Health Lessons, Book 1

by Alvin Davison

If a strong acid such as carbolic acid or a strong alkali such as ammonia has been taken, do not cause vomiting. For acids give chalk in warm water and a pint of milk. For an alkali give vinegar in water.

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INDEX

• Ab do´men, [15].
• Ad´e noids, [105], [106].
• Air and health, [111]-[116].
• Air sacs, [102], [103].
• Air tubes, [103].
• Alcohol, [20], [35].
  • and blood, [124], [125].
  • and blood vessels, [126].
  • and brain, [158]-[162].
  • and clothing, [98], [99].
  • and crime, [160], [161].
  • and digestion, [57], [58].
  • and health, [74], [75].
  • and kidneys, [93].
  • and lungs, [109], [110].
  • and muscles, [146]-[148].
  • and senses, [172].
  • and skin, [92], [93].
• Alcoholic drinks, [68]-[73].
  • as food, [27], [29].
• A or´ta, [16].
• Appetite, [58], [59].
• Arteries, [19], [119].
• Backbone, [16].
• Bac te´ria, [36], [39].
• • of disease, [175]-[177].
  • of milk, [43].
• Bathing, [91].
• Beans, [24].
• Bedbugs and disease, [134], [178].
• Beef tea, [31].
• Beer and digestion, [57], [58].
  • as a food, [27], [35].
  • and heart, [125].
  • making of, [70].
• Bile, [52], [55].
• Blackdeath, [11].
• Bleeding, to stop, [123], [124], [184], [185].
• Blood, [17], [117], [118].
• Blood vessels, [19], [118]-[122].
• Body, parts of, [15]-[19].
• Bones, [135]-[139].
• Bowels, [47], [52], [53].
• Brain, [149]-[153].
• Brain, use of, [18].
• Brandy, [72].
• Bread, [23].
• Breathing, [100]-[107].
• Building foods, [22], [23].
• Burns and scalds, [184].
• Butter, [41].
• Capillaries, [119], [120].
• Carbon dioxide, [102], [111].
• Cells, [20].
• Cereals, [33].
• Cer´e brum, [150], [151].
• Chest, [15].
• Chewing and health, [49]-[50].
• Choking, [187].
• Cholera, [175].
• Cider, [40].
• Cigarettes, [82], [162].
• Cleanliness, [44], [91].
• Clothing, [94]-[99].
• Co´ca ine, [162].
• Coffee, [82], [83], [164].
• Colds, [180].
• Consumption, [109], [180]-[181].
• Cooking of eggs, [34].
• • of meat, [30], [31].
• Corns, [98].
• Cotton, [96].
• Cream, [41].
• Deafness, [171].
• Diaphragm (di´a fram), [16], [104].
• Digestion, organs of, [47]-[52].
• Diphtheria, [175], [178].
• Disease, cause of, [25]-[27].
• • from alcohol, [76], [77].
  • from bad air, [114].
  • from drinking cup, [108], [177].
  • from dust, [108], [109].
  • of eyes, [169].
  • from flies, [108].
  • from insects, [127]-[134].
  • from milk, [43]-[46], [178].
  • prevention of, [174]-[182].
• Disease, from spit, [107], [108], [178], [179].
  • victory over, [12].
• Dis til la´tion, [73].
• Drinking cup and disease, [108], [177].
• Drowning, [187].
• Drunkards, cause of, [14].
• Dust and disease, [37], [108], [109].
• Dys pep´si a, [50].
• Ear, [169]-[171].
• Eggs, [23], [33], [34].
• Epidermis, [85], [86].
• Exercise, [144]-[146].
• Eye, [165]-[168].
• Fainting, [185].
• Fat, [24].
• Fats, [22], [23].
• Feeding of body, [21].
• Feeling, [172].
• Feet, care of, [98].
• Fish as food, [30].
• Fleas and disease, [134].
• Flies and disease, [45]-[46], [108], [132]-[134], [176], [178].
• Food, amount needed, [27].
• • and health, [30]-[35].
  • digestion of, [47]-[55].
  • entrance to blood, [52], [54].
• Foods, [22].
• Freckles, [87].
• Frostbite, [186].
• Fruits, [33], [34].
• Fuel foods, [23], [24].
• Gastric juice, [51].
• Germs, [36]-[40].
• • of disease, [175], [176].
  • of milk, [43].
  • of spit, [107].
• Glands, [47]-[49].
• Growth of body, [20].
• Gullet, [16], [53].
• Habit, [133], [154].
• Habits, [14].
• Hair, [88]-[90].
• Headache, [55].
• Hearing, [170].
