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Cold water, use of, in typhus fever, 364

Collapse in cerebro-spinal meningitis, treatment, 831 in cholera, 734 treatment, 763 of lungs, complicating influenza, 869

Collections of water, influence on health of a community, 187

Colloid degeneration, 83 metamorphosis, 83

Color of skin, significance of, in general diagnosis, 159

Coma, in cerebro-spinal meningitis, 812 significance of, in general diagnosis, 166

Comatose form of pernicious malarial fever, 608 Diagnosis, 609 Symptoms, 609 Treatment, 609

Coma-vigil in typhus fever, 349

Compresses, hot water, use of, in variola, 453

Complications of cholera, 735 of erysipelas, 633 of idiopathic parotitis, 623 of influenza, 868 of pertussis, 843 of plague, 780 of relapsing fever, 396-410 of rötheln, 587 of rubeola, 570 causes, 570 of scarlet fever, 510 of typhoid fever, 292 treatment, 335 of vaccination, 468 of vaccinia, 464 of varicella, 483 of variola, 445

Confluent small-pox, 440

Conjunctiva, condition of, in human glanders, 921 symptoms of diphtheria of, 670

Conjunctival diphtheria, local treatment, 712

Conjunctivitis, diphtheritic, symptoms, 670

Consanguineous marriages, effects, 131

Constipation in cerebro-spinal meningitis, 814 in grave form of the plague, 779 in rubeola, treatment, 581 in typhoid fever, treatment, 333 in typhus fever, treatment, 367 significance of, in general diagnosis, 163

Constitutional infection, absence of, in vaccinia, 460 of syphilis, hereditary nature, 127 taints, conveyance of, by vaccination, 471 treatment of anthrax, 944 of pyæmia, 982

Contagion as a cause of disease, 135, 200 definition of, 200 of dengue, 884 of erysipelas, manner of propagation, 630 nature, 630 of influenza, 862 of relapsing fever, transmission, 373 of rabies and hydrophobia, 891 dissemination, 891 of rötheln, nature, 583 of rubeola, modes of dissemination, 558 mode of entering the body, 558 nature, 557 in typhus fever, nature, 343 modes of transmission, 344

Contagium of variola, duration of activity, 435 mode of entering body, 435 nature, 435 period of greatest activity, 435

Contagious diseases, characteristics, 137

Contagious nature of cholera, objections to, 729

Contagiousness of anthrax, 928 of cerebro-spinal meningitis, 803 of cholera, 721 of dengue, 884 of diphtheria, 678 of erysipelas, 630 of glanders, 911 of influenza, 862, 863 of leprosy, 788 of the plague, 776 of puerperal fever, 1017 of pyæmia, 960 of rabies and hydrophobia, 891 of scarlet fever, 494 of typhoid fever, 248 of typhus fever, 343 period of greatest, 345 of varicella, 481 of variola, 435

Convalescence, choice of diet, 206 in cerebro-spinal meningitis, 819 management, 835 in cholera, 735 management, 764 in chronic glanders in man, 922 in dengue, 882 in grave form of the plague, 779 in erysipelas, management, 639 in influenza, treatment, 875 in relapsing fever, 393 in scarlet fever, management, 544 in typhoid fever, management, 335 in typhus fever, management, 368

Convulsions during hot stage of intermittent fever, treatment, 597 in cerebro-spinal meningitis, 810 in relapsing fever, 384 complicating rubeola, 572 in prodromal stage of rubeola, 565 in rubeola, treatment, 581 in yellow fever, treatment, 653

Cooking, necessity of a physician's knowledge of, 196

Corpuscles, pus-, 43

Corrosive sublimate, use of, as antiseptic in puerperal fever, 1025, 1029

Coryza, chronic, following rubeola, 574 complicating scarlet fever, 520 of scarlet fever, treatment, 546