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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    rub it with the following mixture : —Half an ounce of oil of amber ; half an ounce of oil of cloves ; one ounce of olive oil ; two tea- spoonfuls of laudanum. The diet should consist principally of barley water and whey. When whooping cough is not cured within a month, try a change of air, even from a pure country air to the air of a smoky, gas-laden town. Some persons assert that the best remedy for an obstinate case of whooping cough is for a child to live the greater part of every day in gas-works. Sea- breezes will often as by magic drive away the disease. WIND IN THE STOMACH See Flatulence. WINDPIPE After passing through the phar- ynx, the air passes through a rigid tube (larynx and trachea), the wind- pipe, open at the top—except at moments of swallowing and during certain accidents—and always dis- tended by stiff plates and rings of gristle (cartilage), which sur- round it more or less completely. Thence the air passes along the subdividing continuations of the air-tube, or windpipe (primitive, diminutive, and terminative, or ultimate bronchial tubes), until it reaches the air cells of the lungs, which are grouped in series around each ultimate extremity of this series of air-passages. These suc- cessive divisions of the air-tube are progressively smaller and smaller, the terminal ones being about one- fortieth of an inch in diameter. The windpipe is a hemispherical, or tunnel-shaped tube, running down the front part of the neck, dip- ping behind the breast-bone into the chest, where it divides and subdivides into the bronchial tubes. As respiration must be continuous, it is essential that this tube should be always open : and it is therefore strengthened by a series of hoops of cartilage in its front, or hemispher- ical portion, while its posterior, or flat portion is membranous and flexible, so as to yield to the pressure of articles of food or drink which pass down the gullet, or food-pipe, which is just behind it. Most pop- ular accounts of this tube convey an impression that it is circular rather than more or less hemi- spherical. WINES, UNFERMENTED Unfermented wine, properly pre- pared, consists of three-quarters water and one of sugar, but no alco- hol ; but it should be kept in a cool place in glass bottles, well stopped and placed upside down. “ There are many circumstances,” remarks a medical writer, “ in which inva- lids would be greatly benefited by the use of the pure unadulterated wine of the Scriptures, unfermented and containing no alcohol whatever, thus made :—Pick out the most per- fect grapes, press out the juice rapidly, put it into a closed vessel, which place in another vessel of water, raise this to a boiling heat for ten minutes, strain through a woollen bag while hot, put it into bottles, cork and wax, then put them in a cool place, top down, and it will keep pure for a long time if the directions are well followed. Such wine is greatly nourishing to the weak and the sick.” It must not be supposed from this, however, that the wines mentioned in Scrip- ture were without alcohol, the pro- duct of fermentation, else why the warning against putting new wine into old bottles or skins of leather, which would yield to and be rent