Identifier: osteopathicfirst00feid (find matches)
Title: Osteopathic first aids to the sick : written for the sick people
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Feidler, Francis John
Subjects: Osteopathic medicine Osteopathic Medicine
Publisher: New York : Broadway Publishing
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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FIGURE 9.FOR NOSE BLEEDING.Place the thumbs on the upper lip, just beneath the nose, andthe fingers at the angle of the jaws, upon a notch that is foundthere. Hold with a firm steady pressure for three or fourminutes. Repeat, for a longer time, jf the first trial is not suffi-cient.
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FIGURE 10.TREATING THE NOSE AGAINST RESISTANCE. Place your thumbs on each side of the patients nose, at theinner corners of the eyes, and the fingers beneath the chin. Havethe patient slowly open the mouth, wide, against the resistanceyou offer. Do not allow the thumbs to move. For a variation, while the mouth is being opened, the thumbsare allowed to slide down along the sides of the nose, the thumbpressure and resistance being maintained. Repeat three or fourtimes. THE HOUSEHOLD OSTEOPATH 21 him to bed. Or, fill a syphon water bag with wa-ter at 90 degrees and spray a stream upon thepatients back, gradually adding cold water intothe bag. For persons of robust constitution, thespray should be allowed to fall from a height oftwo or three feet. It is important that the spraybe used for a short time only, from one to threeminutes being sufficient. Or. apply the wet sheetpack. A sheet is wrung out of water having atemperature of 80 or 85 degrees, is then wrappedaround the patients nude b

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