Household surgery : or, Hints on emergencies / by John F. South.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

South, John Flint, 1797-1882.

Contributor:

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

First aid in illness and injury.

Physical Description:

xx, 280 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Edition:

1st American ed. from the 2d London ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Henry Carey Baird, 1850.

Contents:

The doctors shop

Of politics

Of fomentations

Lotions, or washes

Liniments

Ointments

Plasters

Bloodletting

Blistering

Vaccination

Tooth-drawing

How to put on a roller

Of lancing the gums

Swollen veins

Bruises

Wounds

Torn of cut achilles tendon

What is to be done in cases of sudden bleeding from various causes

Scalds and burns

Frost bite

Chilblains

Sprains

Broken bones

Bent bones

Dislocations

Ruptures

Piles

Protruding bowel

Wetting the bed

Whitlow

Boils

Blackheads

Ingrowing nail

Bunions

Corns

A stye in the eye

A blight in the eye

Tumors in the eyelids

Inflammation on the surface of the eye

Pustules on the eye

Milk abscesses

Sore nipples

Irritable breast

Breathing or respiration

Stifling

Choking by things getting into the gullet

Things pushed into the nose and ears

Things in the eye

On the dress, exercise, and diet of children

Bathing

What must be done in regard to infectious fevers

Observations on ventilation.

Notes:

Includes index.

OCLC:

6712325