BACTERIOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL. 



General 

 Precautions. 



Fresh Air and 

 Sunshine. 



one of the discharges may be deposited upon 

 the face or lips and gain an entrance to the 

 body with disastrous consequences to you. Be 

 watchful of like dangers when giving baths, 

 enemas and in cleansing the lips, the teeth, the 

 mouth and the finger-nails of your patient. 

 Pay strict attention to personal disinfection be- 

 fore going from a communicable disease to an- 

 other case. 



Keep your patient's person, bed, bedding 

 and room absolutely neat and clean. Pay 

 special attention to cleansing the mouth and 

 teeth and lips between the hours for feeding 

 and before administering food or stimulant or 

 medicine, as well as after the bath, particularly 

 in severe cases where sordes collects so rapidly 

 on the teeth and lips. Dust all woodwork and 

 furniture with a cloth wrung out of a hot disin- 

 fectant solution. Floors also should be washed 

 every day with a hot disinfectant solution. 

 Pay strict attention to ventilation. Remember 

 that neatness and cleanliness are necessities, and 

 that an abundance of fresh air and sunshine are 

 Nature's own disinfectants. Two to three thou- 

 sand cubic feet of fresh air are required in all 

 sick rooms ; the latter amount is obtainable in a 

 room fifteen feet wide by twenty long, with a 

 ceiling elevation of ten feet, but the current must 

 be changed every hour in order to keep the at- 

 mosphere pure. Your patient can be protected 

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