Family thermometry : a manual of thermometry, for mothers, nurses, hospitalers, etc., and all who have charge of the sick and of the young / by Edward Seguin.
- Édouard Séguin
- Date:
- 1873
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Family thermometry : a manual of thermometry, for mothers, nurses, hospitalers, etc., and all who have charge of the sick and of the young / by Edward Seguin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![save by the exceptional methods of hypodermic and other injections, by which, what the stomach cannot receive or retain, is intrusted to less sensitive or less capricious organs. The coolers through the stomach are ice, the type of all others, pure water, if (potable) fit to drink, light efferves- cent waters, and emulsions of what the ancients called the cold seeds (pumpkins, cucumbers, melons, and water- melons), the juice of the two latter, and of the orange, lime, lemon, grenade, and of some Small fruits of our climate, diluted, or not, with good water at different temperatures. The substances which bring heat to the stomach are more numerous than those which afford it coolness. They are selected to correspond to the necessities of each case, and to the opportunities of the morning or evening ci’ises ; upon the experimental indications of thermometry on the digestion, for their known or reputed pro]3erties, and also in reference to the taste of the pati ent; a taste which is not an indifferent matter. The s ame remark obtains when true food begins to be needed. These heaters are hot drinks and jiorridges, and what a patient can take of ordinary food, the veg etable bitters and their extracts, the aromatics and spices already ad- vised externally, and in which the heats of the tropics are concentrated like ideas in a symbol; the warm juice of the grapes of milder latitudes, coffee, alcohol, and (one alkaloid) quinine. It may be said that I trespass on my plan in recom- mending the use of these two medicines. But where a physician cannot be obtained, and the patient suffers from a very high or very low-temperature, cracked](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24991715_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
