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Title: Osteopathic first aids to the sick : written for the sick people
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Feidler, Francis John
Subjects: Osteopathic medicine Osteopathic Medicine
Publisher: New York : Broadway Publishing
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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loosen all tight clothingaround neck, chest, etc. Remove garters, corsets,etc. Elevate the bleeding part above the heart.Treat same as for arteries, but the tight band-age must be placed on the side away from theheart, the wound remaining between the heartand the bandage. If from the lungs or stomach, keep patient ina reclining position. Give the patient ice tosuck, pinch of salt to eat. Apply cold cloth tothe chest. Stimulate the vagus, fig. 22; presssteadily on each side of the spine where indicatedfor heart and lungs, fig. 31 ; give a deep, slowkneading of the abdomen, fig. 53 and applyheat to the feet. NOSE BLEED. Give the compressing treatment on chin andlip, fig. 9. If this is not sufficient, with the thumbpress hard on each side of the nose at inner cor-ners of the eye, fig. 6. These treatments, if persistently applied, willstop any case of nose bleeding. If the nose bleed-ing is habitual, there is a weakness in the bodysomewhere which must be corrected and thesystem built up.
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FIGURE 69.FREEING THE SAPHENOUS OPENING.With the patient on his back, and the knee ben. stretch andsoften all the muscles in the groin, as shown in the illustration. i7o THE HOUSEHOLD OSTEOPATH PUERPERAL HEMORRHAGEAT CHILD-BIRTH. This dangerous flooding that sometimes oc-curs soon after child-birth can be quickly stoppedby compressing the aorta, thus cutting off thesupply of blood to the parts. Send quickly for the doctor. Press hard and deep upon the abdomen, a halfinch below, and a little to the left of the naval,where, by deep pressure, the aorta may be feltpulsating. It must be pressed firmly against theback-bone for several minutes, until the hemor-rhage stops and the necessary clot forms, thengradually and slowly remove the pressure. Ifcarefully done the hemorrhage can be stoppedand the patients life saved before the arrivalof the phvsician. RICKETS. Improper foods and unsuitable hygienic sur-roundings are the chief predisposing, weakeningcauses of this disease. A large proporti

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