Where There Is No Doctor

✍ Scribed by David Werner, Jane Maxwell, Carol Thuman, Carol Thuman, Jane Maxwell

• Publisher: Hesperian Foundation
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 503
• Edition: Revised
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Hesperian's classic manual, Where There Is No Doctor, is perhaps the most widely-used health care manual in the world. Useful for health workers, clinicians, and others involved in primary health care delivery and health promotion programs, with millions of copies in print in more than 75 languages, the manual provides practical, easily understood information on how to diagnose, treat, and prevent common diseases. Special attention is focused on mutrition, infection and disease prevention, and diagnostic techniques as primary ways to prevent and treat health problems. This 2010 reprint features updated medicines, plus information on tuberculosis and HIV, including guidelines for anti-retroviral therapy and preventing HIV in babies.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 12
Note about this new edition......Page 14
Words to the village health worker......Page 16
1 Home cures and popular beliefs......Page 48
2 Sicknesses that are often confused......Page 64
3 How to examine a sick person......Page 76
4 How to take care of a sick person......Page 86
5 Healing without medicines......Page 92
6 Right and wrong uses of modern medicines......Page 96
7 Antibiotics: what they are and how to use them......Page 102
8 How to measure and give medicine......Page 106
9 Instructions and precautions for injections......Page 112
10 First aid......Page 122
11 Nutrition: what to eat to be healthy......Page 154
12 Prevention: how to avoid many sicknesses......Page 178
13 Some very common sicknesses......Page 198
14 Serious illnesses that need special medical attention......Page 226
15 Skin problems......Page 240
16 The eyes......Page 264
17 The teeth, gums, and mouth......Page 276
18 The urinary system and the genitals......Page 280
19 Information for mothers and midwives......Page 292
20 Family planning - having the number of children you want......Page 330
21 Health and sicknesses of children......Page 342
22 Health and sicknesses of older people......Page 370
23 The medicine kit......Page 378
The green pages......Page 386
Additional information......Page 446
Vocabulary......Page 466
Addresses for teaching materials......Page 476
Index......Page 480
Dosage blanks......Page 494
Patient Reports......Page 497
Other books from Hesperian......Page 501
Information on vital signs......Page 503