Hygiene of the Nursery1898 - 293 pages |
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Page 50
... sufficient distance to conceal completely the mercury . Here it is allowed to remain for five minutes by the watch , and on being removed the degree of temperature is read from the top of the index . The position of the patient in the ...
... sufficient distance to conceal completely the mercury . Here it is allowed to remain for five minutes by the watch , and on being removed the degree of temperature is read from the top of the index . The position of the patient in the ...
Page 54
... sufficient to cause wide opening of the mouth . An older child will frequently open the mouth when requested , but if he refuses , the finger , or , far better , the handle of a spoon , or some other smooth , flat instrument , may be ...
... sufficient to cause wide opening of the mouth . An older child will frequently open the mouth when requested , but if he refuses , the finger , or , far better , the handle of a spoon , or some other smooth , flat instrument , may be ...
Page 58
... sufficient to interfere with the child's appetite , good humor or sleep , and when , after a few days , the margin of the tooth is free , all the local symptoms vanish . Examples of Variations . - Abnormal dentition is manifested either ...
... sufficient to interfere with the child's appetite , good humor or sleep , and when , after a few days , the margin of the tooth is free , all the local symptoms vanish . Examples of Variations . - Abnormal dentition is manifested either ...
Page 73
... windows so closely fitting that they prevent the entrance of fresh air to supply the place of that so removed . Should this not prove sufficient , one of the windows may be utilized , the upper sash being slightly THE NURSERY . 73.
... windows so closely fitting that they prevent the entrance of fresh air to supply the place of that so removed . Should this not prove sufficient , one of the windows may be utilized , the upper sash being slightly THE NURSERY . 73.
Page 74
... sufficient to allow of the entrance and exit of air , but not enough to cause a current or draught in the room . When the rooms are heated by a furnace or stove , some permanent ventilator must be used . For the egress of foul air an ...
... sufficient to allow of the entrance and exit of air , but not enough to cause a current or draught in the room . When the rooms are heated by a furnace or stove , some permanent ventilator must be used . For the egress of foul air an ...
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Page 7 - Edited by Louis Starr, MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia.
Page 6 - STARR. The Digestive Organs in Childhood. The Diseases of the Digestive Organs in Infancy and Childhood. With Chapters on the Investigation of Disease and the Management of Children, 2d Edition, Enlarged.
Page 209 - The cows were milked at the unusual and abnormal hours of midnight and noon, and the noon's milking— that which alone was followed by illness— was placed, while hot, in the cans, and then, without any attempt at cooling, carted eight miles during the warmest part of the day in a very hot month.
Page 206 - Cows must not be allowed to drink stagnant water ; but must have free access to pure, fresh water. 4. Cows must not be heated or worried before being milked. 5. The pasture must be free from noxious weeds, and the barn and yard must be kept clean. 6. The udders should be washed, if at all dirty, before the milking.
Page 7 - The Hygiene of the Nursery. Including the General Regimen and Feeding of Infants and Children, and the Domestic Management of the Ordinary Emergencies of Early Life, Massage, etc.
Page 183 - For each portion ; to be given every two hours ; amounting to thirty fluidounces per diem. Diet from the beginning of the third month to the sixth month : — Milk 5 tablespoonfuls. Cream I tablespoonful.
Page 223 - ... and tie a piece of cloth over the top. Place the jar in a pot half full of boiling water, and keep the pot on the fire for four hours, simmering.
Page 120 - One cannot too soon begin to form the good habit of regularity in sleeping hours, and so far as circumstances will admit, the following rules may be enforced: — From birth to the end of the sixth or eighth month, the infant must sleep from...
Page 184 - ... hard and dry, it having been baked by the long-continued heat. This hard mass may be used for infant feeding in the latter part of the first year, but it should not be given more than twice a day. The flour ball is grated fine, and it may then be prepared, according to Starr's rule, as follows: " Rub one teaspoonful of the powder with a tablespoonful of milk into a smooth paste, then add a second tablespoonful of milk, constantly rubbing until a cream-like mixture is obtained. Pour this into...
Page 207 - ... ice water, the water being of the same depth as the milk in the can. It would be well if the water in the tank could be kept flowing, indeed this will be necessary unless ice water is nsed.