Health does not depend on
your lucky stars, or on your
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horoscope, or on the
month you were born in...
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Health depends on
altogether different principles.
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Even a healthy
person can get sick.
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This sickness can be anything
from an infected splinter,
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to a serious
infection of the bowel.
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How you relate to the illness,
and what you do for yourself
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can determine to a great
degree, whether you get a
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scar, or whether
you get crippled,
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or whether you're
restored to full health!
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So, we'll talk about some
of those things on this program
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and I hope you will join us.
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Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health"
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash,
of Uchee Pines Institute
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And now, here's
your host, Dr. Thrash
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Obedience to
law... the laws of health
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will determine,
to a large degree,
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just what happens to you
after you have been sick.
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And so I'd like to
talk with you some about
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those things that you
can do to help yourself to
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make certain that
all those nice remedies
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that we've been talking
about for years come to you
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as new and vibrant principles!
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And these principles
can, indeed, be something that
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will help you to recover
from an illness without serious
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consequences.
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Now, most people, in
their homes, have some kind of
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tray, or box such as this
one... that they keep their
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health things in...
those things relating to health
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...the equipment that
they have, or any kind of
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problem of this kind, we
can certainly see that we can
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use some kinds of
equipment that will be helpful.
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Let me show you what can
happen with this little device
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This device is a
very interesting one...
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If you press this
little button right here,
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it will make a little spark.
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And if you put
your finger down there,
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it will give you quite a spark.
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So let me just show
you how that happens...
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Did you see the spark?
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Let me show you again...
right here... there's the spark!
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Now, if you put
your finger there,
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where you have been
bitten by some kind of venomous
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animal, or stung by a bee,
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if you just give this
a number of nice sparks,
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it will denature the
venom and that can help
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you not to get such a serious
problem with your venomous bite.
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Now there are people who
use this very same kind of
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instrument, except a
little larger for snakebites.
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We have never
used it for snakebites.
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we have only used
it for fire ant bites,
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for beestings, and for chiggers.
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We have a lot of chiggers
where we live and certain
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seasons of the year,
they may sting you, especially
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in creases of the
body, and it's very nice to
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denature the venom as
soon as you know it's there
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so that you don't
have to itch quite so much.
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Now in most
people's medical kit,
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they also have something
that looks like this...
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This kind of device
is called a stethoscope,
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and a stethoscope
can be very useful...
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It can be monaural,
as you see this one,
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or as you usually see
it, it fits in both ears.
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Those can be purchased from
any kind of department store
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for very little, under $15
usually, and most of the time,
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even under $10.
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One of these is very good,
some people use it actually
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even to listen
to their car motor.
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It has a lot of uses.
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It can also be nicely
used when a person has
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a deaf person around, and you
have difficulty hearing them...
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You just let them talk into this
part, and especially if you have
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one that's longer...
They talk into this part
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and you can hear them better,
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or if they are the deaf person,
then they listen with this
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and you talk into that part.
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So those are some
uses for a stethoscope.
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Of course most
people use it also with a
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blood pressure cuff;
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likewise, you can buy
that a department store for
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not very much
money, usually under $25.
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I like to keep this
kind of cup in my box...
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This kind of cup is
called a C- cup, or a kidney cup
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and it can have numerous uses.
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For a person who is
bedfast and they need to
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brush their teeth, this
kind of thing can be useful.
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If a person is in
bed and they're vomiting,
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they can use this kind of cup.
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You can use it for
numerous kinds of irrigations,
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and the like, and it's very nice
in your kit of medical things.
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I also like this kind of device.
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This is an eye cup.
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An eye cup is
filled with whatever fluid
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you're going to
use, such as saline...
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And saline can be
nicely made up by yourself
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just 1 teaspoon of
salt to 1 pint of water,
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and then you fill
the cup with the saline
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and then bend over
it and just bat your eye
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as fast as you
can in the saline...
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And it can wash
things out of the eye,
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or if you have an
irritated eye, such as from
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some kind of fumes,
it can be very useful
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for that kind of thing.
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Now, there are a lot
of devices such as this...
