American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick

by American National Red Cross; Jane A. Delano; Isabel McIsaac; Anne Hervey Strong

INDEX

A

• Abdomen, [68]
• Abdominal binder, [68]
• Action of drugs, [200]
• Adenoids, [284]
• Aged, care of, [303]
• Ailments and emergencies, [257]
• Air, [72]
• Alcohol, [160]
• Appliances,
  • bed cradles, [173]
  • bedpans, [176]
  • rubber utensils, [138]
• Applications, local, [220]
  • cold, dry, [231]
  • cold, moist, [235]
  • hot, dry, [225]
    • bricks, [226]
    • flannel, [226]
    • salt or sand, [226]
    • water bags, [225]
  • hot, moist, [227]
    • fomentations, [229]
    • poultices, [227]
    • stupes, [229]
• Attendant, [127]

B

• Bacteria, [1], [4], [5]
  • bacilli, [5]
  • coccus, [4]
  • effects produced by, [3]
  • entrance into the body, [9]
  • food of, [2]
  • immunity, [13]
  • in food, [19]
  • in water, [19]
  • methods of study, [1]
  • motion, [5]
  • origin of communicable diseases, [3]
  • parasites, [3], [8]
  • saprophytes, [2]
  • shape, [4]
  • spirillum, [4]
  • spores, [7]
  • structure and development, [4]
  • where found, [8]
• Bacteriology, [1]
• Baths, [42], [154]
  • bed, [156]
  • cleansing, [171]
  • cold tub, [97], [171]
  • daily, [24]
  • foot, [165]
  • mustard, [165]
  • hot, [97]
  • infant's, [78]
  • sitz, [176]
  • tub, [154]
• Bed cradles, [173]
• Bedmaking, [132]
• Bedpan, [176]
• Bed-rooms, care of, [84]
• Beds, [132]
  • care of, [134]
  • dimensions, [133]
  • rubber pillow cases, [138]
  • rubber sheets, [138]
  • selection of, [132]
  • wooden, [132]
• Bed sores, [169]
• Birth registration, [63]
• Blankets, [140]
• Bleeding, [272]
• Blindness, [33]
• Breast feeding, [73]
• Bruises, [276]
• Brush burn, [278]
• Burns, [277], [278]

C

• Cancer, [111]
• Carriers, [17]
• Charts, [10], [246]
• Chickenpox, [236]
• Childhood, [see Infancy], [60]
• Children, care of, [280]
  • with adenoids, [284]
  • with defective hearing, [285]
  • with defective teeth, [286]
  • with enlarged tonsils, [284]
  • with eyestrain, [284]
  • with incorrect posture, [286]
  • with physical defects, [283]
  • with predisposition to nervousness, [292]
• Chills, [270]
• Chronic patients, care of, [299]
• Circulars of information, [318]
  • Department of Health, City of New York, [318]
    • care of hair and scalp, [321]
    • care of mouth and teeth, [318]
    • care of nose, [320]
    • diet of child twelfth to eighteenth month, [322]
    • diet of child eighteenth to twenty-fourth month, [323]
    • diet of child two to three years, [324]
    • diet of child three to six years, [325]
• Cleaning room, [126]
• Cleanliness, personal, [41]
• Clothing, [47]
  • disinfection of, [95]
  • of infants, [68]
• Coccus, [4]
• Cold applications, [220]
• Cold, prevention of common, [241]
• Colic, [266]
• Compresses, cold, [232]
• Constipation, [52], [193], [266]
• Convalescents, care of, [294]
• Convulsions, [260]
• Counter irritants, [233]
• Croup, [271]

D

• Degenerative diseases, [20], [24]
• Development of child, [64]
• Diaper, [69]
• Diarrhœa, [266]
• Diphtheria, [245]
• Disinfectants, [251]
• Disinfection, [248]
• Drainage, [40]
• Draughts, [32]
• Dust, effect upon health, [36]

E

• Ear, disorders affecting, [268]
• Emergencies, [257]
• Enemata, [210]
  • directions for giving, [210]
  • for baby, [212]
• Environment, [29]
• Eruptive diseases, [236]
• Excreta, disinfection of, [249]
• Excretions, [52]
• Expectoration, [249]
• Eye, ailments, [267]
  • compresses for, [232]
  • foreign bodies in, [267]
• Eyestrain, [284]

F

• Fainting, [259]
• Fatigue, [53], [106], [181]
• Feeding of infants, [73]
• Filtration of water, [50]
• Flies, as carriers of disease germs, [38]
• Floors, [120]
• Fomentations, [229]
• Food, [35], [48], [188]
  • classification of, [48]
  • for children, [78]
  • for infants, [72]
• Foot bath, [165]
• Fumigation, [254]
• Furniture, [120]

G

• Garbage, [37]
• Glossary, [326-330]
• Growth of child, [64]

