Physiology: Experimental and Descriptive

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D.C. Heath & Company, 1898 - 399 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 327 - ... one, two, three. Replace him on the ground with his forehead on his flexed arm, the neck straightened out, and the mouth and nose free. Place your elbows against your knees, and your hands upon the sides of his chest (Fig.
الصفحة 371 - The injurious consequences which are likely to result from such misapprehension and misuse of the word disinfectant will be appreciated when it is known that: Recent researches have demonstrated that many of the agents which have been found useful as deodorizers, or as anteseptics, are entirely without value for the destruction of disease germs.
الصفحة 328 - Precious time is wasted, and the patient may be fatally chilled by exposure of the naked body, even in summer. Give all your attention and effort to restore breathing by forcing air into, and out of, the lungs. If the breathing has just ceased, a smart slap on the face, or a vigorous twist of the hair will sometimes start it again, and may be tried incidentally, as may, also, pressing the finger upon the root of the tongue.
الصفحة 373 - Outer garments of wool or silk, and similar articles, which would be injured by immersion in boiling water or in a disinfecting solution : 1. Exposure to dry heat at a temperature of 110° C. (230° F.) for two hours.
الصفحة 328 - AVOID DELAY. A MOMENT may turn the scale for life or death. Dry ground, shelter, warmth, stimulants, etc., at this moment are nothing — ARTIFICIAL BREATHING IS EVERYTHING — is the ONE REMEDY — all others are secondary. Do not stop to remove wet clothing before efforts are made to restore breathing.
الصفحة 356 - OF CARBOHYDRATES. The Carbohydrate principle furnishes fat to our tissues, and is a source of heat and muscle energy, indeed the chief source of muscle energy in all ordinary diets. FLAVORINGS. So far we have had chiefly in mind the real working constituents of food, if we may so speak. But many things cannot be studied or classified in the above way; they must be looked at from another point of view. Thus, a pinch of pepper, a cup of coffee, a fine, juicy strawberry, — what of these?
الصفحة 326 - Place the patient face downward, and maintaining all the while your position astride the body, grasp the points of the shoulders by the clothing, or, if the body is naked...
الصفحة 43 - Functions of the Spinal Cord. — The spinal cord has two main functions : — 1. Its conducting power, by means of the white fibers which make up the outer part of the cord. These fibers may be regarded as connecting the gray matter of the brain with all parts of the body. 2. The gray matter is the center of the reflex actions of the cord.
الصفحة 355 - ... including the seeds and skin. The importance of dried fruits as food is not well enough understood. Fruit loses in drying a large portion of its water, leaving its nutritive parts in more condensed form for our use ; dried apples are very near to bread in the per cent of nutrients they offer, and the dried pear may be called the date of Germany, so general is its use. With us this fruit is too expensive, but in parts of Germany the writer has seen dried pears commonly exposed for sale by the...
الصفحة 372 - For the destruction of infectious material which owes -its infecting power to the presence of micro-organisms not containing spores, the committee recommends : 1. Fire. Complete destruction by burning. 2. Boiling in water half an hour. 3. Dry heat. 110° C. (230° Fahr.) for two hours. 4. Chloride of lime.

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