Disease and Its CausesCouncilman, W. T. (William Thomas)
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Disease and Its Causes
Councilman, W. T. (William Thomas)
Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation
SECONDARY TERMINAL AND MIXED INFECTIONS.--THE EXTENSION OF INFECTION IN
THE INDIVIDUAL.--TUBERCULOSIS.--THE TUBERCLE BACILLUS.--FREQUENCY OF THE
DISEASE.--THE PRIMARY FOCI.--THE EXTENSION OF BACILLI.--THE DISCHARGE OF
BACILLI FROM THE BODY.--INFLUENCE OF THE SEAT OF DISEASE ON THE
DISCHARGE OF BACILLI.--THE INTESTINAL DISEASES.--MODES OF
INFECTION.--INFECTION BY SPUTUM SPRAY.--INFECTION OF WATER
SUPPLIES.--EXTENSION OF INFECTION BY INSECTS.--TRYPANASOME
DISEASES.--SLEEPING SICKNESS.--MALARIA.--THE PART PLAYED BY
MOSQUITOES.--PARASITISM IN THE MOSQUITO.--INFECTION AS INFLUENCED BY
HABITS AND CUSTOMS.--HOOKWORM DISEASE.--INTERRELATION BETWEEN HUMAN AND
ANIMAL DISEASES.--PLAGUE.--PART PLAYED RATS IN TRANSMISSION.--THE PRESENT
EPIDEMIC OF PLAGUE 159
CHAPTER IX
DISEASE CARRIERS.--THE RELATION BETWEEN SPORADIC CASES OF INFECTIOUS
DISEASE AND EPIDEMICS.--SMALLPOX.--CEREBROSPINAL
MENINGITIS.--POLYOMYELITIS.--VARIATION IN THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF
INDIVIDUALS.--CONDITIONS WHICH MAY INFLUENCE SUSCEPTIBILITY.--RACIAL
SUSCEPTIBILITY.--INFLUENCE OF AGE AND SEX.--OCCUPATION AND
ENVIRONMENT.--THE AGE PERIOD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES 185
CHAPTER X
INHERITANCE AS A FACTOR IN DISEASE.--THE PROCESS OF CELL
MULTIPLICATION.--THE SEXUAL CELLS DIFFER FROM THE OTHER CELLS OF THE
BODY.--INFECTION OF THE OVUM.--INTRAUTERINE INFECTION.--THE PLACENTA AS A
BARRIER TO INFECTION.--VARIATIONS AND MUTATIONS.--THE INHERITANCE OF
SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DISEASE.--THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOLISM IN THE PARENTS
ON THE DESCENDANTS.--THE HEREDITY OF NERVOUS DISEASES.--TRANSMISSION OF
DISEASE BY THE FEMALE ONLY.--HEMOPHILIA.--THE INHERITANCE OF
MALFORMATIONS.--THE CAUSES OF MALFORMATIONS.--MATERNAL IMPRESSIONS HAVE
NO INFLUENCE.--EUGENICS 197
CHAPTER XI
CHRONIC DISEASES.--DISEASE OF THE HEART AS AN EXAMPLE.--THE STRUCTURE
AND FUNCTION OF THE HEART.--THE ACTION OF THE VALVES.--THE PRODUCTION
OF HEART DISEASE BY INFECTION.--THE CONDITIONS PRODUCED IN THE
VALVES.--THE MANNER IN WHICH DISEASE OF THE VALVES INTERFERES WITH
THEIR FUNCTION,--THE COMPENSATION OF INJURY BY INCREASED ACTION OF
HEART.--THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE HEART.--THE RESULT OF IMPERFECT WORK OF
THE HEART.--VENOUS CONGESTION.--DROPSY.--CHRONIC DISEASE OF THE
NERVOUS SYSTEM.--INSANITY.--RELATION BETWEEN INSANITY AND
CRIMINALITY.--ALCOHOLISM AND SYPHILIS FREQUENT CAUSES OF
INSANITY.--THE DIRECT AND INDIRECT CAUSES OF NERVOUS DISEASES.--THE
RELATION BETWEEN SOCIAL LIFE AND NERVOUS DISEASES.--FUNCTIONAL AND
ORGANIC DISEASE.--NEURASTHENIA 219
CHAPTER XII
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