Health in Africa : a medical handbook for European travellers and residents, embracing a study of malarial fever as it is found in British Central Africa / by D. Kerr Cross ; with an introduction by Sir Harry Johnston.

Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health in Africa : a medical handbook for European travellers and residents, embracing a study of malarial fever as it is found in British Central Africa / by D. Kerr Cross ; with an introduction by Sir Harry Johnston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PAGE PAGE Piles ..... 136, 142 Red deposit in the urine 90 Pilocarpine acting on the kidney 103 Remittent forms of fever 81, 85 ,, ,, liver 40, 5°. ,, ,, and their 103, 201 treatment . IOI Plasma of the blood 74 Removing the disabled . 188 Pleurisy .... . 49 Residence in the tropics and its Pneumonia . . . - . 48 effects .... 8 Poached egg . 195 Respiration, artificial . 62 Poisoning .... • 151 ,, inner • 44 Polypi ..... 148 ,, ordinary . . 42 Pomegranate, decoction of . . 38 Respiratory organs 42 Potato soup.... 197 Restlessness, great . 186 Poultices, and how to make them 180 Retention of the urine . 57, 139 Poulticing and its evils . T4 Ribs, fracture of the 169 Prickly heat 10 Rice water .... • 194 Prolapsus ani . 139 Ringworm .... 20 Proteids .... , 1 Round-worms • 38 Protrusion of the bowel , 140 Running ear 148 Pugilists, and how they treat black Rupture .... 140 eyes .... . 125 Pulse, the .... 53. hi Pupils of the eyes 84 S Purge, a brisk 27. 3° - 34 Salicylic acid . 132, 201 Pus, signs of it forming 78, 130 Salivation .... . 26 Putties .... 5 Santonine .... 38, 202 Purulent catarrh of the ear . 148 Scald, and how to treat . 128 Scars due to fever sores . 91 r'v Sciatica .... 66, 82 V Scorpion bites • 157 Quartan fever . . 83 Sea-sickness and its treatment • 3i Quinine . . 46, 94 104, 200 Seat, a four-handed . 188 ,, as a prophylactic . • M O -L Seizures .... . 64 ,, how best to bring the Sequelae of fever . . 90 system under it • IOO Serum of the blood • 74 Quinine, how to give it hypoder- Serving of food . • 193 mically.... • IOO Sewing of a wound . 124 Quinine, how to give it to children IOI, Sheets, how to change the . . 186 104 Shivering and its treatment 73,84, 100 ,, in its action on low forms Shock ..... 7i of life .... . 95 Sick diet .... • 193 Quinine, when best to give it • 95 Siesta ..... 3 Quinsy, a form of sore throat • 27 Side, pain in the . • 49 Quotidian fever . • 83 Skin and its nervous supply 61 ,, ,, structure . 9, 119 ■r Sleep, amount to be partaken of. 3 ,, how to encourage . 68 Rabid dog and rabies . 155 ,, want of . 87 Rectum, how to wash out the 174. 186 Sleeplessness . . . 68, 73, 99 Red blood corpuscles . • 77 Sling, how to apply a . . 160