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 |
Common terms and phrases
action albuminates alcohol alkaline ammonia ammonium amount animal appears Army barracks body boiling calcium carbonate carbonic acid cause cells cent charcoal chemical chloride cholera colour contains cubic feet cubic foot determined diarrhoea discharge disease dissolved drinking water dysentery effect effluvia especially evaporation evidence examined excreta experiments fæcal Fahr filter flour give given grains per gallon grammes heat hospital hour hydrochloric acid Hygiene impure inches iron less lessened lime litre magnesia meat medical officer milligrammes nitric nitrogen nitrous acid organic matter ounces oxide oxidisable oxygen particles pass permanganate phosphoric acid pipes poison potassium potassium permanganate present probably produced pure rain Report salts Sanitary sewage sewers smell sodium soil solid solution sometimes specific gravity starch substances sulphate sulphuretted hydrogen sulphuric acid supply temperature tion tube typhoid fever vapour vegetable ventilation washing weight
Popular passages
Page 421 - When the same muscle (or group of muscles) is kept in constant action until fatigue sets in, the total work done, multiplied by the rate of work, is constant.
Page 309 - The facts now stated make it difficult to avoid the conclusion that the dietetic value of alcohol has been much overrated. It does not appear to me possible at present to condemn alcohol altogether as an article of diet in health; or to prove that it is invariably hurtful, as some have attempted to do. It produces effects which are often useful in disease, and sometimes desirable in health; but in health it...
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 150 - ... could not be attempted. Even five times per hour would be too much ; for in barracks with 600 cubic feet per head, the rooms are cold and draughty when anything approaching to 3000 cubic feet per head per hour are passing through, that is, a change of five times per hour for each 600 cubic feet of air space. A change equal to three times per hour is generally all that can be borne under the conditions of warming in this country, or that is practically attainable with natural ventilation, and...
Page xxi - Looking only to the part of hygiene which concerns the physician, a perfect system of rules of health would be best arranged in an orderly series of this kind. The rules would commence with the regulation of the mother's health while bearing her child, so that the growth of the new being should be as perfect as possible.
Page 96 - ... 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 47 - Twenty years ago Mr Blower of Bedford mentioned a case in which the ague of a village had been much lessened by digging wells, and he refers to an instance in which, in the parish of Houghton, almost the only family which escaped ague at one time was that of a farmer who used well water, while all the other persons drank ditch water...
Page xx - The definition, or perhaps description, of hygiene, as understood in this department, is best given in the words of the late Dr. EA Parkes: " Taking the word hygiene in its largest sense, it signifies rules for perfect culture of mind and body. It is impossible to dissociate the two. The body is affected by every mental and moral action; the mind is profoundly influenced by bodily conditions. For a perfect system of hygiene we must...
Page 298 - 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.