The lightning doctor : a self-diagnostician and practical doctor book for private families, students, and physicians / by Benjamin Franklin Weaver ; with thirty-two illustrations (four etchings and twenty-eight photo-engravings from life) and 1,554 modern and up-to-date recipes for treating both general and special diseases of men, women, and children.

  • Weaver, Benjamin Franklin, 1839-
Date:
1905
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Credit: The lightning doctor : a self-diagnostician and practical doctor book for private families, students, and physicians / by Benjamin Franklin Weaver ; with thirty-two illustrations (four etchings and twenty-eight photo-engravings from life) and 1,554 modern and up-to-date recipes for treating both general and special diseases of men, women, and children. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    weakly children should be given every two hours, but for stronger children a longer interval is desired, care being taken that the impaired digestive tract be not further injured by an excess of food. Diluents may be freely given ; plain or carbonated waters, barley water or lemonade, according to the taste and desire of the patient. During convalescence most careful nursing is re- quired in order that relapse may not occur. A nutri- tious and easily digestible diet should be maintained throughout convalescence, and this should be augmented by bitter tonics, together with cod-liver oil. Whether it is desirable to use expectorants during this stage or not is determined by the conditions pres- ent, the cough and expectoration being the criteria for their employment. Should resolution be delayed and the disease tend to become chronic, the occasional application of a blister or other counter-irritants to the chest, as, for instance, tincture of iodine, dry cups, etc., together with the in- ternal administration of the iodids, may hasten resolu- tion and absorption. NO. 386. PNEUMONIA. Treatment : If there is much pain at the onset it may be re- lieved by mustard paste, but later in the disease G. Grothen prefers to apply to the chest once or twice a day, a flannel saturated with equal parts of lard and turpentine. Over this should be placed a cotton-jacket covered with oiled silk. Flaxseed poultices should not be used. During the early part of the disease but a small quantity of food, if any, should be given, and