257-277

CHAPTER XIII

PERSONAL HYGIENE

Exercise. Clothing. Bathing. Mouth breathing. Eyes.
Teeth. Sleep 278-294

CHAPTER XIV

THEORIES OF DISEASE

Effects of dirt. Blood resistance. Cell disintegration. Heredity.
Age and sex. Occupation. Direct cause of disease. Parasites.
Bacterial agencies. Antitoxins. Natural immunity.
Chemical poisons. External causes 295-313

CHAPTER XV

DISINFECTION

Disinfecting agents. Antiseptics. Deodorizers. Patented disinfectants.
Disinfecting gases. Sulfur. Formaldehyde.
Liquid disinfectants. Carbolic acid. Coal-tar products.
Mercury. Lime. Soap. Heat. Dry heat. Boiling water.
Steam. Drying, light, and soil 314-331

CHAPTER XVI

TUBERCULOSIS AND PNEUMONIA

Tuberculosis. Individual resistance. Precautions by the consumptive.
Cure of consumption. Pneumonia--the germ.
Weather not the cause of pneumonia. Preventives in pneumonia.
Infection of pneumonia 332-348

CHAPTER XVII

TYPHOID FEVER

Cause of the disease. The bacillus. Methods of transmission
of typhoid. Construction of wells in reference to typhoid.
Milk infection by typhoid. Infection by flies. Other sources
of typhoid fever. Treatment of typhoid fever 349-363

CHAPTER XVIII

CHILDREN'S DISEASES

After effects. Preliminary symptoms. Contagiousness. Quarantine
for scarlet fever. Measles. Characteristic eruption
of measles. Whooping cough. Precautions against spread
of whooping cough. Chicken pox 364-376

CHAPTER XIX

PARASITICAL DISEASES

Malaria. Mosquitoes and malaria. Elimination of mosquitoes.
Limitation of mosquito infection. Yellow fever. Characteristics
of the disease. Hookworm disease. Pellagra. Bubonic
plague 377-395

CHAPTER XX

DISEASES CONTROLLED BY ANTITOXINS

Smallpox. Value of vaccination. Characteristics of smallpox.
Treatment of smallpox. Diphtheria. Cause of the disease.
Production of diphtheria antitoxin. Symptoms of diphtheria.
Rabies. Tetanus 396-409

CHAPTER XXI

HYGIENE AND LAW

Principle of laws of hygiene. Self-interest, the real basis of law.
Quality of water. Regulations governing foods. Basis of
pure food laws. Protec