Don'ts [sic] for consumptives, or, the scientific management ofpulmonary tuberculosis. How the pulmonary invalid may make and maintain a modern sanitorium of his home... / by Charles Wilson Ingraham.

  • Ingraham, Charles Wilson.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Don'ts [sic] for consumptives, or, the scientific management ofpulmonary tuberculosis. How the pulmonary invalid may make and maintain a modern sanitorium of his home... / by Charles Wilson Ingraham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    tubercular disease, which is now laid at the door of heredity. Whether it is necessary to disinfect the whole house or only those rooms which have been most occupied by the invalid is a question for individual consideration. In another chapter the author has advised monthly painting of the woodwork of the invalid's room. To some invalids this procedure would be objectionable. In such instances, it is next best to go over the wood- work with benzine or turpentine. The painting or varnishing is advised for these reasons: (1) Paints contain turpentine, which in itself is a germicide. (2) They fill in and render impervious all imperfections of the woodwork, which might afford a lodging place for the bacilli. (3) The paint or varnish would encapsule en masse any and all germ life in the woodwork. The necessity of whitewashing the walls frequently will be apparent to all. Whitewash is itself a power- ful germicide, and like the paint or varnish on the woodwork, would fill in all imperfections of the wall. With the ceiling, walls and woodwork of the inva- lid's room, and other rooms frequented by him, kept in a sanitary conditary condition much has been ac- complished to prevent house infection.''
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