The Home Medical Library, Volume 1 (of 6)

=ERUPTIVE CONTAGIOUS FEVERS= (_including Scarlet Fever, Measles, German Measles, Smallpox, and Chickenpox_).--These, with the exception of smallpox, attack children more commonl...

=WOUNDS.=--A wound is a condition produced by a forcible cutting, contusing, or tearing of the tissues of the body, and includes, in its larger sense, bruises, sprains, dislocat...

_First Aid Rule 1.--Be sure bone is broken. If broken, patient can scarcely (if at all) move the part beyond the break, while attendant can move it freely in his hands. If broke...

=TYPHOID FEVER (ENTERIC FEVER).=--Through ignorance which prevailed before the discovery of the germ of typhoid fever and exact methods for determining the presence of the same,...

=BABY=, bathing the, III, 109 care of the, III, 108 clothing of the, III, 110 diet for the, III, 134 food for the, III, 132; IV, 261 nursing the, III, 114 teething, III, 113 tem...

=MALARIA; CHILLS AND FEVER; AGUE; FEVER AND AGUE; SWAMP OR MARSH FEVER; INTERMITTENT OR REMITTENT FEVER; BILIOUS FEVER.=--Malaria is a communicable disease characterized by atta...

_First Aid Rule 1.--Stop pain quickly. Cut away clothing very gently. Break no blisters. Cover with Carron oil (equal parts of limewater and linseed or olive oil) and light band...

=MOSQUITOES.=--The female mosquito is the offender. During or after sucking blood she injects a poison into the body which causes itching, swelling, and, in some susceptible per...

_Rule 2.--Assistant steadies patient from behind, with hands both sides of his head, operator presses downward and backward with his thumbs on back teeth of patient, each side o...

Heat prostration or exhaustion occurs when persons weakened by overwork, worry, or poor food are exposed to severe heat combined with great physical exertion. It often attacks s...

NOTE.--These directions differ from those given in the last revision of the Regulations by the addition of means for securing deeper inspiration. The method heretofore published...

=FOOD POISONING.=--Much the same symptoms from all meats, fish, shellfish, milk, cheese, ice cream, and vegetables; namely, vomiting, cramps, diarrhea, headache, prostration, we...

_First Aid Rule.--Give two teaspoonfuls of chalk (or whiting, or whitewash scraped from the wall or a fence) mixed with a wineglass of water. Beat four eggs in a glass of milk,...

_Former Assistant in Neurology, Columbia University; former Chairman, Section on Neurology and Psychiatry, New York Academy of Medicine; Assistant in Medicine, University and Be...

With the exception of the opening chapter, which contains the valuable Life-saving Service Rules _verbatim_, the Editors have adopted the plan of beginning each article in Part...