StJMMARY AND REVIEW. 
pupil nurses as a matter of precaution to “burn 
everything but the patient at the close of the 
case.” 
Preventive treatment in smallpox epidemics 
consists in the rigid carrying out of vaccination. 
It is not considered that a nurse who has been 
recently vaccinated incurs the slightest risk in 
nursing smallpox. 
SUMMARY OF CHAPTER V. 
The terms contagious and infectious as former-' 
ly 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. 
Seat of invasion. 
Effects—constitutional or local. 
Multiplication or extermination of germs. 
Cleanliness and fresh air as preventives of dis¬ 
eases termed communicable. 
The points demanding most careful attention 
on the part of the nurse in all communicable dis¬ 
eases. Disinfection, etc. 
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW CHAPTER V. 
I. —Give the nurse’s duties, especially as ap¬ 
plied to the severe forms of infectious diseases. 
II. —Give methods of entrance and means of 
communication in the diseases designated ; typhoid 
fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, tetanus, tubercu¬ 
losis, smallpox. 
III. —What location is named as the seat of 
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