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Description

A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865

"Borax is extensively employed on the Continent in the treatment of infantile diseases." It can treat acidity in the digestive system ("acidity of the primae viae and aphthous excoriatons of the mouth and fauces of children,") (54) Mr. Saunders used a mixture of borax to treat the gums when they become spongy, and Sir Astley Cooper recommended a borax lotion for chapped nipples.

Remedies Containing or to be used with Borax Listed in CDM1865

• Glycerine (92): combined with borax to create a lotion that can treat "chapped hands or nipples, fissures of the lips, irritations of the skin of any kind, as after shaving or exposure to the sun, or for roughness, scurf, or dandriff, on any part of the skin."
• Tincture of Myrrh and Borax (182): "is strongly recommended by Mr Saunders and many of the most eminent dentists throughout the United Kingdom," it acts as a mouthwash ("particularly when the gums are spongy, or have receded from the teeth"), freshens breath. When used daily it will maintain the health of the gums, and prevent toothaches.

Diseases Treated with Borax as listed in CDM1865

• Chapped Hands (240)
• Putrid Sore Throat (250): included in a gargle
• Aphthous Ulceration, or Thrush (287): used as part of a rinse/mouthwash
• Scald-Head (300): Ringworm: "the eruption termed ringworm is also too well known to require any description." Borax is included in a lotion that is to be applied every night.

Medical Articles Containing Borax as listed in CDM1865

• For Scorbutic Affection of the Gums (315)
• Lotion from Chilblains (317)

Prescriptions Containing Opium as listed in CDM1865

Antiseptics

• Gargle for Scorbutic Affections of the Gums (341)

Toxicity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borax#Toxicity