Medical compend for masters of the Naval Auxiliary Service and others : to accompany medicine box and boat box.

Date:
1918
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Credit: Medical compend for masters of the Naval Auxiliary Service and others : to accompany medicine box and boat box. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FEecrs.—The matter discharged from the bowels during defecation. FOUNTAIN SYRINGE.—-One which has no pistons, but is hung up and acts by Sravity. : FRACTURE.—A break, usually in bone. FUMIGATION.—The destruction of germs by means of some disinfecting Vapor , as that of sulphur or formaldehyd. Funcus.—A cellular vegetable organism feeding on organic matter; such are mushrooms, yeasts, molds, and bacteria. GERM.—A microbe or pathogenie cell. GERMICIDE.—An agent which is destructive to germs or microbes. IMMOBILIZATION.—The act of rendering a part immovable or of preventing all possibility of movement in a part; especially applied to fractured bones. INFECTION.—Communication of disease, as by entrance of pathogenic germs into an organism in any manner. LAXATIVE.—A remedy which assists the movement of the bowels which move but sluggishly. A laxative is useless where the bowels have been clogged for several days. (Use cathartic.) MACERATION.—Softening by the action of a liquid. MicroBe.—A microscopic organism, especially a bacterium. MicroorGANIsM.—Bacillus, bacterium, microbe, germ. PALPITATION.—Rapid and perceptible beating of the heart, which may be regular or arresular. . PATHOGENIC.—Productive of disease. PLEURA.—A thin membrane which covers the inside of the chest wall on both sides, and also covers either lung. PNEUMONIC.—Relating to pneumonia. P. plague, a particularly fatal form, with marked lung involvement. PRATIQUE.—A license or permission granted by the authorities of a port to the master of a vessel, especially after sanitary inspection or quarantine, to hold communication with the shore. PRoPHYLAXIS.—The prevention of disease. PURGATIVE, PURGE.—A remedy that moves the bowels actively. PURULENT.—Consisting of pus or matter. Pus.—The matter from a sore. PUSTULE.—A smal] circumscribed elevation on the skin, containing pus. RaBies.—A disease affecting certain animals, especially dogs, from whieh hy- drophobia is communicated to man. ; RAsH.—An eruption on the skin. RectumM.—tThe lowest part of the large intestine opening at the anus. SANITATION.—The employment of measures designed to promote health and prevent disease. SEDATIVE.—A medicine. which allays irritation and quiets the nerves. . SHock.—A condition of collapse or profound prostration sometimes following hemorrhage, injury, anesthetic, and operation. SpaTuLtaA.—A broad instrument like a knife with blunt edges for spreading ointments. STERILE.—Free from pathogenic bacteria or other microorganisms; aseptic. STIMULANT.—A medicine having power to excite organic action or to increase the vital activity of an organ, as heart stimulant, respiratory stimulant. STRICTURE.—A narrowing of a passage or canal in the body due to disease or injury. ScuTurE.—A stitch used to draw together the lips of a wound.