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.
• Nursing, 217.

O

• Oatmeal, 114, 284.
• Okra, 142.
• Opiates, 85.
• Opium, 254.
• Oysters, 118, 122.

P

• Pains, rheumatic, 145.
• Paris green, 252.
• Parsley, 142.
• Parsnips, 136.
• Pasteur, 214.
• Pastries, 115.
• Peaches, 146.
• Peanuts, 133, 134.
• Peas, 133, 134.
• Pellagra, 9, 109.
• Peppers, green, 142.
• Phosphorus, 253.
• Pickles, 144.
• Pieplant, 142.
• Pilot-snake, 262.
• Pit-vipers, 261, 265.
• Plague, bubonic, 9.
• Plasmodium malaria, 171.
• Plaster, for blisters, 247;
  • for sprains, 235.
• Poison-dogwood, 260.
• Poison-elder, 260.
• Poison-ivy, 259.
• Poison-oak, 259.
• Poisons, acid and alkaline, 252;
  • ptomaine, 9;
  • treatment of poison cases, with antidotes, 251.
• Poison-sumac, 260.
• Pork, boiled, 280;
  • broiled, 279;
  • fried, 279;
  • roast, 279.
• Potassium permanganate, 254, 255, 269.
• Potatoes, 135, 136;
  • baked, 294;
  • boiled, 294;
  • cooking of, 167;
  • disadvantages of, 112.
• Poultry, 122.
• Privies, 49, 52, 198.
• Ptomaines, poisoning by, 9.
• Puddings, apple, 295;
  • batter, 295;
  • brown betty, 296;
  • caramel custard, 296;
  • cottage, 295;
  • cream of corn-starch, 296;
  • rice, 297.
• Pumpkin, 143.
• Pus, 232.

Q

• Quacks, medical, 4, 7.
• Quinine, 173.

R

• Rabies, see Hydrophobia.
• Radishes, 136.
• Rat, 9.
• Rat-poison, 25.
• Rattlesnake, 261, 262, 264;
  • ground-rattlers, 262, 265.
• Recipes, 273.
• Resins, 231.
• Respiration, artificial, 225.
• Rest, need of, 22.
• Rhubarb, 142.
• Rhus, poisoning by, 259.
• Rhus toxicodendron, 259.
• Rhus venenata, 259.
• Rice, boiled, 285;
  • cooking of, 167;
  • value of, 113.
• Rochdale, system of, 53.
• Rolls, 286.
• Rum, 160.

S

• Salad plants, 139.
• Saliva, 29.
• Sanitation, 35.
• Sauerkraut, 139.
• Scab, 233.
• Schafer, Prof., system of artificial respiration, 225.
• Screens, 41, 176, 219.
• Sewage, disposal of, 49.
• Shallots, 140.
• Sheet, rubber, 219.
• Sick-room, 217.
• Sistrurus, 262.
• Sleep, 26, 78.
• Sleeping-sickness, 1.
• Snake, harlequin, 262.
• Snake-bites, 268.
• Snakes, columbine, 262, 263;
  • elapine, 263;
  • non-venomous, 264;
  • venomous, 261;
  • viperine, 261.
• Soups, meat, 292;
  • vegetable, 290.
• Sours, 147.
• Spinach, 138.
• Splints, 235.
• Sprains, 234.
• Sputum, 184.
• Squash, 143.
• Starches, 98, 104;
  • changes in, 165;
  • in cooking, 97;
  • in vegetables, 131;
  • raw, 105.
• Steam, 46.
• Stove, 47.
• Streams, 60.
• Strychnine, as antidote, 269;
  • poisoning by, 254.
• Sugar, consumption of, 126;
  • from beets, 136;
  • in vegetables, 131;
  • kinds of, 125;
  • raw, 105.
• Sunstroke, 242.
• Swamp-dogwood, 260.
• Syringe, 84.
• Syrups, 33;
  • soothing, 255.

T

• Tapeworm, 8, 9, 51.
• Tea, 31, 152.
• Teeth, care of, 80, 248;
  • teething of infants, 80;
  • tooth-ache, 248.
• Toadstool, see Mushroom.
• Tobacco, 34.
• Tomato, 141.
• Tonsillitis, follicular, 200.
• Tooth-ache, 248.
• Treatment, immunizing, 205;
  • pasteur, 214.
• Tricina, 18.
• Tuberculosis, 94, 95, 156;
  • description and treatment, 178.
• Tubers, 135.
• Turnips, 136, 137, 138.

V

• Vaccination, 88.
• Veal, boiled, 277;
  • fried, 277;
  • jellied, 278;
  • roast, 276;
  • stew or pot-pie, 277.
• Vegetables, cooking of, 293;
  • digestibility of, 132, 133;
  • diseases contracted from, 9.
• Ventilation, 48, 218.
• Vinegar, 133, 136, 147.
• Vipers, 262. See also pit-vipers.
• Vomiting, 67, 87.

W

• Waffles, 107.
• Wall-paper, 41.
• Water, as a drink, 30, 148;
  • dangers of, 140;
  • diseases contracted from, 8;
  • for heating, 46;
  • for poisons, 251;
  • for wounds, 230.
• Water-supply, 57.
• Wells, 58.
• Whisky, 160.
• Wines, 161.
• Work, 22.
• Worms, 140.
• Wounds, 227.

Y

• Yams, 135.
• Yeast, 286.