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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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FIGURE 25.TREATMENT FOR THE VOICE.Take hold of the windpipe, above and below the Adams Apple,and gently stretch apart, then gently twist from side to side.Repeat several times.
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FIGURE 26. DEPRESSING THE FIRST RIB. Grasp the patients shoulder, with the thumb pressing deep beneath the collar bone, with the other hand pull upon the head to stretch the muscles of the neck, and at the same time depress the first rib with the pressure of the thumb. By turning the patients face in different direction beforestretching, different sets of muscles will be stretched. THE HOUSEHOLD OSTEOPATH 53 fection of the linen, etc., to prevent spreadingof the disease. The patient should have his own dishes,glasses, spoon, etc., which should be washedapart from the belongings of other members ofthe family, first in a carbolic acid solution, andthen boiled, after each time used. DIPHTHERIA. Diphtheria is a contagious and infectious dis-ease. It is one of the most common and oneof the most fatal diseases of childhood. The exciting cause is a specific germ—theKlebs-Loeffler bacillus—which finds entranceinto the body through some lesion of the mucousmembrane, particularly of the thr

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