. The diseases of infancy and childhood : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine. o useful an agent as steam ADMINISTRATION OF DRUGS AND METHODS OF THERAPY 65 vapor impregnated with balsams or turpentine, and combined attimes with inhalations of the fumes of sublimed calomel. The spraycannot, 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 is veryuseful in all forms of acute laryngitis in which there is no bronchitis.I dispense with steam vapor if bronchiti
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. The diseases of infancy and childhood : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine. o useful an agent as steam ADMINISTRATION OF DRUGS AND METHODS OF THERAPY 65 vapor impregnated with balsams or turpentine, and combined attimes with inhalations of the fumes of sublimed calomel. The spraycannot, 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 is veryuseful in all forms of acute laryngitis in which there is no bronchitis.I dispense with steam vapor if bronchitis is present. The mode ofapplication in catarrhal or membranous croup is as follows: The cribis covered with a sheet suspended from four upright poles fastenedto the corners of the crib. A tent is thus formed. The croup kettleis placed at one side of the crib, in such a manner that the steam vaporescapes into the improised tent. The vapor is medicated by placingin the kettle a teaspoonful of turpentine or thymol. This will be readilyvaporized. No special apparatus has any advantage over the ordinary. i^LiOy^^ Fig. 10.—Method of syringing the nose in the recumbent posture. croup kettle. If calomel sublimations are to be given, they should becombined with the steam vapor. Ten grains of calomel are placed in aspoon held o^er an ordinary candle, and the fumes are passed underthe tent, the air of which is impregnated with steam vapor. Thespecial devices sold for the sublimation of calomel may be used, butpossess no advantage over the method described above. Calomelsublimations are exceedingly irritating, but they reliee the patientvery promptly. They may be continued for forty-eight hours atintervals of two hours, without fear of salivation. Stomach Washing.—One of the most valuable additions to ourtherapeutic armament within recent years is stomach washing in thenmsing infant. No improSement has been made upon the method asfirst proposed by Epstein. The cases in which it is i