Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

174 THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL.
The author believes that a more thorough food, approximate time needed for the diunderstaiidingaiidobservanceof
thenatural gestion of some principal foods, alcohol in
phenomena attending sleep would have various liquors, substances excreted in milk,
definite value and application to the affairs notes on feeding, diet tables, hypodermatic'
of health; that the retrograde changes inci- medication, poisons and their antidotes,
dental to old age that are ushered into mid- eruptions caused by drugs, important indie
life long before the individual should compatibles, synonymous terms, medical
show signs of physiological death might be Latin translated, leading remedies classiaverted
by a more careful study of the pro- fied, "shall the doctor trust to chance,"
cesses that apply the nutritional products therapeutic suggestions, materia medica.
direct to the cell. Whatever sleep is, it is As the "manual" is to be had for the askthe
process, or presides ovei the processes ing the edition of 40,000 ought soon to be
that convert food into the organic life of a exhausted.
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life. The life of the cell depends entirely
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measures are correctly carried out the ordi- must be a source of gratification to both
nary staining methods may be employed editor and publishers.
for the detection of tubercle bacilli.
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Contents: Weights and measures, the intended to show that tuberculosis is a pre-
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metric system, percentage solution table, ventable and curable disease, rarely heredithermometric
equivalents, average weights tary, and that in children of tuberculous
and measurements of adult human organs, parents the pre-disposition can be overcome
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baths in common use, important abnormal
interested in the
plague.
fight against the white '
constituents in urine, the urinary solids. The chapters are devoted to those points i
diiferential table of eruptive diseases, direc- that tuberculous patients should know of ';
.iods for modifying milk for infants, per- their disease, to the duties of the people in
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centage of nutriment in certain articles of family of the patient, the community in