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that can help you if you
have a person in your home
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who is older, and they
get some kind of callus,
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or corns on the
feet, or on the toes,
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or the heel, or
the sides of the feet
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This kind of device can
be very nice... it's a stone
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and it can be very nice for
just filing off some kind of
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thick corn, or
callus on the foot.
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Now in addition to this
kind of thing that's operated
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by hand, there are also
some very nice ones that
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you can buy inexpensively
from a department store
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such as this one.
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This one runs by
battery, and you can
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get the little
mechanisms that fit on it
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and they fit very
nicely, just pull one out of its
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little shield here, and
put it on the little device
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like this, and then
you simply switch it on.
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You hear that?
Well, it makes a little.
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As you can see, you can
file down nails, or you can
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file down nails, or
you can file off corns,
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or file off calluses with this,
and just plane them right down.
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Sometimes it takes a
little time, but it's very nice
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for the person who is
old, and who is getting lame
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because they are
having difficulty in walking
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with painful corns,
and painful calluses.
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You can be a real medical
missionary in your family
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just with such a device.
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This kind of device, I
think, costs under $20 at a
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department store,
or a discount store.
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I like to have several
kinds of tissues, maybe a roll
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of towel, or a box of
tissue that's just dedicated to
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my box, so that if I
want to take my whole box
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with me to deal with someone's
problem, I have everything
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there that I'm going to need.
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And, one of the things that
I often need is this kind of
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device... This
is for tennis elbow
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and I have asked an
assistant to come and help me
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with this kind of device.
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You buy these from a
discount store, or a drug store
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and it has a very
fine use with tennis elbow.
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This is Justina
Thomas, and she is going to
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let me show you how this
is used for tennis elbow.
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Look at this... very simple.
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You simply put it on the
arm, just below the crease
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of the elbow, as
you see right here
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Then, you can put it on
by yourself, and then just
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snap it shut like that.
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It's very easy to
work with this because it's
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designed for you to
put it on by yourself.
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Now a person with
tennis elbow has pain
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not only in the elbow,
usually it's right back here
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on this little knob that
you can easily feel at your own
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elbow... just right here, the
most prominent place right there
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Or, it may be in these muscles
right down between the 2 bones.
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These interosseous
muscles can be VERY tender...
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So that doing this
kind of movement, can be
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quite uncomfortable for the
person who has a tennis elbow.
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Putting this on, and letting
them go about.. just a support
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...it's not worn tightly, but
just a support and then as they
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move the arm, it
massages gently these muscles
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in here, and that helps
them quite a great deal.
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Now, there is another
kind of device, such as this
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which you can also
purchase at a pharmacy, or at a
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discount store and it is
just worn in the same way.
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It's worn right here, or it can
be worn on the arm right here.
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This one is made for a
person with a more hefty arm
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than Justina has,
but you can get the idea.
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Thank you, Justina.
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Now, these are kept in your
kit so that when someone has
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that kind of
affliction, then you are ready
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for them right away.
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I like these charcoal
pads... They work very nicely
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This is for the eyes, and
if a person has inflamed eyes,
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simply put this on the eyes,
and this fits around the head
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and can stay on
while they sleep.
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The charcoal, even
though it's dry, it's not wet...
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even though it's dry,
it has a very good benefit
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for the person
who has inflamed eyes.
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If the person only
has a single inflamed eye,
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they make them
that are like this,
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and you can use that
on one eye with simply
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putting on a piece of tape.
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Now, if a person has
a sensitivity to tape,
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and a lot of people do,
then you can bind it around
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the head with an Ace
bandage and then use the tape
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on the Ace bandage
to hold it in place.
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And this kind of
thing is a cravat...
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It can be worn around
the neck for a sore throat,
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or for painful neck muscles.
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Sometimes when people
sit in a car for a long time
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with a bucket seat, and they
don't realize that the seat is
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leaning backward a little
too far, and so when they are
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traveling many miles, these
neck muscles get quite tender
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and they may even think
they're getting a sore throat,
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but it's actually
just tender neck muscles.
