Routine
Regular checkups with your health care provider are different from appointments for sickness or injury. These checkups include physical exams as well as preventive care. Preventative care may include:
- Screening tests, which are medical tests to check for diseases early, when they may be easier to treat. Which screenings you need will depend on your:
- Age
- Sex
- Overall health
- Family health history
- Risks for certain diseases
- Vaccines, which can improve your health by preventing diseases and other health problems.
- Education and counseling to help you make informed health decisions. This could include advice about your lifestyle, including your diet, how much exercise you get, and any alcohol, tobacco, or other substances you may be using.
To make the most of your next check-up, here are some things to do before you go:
- Review your family health history
- Find out if you are due for any general screenings or vaccines
- Make and bring a list of issues and questions you would like to talk about with your provider
- Make and bring a list of any medicines, vitamins, supplements that you take
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.
Physician's Therapeutics Memoranda on Routine
TONSILLITIS
A good routine treatment is; a mercurial followed by a Seidlitz powder, with aconite to control fever, application to the tonsils of tincture ferric chloride containing... / A good routine treatment is; a mercurial followed by a Seidlitz powder, with aconite to control fever, application to the tonsils of tincture ferric chloride... / ...In mild recurrent attacks, Ton sillitis tablets (see p. 189) are often efficient. In rheumatic subjects, iodides, sodium salicylate and tincture guaiac should be used.1
A good routine treatment is; a mercurial followed by a Seidlitz powder, with aconite to control fever, application to the tonsils of tincture ferric chloride containing... / A good routine treatment is; a mercurial followed by a Seidlitz powder, with aconite to control fever, application to the tonsils of tincture ferric chloride... / ...In mild recurrent attacks, Ton sillitis tablets (see p. 189) are often efficient. In rheumatic subjects, iodides, sodium salicylate and tincture guaiac should be used.1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.