Foods, 28, 99; albuminous, 119; amount necessary, 96; breakfast-foods, 113; diseases contracted from, 8; in sick-room, 221; Mellin's food, 86; nitrogenous, 98, 117; nutritive substances in, 98; raw, 105, 164; starchy, 104, 165, 168; tables, 100. Formaldehyde gas, 192. Frost-bite, 245. Fruits, as food, 30; dangers in, 144; diseases contracted from, 9; not nutritious, 146. Furnace, 46. G Game, 122. Garlic, 140. Gin, 160. Glanders, 10. Glucose, 126. Gout, 156, 163. Grape-fruit, 147. Greens, 138. Ground-itch, 195. H Haig, a physician, 148. Ham, boiled, 281; broiled, 281; curing of, 280; fried, 281; wholesomeness of, 121. Headache, 33. Health, 5. Heat, accidents arising from, 241; for house, 45; in sick-room, 218. See also Calories. Heat-prostration, 244. Hiccough, 250. Hog, 51. Hog-meats, 120. Hominy, 284. Hookworm, 8; method of transmission, 50, 52; description and treatment of disease, 193. Horses, convey glanders, 10; killed by bad corn, 109. House, materials for, 39; sanitation of, 35. Husks, 107. Hydrophobia, from dog's bite, 9, 249; description and treatment, 211. Hygiene, 1, 6; of infancy and childhood, 63; of the person, 12; of the sick-room, 217. Hypersensitiveness, 204. I Indigestion, 145. Infants, hygiene and feeding of, 63; weaning of, 67. Iodine, as antiseptic, 231; in blisters, 247. K Kak-ke, 9, 113. Kala-azar, 9. Kissing, 89. L Lathyrismus, 9. Lead-water, 261. Leeks, 140. Legumes, 133. Legumins, 98, 118. Lemons, 146. Lentils, 133, 134. Lettuce, 139. Ligature, 230, 270. Lime-water, 71, 261. Liquids, 148. Liquors, malt, 162. Liver, 93; cirrhosis of the, 158. Lockjaw, 227; antitoxin for, 232. Loeffler, discovered diphtheria germ, 198. M Malaria, conveyed by mosquito, 9, 41, 43; description and treatment, 171. Maltose, 86. Massasauga, 266. Mastication, 96. Meat, cooking of, 168; nitrogenous food, 118; source of ptomaine poisoning, 9; value of, 119. Medicine, 221; patent, 91, 158. Meninges, 207. Meningitis, cerebrospinal, 206. _Micrococcus intracellulais_, 207. Milk, an ideal food, 128; apt to promote indigestion, 150; as a drink, 31-32; in vegetarian diet, 130; infected with tuberculosis, 182; malted, 86; modified cow's, 67; mother's, 65; peptonized, 75; sterilized (Pasteurized), 74; table for calculating proportions of milk to be fed, 70. Mint, 142. Moccasin (snake), 261, 262, 263, 266. Mosquito, 9, 41, 171, 173. Mouse, 9. Mushrooms, 256. Mutton, boiled, 283; chops, 284; cutlets, 283; roast 283; value of, 120. N _Necator Americanus_, 193. Nervousness, 88. Nipple, 73. Nose, 184.