Hints and helps for home nursing and hygiene : a handbook for all who have to do with sickness arranged according to the syllabus of the second, or nursing, course of lectures / by E. MacDowel Cosgrave ; with the addition of a chapter on the application of the roller bandage, by R.J. Collie.

  • Cosgrave, E. MacDowel (Ephraim MacDowel)
Date:
[1895?.]
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Credit: Hints and helps for home nursing and hygiene : a handbook for all who have to do with sickness arranged according to the syllabus of the second, or nursing, course of lectures / by E. MacDowel Cosgrave ; with the addition of a chapter on the application of the roller bandage, by R.J. Collie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS y. v CHAPTER I. THE FUNCTIONS OF THE LIVING BODY. Why this Lecture is given PAGE .. 15 Oxidation PAGE .. 29 Circulation of the Blood .. 16 Regulation of Temperature .. 31 Respiration .. 20 How the Vital Processes are Digestion Absorption .. 23 .. 27 Controlled .. .. 33 CHAPTER II. THE SICK-ROOM. Selection of a Sick-Room .. 35 Preparation and Cleaning of the Sick-Room .. ..36 The Bed .. .. .. 37 The Bedding .. .. .. 38 Furnishing .. .. .. 39 Decoration of the Sick-Room 43 Warming the Sick-Room .. 44 Ventilating the Sick-Room .. 45 CHAPTER III. INFECTION AND DISINFECTION. Contagion and Infection .. 54 Divisions of Fevers .. .. 55 Stages of Fever .. .. 56 What happens in Fever .. 57 Course of Fever Cases .. 57 Special Points concerning In- dividual Fevers .. .. 58 j Disinfectants .. .. ..61 Using Disinfectants .. .. 63 Points to be noticed in Infec- tious Cases .. .. .. 65