A Manual of Practical HygieneChurchill, 1878 - 733 pages |
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Other editions - View all
A Manual of Practical Hygiene Edmund Alexander Parkes,Francis Stephen Benet Fran De Chaumont No preview available - 2015 |
A Manual of Practical Hygiene Edmund Alexander Parkes,Francis Stephen Benet Fran De Chaumont No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 379 - Save as aforesaid, it includes rivers, streams, canals, lakes, and watercourses, other than watercourses at the passing of this Act mainly used as sewers, and emptying directly into the sea, or tidal waters which have not been determined to be streams within the meaning of this Act by such order as aforesaid...
Page 306 - ... answer. If spirits neither give strength to the body, nor sustain it against disease — are not protective against cold and wet, and aggravate rather than mitigate the effects of heat — if their use even in moderation increases crime, injures discipline, and impairs hope and cheerfulness — if the severest trials of war have been not merely borne, but most easily borne, without them — if there is no evidence that they are protective against malaria or other diseases — -then I conceive...
Page 307 - ... health, but in health it is certainly not a necessity, and many persons are much better without it. As now used by mankind, it is infinitely more powerful for evil than for good; and though it can hardly be imagined that its dietetic use will cease in our time, yet a clearer view of its effects must surely lead to a lessening of the excessive use which now prevails.
Page 317 - The ash contains a large quantity of phosphate of potash. The larger quantity of fat makes it a very nourishing article of diet, and it is therefore useful in weak states of the system, and for healthy men under circumstances of great exertion. It has even been compared to milk. In South America cocoa and maize cakes are used by travellers, and the large amount of agreeable nourishment in small bulk enables several days' supplies to be easily carried.
Page 94 - ... of which one-half is from accidents and incurable diseases. Glanders and farcy have almost disappeared, and if a case occurs, it is considered evidence of neglect. The food, exercise, and general treatment being the same, this result has been obtained by cleanliness, dryness, and the freest ventilation. The ventilation is threefold — ground ventilation, for drying the floors ; ceiling ventilation, for discharge of foul air ; and supply of air beneath the horses' noses, to dilute at once the...
Page xxiv - It has been proved over and over again that nothing is so costly in 'all ways as disease, and that nothing is so remunerative as the outlay which augments health and in doing so augments the amount and value of the work done.
Page 113 - The colliers of Durham and Northumberland, where the mines are well ventilated, do not appear to suffer from an excess of pulmonary disease, or do so in a slight degree only.
Page 126 - Three dogs and a mouse were experimented on ; the latter was let down over the cesspool, and died on the fifth day. The three dogs were confined in the box ; they all suffered from vomiting, purging, and a febrile condition, which, Dr Barker says, "resembled the milder forms of continued fever common to the dirty and ill-ventilated homes of the lower classes of the community.
Page xxii - Parkes," pure air is a necessity for health ; but an individual may have little control over the air which surrounds him, and which he must draw into his lungs. He may be powerless to prevent other persons from contaminating his air, and thereby striking at the very foundation of his health and happiness. Here, as in so many other cases which demand regulation of the conduct of individuals towards each other, the state steps in for the protection of its citizens, and enacts rules which shall be binding...
Page 296 - Voluntary muscular power seems to be lessened, and this is most marked when a large amount of alcohol is taken at once; the finer combined movements are less perfectly made. Whether this is by direct action on the muscular fibres, or by the influence on the nerves, is not certain. In very large doses it paralyses either the respiratory muscles, or the nerves supplying them, and death sometimes occurs from the impairment to respiration.