Download or read book Clinical and Pathological Papers From the Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland (Classic Reprint) written by Cleveland Lakeside Hospital and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Clinical and Pathological Papers From the Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland During the summer months Of 1903, when, typhoid fever being unusually prevalent in Cleveland, the wards of the Lakeside Hos pital contained many cases of this disease, an attempt was made, at first in the female ward alone, to give much larger quantities, than usual, of water to drink to the fever patients, to determine its effects on their comfort and condition. The free use Of water internally is, of course, accepted as important in the treatment Of typhoid fever; and it has been the custom in the hospital to see that a patient with this disease should have what was thought an abundant supply. In the nursing directions, three pints daily has been set as the least amount which such a patient should receive; and besides the water given by the nurse, a quart bowlful of ice water with a bent-glass tube on a stand by the bed-side has enabled the individual to help himself with a minimum of exertion. The twenty - four-hour amount of urine, always measured and charted, has shown in most cases a daily record of from forty to fifty ounces during the time of the fever, and this has been taken as a fair index Of sufficient fluid ingestion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.