SUMMARY AND REVIEW. 



:are should be observed to prevent particles of 

 peeling skin from being carried by the air as 

 floating dust. In giving baths the water should 

 contain a disinfectant. Antiseptic washes are 

 used and also inunctions of antiseptic ointments 

 or oils to lessen the danger from desquama- 

 tion. "Everlasting and eternal vigilance" must 

 be observed in all diseases where there is 

 desquamation. Formaldehyde vapor is recom- 

 mended for fumigation after disinfection and 

 cleansing at the close of the case. 



A lecturer* on "Specific Fevers" when speak- 

 ing in the writer's presence on the subject of A Matter of 

 smallpox a few years ago, advised a class of pupil '^caution, 

 nurses as a matter of precaution to "burn every- 

 thing but the patient at the close of the case." 



Preventive treatment in smallpox epidemics 

 consists in the rigid carrying out of vaccina- 

 tion. It is not considered that a nurse who Danger"^* ^ 

 has been recently vaccinated incurs the slightest 

 risk in nursing small pox. 



SUMMARY OF CHAPTER V. 



The terms contagious and infectious as 

 formerly used have given place to the more 

 accurate term "communicable." 



The specific invading micro-organism of 

 some of the communicable diseases. 



Means of transmission — methods of entrance. 



* Dr. Robert Saunders Henry, lecturer on Specific 

 Fevers, Thomas Hospital, Charleston, West Virginia, 

 '98 to '02. 105 