• Heart, [16], [100], [118], [122].
• Hookworm disease, [181], [182].
• Hookworms, [175].
• Hy´gi ene, [10].
• Insects and health, [129]-[134].
• Intestine, [16].
• Intestines, [47], [52], [53].
• Joints, [139], [140].
• Kidney, [16].
• Kidneys, [17], [92].
• Larynx (lar´inks), [102].
• Leprosy, [134].
• Life, length of, [9].
• Ligaments, [135], [139], [140].
• Linen, [95].
• Liver, [16], [53], [54], [55], [100].
• Lung, [16].
• Lungs, [100]-[101].
• Malaria, [175].
• Measles, [175].
• Meat, [23].
• • cooking of, [30].
  • spoiling of, [38], [39].
• Meats, [30].
• Mi´crobes, [36], [37].
• Milk, [23], [29], [41]-[46].
  • and scarlet fever, [176].
  • as a food, [31].
  • souring of, [39].
• Mineral foods, [24].
• Mold, [37], [38].
• Morphine, [83], [84], [162], [163].
• Mosquitoes and disease, [127]-[132].
• Mouth, [60]-[67].
• Muscles, [140]-[143].
• Muscles and health, [144]-[148].
• Nails, [87], [88].
• Nar cot´ics, [158]-[164].
• Nerves, [19], [149], [151], [152].
• Nose, [104]-[106], [171].
• Nose bleed, [181].
• Opium, [83], [84], [162], [163].
• Organ, [18].
• Organs of body, [16].
• Oxygen, [22].
• Oysters as a food, [30].
• Painkillers, [163].
• Pan´cre as, [16], [48], [52], [53].
• Pa ral´y sis, [155].
• Patent medicines, [84].
• Pharynx (far´inks), [47].
• Plague, [134], [175].
• Poisoning, [188].
• Pro´te ids, [22].
• Pus, [123].
• Radius, [137].
• Ribs, [137].
• Rum, [73].
• Sa li´va, [48], [49].
• Salt, [34].
• Scarlet fever, [175], [176], [178].
• Sense organs, [165]-[173].
• Shoes, [98].
• Sick, number of, [9].
• Sickness, how caused, [11].
• • prevention of, [174]-[182].
• Silk, [95].
• Skin, [85]-[93].
  • senses of, [172].
• Skull, [136].
• Sleep, [156], [157].
  • and disease, [113], [114].
• Sleeping sickness, [134].
• Slops, care of, [175].
• Smallpox, [12], [178]-[180].
• Smell, [171].
• Smoking, [57].
• Snakebites, [186], [187].
• Sore throat, [175].
• Soups, [31].
• Spinal cord, [16], [19], [151], [154], [155].
• Spit, care of, [175], [178].
• Spitting and health, [107], [108].
• Spleen, [54].
• Starch, [23], [24].
• Stimulants, [158], [164].
• Stomach, [16], [47], [50]-[53], [100].
• Sugars, [22], [23].
• Sunstroke, [185].
• Sweeping and health, [37].
• Sweetbread, [48].
• Swimming, [145], [146], [187].
• Sym pa thet´ic nerves, [155].
• Taste, [171], [172].
• Tea, [82], [83], [164].
• Teeth, [60]-[67].
• Thigh, [15].
• Tissue, [18].
• Tobacco, [20].
• • and air, [116].
  • and blood, [125].
  • and brain, [162].
  • and digestion, [56], [57].
  • as food, [34], [35].
  • and health, [78]-[82].
  • and heart, [126].
  • and lungs, [110].
  • and muscles, [148].
  • and senses, [172], [173].
• Tonsil, [105], [106].
• Toothache, [62], [63].
• Tuberculosis, [107], [108], [175].
  • and bad air, [114], [115].
  • cause of, [178], [180].
  • prevention of, [107]-[109], [111]-[116], [180]-[181].
• Trunk, [15].
• Typhoid fever, [175].
  • how caused, [25]-[27], [28], [134].
• Vaccination, [179], [180].
• Vegetables as food, [32], [33].
• Veins, [28], [121].
• Ventilation, [111]-[115].
• Villi, [54].
• Vocal cords, [105], [106].
• Voice, [106], [107].
• Voice box, [102].
• War, deaths from, [11].
• Waste, giving out of, [17].
• Water, use of, [24], [92].
• Water and health, [25]-[27], [28].
• Water in food, [25].
• Whisky, [72], [73].
• Whooping cough, [175].
• Wigglers, [130]-[131].
• Windpipe, [16], [102], [103].
• Wine, [27], [28].
• • and digestion, [58].
  • making of, [70]-[71].
• Wounds, [186].
• Yeast, [39], [40], [69].
• Yellow fever, [12], [13], [129], [130].

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