A manual of family medicine and hygiene for India / by Sir William Moore.

  • Moore, W. J. (William James), Sir, 1828-1896
Date:
1889
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Credit: A manual of family medicine and hygiene for India / by Sir William Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BED-SOUES. GO But in any case pure air must be ensured, particularly in sleeping apartments. The nature of the food must be scrutinised, and care be taken tliat the patient is not suffering from the effects of a too exclusively fai’inaceous diet [vide Remarlcs on the feeding of children, Chapter V.) Much of the wasting, or atrophy, and accompanying dysentery from which children in India, and particularly the children of soldiers in barracks, suffer, arises wholly or partly from want of proper food, which the pai’ents are either unable to obtain, or regarding which, from ignorance or carelessness, they do not take sufficient care. But while attending to diet other matters must not be neglected. Worms if present must be expelled {vide Worms, p. 491). Diarrhoea must be treated by appropriate remedies {vide Infantile Diarrhoea, p. 169). If the teeth are troublesome the gums must be lanced {vide p. 459). Tonics, especially quinine, in doses according to the child’s age {vide p. 20f ■ should be given. When the bowels are large the abdomen should be gently rubbed daily, for some minutes, with equal parts of brandy and salad oil. Dastly, change of air, milk and water, baths, and sea-bathing, or at least bathing in sea-water, are important adjuvants in the treatment of lingering cases. [Some one of the various malt foods now prepared will generally he desirable, regarding which remarks will be found in Chapter V., On the feeding of children. For the atrophy of children ‘ Kepler’s extract of malt may be specially recommended. Or stiU better, if available, a fresh infusion of malt. This is made by steeping I ounce of bruised malt for two hours in a of cold water. Of the strained solution from 4 to 'Ounces dady may be given to a child three years old'. Burrcughs and Wellcome s ‘beef and iron wine’is also generally advisable.] BED-SOEES.—When patients, whether from disease, as lengthened fevers, or from injury, have to lie long in bed, and especially when they are obliged to lie long in one position, as is necessary for several varieties of fractured bones, sores are apt to form on those parts of the body
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