One thousand medical maxims and surgical hints / by Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies.

  • Yorke-Davies, Nathaniel Edward, 1844-
Date:
1883
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    warm, but well ventilated by keeping the windows open, and the patient out of the direct draught. 103. A fire when the weather is cold ventilates the room well in every part. 104. ‘ Epidemic * is a term applied to diseases which prevail among a large portion of the people of a country for a certain time, and then gradually disappear. 105. A peculiar state of the atmosphere and seasons, bad drainage, impure water, overcrowding of houses, and unwholesome food or drink, are among the causes which produce epidemics. 106. ‘ Endemic’ is a term employed to designate diseases peculiar to a certain class of people or to a particular district; thus ague is an endemic disease peculiar to low, marshy districts. 107. Children do not often die of tubercular disease of the lungs—consumption—but of the same disease of the glands of the bowels. The symptoms are enlargement of the belly, and wasting of the other parts of the body. The child draws up its legs owing to the pain in the bowels. (See Appendix, 33.) 108. Children whose appetites are voracious, who grind their teeth and moan when asleep, and who are dark under the eyes, are suffering from worms. (See 41.) 109. Hare-lip is a malformation of the upper lip, with which a child is sometimes born. It may be single or double. It can best be remedied by means of an operation, which should be performed when the child is three months old. 110. The operation consists in paring off the edges of the separated parts, and then bringing