CONTEXTS OF THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 



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DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT (continued): 



Obesity 423 



Obstruction of the Bowels . . . 427 



Offensive Breath 430 



Old Age 431 



F;iin in the Muscles, or Myalgia . . 438 



r.-ilpitation 446 



Paralysis 450 



Peritonitis 454 



Piles, or Haemorrhoids .... 454 

 Pleurisy . . . . .458 



Pyrosis, or Waterbrash . . . .462 

 Quinsy, Inflammatory Sore Throat, or 



Tonsillitis 464 



Relaxed Sore Throat . . . .467 

 Remittent Fever (see Typhoid Fever) . 529 

 Rheumatic Fever, or Acute Rheumatism . 469 



Rheumatic Gout 475 



Rheumatism, Chronic . . . .478 



Muscular . . . .483 



Sciatica . . 487 



Scurvy 487 



Sea-Sickness 492 



Shaking Palsy, or Paralysis Agitans . 496 

 Shingles (see Skin Diseases) . . . 1005 

 Sleep, Sleeplessness . . . .497 



SmaUPox 507 



Somnambulism and Sleep Walking . . 508 

 Sore Throat, Clergyman's . . .513 



,, Ordinary .... 515 



Sores, or Ulcers 516 



Stomach, Inflammation of . . .618 

 Diseases of . . . .519 



Sunstroke 519 



Tetanus, Lockjaw . . . . . 522 



Throat, Diseases of 524 



Toothache 524 



Typhoid and other Fevers . . . 529 



Typhus Fever 557 



Simple Fever, or Febricula . . .563 



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DISEASES AND THEIU TREATMENT (continued): 



Remittent Fever 665 



Yellow Fever 567 



Ulcers (see Sores or Ulcers) . . ,616 

 Ulcer of the Stomach . . . .568 



Vomiting 674 



Warts 680 



Wasting Palsy, Progressive Muscular 



Atrophy 681 



Whites 584 



Worms 584 



Writer's Cramp 587 



PRESCRIPTIONS 591 



INDICATIONS OF DISEASE : 



Temperature and the Clinical Ther- 

 mometer 599 



The Pulse 612 



The Tongue 614 



The Urine 616 



Pain .* 621 



Facial Expression as an Indication of 



Illness 623 



NURSING AND THE CARE OF THE SICK: 



Qualifications and Duties of a Nurse . 625 

 Management of the Sick Room . .631 

 Practical Details of Nursing . . .638 

 Administration of Medicine . . . 655 



Invalid Diet 673 



THE NURSING OF CHILDREN: 



General Principles of Management . 687 



Infants' Food 689 



Weaning 696 



Management after Weaning . . . 701 

 DOMESTIC SURGERY : 



Haemorrhage 707 



Wounds, Bruises, and Sprains . .712 

 Fractures, Dislocations, Burns and 



Scalds 717 



Suspended Animation .... 723 

 Teething . . . . . .730 



