Diversions for child Patients
As they progress in convalescence, children may be en¬couraged to do, or be assisted in doing many things. Cutting paper dolls, fitting their dresses, and making furniture for them out of paper and cardboard; making other cardboard, toys; making things out of paper; dressing regular dolls and sewing and knitting for them; modeling clay; coloring pictures with crayons; drawing with crayons and pencil, making scrap-books of pictures, advertisements, postcards, stamps, jokes, poetiy, etc.; stringing beads and making things of beads; plait¬ing, weaving.and making knots; putting picture puzzles to- gether and working other puzzles; playing children’s card games; working with flowers; studying flowers, trees, birds; working in little gardens, out of doors or at the window; play¬ing with mechanical toys; making some sort of collection, such as of stones, shells, leaves; blowing soap-bubbles; sailing boats or floating toys in a basin or a tub of water; etc., etc. Later, as the little patients progress and grow stronger, walking, play¬ing in a sand-pile, riding and other outdoor amusements and activities will be taken up.
STERILIZATION.—By sterilization is meant making an ob¬ject free from germs. This subject is taken up briefly under Relation of Sanitation and Hygiene to Health (Vol. I. Sec. 6.)