A Text-book of nursingAppleton, 1885 - 396 pages |
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... SYMPTOMS . VII . - MEDICINES AND THEIR ADMINISTRATION VIII . - FOOD AND ITS ADMINISTRATION · IX . - ENEMATA - SUPPOSITORIES - DOUCHES X. - COUNTER - IRRITANTS - CUPS - LEECHES 11 24 • 37 52 • 68 XI . POULTICES , FOMENTATIONS , AND OTHER ...
... SYMPTOMS . VII . - MEDICINES AND THEIR ADMINISTRATION VIII . - FOOD AND ITS ADMINISTRATION · IX . - ENEMATA - SUPPOSITORIES - DOUCHES X. - COUNTER - IRRITANTS - CUPS - LEECHES 11 24 • 37 52 • 68 XI . POULTICES , FOMENTATIONS , AND OTHER ...
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... symptoms , and the prevention of contagion . It is a work which falls largely , though not exclusively , to the share of women , and it has sometimes been claimed that all women make good nurses simply by virtue of their womanhood . But ...
... symptoms , and the prevention of contagion . It is a work which falls largely , though not exclusively , to the share of women , and it has sometimes been claimed that all women make good nurses simply by virtue of their womanhood . But ...
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... symptoms , and perhaps as little under control . You will scarcely mind what a sick person says to you , so long as you are sure that he has no real ground for dissatisfaction . But bear in mind that diseased fancies can not be ...
... symptoms , and perhaps as little under control . You will scarcely mind what a sick person says to you , so long as you are sure that he has no real ground for dissatisfaction . But bear in mind that diseased fancies can not be ...
Page 32
... symptoms reported . In a susceptible person , the change of surroundings , and consequent excitement , may have a considerable effect upon the pulse , respiration , and even temperature ; it is , therefore , advisable to take them not ...
... symptoms reported . In a susceptible person , the change of surroundings , and consequent excitement , may have a considerable effect upon the pulse , respiration , and even temperature ; it is , therefore , advisable to take them not ...
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... symptoms - treatment . It is the common notion that anybody can make a bed , and possibly also that it is of very little account exactly how a bed is made . To a thoroughly healthy person , who will sleep soundly all night and turn out ...
... symptoms - treatment . It is the common notion that anybody can make a bed , and possibly also that it is of very little account exactly how a bed is made . To a thoroughly healthy person , who will sleep soundly all night and turn out ...
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abdomen acid action albumen antiseptic aorta applied arteries bandage bath bleeding blister blood body bones bowels breath Bright's disease burn called cantharides carbolic carbolic acid catheter cavity chest child chloroform clean Cloth cold water common condition constipation covered danger diarrhoea digestion discharge disease disinfected dose dressings dyspnoea effect emetic enema fever finger fluid fracture give given hæmorrhage head heart heat important inflammation injury intestinal irritation keep less limb lungs matter medicine membrane milk mouth mucous mucous membrane muscles nausea necessary nurse ounces pain patient pint placenta plaster poison poultice pressure pulse quantity rectum relieved removed respiration salt sheet sick sick-room side skin solution sometimes specific gravity sponge stimulants strangury STRYCHNIA sugar surface symptoms tablespoonful taken temperature Tincture tion tissues trachea treatment tube urine usually uterus ventilation vomiting ward warm washed wound
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