Climate and Health in Hot Countries and the Outlines of Tropical Climatology: A Popular Treatise on Personal Hygiene in the Hotter Parts of the World, and on the Climates That Will Be Met Within Them.Giles, George Michael James
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Climate and Health in Hot Countries and the Outlines of Tropical Climatology: A Popular Treatise on Personal Hygiene in the Hotter Parts of the World, and on the Climates That Will Be Met Within Them.
Giles, George Michael James
Hygiene -- Popular works; Medical climatology; Tropical medicine
Egg albumen--
Infants, feeding, with, 154
Meat extracts, in, 61-62 _and notes_
Eggs, 56
Egypt--
_Bilharzia_ prevalent in, 184
Head covering in, 29
“Elgin” helmet, 169
“Equatorial Rowing Club,” 25
Eucalyptus plant, antipathy of mosquitoes to, 116
Euonymin, 150
Europeans in tropical climates, immunity of, from native diseases, 180
Fainting, 167-168
Feet, swelling of, in hot countries, 32; footwear in the Tropics,
31-32
Felt for hats in India, 169
“Fever mixture,” 128
“Field officer’s Kabul” tent, 85
Filariasis, 93, 183
Filters, danger of ordinary form of, 135
Fish as food in hot climates, 56; tinned, 61; killed by mosquitoes, 94
Fisher. Dr. T., _cited_, 74
Flannel, wearing, next the skin, 22-23
Fleas, 94, 115
Flies--
Danger of, to food supplies, 48
Method of freeing tents from, 86-87; of freeing houses, 115
Ophthalmia introduced through, 34
Sleeping sickness, concerned in, 164-165
Flukes, 184
Foods (for particular foods, _see_ their names, as milk, bread, meat,
&c.)
Bad, consequence of, 35
Changes in, producing infantile diarrhœa, 150, 151
Cooking of, disease germs destroyed by, 48
Dealing with, precautions necessary, 48-49; unclean methods of
natives, 51, 59
Infants, of, rapid deterioration of, in tropical countries, 150
Tinned, 61-62
Forest officials, government protection of houses of, suggested, 122
Fruit, 58-59; tinned fruits, 61
Gardens, danger of, in malarious places, 2-3, 109; watering of, in
India, 109-112
Gauze, metallic, protection of houses by means of, 68-69, 118-123, 166
Gauze bags, mosquitoes destroyed in, 113
_Ghi_, 111
Gnats, _see_ mosquitoes
“Gnats or mosquitoes,” 114
Goa powder, application of, in Dhobi’s itch, 179
Goat’s milk for feeding infants, 152-153
Gram, tops of, as a substitute for spinach, 57
_Graphic_, 170
Grassi, Prof., 90
Gregory’s powder, administration of, in infantile diarrhœa, 151, 154
Guinea worm, 183
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