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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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time. After the purging and vom-iting have stopped for twelve hours, give a slow,deep kneading of the abdomen, fig. 53. For cramps in the legs, knead the muscles, fig.70; and under the knees, fig. 68 and fig. 75. Give no food until several hours after all purg-ing has stopped, and then give very little of ricegruel, parched flour, crackers toasted brown;later boiled milk, milk toast or rice, but no meatbroths for several days. All foods must befreshly made and thoroughly cooked. DYSENTERY—BLOODY FLUX. The causes of dysentery are impure water, un-hygenic surroundings, overcrowding, imperfectventilation, miasma, humid atmosphere and sud-den changes of temperature, particularly in thosepreviously predisposed by a weakened conditionof the bowels. The symptoms are, violent abdominal painswith frequent mucous and bloody stools, andrapid loss of strength. Rest in bed is absolutely necessary at first.Treatments same as for diarrhoea. Once or twiceeach dav give rectal enemas of warm water to
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FIGURE 39-ROLLING TREATMENT.With the patient lying on his side, draw his upper leg up,-placing his knee against your hip. Now with the cushions ofyour ringers pressing firmly close to the spine push his knee withyour hip, giving the body a rolling motion. About six inchesof the lower spine should be treated in this manner. Turn thepatient over and treat the other side in the same way. 80 THE HOUSEHOLD OSTEOPATH wash out the colon, and follow this with a littleolive oil which must remain in the rectum. Diet should be of mucilagenous foods, barleywater, rice water, strained oatmeal water, thick-ened milk or flour gruel, parched flour, crackerstoasted brown, raw or very soft eggs. Milkshould be boiled. Eat no fruits, vegetables, ormeat broths. Each evening give a gentle, slow kneading ofthe left side of the abdomen, low down, close tothe hip bone. Treat every day. Some doctors recommend scraped raw, leanbeef, a tablespoonful three times each day. Thisis good, but there is danger of a tap

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