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Title: Dr. Hood's plain talks about the human system : the habits of men and women - the causes and prevention of disease - our sexual relations and social natures - embracing common sense medical adviser...
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hood, G. Durant
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Publisher: Chicago : Hood Medical Book Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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t them patients are very apt to slip down in bed, and to get their legs overthe end. It is convenient to have the foot-board movable, especially in cases ofinjury to the lower extremities. Invalid Beds.—We have shown in Fig. 2 a bedstead which the inventor calls hisPatent Lift and Rack Bedsteadwhich is as simple as it is ingeniousin construction, and is said to be agreat boon to patients who are help-less and paralysed. This piece ofapparatus is due to the ingenuity ofMr. William Denne, medical super-intendent of the Three CountiesAsylum, Arlesey, Eng., and whatis claimed for this invention is thatthe patient may be easily raised,the bed made, the stool used, and the necessary ablutions nerformed, and again lowered on the bed, without the slightestfatigue. The water-bed, which we owe to the ingenuity of Dr. Neil Arnott, is aninvaluable contrivance in cases where the patient is very weak and unable to bearthe slightest pressure on the body. The old-fashioned water-bed was a tank upon
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Fig. 3.—METHOD OE FILLING A WATER-PILLOW. 628 NURSING AND THE CARE OP THE SICK. wheels with a cover of mackintosh, upon which the patient lay. Its great merit wasthat of equalising pressure, so that the pressure being equally distributed over everypart of the patients body, it did not fall with undue severity upon any one part.Large water-mattresses are now manufactured which are, for all ordinary purposes,quite as effectual as Arnotts bed. The accompanying figure (Fig. 4) shows anordinary full-sized water-mattress applied to an ordinary bedstead. This mattress, aswell as all similar articles, can be inflated with air instead of being filled with water,if it be thought desirable. For cases of utterly helpless bed-ridden invalids, a water-mattress has been devised with a central tube (Fig. 5), so that all moisture canbe readily conveyed away. In those very distressing cases in which the patient isutterly inattentive to the calls of nature, such a contrivance is really a very greatboo

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