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

by H. F. Harris

• Fabrics, [20].
• Fats, [98], [103];
  • in vegetables, [131];
  • unwholesomeness of, [115];
  • value of, [123].
• Fever, malaria, see [Malaria];
  • scarlet, [90];
  • typhoid, contraction of, [8], [9], [43], [140], [221];
  • description and treatment, [185];
  • yellow, [9], [41], [43].
• Figs, [146].
• Filaria, [9].
• Fireplace, [47].
• Fish, decomposed, source of ptomaine poisoning, [9];
  • nitrogenous food, [118];
  • value of, [122].
• Fly, conveyor of disease, [9], [10], [43];
  • sick-room, [219].
• Fly-agaric, [258].
• Flukes, [140].
• Foods, [28], [99];
  • albuminous, [119];
  • amount necessary, [96];
  • breakfast-foods, [113];
  • diseases contracted from, [8];
  • in sick-room, [221];
  • Mellin's food, [86];
  • nitrogenous, [98], [117];
  • nutritive substances in, [98];
  • raw, [105], [164];
  • starchy, [104], [165], [168];
  • tables, [100].
• Formaldehyde gas, [192].
• Frost-bite, [245].
• Fruits, as food, [30];
  • dangers in, [144];
  • diseases contracted from, [9];
  • not nutritious, [146].
• Furnace, [46].

G

• Game, [122].
• Garlic, [140].
• Gin, [160].
• Glanders, [10].
• Glucose, [126].
• Gout, [156], [163].
• Grape-fruit, [147].
• Greens, [138].
• Ground-itch, [195].

H

• Haig, a physician, [148].
• Ham, boiled, [281];
  • broiled, [281];
  • curing of, [280];
  • fried, [281];
  • wholesomeness of, [121].
• Headache, [33].
• Health, [5].
• Heat, accidents arising from, [241];
  • for house, [45];
  • in sick-room, [218].
  • See also [Calories].
• Heat-prostration, [244].
• Hiccough, [250].
• Hog, [51].
• Hog-meats, [120].
• Hominy, [284].
• Hookworm, [8];
  • method of transmission, [50], [52];
  • description and treatment of disease, [193].
• Horses, convey glanders, [10];
  • killed by bad corn, [109].
• House, materials for, [39];
  • sanitation of, [35].
• Husks, [107].
• Hydrophobia, from dog's bite, [9], [249];
  • description and treatment, [211].
• Hygiene, [1], [6];
  • of infancy and childhood, [63];
  • of the person, [12];
  • of the sick-room, [217].
• Hypersensitiveness, [204].

I

• Indigestion, [145].
• Infants, hygiene and feeding of, [63];
  • weaning of, [67].
• Iodine, as antiseptic, [231];
  • in blisters, [247].