Hospital World: An International Journal Published in the Interests of Hospitals, Sanatoria, Asylums and Public Charitable Institutions Throughout America, Great Britain and Her Colonies, Volume 2, Issue 31912 |
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Page 133 - CHIONIA is a gentle but certain stimulant to the hepatic functions and overcomes suppressed biliary secretions. It is particularly indicated in the treatment of Biliousness, Jaundice, Constipation and all conditions caused by hepatic torpor.
Page 123 - DILATES AND FLUSHES the vaginal passage with a volume of whirling fluid which Smooths Out the Folds and Permits the Injection to Come in Contact with its Entire Surface, instantly Dissolving and Washing Out all Secretions and Discharges.
Page 191 - The absence of smoke, the quiet, all tend to making night the best time for airing the patient!. One of our highest medical authorities on consumption and climate has told me that the air in London is never so good as after ten o'clock at night. Always air your room, then, from the outside air if possible.
Page 133 - Sodium, Ammonium, Calcium and Lithium. In Epilepsy and all cases demanding continued bromide treatment, its purity, uniformity and definite therapeutic action, insures the maximum bromide results with the minimum danger of bromism or nausea. DOSE One to three leaapoontuls .iccordlng to the amount of Bromides desired. Put up In 1-2 pound bottles only. Free samples to the profession upon request Peacock Chemical Co., St. Louis, Mo.
Page 187 - With a proper supply of windows, and a proper supply of fuel in open fireplaces, fresh air is comparatively easy to secure when your patient or patients are in bed. Never be afraid of open windows then. People don't catch cold in bed. This is a popular fallacy. "With proper bed-clothes and hot bottles, if necessary, you can always keep a patient warm in bed, and well ventilate him at the same time.
Page xxxiii - Every dose furnished in this Perfected Syringe Advantages of New Syringe : ASEPSIS, contamination impossible. Positive Working : The metal plunger screws into the rubber plug, adjusting pressure and making action positive. Metal finger-rest with rubber guard at top of syringe prevents any possibility of syringe breaking or injuring operator's hand. Needle attached with flexible rubber joint permits motion of patient without danger of tearing the skin— a great advantage in administering to children....
Page 191 - ... illustrates this. To make a room cold is by no means necessarily to ventilate it. Nor is it at all necessary, in order to ventilate a room, to chill it. Yet, if a nurse finds a room close, she will let out the fire, thereby making it closer, or she will open the door into a cold room, without a fire, or an open window in it, by way of improving the ventilation. The safest atmosphere of all for a patient is a good fire and an open window, excepting in extremes of temperature.
Page 191 - Another extraordinary fallacy is the dread of night air. What air can we breathe at night but night air ? The choice is between pure night air from without and foul night air from within. Most people prefer the latter. An unaccountable choice. What will they say if it is proved to be true that fully one-half of all the disease we suffer from is occasioned by people sleeping with their windows shut ? An open window most nights in the year can never hurt any one.
Page 196 - The whole organisation of discipline to which the nurses must be subjected is for the sole purpose of enabling the nurses to carry out, intelligently and faithfully, such orders and such duties as constitute the whole practice of nursing. They are in no sense medical men. Their duties can never clash with the medical duties. Their whole training is to enable them to understand how best to carry out medical and surgical orders, including (as above) the whole art of cleanliness, ventilation, food,...
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