The domestic management of children in health and disease on hydropathic and homœopathic principlesSimpkin, Marshall, & Company, 1857 - 442 pages |
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The Domestic Management of Children in Health and Disease on Hydropathic and ... Walter Johnson (M.D.) Affichage du livre entier - 1857 |
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abdomen Aconite Aconite 30 affection affusion afterwards appetite applied arms Arnica Arsenicum become Belladonna blankets blood body bowels Bryonia Calcarea calomel Carb cause chest child chronic cold water commenced compress Conium constipation constitution convulsions cough cured debility diarrhoea diet disease doses eruption exercise expectoration eyes fever flatulence frequently give glob globule hand Head douche headache heat Homœopathic hydropathic treatment infant inflammation Ipecacuanha irritation legs lungs measles medicine menstruation Mercurius milk minutes mouth mucus muscles neck night and morning Nux Vomica pail douche pain patient persons perspiration Pulsatilla pulse remedies scrofulous shallow bath Silicea sitz bath skin sleep sometimes spine stomach suffering Sulphur swelling symptoms teaspoonful teeth temperature tepid throat tion tongue tonic tumbler of water twice a day ulceration vomiting warm week wet rubbing towels wet sheet packing wet towel rubbing
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Page 397 - Strip the body, and rub it dry ; then wrap it in hot blankets, and place it in a warm bed in a warm chamber ; 3.
Page 97 - I was, a few years since, consulted about a pale, sickly, and thin boy of about five or six years of age. He appeared to have no specific ailment ; but there was a slow and remarkable decline of flesh and strength, and of the energy of all the functions — what his mother very aptly termed a gradual blight.
Page 398 - Rub the body briskly with the hand ; do not, however, suspend the use of the other means at the same time ; but, if possible, immerse the body in a warm bath at blood heat, or 100° of the thermometer, as this is preferable to the other means for restoring warmth.
Page 97 - After inquiry into the history of the case, it came out that he had been a very robust and plethoric child up to his third year, when his grandmother, a very aged person, took him to sleep with her ; that he soon afterwards lost his good looks, and that he had continued to decline progressively ever since, notwithstanding medical treatment.
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Page 398 - The above treatment should be persevered in for some hours, as it is an erroneous opinion that persons are irrecoverable because life does not soon make its appearance, persons having been restored after persevering for many hours.
Page 340 - ... put his toe to the ground, and could not raise it without the assistance of his hands. The joint was so excessively tender, that he could not bear the weight of the bed-clothes upon it. He had no appetite, but was always sick on attempting to take food. He seldom slept at night. The third day after commencing the water treatment, he began to eat and sleep. He daily gained flesh and strength, and the leg began to heal. In about six weeks a piece of bone exfoliated from the leg. In a fortnight,...
Page 399 - On the restoration of life, a teaspoonful of warm. water should be given; and then, if the power of swallowing has returned, small quantities of wine, -warm brandy and water, or coffee should be administered. The patient should be kept in bed, and a disposition to sleep encouraged.
Page 398 - If apparently dead from intense cold. Rub the body with snow, ice, or cold water. — Restore warmth by slow degrees ; and, after some time, if necessary, employ the means recommended for the drowned.
Page 397 - The friction must be continued under the blanket or over the dry clothing. Promote the warmth of the body by the application of hot flannels, bottles, or bladders of hot water, heated bricks, &c., to the pit of the stomach, the arm-pits, between the thighs, and to the soles of the feet.