Applied Physiology, Including the Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics

by Frank Overton

6. Cleansing the teeth and the inside of the mouth removes many disease germs.

7. Adenoids and large tonsils should be taken from the throat by an operation.

8. If a person has a dangerous contagious disease, he should be quarantined.

9. Boards of health have charge of the prevention of contagious diseases.

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INDEX

• Abdomen, [60].
• Adam's apple, [68].
• Adenoids, [136].
• Air, [59], [65], [129].
• Albumin, [10], [17], [18], [49].
• Alcohol, [38].
• Alcohol and arteries, [56].
• • biliousness, [46].
  • bitters, [46].
  • blood, [55].
  • brain, [95].
  • breathing, [70].
  • burning, [69].
  • catching cold, [71].
  • character, [97].
  • cooking, [47].
  • delirium tremens, [96].
  • digestion, [46].
  • eyes, [103].
  • feeling, [95].
  • habit, [44].
  • heart, [56].
  • heat, [72].
  • heredity, [96].
  • insanity, [96].
  • Jamaica ginger, [47].
  • kidneys, [81].
  • liver, [46].
  • lungs, [70].
  • medicine, [47].
  • money waste, [97].
  • motion, [95].
  • muscles, [119].
  • sickness, [82].
  • skin, [81].
  • stomach, [45].
  • strength, [56], [120].
  • strong drink, [40].
  • suffering, [97].
  • taste, [107].
  • thirst, [44].
  • thought, [95].
• Alcohol, use of, [39].
• Ameba, [7], [52].
• Appetite, [27].
• Arteries, [51], [55].
• Ashes, [12], [62], [78].
• B
• Bacteria, [123].
• Bathing, [78], [126].
• Beer, [43].
• Bile, [18].
• Biliousness, [20].
• Bitters, [46].
• Bleeding, [49], [52].
• Blood, [13], [19], [49], [61].
• Board of Health, [137].
• Bones, [109].
• Bowels, [18].
• Bowlegs, [110].
• Brain, [88].
• Brandy, [44].
• Bread, [24], [38].
• Breathing, [59], [60], [67].
• Broken bones, [110].
• Burning, [61], [118].
• Butter, [23].
• C
• Cake, [24], [29].
• Candy, [29].
• Canning fruit, [37], [124].
• Capillaries, [51], [61].
• Catching cold, [54], [65], [72], [125], [132].
• Cells, [8].
• Cells, blood tubes of, [51].
• • breathing of, [61].
  • burning of, [62].
  • composition of, [11].
  • food of, [13], [55].
  • messages of, [85], [100].
• Cells of blood, [49], [132].
  • bone, [109].
  • brain, [88].
  • epithelium, [76].
  • muscle, [115].
  • skin, [75].
  • spinal cord, [86].
  • yeast plant, [38].
• Cheese, [23].
• Chest, [60].
• Chewing, [14].
• Chewing gum, [34].
• Chewing tobacco, [33].
• Cider, [42].
• Cigarettes, [34].
• Cigars, [34].
• Clams, [24].
• Clot, [49].
• Clothes, [63].
• Coated tongue, [20].
• Coffee, [27].
• Cold, feelings of, [101].
• Colds, [54], [65], [72], [125], [132].
• Connective tissue, [9].
• Contagious diseases, [137].
• Cooking, [13].
• Cotton, [63].
• Cream, [23].
• Cross-eyes, [102].
• Cuts, [53].
• D
• Deafness, [105].
• Decay, [124].
• Delirium tremens, [96].
• Diaphragm, [60].
• Digestion, [13].
• Diphtheria, [53], [134], [137].
• Dirt, [126].
• Dirt in eye, [102].
• Disease germs, [29], [53], [65], [72], [81], [123].
• Distillation, [43].
• Drinking cup, [128].
• E
• Ear, [104].
• Ear wax, [104].
• Eating, [20].
• Egg, [23].
• Epidermis, [76].
• Epithelium, [75].
• Eustachian tube, [105], [136].
• Exercise, [118].
• Eye, [101].
• Eyeball, [101].
• Eyelids, [102].
• F
• Far sight, [103].
• Fat, [11], [18], [25], [49], [92].
• Fear, [92].
• Feeling, [100].
• Fermentation, [37].
• Fever, [125].
• Fire drill, [93].
• Fish, [24].
• Flannel, [63].
