Health in the home life / by Honnor Morton.

  • Morten, Honnor, 1861-1913.
Date:
[1907]
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Credit: Health in the home life / by Honnor Morton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Colic.—Both children and adults occasionally suffer from violent colic, the pain of which is extreme, and may cause faintness. Keep the patient warm put a hot india-rubber bottle over the abdomen, and give a hot drink ; to an adult you may give a httle stimulant. Subsequently give castor-oil and clear out the bowels. Convulsions.—If a child has convulsions during teething, or while it is quite small, slip it quickly into a hot bath up to the neck, and put a httle cold water to the head. Send for the doctor. Try subsequently to find out what caused the convulsions, so as to be able to avoid them in the future. Croup.—Put the child into a hot bath ; keep the nursery warm, but with a free current of fresh air. If necessary, give a teaspoonful of ipecacuanha wine and make the child sick; this will stop the attack, but it is liable to recur, especially if the child gets wet feet. Cuts.—In the case of a clean cut, wash it weU with cold water—hold a cut finger under a cold tap, for instance—draw the edges together with some ordinary sticking-plaster, and cover over with a httle bit of clean rag. The main points to remember are to wash the wound clean, to get the edges together, and to keep it clean. It is very essential, in cuts with broken glass, to be sure that every little bit of glass has been washed out of the wound. Dislocations.—When a bone comes out of its socket, it is known as a dislocation ; the most frequent form of this accident is at the shoulder,