What to observe at the bed-side and after death in medical cases.
- London Medical Society of Observation
- Date:
- 1853
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: What to observe at the bed-side and after death in medical cases. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PART I.] PREVIOUS GENERAL HEALTH. [§ II. B. holic drinks are taken; taken in place of food; before, with, or after meals.—Habit of tippling (liquor com- monly used); habit and frequency of intoxication.— Habitual use of strong tea or coffee, cool or very hot ? 15. Clothing and firing :—sufficient or not, by day and by night? use of flannel clothing; clothing of feet.—Habitual use of tight stays or neck-cloths.— Sufficiency of bedding and bed-clothes. 16. Cleanliness:—of person; habitual change of clothing; ablutions; habitual use of baths, and of what kind? of sea-bathing;—of bedding and bed- clothes ; their saturation with urine, discharges, etc.; purification of them;—of habitation ; flooring, walls ; frequency of whitewashing; if a public institution, the use of water or dry rubbing in cleansing the wards? etc. 17. Exercise:—number of hours devoted to it; place ; time of day; special character of exercise. 18. Sleep:—number of hours habitually taken; period of twenty-four hours in which taken; rest habitually broken or undisturbed ? 19. Study:—number of hours habitually devoted to it; its special nature and object. 20. Medicines or other therapeutical agents habi- tually used (purgatives, issues, blisters, bloodletting, chloroform, etc.); ostensible reason for their use. 21. Habitual use of narcotic drugs, etc.—Opium, quantity used (stating whether the information is dcr rived from the patient or from other sources); how long habituated to it ?—Tobacco; mode of using it (by smoking, snuffing, or chewing) ; quantity used daily or weekly; habitually used before or after meals. 22. Peculiar habits. 23. Venereal indulgences; habitual frequency.— Masturbation (28). B.—PREVIOUS GENERAL IIEALT1I. 24. Infantile health.—Vaccination; age at which performed; its success.—Rc-vucciuation; age at which performed; its success;—character of cicatrices.—Va- riolous inoculation; age at which performed; severity or mildness of disease ; number of pustules;—character intoxicating drinks. strong tea or cott'ee. Clothing & firing. tight ligatures, bedding. Cleanliness— of person. bedding. habitation. Exercise. Sleep. Study. Medicines. Narcotic drugs— opium. tobacco. Peculiar habits. Venereal indul- gences. § II- B- Infantile health- vaccination, re-vaccination, variolous ino- culation.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28115478_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
