Report of Committee on Social BettermentPresident's homes commission, 1908 - 281 pages |
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... catarrh ; cold grapes and fruit are apt to pro- duce colic and diarrhea . The bad effects of cold victuals have been frequently observed in persons obliged to eat cold lunches , and may be regarded as a frequent cause of intemperance ...
... catarrh ; cold grapes and fruit are apt to pro- duce colic and diarrhea . The bad effects of cold victuals have been frequently observed in persons obliged to eat cold lunches , and may be regarded as a frequent cause of intemperance ...
Page 66
... catarrh of the respiratory passages , sore throats , diphtheria , etc. Fluegge , without wishing to exaggerate the danger from droplet infection , believes it to be greater than from the inhalation of infected dust . 66.
... catarrh of the respiratory passages , sore throats , diphtheria , etc. Fluegge , without wishing to exaggerate the danger from droplet infection , believes it to be greater than from the inhalation of infected dust . 66.
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... catarrhs , and later to tuberculosis , whilst in others repeated attacks of tonsilitis predisposes to diphtheria . The observations of Dr. Bowditch , of Boston , and Buchanan , of Eng- land , indicate that damp soils and habitations are ...
... catarrhs , and later to tuberculosis , whilst in others repeated attacks of tonsilitis predisposes to diphtheria . The observations of Dr. Bowditch , of Boston , and Buchanan , of Eng- land , indicate that damp soils and habitations are ...
Page 77
... catarrh is also an infectious disease , caused by a very small bacillus , discovered by Pfeiffer in 1892. This organism is constantly found in the bronchial and nasal secretions of the affected persons and , as in tuberculosis and ...
... catarrh is also an infectious disease , caused by a very small bacillus , discovered by Pfeiffer in 1892. This organism is constantly found in the bronchial and nasal secretions of the affected persons and , as in tuberculosis and ...
Page 87
... catarrhs , are especially liable to be attacked . Prophylaxis : In the attempt to prevent epidemic extensions of these diseases the water supply should be looked after , and every source of contamination of wells , springs ard public ...
... catarrhs , are especially liable to be attacked . Prophylaxis : In the attempt to prevent epidemic extensions of these diseases the water supply should be looked after , and every source of contamination of wells , springs ard public ...
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Page 192 - ... Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the 'package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such package or if...
Page 250 - Such register shall be open for inspection to the said commissioners, their officers and agents, on every day, except Sundays and legal holidays, between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon.
Page 122 - An ordinance to revise, consolidate, and amend the ordinances of the board of health, to declare what shall be deemed nuisances injurious to health and to provide for the removal thereof...
Page 115 - His computations clearly indicate that where one death from typhoid fever has been avoided by the use of a better water, a certain number of deaths, probably two or three, from other causes have been avoided.
Page 213 - India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma, and all Throat and Lung Affections, also a positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints...
Page 191 - It is equally derogatory to professional character for physicians to hold patents for any surgical instruments or medicines; to accept rebates on prescriptions or surgical appliances; to assist unqualified persons to evade the legal restrictions governing the practice of medicine...
Page 180 - From and after the passage of this act no pharmacist, druggist, apothecary, or other person shall refill, more than once, prescriptions containing opium or morphine or preparations of either in which the dose of opium shall exceed one-fourth grain or morphine one-twentieth grain, except with the verbal or written order of a physician.
Page 61 - In diseases like smallpox and scarlet fever, in which the infectious agent is given off from the entire surface of the body, occasional ablutions with Labarraque's Solution, diluted with twenty parts of water, will be more suitable than the stronger solution above recommended.
Page 253 - It shall be entitled to charge and receive upon each loan made by it without the actual delivery to it of the property pledged or mortgaged...
Page 191 - ... legal restrictions governing the practice of medicine; or to dispense, or promote the use of, secret medicines, for if such nostrums are of real efficacy, any concealment regarding them is inconsistent with beneficence and professional liberality; and, if mystery alone can give them public notoriety, such craft implies either disgraceful ignorance or fraudulent avarice. It is highly reprehensible for physicians to give certificates attesting the efficacy of secret medicines, or other substances...