. Personal hygiene and home nursing : a practical text for girls and women for home and school use. ur, aphysician should be summoned, thechild should be kept absolutely quiet,and ice compresses should be appliedon the outside of the throat. For a few hours there will be vomit-ing of mucus and blood. This blood is not an indication of hemor-rhage, but is the blood which has been swallowed during the opera-tion. The child should not become overfatigued, or exposed to suddenchill, and should be kept on liquid diet for two or three days. Icecream is permitted by most surgeons soon after the opera
. Personal hygiene and home nursing : a practical text for girls and women for home and school use. ur, aphysician should be summoned, thechild should be kept absolutely quiet,and ice compresses should be appliedon the outside of the throat. For a few hours there will be vomit-ing of mucus and blood. This blood is not an indication of hemor-rhage, but is the blood which has been swallowed during the opera-tion. The child should not become overfatigued, or exposed to suddenchill, and should be kept on liquid diet for two or three days. Icecream is permitted by most surgeons soon after the is nourishing, and cooling to the inflamed throat, and is fre-quently a great help in keeping a child contented during the dis-comfort of the first two or three days. Anatomy of the nose. The two nostrils open back into a cham-ber which is divided into two parts by a thin bone called the out from the walls of these two chambers are otherthin bones of irregular shape which are called the turbinated the air is drawn into the nose, it passes over the turbinated. Fig. 24. A cross-section of thenasal chambers, showing the turbi-nated bones (a, b, and c) over whichthe air passes. The thin dark Unein the center is the septum, whichseparates the two sides of the mucous membrane is shown inwhite. 6o Personal Hygiene and Home Nursing bones and is thus warmed and cleansed of its dust. In the bonesof the face are cavities called sinuses, which connect by small Fig. 25. The skull, showing the location of the frontal and maxillary sinuses. openings with the two chambers of the nose. In the forehead arethe frontal sinuses; in the cheek bones the maxillary sinuses; andabove and to the back of the nasal chambers are the ethmoidaland sphenoidal sinuses. These sinuses are air chambers and arelined with mucous membrane of the same nature as that foundin the mouth, nose, and throat. Abnormal growths in the nose. The nose may become stoppedup and breathi
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