The new family doctor : embracing the domestic treatment of disease and accident, nursing the sick, and the maintenance of family health / by George M. Napheys.

  • Napheys, George H. (George Henry), 1842-1876
Date:
[between 1900 and 1909?]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The new family doctor : embracing the domestic treatment of disease and accident, nursing the sick, and the maintenance of family health / by George M. Napheys. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE Bkoths and Soups, 358-359 Chicken broth—Mutton broth—Whole beef tea—Quickly-made beef tea—Vegetable soup—Bread soup—Spinach soup—Beef and hen broth. Meats and Vegetables foe Invalids. 359-361 Table, in order of digestibility, of some articles of animal food —Boiled pigeon or partridge—Bread sauce—Relish for fish —Minced fowl and egg—Fowl and rice—Stewed oysters— The invalid’s cutlet—The invalid’s mashed potato—Potato surprise. Jellies foe Invalids, 361-363 Isinglass jelly — Strengthening jelly — Mutton jelly — Bread jelly—Rice blanc-mange—Arrowroot blanc-mange—Sago jelly —Tapioca jelly—Panada—Calves’ feet jelly—Currant jelly— Irish moss blanc-mange—Gelatine blanc-mange. Puddings foe Invalids, 363 Rice Pudding—Bread pudding—Batter pudding—Milk for puddings or stewed fruit—Rice and apple—Vermicelli pudding. CHAPTER XI. MEDICAL RECEIPTS FOR THE SICK ROOM. Baths and Douches, 366-369 The hygienic importance of bathing—Rules for the use of the bath in health—Division of baths according to their warmth —The cold bath and directions for its employment—Warm and hot baths, when useful. Medicated Watee Baths, 369-373 Soap bath—Bran bath—Starch bath—Oil bath—Alkaline bath —Valerian bath—Gelatine bath — Bark bath—Iron bath— Mustard bath—Salt water bath—Liver of sulphur bath—Tur- pentine bath. Vapour Baths—Simple vapour bath—Medicated vapour bath—Warm air bath—Turkish bath—Russian and Roman baths—Fumigations—Shower baths—Douche baths— Sand and mud baths—Hip baths or sitz baths—Foot baths— Shallow baths. Cold Affusion, 373 Wet-sheet packing—The dripping sheet—The wet compress— The sponge bath. Bllstee.s, Cathaetics oe Puegatives, 374-376 Remarks in regard to their use—Receipts for Eftervescing cream of tartar—Magnesia and Rhubarb—Rhubarb and Epsom