Advice to the people in general, with regard to their healthTissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
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Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
Hygiene -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800
Sec. 430. In a Case so circumstanced, the Patient should be struck often on
the Middle of the Back; some Efforts to vomit should be excited; he
should be prompted to sneeze with Powder of Lilly of the Valley, Sage,
or any cephalic Snuffs, which should be blown strongly up his Nose.
A Pea, pitched into the Mouth in playing, entered into the Wind-pipe,
and sprung out again by vomiting the Patient with Oil. A little Bone was
brought up by making another sneeze, with powdered Lilly of the Valley.
In short, if all these Means of assisting, or saving the Patient are
evidently ineffectual, _Bronchotomy_ must be speedily performed (See No.
6, of the preceding Section.) By this Operation, some Bones, a Bean, and
a Fish-bone have been extracted, and the Patient has been delivered from
approaching Death.
Sec. 431. Nothing should be left untried, when the Preservation of human
Life is the Object. In those Cases, when an obstructing Body can neither
be disengaged from the Throat, the Passage to the Stomach, nor be
suffered to remain there without speedily killing the Patient, it has
been proposed to make an Incision into this Passage, the _Oesophagus_,
through which such a Body is to be extracted; and to employ the like
Means, when a Substance which had slipt even into the Stomach itself,
was of a Nature to excite such Symptoms, as must speedily destroy the
Patient.
When the _Oesophagus_ is so fully and strongly closed, that the Patient
can receive no Food by the Mouth, he is to be nourished by Glysters of
Soup, Gelly, and the like.
__Chapter XXX.__
_Of external Disorders, and such as require chirurgical
Application. Of Burns, Wounds, Contusions or Bruises: Of
Sprains, Ulcers, frostbitten Limbs, Chilblains, Ruptures, Boils.
Of Fellons, Thorns or Splinters in the Fingers or Flesh; of
Warts, and of Corns._
__Sect.__ 432.
Labouring Countrymen are exposed in the Course of their daily Work, to
many outward Accidents, such as Cuts, Contusions, _&c_. which, however
considerable in themselves, very generally end happily; and that chiefly
in Consequence of the pure and simple Nature of their Blood, which is
generally much less acrimonious, or sharp, in the Country, than in great
Towns or Cities. Nevertheless, the very improper Treatment of such
Accidents, in the Country, frequently renders them, however light in
themselves, very troublesome; and indeed, I have seen so many Instances
of this, that I have thought it necessary to mark out here the proper
Treatment of such Accidents, as may not necessarily require the Hand or
Attendance of a Surgeon. I shall also add something very briefly,
concerning some external Disorders, which at the same Time result from
an inward Cause.
_Of Burns._
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