 Consumption is a disease of the lungs, which is taken from others, and is not simply caused by colds, although a cold may make it easier to take the disease. It is caused by very minute germs, which usually enter the body with the air breathed. The matter...  Civics and health - Page 223by William Harvey Allen - 1909 - 411 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Jerome Wilson - 1901 - 250 pages
...indirectly from other cases, this is now an established fact." The New York Board of Health states that "consumption is a disease of the lungs which is taken from others, and is caused by germs." The Michigan Board of Health states that "consumption is a dangerous communicable... | |
 | 1902 - 606 pages
...L— 1901. INFORMATION FOR CONSUMPTIVES AND THOSE LIVING WITH THEM. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, New York. Consumption is a disease of the lungs, which is taken from others, and is not simply caused by colds. A cold may make it easier to take the disease. It is caused by germs, which usually enter the body... | |
 | Emily Wayland Dinwiddie - 1903 - 88 pages
...CONSUMPTIVES AND THOSE LIVING WITH THEM. "Consumption is Chiefly Caused ly the Filthy Habit of Spitting. Consumption is a disease of the lungs, which is taken...although a cold may make it easier to take the disease. It is caused by very minute germs, which usually enter the body with the air breathed. The matter which... | |
 | Reynold Webb Wilcox - 1907 - 954 pages
...attempt that is being made to awaken the masses to the importance of the crusade against tuberculosis. " Consumption is a disease of the lungs, which is taken...although a cold may make it easier to take the disease. It is caused by very minute germs, which usually enter the body with the ah- breathed. The matter which... | |
 | Herbert William Conn - 1908 - 348 pages
...regularly accepted treatment. which depends upon pure air, an out-ofdoor life and nourishing food. " Consumption is a disease of the lungs, which is taken...although a cold may make it easier to take the disease. It is caused by very minute germs, which usually enter the body with the air breathed. The matter which... | |
 | Robert Eadie, A. S. Eadie - 1909 - 372 pages
...you could formerly. Extract from a Circular issued by the Department of Health, City of New York: " Consumption is a disease of the lungs, which is taken...although a cold may make it easier to take the disease. It is caused by very minute germs, which usually enter the body with the air breathed. The matter that... | |
 | Herbert William Conn - 1909 - 348 pages
...regularly accepted treatment, which depends upon pure air, an out-ofdoor life and nourishing food. "Consumption is a disease of the lungs, which is taken...although a cold may make it easier to take the disease. It is caused by very minute germs, which usually enter the body with the air breathed. The matter which... | |
 | Sigard Adolphus Knopf - 1909 - 452 pages
...CONSUMPTION, ALSO CALLED PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS, IS CHIEFLY CAUSED BY THE FILTHY HABIT OF SPITTING. Consumption is a disease of the lungs, which is taken...although a cold may make it easier to take the disease. It is caused by very minute germs, which usually enter the body with the air breathed. The matter which... | |
 | Herbert William Conn, Robert Allyn Budington - 1909 - 428 pages
...regularly accepted treatment, which depends upon pure air, an out-of-door life and nourishing food. "Consumption is a disease of the lungs, which is taken...although a cold may make it easier to take the disease. It is caused by very minute germs, which usually enter the body with the air breathed. The matter which... | |
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