Part 181

Plumbing, examination of defects, 190 of houses, 188

Pneumonia, catarrhal, complicating influenza, 869 following the plague, 781 complicating erysipelas, 634 relapsing fever, 404 rubeola, 571 typhoid fever, 294 typhus fever, 355 fibrinous, complicating diphtheria, 672 in rubeola, treatment, 581 in typhoid fever, treatment, 335 lobar, complicating influenza, 869

Pneumonias, nature of, complicating influenza, 870

Pock of vaccinia, date of appearance, 459 depression, 459 desquamation, 460 development, 459 incrustation, 460 in variola, characters of mature, 439

Poison, diphtheritic, fixity, 678 transmission, 678 influence of intensity of, on severity of cholera, 730, 731 of anthrax, modes of transmission, 929 of cholera, nature, 749 of malaria, nature, 589, 591 of the plague, nature, 776 of yellow fever, birthplace, 641 characteristics, 641 influence of heat and cold on development, 641 transportability, 641 specific, of beriberi, 1038 of pertussis, 838

Polluted soil as a means of disseminating typhoid fever, 253

Potassium bromide, use of, in cerebro-spinal meningitis, 834 carbonate, use of, in pertussis, 845 chlorate, danger of large doses, 701 use of, in diphtheria, 699, 700 iodide, use of, in cerebro-spinal meningitis, 834

Poverty as a cause of typhus fever, 342

Predisposing causes of beriberi, 1042 of cholera, 720 of glanders in horse, 912 of idiopathic parotitis, 620 of the plague, 774 of typhoid fever, 242 of typhus fever, 341

Predisposition to disease, hereditary nature, 126

Predispositions, inherited, evidence, 132

Pregnancy, complicating influenza, 871 typhoid fever, 296

Preliminary papule of anthrax, treatment, 943

Premonitory symptoms of rabies and hydrophobia, 895 of scarlet fever, 502

Prevention of anthrax by inoculation, 937

Preventive treatment of anthrax in animals, 936 in man, 943 of cholera, 755 of erysipelas, 636 of glanders in horses, 919 in man, 925 of influenza, 873 of the plague, 782 of puerperal fever, 1021 of pyæmia and septicæmia, 979, 980, 983 of rabies and hydrophobia, 903 of scarlet fever, 536 of typhoid fever, 321 of typhus fever, 361

Previous attacks of variola, protection from, 436

Primary vaccine, 473

Privy vaults, contamination of water-supply by, 192 dangers from, 192

PROCESSES, GENERAL MORBID, 35

Prodromal stage of diphtheria, 667 of intermittent fever, 592 of leprosy, 789 of remittent fever, 599 of rötheln, 585 of rubeola, 564 of varicella, 482

Prognosis, general, 167 of anthrax in animals, 936 in man, 943 of beriberi, 1042 of cerebro-spinal meningitis, 828 of cholera, 753 of dengue, 885 of diphtheria, 692-694 of erysipelas, 636 of idiopathic parotitis, 624 of influenza, 872 of intermittent fever, 594 of glanders in horse, 918 in man, 924 of leprosy, 793 of the plague, 782 of relapsing fever, 422-425 of remittent fever, 602 of rötheln, 588 of scarlet fever, 533 of simple continued fever, 235 of symptomatic parotitis, 627 of typho-malarial fever, 616 of typhoid fever, 314-316 of typhus fever, 359, 360 of vaccinia, 464 of varicella, 484 of variola, 450 of varioloid, 444 in yellow fever, 646, 647 effect of constitution, 168 of nature of malady, 169 of present state of patient, 169 influence of nursing, 169 modifying effects of medicinal agents, 169

Prophylactic treatment of diphtheria, 696

Prophylaxis, individual, in contagious diseases, 206 of leprosy, 794 of pertussis, 843 of puerperal fever, 1021

Prostration in dengue, 882 in typhus fever, 348 treatment, 365

Protective power of vaccination, 466 duration of, 468 against pertussis, 468

Pseudo-membrane, solvents of, 703

Psoas abscess in puerperal fever, 1010