The parent's medical and surgical assistant, intended for the use of the heads of families, parochial clergymen and others, affording ... directions for the management of ... sudden illnesses and ... accidents ... / by Thomas Ayre Bromhead.

  • Bromhead, Thomas Ayre, 1792?-1832.
Date:
1821
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Credit: The parent's medical and surgical assistant, intended for the use of the heads of families, parochial clergymen and others, affording ... directions for the management of ... sudden illnesses and ... accidents ... / by Thomas Ayre Bromhead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a!ul every species of vviiiej spicc^ atid animal footle is to be immediately with- held. 4. —A common g’lyster sliould be in- jected. (Sect. XX. 8.) 5. -—If any one is present who is capable of bleeding, three or four tea cups full of blood may be taken from the arm. 6. —Should the surgeon live at, a distance^ or be long before he arriveSj, the patient may be placed in the warm bath for liflccn or twenty minutes; at all events let plenty of hot water be in readiness.