Dr. Jacobi's Works: Collected Essays, Addresses, Scientific Papers and Miscellaneous Writings of A. Jacobi ..., Volume 1Critic and guide Company, 1909 |
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Page 276 - Thus cow's milk ought never to be given without table salt, and the latter ought to be added to woman's milk when it behaves like cow's milk in regard to solid curdling and consequent indigestibility. Habitual constipation of children...
Page 175 - Plates, cups, glasses, knives, forks, spoons, etc., used by the sick person for eating and drinking must be kept for his especial use, and under no circumstances removed from the room or mixed with similar utensils used by others, but must be washed in the room in the carbolic solution and then in hot soapsuds. After...
Page 281 - It may be true that these conditions are not met with very frequently, but an occasional single death caused by poisonous milk will be more than enough. Therefore, the daily home sterilization is by far preferable to the risky purchase from wholesale manufacturers who cannot guarantee because in the nature of things they cannot know the condition of their wares. Another alteration of a less dangerous character, but far from being desirable, is the spontaneous separation of cream from sterilized milk...
Page 417 - ... hard, and slices of moderate thickness retain their consistency. This condition of a relative hypertrophy of the brain, or rather, of a normal brain locked up in an abnormal skull, I have met with quite a number of times, before and since I published, in 1857, and 1859, my papers on the etiological and prognostic importance of the premature closure of the fontanelles and sutures of the infantile cranium.
Page 192 - Whole number of cases in this report, 1,704; mortality, 21.12 per cent. (360 deaths). The cases occurred in the practice of 422 physicians in the United States and Canada. Operations employed: (a) Intubation in 637 cases; mortality, 26.05 Per cent.
Page 137 - Moist surfaces — that is, the contents of cesspools and sewers and the walls of sewers — while emitting odors do not give off specific germs, even in a moderate current of wind. Splashing of the sewer contents may separate some germs and then the air of the sewer may become temporarily infected, but the germ will sink to the ground again. Choking of the sewer, introduction of hot factory refuse, leaky house drains and absence of traps may be the causes of sewer air ascending or forced back into...
Page 176 - Department should be immediately notified, and disinfectors will be sent to disinfect the room, bedding, clothing, etc., and under no conditions should it be again entered or occupied until it has been thoroughly disinfected. Nothing used in the room during the sickness should be removed until this has been done. " The attendant, and any one who has assisted in caring for the sick person, should also take a bath, wash the hair, and put on clean clothes, before mingling with the family or other people...
Page 43 - On the other hand, there are those which are mostly found in children, or with a symptomatology and course peculiar to them...
Page 58 - A Brief Rule To Guide the Common People of New England How to order themselves and theirs in the Small Pocks, or Measels.
Page 77 - The human society of the future will have to see to it that no poverty, no cruel labor law, no accident, no luxurious indolence, must interfere with the nursing of infants. I believe in the perfectibility of the physical and moral conditions of the human race. That is why I trust that society will find means to compel able-bodied women to nurse their own infants. Infants are the future citizens of the republic. Let the republic see that no harm accrue from the incompetence or unwillingness to nurse.