e and heat prostration, and tell what
treatment should be given in each case.

8. What are the two principal dangers from slight wounds, and how should
one guard against them? Show how you would dress a small cut.

9. What should you do for a person with nose bleed?

FOR FURTHER READING

American National Red Cross Text Book on First Aid--Lynch.

Immediate Care of the Injured--Morrow.

Prompt Aid to the Injured--Doty.

CHAPTER XIV

SPECIAL POINTS IN THE CARE OF CHILDREN, CONVALESCENTS, CHRONICS, AND THE
AGED

In many cases of sickness institutional care has marked advantages. It
may be the only solution when adequate provision for the sick is
impossible at home; and it is often a necessity when a patient requires
special equipment or apparatus, expert nursing, and medical attention
within reach both day and night.

On the other hand, it would not be desirable even if it were possible
for all sick persons to be cared for in institutions. Care at home when
it is adequate may be more successful than equally skillful care given
elsewhere, since the sick quite as much as the well are injured by long
separation from normal family life. Most children, because they need the
attention of their own mothers, most convalescent and chronic patients,
and most aged persons are cared for at home; and in the great majority
of cases no better place for them could be found. Since patients of
these four groups have needs peculiar to themselves, some special
points in caring for them are considered in this chapter.

CHILDREN

Ability to observe quickly and accurately is seldom more needed than it
is by a woman who cares for children. No one expects babies to explain
their troubles, but people forget that small children are unable to
describe their physical sensations with any degree of accuracy, although
discomfort or sickness may show itself in all degrees of ill temper and
bad conduct. For these exhibitions many a suffering child has been
punished, where an older and more articulate person would have received
considerate attention.

Children, like babies, have a low resistance to disease. Moreover, they
react quickly both to favorable and to unfavorable surroundings. Hence
slight causes sometimes produce pronounced or even violent symptoms in
children without giving cause for great anxiety, although the same
symptoms if exhibited by adults, might indicate critical illness. On the
other hand the recuperative po