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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, tetanus. Treatment of fevers; precautions against spread. Disin- fection of clothes and room. Compulsory notification. Incubation period of diseases.
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 cultivation and destroying bacteria outside the body. Infections. Modes of dissemina- tion; their spread in the body and the effects they produce (fever, toxaemia, septicaemia, pyaemia local lesions, e.g., abscess). General and specific immunity of the body to infection. Antisera and vaccines.
ASEPSIS.
General principles. Surgical cleanliness. Sterilisation by heat, by antiseptics.
OPERATING THEATRE.
Preparation of patient. Preparation of operation area. Lighting. Heating. Ventilation. Equipment. Anaesthesia. Preparation for operations in private houses.
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COMMON SURGICAL DISEASES AND OPERATIONS.
Operations after-treatment; complications during and after treatment. Ulcers of stomach and duodenum; appendicitis; acute peritonitis; hernia; strangulated hernia; intestinal obstruction; haemorrhoids; diseases of gall bladder; diseases of urinary organs; empyema of thorax; diseases of tongue.
New growths.
Surgical tuberculosis.
NOSE, THROAT, EAR AND EYE DISEASES.
Treatment after: resection of septum : tonsillectomy; operation for cleft palate; tracheotomy; operation for mastoid disease; removal of cataract.
Special points in the various treatments. Preparation of patient. Appliances used.
VENEREAL DISEASES.
Treatment and nursing care.
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