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Identifier: diseasesofinfa00kopl (find matches)
Title: The diseases of infancy and childhood
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Koplik, Henry, 1858- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Children
Publisher: New York and Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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solution has a dissolving effecton the red blood-cells, the injection of large quantities of the solu-tion may be harmful. Syringing of the Nose.—Instruments.—The best form of syringefor this purpose is an olive-tipped glass syringe. Some forms aremade with a soft-rubber tip. The tip should be blunt, lest the naresbe injured (Fig. 7). Fig. 7. Nasal syringe. Correct shape. The solution used is generally a normal salt solution.Method.—The patient is wrapped in a sheet or blanket, and heldin the lap of a nurse, who holds a pus basin beneath the chin. The THE ADMINISTRATION OF DRUGS. 67 operator stands behind the patient. The syringe is held horizontallyto the floor of the nares and the solution slowly injected into thenostril (Fig. 8). If successfully performed, the procedure resultsin the solutions coming out of the other nostril. There is nodanger in the manoeuvre if carefully carried out. If the infant istoo weak, the nares may be syringed with the patient in bed in the Fig. 8.
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Method of syringing the nose in the upright posture. recumbent posture. The nurse stands at one side, and the head isplaced on the side, the pus basin beneath the nose, as shown inFig. 9. A rubber fountain-syringe may be used in the same manner.Here also the position of the syringe is horizontal to the floor oithe nares. The syringe should be thoroughly boiled before andafter using. An old syringe should never be used, no matter bowcarefully it has been sterilized. 68 INFANCY AM) CHILDHOOD. Vapor Spray; Calomel Inhalations in Acute Laryngeal Disease.— AVith infants and children the spray is not so useful an agent assteam vapor impregnated with balsams or turpentine, and combinedat times with inhalations of the fumes of sublimed calomel. Thespray cannot, as a rule, be used locally except with the most tractablechildren. With infants its use is not feasible. The vapor of steam impregnated with balsams or turpentine isvery useful in all forms of acute laryngitis in which there is nobro

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