. Treatment of the diseases of children. ough, and itdoubtless does. There is a vast difference between the comparativelypure air in the vicinity of the gas tank and the air of the average tene-ment. I always encourage the gas-tank treatment. A child who forany reason must remain indoors should not be allowed to remain con-stantly in one room. There should be two rooms, every window inthe one not in use being freely open. The living-room and sleeping-room should be kept at a fairly even temperature—from 68° to 700 Kilmer Belt.—A few vears ago Dr. T. W. Kilmer, of NewYork, conceived the i
. Treatment of the diseases of children. ough, and itdoubtless does. There is a vast difference between the comparativelypure air in the vicinity of the gas tank and the air of the average tene-ment. I always encourage the gas-tank treatment. A child who forany reason must remain indoors should not be allowed to remain con-stantly in one room. There should be two rooms, every window inthe one not in use being freely open. The living-room and sleeping-room should be kept at a fairly even temperature—from 68° to 700 Kilmer Belt.—A few vears ago Dr. T. W. Kilmer, of NewYork, conceived the idea that a belt around the childs body producingfirm pressure, would support the abdomen sufRcientlv during acoughing paroxysm to prevent vomiting. The Kilmer belt (Figs. 37and 38) was the outcome. I have used the belt in a considerablenumber of cases; at first with a great deal of skepticism, watchingthe patients upon whom it was used at my clinics at the out-patientdepartment at the Babies Hospital and at the New York Polyclinic,. Fig. 36.—The Arnold Steam Atomizer. WHOOPING-COUGH—PERTUSSIS 343 where records were kept of the number of vomiting seizures in twenty-four hours, for three days before applying the belt, and the furtherrecord after the belt was in use, together with the statement of themothers and oftentimes of the children themselves. These recordsconvinced me that the belt has a field of usefulness in the managementof whooping-cough. I later adopted it for use among my private pa-tients. Like most remedial measures, however, its use is not alwaysattended with success. I have applied the belts without the slightestbenefit in some vomiting cases. Usually, how-ever, it is of service in relieving the some the vomiting has entirely ceased afterthe belt was applied. I believe it should begiven a trial in every severe case, particularlywhere the vomiting is a very prominent symp-
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