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The Seaman's Medical Instructor / In a Course of Lectures on Accidents and Diseases Incident to Seamen

Chapter 6: LECTURE III.
By N. D. Falck
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A concise, plain-language handbook that teaches basic anatomy, common injuries, and diseases encountered at sea, written for crews on ships lacking a surgeon. It opens with essential physiology to explain the parts that suffer, then gives practical, limited therapeutic recommendations and simple procedures for accidents and illness, prioritizing minimal and cautious use of medicines. The text warns against profiteering and overly complex remedies, emphasizes hygiene and preservation of life aboard ship, and favors experience-based, easily applied guidance over abstruse theory.

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LECTURE I.

An anatomical and physiological description of the human body
Sect. I. Of the composition and close connection of parts in the human body 2
Sect. II. Of the brains and nerves 5
Sect. III. Of the heart and lungs 9
Sect. IV. Of the circulation of the blood 12
Sect. V. Of the joint connection of the brains, heart, lungs, &c. 15
Sect. VI. Of chylifaction, and nutrition 19
Sect. VII. Of the bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons and their connection. 28
  A skeleton of the human body 31
Sect. VIII. Of the urinary organs and genital parts 35
Sect. IX. Of the skin 40
Sect. X. Of the external senses 43

LECTURE II.

On the requisite means and medicines towards restoring health.
Sect. I. Of the pulse 50
Sect. II. Of the effects of bleeding 55
Sect. III. Of the operation of bleeding 58
Sect. IV. Of the requisite medicines useful at sea 63
  A plan of a medicine box—64. Of utensils, and medicines—65. Lancets, ibid. scissars, probe, spatula—66. Bistouries, and incision lancets, teeth instruments, syringes—67. Clyster pipes and bladders, clyster syringe, scales and weights—68. Splints—69. Bandages, rags, tow, lint, tape, needles, thread and pins—70. Camomile flowers, balm, sage, sassafrass—71. Oatmeal, cinamon, allum, chalk—72. Salts, diachylon plaister—73. Mercurial plaister, blistering plaister—74. Spirits of wine and camphire—75. Liniment of soap, sweet oil, sweet spirit of nitre—76. Honey, yellow basilicon; elixir of vitriol—77. Elixir proprietatis, lenitive electuary—78. Turner’s Cerate, fever powders, stomachic powder—79. Calomel—80. Precipitate—81. Mercurial ointment—82. Rhubarb, jalap, ipecacuanha, liquid laudanum—83. Essential oil of peppermint, Turlington’s balsam 84

LECTURE III.

On accidents, and their proper method of treatment
Sect. I. Of falls 89
Sect. II. Of wounds—91. Cut wounds 92
  bruised wounds—94. Gun-shot wounds 96
Sect. III. Of bruises 98
Sect. IV. Of dislocations 99
  Dislocation of the arm with the shoulder 101
  Dislocation of the elbow or the knee 103
  Of spraining the wrist, or ancle 103
  Dislocation of the thigh bone 104
Sect. V. Of fractures 107
  A fracture of the skull 108
  Fracture of the arm 109
  A fracture of the thigh bone 110
  A fractured leg 111
  Compound fractures 114
  Conclusive observations on fractures 115
Sect. VI. Of scalding 118
Sect. VII. Of burning 119
Sect. VIII. Of drowning 120
  The method to recover a drowned person 123

LECTURE IV.

On external diseases, and their cure
Sect. I. Of inflammation 130
  Of resolution 132
  Of suppuration 133
  Of tumours 134
  Of mortification ibid.
Sect. II. Of ulcerations 137
Sect. III. Of the diseases of the skin 142
  Of the itch ibid.
  Of boils 144
  Of ring-worms, daw-worms, &c. &c. 145
  Of the lousy disease ibid.
Sect. IV. Of promiscuous disorders 148
  Of the tooth-ach 149
  To draw a tooth ibid.
  Of sore eyes 152
  Of the ear-ach 153
  Of hoarseness and sore throat 154
Sect. V. Of the venereal disease 156
  Of the gonorrhœa 157
  Of the phimosis and paraphimosis 158
  Of the chordee, and priapism 159
  Of the dysuria ibid.
  Of shankers 160
  Of the bubo 161
  Of swelled testicles 162
  Of venereal excrescences 163
  Of the second infection 164
Sect. VI. Of the bite of venomous animals 166
  To cure the bite of a rattle snake 167
Sect. VII. Of the bite of a mad dog 170
  The signs of a mad dog 171
  The effect of a bite of a mad dog 172
  Of the cure of the bite of a mad dog 173

LECTURE V.

Of fevers and inflammatory diseases, and their proper method of treatment
Sect. I. Of fevers in general 182
Sect. II. Of accidental fevers 184
Sect. III. Of a cold 192
Sect. IV. Of intermitting fevers, and agues 193
Sect. V. Of putrid and malignant fever 203

LECTURE VI.

Of the various internal diseases, and their method of cure
Sect. I. Of diseases of the head, of the apoplexy 208
  Of the phrenzy and delirium 210
  Of a stupor and lethargy 211
  Of a violent head-ach 213
Sect. II. Of diseases of the neck 214
  Of the malignant sore throat ibid.
Sect. III. Of diseases in the breast 219
  Of the cough ibid.
  Of the pleurisy, and a peripneumony 221
Sect. IV. Of diseases of the bowels, and the alimentary canal. 224
  Of a Depraved Appetite 225
  Of the Colic 228
  Of looseness, and bloody flux 230
Sect. V. Of the Scurvy 233