The doctor at home and nurse's guidebook / edited by George Black.

Date:
1909
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Credit: The doctor at home and nurse's guidebook / edited by George Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHILBLAINS loo CHILD, NEWLY-BORN be used daily and with persever- ance, the part being protected at the same time from the severity of the external air. Sir Astley Cooper is said to have been partial to the following liniment :—Take of cam- phorated spirits of wine, one ounce; Goulard’s extract (pure), half an ounce. Mix and apply to the part. CHILBLAINS, ULCERATED, TREAT- MENT OF When chilblains come to the ulcerated state, or “ broken ” state as it is sometimes called, warm and irritating dressing will alone succeed in effecting a cure. The following application is much esteemed : Take of honey and common tur- pentine, of each four ounces. Mix these together, and then stir in a sufficient quantity of the finest wheat flour, to give it the consis- tency of a cerate. Dress the part with it twice daily. CHILD, BIRTH OF, WHAT SHOULD BE DONE AT See Birth of Child. CHILD, TREATMENT OF, AFTER BIRTH The first thing to be done after the birth of a child is to sever it from the mother by the division of the cord or navel string, and to carry it away in the flannel receiver, and place it in a position free from danger. Provided there is nothing to hinder it, so soon as the child is removed, the process of washing and dressing may be at once begun. Should the condition of the mother, however, require the services of both nurse and attendant, or should there be anything in the condition of the child to furbid it, the washing and dressing may be deferred. Where, however, there is nothing preventing, it should be proceeded with at once. The vari- ous articles of clothing which the child is to put on should have been hung upon a chair at the beginning of labour in proximity to the fire, and will now be thoroughly aired, and ready to put on as soon as the child is washed. The child having been washed, should be carefully removed from the bath and placed on a pillow covered with warm cloths upon the nurse’s knee, and dried by means of warm, soft towels. The washing and drying being now .at an end, the putting up of the navel string should engage attention. For this purpose a piece of soft, old linen should be taken, and a hole cut in the centre. Through this hole the navel string should be drawn (notice being taken while doing so that there is no bleeding from the end), and the lower part folded up against the other, so as to be brought into contact with the child’s abdomen. It will thus lie between the two folds of the linen. The cord is maintained in position by means of the flannel binder, which should now be applied. This binder should be made about five inches deep, and of sufficient length to encircle the child’s body once and a half. It must on no account be drawn too tight, as the action of the internal organs may be inter- fered with, and the liver, which in the infant is large, may be unduly pressed upon and injured. It has this further disadvantage when made very tight, that it interferes with the free action of the lungs. Care must therefore be taken in applying the binder that it does not press injuriously upon any part, and in order to ensure this there ought always to be sufficient space left after it is applied to permit of the finger being insinuated be- tween it and the skin. It is better