The Mother And Her Child Part 64

Eight years.

Weight 54 pounds Height 48 inches Chest 24 inches

Nine years.

Weight 60 pounds Height 50 inches Chest 25 inches

Ten years.

Weight 66 pounds Height 52 inches Chest 26 inches

[D] Weights for the first four years are without clothes, after that with ordinary house clothes.

The weight of girls is on the average about one pound less than boys.

They are about the same in height.

ICHTHYOL SUPPOSITORIES

Ichthyol 5 per cent Cocoa b.u.t.ter q. s. ad. to make 24 suppositories.

Sig. Use one suppository in the r.e.c.t.u.m each evening for hemorrhoids.

OIL ENEMA

The best way to administer an oil enema is by means of a special enema can which holds one pint, to which is attached a rubber tube. It is wise not to use an ordinary fountain syringe as the oil spoils the rubber very quickly. This oil is allowed to flow in slowly, under low pressure, and should be retained over night. Any oil is acceptable, the cheaper sweet oils will serve just as well as olive oil.

TABLE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Disease.

Incubation lasts-- Date of characteristic symptom from beginning of invasion.

Characteristic symptom.

Other princ.i.p.al symptoms.

Whole duration of disease from onset.

Quarantine lasts from onset.

Typhoid fever.

7 to 10 days.

7th or 8th day.

Rose-red, slightly elevated spots.

Apathy; diarrhoea; nosebleed; headache.

2 to 4 weeks.

While disease lasts.

Scarlet fever.

1 to 7 days.

1st or 2d day.

Intense, bright-red blush over body.

Sore throat; often vomiting with onset.

7 to 9 days or more (not including desquamation).

6 weeks.

Measles.

10 to 11 days.

4th day.

Dusky or purplish-red, slightly elevated spots, scattered and in characteristic groupings.

Cold in head; running eyes; cough; hoa.r.s.eness.

7 to 8 days.

3 weeks.

German measles.

7 to 21 days.

1st day.

Pale, rose-red spots or uniform blush; no characteristic groupings.

Slight sore throat; sometimes slight running of eyes and nose.

3 to 4 days.

3 weeks.

Chicken-pox.

13 to 17 days.

1st day.

Pea-sized, scattered vesicles.

None; or slight fever.

A week or less.

3 to 4 weeks.

Varioloid (Variola).

7 to 12 days.

3d day (may be 1st or 2d).

Red, elevated papules; then vesicles; then often pustules.

Headache; backache; vomiting.

About 14 days.

4 to 8 weeks.

Vaccinia (Vaccination).

1 to 3 days.

1st day (3d after vaccination).

A red papule, becoming a vesicle and then a pustule; surrounded by a broad red area.

Often feverishness and malaise.

About 3 weeks.

None.

Erysipelas.

3 to 7 days.

1st or 2d day.

Bright-red blush; puffy skin; often vesicles.

Fever; pain.

4 to 6 days, or several weeks if it spreads.

Averages 2 weeks.

Diphtheria.

2 to 12 days.

1st or 2d day.

White membrane on tonsils and other parts of throat.

Debility; fever.

10 to 14 days.

3 to 4 weeks.

Whooping-cough.

2 to 7 days.