self?

2. What is meant by a habit-forming drug? Name all you can, and tell why
they are peculiarly dangerous.

3. What are the special objections to patent medicines?

4. What precautions should be taken in order to administer medicine
accurately? What precautions to avoid giving wrong medicines?

5. How may some disagreeable medicines be made more palatable?

6. Tell how to prepare and give a soapsuds enema.

7. How should a fountain syringe be cared for? a throat spray?

8. Describe methods for giving steam inhalations.

9. Describe the equipment and care of a household medicine cupboard.

10. What drugs is it well for a family to keep on hand? What appliances?
What materials for first aid?

11. How many drugs in addition to those prescribed by a physician have
you or your family on hand at the present time? How many do you consider
really necessary? Are any of these medicines used to remedy troubles
that might be cured by sufficient attention to rest, exercise, diet, and
fresh air?

FOR FURTHER READING

Health and Disease--Roger I. Lee, Chapter VI.

How to Live--Fisher and Fisk, Supplementary Notes, Sections IV, V.

Scientific Features of Modern Medicine--Frederic S. Lee, Chapters III,
VIII.

The Human Mechanism--Hough and Sedgwick, Chapter XX.

The Conquest of Nerves--Courtney.

Primitive Psychotherapy and Quackery--Lawrence, Chapters I-V.

Nostrums and Quackery--American Medical Association. (See especially
"Cancer Cures" and "Consumption Cures.")

FOOTNOTES:

[2] See "Nostrums and Quackery," p. 445.

CHAPTER XI

APPLICATION OF HEAT, COLD, AND COUNTER-IRRITANTS

INFLAMMATION.--A process called inflammation sometimes occurs in tissues
that have been injured or invaded by bacteria. Although painful, it is
nevertheless one of the reparative processes of the body, and therefore
beneficial. Common examples of inflammation are boils, sore throat, and
the swollen, painful condition resulting from sprains and fractures.
Characteristic symptoms of inflammation are heat, redness, swelling, and
pain.

When a tissue has been invaded by bacteria, nearby blood vessels dilate,
thus bringing an increased supply of blood to the affected part. This
extra supply serves to wash away the offending substance, and at the
same time it brings more white blood corpuscles, one function of which
is to destroy bacteria. From the increased supply of blood the affected
part becomes red and hot, and so