ntitoxin.

PNEUMONIA

Pneumonia is always a serious disease. It is accompanied by high
fever, painful, very short cough, and rapid breathing with a moving in
and out of the edges of the nose as well as the spaces between the
ribs. The possibilities of complications are always great--the dangers
are many--so that the combined watchfulness of both the mother and a
proficient trained nurse are required; not to mention the skill of the
physician.

The steam tent, the mustard paste, the oil-silk jacket and the colonic
flushing (described earlier in this chapter) may all be asked for by
the physician in his untiring efforts to prevent dangerous
complications during the course of the disease.

Plenty of moderately cool, fresh air (without drafts) is of great
benefit. Never allow blue finger tips, or cold ear tips to exist; send
at once for the doctor and administer a hot bath, or wrap in a sheet
dipped in hot mustard water while awaiting his arrival. No mother
should think of attempting to carry her baby through an attack of
bronchitis or pneumonia without the best medical help available.

CHAPTER XXX

THE NERVOUS CHILD

While each child possesses an individuality all its own, nevertheless,
there are certain general principles of psychologic conduct and family
discipline which are more or less applicable to all children. The
so-called nervous child, in addition to the usual methods of child
culture, stands in need of special attention as concerns its early
discipline and training. This chapter will, therefore, be devoted to
special suggestions with regard to the management and training of
those children who are by heredity predisposed to nervousness,
over-excitability, and who possess but a minimum of self-control.

HEREDITARY NERVOUSNESS

The so-called nervous child--all things equal--is the child who is
born into the world with an unbalanced or inefficiently controlled
nervous system; and while it is all too true that the common nursery
methods of "spoiling the child" are often equally to blame with
heredity for the production of an erratic disposition and an
uncontrolled temper, nevertheless, it is now generally recognized that
the foundation of the difficulties of the nervous child reaches back
into its immediate and remote ancestral heredity.

I no longer doubt but that many of these babies with a bad nervous
heredity, who are born predisposed to Saint Vitus' dance, bad temper,
chronic worry, neu