A Wise Mother

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 12, 1904

“I HAVE taught my children,” said a mother I know, “to come to me immediately for even a pin scratch. I do not mean to exaggerate little pains, but my father, who was a physician, taught me how easy was precaution beside cure. I always keep on hand two good antiseptics, listerine and boracic acid in solution. Every fresh wound or scratch is bathed cleanly and wrapped in sterilized cheese-cloth before a particle of dirt can enter it. One so often finds children with stubborn sores on their hands or feet, which take forever to heal. They were probably caused by a rusty nail, by the dirty sort of knife one finds in a boy’s pocket, or by a broken bottle which may have held anything. The ugliest wound of this sort, if cared for immediately, will heal immediately. In nearly

every city during the winter a course is given on nursing and simple surgical work, which a mother may find both interesting and profitable. If this is not available, I would advise every mother to go to her physician and pay him a fee if necessary for a lesson on cleaning a wound and bandaging it, as well as what to do for the bruises and contusions which are of daily occurrence in the growing family.—Good Housekeeping.