Chapter XXXVIII: Infectious or Contagious Diseases

Rules to be observed in the treatment of contagious diseases--
What isolation means--The contagious sick room--Conduct
and dress of the nurse--Feeding the patient and
nurse--How to disinfect the clothing and linen--How to
disinfect the urine and feces--How to disinfect the
hands--Disinfection of the room necessary--How to disinfect
the mouth and nose--How to disinfect the throat--Receptacle
for the sputum--Care of the skin in contagious
diseases--Convalescence after a contagious disease--Disinfecting
the sick chamber--The after treatment of a disinfected
room--How to disinfect the bed clothing and
clothes--Mumps--Epidemic parotitis--Chicken pox--
Varicella--La Grippe--Influenza--Diphtheria--Whooping
Cough--Pertussis--Measles--Koplik's spots--Department
of health rules in measles--Scarlet fever--Scarlatina--
Typhoid fever--Various solutions--Boracic
acid solution--Normal salt solution--Carron oil--Thiersch's
solution--Solution of bichloride of mercury--How
to make various solutions 599

ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES

CHAPTER XXXIX

ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES

Accidents and emergencies--Contents of the family medicine
chest--Foreign bodies in the eye--Foreign bodies in the
ear--Foreign bodies in the nose--Foreign bodies in the
throat--A bruise or contusion--Wounds--Arrest of
hemorrhage--Removal of foreign bodies from a wound--Cleansing
a wound--Closing and dressing wounds--The
condition of shock--Dog bites--Sprains--Dislocations--Wounds
of the scalp--Run-around--Felon--Whitlow--Burns
and scalds 629

MISCELLANEOUS

CHAPTER XL

MISCELLANEOUS

The dangerous housefly--Diseases transmitted by flies--Homes
should be carefully screened and protected--The
breeding places of flies--Special care should be given to
stables, privy vaults, garbage, vacant lots, foodstuffs,
water fronts, drains--Precautions to be observed--How
to kill flies--Moths--What physicians are doing--Radium--X-Ray
treatment and X-Ray diagnosis--Aseptic surgery--New
anesthetics--Vaccine in typhoid fever--"606"--Transplanting
the organs of dead men into the living--Bacteria
that make soil barren or productive--Anti-meningitis
serum--A serum for malaria in sight 645

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ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES