One thousand medical maxims and surgical hints / by Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies.
- N. E. Yorke Davis
- Date:
- 1883
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: One thousand medical maxims and surgical hints / by Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![374-] the advice of a medical man should first be sought and his sanction given for their use. 368. Nightmares are often the result of indigest- ible food in the stomach. During one of these attacks, there is as a rule a distressing conscious- ness of inability to move from some disagreeable vision with which the suffering begins; palpitation then comes on, accompanied by a feeling of weight on the chest and of suffocation; the sufferer now attempts to move and finds it impossible. But in a short time the power of volition returns, and the dreamer arouses himself lest the attack should recur. 369. The treatment of nightmares may be briefly summed up in these words : Avoid heavy suppers. 370. ‘Proud flesh,’ which is popularly believed to be dangerous, is necessary to the healing of any wound. It is simply an excess of granulation, and requires keeping down by the application of lunar caustic. 371. A bruise is an injury to the flesh beneath the skin; and even though the part injured may not become discoloured, a great amount of mischief may have been done. Rest and cold lotions are the best remedies. (See Appendix, 19-22.) 372. Few arrive at middle age without believing they suffer from heart disease. A little palpitation arising from indigestion is quite sufficient to ensure a firm belief that the heart is affected. 373. Heart disease in middle age is rare, unless it be the result of rheumatic fever in early life. It is most common in men who have been soldiers, and is caused in them generally by the obstruction to the flow of blood from carrying the knapsack. 374. Over-training in athletes often produces the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24874577_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
