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What is the medicine and how much of it is used ? Why should 

 everything be perfectly clean that touches the baby's eyes ? Why 

 should the dropper be used for no other purpose ? (Lest microbes 

 from a diseased eye get to the dropper and be passed on to some 

 other person.) Mention some symptom which shows that the 

 eyes of the baby are needing the care of a doctor. Why 

 should the doctor be called at once ? What does this particular 

 medicine do to any gonococcus microbes that may be in the eye ? 

 If the eyes are free from these microbes, what objection is there to 

 using the medicine ? Why should the medicine be used only by 

 the doctor's order? What progress is being made in the care of 

 the eyes of babies ? When these microbes reach the tender tissues 

 of the eye, what do they do as they multiply ? What impression 

 do these microbes make on the thick skin of the body ? Do they 

 travel about in the blood stream of the body ? When and where 

 do they exercise their one power to do harm ? How fast do they 

 destroy any delicate, moist membrane ? From the starting point 

 where do they go ? What does the doctor say as they travel from 

 membrane to membrane ? What do the advancing hosts of microbes 

 do to the tissues ? Name some of the organs of the body that are 

 inflamed and scarred by these microbes. What reason has Dr. 

 Morehead to speak of the " snakiness " of the disease ? What two 

 questions did students in the University of Pennsylvania ask Dr. 

 Wilson ? What was his answer ? One after the other, mention all 

 the rules of prevention you can think of. After each rule give the 

 reason for it. 



CHAPTER XXV 



When did Dr. Jordan visit Aosta ? In your own words describe 

 what he found in Aosta in 1881. Where is cretinism found ? Which 

 gland is diseased in every cretin ? By what laws is cretinism passed 

 on from ancestor to descendant? Why was Dr. Jordan surprised 

 when he visited Aosta in 1910? What had Aosta done with its 

 cretins about twenty years before ? So far as the next generation 

 was concerned, what was the result of putting the cretins into asy- 

 lums and keeping them separate ? What does Dr. Jordan say about 

 his search for cretins and his failure to find them ? In closing his 



