and tissues
over which the glass is placed. The edges of the cup must not be warm
enough to burn the patient. Six or seven cups may be applied at one time
and allowed to remain five minutes, after which they are removed by
pressing the flesh around the edge and inserting the finger there so as to
let in the air.

Linseed meal poultices can be applied afterwards to keep up the work
begun.

Wet cupping.--Scrub the skin with hot water and soap, wash off with a five
per cent (1-20) carbolic acid solution. Make a few cuts over the parts
desired with a clean knife and apply the cup prepared in the way above
directed. Remove the blood and check the bleeding, if necessary, by
sponging. Place a pad on the part and hold this in place by a bandage or
adhesive strap.

Blistered Skin. To dress.--Puncture the lower part with a clean instrument
and catch the fluid on absorbent cotton. Dress it with oxide of zinc
ointment or vaselin on lint or clean linen and strap on. It is best not to
remove the skin from a blister at the first dressing.

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HOW TO DETERMINE THE DOSE FOR CHILDREN.

We have endeavored to always give the dose throughout this book as we
recognized the lack of accurate and detailed information regarding the
administering of medicines as one of the weak features in practically all
home medical books. If we have overlooked a few instances we wish to
provide for such omissions by giving the table of doses generally used by
nurses as a basis for determining the dose of any medicine she may be
using for a particular age.

Rule usually followed.--For children under twelve years of age. Make a
fraction. Use the age of the child for the upper number, numerator. The
number below the line, denominator, is twelve, added to the age of the
child. For example: If your child is two years old you would begin by
placing two as numerator, thus 2/, then you add 2 + 12 = 14 and place 14
below the line and you have 2/14 or 1/7. You then take 1/7 of the adult
dose for your two-year-old child. If the dose for an adult is 21 drops, a
child of two years is given 3 drops, etc.

DOSE IN DROPS FOR DIFFERENT AGES.

If the dose is a spoonful or 60 drops for an adult, the other doses would
be correct for the ages given below:

21 and over 60 drops
15 years about 33 drops A few more or less if robust or weakly
12 " " 30 drops "
10 " " 27 drops "