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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
CHAPTER XXXIV
COMMON DISEASES OF THE NOSE, MOUTH, AND CHEST
"Catching Cold"--Sitting on the Floor--Kicking the Bed Clothes
Off--Inadequate Head Covering--Subjecting Baby to Different
Temperatures Suddenly--Wearing Rubbers--Direct Infection--Acute
Nasal Catarrh--Acute Coryza--Acute Rhinitis--"Cold in the
Head"--"Snuffles"--Treatment of Acute Nasal Catarrh, or Rhinitis, or
Coryza, or "Cold in the Head," or "Snuffles"--Chronic Nasal

Catarrh--Chronic Rhinitis--Chronic Discharge from the Nose--Nervous
or Persistent Cough--Adenoids as a Cause of Persistent
Cough--Croup--Acute Catarrhal Laryngitis--Spasmodic Croup--False
Croup--Tonsilitis--Angina--Sore Throat--Symptoms of
Tonsilitis--Treatment of Tonsilitis--Bronchitis in Infants--Bronchitis in
Older Children--"Don'ts" in Bronchitis--Diet in Bronchitis--Inhalations
in Bronchitis--External Applications in Bronchitis--Drugs in
Bronchitis--Chronic or Recurrent Bronchitis--Pneumonia--Acute
Broncho-pneumonia--Symptoms of Broncho-pneumonia--How to Tell
When a Child has Broncho-pneumonia--Treatment of
Broncho-pneumonia--The After-treatment of
Broncho-pneumonia--Adenoids--How to Tell When a Child has
Adenoids--Treatment of Adenoids--Nasal
Hemorrhage--"Nose-bleeds"--Treatment of
Nose-bleeds--Quinsy--Hiccough--Sore Mouth--Stomatitis--Treatment
of Ulcers of the Mouth--Sprue--Thrush.
"CATCHING COLDS"
Mothers frequently wonder where their children get colds. Briefly we
will point out some of the sources from which these apparently
inexplicable colds may come.
A. Sitting on the Floor.--Children should not be allowed to sit or crawl
upon the floor at any season of the year, but especially during the
winter months. There is always a draught of cold air near the floor. It is
a bad habit to begin allowing a child to play with its toys on the floor.
Use the bed or a sofa or a platform raised a foot from the floor.
B. Kicking the Bed Clothes Off During the Night.--The bed clothes
should be securely pinned to the mattress by large safety pins. When it
is established as a habit a child who kicks off the bed clothes should
wear a combination night suit with "feet," made of flannel during the
winter and of cotton during the summer.
C. Inadequate Head Covering.--Professor Kerley states that this is one
of the "most frequent causes of disease of the respiratory tract in the
young." He calls attention to the fact that "mothers carefully clothe the

baby with ample coats, blankets, leggings, etc., before they take him
out for the daily walk. They dress him in a warm room taking plenty of
time to put on the extra clothes, during which time the baby frets and
perspires. When all is ready they place upon the hot, almost bald head
of the baby a light artistically decorated airy creation which is sold in
the shops as children's caps. The child is then taken out of doors and
because of the inadequate covering of the hot perspiring head, catches
cold and the mother never knows how it came." Every baby and child
should wear under such caps a skull cap of thin flannel, especially in
cold weather. In summer or windy day a light silk handkerchief folded
under the cap is a very excellent protection.
D. Subjecting a Baby to Different Temperatures Suddenly, is liable to
be followed by a cold--for example, taking the child from a warm room
to a cold room, or through a cold hall, holding the child at an open
window for a few moments.
E. The Practice of Wearing Rubbers Needs Some Consideration.--They
should never be worn indoors for even five minutes. They should not
therefore be kept on in school, nor should they be worn by women in
stores when they go shopping. When it is actually raining, or snowing,
or when there is slush or wet mud they are needful; but they should not
be worn simply because the weather is threatening or damp. Children
should not put them on to play--worn for any length of time when
active they are harmful. If worn to and from school they should be
taken off at once when in school or at home. Wearing rubbers prevents
free evaporation of the natural secretion of the skin, keeps the feet
moist and invites colds and catarrh. In damp weather, or when children
play during winter months, they should be shod with stout shoes with
cork insoles.
The same argument applies to storm coats of rubber, water-proof
material. They should not be worn as overcoats all day, but only when
going to and from school or business when it is actually storming.
Underclothing or hosiery should not be heavy enough