SUMMARY AND REVIEW. 



development of tuberculosis? Give method 

 adopted as preventive of its spread. Name 

 treatment most in favor and state the nurse's 

 duties. 



VIII. — How is the mosquito responsible for 

 the spread of malaria? What effect has the 

 disease upon the blood of its victims ? Are the 

 parasites long lived ? In what manner do they 

 multiply ? 



IX. — Which are most susceptible to menin- 

 gitis, old or young people? Why are the 

 methods of cleanliness so rigidly carried out in 

 other infectious diseases not recognized in 

 meningitis ? 



X. — What conditions favor the development 

 of pneumonia ? Show why constant vigilance in 

 caring for a pneumonia patient is so necessary. 



XI. — To what means of communication is 

 yellow fever confined ? What preventive meas- 

 ures are used? 



XII. — How does the germ discovered by 

 Councilman differ from those of most other 

 communicable diseases? What essential part 

 of Koch's circuit is not carried out? 



XIII. — ^Why should a strenuous use of dis- 

 infectants be maintained in nursing smallpox? 

 Name the principal preventive treatment. 



XIV. — Does the nurse incur greater risk in 

 nursing smallpox than in nursing other severe 

 forms of communicable diseases? 

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