The Hygiene of transmissible diseases ; their causation, modes of dissemination, and methods of preventionW.B. Saunders, 1901 - 350 pages |
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... fact . The frequency with which requests are received for infor- mation concerning the detailed management of transmissible diseases is in part the reason for the publication of this book . I trust the work may serve a useful purpose ...
... fact . The frequency with which requests are received for infor- mation concerning the detailed management of transmissible diseases is in part the reason for the publication of this book . I trust the work may serve a useful purpose ...
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... fact many of those of comparatively modern date , were in the main speculative , representing the dictates of instinct and intuition . They were , nevertheless , of undoubted benefit to those who heeded them and , in so far at least as ...
... fact many of those of comparatively modern date , were in the main speculative , representing the dictates of instinct and intuition . They were , nevertheless , of undoubted benefit to those who heeded them and , in so far at least as ...
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... could be conspicuously reduced , and this , too , without the addition of a single new fact to the knowledge that we already possess . SECTION I. THE CAUSATION OF DISEASE . As has been 24 HYGIENE OF TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES .
... could be conspicuously reduced , and this , too , without the addition of a single new fact to the knowledge that we already possess . SECTION I. THE CAUSATION OF DISEASE . As has been 24 HYGIENE OF TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES .
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... fact that a large proportion of adult human beings have passed through the commoner transmissible diseases during the period of childhood or youth , and if we recall the fact that in the majority of instances recovery from such attacks ...
... fact that a large proportion of adult human beings have passed through the commoner transmissible diseases during the period of childhood or youth , and if we recall the fact that in the majority of instances recovery from such attacks ...
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... fact that the predispositions of the different races of mankind to particular forms of disease 1 The numerical method here employed may not be acceptable in the light of accurate statistical methods . The figures represent only the ...
... fact that the predispositions of the different races of mankind to particular forms of disease 1 The numerical method here employed may not be acceptable in the light of accurate statistical methods . The figures represent only the ...
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acute agents animals anthrax antitoxic appearance bacillus bacteria blood body bubonic plague carbolic acid cause cent CHART cholera clinical clothing common conspicuous contagious cultures death-rate deaths destroyed detected diphtheria disin disinfection dissemination dysentery Edition endemic epidemic erysipelas especially etiological fatal favorable formaldehyde frequently germicidal glanders Hospital hygiene immunity important individuals infection infectious diseases influence inoculation instance intestinal investigations isolated larvæ leprosy lesions less localities malarial fevers manifest Medical membrane methods micro-organism mode mortality mosquito mucous mucous membrane non-spore-forming observed occur octavo opinion ordinary organism outbreak parasite pathogenic pathological patient peculiar period persons Philadelphia plague poison polluted population practically predisposing present pyogenic quarantine rabies regarded sanitary saprophytic serum skin small-pox soil solution specific spores sputum stains steam suppuration susceptible syphilis temperature tetanus tion tissues transmission trustworthy tuberculosis typhoid fever usually vaccination virus vital water-supply worm wounds yellow fever
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Page 352 - College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; and Walter S. Haines, MD, Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Toxicology, Rush Medical College, in affiliation with the University of Chicago.