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_aMunk, William, _d1816-1898 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aEuthanasia |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-09-01 | ||
| 508 | _adeaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) | ||
| 520 | _a"Euthanasia : or, Medical treatment in aid of an easy death by William Munk" is a medical treatise from the Victorian era. It synthesizes clinical observation, ethical reflection, and practical bedside guidance to show how physicians and nurses can ease the final hours of the dying. The book argues that the act of dying is usually neither agonizing nor fearful, and urges the medical profession to study and practice an “easy death” as part of its duty. Its likely topic is the phenomena, modes, and clinical management of dying, aimed at securing a calm, pain‑relieved, and dignified end. The book is organized into three parts: first, it examines common experiences near death—diminishing pain perception, patterns of delirium, the “lightening before death,” and the persistence of hearing—countering the myth of the “death struggle.” Next, it outlines the main modes of dying by failure of the heart (syncope or asthenia), lungs (asphyxia), or brain (coma or exhaustion), with the classic bedside signs such as the facies Hippocratica. Finally, it gives detailed, practical care: avoid force‑feeding; prefer milk, cream, eggs, and farinacea; use wine or brandy judiciously as stimulants; offer ice for thirst; stop fluids when swallowing fails. Opium (ideally as morphia) is the chief remedy for pain and the dreadful sinking at the chest, while ether, ammonia, and occasional turpentine help dyspnea and bronchial clogging; drugs should be few and purpose‑driven. Care of environment—fresh cool air, adequate light, quiet ordinary voices (no whispering), few attendants—plus posture and light coverings are emphasized, with specific measures for stertor, hiccup, and bladder distention. The closing guidance covers special scenarios (heart, lung, brain failure) and notes that in death from old age, gentle nursing usually suffices, as nature itself provides the perfect euthanasia. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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