Practical points in nursing for nurses in private practice : with an appendix containing rules for feeding the sick, recipes for invalid foods and beverages, weights and measures, dose list, and a full glossary of medical terms and nursing treatment / by Emily A.M. Stoney.

Emily Marjory Armstrong Stoney

Date:: [between 1890 and 1899?]

Credit: Practical points in nursing for nurses in private practice : with an appendix containing rules for feeding the sick, recipes for invalid foods and beverages, weights and measures, dose list, and a full glossary of medical terms and nursing treatment / by Emily A.M. Stoney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Hypnotics, action of, 72 Hypodermatic tablets, list of, 342 Hysterectomy, after-care in, 165 Hysteria, 256 diagnosis of, from epilepsy, 256 forms of, 256 treatment of, 256 Ice, action of, in inflammatory pro- cess, 91 in checking hemoirliage, 195 in treatment of sunstroke, 200 serving of, to the sick, method of, 57 Ice-bags, 103 Idiosyncrasy defined, 71 Ileo-cecal valve, 307 Ileum, the, 307 Immunity defined, 214 Incontinence of urine, 50, 279 in pregnancy, cause of, 119 Incubation of typhoid fever, period of, 215 period of, defined, 213 Incubator, improvised, 269 Indian-meal enema, 63 Indigestion, infant, treatment, 271 Infancy, diseases of, 270-277 Infant, bathing the, 264 cry of the, signification of, 277 crying of the, causes of, 265 defecation of the, 264 development of the, 268 dressing the, 263 feeding of the, artificial, 265 care of the utensils, 266 periods of, 268 ♦ rules for, 267 food. (See Food.) new-born, care of, 262 nursing of the, 265 paralysis, 276 pulse of, at birth, 41, 269, 277 how to take, 277 urination of the, 264 weaning, time for, 268 Infants, body-temperature of, 42 premature, care of, 269 pulse-rate of, 41, 269, 277 respiration of, 45, 277 syringing the eyes of, method of, 275 Infection, diphtheritic, conditions fa- voring, 231 Inflammation, 90 from frost-bite, treatment, 207 symptoms of, 91 treatment of, 91 Influenza (grippe), 239 complications of, 240 symptoms, 239 treatment, 239 Inhalations of medicines, 80 —dry, 80 —moist, 80 Injection, intravenous, defined, 78 of medicines, hypodermatic, 76 (See Enemata, and Douches.') Insanity following hysterectomy, 165 puerperal, 135 Insect bites and stings, 205 in the ear, removal of, 204 Insomnia, treatment, 206 Inspiration, 289 Intestines, the, 291, 307 lengths of, 307. Intoxication, diagnosis of, from apo- plexy, 253 Intubation in diphtheria, 233 duties of the nurse, 233 in scalds of the glottis, 198 Inunction, mercurial, 78 Inunctions of medicines, 78 Involution, 125, 131 method of promoting, 128 lodin, antidotes, 210 tincture of (counter-irritant), 106 Ipecac, 359 Itch, 259 Ivy-poisoning, treatment, 210 Jacket-poultice, preparation of, 97 James' powder, 348 Jaundice, cause of, 306 Jaw dislocation, treatment, 176 fracture, treatment, 175 Jellies, recipes for, 329-332 Kidney, inflammation of (See Nephritis.) Kidneys, the, 308 Kitchen, the, as an o]ierating-room, 145, 151, 152$