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Sometimes the back of the
neck can also be quite tender,
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and with this kind of
thing, it can be very helpful.
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They just wear it at night,
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or they can wear
it in the daytime too.
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It has a very nice appearance
so that you don't have to
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look as if you're wearing
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some kind of rag
around the throat.
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You might not have
this kind of device,
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but if you're
overweight, you may want to
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get this kind of device.
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It simply lets you
measure how thick the fat is
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in various parts of your body.
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Such as, the key area
is probably over the biceps
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And, if you just pick
up.. don't pick up muscle, but
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just pick up the
subcutaneous tissue in the skin,
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and then, with this little
device, you simply measure.
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For a man, it should
be a half centimeter,
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and so I'll put it on
the half centimeter mark...
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that's not very much, is it?
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You might just
measure yourself and see
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just how much you measure.
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Now a woman, can measure up
to a centimeter in this area.
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We women carry a little bit
extra fat in the subcutaneous
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tissue normally, than men do.
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But that's a very rigorous test.
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If you only test one
place, that's where to test.
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But, of course, we
have more fat back here,
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and, of course, a lot more fat
down here or here, or down there
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And so, this kind of
device can help you to know and
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by checking in your library
for the kind of person you are,
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whether you are Caucasian,
or black, or whether you are a
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native American, the storage
of fat is a little different in
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some races than in others, and
you might want to check that.
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Now I have here some devices
that people like to have.
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I don't know that they
are particularly necessary
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in the average
home medicine kit,
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but you might like to have one.
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And these can be picked up...
these are percussion hammers
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which will test for the
briskness of your deep tendon
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reflexes, and sometimes
if there is a sharp point
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down on this end,
you can test some of the
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superficial reflexes as
well... the skin reflexes.
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That works out very nicely.
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And then, this particular
one has a measuring device
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so that it measures a centimeter
a half centimeter, and so forth
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right down to about 3 mm...
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You can see that
this device is provided by
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some drug companies, and
sometimes they work nicely
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and sometimes they're just
nice gimmicks but either way,
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it's sort of fun to
have this kind of thing.
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Now where can you
test deep tendon reflexes?
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Well, one of the nice ones
is this bit tendon right here.
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And the way to do
that is very simple
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and I have asked Justina
to assist me in showing you
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this very nice
little deep tendon reflex.
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Now it's very important that
you put your finger right on
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the place where
there is the deep tendon.
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You put your thumb on it,
and then with a little sharp...
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this kind of thing...
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You will not be
able to see it very well,
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but I can feel it very well!
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I can feel her biceps
contract when I simply do that
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And I don't know if you
can see the little contraction
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that occurred there.
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And, of course, everybody
knows what the knee jerk is.
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You just have the person
sit on the edge of the table
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and then with the knee dangling
nicely, the leg quite relaxed,
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then you just strike the
place just under the kneecap...
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and, of course, everybody
has had that experience
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since they were quite young.
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The only time that you
would need that kind of thing
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would be if someone
had been in an accident,
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or someone is sick,
or they have some kind of
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neurologic problem, and
you aren't certain whether
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they have neurologic damage,
and you can see if you can
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elicit these
deep tendon reflexes.
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Now let's say
you don't get one...
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you do this when the
patient is very relaxed
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...they have to be relaxed.
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Often they are tight here,
and that spoils the reflex,
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but if they are quite relaxed,
and you're quite relaxed,
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and you've got your
thumb on the right place,
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and you strike it just right,
and they don't have a reflex...
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You can't feel any kind
of contraction of the biceps
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which then moves this tendon.
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So, then what do you do?
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Well, you test the other side...
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Now if the other side
also gives you no reflex,
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then probably, she's all right.
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There's probably no
problem with her nervous system
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...she's just
not reacting today.
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And she may NOT
react most of the time.
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But with the knee jerk,
if you simply have the person
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put the hands
together like this, and press
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and then while
they're distracted doing this,
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and pressing hard,
it enhances the reflex
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if you strike it at that time.
