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is spread on a cloth and applied directly to the injured part, bound securely on and renewed every day until the wound is healed. If Unguentine is not readily obtainable the part may be covered with any of the following mixtures or oils: carbolated vaseline, equal parts of linseed oil and lime water, olive oil, castor oil or kerosene, cloths soaked in a solution of baking soda, or a solution of phenol sodique. In severe burns or scalds the mother should not attempt to treat the child. A physician should be summoned at once. The child may be given a little whisky or brandy in warm water, and if the pain is great a dose of laudanum may be given. The dose of laudanum is one drop for each year of life. If the child has a chill he may be put into a warm bath of 100 deg.F. It is not wise to cut a burn blister. The water may be let out by puncturing with a sterile needle, but the skin must be left intact until the new skin is grown. The treatment of burns must be done with the greatest cleanliness because if infected with germs they may prove serious. * * * * * MISCELLANEOUS CHAPTER XL MISCELLANEOUS The Dangerous House Fly--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. THE DANGEROUS HOUSE FLY Mothers should become thoroughly acquainted with the grave consequences which may result from fly-infected foods, and from the possible carriage of disease by means of flies, even where foods are carefully protected. The transmission of the following diseases by means of flies has been conclusively proven: typhoid fever, tuberculosis, cholera, Oriental plague, inflammation of the eyelids, serious infection of wounds. Summer diarrhea of children is also transmitted in this way. Typhoid fever and summer diarrhea of children in this country, and cholera and Oriental plague in the countries in which those diseases exist, may be transmitted through the various foods t
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