HINTS IN SICKNESS.

GO AND

WHERE TO GO

WHAT TO DO.

BY

HENRY C. BURDETT,

"COTTAGE

"

FOUNDER OF THE HOME HOSPITALS ASSOCIATION FOR PAYING PATIENTS.
AUTHOR OF "PAY HOSPITALS OF THE WORLD;""HOSPITALS AND THE STATE;
HOSPITALS, GENERAL, FEVER AND CONVALESCENT, WITH FIFTY BEDS and Under;
"THE RELATIVE MORTALITY OF LARGE AND SMALL HOSPITALS;
"HOSPITALS WITH FIFTY BEDS AND UPWARDS, THEIR
ORIGIN, CONSTRUCTION, AND MANAGEMENT."

་་

LONDON

KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE

1883

46

Go, little book, God send thee good passage;

And specially let this be thy prayere,

Anto them all that thee will read or hear,

here thon art wrong, after their help to call, Thee to correct in any part or all.”

Chancer.

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS.

PAGE

v to vii

PART I-WHERE TO GO.

FULL PARTICULARS (TERMS OF ENTRANCE, HOURS OF ATTENDANCE AND

ADMISSION) OF ALL INSTITUTIONS IN ENGLAND AND WALES FOUNDED

FOR THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS OR BODILY INFIRMITY :

Blind-Cancer-Charity Organization Societies -Children-Con-
sumption and Diseases of the Chest-Convalescent-Deaf and
Dumb-Deformities of Body-Dental-Ear and Throat-
Eye-Fistula-Foreigners-Heart-Hip-Hydropathic Estab-
lishments -- Idiots and Imbeciles-Incurable and Chronic
Cases -Inebriates-Infectious Diseases - Lock Hospitals-
Lunatics- Lying-in - Nursery Institutions-Paralysis, Epi-
lepsy, and other Nervous Diseases-Pay Hospitals-Sickness
at Home - Sickness in Hospital-Skin Diseases - Surgical
Appliances Urinary Organs-Vaccine Lymph-Women

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PART II.-WHAT TO DO.

THE TREATMENT AND NURSING OF EMERGENCIES AND SIMPLE AILMENTS.