Osteopathic first aids to the sick - written for the sick people (1906) (14596770909)

Identifier: osteopathicfirst00feid (find matches)
Title: Osteopathic first aids to the sick : written for the sick people
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Feidler, Francis John
Subjects: Osteopathic medicine Osteopathic Medicine
Publisher: New York : Broadway Publishing
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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FIGURE 21. INHIBITING THE VAGUS NERVE. At the junction of,the collar bone and breast bone, and under the muscle that goes from the side of the skull to the collar bone, press upward against the collar bone firmly and steadily for a minute.
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FIGURE 22.STIMULATING THE VAGUS NERVE.Place the fingers beneath the muscle that goes from the sideof the skull to the collar bone, at the place indicated in the illus-tration, and with some pressure roll the muscle between thefingers for half a minute. THE HOUSEHOLD OSTEOPATH 45 Apply a hot bag of bran or hops to the jawconstantly, changing frequently. A wet clothmay be placed between the flesh and the hotbag. Keep the patient in the house. Be surethat his feet are kept warm and dry, that there isno stoppage of the urine and that the bowelsmove freely. Diet should be fluid. MALARIAL FEVERS. INTERMITTENT FE\TER. REMITTENT FEVER.SUMMER-AUTUMN FE\ER. FEVER AND AGUE. Intermittent Malarial Fever is characterizedby a chill, fever and sweat, followed by an in-terval of some hours or davs, durinsf which timethere is no fever, and then another paroxysmof chill, fever and sweating. Dumb Ague has no chill, the hot stage beingthe first. This is common among the older resi-dents of malarial distri