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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. 



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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 19 10? 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 



