A hand-book of nursing for family and general use.

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[1878], ©1878
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Credit: A hand-book of nursing for family and general use. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dressing patient, 27. Dressings, surgical, 130, 132. carbolized, 133. Drinking-water, 251. Drowning, how to revive from, 157- Dysentery, 89. Ear, foreign body in, 158. Early stages of disease, 63, 115. Emergencies, 157. Enemata, 47. syringe for, 41. nourishing, 48. for a child, 121. vaginal, 198, 210. Epilepsy, 96. Erysipelas, 148. Ether, how to give, 137. Excretion after childbirth, 201. Exercise for children, 249. Exertion after childbirth improper, 205. Exhaustion after diarrhoea, 120. Expression in sleep, 32. of infant, what it shows, 116. Eyes, application to, 53. foreign body in, 159. ' inflammation of, 223. Fainting, 98. Family secrets, 16. hygiene, 241. Feeding-bottles, 238. Feeding delirious patients, 35. helpless patients, 35. surgical patients, 141. Fevers, how they differ, 117. Fire in a sick-room, 22. Fissure of cervix, 201. Fits, apoplectic, 94. *' epileptic, 96. Foetal position, how discovered 176. Food, early morning care, 32. when and how to give, 33-35. for infants, 227. cow's milk, how to prepare it, 234. hours and quantity, 237. Fractures, 158. Furnaces, 252. Gastritis, 89. Gossip, 14. Hands, how to keep them nice, 9. Hair brushing, 28. Hemorrhage after operations, 139, after injuries, 163. from lungs, etc., 164. uterine, 194, 206. High-heeled shoes, 248. Hip-bath, 60. Hot applications, 55. Hot baths, 58. Hydrocephalus, chronic, 102. Hygiene in families, 241. Hysteria, 98. Ice-bags, 54. Inelastic tissues in childbirth, 182. Infant, things never to be done, 120 227. still-born, apparently, 196. how soon to nurse, 215. how to put to the breast, 215. care in feeding, 216, 237. first bath and cleansing, 218, born feeble, 219. how to fasten clothing, 22a, care of cord 221. breasts, 222. kidneys and bowels^ 222.