INDEX
Abernethy, Dr. John, [80].
Acne, [38].
Acromegaly, [119].
Adenoids, [105]-[122].
Air, foul, [97].
Alimentary canal, [274]-[279].
Allbutt, Sir Clifford, [134].
Allen, Dr. Harrison, [120].
Animals, immune to certain diseases, [255].
Anti-bodies. See Antitoxins.
Antisepsis, [333], [336]-[339].
Antitoxins, or anti-bodies, [9], [93], [94], [199], [200];
discovery and use of the diphtheria antitoxin, [230]-[233], [236], [242], [401];
tetanus antitoxin, [345], [346], [398].
Apoplexy, [40], [402].
Appendicitis, [269]-[288].
Appendix, vermiform, [35], [36], [268]-[270], [273]-[279].
Asepsis, [333].
Asthmatics, [328].
Attitude, the upright, [76].
Autointoxication, [376].
Bacilli. See Bacteria.
Bacteria, abundance of, in the body, [10], [99].
Bang, Professor, [148].
Bath, the cold, [98].
Bile, in vomiting, [379].
Bites, danger from, [342].
Blood, coagulation of, [39], [40].
Blood-corpuscles, [24]-[29].
Blood-poisoning, [331]-[349].
Bloodgood, Dr. J. C., [272].
Bones, nature of, [20], [21].
Boswell, James, [88].
Bridge, Dr. Norman, [95].
Cæcum, [274]-[278].
Cancer, a rebellion of the cells, [42], [351];
heredity and, [50], [51];
individuality of, [350];
probable nature of, [351];
death-rate from, [352], [353];
natural history of, [353]-[364];
not communicable, [357], [358];
vain search for a parasite, [359], [360];
a disease of senility, [363], [364];
problems of prevention and cure, [365], [366].
Carriage, in illness, [76].
Cattani, [398].
Cellular theory of disease, [18], [19].
Cerebro-spinal meningitis, [397].
Chantemesse, [221].
Children's diseases, importance of, [243]-[245];
prevention of, [245];
dangerous results of, [245], [246];
effect on growth and development, [247];
reasons for, [248]-[250];
occasional severity of, [251]-[254];
taming of, [253], [254];
causes of, [254], [255];
treatment of, [255], [256];
symptoms of, [256], [257];
the three chief, [257]-[266].
Cities, disease and death-rate in, [159]-[165].
Civilization, and nervousness, [406]-[408].
Cleanliness, [98].
Cohnheim, [364].
Colds, treatment of, [11], [12], [93]-[101];
cause of, [85]-[93];
how to catch, [101], [102];
their relation to rheumatism, [320], [321], [323], [324], [326], [327].
Colic, [4].
Color, in diagnosis, [70]-[74].
Congenital disease, [44], [45].
Coughing, use of, [11], [12].
Darwin, Charles, quoted, [425], [426].
Diagnosis, [55]-[82].
Diarrh[oe]a, use of, [5];
treatment of, [5].
Diphtheria, [222]-[242];
attacking the nervous system, [400], [401].
Disease, causes of, [3];
not absolute but relative, [14];
former conceptions of, [15]-[18];
organic and functional, [405], [406];
mental influence in, [411]-[437].
Drafts, [94], [95], [99].
Earache, [110].
Edison, Thomas A., [286].
Epilepsy, heredity and, [52], [53].
Erysipelas, [348].
Eustachian tubes, [109], [110].
Expectoration, [142], [143].
Eye-strain, [377].
Facial expression, in diagnosis, [62]-[70].
Fever, meaning of, [7], [8];
treatment of, [8]-[11].
Flick, Dr. Laurence, [96].
Fly, house, and typhoid, [210], [211].
Food-tube, the, [274]-[279].
Gait, in illness, [76]-[78].
Gall-bladder, [37].
Grip, the, [90].
Guinea-pig, a burnt offering, [222];
used in the discovery of the diphtheria antitoxin, [229]-[231].
Hand, the, in diagnosis, [73]-[75].
Harelip, [37].
Headache, purpose and meaning of, [12], [13], [367]-[376];
treatment of, [370], [371], [381]-[386];
from eye-strain, [377], [386];
from digestive disturbances, [377], [378];
sick headache, [378], [379], [381];
from stuffy rooms, [380];
from sluggish bowels and kidney trouble, [380];
from loss of sleep, [380], [381];
from nasal obstruction, [381];
rest the cure for, [382]-[384];
massage for the relief of, [385], [386];
the nerves affected in, [385], [386].
Heart, effect of rheumatism on, [314], [315].
Heredity, in health and disease, [32]-[54].
Hernia, [36].
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [125].
Horses, and disease, [344], [345].
Hospitals, blood-poisoning and antisepsis in, [335]-[339].
Humoral theory of disease, [17], [18].
Huxley, Thomas Henry, quoted, [1], [112], [201].
Hysteria, [403], [406], [407], [435].
Imaginary illness, [415]-[422], [436].
Immunity, [93].
Indians, epidemics among, [251], [252].
Indifference of the dying, [434].
Infants, diagnosis in the case of, [81], [82].
Influenza, [90].
Insanity, heredity and, [52]-[54];
among savages and in civilization, [408], [409];
treatment of, [411], [412].
Intestines, [274].
James, William, [425].
Johnson, Samuel, [89].
Joints, diseases of, [318], [319].
