Infant care and management : a manual for teachers / by Edith L. Matnard.

  • Maynard, Edith L.
Date:
[1914]
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Credit: Infant care and management : a manual for teachers / by Edith L. Matnard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The child must wear clean white cotton gloves at night, to prevent him scratching himself. Vaccination. Although the condition immediately following on an infant’s vaccination is not a disease in the true sense of the word, and most certainly not a food-disorder, yet this book would be incomplete without some reference to the subject. One cannot do better than quote the following words of Dr. Hellier.* “ Of the safety and efficiency of good vaccination it is not necessary to speak here. There is no surgical procedure, however simple, in which the pre- cautions of surgical cleanliness can be dispensed with. In addition to pure lymph, a clean arm, and a sterilized lancet, the scratches and pocks themselves must be kept clean. When one thinks of the dirtiness of some of the infants brought to public vaccination stations, of the filth of their clothes and surroundings, the uncleanliness of those who nurse them, the various applications made to the arms by ignorant people, and the possible existence of discharging wounds and sources of septic infection on the persons of those with whom the infants come in contact, one cannot fail to be impressed with the small amount of evil that ever results from vaccination.” The wound must be protected; and this is best done by spreading some fresh boracic ointment with a clean knife on to a clean piece of boracic lint, and securing it in its place on the arm by two strips of plaster going the whole way round the arm, one above and one below the spot. Bad poisoned arms have been caused by putting Fuller’s earth on the vaccination sores. * Infancy and Infant Bearing.