THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 22, 1931.
DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF RESPIRATION.
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General symptoms of respiratory disease. Breathing: various types. Cough: character, expectoration, pain. Pneumonia, bronchitis, pleurisy, tuberculosis. Treat- ment and nursing care.
DISEASES OF ORGANS OF DIGESTION.
General symptoms; appetite, nausea, vomiting, pain, character of vomit, state of bowels, character of stools. Jaundice. Treatment and nursing care.
DISEASES OF URINARY ORGANS.
General symptoms. Urine. Uraemia. Calenlus. Cystitis. Renal disease. Treat- ment and nursing care.
DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
General features; loss of power of movement; sensation; bladder; convulsions; coma. Nursing of cases of paralysis, chorea, meningitis, functional nervous disorders. Elementary principles of treatment by massage and electricity.
CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Rheumatism and joint affections. Scurvy, rickets. Diabetes mellitus. Treatment and nursing care.
DISEASES OF THE DUCTLESS GLANDS.
Thyroid gland; goitre, exophthalmic goitre, myxoedema. Suprarenal glands. Pituitary gland.
DISEASES OF THE SKIN.
Symptoms of skin affection. Treatment: general and local. Skin diseases: eczema, psoriasis, ringworm, scabies, impetigo. Treatment and nursing care.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Defensive mechanism of the body. Immunity. Serum and Vaccine therapy.
Enteric fever, scarlet fever, measles, mumps, small-pox, chicken-pox, whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanns. Treatment of fevers; precautions against spread. Disin- fection of clothes and room. Compulsory notification. Incubation period of disease.
VI.-Surgical Nursing.
INFLAMMATION.
HAEMORRHAGE.
Haemorrhage, arterial, venous, capillary; primary, recurrent, secondary. Effects of haemorrhage. Arrest of haemorrhage. Haemophilia.
SURGICAL INJURIES, FRACTURES, AND DISLOCATIONS.
BURNS AND ULCERS.
Burns and scalds. Ulcers, bed-sores.
SEPSIS.
The nature, distribution and properties of bacteria, with special reference to the part they play as the causes of fermentation, putrefaction, and infection. Methods of cultivating and destroying bacteria outside the body. Infections. Modes of dissemina- tion; their spread in the body and the effect they produce (fever, toxaemia, septicaemia, pyaemia, local lesions, e.g., abscess). General and specific immunity of the body to infection. Anti-sera and vaccines.
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