CONTENTS 



DIVISIONAL -VOLUME VII 



Section IV.— HEALTH AND DISEASE (Continued) 



23. Medicines (continued) — 



Page 



Drugs and their Uses .... .1 



Drugs and their Doses - - - 9 



Weights and Measures - - 1 1 



Medicines and their Therapeutical Action - 12 



Prescriptions - 15 



Horse Balls 15 



Powders - ... 16 



Draughts - - - 18 



Administration of Medicines - 18 



Balls - - 19 



The Drench or Draught - ... 21 



Electuaries - - - - 21 



Intra-tracheal Injections - 21 



Subcutaneous Injection - - - 22 



Intra-venous Injection - - - 22 



24. Nursing - - 23 



The Nurse - - ....... 23 



The Sick-Box - 23 



Clothing— Water - 24 



Invalid Food - 25 

 The Laxative Foods — The Green Foods — Bran Mash — A Bran and 



Linseed Mash - - - 26 



Linseed Tea — Hay Tea — Linseed Oil — Eoots — Gruel - 27 



Boiled Barley — Pearl Barley - 28 



Poultices and Poulticing - - 28 



To make a Bran Poultice - .... - 29 



The application of Poultices or Cataplasms 30 



