The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach.

  • Leach, Harry.
Date:
1874
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Credit: The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sponge the body with cold water if the heat of skin continue ; but if the patient becomes cold, as is sometimes the case, put him into a warm bath at a temperature of 90 degrees. Give the fever mixture (page 83) three times a day, and if he is excessively restless, an opium pill at night, with very good slop diet at frequent intervals both night and day. Keep him very clean ; see that he makes water regularly, and use the catheter if necessary (page 67). When the heat of skin and other serious symptoms have passed away, let his rations be as good and liberal as possible, with a daily allowance of wine or beer, and give him 3 grains of quinine three times a day for a fortnight. COUGH, BEONCHITIS, INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS, AND CONSUMPTION. (1) A severe cough, with a variable quantity of frothy, white, and sometimes mattery expectoration, will generally indicate bronchitis, which lasts from five to ten days. (2) A cough, with a small quantity of rusty or bloody expectoration, much heat of skin, and difficulty of breathing, will generally indicate inflammation of the lungs, which lasts from four to nine days. (3) A lasting cough, with much mattery and often bad-smelling expectoration, often accompanied
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