H

• Habits, [82]
• Hair, care of, [163]
• Handkerchiefs, [239]
• Hands, [11], [12], [43], [250]
• Headache, [257]
• Heat, application of, [220]
  • exhaustion, [264]
• Heating, [54]
• Heredity, [27]
• Hiccough, [265]
• House, cleanliness of, [33]
• Humidity, [31]
• Hygiene, oral, [44]
  • personal, [19], [28]

I

• Immunity, [13]
• [Infancy] (and childhood), hygiene of, [60]
  • air, fresh, [72]
  • baths, [78]
  • care of eyes, [80]
    • of mouth, [81]
    • of nostrils, [81]
    • of genital organs, [81]
  • clothing, [68]
  • cry, significance of, [82]
  • diet, [74]
    • mother's milk, danger of substitutes, [72]
    • water, [75]
    • weaning, [75]
  • excretions, [67]
  • exercise, [83]
  • growth and development, [64], [65]
    • length at birth, [64]
      • increase, [65]
    • muscular development, [64]
    • special senses, [66]
    • speech, [66]
    • teeth, [66]
    • weight at birth, [64]
      • increase, [65]
  • habits, [82]
  • mortality, [61]
  • nursing bottles, [75]
  • nipples, [75]
  • play, [84]
  • pulse, [96]
  • respiration, [99]
  • sleep, [70]
  • toys, [85]
• Infection, [1], [43]
• Inflammation, [220]
• Inhalation, [213]
• Insects, [38], [270]
• Insect bites and stings, [270]
• Inunction, [214]
• Isolation, duration of, [247]
• Ivy poisoning, [270]

K

• Kitchens, [34]

L

• Light, [33], [124]
• Linen, [251]
• Lysol, [251]

M

• Malaise, [106]
• Mattress, [135]
  • care of, [136]
• Measles, [246]
• Medicines and remedies, [200]
  • action of drugs, [200]
  • amateur dosing, [202]
  • enemata, [210]
  • inhalation, [213]
  • inunction, [214]
  • patent remedies, [205]
  • sprays and gargles, [213]
  • suppositories, [209]
• Medicines, administration of, [206]
• Menstruation, profuse, [275]
• Mental condition, [104]-[112]
• Microorganisms, [9]
• Milk, [51]
  • pasteurization, [51]
• Mouth, care of, [160]
  • wash, [182]
• Mustard paste, [233]
  • leaves, [233]

N

• Nausea, [265]
• Nipple, bottle, [77]
  • care of, [77]
• Non-communicable diseases, [20]
• Nosebleed, [274]

P

• Pain, [105]
• Parasites, [3], [4], [8]
• Patent remedies, [205]
• Patient, care of,
  • • with communicable disease, [236]
    • with colds and slight infections, [238]
    • with more serious infections, [242]
  • changing sheet, [147]
  • changing, [146]
  • lifting, [146]
  • mouth, [160]
  • moving, [152]
• Personal hygiene, [19]
• Pillows, [137]
  • covers, [138], [140]
• Poisonous drugs, [215]
• Posture, [286]
• Poultices, [227], [228]
• Prenatal care, [62]
• Prickly heat, [269]
• Protozoa, [8]
• Public agencies, [107]
• Public sanitation, [19]
• Pulse, [96]
• Purification of water, [50]

Q

• Quarantine, termination of, [252]

R

• Records, [107]
• Recreation, [55]
• Rectum, [93]
• Respiration, [99]
• Rest, [53]
• Rooms, [27]

S

• Saprophytes, [2]
• Scalds, [277]
• Scarlet fever, [246]
• Sewage, [39]
• Sheets, [137], [138], [142]
• Shock, [261]
• Sick-room, model, [118]
• Sleep, [55], [70]
• Sleeplessness, [258]
• Small-pox, [246]
• Special senses in sickness, [101]
• Spores, [7]
• Sprains, [275]
• Sprays and gargles, [213]
• Stimulants, in emergency work, [263]
• Stupes, [229]
• Styes, [267]
• Sunstroke, [264]
• Suppositories, [209]
• Symptoms, [88]

T

• Teeth, [45], [160]
  • defective, [286]
  • treatment, [46]
• Temperature, [92]
  • method of taking, [92]
  • normal, [95]
• Temperature of baths, [79], [155]
  • of house, [30], [124]
  • sponging for, [177]
  • variations, [114], [206]
• Thermometer, clinical, care of, [92]
• Tonsils, enlarged, [284]
• Tuberculosis, [27]-[107]

U

• Urine, [103]

V

• Vaccination, [13], [25]
• Ventilation, [29], [123]
• Vomiting, [265]

W

• Water, [49]
  • filtration, [50]
• Weaning, [75]
• Weight, [65]
  • loss of, [64]
• Whooping cough, [246]
• Wounds, [272]