Index

Amoeba, 13

Anthrax, 109

Antitoxin, 154

Bacteria, 116

adaptation in, 123

ærobic, 122

anærobic, 122

artificial cultivation of, 119

distribution in nature, 121

growth and reproduction, 118

mode of action in disease, 144

size, 117

spore formation, 118

substances affecting growth of, 123

toxin production by, 144

variations in, 123

Blood, 35

circulation of, 33, 80

vessels, 32

Body, 22

defenses of, 146

organs of, 28

reserve force of, 50

surfaces of, 22

Brain, 31

Cerebro-spinal meningitis, 188

Chemotropism, 93

Cretinism, 37

Darwinism, 240

Death, 57

decomposition after, 51

rigor after, 60

signs of, 59

Disease, 1

action of poisons, 44

acute and chronic, 219

industrialism as factor in, 243

lesions of, 46

superstitions concerning, 10

urban life as factor in, 244

wealth and poverty as factors in, 246

Ductless glands, 37

Embryo, 77

Epilepsy, 209

Eugenics, 215

Foetus, 32

infection of, 200

Foot and Mouth Disease, 129

Glands, 22

Growth, 62

Heart, 33, 221

disease of, 223

Heliotropism, 93

Heredity, 197

influence of alcohol, 206

of insanity, 209

variations and imitations, 204

Hookworm disease, 179

Immunity, 148

theories of, 149

natural, 150

Infection, 135

from external surface, 136

from genito-urinary surface, 137

from lungs, 138

from mouth, 138

from stomach and intestines, 139

from wounds, 141

in children, 195

in wild animals, 191

latent, 166

mixed, 160

racial susceptibility to, 191

resistance to, 143

by air, 170

by insects, 171

Infectious diseases, 97

carriers of, 185

comparison with fermentation, 108

epidemics of, 98

endemic, epidemic and sporadic forms, 188

modes of transmission, 161

Inflammation, 80

acute and chronic, 95

Injury, 54-74

Insanity, 231

causes of, 232

question of increase, 235

Lesion, 17

Leucocytes, 36

migration of, 92

Living matter, 10

Malaria, 175

rôle of mosquito in transmitting, 178

Malformations, 211

heredity of, 215

Maternal impressions, 212

Nervous system, 228

disease of, 230

effect of social life on, 233

Neurasthenia, 238

Old age, 51

atrophy in, 51

blood vessels in, 54

causes of death in, 56

in animals and plants, 55

mental activity in, 53

Osmosis, 91

Opsonius, 153

Ovum, 201

fertilization of, 198

infection of, 199

Phagocytosis, 86

Plague, 182

transmission by animals, 183

Plasmodium Malariae, 175

Preventive medicine, 242

Protozoa, 124

distribution in nature, 125

mode of growth, 125

sexual differentiation, 125

spore formation, 125

Polyomyelitis, 190

Repair, 46

conditions influencing, 47

Scar, 49

Skin, 21

Sleeping sickness, 173

Smallpox, 187

Spontaneous generation, 106

Sunburn, 83

Syphilis, 193

Tetanus, 142

Thymus, 52

Thyroid, 37

Tonsils, 52

Toxins, 144

Tropisms, 93

Trypanosomes, 172

Tuberculosis, 163

infection by sputum, 169

modes of extension, 163

Tumors, 64

benign and malignant, 69

cells of, 66

color, size and shape, 65

growth of, 65

importance of, 77

origin of, 66

question of increase, 69

theories of cause, 71

treatment of, 77

Typhoid fever, 170

Ultra-microscopic organisms, 128

Virus, 128

Yellow fever, 178