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Title: All about the baby and preparations for its advent
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Tooker, Robert Newton, 1841-1902. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Infants Infants
Publisher: Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the child shouldbe given a hot bath and put to bed. The same pre-cautions against taking cold should be observed as inthe preceding disease. If the skin itches, the sweet-oil bath may be given at bedtime. Internally, the leading remedies are pulsatilla, whichis usually sufficient to control the cough ; aconite ifthere is much fever ; belladonna if the child complainsof headache or avoids the light. The light in the sick-room should be dimmed, and if the eyes are muchinflamed they may be bathed with a weak solution ofboracic acid or powdered borax. The further conductof the case had best be left to the family physician. How does German measles differ from the othervariety ? Rotheln, or German measles — sometimes calledFrench measles — is of milder type. The eruption ismore scattered, and is lighter in color. There is not somuch catarrh — often none at all. The fever is not sohigh, and the child is not so ill. There is, however,a greater tendency to involve the glands of the neck
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