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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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will then causea congestion of blood in the kidneys, with pain,headache, perhaps nausea and vomiting, generalfeeling of discomfort, and a constant desire forurination. The urine is scanty and high-colored.If the condition persists, acute Brights diseasewill result. Give a general spinal treatment, fig. 37, withspecial attention to the kidneys on both sides,fig. 32. Knead the abdomen, fig. 52, particularlythe lower part and the sides. Raise the ribs, fig.47; give the figure 8 treatment, fig. 42. Finishwith the spinal tonic, fig. 51. If urination hasbeen delayed, promptly give the full treatment forit. Drink much water. See that the bowels areactive. Fast for twenty-four hours. Treatdaily. A Turkish bath is advisable. BRIGHTS DISEASE—NEPHRITIS. This is an inflammation of the kidneys, causedfrom cold, exposure, scarlet fever, diphtheria andother diseases, irritating drugs, injuries to thespine, pregnancy, malarial poisoning, gout, alco-holism, opium habit, and worry, anxiety andgrief.
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FIGURE 46.THE SWINGING TREATMENT.With the patient lying face downward. With one hand pressfirmly on each side of the spine, an inch below the last rib, whilewith the other hand you raise and lower the legs with a cir-cular motion. Repeat several times, moving the pressing fingersan inch higher or lower each time, until all the spine from theshoulder blades to the small part has thus been treated. THE HOUSEHOLD OSTEOPATH 101 There is dull pain over the kidneys, followingdown the sides of the abdomen, some fever,nausea or vomiting. There is dropsy of the legs,eyelids and abdomen. Urine is scanty, high-col-ored or smoky. Whenever this disease is suspected an osteo-path should be promptly called and urine ex-amined. Treat the same as for congestin of the kidneys.Also give the bent knee treatment, fig. 40; andthe swinging treatment, fig. 46. Drink muchwater. During the acute stage treat twice each day,and abstain from food for forty-eight hours.Bowels must be emptied as soon as possible. A

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