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Thyroid Gland, 303-6, 325

Thyroxin, 305

Tiberius, Emperor (1st c.), 42

Tobacco, 95, 99, 323

Toulon, 182

Tours, 185, 253

Toxins, 259-60, 262-7, 330-3

Trachoma, 321-2

Tragacanth, 323

Trephining, 18-19, 20, 63, 64, 72

Tropical Diseases, 198

Tropical Hygiene and Medicine, 170, 270-86

Tuberculosis, 234, 250, 330, 359

Tübingen, 220

Tuke, W. (1732-1822), 288

Turpentine, 322

=205=, 332

Typhoid Fever, 185, 201, 258-61, 265; immunization, 267-70; death-rate, 271; state, the, 25

Typhus, 98, 258-9, 271

United States, 171, 290; Preventive Medicine in, 197-203; Public Health Service (1912), 201; Sanitary Commission, 300

Universities, Medieval, 70-2

Urea, 205, 214

Uterus, Aristotle’s nomenclature of, 28, 29

Utilitarian Philosophy, 190

Vaccination, 184

Vaccines, 261-2, 265, 266, 268, 325

Vaso-Motor Mechanism, 215

Venereal Disease, see Syphilis

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