The Principles of hygieneW.B. Saunders Company, 1914 - 525 pages |
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Page 17
... less rapid , death more remote . " Hence hygiene treats of the laws of health ; of all those measures which tend to preserve the body in a healthy condition , as well as those which tend to improve the general health . It embraces a ...
... less rapid , death more remote . " Hence hygiene treats of the laws of health ; of all those measures which tend to preserve the body in a healthy condition , as well as those which tend to improve the general health . It embraces a ...
Page 19
... less resistant to the invasion of pathogenic bacteria , or otherwise pre- dispose to disordered health . The conditions which have been classed as remote causes of disease also belong in this class , but besides these there are other ...
... less resistant to the invasion of pathogenic bacteria , or otherwise pre- dispose to disordered health . The conditions which have been classed as remote causes of disease also belong in this class , but besides these there are other ...
Page 23
... less marked after the age of forty - five to fifty years . Certain diseases are far more prevalent in women than in men , such as hysteria and allied nervous diseases ; while epilepsy , locomotor ataxia , gout , and acute diseases of ...
... less marked after the age of forty - five to fifty years . Certain diseases are far more prevalent in women than in men , such as hysteria and allied nervous diseases ; while epilepsy , locomotor ataxia , gout , and acute diseases of ...
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... less liable to tuberculosis than their neighbors . Detailed studies of the vital statistics of Boston , New York and Brooklyn , Philadelphia , Baltimore , and Wash- ington for the six years ending May 31 , 1890 , by Dr. Billings , have ...
... less liable to tuberculosis than their neighbors . Detailed studies of the vital statistics of Boston , New York and Brooklyn , Philadelphia , Baltimore , and Wash- ington for the six years ending May 31 , 1890 , by Dr. Billings , have ...
Page 26
... less liable to yellow fever and to malaria than the white race . 5. Conjugal Condition . - The influence of conjugal conditions upon death - rates is manifest from the follow- ing studies made in Baltimore and Washington for the ...
... less liable to yellow fever and to malaria than the white race . 5. Conjugal Condition . - The influence of conjugal conditions upon death - rates is manifest from the follow- ing studies made in Baltimore and Washington for the ...
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Page 457 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.
Page 453 - An act granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional duties upon the Marine Hospital Service...
Page 499 - Treasury, necessary to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious disea-ses into the United States from foreign countries or into one State or Territory or the District of Columbia...