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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ld, and should be treated in same manner. Inold men it may be caused by an enlarged pros-tate gland, the treatment for which is too deli-cate for the inexperienced. No time should belost in seeing an osteopath if the treatment forkidney congestion does not give satisfactory re-sults in an hour. Give children plenty hot water to drink. The sight and sound of flowing water causesa desire for urination. Pour water at someheight from one vessel to another and back againseveral times. BED WETTING—INCONTINENCE O F URINE. Bed wetting occurs because the muscle thatcontracts the neck of the bladder is too weakand relaxes too easily. Sometimes the cause is psychical. It is well known that running water, water-falls, brooks, etc., create in many people a re-laxation of the muscle that closes the outlet ofthe bladder, resulting in an uncontrolable de-sire for micturition. Children dream about run-ning water and in the same manner the bladdermuscle relaxes and the urine is voided uncon-sciously.
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FIGURE 48. DEPRESSING THE RIBS. With the patient lying on his side, with one hand firmly push down each rib while you stretch his arm above his head with the other hand; hold a moment and then lower the arm. Treat all the ribs on both sides in the same way. THE HOUSEHOLD OSTEOPATH 107 Therefore, care should be taken that the sub-ject of the evenings conversation should not beabout water or fluids, neither should any refer-ence be made to the childs malady,—such asthreats of punishment if it occurs again, etc.Direct the childs last thoughts to other pleasantsubjects. During sleep all the muscles of the body re-lax and rest; if the bladder muscle should be un-usually weak it relaxes too much, allowing theurine to escape. It is therefor advisable to waken the child—partially or completely—once or twice during thenight. At these times it may be made to usethe bed vessel—though in most cases it is onlynecessary to shake the child to break its too pro-found slumber. Treat before bre

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