Excerpt from In Sickness and in Health: A Manual of Domestic Medicine and Surgery, Hygiene, Dietetics, and Nursing; Dealing in a Practical Way With the Problems Relating to the Maintenance of Health, the Prevention and Treatment of Disease, and the Most Effective Aid in Emergencies
The causes of disease - Unhygienic surroundings - Improper food - ~alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs - Injurious habits and occupations - Lack of exercise - Inherited diseases - Infec tious diseases: theories of infection - Theories of immunity from infection: inherited immunity and acquired immunity Bacteria what they are and how they are recognised - Harmless or useful bacteria - Bacteria of disease - How bacteria get into the body - Their effects upon the tissues - The prevention and cure of bacterial diseases - Tuberculosis: its cause; the man ner in which the bacillus finds entrance, and how it spreads - Vaccination - Method of vaccination (inoculation) - Revac cination - Time for vaccination in infants - Small-pox - Vario loid - Scarlet fever - Chicken-pox - Measles - German measles - Typhoid fever - Whooping-cough Mumps Diphtheria Meningitis - Malarial diseases - Yellow fever - Diseases of the blood - Gout - Rheumatism.
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