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So while they're busy
doing this, you're busy
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tapping the reflex,
and sometimes you get a
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perfectly normal kneejerk
with that simple little maneuver
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Now with your patient,
who has some kind of splinter,
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you've got some other
things that you can do.
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Let's say she gets a
splinter under the fingernail,
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I like to have
magnifying glasses, and I have
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a number of them.
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This one is a little table one,
and it fits very nicely this way
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so that it fits on the
table and you look through it
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and you can see the splinter
VERY well, and dig it out.
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Now, is there something
that you should keep in your kit
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that will be always on hand, so
that you can dig out splinters
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and the answer is... yes.
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And I have a nice little
kit... You see this little kit
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...it has here some
suture material which
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you may, or you may not want.
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I always keep some in
mine, I have rarely used it...
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I think twice in all my
experience as a physician,
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I've used it... you've probably
would never have such an
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opportunity or desire...
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But let's say you were in
some kind of field situation,
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way out in the middle
of nowhere, and someone
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gets cut... Is there
something you can do?
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And the answer is,
yes... if you have a needle
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and you have some thread.
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Make it as clean as you can.
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It doesn't have to be
sterile, because the cut
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was not made in a sterile way.
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And so, you're sewing it up,
it doesn't usually have to be
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sterile... it just
needs to be very clean
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And the body can
handle that fine.
00:19:03.55\00:19:06.52
But I have here a number
of surgical instruments that
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you might not want...
00:19:09.97\00:19:11.14
But this one has a
needle in it, along with some
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suture material, so I'll
just show you how that works
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You just keep the needle in some
kind of little tube like this
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and then, here
is a large needle.
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You may need a large one,
or you may need a small one.
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I have both in this little
tube that I keep all the time
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...small needles
and large needles
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But I think most of the time,
you will use a large needle
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more than you
will a small needle.
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I keep this all the time
so that I can be just ready
00:19:43.69\00:19:48.37
to use the little
magnifying glass and remove
00:19:48.40\00:19:52.39
a splinter from
beneath the fingernail,
00:19:52.42\00:19:54.97
or embedded somewhere.
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The worst thing for you
to have to remove is glass.
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When the person has
glass, you may need the needle
00:20:01.65\00:20:05.43
and the magnifying glass...
00:20:05.46\00:20:08.44
You may also need
forceps, or tweezers.
00:20:08.47\00:20:12.17
Most homes have
tweezers in the home,
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and as you work with this,
00:20:16.55\00:20:19.06
you will find that
it's easy to work with...
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The person with the splinter,
you simply take hold of it
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if you can reach it,
and then pull it out.
00:20:26.84\00:20:29.52
And the needle can help to
pull it so that it's within
00:20:29.55\00:20:33.83
the reach of the tweezers,
and then you pull it out.
00:20:33.86\00:20:37.53
Now this is a
surgical instrument,
00:20:37.56\00:20:39.34
and I think I picked these
up at a flea market somewhere.
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You can buy these from
a surgical supply house
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for probably $18
to $25 a piece...
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But you can get them
for a couple of dollars
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or less at a flea
market if you can find them.
00:20:50.53\00:20:53.72
I have a number of
other things as well...
00:20:53.75\00:20:56.53
And here is a very
nice kind of scissors.
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You can see that they
have an angle in them,
00:21:02.44\00:21:06.97
and that makes
them very helpful.
00:21:07.00\00:21:09.13
And here is a
special kind of scissors.
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That kind of scissor... I also
picked this up at a flea market.
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Sometimes you can
get these at pawn shops,
00:21:16.00\00:21:22.23
or once in a while, at a
thrift shop, you can get these.
00:21:22.26\00:21:25.97
And they are very
nice to take out sutures.
00:21:26.00\00:21:28.79
Let me just show
you how that could work.
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I put a suture in this
little device here so that I
00:21:31.77\00:21:37.21
could show you this.
00:21:37.24\00:21:38.48
If you have sutures put
in, sometimes you are going to
00:21:38.51\00:21:42.84
go on a trip right
after a surgeon has put some
00:21:42.87\00:21:45.77
sutures in for you,
and you don't want to have
00:21:45.80\00:21:48.13
to come back at the
time the surgeon tells you
00:21:48.16\00:21:50.20
he wants to take
out the sutures...
