Camphor as a Medicine.

Otago Witness, Issue 2856, 9 December 1908, Page 76

Camphor as a Medicine.

Camphor is a remedy which has been used without a real knowledge scientifically, and as a sort of household cure-all for ages. It gained its greatest reputatior as a medicinal agent in the treatment of cholera, doubtless due to the fact that its slow absorption in a depressing conditionlike cholera, would affcid a valuable stimulation to -he nervous system. Camphor in the proper doses is very useful in nervous headaches nervous depression, and the first stage o/ a <o.'d in which there is a vasoniotor disturbance (movements of tho blood \es-.eL>). A few spasmodic conditions may be benefited by it. The best preparation, are the spirits and the monobrated. It .".houkl be remembered, however, thati camphor ha« poisonous effects, and b not entirely free from danger. The results of a poisonous dac are cyanosis (a condition in which the surface of the body becomesblue), vomiting, delirium, and convulsions. — Wounds inflicted by rusty pieces of metal are frequently the precursor* of very; serious inflammation, and often of bloodpoisoning, which evil effects may be pre-» vented in the following- simple manner: — Heat some browi* sugar on a shovel on other surface until it smokes, and hold tii& wound in the smoke for several minutes^ Woollen rags may take the place of sugar* This treatment is even effective when applied to a, wound some time after am accident.

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