A System of physiologic therapeutics v.5, 1902, כרך 5

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P. Blakiston's, 1902
 

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עמוד 253 - ... 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 ii - A System of Physiologic Therapeutics. A practical Exposition of the Methods, Other than Drug-Giving, Useful in the Prevention of Disease and in the Treatment of the Sick.
עמוד 43 - 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 103 - Leichensten suggests that a small excavation, into which a little water is poured, be made in the solid feces. If the parasites be present, they will usually be found in a short time in the water, especially if the preparation be kept at a temperature from 30° to 35° C. (86° to 95° F.) The eggs of the uncinaria are embryonic ovals with a thin shell, the protoplasm being unsegmented, or in the early stages of segmentation. Similar eggs are those of Ascaris lumbricoides, Oxyuris vermicularis and...
עמוד 355 - ... 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 53 - ... 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 327 - 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 377 - Fruits and all edibles should, before and after purchase, be stored with care to avoid all unnecessary exposure to street and car dust. 14. Fouling of Cars. Cars should be protected against all unnecessary fouling. The filthy habit of spitting on car floors should be dealt with in a manner to cause its prompt discontinuance.
עמוד 332 - ... hours, and then leaving its coke contents in contact with the interstitial air for another period of two hours. It has been found possible to repeat this cycle four times in twenty-four hours, and using beds six feet in depth to purify the settled sewage at the rate of two million gallons per acre per twenty-four hours. By this purification an effluent is obtained which is saturated with dissolved oxygen, which remains entirely inoffensive in smell for an indefinite period in an incubator at...
עמוד 355 - ... feet or more if the outside air is cold; otherwise unpleasant draughts are experienced. As a further protection against unpleasant draughts when cold air is admitted, the incoming air should be directed upward; while hot air, since it tends to rise, should be directed downward.

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