How To Make Medicated Powder For Cure Ringworm
To make medicated powder for Ringworm, use formulation as follow :
● Take of subcarbonate of soda 1 drachm, which dissolve in 1/2 pint of vinegar.
Wash the head every morning with soft soap, and apply the lotion night and morning. One teaspoonful of sulphur and treacle should also be given occasionally night and morning.
The hair should be cut close, and round the spot it should be shaved off, and the part, night and morning, bathed with a lotion made by dissolving a drachm of white vitriol in 8 oz. of water.
A small piece of either of the two subjoined ointments rubbed into the part when the lotion has dried in.
● No, 1. Formulation :
Take of citron ointment 1 drachm; sulphur and tar ointment, of each 1/2 oz.:
Mix thoroughly, and apply twice a day.
● No. 2. Formulation :
Take of simple cerate 1 oz.; creosote 1 drachm; calomel 30 grains:
Mix and use in the same manner as the first. Concurrent with these external remedies, the child should take an alterative powder every morning, or, if they act too much on the bowels, only every second day.
The following will be found to answer all the intentions desired.
● Alterative Powders for Ringworm.
Take of :
Sulphuret of antimony, precipitated . 24 grains.
Grey powder . . . . . 12 grains.
Calomel . . . . . . 6 grains.
Jalap powder . . . . . 36 grains.
Mix carefully, and divide into 12 powders for a child from 1 to 2 years old; into 9 powders for a child from 2 to 4 years; and into 6 powders for a child from 4 to 6 years.
Where the patient is older, the strength may be increased by enlarging the quantities of the drugs ordered, or by giving one and a half or two powders for one dose.
The ointment is to be well washed off every morning with soap-and-water, and the part bathed with the lotion before re-applying the ointment.
An imperative fact must be remembered by mother or nurse,—never to use the same comb employed for the child with ringworm, for the healthy children, or let the affected little one sleep with those free from the disease; and, for fear of any contact by hands or otherwise, to keep the child's head enveloped in a nightcap, till this eruption is completely cured.
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