The Hygiene of transmissible diseases ; their causation, modes of dissemination, and methods of preventionW.B. Saunders, 1901 - 350 pages |
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... factors . Wherever practicable , these views have been embodied and discussed . The sections especially on Malaria , Yellow Fever , Plague , Filariasis , Dysentery , and Tuberculosis have been both re- vised and enlarged . To keep the ...
... factors . Wherever practicable , these views have been embodied and discussed . The sections especially on Malaria , Yellow Fever , Plague , Filariasis , Dysentery , and Tuberculosis have been both re- vised and enlarged . To keep the ...
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... factors that have not only a direct bearing upon the incidence and suppression of such diseases , but that are of general sanitary importance as well . In the preparation of this work only the most trust- worthy authors have been ...
... factors that have not only a direct bearing upon the incidence and suppression of such diseases , but that are of general sanitary importance as well . In the preparation of this work only the most trust- worthy authors have been ...
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... factors concerned in the causation and dissemination of disease . The causative factors in disease are manifold ; they differ in nature the one from the other , and are of varying degrees of importance in their relation to morbid ...
... factors concerned in the causation and dissemination of disease . The causative factors in disease are manifold ; they differ in nature the one from the other , and are of varying degrees of importance in their relation to morbid ...
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... factors are therefore usually classed as Exciting or Direct and Predisposing or Indirect . Predisposing Causes of Disease . - By this term is usually meant those conditions with which man is surrounded that have a tendency so to reduce ...
... factors are therefore usually classed as Exciting or Direct and Predisposing or Indirect . Predisposing Causes of Disease . - By this term is usually meant those conditions with which man is surrounded that have a tendency so to reduce ...
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... factor in predisposing to disease , the influence of age cannot be ignored . To certain maladies the young are more prone than the old , while to others the reverse is the case . The greatest number of deaths , and hence the greatest ...
... factor in predisposing to disease , the influence of age cannot be ignored . To certain maladies the young are more prone than the old , while to others the reverse is the case . The greatest number of deaths , and hence the greatest ...
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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.