blood which is brought to the skin
by the friction, readily reduces the fever. Another procedure which
may be employed if the fever registers high is the wet-sheet pack
which is administered as follows:

Three thicknesses of wool blankets are placed on the bed and a sheet
as long as the baby and just enough to wrap around him once, is wrung
out of cool water and spread over these blankets. With a hot-water
bottle to the feet, the child is then laid down in the wet sheet which
is now brought in contact with every portion of his body, then the
blankets are quickly brought around, and he is allowed to warm up the
sheet--which lowers his temperature.

Another valuable procedure is the cooling enema. Water the same
temperature as that of the body, is allowed to enter the bowel and is
then quickly cooled down to 90 or 85 F.; in this manner much heat is
taken out of the body and the fever quickly reduced. (For further
treatment of fevers see Appendix.)

CHAPTER XXVI

BABY'S SICK ROOM

Visitors should never be allowed in the sick room during the height of
a disease, and during convalescence not more than one visitor should
be allowed at one time, and the visit then should be only two or three
minutes in length. The order and the quietness and the system of the
sick room should be perfect. Visitors and loitering members of the
family do no good and they may do much harm to the recuperating
nervous system of the child.

LOCATION OF THE SICK ROOM

In these days of high rents, we realize that the greater per cent of
our readers are living in apartments and homes just big enough
conveniently to care for the family during health, and while it would
be pleasant and convenient to have a spare room or an attic chamber
that could be used in case of illness, it is the exception rather than
the rule that the families to whom sickness comes have these extra
apartments. When a contagious or an infectious disease comes to the
family, it is of great importance that the sick child be isolated,
preferably on another floor, from that used by the immediate family.

Those living in homes, more than likely can fix up a room on the attic
floor for the isolation, and those living in apartments may put the
sick child in one end of the apartment, while they inhabit the other
end. One family under my observation not long ago had a child stricken
with the measles. In the same apartment there lived a puny baby not
quite two years old.