Haydn's dictionary of popular medicine and hygiene; ed. by E. Lankester

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1879
 

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第 255 頁 - A. B. is a lunatic [or an idiot, or a person of unsound mind], and a proper person to be taken charge of, and detained under care and treatment, and that I have formed this opinion upon the following grounds, viz : — 1.
第 123 頁 - 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.
第 122 頁 - the patient on his face, raising and supporting the chest well on a folded coat, or other article of dress ; turn the body very gently on the side and a little beyond, and then briskly on the face, alternately ; repeating these measures deliberately, efficiently and perseveringly, fifteen times in the minute, occasionally varying the side.
第 122 頁 - On each occasion that the body is replaced on the face, make uniform but efficient pressure with brisk movement, on the back between and below the shoulder-blades or bones on each side, removing the pressure immediately before turning the body on the side.
第 123 頁 - ... (By this means air is drawn into the lungs.) Then turn down the patient's arms and press them gently and firmly for two seconds against the sides of the chest. (By this means air is pressed out of the lungs.) Repeat these measures alternately, deliberately, and...
第 122 頁 - Place the patient on the back on a flat surface, inclined a little upwards from the feet; raise and support the head and shoulders on a small firm cushion or folded article of dress placed under the shoulder-blades.
第 123 頁 - On the restoration of life, a teaspoonful of warm water should be given ; and then, if the power of swallowing have 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.
第 211 頁 - It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary, nevertheless, to lay down such a principle, because the actual mortality in hospitals, especially in those of large crowded cities, is very much higher than any calculation founded on the mortality of the same class of diseases among patients treated out of hospitals would lead us to expect.
第 123 頁 - 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.
第 223 頁 - ... the extremities ; the breathing and deglutition become affected by spasms ; the external surface irritable, and the sensorial functions increased in activity and perverted ; convulsions may occur. These symptoms are paroxysmal, they remit and intermit, and are often excited by sight, hearing, or touch. The sullen form is characterised by shyness and depression, in which there is no disposition to bite and no fear of fluids.

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