Cottage hospitals, general, fever and convalescent : their progress, management and work : with an alphabetical list of every cottage hospital at present opened : and chapters on mortuaries, the relative mortality of large and small hospitals, and cottage hospitals in America : many plans and illustrations including a portrait of Albert Napper / by Henry C. Burdett.

  • Burdett Henry C. (Henry Charles), Sir, 1847-1920.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Cottage hospitals, general, fever and convalescent : their progress, management and work : with an alphabetical list of every cottage hospital at present opened : and chapters on mortuaries, the relative mortality of large and small hospitals, and cottage hospitals in America : many plans and illustrations including a portrait of Albert Napper / by Henry C. Burdett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    caused to the nurse at times by the obstinate refusal of patients to take the medicines ordered Espe- cially do they object to swallow oil of any kmd. i he best way we know of taking oil is to rinse out a wme glass with a little brandy, whisky, or other spirit, leaving one drop of the spirit at the bottom of the glass. Having done this, pour the dose of oil into the wine glass, and the spirit will roll the oil, so to speak, into a ball, like the yelk of an egg, which can be easily swallowed en masse, without any unpleasant taste A little milk taken immediately afterwards will be found useful. Another good plan is to divide a lemon, squeezing the juice from each half ■ in a separate tumbler. To the one add about a wineglassful ot water and sufficient sugar to make it palatable In the other tumbler beat up the dose of oil with the lemon juice, then add some sugar and a little less than a wineglassful of water; stir this well up to the moment of swallowing, then give the patient the previously- prepared lemonade. When this has been taken, it is pleasant to wipe the teeth with the inside of one of the lemon halves previously used. Other writers have recommended that the oil should be mixed with milk or coffee, or it can be carefully mingled with a small basin of soup, and this latter plan is often found useful. For our own part, having been compelled to take large quantities of cod-liver oil from time to time, we can confidently recommend the adoption of the first plan, because it will ensure perfect freedom from any un- pleasantness of taste or after effects.