How to Treat a Bruise

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 12, 1879

How to Treat a Bruise.

The usual applications employed for a bruise of any kind are arnica, camphor, alcohol, pain-killer or some kind of liniment or patent compound. Any one of these, or all together, is not one-half so efficient as a very simple remedy which may be very promptly applied in almost all cases. A hot fomentation will do more to relieve the pain, tenderness, and swelling of a bruise than any other means. If applied immediately after the injury occurs, it will very often prevent swelling altogether, entirely relieve the pain, and prevent discoloration. Contusions of the head and face are very successfully treated by the fomentation. If the application is made with sufficient promptness after the injury, very little discoloration will occur, even in contusions of the eye.