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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.

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