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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    Limbs, pains in, 48. Lung fever, 179. Lysis, 39. Malaria, 140. Malarial fever, congestive, 144. course of, 141-143. comatose type of, 145. hemorrhagic type of, 146. paroxysm in, 141. pernicious, 144. Malt preparations, 89. Manner in the sick-room, 76. Mattress, 65. Measles, black, 160. causation of, 168. course of, 158-160. complications of, 169, 160. defined, 167. French or German, 162. history of, 167. nurse's duties in, 160, 161. symptoms of, 168-160. treatment of, 160. Meat-juice as food, 86. Medical thermometry, 23. Medicines, how cared for, 66. useful in intermittent fever,143. Membranous croup, 192-196. Meningitis, cerebro-spinal (see Gerebro-Spinal Fever), 183. Menstruation in enteric fever, 103. Mental faculties, impairment of, as a symptom, 48. quietude, 107. Menthol-pencil, 80. Method and order, 23. Miasm, 42. Milk as a food, 83-86. Mouth, the care of the, 82. Nausea, 54. Nervous fever. (See Enteric Fever.) symptoms, 76. how treated in enteric fever, 102. system, as affected in fevers, 47. Noises in the ears, 53. of the household, 80. Normal temperature, 29, 32. Nose, collections in, 81. Nose-bleed, 53, 81, 101. how controlled, 81. Nose-bleeding in enteric fever, 101. Nourishment, 82-90. Nurse and doctor, 64, 65. and patient, 65, 76. duties of the, 22, 64. qualifications of, 12. Nurse's duties in smallpox, 169. in varioloid, 169. Nurses, specially useful in yellow fever epidemics, 134. Odors, how removed, 66. of the sick-room, 16. Order and method, 23. Organs of special sense, 53. how cared for, 80. Oyster-juice, 88. Pack, the cold, 70. Pains, how relieverl, 77. in back and limbs, 48. Pajamas, 65. Paralysis, diphtheritic, 197, 201. Paroxysm in intermittent fever, 141. Patient, care of, 65-67. isolation of, 22. Patient's toilet, 67. Peeling of the skin, 66.