Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-30

end to any danger in the case, provided
there is no sudden change of tempera-
ture to chill the PATIENTS body. All
the ar should be pure and fresh con-
tinually.
All chills are detrimental and any
improperly of diet las by eating
meats or fats or drinking any alcoholic
drinks are more to be deprecated and
feared than any other condition at
the time.
Coffee, tea, chocolate or cocoa should
never be allowed while there is any
stage of the disease adhering to the
system.
MuShes or pudding of corn meal: or
OF wheaton germs: or of oat meal; or
of the graham may be allowed as soon
as the appetite returns.
No food should be stuffed down the
patient unless there is an appetite for
it.
Mint, Juniper berries, Queen of the
Meadow. and cleaverS can be used in
suppression of the urine.
Packs over the body are of the
utmost value if rightly put on.
Warm baths are facilitating but
may be used at first to obtain a clean
condition of filthy skin.
The cold hand bath is the best as
long us possible; but should never be
given unless the patient is warm and
| feyerish. DO not battle in any water
when there are chillS. 1t is important
to remember this. But when the
patient is warm then any amount OF
! bathing cannot hurt the case.
Washing in any condition of fever is
all right and always beneficial to the
bodies of smallpox patients.
| Give no medicine and do not dis
turb patients while they are doing
well. Allow no starch food.
DO not give any medicine whatever.
of any poisonous nature.
Keep the room perfectly free from
all smells and do not allow any kero-
Sene lamp to come into the room to
| Stay for a moment. Burn ,rur candles.
Or, what are called the Spe,ntaceta can
dies.
Nerer allou q smallpor patient to read
by q lamp.
In cases where there is thought to
be any danger of pitting (but there
never will be any danger of pitting
unless the patient is an excessive
eater of meat, you can have the face
packed with cold water in soft cloths
which will be grateful and of the most
benefit to the body as well.
The face can be packed until it be-
comes warm and then wash off care
fully and pack again.
When it is desired, the face and
under the arms or any place on the
body can be washed off in ,culm soap
suds and water.
IllJf hp f.3rpfu1 nf a11OwinU all tho
body to be washed in warm water and
be careful of the use of soap, since it
will leave the skin in weakened con-
dition after the washing is over.
1t will do to wash once or twice but
in case this is done very frequently,
there will be a weakening to the parts
which are washed with this soap and
warm water. Discretion should be
made and these facts should be con-
sidered.
In all stages there is danger of send
ing OIL the germs from the body or
from the breath. Keep the patient
isolated for two weeks after there is
the last Sealing" or Peeling off.
Every nurse and doctor should re-
frain from all other visits until after
the case is well and thoroughly disin-
fected. This will not be until fifteen
days have elapsed after the case.
All garments and bedclothing
should be burned up.
Fumigate the room with sulphur
for four or five days. Tear off all the
paper and paint the walls after having
fumigated them.
Sulphur. tar and carbolic acid are
the best fumigating agents.