Practice of Medicine, Volume 3W.F. Prior, 1922 |
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Page 290 - B. General measures : 1. Daily examination of exposed children and of other possibly exposed persons. This examination should include record of the body temperature. A nonimmune exposed individual exhibiting a rise of temperature of 0.5° C. or more should be promptly isolated pending diagnosis. 2. Schools should not be closed or classes discontinued where daily observation of the children by physician and nurse is provided for. 3. Education as to special danger of exposing young children to those...
Page 20 - A pressure appreciably below the normal in pneumonia is invariably of evil omen, and any considerable fall bodes disaster. When the arterial pressure, expressed in millimeters of mercury, does not fall below the pulse rate expressed in beats per minute, the fact may be taken as of excellent augury, while the converse in equally true.
Page 305 - Clinical symptoms, supported by a differential leucocyte count, and confirmed where possible by bacteriological examination of bronchial secretions. 2. Isolation — Separation of the patient from susceptible children. and exclusion of the patient from school and public places, for the period of presumed infectivity. 3. Immunization — Use of prophylactic vaccination recommended by some observers. Not effective in. all cases.
Page 290 - None. 4. Quarantine — Exclusion of exposed susceptible school children and teachers from school until 14 days from last exposure. This applies to exposure in the household. Exclusion of exposed susceptible children from all public gatherings for the same period. 5. Concurrent! disinfection — All articles soiled with the secretions of the nose and throat. 6. Terminal disinfection — Thorough cleaning.
Page 220 - Small-pox can, but probably never will be, wholly eradicated. The chief obstacle which stands in the way of its eradication is an inability to recognize facts, and to make the proper deductions from them, which seems to be associated with certain orders of mind. The facts with regard to the production of small-pox immunity by vaccinia are perfectly established. The order of mind which leads to their denial will probably never disappear from the human race.
Page 320 - (A) The infected individual and his environment: "1. Recognition of the disease: Inflammation of Steno's duct may be of assistance in recognizing the early stage of tin disease.
Page 665 - ... without leaving a local lesion, or whether, after contamination of the fingers, the infection was conveyed to the conjunctival sac or to the mouth and swallowed, or whether it was conveyed as a droplet infection remains undetermined. There is little evidence to support any view. Noncontagiousness. No instance has been reported of the spread of the infection from man to man by mere contact or by the bite of insects which have previously bitten a patient. Surgeons who have incised or excised suppurating...
Page 189 - The handcuffs and fetters in which the hero commonly appears at the end of the second, or the beginning of the third...
Page 320 - Limited to exclusion of nonimmune children from school and public gatherings for 21 days after last exposure to a recognized case. 5. Concurrent disinfection — All articles soiled with the discharges from the nose and throat of the patient. 6. Terminal disinfection — None. (B) General measures — None, Paratyphoid Fever 1. Infectious agent: Bacillus paratyphosus A or B.
Page 306 - Limited to the exclusion of non-immune children from school and public gatherings for fourteen days after their last exposure to a recognized case. 5. Concurrent disinfection — Discharges from the nose and throat of the patient and articles soiled with such discharges.