a wound--Closing and dressing wounds--The
condition of shock--Dog bites--Sprains--Dislocations--Wounds
of the scalp--Run-around--Felon--Whitlow--Burns
and scalds 629

MISCELLANEOUS

CHAPTER XL

MISCELLANEOUS

The dangerous housefly--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 645

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ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES

CHAPTER XXXIV

COMMON DISEASES OF THE NOSE, MOUTH, AND CHEST

"Catching Cold"--Sitting on the Floor--Kicking the Bed Clothes
Off--Inadequate Head Covering--Subjecting Baby to Different
Temperatures Suddenly--Wearing Rubbers--Direct Infection--Acute
Nasal Catarrh--Acute Coryza--Acute Rhinitis--"Cold in the
Head"--"Snuffles"--Treatment of Acute Nasal Catarrh, or Rhinitis,
or Coryza, or "Cold in the Head," or "Snuffles"--Chronic Nasal
Catarrh--Chronic Rhinitis--Chronic Discharge from the Nose--Nervous
or Persistent Cough--Adenoids as a Cause of Persistent
Cough--Croup--Acute Catarrhal Laryngitis--Spasmodic Croup--False
Croup--Tonsilitis--Angina--Sore Throat--Symptoms of
Tonsilitis--Treatment of Tonsilitis--Bronchitis in
Infants--Bronchitis in Older Children--"Don'ts" in Bronchitis--Diet
in Bronchitis--Inhalations in Bronchitis--External Applications in
Bronchitis--Drugs in Bronchitis--Chronic or Recurrent
Bronchitis--Pneumonia--Acute Broncho-pneumonia--Symptoms of
Broncho-pneumonia--How to Tell When a Child has
Broncho-pneumonia--Treatment of Broncho-pneumonia--The
After-treatment of Broncho-pneumonia--Adenoids--How to Tell When a
Child has Adenoids--Treatment of Adenoids--Nasal
Hemorrhage--"Nose-bleeds"--Treatment of
Nose-bleeds--Quinsy--Hiccough--Sore Mouth--Stomatitis--Treatment of
Ulcers of the Mouth--Sprue--Thrush.

"CATCHING COLDS"

Mothers frequently wonder where their children get colds. Briefly we
will point out some of the so