King, Dr. Albert F. A., [298].
Koch, Robert, [126], [152], [153], [155], [156], [228], [308].
Laveran, [295].
Lister, Lord, [332].
Liver, functions of, [6], [7].
Lockjaw, [344]-[346], [397], [398].
Locomotor ataxia, [399]; diagnosis of, [77], [78].
Lungs, their liability to disease, [175]-[178].
Lupus, [126].
Malaria, [289]-[310].
Measles, [243], [246], [248]-[252], [260]-[263].
Medicines, repulsive, [17].
Meningitis, [399], [400].
See also Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Mental influence in disease, [411]-[437].
Metschnikoff, Elie, [214].
Meyer, William, [105].
Mind, its relation to the body, [390], [391], [411]-[437].
Mosquitoes, and malaria, [297]-[307].
Mouth-breathing, [103]-[119].
Moxon, the pathologist, [187].
Mumps, [252].
Nails, the, in disease, [74], [75];
pus-germs lurking under, [334], [336], [349].
Nature, as a physician, [2], [3];
not to be trusted too blindly, [7];
coöperating with, [9].
Nerves, affected in headache, [385], [386];
old notions of, [387], [388];
reality of, [389], [390];
function of, [390];
their diseases due to morbid changes in their tissues, [391], [392];
affected by the bodily condition, [393]-[395];
causes of disturbances in, [395]-[397];
diseases that attack them directly, [397], [398];
late effects of other diseases on, [398]-[401];
nervousness and, [401]-[408];
death-rate from diseases of, [409], [410].
Nervousness, [403]-[408].
Neurasthenia, [401], [402].
Nocard, the veterinary pathologist, [157].
Northrup, Dr. William, [196].
Noses, narrow, [118], [119].
Operations. See Surgery.
Opiates, [431], [432].
Osler, Dr. William, [160], [282].
Ovariotomy, [336].
Pain, nature's command to halt, [13], [382];
nature's automatic speed regulator, [383].
Paresis, [399].
Pimples, [38].
Pituitary body, [119].
Pneumonia, cause of, [84], [85], [88], [178]-[183], [185], [186];
easily recognized, [174], [175];
recent increase of, [184], [186];
habits of the pneumococcus, [186]-[191];
its relations to age and to other diseases, [192]-[194];
symptoms of, [194], [195];
treatment of, [195], [196];
outlook as to, [196], [197].
Poisons in the body, elimination of, [3]-[13];
from fatigue, [373]-[376].
Psychotherapy, [413].
Pus, [331]-[336];
germs of, [339]-[344], [346]-[349].
Pyæmia, [346].
Quinine, [293], [294].
Repair of the body in the lower animals, [41], [42].
Rheumatism, [311]-[330].
Ross, Dr. Ronald, [247].
Savages, nervousness among, [407], [408].
Scarlet fever, [243], [247], [257]-[260].
Sciatica, cure of a case of, [389], [390].
Sclerosis, lateral, [399].
Scrofula, [126].
Seasickness, [379].
Senn, Dr. Nicholas, [357].
Septicæmia, [346].
Sleeping porches, [96], [97].
Smallpox, [125], [255].
Smell, [111].
Spitting, [142], [143].
Staphylococcus, [339], [340], [343], [348].
See also Pus.
Sticking-plaster, [343].
Stomach, [274].
Streptococcus, [339]-[341], [348]. See also Pus.
Surgery, and blood-poisoning, [331]-[339].
Syphilis congenital, [44];
organism of, [255], [399];
attacking the nervous system, [399].
Tait, Lawson, [336].
Taste, [111].
Teeth, crowded, [114], [115].
Tetanus, [344]-[346], [397], [398].
Tonsillitis, [320], [323], [324].
Tonsils, [107]-[109], [116]-[118].
Tooth, wisdom, [36], [37].
Tuberculosis, congenital, [45];
seeming inheritance of, [46]-[50];
diagnosis of, [68], [72];
discovery of the bacterial nature of, [123]-[126];
means of fighting, [127], [128];
treatment of, [129]-[132];
prevention of, [132], [135]-[139];
universality of, [133], [134];
prevention of transmission of, [140]-[145];
in cattle and other animals, [146], [158];
encouraging outlook as to, [159]-[166];
civilization and, [166]-[173];
cerebral complications from, [399];
hopefulness in, [433].
Tumor, Jensen's, [358], [362].
Typhoid fever, [199]-[221].
Typhus, [203], [204].
Uric acid, [327], [328].
Vestigia, [35]-[39], [268], [269].
Virchow, Rudolf, [18].
Vis medicatrix naturæ, [2].
Voice, in diagnosis, [78].
Voltaire, on doctors, [14].
Vomiting, use of, [4], [5];
from headache and seasickness, [378], [379];
bile in, [379].
Waters, mineral, [17].
Whooping-cough, [244], [246], [249], [263]-[266].
Williams, Dr. Leonard, [93].
Williams, Dr. Roger, [364].
Wound-fever, among soldiers, [347].
Wounds, healing of, [40], [41];
blood-poisoning in, [331]-[335], [341]-[344];
treatment of, [342]-[344], [346].
Wright, Dr., [221].
FOOTNOTES
[1] The proportion of registered insane in civilized countries to-day ranges from two to three per 1000 of the population.
[2] What one cannot recognize he must call rheumatism.
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