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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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of eggs. Give very little food at a timeand less in total amount than is usually eaten. Give plenty of water, bits of ice, ice cream, etc. TUBERCULOSIS — PHTHISIS — CON-SUMPTION. This always begins with weakened lungs fromcolds or other causes. It is doubtful if a childcan be born with the bacillus of tuberculosisalready in its blood. But a child does, frequently,inherit weak lungs, and therefore a predisposi-tion to consumption. The bacillus cannot findlodgment in healthy lungs. Therefore, whenchildren show a weak condition of the lungs,measures should be promptly instituted tostrengthen the lungs by proper breathing, openair living, selection of healthful localities, properfeeding, judicious exercises and general buildingof the body. Otherwise, if the weakened condi-tion of the lung remains, it is only a question ofmore or less years when it falls a victim to thegreat white scourge. The bacillus causes a deposit of tubercle, whichis a gray granulation about the size of a millet
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FIGURE 52. STRETCHING THE LATTISIMUS DORSI MUSCLE. With the patient lying on his side, push on the hip bone with one hand and pull his arm in the other direction with the other hand, while the patient takes a deep breath through his nose. Repeat several times on both sides. THE HOUSEHOLD OSTEOPATH 119 seed. These soften into a cheesy mass, whichpoisons the lung structure, causing it to rotand slough away. Thus cavities in the lungs areformed, and in time the entire lung is destroyed.At first the symptoms are those of ordinarycold in the chest. Gradually there is weakness,emaciation, morning chills, evening fever, nightsweats, the cough is aggravated, and the expec-toration is purulent, and yellow streaked; thencomes the swelling of the ankles, denoting fail-ing circulation. The mind is clear and hopefuJto the end. This disease can be cured if treated before toomuch of the lung tissue has been destroyed. Give the same treatment as for bronchitis.Also inhibit the vagus nerve, fig. 21 ;

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