The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . Glands of the Neck are often treated athome, without the aid of the physician or surgeon, until theysuppurate, and are likely to leave scars. When such domesticmanagement, however, is determined upon, the invalid should beallowed a nutritious animal diet, his bowels kept free by exerciseon foot, whilst mild purgatives should be given, and the solution ofiodide of iron, in doses of from ten to sixty drops, or, the syrup ofthe iodide, in doses of a teaspoonful (a flui
The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . Glands of the Neck are often treated athome, without the aid of the physician or surgeon, until theysuppurate, and are likely to leave scars. When such domesticmanagement, however, is determined upon, the invalid should beallowed a nutritious animal diet, his bowels kept free by exerciseon foot, whilst mild purgatives should be given, and the solution ofiodide of iron, in doses of from ten to sixty drops, or, the syrup ofthe iodide, in doses of a teaspoonful (a fluid drachm, which containsthree grains of the iodide), should be internally administered, in aglass of water, twice a day. The tumors should be treated with27* 3i8 Diseases of Children. fomentations of salt or sea water, and friction employed twice daily,for half an hour each time. If suppuration cannot be arrested,under the improved state of health, then surgical advice must notbe delayed until the abscess bursts spontaneously, for an ugly scaris likely to be the result; an event always to be regretted, especiallyin PART IV. SPECIAL RECEIPTS FOR CARE OF THE SICK. THE DIVISIONS OF THIS PART. In this, the last of the four parts into which we have divided ourbook, we have grouped nearly three hundred new and approvedspecial receipts for the care of the sick. The first chapter of thispart, Chapter Eleventh of the book, contains choice dietetic receiptsfor the sick-room ; the second chapter of this part, Chapter Twelfthof the book, contains efficient medical receipts for the of these receipts have been referred to by their numbers, inthe treatment recommended for the various ailments discussed onthe previous pages. By grouping them, as is here done, thevarious ways for accomplishing the same or a similar object areshown, and the reader can readily choose among them, in accordancewith the purpose in view or the resources at hand. Thus, if a poul-tice is wanted
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