Rules to be observed in the treatment of contagious diseases-- What isolation means--The contagious sick room--Conduct and dress of the nurse--Feeding the patient and nurse--How to disinfect the clothing and linen--How to disinfect the urine and feces--How to disinfect the hands--Disinfection of the room necessary--How to disinfect the mouth and nose--How to disinfect the throat--Receptacle for the sputum--Care of the skin in contagious diseases--Convalescence after a contagious disease--Disinfecting the sick chamber--The after treatment of a disinfected room--How to disinfect the bed clothing and clothes--Mumps--Epidemic parotitis--Chicken pox-- Varicella--La Grippe--Influenza--Diphtheria--Whooping Cough--Pertussis--Measles--Koplik's spots--Department of health rules in measles--Scarlet fever--Scarlatina-- Typhoid fever--Various solutions--Boracic acid solution--Normal salt solution--Carron oil--Thiersch's solution--Solution of bichloride of mercury--How to make various solutions 599 ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES CHAPTER XXXIX ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES Accidents and emergencies--Contents of the family medicine chest--Foreign bodies in the eye--Foreign bodies in the ear--Foreign bodies in the nose--Foreign bodies in the throat--A bruise or contusion--Wounds--Arrest of hemorrhage--Removal of foreign bodies from a wound--Cleansing a wound--Closing and dressing wounds--The condition of shock--Dog bites--Sprains--Dislocations--Wounds of the scalp--Run-around--Felon--Whitlow--Burns and scalds 629 MISCELLANEOUS CHAPTER XL MISCELLANEOUS The dangerous housefly--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 645 * * * * * ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES CHAPTER XXXIV COMMON DISEASES OF THE NOSE, MOUTH, AND CHEST