A

• Accidents, 223.
• Acid, carbolic, for Rhus poisoning, 260;
  • in wounds, 231;
  • poisoning by, 253;
  • of fruit, 133, 146;
  • picric, 241;
  • uric, 149.
• Acrodinia, 9.
• Agaricus campestris, 256.
• Air, 181.
• Air-space, 45.
• Albumin, 105.
• Albumins, 98, 104, 117, 131.
• Alcohol and its effects, 155;
  • for Rhus poisoning, 260;
  • of no value in snake-poisoning, 270;
  • predisposes to consumption, 183;
  • predisposes to heat-prostration, 244.
• Amanita muscarius, 258.
• Amanita phalloides, 257.
• Ammonia, aromatic spirits of, 259.
• Anaphylaxis, 204.
• Ancistrodon contortrix, 263.
• Ancistrodon piscivorus, 262.
• Animals, bites of, 249;
  • location of quarters, 61.
• Anopheles, 41, 171, 174.
• Antidotes for poisons, see under names of poisons.
• Antiseptics, 231, 247.
• Antitoxin, for diphtheria, 198, 203;
  • for lockjaw, 233.
• Apples, 147.
• Arrowroot, 112.
• Arsenic, 252.
• Arteries, 229.
• Artichokes, 136.
• Asparagus, 142.
• Atropine, 259.

B

• Bacillus tuberculosis, 179.
• Bacillus typhosus, 186.
• Bacon, broiled, 282;
  • curing of, 280;
  • fried, 282;
  • importance of, 121, 122;
  • unsmoked, 282.
• Baking, process of, 166.
• Baths, for sick people, 221;
  • hot and cold, 13;
  • importance of, 12;
  • sea, 5.
• Beans, bad, give lathyrismus, 9;
  • how to cook, 294;
  • value of, 133, 134.
• Bed-bug, 9.
• Bedmaking, 219.
• Beef, broiled, 275;
  • fried, 275;
  • Hamburg steak, 274;
  • hashed, 276;
  • pot-roast, 274;
  • roast, 273;
  • value of, 20.
• Beer, 162.
• Beets, 136, 138.
• Beri-beri, 113.
• Beverages, 30;
  • alcoholic, 32;
  • medicinal, 33;
  • “soft drinks,” 32.
• Biliousness, 93.
• Biscuits, 285.
• Bites of animals, flies, mosquitoes and snakes, see under several subjects.
• Bleeding, how to stop, 228;
  • in consumption, 180;
  • in typhoid fever, 187.
• Blisters, 247.
• Blood-vessels, 95.
• Bottle, for infants, 73.
• Brandy, 160.
• Bread, and its relations, 104;
  • baking of, 166;
  • corn-bread, 108, 111, 285;
  • diseases derived from decomposed, 9;
  • graham-bread, 107;
  • rye-bread, 108;
  • why wheat-bread is the best, 106.
• Bricks, 40.
• Bright's disease, 95, 145, 156, 157, 158, 163, 173, 201.
• Broncho-pneumonia, 201.
• Bruises, 238.
• Brussels-sprouts, 139.
• Burns, 240.
• Buttermilk, 150.

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.
• Diarrhoea, 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

• 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.

K

• Kak-ke, 9, 113.
• Kala-azar, 9.
• Kissing, 89.

L

• Lathyrismus, 9.
• Lead-water, 261.
• Leeks, 140.
• Legumes, 133.
• Legumins, 98, 118.
• Lemons, 146.
• Lentils, 133, 134.
• Lettuce, 139.
• Ligature, 230, 270.
• Lime-water, 71, 261.
• Liquids, 148.
• Liquors, malt, 162.
• Liver, 93;
  • cirrhosis of the, 158.
• Lockjaw, 227;
  • antitoxin for, 232.
• Loeffler, discovered diphtheria germ, 198.

M

• Malaria, conveyed by mosquito, 9, 41, 43;
  • description and treatment, 171.
• Maltose, 86.
• Massasauga, 266.
• Mastication, 96.
• Meat, cooking of, 168;
  • nitrogenous food, 118;
  • source of ptomaine poisoning, 9;
  • value of, 119.
• Medicine, 221;
  • patent, 91, 158.
• Meninges, 207.
• Meningitis, cerebrospinal, 206.
• Micrococcus intracellulais, 207.
• Milk, an ideal food, 128;
  • apt to promote indigestion, 150;
  • as a drink, 31-32;
  • in vegetarian diet, 130;
  • infected with tuberculosis, 182;
  • malted, 86;
  • modified cow's, 67;
  • mother's, 65;
  • peptonized, 75;
  • sterilized (Pasteurized), 74;
  • table for calculating proportions of milk to be fed, 70.
• Mint, 142.
• Moccasin (snake), 261, 262, 263, 266.
• Mosquito, 9, 41, 171, 173.
• Mouse, 9.
• Mushrooms, 256.
• Mutton, boiled, 283;
  • chops, 284;
  • cutlets, 283;
  • roast 283;
  • value of, 120.

N

• Necator Americanus, 193.
• Nervousness, 88.
• Nipple, 73.
• Nose, 184.
• Nursing, 217.

O

• Oatmeal, 114, 284.
• Okra, 142.
• Opiates, 85.
• Opium, 254.
• Oysters, 118, 122.

