Advice to a wife and mother in two parts : embracing Advice to a wife and Advice to a mother / by Pye Henry Chavasse.

  • Q52148313
Date:
1881
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Credit: Advice to a wife and mother in two parts : embracing Advice to a wife and Advice to a mother / by Pye Henry Chavasse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    of the eye is very apt to follow the burn of lime; but which inflammation will, provided the previous direc- tions have been promptly and efficiently followed out, with appropriate treatment, soon subside. The above accident is apt to occur to a child who is standing near a building when the slacking of quick- lime is going on, and where portions of lime, in the form of powder, are flying about the air. It would be well not to allow a child to stand about such places, as prevention is always better than cure. Quicklime is sometimes called caustic lime: it well deserves its name, for it is a burning lime, and if proper means be not promptly used, will soon burn away the sight. 288. What is to be done in the case of' Choking V Instantly put your finger into the throat and feel if the substance be within reach; if it be food, force it down, and thus liberate the breathing; should it be a hard substance, endeavor to hook it out; if you cannot reach it, give a good smart blow or two with the flat of the hand on the back; or, as recommended by a contributor to the Lancet, on the chest, taking care to seize the little patient, and place him between your knees side ways, and in this or some other manner to compress the abdomen [the belly], otherwise the power of the blow will be lost by the yielding of the abdomi- nal parietes [walls of the belly], and the respiratory effort will not be produced. If that does not have the desired effect, tickle the throat with your finger, so as to insure immediate vomiting, and the consequent ejection of the offending substance.* * See the Lancet for October 10th, 17th, and 24th, 1810