is spread on a cloth and applied directly to the
injured part, bound securely on and renewed every day until the wound is
healed. If Unguentine is not readily obtainable the part may be covered
with any of the following mixtures or oils: carbolated vaseline, equal
parts of linseed oil and lime water, olive oil, castor oil or kerosene,
cloths soaked in a solution of baking soda, or a solution of phenol
sodique.

In severe burns or scalds the mother should not attempt to treat the
child. A physician should be summoned at once. The child may be given a
little whisky or brandy in warm water, and if the pain is great a dose
of laudanum may be given. The dose of laudanum is one drop for each year
of life. If the child has a chill he may be put into a warm bath of
100 deg.F. It is not wise to cut a burn blister. The water may be let out by
puncturing with a sterile needle, but the skin must be left intact until
the new skin is grown. The treatment of burns must be done with the
greatest cleanliness because if infected with germs they may prove
serious.

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MISCELLANEOUS

CHAPTER XL

MISCELLANEOUS

The Dangerous House Fly--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.

THE DANGEROUS HOUSE FLY

Mothers should become thoroughly acquainted with the grave consequences
which may result from fly-infected foods, and from the possible carriage
of disease by means of flies, even where foods are carefully protected.
The transmission of the following diseases by means of flies has been
conclusively proven: typhoid fever, tuberculosis, cholera, Oriental
plague, inflammation of the eyelids, serious infection of wounds. Summer
diarrhea of children is also transmitted in this way.

Typhoid fever and summer diarrhea of children in this country, and
cholera and Oriental plague in the countries in which those diseases
exist, may be transmitted through the various foods t