A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: Prophylaxis, personal hygieneSolomon Solis-Cohen P. Blakiston's, 1903 |
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acid action affected agents alcohol animals anthrax antiseptic antitoxin avoided bacteria bath bites blood body boiling carbolic acid carbon Causation cause cells cent chemical chiefly chlorinated cholera cleansed clothing cold contain danger destroyed Diffusion diphtheria Diplococcus discharges disease disinfectant dust eggs especially fleas flies fomites formaldehyde forms frequently glanders heat hygienic immunity important inches infection injurious inoculation intestinal isolated large numbers larvæ lesions malaria measles measures method micro-organisms milk mosquitos mouth mucous nervous nurse occur organisms oxygen parasites pathogenic patient persons pipe placed pneumonia poisonous prevent produce prophylactic prophylaxis rarely removed resistance respiratory result sheet sick-room skin smallpox soap soil solution spores steam sterile substances surface syphilis temperature tetanus tion tissues toxic toxin tract transmission transmitted tube tubercle bacillus tuberculosis typhoid fever urine usually vaccination ventilation virulence virus warm washed wounds yellow fever
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עמוד 267 - ... Every year thousands undergo this operation; and the French ambassador says pleasantly, that they take the smallpox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries. There is no example of any one that has died in it ; and you may believe I am well satisfied of the safety of this experiment, since I intend to try it on my dear little son.
עמוד 104 - The pupils dilate gradually to maximum, and become reactionless ; the ear-vessels become strongly injected, and the body temperature rises 1° to 2°. The hairs bristle, and the animal occasionally shudders. Gradually the salivation ceases, the respiration and heart-action, which were at first hastened, now decrease, the temperature falls, the ears become pale, and the animal finally recovers. During the action of the poison the animal shows a tendency to sleep, and the peristaltic action of the...
עמוד 213 - ... much may be accomplished. Collections of water that do not remain over nine days may be ignored, as the period from the deposition of the eggs to the emergence of the adult insects probably is rarely less than ten days. Collections of water that are permanent or indispensable should be made inaccessible to the insects or uninhabitable by them. Lakes, pools, springs, watering-troughs, and the like may be stocked with the natural enemies of the mosquito. The fish that have been especially commended...
עמוד 369 - ... 2. Cold air tends to enter a room and to move about very much as water would; and this holds true so long as the temperature of the fresh air remains lower than that in the room. " 3. The extent of inlet provision...
עמוד 43 - ... neighborhood. It is conceivable, however, that infection might follow interment with access to subterranean streams. Interment should only be made in porous soils that have a low ground water level, and to facilitate rapid decomposition impervious caskets or graves lined by masonry should be avoided. CLIMATE AND SEASON. The principal features that produce and modify the climate of a place are its latitude, altitude, proximity to bodies of water, and the prevalent winds and rains. Besides this,...
עמוד 33 - In pitchblende, a substance (polonium) analagous to bismuth, but having 4,000 times the radiant energy of uranium, was found. Later a second rayemitting element, called radium, was also discovered, and M. Debserne found in pitchblende a third active body, actinum. These rays possess luminosity and actinic and skiagraphic power, and render the air through which they pass a conductor of electricity. They are not capable of polarization, reflection or refraction, and the rays emitted by the different...
עמוד 341 - It will be observed, therefore, that but little fuel is required to operate this apparatus, for the reason that the heat is conserved and used over and over again, whereas by the ordinary process of boiling water and allowing it to cool off...
עמוד 15 - ... of injurious, and the employment of helpful psychic influences, play no mean part in the prevention of disease and in the correction of morbid conditions. It is to be regretted that present materialistic tendencies cause them so often to be overlooked or ignored except by charlatans. HEREDITY AND DISEASE. Abnormalities in the organism previous to birth may be the result of any one of a number of factors. First, the germ-plasm of the fertilized ovum may have acquired, from either paternal or maternal...