BACTERIOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL. 



Fresh Air 

 Treatment. 



The Mosquito 

 Anopheles. 



minutes. While tubercular patients are not 

 isolated in the same sense in which scarlet fever 

 or diphtheria patients are, they should occupy 

 separate bedrooms and the use by others of a 

 tubercular patient's dishes should be for- 

 bidden. 



Keep your patient out of doors in the fresh 

 air and sunshine as much as possible. "Out of 

 doors all the time, and sleep and eat in the open 

 air in a proper climate" is getting more and 

 more to be the prescribed treatment. To 

 which is added as indepensable, plenty of 

 nourishing, easily-digested food, especially an 

 abundance of milk and eggs, perfect cleanliness 

 and neatness of person and surroundings and 

 a cheerful atmosphere at all times. The nurse 

 who pays strict attention to all of these re- 

 quisites is a valuable and valued assistant to 

 the physician fighting this disease. 



Malaria. Malaria is due to the ravages of 

 the germ Plasmodium malaria, discovered by 

 Laveran, of France, in 1880. The Plasmodium 

 malaria is an animal parasite ; a protozoa, quite 

 as minute as the vegetable bacteria to which 

 most germ diseases owe their origin, but much 

 more complex in structure. It is a single cell 

 parasite, as all protozoa are, and is believed to 

 be carried from the sick to the well by a species 

 of mosquito — the anopheles. Those who live 

 in low, damp localities or near "swampy" 

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