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The Feeding of Infants, Together with the Preparation of Food for the Sick and Infirm

The Feeding of Infants, Together with the Preparation of Food for the Sick and Infirm

Wigg, Thomas Carter

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ISBN10: 1231188766
ISBN13: 9781231188767
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.08 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...Acon, in turns with it. Spongia.--Hard, barking, whistling cough, with pain in chest and laboured breathing. Iodium is a better remedy for scrofulous children. H.. Bromine.--Extreme congestion, so that the child breathes with great difficulty, throws its head back, grasps at the throat, and shows anxiety. Brom, should be administered (in turns with Acon., if the skin is hot and dry) every thirty or sixty minutes, till improvement takes place. Kali Bich.--Tough, stringy expectoration. Also when Brom. fails to relieve. Hep.-Sulph.--Loose, metallic-sounding cough, with difficult expectoration; also to remove traces of the disease from the affected organs. But for this latter object, Dr. Nichol, of Montreal, recommends--Sangiihjtaria.--According to the above authority, patients having a tendency to Croup, lose it under a course of this remedy. Arsenicum.--Great exhaustion; typhoid symptoms. Ant.-Tart.--Much rattling in the chest, and defective ability to detach the phlegm; cold bluish face, cold perspiration, and sinking of strength.. Administration.--A dose every fifteen, thirty, or sixty minutes in severe cases; or every two, four, or eight hours in mild cases, or during recovery.; ., Inhalation.--Iodine, Bromine, and Kali Bick, are specially valuable when administered in watery vapour. A few drops of the strong tincture may be dropped into a small kettle kept boiling over a fire or spirit-lamp, and fixing a tube to the spout to convey the vapour close for the patient to breathe. In very bad cases, a sort of tent should be formed over the patient's bed, and the steam conducted under it by a tube. Accessory Measures.--Everything likely to excite the patient or make him cross, should be avoided. A warm bath; the throat fomented with hot water, and a compress or...

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