Helps in sickness and to health : where to go and what to do; being a guide to home nursing and a handbook to health in the habitation, the nursery, the schoolroom, and the person. With a chapter on pleasure and health resorts / by Henry C Burdett.

  • Burdett, Henry C., Sir.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Helps in sickness and to health : where to go and what to do; being a guide to home nursing and a handbook to health in the habitation, the nursery, the schoolroom, and the person. With a chapter on pleasure and health resorts / by Henry C Burdett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cooking of food, boiling, roasting, ] etc., 95. ! Coope, the late Mr. Octavius, on electric lighting, igg. Copper salts, poisoning by, 284. Corns, treatment of, 325. Corrosive sublimate, poisoning by, 2S4. Corset, 70. Cosmetics, 57. Cottage Hospitals, 461. Cotton, as clothing, 6g. County asylums for lunatics, 437. Cowls as ventilators, ig6. Cradle, to support bed-clothes, 273. Cramming, evils of, 53. Creosote, poisoning by, 283. Cripples {sec Deformities). Croup, 294; membranous croup, 329. Cubic space, in nurseries, etc., 9; in other rooms, 188. Cuts, treatment of, 268 et scq. Cyanide of potassium, poisoning by, 284. Damp-proof course in houses, 145. Deaf and dumb, institutions for, 380. Decoration of walls, ceilings, etc., 3 ct scq. Deformities of body, institutions for, 386. Dental hospitals, 388. Desks in schools, 51. Diabetes, 248, 260. Diarrhoea, 20, 248, 294 ; treatment of, 327- Diet, of children, 27 ct scq.; from birth to one month, 27 ; from one to six months, 31 ; from six to twelve months, 32 ; from one to two years, 33 ; after two years, 34 ; general remarks, 34; times of meals, 36 ; cleanliness in feeding, 37; other general rules, diet tables, etc., 38. Digestion, 8g ; table showing mean time of digestion of different foods, 345. Digitalis, poisoning by, 284. Dining-room, 164. Dip-trap, 156. Disease, infectious {sec Infectious Disease ). Diseases, of children, 20 ; places suitable for particular ailments, 245 ct scq. Disinfectants, for filth, 208; for sick-room, 335. Disinfecting apparatus, 229. Disinfection of premises, bedding, clothing, etc., 22g, 333 ; of public conveyances, cabs, etc., 230. Dislocations, treatment of, 271. Dispensaries, general and provi- dent, 457. Ditches, foul, law as to, 222. Dog, bite by, 279. Douche bath, 61. Drainage of houses, 150 ; ventila- tion of drains, 154 ct scq. ; dis- connection of house drains from sewers and cesspools, 158; ven- tilation of soil-pipes and waste- pipes, 160 ; powers of sanitary authorities to require drainage of houses, 2ig , powers to examine drains, 221. Drawing-room, 164. Dress, in the nursery, 24; clean- liness in clothing, 27; dress at school, 46. Drink {sec Food ). Drinks for the sick-room, recipes, 337 '^i ^'''Z- Dripping and lard, g2. Drowning, treatment of, 276 ; Sylvester's method of artificial respiration, 276. Drugs and apparatus to be kept in the house, 3og. Drunk or dying, 282. Drunkards, retreats for, 405. Dry rot in wood, r43. Dust in rooms, 201. Dust-bins, 201. Dysentery, 248. Dyspepsia, 24g. Ear, 74; treatment of foreign bodies in, 281; ear-ache, treat- ment of, 324; institutions for diseases of ear and throat, 38S. Earth closets, 204 ct scq.; legisla- tive provisions as to, 220. Eczema, behind the ears, 76; of head in children, 2g3.