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Waste-pipes, effects of large bore in, 220 leakage in, 222 tests for, 222 ventilation, 223

Water, collections of, effect upon public health, 187 fear of, in rabies and hydrophobia, 899 height of subsoil, influence of, on prevalence of cholera, 722 importance of, in treatment of typhoid fever, 325 impure, microscopic characters of, 184 diarrhoeal affections from, 182 disease from, 182 chemical examination of, 183, 184 value of chemical examination of, 183, 184 impurity of, from metallic salts, 182 from organisms, 184 nature of impurities, 182 polluted, as a cause of diphtheria, 683 stagnant, production of malaria by, 187 standards of purity, 184 subsoil, level of, 188 supply, contamination of, from privy-vaults, 192 cess-pools, 192 chloride test for detecting impurities in, 192 tables of analyses, 184 use of, in diphtheria, 702

Water-closets, defects of, 217 location, 218 varieties, 191 ventilation, 192, 217

Waxy degeneration, 84

Welch on cause of oedema of lungs, 72

Wet form of beriberi, symptoms, 1040 treatment, 1042

Whooping cough, 836 relation of, to rubeola, 561

Winds, influence of, on spread of influenza, 860

Wound, appearance of, in rabies and hydrophobia, 895, 899 changes in, in pyæmia, 976 condition of, in septicæmia, 977 influence of characters of, in causation of pyæmia, 958 treatment of, in pyæmia, 981 in septicæmia, 983

Wounds, diphtheria of, 673

YELLOW FEVER, 640 Synonyms, 640 Definition, 640 Etiology, 640 Specific origin, 640 Poison of, inconvertibility, 840 Birthplace, 641 Characteristics, 641 Ponderability, 641 Vitality, 641 Influence of heat and cold on development, 641 Impossibility of transportation of, by air, 641 Transportability of, by fomites, etc., 641 Nature of fomites, 641, 642 Fixity of, 643 Slowness of extension, 643 Medium of admission to system, 642 Localization of epidemics by atmospheric impregnation, 642 Anxiety, grief, and fatigue as causes, 643 Insusceptibility, in negroes, 644 from idiosyncrasy, 643 Protective power of previous attacks, 643 Duration of incubation period, 643 Symptoms, 644 Mild cases, 644 Initial, 644 Physiognomy, 644 Neuralgia and muscular pains, 644 Cerebral, 644 Condition of tongue, 644 Gastro-intestinal canal, 644 Vomiting, 644 Character of matters vomited, 644 Condition of urine, 644 Pulse, 644 Relation of pulse to temperature, 645 Perspiration, 645 Stages, 645 Masked forms, 653 Walking forms, 654 Paroxysmal stage, 645 Calm stage, 645 Hemorrhages and jaundice, 646 Prognosis, 646 Symptoms indicating unfavorable, 646 Influence of crowding the sick, 646 Pregnancy and parturition, 647 Condition of patient at time of attack, 647 Temperature, 647 In hospital cases, 647 Mortality, 647 Variableness, 647 Difference in hospital and private cases, 648 Diagnosis, 648 Significance of physiognomy, 648 State of pulse, 648 Albuminous urine, 648 Hemorrhagic tendency, 648 Yellow discoloration of skin, 648 Morbid anatomy, 649 Changes in liver, 649 Treatment, 649 Futility of abortive, 649 Importance of early, 649 Indications for, 649 Simple form, 649 Early stages, 649 Diaphoresis, 650 Jaborandi, 650 Neuralgias and muscular pains, 651 Hyperpyrexia, 651 by cold, 651 Hemorrhages, 651 by tincture of iron, 652 Nausea and vomiting, 652 Urinary suppression, 652 Failure of reaction from cold stage, 653 Convulsions and delirium, 653 Use of digitalis, 651 Aconite, 651 Veratrum viride, 651 Gelsemium, 651 Hæmostatics, 652 Quinia, 650, 651 Quinia and opium in combination, 651 Hygienic, 654 Necessity of absolute rest, 654 Diet, 654 Children, 655 Typhoid cases, 655 Time of return to solid food, 655

Zymosis, meaning of term, 137

Zymotic diseases, relation of, to puerperal fever, 1020 table, 136

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