The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach.

  • Leach, Harry.
Date:
1874
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Credit: The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his stomach, keep it there for thirty minutes, and re- peat it every morning for three days successively if the looseness continue. Give him a dose of paregoric three times a day, and six grains of Dover's powder every night. Keep him up with all the good broth and slop diet that you can command, and if his tongue become hard and dry, give him wine, or brandy and water at the rate of from 4 oz. to 12 oz. of brandy every twenty-four hours. If the looseness is very bad (say from twelve to twenty stools in twenty-four hours), give him the diarrhoea mixture (page 83) every four hours, but knock it off directly the diarrhoea moderates, as a certain amount of looseness assists to get rid of this disease. (3) A leathery dry tongue, hot skin, and confined bowels, with occasional and sometimes violent wan- derings. This will continue for two weeks. Shave the head, and apply cold ; get the bowels open as quickly, and keep them open as regularly, as possible ; give very good nourishing slop food, very often, but in small quantities; and begin at once with 6 oz. of brandy every twenty-four hours, in- creasing it to 12 oz. if the pulse is very feeble; but when the tongue becomes soft and less dry, you may knock off half the brandy. In all these varieties of fever— (1) See that the patient makes water; and, if he does not do so, use the catheter very gently every