Respiration, artificial, 225.

Rest, need of, 22.

Rhubarb, 142.

_Rhus_, poisoning by, 259.

_Rhus toxicodendron_, 259.

_Rhus venenata_, 259.

Rice, boiled, 285;
cooking of, 167;
value of, 113.

Rochdale, system of, 53.

Rolls, 286.

Rum, 160.

S

Salad plants, 139.

Saliva, 29.

Sanitation, 35.

Sauerkraut, 139.

Scab, 233.

Schafer, Prof., system of artificial respiration, 225.

Screens, 41, 176, 219.

Sewage, disposal of, 49.

Shallots, 140.

Sheet, rubber, 219.

Sick-room, 217.

_Sistrurus_, 262.

Sleep, 26, 78.

Sleeping-sickness, 1.

Snake, harlequin, 262.

Snake-bites, 268.

Snakes, columbine, 262, 263;
elapine, 263;
non-venomous, 264;
venomous, 261;
viperine, 261.

Soups, meat, 292;
vegetable, 290.

Sours, 147.

Spinach, 138.

Splints, 235.

Sprains, 234.

Sputum, 184.

Squash, 143.

Starches, 98, 104;
changes in, 165;
in cooking, 97;
in vegetables, 131;
raw, 105.

Steam, 46.

Stove, 47.

Streams, 60.

Strychnine, as antidote, 269;
poisoning by, 254.

Sugar, consumption of, 126;
from beets, 136;
in vegetables, 131;
kinds of, 125;
raw, 105.

Sunstroke, 242.

Swamp-dogwood, 260.

Syringe, 84.

Syrups, 33;
soothing, 255.

T

Tapeworm, 8, 9, 51.

Tea, 31, 152.

Teeth, care of, 80, 248;
teething of infants, 80;
tooth-ache, 248.

Toadstool, see Mushroom.

Tobacco, 34.

Tomato, 141.

Tonsillitis, follicular, 200.

Tooth-ache, 248.

Treatment, immunizing, 205;
pasteur, 214.

Tricina, 18.

Tuberculosis, 94, 95, 156;
description and treatment, 178.

Tubers, 135.

Turnips, 136, 137, 138.

V

Vaccination, 88.

Veal, boiled, 277;
fried, 277;
jellied, 278;
roast, 276;
stew or pot-pie, 277.

Vegetables, cooking of, 293;
digestibility of, 132, 133;
diseases contracted from, 9.

Ventilation, 48, 218.

Vinegar, 133, 136, 147.

Vipers, 262. See also pit-vipers.

Vomiting, 67, 87.

W

Waffles, 107.

Wall-paper, 41.

Water, as a drink, 30, 148;
dangers of, 140;
diseases contracted from, 8;
for heating, 46;
for poisons, 251;
for wounds, 230.

Water-supply, 57.

Wells, 58.

Whisky, 160.

Wines, 161.

Work, 2