The Hippocratic oath

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

GENERAL INFORMATION FOR THE PRACTITIONER.

Weights and measures

Weights and measures of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia

Weights and measures of the metrical system

Relation of weights of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia to metrical

weights

Relation of metrical weights to weights of the U. S. Phar-

macopoeia.

Relation of measures of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia to metrical

measures

Relation of metrical measures to measures of the U. S. Phar-

macopoeia.

Approximate conversion of ordinary measures into gramme

weights.

Conversion of cubic centimetres into fluidrachms

Number of drops in a fluidrachm

Relative value of drop and minim

Approximate measurements.

Solubility of medicines in water, alcohol, ether, glycerine, etc.

Abbreviations in common use

Comparison of thermometric scales

THERAPEUTIC AND PRACTICAL HINTS.

Rules for the practitioner

What the practitioner must learn of the patient

Doses of medicines

Doses for children

Doses for young children

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Doses of medicines administered hypodermically

Doses of atomized fluids for inhalation

Doses of medicines in the form of gargles

Doses of medicines for collyria or eye washes

Doses of medicines for injection into the urethra

Doses of medicines for injection into the vagina.

Doses of medicines in the form of suppositories .

Doses for rectal suppositories

Doses for vaginal suppositories

Doses for uterine suppositories

Doses for urethral suppositories (soluble bougies)

Doses for enemata

Baths and how to medicate them

Pharmacopoeial groups, simplified for ready reference

Incompatibles or remedies that should not be prescribed in com-

bination .

What to prescribe in the solid or the liquid form

The modern treatment of diseases

Selected prescriptions from practitioners' case-books .

Rules for management of infants during the hot season

Period of eruption of the teeth.

Brief rules for cases of emergency in children

Eruptive fevers, a tabular view.

Diagnostic syllabus of uterine inflammations

Obstetric memoranda .

Calculation of the date of labor

Diameters of the female pelvis

Diameters of the foetal skull

Presentations and positions of the fœtus

Brief rules for clinical examination of the urine

Mode of detection of abnormal constituents (albumen, sugar,

bile, etc.).

Examination of the sediments of urine

I. Deposits found occasionally in acid or alkaline urine

II. Deposits found occasionally in alkaline urine only.

III. Organized deposits (blood, mucus, etc.)

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Places that must be disinfected, and how to disinfect them. 252

Things to be disinfected

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Rules for fumigation

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Directions for preventing the spread of infectious diseases.

Directions to persons in charge of the unburied dead from

infectious disease

Poisons, their nature and treatment

Classification of poisons

Treatment of poisoning

Ready reference table of poisons

Directions for restoring the apparently drowned

To restore breathing

Dr. Marshall Hall's method.

Dr. Silvester's method .

Treatment after natural breathing has been restored

Disinfectants and their practical application

The principles of disinfection

Disinfectants in common use

How to use disinfectants

DIETETIC RULES AND PRECEPTS.

Digestibility of alimentary substances

Composition of various articles of food

Relative digestibility of animal substances.

Relative digestibility of vegetable substances

Dietetic preparations for the sick

Special forms of diet.

Dietary for the diabetic

Dietetic rules for reducing weight (Bantingism)

Rules for testing and disinfecting impure drinking water

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Position of the body, clothing, condition, age, sex, conforma-

tion, warmth, color

Anomalies, abrasions, wounds, etc.

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HOW TO CONDUCT A POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION.

What to provide, instruments

What to observe, notes of cases

External examination.

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Kidneys, suprarenal capsules, ureters, bladder and urethra 326

Prostate, vesiculæ seminales, testicle, etc.

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Uterus, vagina, etc.

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Internal examination.

Average weight of various organs
Incisions, order of examination
Coloration and condition of vessels

Examination of the thorax

Heart.

Lungs.

Larynx

Examination of the abdomen

Spleen.

Urinary organs

Brain.

Orbit.

Duodenum, liver, gall-bladder, etc.

Stomach

Pancreas, etc.

Intestines, etc.

Examination of the cranium

INDEX.

Optic nerve

Examination of the spinal cord.

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