• Flies, [130].
• Food, [12], [13], [19], [23].
• Fresh air, [67], [129].
• Fruit, [25].
• Fur, [64].
• G
• Gastric juice, [17].
• Gelatine, [11].
• Germs, [29], [53], [65], [72], [81], [123].
• Gizzard, [14].
• Good habits, [94].
• Grain, [24].
• H
• Habit, [94], [127].
• Hair, [76].
• Hair dyes, [77].
• Hair oil, [77].
• Handkerchief, [135], [136].
• Healing, [53].
• Hearing, [104].
• Heart, [50].
• Heart beat, [50], [55].
• Heat, [62], [101].
• Heating houses, [65].
• House flies, [129].
• Hunger, [29].
• I
• Intemperance, [29].
• Intestine, [18].
• Iron, [12].
• J
• Jamaica ginger, [47].
• Joints, [110].
• K
• Kidneys, [62], [78].
• Knowledge, [89].
• L
• Lead, [27].
• Life, [12].
• Lime, [12].
• Linen, [64].
• Liver, [18], [19].
• Lungs, [60].
• M
• Maggots, [130].
• Malaria, [130].
• Matter, [54].
• Meal, [24].
• Measles, [134], [137].
• Meat, [24], [116].
• Memory, [89].
• Microbes, [123].
• Microscope, [8].
• Milk, [23].
• Mind, [9], [84], [88].
• Minerals, [11], [19], [49].
• Mosquitoes, [130].
• Motion, [88].
• Motor nerves, [85].
• Mouth, [14], [127], [137].
• Muscles, [115].
• N
• Nails, [76].
• Near sight, [103].
• Nerve messages, [85].
• Nerves, [84], [116].
• Nervousness, [92].
• Nicotine, [31].
• Night air, [67].
• Nose, [127], [135].
• O
• Oatmeal, [24].
• Oysters, [24].
• P
• Pain, [100].
• Pancakes, [24].
• Pancreatic juice, [18].
• Pencils, [127], [135].
• Perspiration, [78].
• Pie, [29].
• Pneumonia, [134].
• Poisons, [19].
• Potash, [12].
• Potatoes, [25].
• Public drinking cup, [128].
• Pulse, [51].
• Pus, [54].
• Q
• Quarantine, [137].
• R
• Red blood cells, [49], [54], [61].
• Reflex action, [86].
• Root beer, [43].
• Round shoulders, [112], [117].
• Rubbers, [64].
• S
• Saliva, [14].
• Salt, [12], [26].
• Scarlet fever, [137].
• Senses, [88], [100].
• Sensory nerves, [85].
• Sewers, [81].
• Sick room, [66].
• Sight, [101].
• Skin, [63], [75], [126].
• Sleep, [90].
• Slops, [80], [126].
• Smallpox, [137].
• Smell, [106].
• Smoke, [62].
• Smoking, [34].
• Snuff, [33].
• Soda, [12].
• Spinal cord, [86].
• Spitting, [32], [127].
• Sprains, [112].
• Starch, [11], [14], [18], [25].
• Steam engine, [62].
• Stockings, [64].
• Stomach, [17].
• Strength, [117].
• Strong drink, [40].
• Sugar, [11], [14], [18], [25], [28], [38], [42], [49].
• Swallowing, [15].
• Sweat, [63], [78].
• Sweeping, [129].
• Sweetbread, [18].
• T
• Taste, [28], [106].
• Tea, [27].
• Tears, [102].
• Teeth, [14], [137].
• Tendon, [115].
• Thinking, [89].
• Tight shoes, [112].
• Tobacco, [31].
• Tobacco and brain, [98].
• • breathing, [72].
  • chewing, [33].
  • children, [33].
  • digestion, [33].
  • eyes, [104].
  • habit, [34].
  • heart, [57].
  • muscle, [121].
  • strength, [32].
  • taste, [107].
  • teeth, [32].
• Tongue, [15].
• Tonsils, [134], [136].
• Toothpick, [15].
• Touch, [100].
• Tuberculosis, [134].
• Typhoid fever, [53], [127].
• V
• Vegetables, [25].
• Veins, [52].
• Ventilation, [65], [129].
• Vinegar, [39].
• Voice, [68].
• W
• Warmth, feeling of, [63].
• Washing clothes, [80].
• Waste of body, [75], [78].
• Water, [10], [19], [26], [49], [127].
• Wells, [26], [81].
• Whisky, [44], [71].
• White blood cells, [49], [53], [132].
• Whooping cough, [134], [137].
• Wigglers, [131].
• Windpipe, [15], [59].
• Wine, [42].
• Wool, [63].
• Words, [68].
• Working of fruit, [37].
• Worry, [91].
• Y
• Yeast, [24], [38], [42].

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