American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the SickAmerican National Red Cross
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American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick
American National Red Cross
Home nursing; Hygiene; Nurses; Nursing
U
Urine, 103
V
Vaccination, 13, 25
Ventilation, 29, 123
Vomiting, 265
W
Water, 49
filtration, 50
Weaning, 75
Weight, 65
loss of, 64
Whooping cough, 246
Wounds, 272
[Transcriber's Note:
Punctuation errors (e.g. missing period at end of sentence, missing
quotation marks, etc.) and letters printed upside down have been
corrected without note. Except where noted, inconsistencies in
hyphenation, capitalization, and spelling (e.g. travelling and
traveling) have not been changed. The original index had numerous
errors, such as references to terms that do not appear in the text.
Except where noted below, it has been left as printed.
The following corrections were made:
p. viii: Records, 105. to Records, 107. (under Chapter IV)
p. ix: Care of the Patients with Communicable Diseases to Care of
Patients with Communicable Diseases (under Chapter XII)
p. ix: Care of liver, 251. to Care of linen, 251. (under Chapter XII)
p. 15: innoculation to inoculation (Vaccination and inoculation have
saved thousands of lives.)
p. 16: principle to principal (principal causes which diminish
resistance), to match cited text
p. 37: gerns to germs (through which disease germs)
p. 40: From "_The Human Mechanism_." to _From "The Human Mechanism."_
(to match format of other captions)
p. 41: perferably to preferably (preferably, chloride of lime.)
p. 77: runnnig to running (thoroughly cleansed under running water)
p. 82: symptons to symptoms (other symptoms of distress)
p. 96: thay to they (taken together they are)
p. 108: 8:30 to 8:30 a.m.
p. 111: develope to develop (may develop into cancer)
p. 115: missing degree symbol added (At noon his temperature was 101°)
p. 132: illnes to illness (unless his illness is slight)
p. 136: servicable to serviceable (makes a serviceable cover)
p. 150: paitent to patient (ready for the patient.)
p. 150-151: removed duplication of text in captions for Fig. 14 and Fig.
15 (CHANGING THE DRAW SHEET, and CHANGING A PATIENT FROM ONE BED TO
ANOTHER)
p. 161: erroneous italics removed from "patient" and "her" (even a
patient unable to sit up can brush her teeth)
p. 167: added missing "bath" (to give a cool sponge bath)
p. 175: ahould to should (the protection of the abdomen should)
p. 177: expecially to especially (if it is especially difficult or
undesirable)
p. 177: patients' to patient's (between the patient's back and the pan;)
p. 178: deoderant to deodorant (a properly kept pan needs no deodorant)
p. 183: invarably to invariably (casual visitors almost invariably
offend)
p. 189: nurtients to nutrients (pancreatic juice acts upon all three
nutrients)
p. 195: solied to soiled (is always superior to soiled linen.)
p. 205: appy to apply (apply even more strongly to using patent
medicines.)
p. 211: 166 to 176 (the directions on page 176.)
p. 216: selzer to seltzer (seltzer aperient)
p. 226: slighest to slightest (there is the slightest possibility of
scalding)
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