The Hygiene of transmissible diseases ; their causation, modes of dissemination, and methods of preventionW.B. Saunders, 1901 - 350 pages |
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... practically nothing was then known as to the direct causation of disease , these laws were of necessity empirical , though the measures recommended for preventing the spread of contagion , for cleanliness , for the killing of animals ...
... practically nothing was then known as to the direct causation of disease , these laws were of necessity empirical , though the measures recommended for preventing the spread of contagion , for cleanliness , for the killing of animals ...
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... practically nothing was then known as to the direct causation of disease , these laws were of necessity empirical , though the measures recommended for preventing the spread of contagion , for cleanliness , for the killing of animals ...
... practically nothing was then known as to the direct causation of disease , these laws were of necessity empirical , though the measures recommended for preventing the spread of contagion , for cleanliness , for the killing of animals ...
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... practically disappeared from among civilized peoples . Typhus fever , also so frequent in former times among the inmates of overcrowded hospitals and other public institutions , has , under modern sanitary conditions , become a rarity ...
... practically disappeared from among civilized peoples . Typhus fever , also so frequent in former times among the inmates of overcrowded hospitals and other public institutions , has , under modern sanitary conditions , become a rarity ...
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... practically as susceptible as whites when ex- posed to the infection . It may or may not be due to acquired tolerance , or " acclimatization , " as it is sometimes called , that a similarly relatively low degree of susceptibility of the ...
... practically as susceptible as whites when ex- posed to the infection . It may or may not be due to acquired tolerance , or " acclimatization , " as it is sometimes called , that a similarly relatively low degree of susceptibility of the ...
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... practically equivalent to that of New York city , and 34 being less than that of Fall River , Mass . It must be said , however , that the data obtained from the 78 cities , including 28 in England and 50 in THE CAUSATION OF DISEASE . 47.
... practically equivalent to that of New York city , and 34 being less than that of Fall River , Mass . It must be said , however , that the data obtained from the 78 cities , including 28 in England and 50 in THE CAUSATION OF DISEASE . 47.
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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.