A Monograph on Glycerin and Its Uses by Henry Hartshorne

Author:Henry Hartshorne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Published: 2018-05-08T00:00:00+00:00

In chilblains it is an excellent emollient; especially in association with tannin, with alum, or acetate of lead, oxide of zinc or sub nitrate of bismuth.

For ulcers, preferred it as the first dressing, followed, in his treatment, by compression with adhesive plasters. It makes an exceedingly clean dressing, and gives a gentle and salutary stimulation to the granulating part.

In open cancer, it diminishes suppuration, lessens greatly the odor, and keeps down fungous growths. Opium, belladonna, etc. may be added to it for palliative effects. I propose for trial a saturated solution of creasote in glycerin as a local application for cancer. Without yet having had an opportunity to employ it, I am sanguine of its being found to retard the spread of growths, by the coagulating effect of creosote upon albuminous tissues and translations; the glycerin aiding in the introduction of the potent agent more effectually and more protectively than water. Van Hols beck found a tent saturated with a solution of tannin in glycerin (1 part to 16) an excellent remedy for fissure of the anus.1 injected glycerin with great advantage into fistulous abscesses and sinuses, with or without diseases of the bones; sometimes adding iodine. I am not aware of its trial in gonorrhoea; but would expect a good effect from it. In leucorrhoea it was found beneficial by used in a tampon with tannin (1 part to 4 of glycerin).1 For sore nipples, especially where cracks exist, I am confident that no other local treatment will produce so good results as the application, with a camel's hair pencil, of collision, to which one-fiftieth of glycerin has been added. Oakley recommends glycerin as the best material to soften corns, preparatory to their excision.

In the treatment of burns and scalds, Dr. W. A. Smith insists that glycerin alleviates the pain, and often causes its complete disappearance. "It substitutes for the sensation of heat that of coolness, which continues in consequence of the property which glycerine possesses of absorbing moisture; it also penetrates into the part, moistens and softens it, and obviates the dryness and tension; besides which, it prevents the pain which would be produced by the contact of the surrounding air."1 ,

1 Stilt e, op. cit at. vol. i. p. 156.

2 Bull, de The rap., 1.540.

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