P

• Pains, rheumatic, 145.
• Paris green, 252.
• Parsley, 142.
• Parsnips, 136.
• Pasteur, 214.
• Pastries, 115.
• Peaches, 146.
• Peanuts, 133, 134.
• Peas, 133, 134.
• Pellagra, 9, 109.
• Peppers, green, 142.
• Phosphorus, 253.
• Pickles, 144.
• Pieplant, 142.
• Pilot-snake, 262.
• Pit-vipers, 261, 265.
• Plague, bubonic, 9.
• Plasmodium malaria, 171.
• Plaster, for blisters, 247;
  • for sprains, 235.
• Poison-dogwood, 260.
• Poison-elder, 260.
• Poison-ivy, 259.
• Poison-oak, 259.
• Poisons, acid and alkaline, 252;
  • ptomaine, 9;
  • treatment of poison cases, with antidotes, 251.
• Poison-sumac, 260.
• Pork, boiled, 280;
  • broiled, 279;
  • fried, 279;
  • roast, 279.
• Potassium permanganate, 254, 255, 269.
• Potatoes, 135, 136;
  • baked, 294;
  • boiled, 294;
  • cooking of, 167;
  • disadvantages of, 112.
• Poultry, 122.
• Privies, 49, 52, 198.
• Ptomaines, poisoning by, 9.
• Puddings, apple, 295;
  • batter, 295;
  • brown betty, 296;
  • caramel custard, 296;
  • cottage, 295;
  • cream of corn-starch, 296;
  • rice, 297.
• Pumpkin, 143.
• Pus, 232.

Q

• Quacks, medical, 4, 7.
• Quinine, 173.

R

• Rabies, see Hydrophobia.
• Radishes, 136.
• Rat, 9.
• Rat-poison, 25.
• Rattlesnake, 261, 262, 264;
  • ground-rattlers, 262, 265.
• Recipes, 273.
• Resins, 231.
• Respiration, artificial, 225.
• Rest, need of, 22.
• Rhubarb, 142.
• Rhus, poisoning by, 259.
• Rhus toxicodendron, 259.
• Rhus venenata, 259.
• Rice, boiled, 285;
  • cooking of, 167;
  • value of, 113.
• Rochdale, system of, 53.
• Rolls, 286.
• Rum, 160.

S

• Salad plants, 139.
• Saliva, 29.
• Sanitation, 35.
• Sauerkraut, 139.
• Scab, 233.
• Schafer, Prof., system of artificial respiration, 225.
• Screens, 41, 176, 219.
• Sewage, disposal of, 49.
• Shallots, 140.
• Sheet, rubber, 219.
• Sick-room, 217.
• Sistrurus, 262.
• Sleep, 26, 78.
• Sleeping-sickness, 1.
• Snake, harlequin, 262.
• Snake-bites, 268.
• Snakes, columbine, 262, 263;
  • elapine, 263;
  • non-venomous, 264;
  • venomous, 261;
  • viperine, 261.
• Soups, meat, 292;
  • vegetable, 290.
• Sours, 147.
• Spinach, 138.
• Splints, 235.
• Sprains, 234.
• Sputum, 184.
• Squash, 143.
• Starches, 98, 104;
  • changes in, 165;
  • in cooking, 97;
  • in vegetables, 131;
  • raw, 105.
• Steam, 46.
• Stove, 47.
• Streams, 60.
• Strychnine, as antidote, 269;
  • poisoning by, 254.
• Sugar, consumption of, 126;
  • from beets, 136;
  • in vegetables, 131;
  • kinds of, 125;
  • raw, 105.
• Sunstroke, 242.
• Swamp-dogwood, 260.
• Syringe, 84.
• Syrups, 33;
  • soothing, 255.

T

• Tapeworm, 8, 9, 51.
• Tea, 31, 152.
• Teeth, care of, 80, 248;
  • teething of infants, 80;
  • tooth-ache, 248.
• Toadstool, see Mushroom.
• Tobacco, 34.
• Tomato, 141.
• Tonsillitis, follicular, 200.
• Tooth-ache, 248.
• Treatment, immunizing, 205;
  • pasteur, 214.
• Tricina, 18.
• Tuberculosis, 94, 95, 156;
  • description and treatment, 178.
• Tubers, 135.
• Turnips, 136, 137, 138.

V

• Vaccination, 88.
• Veal, boiled, 277;
  • fried, 277;
  • jellied, 278;
  • roast, 276;
  • stew or pot-pie, 277.
• Vegetables, cooking of, 293;
  • digestibility of, 132, 133;
  • diseases contracted from, 9.
• Ventilation, 48, 218.
• Vinegar, 133, 136, 147.
• Vipers, 262. See also pit-vipers.
• Vomiting, 67, 87.

W

• Waffles, 107.
• Wall-paper, 41.
• Water, as a drink, 30, 148;
  • dangers of, 140;
  • diseases contracted from, 8;
  • for heating, 46;
  • for poisons, 251;
  • for wounds, 230.
• Water-supply, 57.
• Wells, 58.
• Whisky, 160.
• Wines, 161.
• Work, 22.
• Worms, 140.
• Wounds, 227.

Y

• Yams, 135.
• Yeast, 286.