Rational therapy (1919) (14796130303)

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Title: Rational therapy

Year: 1919 (1910s)

Authors: Lerch, Otto

Subjects: Therapeutics, Physiological Therapeutics

Publisher: (Troy, N.Y.) The Southworth Company

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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INEFFECTIVEBANDAGES Figure 1—Thin patientscannot be fitted at all, andfat patients are merely sup-ported, as the badage fitsthem like a glove. I havedesigned a bandage vyrhichsuits the purpose, that is,it restores the pendulousabdomen to the normal ornearly so.

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-,.-!0 PROPER BANDAGES Figures 2 and 3—It consists of a shield made of cloth, with three whalebonesset straight to give it stability, and is placed above the pubic bone. This shieldis buckled by three or four straps to a second one, worn across the spine. Thelower strap Is tight the second less so, and the third is loose, restoring thenormal form of the abdomen and exerting the desired pressure upward andbackward. I described this bandage in the New York Medieal Record, December9, 1905. The bandage is made for me by the Shroeder Surgeons SuppliesCompany, New Orleans, Louisiana. 494 RATIONAL THERAPY. and gastro intestinal catarrh, due to alcoholism and infectiousdisease, especially syphilis and malaria, has to be treated on simi-lar lines. DISEASES OF THE HEART. No matter what the char-acter of the disease, as long as the compensation is perfect, thephysiologic methods are sufficient to ease heartwork and increaseits muscular strength and keep the compensation perfect, if themode of

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