Identifier: healthcareofgro00fisc (find matches)
Title: The health-care of the growing child;
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Fischer, Louis, 1864- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Child care Children
Publisher: New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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warm oil. No more or frequent handling of theseparts than is absolutely necessary should bedone because of the danger of starting thehabit of masturbation. Children who donot have a tendency to discharges, but whohave a dry mucous membrane, may not re-quire these genital baths more frequentlythan once a month. (83) Chapter XVIVACCINATION We vaccinate a child with virus takenfrom a cow and induce a disease which pro-tects the child against smallpox. Any onefamiliar with the history of the ravages ofsmallpox hef ore the introduction of vaccina-tion will remember the enormous mortalitywhich prevailed and the untold sufferingand pock-marks in those that recovered. Vaccination properly performed consistsin cleansing the skin so that no germs orfilth can enter the wound and contaminatethe virus used. It is better to leave thevaccination of a child to the physician. Nomother or nurse should undertake to vac-cinate the child. There is no danger invaccination if properly done, on the con- (84)
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Small-pox in an Unvaccinated Child. Vaccination with cow-pox would have prevented the above (Shamberg-). VACCINATION trary, there is only the assurance of pro-tection if an epidemic of smallpox shouldarise. During the active stage of the vaccinationthe child should be isolated as well as pos-sible from any one suffering from a conta-gious disease. The germs of erysipelas anddiphtheria readily enter a fresh vaccinationso that if any one is ill in the same house,it is better to postpone the vaccination un-til after the patient recovers. Five to seven days after inoculation, in-flammation or redness around the inoculatedarea will be noted. This is the naturalcourse of taking. If this redness spreadsand the skin is swollen and tense, the physi-cian will usually prescribe a cooling moistdressing of lead-water or a one per cent,boric acid solution. The inflamed surface iscovered with several layers of gauze satu-rated with one of these solutions until the (85) HEALTH-CAKE OF THE GROWING CHI

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