Pastoral medicine : a handbook for the Catholic clergy

Pastoral medicine : a handbook for the Catholic clergy

Author: Sanford, Alexander E

Year: 1905

CONTENTS Introduction 5 First Part. HYGIENE. I. Air — General Remarks 11 Air as a Cause of Disease 14 Weather and Climate 17 II. Soil and Drinking Water 23 III. Nutrition and Food 28 Fasting and Abstaining 32 Food 34 IV. Dwelling and Clothing 47 Clothing 60 V. Hygiene of Schools 63 VI. The Infirmary 71 VII. Death — Asphyxy — Signs of Death — Manners of Death — Burial 74 Second Part. PASTORAL MEDICINE The Relation of Man in His Bodily Conditions to Religion and Morality 87 I. Procuratio Abortus 88 II. Birth, Care of the Child 92 The Child at School Age 97 III. Matrimony 98 Impedimentum Consanguinitatis 99 IV. Celibacy 101 Man in Sickness 107 I. Somatic Diseases 108 Tuberculosis 117 Diphtheria 118 Choleba 119 Childbed Fever 120 Apoplexy 121 Diseases of the Respiratory Organs 122 Disorders of the Heart 123 Abdominal Diseases 123 Accidents 124 II. Mental Diseases 124 Melancholy 132 Mania 134 Raving Madness 135 Morbidity of Imagination 135 Nervous Disorders 141 Epilepsy 141 Hysteria 144 III. Diseases Due to Occupations 149 IV. Hypnosis and Suggestion 155 V. Alcoholism 163 VI. Morphinism 172 Third Part. FIRST AID TO THE INJURED. I. Hemorrhage and its Treatment 175 II. Wounds and their Tr