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Trap. An arrangement on some part of the sewerage system, usually a bend in the pipe in which water stands, by means of which we seek to prevent the return of gases and disease germs into the building. Tubercular. Pertaining to, or affected with, tubercle. Tubercle. Nodules of greatly varying size constituting the disease

tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis. A specific disease usually characterized by the formation of tubercles. Pulmonary consumption is a tuberculosis of the lungs. Typhoid fever. Meaning literally a fever resembling typhus. The common fever of this country. Formerly typhus and typhoid were not distinguished, the one from the other. Typhoid fever is communicable only in a slight degree, if at all, by direct contagion; but there is great danger of its spread from the sick to the well from defective sanitary arrangements and regulations.

Typhus fever. A dangerously contagious disease rarely found in this country, and when appearing in our State, probably always by importation. (See Typhoid fever.)

Varioloid. Small-pox modified by vaccination. It is contagious, and cases of small-pox as severe may arise from exposure to its infection as from unmodified small-pox.

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Waste-pipe. That part of the house-drainage system which conveys the waste-water from sinks, baths, etc.

Zymotic. Characterized by fermentation. Applied to epidemic, endemic and contagious diseases, on account of the similarity between the process of fermentation and that which is started in the organism after its infection with the cause of any of these diseases.

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Bartholow, Dr. Roberts, digital transmission of typhoid fever.

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Copper, sulphate, as a disinfectant.

Cornet, the entry of tubercle virus into the organism.

Corney, Dr, cerebro-spinal meningitis in the Fiji Islands...
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Healthy homes for the working classes...

Heat as a cause of summer diarrhoea......

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Heller on tuberculous infection from milk....

Henle on the composition of creolin.......

Henneberg, the, disinfector......

Hesse, Dr. W., food stuffs as culture media for typhoid bacillus.

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