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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 23.SPRINGING THE JAWS FORWARLPlace the fingers of each hand behind the angle of the lowerjaw on each side. While the patient is opening his mouth pressthe jaw forward with a little pressure. Now, while you offersome little resistance, have the patient slowly close the mouth.Repeat three or four times.
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FIGURE 24.STRETCHING THE NECK.With one hand at the base of the skull, and the other handunder the chin, pull steadily until the body moves. Repeat sev-eral times. THE HOUSEHOLD OSTEOPATH 49 The symptoms of typhoid fever are, first, agradual onset, with backache, headache, loss ofappetite and general malaise, occasionally withchills and vomiting, sometimes a flushed face,dry tongue, an enlarged spleen, tenderness andgurgling in lower bowels on the right side, andthe back of the tongue has a thin whitish coat,not extending to edges or tip, which may berather red. The temperature differs from thatof any other disease, rising about two degreesduring the day and falling about one degree dur-ing the night for about a week, until about 104or 105 degrees is reached, then rises and fallsabout two degrees each twenty-four hours fora week, and then gradually declines more in thenight than it rises during the day. The fecal discharges are light yellow in colorand of pea-soup consistence. During t

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