Cache-Control: public, max-age=1024000 Buchan's Domestic Medicine : Styptic Water.

Styptic Water.

Take of blue vitriol and alum, each an ounce and a half; wet water, one pint. Boil them until the salts are dissolved, then filter the liquor and add to it a drachm of the oil of vitriol.

This water is used for stopping a bleeding at the nose, and other haemorrhages; for which purpose cloths or duffils dipt in it must be applied to the part.

William Buchan
Domestic Medicine 2nd edition 1785