Magnesium citrate, use of, 33 oxid, uses of, 33 sulphate, uses of, 33 Marshall Hall’s method of artificial respiration, 126 Massage, 132 Matches, poisoning by, 47 Materia medica, glossary of, 13 Matted hair, 59 Mayonnaise dressing, how to make, 155 Measles, nursing in 84 Measures, 17 Mechanotherapy, 132 Medicinal preparations, popular and official names of, 16 Medicines, proper time to take, 43 Membranes, fetal, 173 Menses, suppression of, 175 Menstruation, 175 Mercury, action and uses of, 33 poisoning, antidotes for, 35 Metric weights and measures, table of, 18, 19, 21 Milk, 145 albumin, 70 as antidote, 48 homogenized, 69 Milk, how to peptonize, 147 to sterilize, 67 modified, 68 mothers’, constituents of, 64 regulating composition of, 64 pasteurizing of, 67 peptonized, 71 punch, how to make, 152 sherbet, 161 skimmed, 69 soup with vegetables, 157 teeth, eruption of, 77 Mineral acids, diluted, as antidotes, 48 poisoning by, antidotes for, 45 salts, 143 value of, 145 Modified milk, 68 Morning sickness, 175 Morphin poisoning, antidotes for, 36, 47 Mosquitoes, relief from, 202 Mother’s milk, constituents of, 64 regulating the composition of, 64 Mouth and skin in fevers, care of, 93 wash, 96 Mucilaginous substances as antidotes, 48 Mucus-coated mouth, formula for, 96 Muffins, barley and corn, 163 rice and oats, 165 Multiple fracture, 122 Mumps, nursing in, 192 Mushroom poisoning, antidotes for, 47 Mustard pack, 196 plaster, formula for, 56 poultice, formula for, 57 Mutton, boiled, 158 Nephritis, 198 Nipple ointment, 52 Nipples, care of, after labor, 185 in pregnancy, 182 cracked, aristol ointment for, 52 sore, solution for, 52 Nitrate of silver, poisoning by, 47 stains, 47 time to take, 43 Nitroglycerin, action and uses of, 35 Normal salt solution, formula for, 49 urine, 62 Nose-bleed, 122 Nourishing enema, formula for, 55 Numerals, Roman, 15 Nursing child, conditions under which it should not nurse, 185 in acute fevers, 79 in diphtheria, 85 in measles, 84 in pneumonia, 82 in scarlet fever, 83 the baby, 187 Nut bread, 164 Nutrition in disease, 168 Nutritive enema, 55 method of administering, 56 Nux vomica, action and uses of, 36 poisoning, 47