rst Blight

This is one of those truly unfortunate cases which, so far as present
knowledge goes, cannot be guarded against. Eunice, age 31, mentally 2,
is a low-grade imbecile. There is not in the whole family, for
generations back, a single case of feeble-mindedness, nor of disease
that would undermine the nervous organization. Close scrutiny does not
reveal a single assignable cause. She came, as an accident, to blight an
otherwise normal family.

Such cases are few, but unfortunately they do occur. It is for Eugenics
to materially reduce the possibility of such occurrences.

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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.

RULES TO BE OBSERVED IN THE TREATMENT OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES

Every mother should know the elementary principles involved in the
treatment of contagious diseases. They are contagious because they may
be conveyed from one individual to another or because a person nursing a
victim of a contagious disease may carry that disease to another person
without having the disease herself. For this reason, certain rules have
been established by the medical profession, which experience has taught
are necessary in order to preserve the health of the community when such
diseases are prevalent.

The very first rule to which the physician will direct the mother's
attention, when there is a contagious disease, will be that the child
must be "isolated."

What Isolation Means