Diagnosis and modern treatment of pulmonary consumption

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Wood, 1907 - 259 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 70 - Warwickshire," published an essay on "The Cure of Pulmonary Consumption on Principles Natural, Rational and Successful," based on the case of a young girl whose...
الصفحة 71 - England, in 1840 estab* ished the first sanitorium for the treatment and cure under modern methods, of tuberculosis, and when he published the principles of preventing the spread of tuberculosis, and his methods of cure he was regarded as a lunatic. His patients were driven from his institution, "which by the irony of fate he was compelled to turn into an asylum for the reception of the insane.
الصفحة 234 - ... should be thoroughly sprayed with water. If masses of matter or sputum are dried down on the floor, they should be soaked with water and loosened. No vessel of water should, however, be allowed to remain in the room. 4. One hundred and fifty...
الصفحة 54 - ... tuberculosis at all is not yet absolutely decided, and will not admit of absolute decision to-day or to-morrow, one is nevertheless already at liberty to say that, if such a susceptibility really exists the infection of human beings is but a very rare occurrence. I should estimate the extent of...
الصفحة 234 - All cracks or openings in the plaster or in the floor or about the door and windows should be caulked tight with cotton or with strips of cloth. 2. The linen, quilts, blankets, carpets, etc., should be stretched out on a line, in order to expose as much surface to the disinfectant as possible. They should not be thrown into a heap. Books should be suspended by their covers so that the pages are all open and freely exposed. 3. The walls and floor of the room and the articles contained in it should...
الصفحة 151 - ... digestion is good, the temperature is normal, and exercise is possible, there is no necessity to give alcohol, although small quantities in many instances are of undoubted benefit. In some instances small quantities of alcohol will diminish the appetite and retard digestion, but in most cases it promotes both. Experience has shown that alcohol is of the greatest possible service when fever is present. It saves the body proteid, stimulates the appetite, and, in small doses, hastens gastric digestion.
الصفحة 47 - ... took up their residence in the same quarters. In this family the mother was consumptive when she came. She died in the flat. Shortly afterwards the family left, having lived there for one year only. The flat was next occupied by the family Y, of seven persons, all healthy. After a year's stay they left, and some years later the father, mother, and one son died of phthisis, and a boy of chronic peritonitis. A third family, Z, all healthy to begin with, next took the rooms. One child died of meningitis,...
الصفحة 67 - Use an ordinary double milk-pan, or a smaller covered saucepan containing the milk placed inside a larger one containing the water. 2. Let the water in the outer pan be cold when placed on the fire. 3. Bring the water up to boiling point, and maintain it at this for three or four minutes without removing the lid of the inner milk-pan. 4. Cool the milk down quickly by placing the inner pan in one or two changes of cold water without removing the lid. 5. When cooled down aerate the milk by stirring...
الصفحة 73 - anything which protects one man from falling ill must be able, if properly employed, to cure another of the same disease...
الصفحة 67 - Use a double milk saucepan ; if, however, this cannot be obtained, put the milk into an ordinary covered saucepan, and place it inside a larger vessel containing water. 2. Let the water in the outer pan be cold when placed on the fire. 3. Bring the water up to the boil, and maintain it at this point for four minutes without removing the lid of the inner milk pan.

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