The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach.

  • Leach, Harry.
Date:
1874
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Credit: The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The patient in a slight case is faint, feels sick, and sometimes vomits. If the injury be severe, he loses his senses; his body is cold; he lies as if in a deep sleep, but can be roused, by shouting some familiar question in his ear, when he will answer, and immediately go off to sleep again. This drowsiness may last from one to forty-eight hours. Treatment.—Keep him quiet; give nothing, or you may choke him ; wrap him in a warm blanket, and apply warmth to his feet. Broken Skull and Pressure on the Brain.— Generally a fatal accident. The patient is insensible, breathes as if smoking a pipe, and sometimes bleeds at the ears and nose. Treatment.—Apply cold to the head and warmth to the feet. Nothing else can be done. FKOST BITE. This accident occurs most commonly to coloured seamen, and affects the fingers and toes. Urge your men, when the ship is in cold latitudes, to come to you as soon as their extremities become red or at all shrunken. Treatment.—Eub the parts affected with snow or ice, and afterwards apply rags wetted with cold water. Do not bring the patient into a warm cabin, or near a fire, or the limb may be destroyed.