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Bed-linen, as a means of disseminating typhoid fever, 253

Bed-sores, complicating relapsing fever, 400 typhoid fever, 297 typhus fever, 355 in typhoid fever, treatment of, 335

Belladonna as a prophylactic in scarlet fever, 536 use of, in cerebro-spinal meningitis, 833 in pertussis, 846

Benignant tumors, 114

Benzoic acid as a prophylactic in scarlet fever, 537

BERIBERI, 1038 Definition, 1038 Geographical distribution, 1038 History, 1038 Etiology--Specific poison, 1038 resemblance of, to marsh-miasm, 1038 Predisposing causes, 1039 Varieties, 1039 Symptoms--Anæsthesia of skin, 1039 Muscular paralysis, 1039 Peculiarity of gait, 1039 Cramps, 1039 Muscular tenderness, 1039 Periosteal tenderness, 1039 Palpitation of heart, 1039 Symptoms, special--Of wet form, 1040 Anasarca, 1040 Quality of pulse, 1040 Cardiac murmur, 1040 Arterial murmur, 1040 Of dry form, 1040 Quality of pulse, 1040 Condition of heart, 1040 Morbid anatomy, 1040 Alterations in blood, 1041 Heart, 1041 Muscles, 1041 Prognosis, 1042 Treatment--By change of residence, 1042 By diet, 1042 Of wet form by hydragogue cathartics, 1042 Sulphate of magnesium, 1042 Elaterium, 1042 Treeak farook, 1042 Diuretics, 1042 Juniper gin, 1042 Of the dry form by electricity, 1043 Strychnia, 1043 Frictions, 1043 Use of anodyne liniments, 1043 Use of hypodermics of morphia, 1043

Bites of rabid dogs, treatment, 905

Bladder, diphtheria of, general sepsis from, 674 lesions of, in rabies, 903 in relapsing fever, 414 symptoms of diphtheria of, 674

Blindness in cerebro-spinal meningitis, 811

Blisters, use of, in cerebro-spinal meningitis, 830

Blood, alterations of, in anthrax, 935-942 in beriberi, 1041 in cerebro-spinal meningitis, 824 in cholera, 747 in pyæmia, 968 in relapsing fever, 411 in scarlet fever, 530 in septicæmia, 971 in typhoid fever, 268 in typhus fever, 356 altered, as a cause of symptomatic parotitis, 626 condition of, in pyæmia, 963 contamination of, sources, in pyæmia, 958 degeneration of, complicating diphtheria, 675

Blood-vessels, calcification of, 88, 90 changes in inflammation, 43 lesions of, in typhoid fever, 267 new formation of, 55

Body, portion of, most suitable for vaccinating, 477

Bones, chronic diseases of, following rubeola, 574 cranial, lesions of, in symptomatic parotitis, 626 in glanders, 922 in pyæmia, 967

Bone-marrow, lesions of, in relapsing fever, 417

Boric acid, use of, in diphtheria, 709

Bovine vaccine, 473

Bowels, state of, in relapsing fever, 390 in remittent fever, 602 condition of, in typhus fever, 350

Brain, lesions of, in cerebro-spinal meningitis, 823 in cholera, 746 in glanders, 923 in relapsing fever, 413 in typhoid fever, 266 in typhus fever, 358 and membranes, lesions of, in cerebro-spinal meningitis, 822 in pyæmia, 966 and spinal cord, lesions of, in rabies and hydrophobia, 903 softening of, following cerebro-spinal meningitis, 820

Breath, odor of, in typhus fever, 353

Bright's disease, aggravation of, by influenza, 870

Bromine, use of, in diphtheria, 708

Bromide of potassium, use of, in relapsing fever, 430

Bronchi, lesions of, in rabies and hydrophobia, 902 symptoms of formation of diphtheritic membrane, 671

Bronchial glands, lesions of, in influenza, 872

Bronchitis, complicating influenza, 868 rubeola, 571 typhoid fever, 294 typhus fever, 355 frequency of, in typhoid fever, 277 in rubeola, treatment, 581 in septicæmia, 977 in typhus fever, 353, 354

Broncho-pneumonia, complicating diphtheria, 672

Bryce's test of vaccinal infection, 461