00:21:50.23\00:21:51.99
Justina, would you
just hold that for me...
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Let's say this is
the person's hand...
00:21:56.74\00:21:59.36
You take the suture
that has been put in,
00:21:59.39\00:22:02.75
and hold it by
some tweezers like this.
00:22:02.78\00:22:05.24
Then you take the
little suture removal scissors,
00:22:05.27\00:22:08.89
and this tiny part, you
just put under and you cut it
00:22:08.92\00:22:13.00
right over here at one edge.
00:22:13.03\00:22:16.57
If you will just turn
that up, you can see...
00:22:16.60\00:22:19.50
I don't cut it in the
middle, because if I cut it
00:22:19.53\00:22:21.60
in the middle, then this part
that's dirty, is pulled through
00:22:21.63\00:22:24.56
the skin, but it's
better to just pull it,
00:22:24.59\00:22:28.82
cut it, right on one side.
00:22:28.86\00:22:30.45
Now let's say you
don't have one of these
00:22:30.49\00:22:32.66
nice little scissors...
little suture scissors,
00:22:32.69\00:22:35.35
then just get any kind of small
scissors, small point scissors
00:22:35.38\00:22:40.16
Things like cuticle
scissors will work very nicely
00:22:40.19\00:22:43.45
and then you just cut
it right over on the side,
00:22:43.48\00:22:46.35
and pull it out, and then
very little of the part that's
00:22:46.38\00:22:51.11
been out in the air and
in the dust, and so forth
00:22:51.14\00:22:53.95
will go through the skin.
00:22:53.96\00:22:55.60
Thank you, Justina.
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Now all of these kinds of
instruments are nice to have.
00:22:57.14\00:23:02.31
Here is another one
that's very good for working on
00:23:02.34\00:23:05.66
old people's corns, and
toenails, and fungus nails
00:23:05.69\00:23:12.27
...this can be used
very nicely for that.
00:23:12.30\00:23:14.76
Again, you can often pick
these up for a little of nothing
00:23:14.79\00:23:18.33
These are bandage scissors,
very nice to have separate
00:23:18.36\00:23:22.98
And then once in a while,
you'll need something like
00:23:23.01\00:23:26.72
hemostats... I think
I've used a hemostat more for
00:23:26.75\00:23:31.44
picking out splinters,
or picking up some small
00:23:31.47\00:23:36.98
thing from a very small
tube that I have for use
00:23:37.01\00:23:41.61
in medical things.
00:23:41.62\00:23:43.12
Now this... you'll
recognize this right away...
00:23:43.15\00:23:46.01
it's a dental mirror,
and very nice for looking
00:23:46.04\00:23:50.84
in the mouth when the mouth
has some kind of affliction...
00:23:50.87\00:23:55.57
You simply look in the person's
mouth and you can sometimes
00:23:55.58\00:23:59.98
see things that you're
not able to see otherwise.
00:24:00.01\00:24:03.09
Now I showed you the
table-type of magnifying glass,
00:24:03.12\00:24:07.56
but there are many others.
00:24:07.57\00:24:09.04
Here is one that
you can look in your eye
00:24:09.07\00:24:12.76
and just take a
tissue and remove something
00:24:12.79\00:24:15.15
with this kind
of magnifying glass,
00:24:15.18\00:24:17.62
it's very nice to do...
it's a magnifying mirror.
00:24:17.65\00:24:21.59
And then, here is one
that can keep the dust
00:24:21.62\00:24:25.52
off it just by
this kind of device.
00:24:25.55\00:24:29.36
And, here is a similar
one, you find these in all
00:24:29.39\00:24:33.40
kinds as all sizes,
shapes and conditions.
00:24:33.43\00:24:38.52
This one is very fancy
with the stainless steel,
00:24:38.55\00:24:41.59
I like it very much.
