Fever nursing : designed for the use of professional and other nurses, and especially as a text-book for nurses in training / by J.C. Wilson.

Date:
1888
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Credit: Fever nursing : designed for the use of professional and other nurses, and especially as a text-book for nurses in training / by J.C. Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    confined in bed till the rash has faded and desquamation is over. The room may be slightly darkened, but must not be kept absolutely so. The eyes, nostrils, and mouth must be bathed at regular intervals with luke- warm water, to which a little borax or fluid extract of witch-hazel has been added. The edges of the eyeUds ought to be once or twice a day lightly smeared with fresh cold cream or with vaseline. The throat and nasal passages may be advantageously sprayed as in scarlet fever. Inunctions of washed lard rubbed up with a few drops of carbolic acid to the ounce go far to relieve the itching. For this purpose sponging with cold or lukewarm water containing borax or three or four drops of carbolic acid to the ounce, or Labar- raque's solution or Listerine, is also useful. A generous dietary is absolutely necessary. Alcohol in the form of milk-punches, eggnog, wine-whey, or sound port may often be administered with advantage. Children of delicate organization, and especially those of families liable to scrofulous glandular enlargements and pulmonary consumption, must be cared for with solicitude for some weeks after the attack, or indeed until full health is regained. While it is not in all cases possible to prevent measles from extending when it has shown itself in a house- hold, it is always advisable to avoid unnecessary risk of infection, and our plain duty to see that all due pre- cautions are taken to prevent its spread beyond the limits of the house. To this end the children not yet sick must not be allowed to go to school or to make or receive visits. I 14*