Lectures on medical nursing : delivered in the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow / by J. Wallace Anderson.

  • Anderson, J. Wallace (James Wallace)
Date:
1883
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Credit: Lectures on medical nursing : delivered in the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow / by J. Wallace Anderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    will rarely concern you as nurses. You will probably never be directed to give, for ex- ample, Scotch broth to a patient with weak digestion ; at the same time, to know what vegetables r]%ay be given, what food generally may be given, will sometimes be of great value to you, at least in private nursing. This we are now going to consider. I need not remind you that a patient's diet is a question for the medical attendant alone ; so that although I am going to tell you some- thing about different kinds of food as articles of diet, it will be, like much else I shall tell you, only as general information which in particular cases may be of service to you. In any form of disease which has induced general debility the stomach is necessarily involved as well. It loses its toney as we say. This itself, however, may be the particular disease: what is called atonic dyspepsia. Whether it be so, or depending on a general loss of strength such as occurs in all acute diseases, we require to begin with light food; sometimes the very lightest we can think of. Beginning, then, with the lightest articles of E
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