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Subject: Re: Waiting for the Doctor Author: Ellen [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 08:58: am In reply to: Becky 's message, "Re: Waiting for the Doctor" on Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 03:22: pm In all fairness, most childhood ailments were pretty simple and not all that many required either a doctor or for that matter a doctor giving an injection. Coughs, colds, and short term viruses could be dealt with at home and most remedies only served to relieve the symptoms. Usually if you gave it a couple of days the body's immune system would take care of things. Vicks helped make breathing easier, cough syrup eased the hacking, aspirin soothed pain even if it never cured anything, and an enema made sure that the bowels were functioning to rid the body of any waste. The thermometer told weather the patient was making progress and also how severe the problem was. While home nursing was pretty simplistic, but most of the time was pretty good, too. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Waiting for the Doctor Author: Tim [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Monday, May 31, 2010, 04:38: am Ellen you're right except that way back when, parents were always worried when a kid got sick because they knew very little about illnesses. So a big deal was made of any illness. Since a doctor only had a few healing medicines, the kid almost always got a shot of Penicillin.....I think it traumatized many kids......Tim [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Waiting for the Doctor Author: Ed [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Tuesday, June 01, 2010, 07:13: am I do think shots can be traumatizing, but the much more frequent sight of the enema bag or can headed your way could be equally or more so. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Waiting for the Doctor Author: Ellen [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Saturday, June 05, 2010, 11:40: am I think if I had been given a choice between getting an enema or getting a shot I would have chosen the enema every time. It must be the smell of the antiseptic that they wipe on your skin before the needle goes in, but I start to breathe faster and feel light headed every time I get a whiff of it. By comparison an enema does not evoke all that bad of feelings. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]