rniture
must be taken out of the sick room that is not absolutely essential in
the care of the case. If toys are allowed they should be burned as soon
as the child is tired of them, never left around the house after the
case is over. The room should be a large one and it should be thoroughly
aired each day. The floor should be washed each day with a solution of
bichloride of mercury, and all dusting should be done with a wet cloth.
The bed linen and any rags or handkerchiefs used should be treated as in
scarlet fever. All vessels in which the patient expectorates should have
an antiseptic in them. The room must be disinfected after the case is
over.

The patient must be kept in bed during the entire attack. He must not be
allowed to even sit up in bed until the physician gives him permission.
This is a very important essential in the treatment of this disease, and
the nurse must be held responsible for the conduct of the patient in
this respect. Because of the character of the poison, there is a
tendency to paralysis of the heart, and frequently children have been
allowed to sit up too soon only to fall back dead in bed. The same thing
has occurred later in the disease when children have been allowed to
play too heartily before the poison had an opportunity to completely
eliminate itself. Nursing children should be fed on breast milk pumped
from the mother, but they must not nurse it themselves. Older children
can take milk and should depend upon it mostly. The physician will give
any other special directions that he may think necessary, the duty of
the mother being to see that they are faithfully carried out.

WHOOPING-COUGH

Whooping-cough is usually seen in young children. It may, however,
affect a person at any age. It is contagious. During infancy it is one
of the most fatal diseases. During adult life it is a dangerous
condition, while in childhood it is simply regarded as a mildly
contagious disease.

It is most contagious during the catarrhal stage,--the first ten days.
Children suffering from whooping-cough should not be allowed to mix or
play with other children for two months. After an exposure to the
disease it takes about fourteen days for a case to develop. The danger
of whooping-cough is the tendency to develop pneumonia or bronchitis.

Symptoms.--During the first ten days the child acts as if suffering
from an ordinary catarrhal cold with cough. This is called the catarrhal
stage. There is no way