Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene for High Schools

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American Book Company, 1900 - 320 страница
 

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Страница 13 - Not in the world of light alone, Where God has built His blazing throne, Nor yet alone in earth below, With belted seas that come and go, And endless isles of sunlit green, Is all thy Maker's glory seen : Look in upon thy wondrous frame, — Eternal wisdom still the same...
Страница 4 - Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, who has not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics upon the human system.
Страница 265 - With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed : And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
Страница 11 - But heard are the Voices, Heard are the Sages, The Worlds and the Ages: " Choose well ; your choice is Brief, and yet endless. Here eyes do regard you, In Eternity's stillness; Here is all fulness, Ye brave, to reward you; Work, and despair not.
Страница 281 - Typhoid fever. Unlike typhus fever, typhoid fever is not often contracted directly from the sick person, but usually from the discharges from the bowels of the sick person. These should always be properly disinfected. Undisinfected discharges, if dried and formed into dust, may spread the disease through the air. The chief source of danger, however, is believed to be drinking water contaminated by sewage or leachings from privies, etc. The germs of typhoid fever are killed by boiling. All suspected...
Страница 149 - From an exhaustive definition we shall have to class every substance as a poison which, on becoming mixed with the blood, causes a disturbance in the function of any organ. That alcohol is such a poison cannot be doubted Very appropriately has the English language named the disturbance caused by alcoholic beverages intoxication, which, by derivation, means poisoning.
Страница 208 - Whenever a case of yellow fever occurs in camp, the troops should be promptly moved to a fresh camping ground located a mile or more from infected camp. No doubt typhoid fever, camp diarrhea, and probably yellow fever are frequently communicated to soldiers in camp through the agency of flies, which swarm about fecal matter and filth of all kinds deposited upon the ground or in shallow pits...
Страница 281 - The measures for its restriction are therefore obvious — isolation and disinfection. Diphtheria is spread by the sputa, saliva, and whatever comes from the throat and mouth of the patient and by the dust which results from the drying of such saliva, etc.
Страница 62 - In weight the non-users (in 1891) increased 10.4 per cent, more than the regular users, and 6.6 per cent, more than the occasional users. In height the non-users increased 24 per cent, more than the regular users, and 14 per cent, more than the occasional users.

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