The Elements of Military Hygiene: Especially Arranged for Officers and Men of the Line

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Houghton Mifflin, 1920 - 377 strán (strany)
 

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Strana 250 - Typhoid fever gradually disappeared in the fall of 1898, with the approach of cold weather, and the consequent disabling of the fly. " It is possible for the fly to carry the typhoid bacillus in two ways. In the first place fecal matter containing the typhoid germ may adhere to the fly and be mechanically transported. In the second place, it is possible that the typhoid bacillus may be carried in the digestive organs of the fly and may be deposited with its excrement.
Strana 153 - He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death
Strana 247 - We may eliminate all danger by avoiding the handling of ice with dirty hands, by washing the ice with pure water, and by using only clear ice.
Strana 238 - During the Spanish War of 1898 every regiment constituting the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Seventh Army Corps developed typhoid fever.
Strana 86 - Lyster bag full of water. Break a tube of calcium hypochlorite into a clean ordnance cup, moisten the powder with a few drops of water and mix into a smooth paste. Now fill the cup with water to within one inch of the top and mix thoroughly by stirring with a clean spoon. Add this solution to a Lyster bag filled with clear water, stir thoroughly and allow to stand 30 minutes before using. After 30 minutes test a cupful by adding ten drops of a solution containing 10 per cent potassium iodide and...
Strana 102 - ... whole trough is flushed by simple removal of the cylinder, which allows it to empty. Another plan that has been found to afford a certain amount of satisfaction in a permanent camp emptying its waste into a small stream includes large closed boxes or tanks made of concrete (wood might be used) into or through which the sewage flows and in which enough sedimentation and disintegration occur to make the outflow a pale opalescent fluid almost free from odor and easily visible particles. It is not...
Strana 266 - Cheyenne during the late summer and the early autumn. Likewise the surgeon at the Cavalry camp reported that during July and the first half of August, 1913, 48 cases of typhoid fever occurred in the town of Winchester, Va., 5 miles distant from the camp. It is to be especially emphasized that there has been no lessening of the efforts in the Army to prevent, by improved sanitary measures, the occurrence of typhoid infection. Advances in the other sanitary measures have gone on, hand in hand, with...
Strana 237 - Report on the Origin and Spread of Typhoid Fever in United States Military Camps during the Spanish War of 1898.
Strana 217 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; Nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

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