Health on the Farm: A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene

by H. F. Harris

C

• Cabbage, [138].
• Cake, [115].
• Calomel, [94].
• Calories, [102].
• Carbohydrates, [98].
• Carron-oil, [241].
• Carrots, [136].
• Cat, conveys diphtheria, [10];
  • harbors tapeworms, [10].
• Cauliflower, [139].
• Caustic, [213].
• Celery, [141].
• Cellulose, [131].
• Cereals, [284].
• Charlatans, [7].
• Chewing, [29].
• Chicken, baked, [288];
  • boiled, [288];
  • broiled, [290];
  • fried, [287];
  • smothered, [289].
• Chickory (salad), [142].
• Chilblains, [246].
• Child, diseases of, [82], [89];
  • exercise of, [79];
  • hygiene treatment of, [88];
  • ill-treatment of, [64];
  • instruction in cases of accident, [223];
  • sleep necessary to, [79];
  • syringe for, [84].
• Chills-and-fever, see [Malaria].
• Chocolate, [31].
• Cholera, [8], [9], [140].
• Chromic acid, [209].
• Cisterns, [59].
• Clams, [122].
• Cleanliness, [220].
• Clothing, [18].
• Cocoa, [31].
• Cod-liver oil, [125].
• Coffee, [31], [151].
• Cold, accidents arising from, [41].
• Cole, [139].
• Colic, cause of, [67];
  • treatment of, [84].
• Collodion, [232].
• Color, in clothing, [21].
• Constipation, [85].
• Cooking, [164], [170].
• Copper-head, [263], [266].
• Coral-snakes, [262], [263], [267].
• Corn, [110].
• Corn-starch, [112].
• Corrosive sublimate, [231].
• Cotton-mouth, [262], [266].
• Cows, carry tapeworm, [51];
  • infected with tuberculosis, [182].
• Crotalus, [262].
• Croup, membranous, [198];
  • treatment of, [86].
• Cucumber, [141].

D

• Dandelion, [138].
• “Death-cup,” [257].
• Dextrose, [126].
• Diarrhœa, reason for, [144];
  • treatment of, [82].
• Diet, for the sick, [221];
  • vegetarian, [130].
• Diphtheria, conveyance of, [9];
  • description and treatment, [198].
• Dipsomaniac, [157].
• Dirt-eaters, [196].
• Diseases, avoidable, [171];
  • contagious, [89];
  • contraction of, [8];
  • digestive, [82].
  • See also names of diseases.
• Disinfectants, [192].
• Dog, conveys diphtheria, [9];
  • dangers of, [62];
  • description of rabies in, [211];
  • harbors tapeworm, [9], [10].
• Drinks, see [Beverages].
• Drowning, [224].
• Dry-closet system, [53].
• Dysentery, [8], [9], [43], [140].
• Dyspepsia, [145], [158].

E

• Earth, diseases contracted from, [8].
• Eating, [28];
  • importance of, [92];
  • over-eating too prevalent, [95].
• Eggs, coddled, [292];
  • in vegetarian diet, [130];
  • nitrogenous food, [118];
  • scrambled, [293];
  • shirred, [293];
  • value of, [123].
• Elaps euryxanthus, [263].
• Elaps fulvius, [263].
• Emergencies, [223].
• Emetics, [251-259].
• Endive, [142].
• Ergot, [108].
• Ergotism, [9].
• Ethers, compound, [98].
• Exercise, [79].

F