00:24:41.60\00:24:43.43
Now, occasionally, you will have
someone who lives in your home
00:24:43.46\00:24:49.38
who may be hard of hearing.
00:24:49.41\00:24:50.92
And, if you want to see whether
they are getting very deaf,
00:24:50.95\00:24:54.70
you can take
something like a tuning fork,
00:24:54.73\00:24:57.26
and just listen to it yourself,
and then let them listen to it.
00:24:57.29\00:25:01.78
And if you can
hear it, and they can't,
00:25:01.81\00:25:06.33
then you think that
probably they are deaf,
00:25:06.36\00:25:09.95
at least they are
deafer than you are.
00:25:09.98\00:25:12.03
And that can be very
helpful to know sometimes.
00:25:12.06\00:25:15.98
If you have a
diabetic living in your home,
00:25:16.01\00:25:18.23
this kind of
kit is very helpful.
00:25:18.26\00:25:21.45
It's the kind of kit
that has the little machine
00:25:21.48\00:25:26.09
for testing the blood sugar.
00:25:26.12\00:25:28.03
And, it has stylets in
it, and the reagent materials
00:25:28.06\00:25:34.58
and the
strips... has all of that.
00:25:34.61\00:25:37.03
And this one has a
little device that has a little
00:25:37.06\00:25:41.89
stylet in it so it fits
right in here, just like this
00:25:41.92\00:25:46.02
And you can see that
that's a pretty sharp
00:25:46.05\00:25:49.91
little device that will
stick into the person's finger.
00:25:49.92\00:25:54.72
It has to go in a good
little way, and this one has a
00:25:54.75\00:25:57.81
little trigger device
that if you just do it that way
00:25:57.84\00:26:00.57
it works very neatly there.
00:26:00.60\00:26:03.33
I always have some kind
of washing syringe in my kit
00:26:03.36\00:26:12.41
so that I can
irrigate, or clean out ears,
00:26:12.44\00:26:16.10
or that kind of thing.
00:26:16.13\00:26:17.59
Something that people with
young children will want to have
00:26:17.62\00:26:21.79
is an otoscope.
00:26:21.82\00:26:23.26
You can purchase an
otoscope for under $20 usually
00:26:23.29\00:26:27.70
on the internet, or
sometimes at a discount store
00:26:27.73\00:26:34.19
or sometimes at a flea market
if you happen to be there.
00:26:34.22\00:26:39.06
I like also to have something
like this charcoal salve.
00:26:39.09\00:26:44.01
Charcoal salve is really
good for infected splinters
00:26:44.02\00:26:49.94
and this kind of thing.
00:26:49.97\00:26:51.08
And so, a number of
herbal remedies stay in my kit.
00:26:51.11\00:26:56.23
Depending on who you
have living in your home,
00:26:56.26\00:26:58.73
you may even want to
have something of this nature.
00:26:58.76\00:27:01.02
This is a little
epilation device.
00:27:01.05\00:27:04.25
It takes off hairs.
00:27:04.28\00:27:05.70
Again, you can buy
these from a department store
00:27:05.73\00:27:10.75
like Wal-Mart, or
somewhere like that.
00:27:10.78\00:27:12.97
And this simply has a
little needle at the end
00:27:13.00\00:27:17.60
that fits into a hair follicle
and you just give it a little
00:27:17.63\00:27:23.03
spark and the hair
follicle just falls out.
00:27:23.06\00:27:27.13
And these are some very
simple things that you can have
00:27:27.16\00:27:31.50
in your home all the time.
00:27:31.53\00:27:32.87
And when you have a problem,
you simply pick up your kit
00:27:32.90\00:27:37.31
and take it to the patient.
00:27:37.34\00:27:39.14
And by doing so, you can
evaluate how they're doing
00:27:39.17\00:27:43.37
and also give them
very simple treatments.
00:27:43.40\00:27:46.43
Now I hope by
showing you the home kit,
00:27:46.46\00:27:49.21
and some things
that you can put in it,
00:27:49.22\00:27:50.97
it will help you to help
those that you love very much.
00:27:51.00\00:27:54.83