The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach ; revised by William Spooner.

Date:
1900
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach ; revised by William Spooner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    67/144 page 47
    milk—a pint and a half in the twenty-four hours, or condensed milk may be substituted in the proportion of about two ounces to a pint of water. This, wdth a pint and a half of beef-tea, will be a very suitable diet. If you have no milk, give any slop diet you can obtain. Give plenty of barley-water, toast and water, or cold weak tea to relieve the thirst. Stimulants are not generally necessary at first, but when the pulse begins to fail and the tongue gets dry and hard, give wine or brandy at the rate of 4 to 8 oz. in the twenty-four hours. Give also 6 grains of Dover's ])Owder every night. If the stools are more than three or four in the day, give 20 grains of the diarrhoea powder two or three times a day as may be required. If the looseness is very bad (say from twelve to twenty stools in twenty-four hours), give the diarrhoea mixture (Receipt No. 3) every four hours. Should there be any blood in the motions, give twenty drops of tincture of steel in a little water every two hours till it stops. If there is much pain or distension of the bowels, put a large turpen- i ine fomentation (Receipt No. 17) over the belly, keep it there for thirty minutes, and repeat it every morning as often as necessary. An opium pill may be given at night when there is mucli restlessness. When the fever is over, give the quinine mixture (Receipt No. 9) three times a day. No solid food must be allowed for six w^eeks from the commencement of the attack. Good nursing is of more value than
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3