is increased by the addition of a little glycerine.
The only treatment that is required, or safe, is, freedom from all pressure, and the application of cold lotions composed of brandy or vinegar and water.
Well, then, theselotions and these eye-salves are our works.
The treatment recommended is prompt and copious bloodletting, combined with active purges and enemas, with refrigerant lotionsto the head.
Lotions may be prepared of any soluble medicaments that are capable of exerting their action by contact with the skin.
This is important, because the usual way of applying lotions to the inside of the eye is very inefficient, if not entirely useless.
Lotions of prussic acid are employed to allay pain and irritation in various chronic skin diseases, especially the scaly and itchy eruptions; and in cancer, &c.
Various lotions may be prepared by dissolving active medicinal substances in glycerin.
Lotions are more agreeable if made with rose water, but are not thereby rendered more efficacious.
In all cases in which lotions are intended for extremely susceptible parts, it is proper to dilute them with an equal bulk of water.
Lotions are usually applied by wetting a piece of linen with them and keeping it on the part affected; or, in slight cases, by moistening the part with the fingers previously dipped into them.
As lotions are, in general, mere extemporaneous or magistral preparations, it will, of course, be only necessary here to give the formulae for a few of those which are the most useful or the most frequently employed.
The use of astringent lotions is always desirable, and in case of the protruded penis the application of an elastic or simple linen bandage, so as to press the blood and accumulated fluid out, will enable the operator to return it.
If an acute periostitis of the cannon bone has been readily discovered, the treatment we have already suggested for that ailment is at once indicated, and the astringent lotions may be relied upon to bring about beneficial results.
Then cold water or astringent antiseptic lotions should be applied.
Locally the astringent lotions advised for external ophthalmia may be resorted to, especially when the superficial inflammation is well marked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lotions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
