The practical guide to health : a popular treatise on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, with a scientific description of diseases, their causes and treatment; designed for nurses and for home use / by Frederick M. Rossiter.

  • Rossiter, Frederick M. (Frederick Magee), 1870-
Date:
[1913], ©1913
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Credit: The practical guide to health : a popular treatise on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, with a scientific description of diseases, their causes and treatment; designed for nurses and for home use / by Frederick M. Rossiter. 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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    It is cruel to whip young children for wetting the bed, when, as a rule, not they but their parents are responsible for the bad habit. Furthermore, spanking is no cure for this or any other diseased, condition. FOREIGN BODIES IN THE NOSE Children frequently put peas, beans, peanuts, corn, paper, cotton, and other substances into one or both nostrils. Usu- ally considerable difficulty is experienced in removing these, and in such attempts the foreign body is likely to be pushed farther into the nose. Treatment.— The best way to remove a foreign body from the nose is to use a little pair of tweezers, or pointed forceps, with which to hook into it. If not successful in a very short time, call a physician. SWALLOWING FOREIGN BODIES Children frequently swallow buttons, coins, nails, pins, and needles. ISTo fear need be entertained if a coin or button is swallowed; for it will pass in a few days without injury to the child. If a pin or a needle is swallowed, it must go head first, otherwise it will stick in the throat, and can not pass down the esophagus. If it does stick in the throat, vom- iting will usually dislodge it. Treatment.— If a child or older person swallows a sharp body or foreign substance, feed freely with mashed potatoes for several days, and it will pass from the bowels without injury to the patient. Even a long, sharp pin will pass with- out doing any harm. WORMS The subject of worms, their symptoms and treatment, has been considered in Chapter Thirty, Drug Poisoning and 34—P. G. Englis*