Fever nursing : designed for the use of professional and other nurses, and especially as a text-book for nurses in training / by J.C. Wilson.

Date:
1888
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Credit: Fever nursing : designed for the use of professional and other nurses, and especially as a text-book for nurses in training / by J.C. Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    The occurrence of hyperpyrexia demands the prompt and energetic use of the cokl bath. If this measure cannot be employed, cold may be applied by means of ice, cold affusions, ice-bags, wet compresses, and injec- tions of iced water. Every effort must be made to keep the temperature below 105° F. Chest compli- cations will not preclude active antipyretic measures. Alcohol may be required to counteract the flagging ten- dencies of the circulation. When the tempecature falls under the influence of external cold, the thermometer must be used every hour. When the temperature again rises to 104° F., the bath must be again employed. In all cases of rheumatic fever in which there are nervous symptoms, the thermometer must be regularly used at intervals not exceeding two or three hours. Those who have ever suffered from an attack of rheumatic fever are to be warned of the danger of its recurrence, and they should avoid cold and damp dwell- ings, over-exertion, and subsequent exposure. They ought to habitually use daily cold sponge-baths, rapidly taken, only part of the body being exposed and bathed at once, and followed by brisk friction, the whole process occupying not more than ten minutes. PNEUMONIA. Definition—An acute, non-contagious specific fever, characterized by the invariable presence of more or less extensive changes of an inflammatory kind in one, less frequently in both, lungs. These changes are attended by chest symptoms, among which are pain, cough, and rust-colored expectoration. The fever is of sudden