Physiology, hygiene and sanitation, an elementary textbook of physiology, with special attention given to hygiene and sanitation (1919) (14785030643)

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Title: Physiology, hygiene and sanitation, an elementary textbook of physiology, with special attention given to hygiene and sanitation

Year: 1919 (1910s)

Authors: Heizer, W. L. (W. Lucien), b. 1880

Subjects: Physiology Hygiene Sanitation

Publisher: Louisville, Ky., C.T. Dearing Printing Co., Incorporated

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

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da and Mex-ico. Schools were closed. Doctors were not able to visitmany who were seriously ill, and nurses were too few towait on the sick. Whole families often were in bed at onetime. This is a typical germ or seed disease and the germswere carelessly coughed, sneezed, or spit about, so that well people whowere unfortunateenough to comenear such peopleor places, wherethey had been,were at once in-fected. If every personwho was ill of in-fluenza had knownwhat this booktea ches concern-ing the spread ofdiseases and theirprevention, andhad applied that knowledge, this disease would have beenconfined to the first cases. Influenza begins with aching pains in the muscles, someheadache and fever, a mild cough and a feeling of weak-ness. In mild cases, recovery is rapid and free from after-effects except a feeling of continued weakness. Mostcases are mild and for this reason it has been calledThree-day Flu. In the severe cases, pneumonia andpleurisy often develop with frequent deaths. On the

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Pig-. -The germs of influenza. INFLUENZA AND COLDS 197 first appearance of the signs of the disease, the personshould go to bed and send for a good physician. A person having ififluenza should not cough or sneezeexcept into a handkerchief, which should be kept moistwith a five per cent, solution of carbolic acid. Batingutensils, as knives, plates, cups, forks, glasses, and spoons,after being used by the patient, should at once be wellboiled. The victim should be placed and kept in a room alone,except for the one who is doing the nursing, until everysign of the disease has disappeared. Bed clothing usedby the patient should not be used until it is sterilizedeither by boiling, the use of chemicals, or long exposureto sunlight. Visitors should be denied admittance. Prevention of Influenza. When an epidemic of the dis-ease appears, people should stay at home; avoid crowdsof people and crowded cars, churches, theaters, and otherpublic meeting places. Fresh air in abundance in the living an

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