The Case-system of Hygiene, Book 7Case-System Company, 1916 |
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abscess aged alcohol antitoxin baby blood Board of Health body brain Cause chest child chill cholera clean cold contagious hospital cows cure dairy diarrhoea diphtheria discharges DISCUSSION-CASE disease is spread drinking Early diagnosis early stage epidemic exposed eyes felt Florence Nightingale foot and mouth Germs attacking germs of tetanus Germs spread girl glanders heaping horse manure infantile paralysis infection intestines isolation keep kills lice live lungs lymph glands lymphatics malaria marine hospital service matter measles mosquito mouth disease neck nose and throat out-of-sorts pain parasites of malaria pasteurized person plague pneumonia PRACTICAL POINTS prevent the disease Preventive treatment properly disposed pure milk rats scarlet fever sepsis serum sewage sick Sinus smallpox sore throat SUMMARY OF PRACTICAL swollen Symptoms tablespoon tetanus things tobacco trachoma trouble tuberculin tuberculosis typhoid fever typhus fever usually vaccine ventilation vomited weakened weeks whooping cough wound
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Page 10 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares. Honor to those whose words or deeds Thus help us in our daily needs, And by their overflow Raise us from what is low!
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Page 10 - Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp, — The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo ! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room.
Page 10 - Honor to those whose words or deeds Thus help us in our daily needs, And by their overflow Raise us from what is low ! Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp, — The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corndors, The cold and stony floors.
Page 11 - The starved and frozen camp, — The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo ! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.
Page 61 - The last ten cases have all been about contagious diseases which are easily passed from one person to another by the discharges from the nose and throat.