A Text-book On Hygiene and Pediatrics

About this eBook

Author

Craven, J. H. (John Henry), 1880-1940

Title

A text-book on hygiene and pediatrics from a chiropractic standpoint

Original Publication

United States: John H. Craven, 1924.

Credits

Bob Taylor, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

RM: Medicine: Therapeutics, Pharmacology

Subject

Children -- Diseases

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 70951

Release Date

June 9, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.A TEXT-BOOK ON HYGIENE AND PEDIATRICS
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.DEDICATION
5. 5.PREFACE
6. 6.TABLE OF CONTENTS
7. 7.CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
8. 8.Untitled
9. 9.SECTION I CHIROPRACTIC HYGIENE — Origin of the Word Hygiene — Hygiene Defined — Sanitary Science — Sanitary Art — Distinction between Sanitation and Hygiene — Aim and Function of Hygiene and Sanitation — Internal and External Cleanliness — Sewerage System of the Body — Three Viewpoints on Hygiene — Advantages of a Proper Sanitary Environment — Cause of Dis-ease — Sources of Communication
10. 10.CHAPTER II HOUSING HYGIENE
11. 11.Site — Aspect — Soil — Ground Water and Ground Air — Stagnant Water — BUILDING CONSTRUCTION — Foundation — Walls — Floors — Roof — House Dampness — Fireproofing — House Plumbing
12. 12.CHAPTER III AIR
13. 13.Untitled
14. 14.Oxygen (O) — Nitrogen (N) — Argon (A) — Carbon Dioxide (CO 2 ) — Ozone (O 3 ) — Ammonia (NH 3 ) — Other Constituents — AIR PRESSURE — Normal Air Pressure — Reduced Air Pressure — Increased Air Pressure — Caisson Dis-ease — HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURE OF AIR — Humidity — Cold Dry Air — Warm Moist Air — Cold Damp Air — Warm Dry Air — Proper Temperature and Humidity
15. 15.CHAPTER IV VENTILATION
16. 16.Untitled
17. 17.Introduction — Sources of Impurities in Air — Requirements of a Ventilating System — Natural Means of Ventilation — Mechanical Ventilation — Washing the Air
18. 18.CHAPTER V HEATING
19. 19.Untitled
20. 20.GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS — Heat from Hygienic Standpoint — Combustion — Molecular Theory — Body Heat — Proper Temperature of Building — Requirements for Heating System — LOCAL HEATING — Radiation — Conduction — CENTRAL HEATING — Convection
21. 21.CHAPTER VI LIGHTING
22. 22.Untitled
23. 23.Adaptability of Eye to Light — The Eye — Value of Sunlight — Natural Light in Buildings — Artificial Lighting — Psychological Effect of Light — Systems of Lighting
24. 24.CHAPTER VII WATER
25. 25.GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS — Necessity for Proper Supply — History of Public Water Supply — Composition of Water — States of Aggregation — Universal Solvent — Necessity for Water in Body — Chemically Pure Water — Hard and Soft Water — Elimination of Water from Body — Amount of Water Needed for All Purposes — Water Waste — SOURCES OF WATER SUPPLY — Rain Water — Surface Water — Ground or Subsoil Water — METHODS OF PURIFICATION — Natural Methods of Water Purification — Artificial Methods of Water Purification — Swimming Pools — SEWAGE AND REFUSE DISPOSAL — Methods of Sewage Disposal — Sewage Purification — Refuse Disposal
26. 26.CHAPTER VIII SCHOOL HYGIENE
27. 27.Untitled
28. 28.SCHOOL BUILDING — Site — Stairways — Corridors — Basement — The Schoolroom — Lighting — Ventilation — Heating — School Desks — Blackboards — Charts — Cloakrooms — Water Supply — Toilets — PERSONAL FACTORS — Function of School Life — Age of Beginner — Play Periods Necessary — Peculiarities of Child Considered — Posture — Recess — School Dis-eases — Prophylaxis
29. 29.CHAPTER IX INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
30. 30.Untitled
31. 31.GENERAL CONSIDERATION — Definition — Effect of Occupation upon Health — Personal Factors — Choice of Occupation — Effect of Labor upon Children — Place of Work — Effect of Posture — Fatigue — HYGIENE AND SANITATION OF INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS — Space Per Individual — Character of Buildings — Lighting, Heating and Ventilating Work Places — Industrial Dusts — INDUSTRIAL POISONS — Lead Poisoning — Arsenic Poisoning — Mercurial Poisoning — Phosphorus Poisoning — Chromium Poisoning
32. 32.CHAPTER X DEFINITIONS
33. 33.Dis-ease — Classification — Acute and Chronic — Stage of Exposure — Period of Infection — Stage of Incubation — Period of Invasion — Degree of Infection — Contagious — Infectious — Morbific Agents — Pathogenic Germs — Non-Pathogenic Germs — Communicability — Host — Parasites — Commensal — Antibiosis — Symbiosis — Antibodies — Antigens — Saprophytes — Obligate Saprophytes — Septicemia — Toxemia — Sapremia — Epidemic — Endemic — Sporadic — Pandemic — Fomites
34. 34.CHAPTER XI IMMUNITY
35. 35.Untitled
36. 36.Defined — Natural Immunity — Acquired Immunity — Artificial Immunity — Exhaustion Theory — Retention Theory — Various Theories — Adaptability of the Body — Dis-ease the Cause of Germs — Germs Do Not Cause Dis-ease
37. 37.CHAPTER XII GERMS
38. 38.Untitled
39. 39.Origin of Germ Theory — Action of Germs a Natural Process — Bacteria — Source of Communication — Modes of Transfer — Channels of Entry — Terms Infectious and Contagious
40. 40.CHAPTER XIII DISINFECTION AND FUMIGATION
41. 41.DEFINITIONS — Disinfection — Sterilization — Antiseptic (Anti, against, and septos, putrid) — Asepsis — Insecticide — Germicide — Deodorant — Fumigation — AGENTS OF DISINFECTION — Physical Agents — Chemical Agents — MEANS OF DISINFECTION — Natural Means — Other Agents — Other Disinfectants
42. 42.CHAPTER XIV HYGIENE AND SANITATION IN THE SICK ROOM
43. 43.Untitled
44. 44.Factors in Normal Expression of Life — Importance of Environment — Function of the Educated Mind — Need for Conserving Energy — Hygienic Measures Used in So-called Communicable Dis-eases — Chiropractic Cause of So-called Communicable Dis-eases
45. 45.CHAPTER XV FOOD
46. 46.GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS — Necessity for Food — Distinction between Appetite and Hunger — Starvation — Inanition — Balanced Rations — CLASSIFICATION OF FOODS — Sources of Food — Chemical Composition — Physical Properties — Function
47. 47.CHAPTER XVI FOOD POISONS
48. 48.Sources — Food Infection — Food Intoxication — Adulteration of Food
49. 49.CHAPTER XVII MILK
50. 50.COMPOSITION OF MILK — Milk as a Food — Proteins — Fat — Vitamins — Lactose or Milk Sugar — SANITARY MEASURES IN PRODUCTION — Milk, a Germ Medium — Care in the Milking — Care of the Cows — Barns and Barnyards — Bottling — Proper Temperature — PREPARATION OF MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS — Pasteurization of Milk — Condensed Milk — Dry Milk — Butter — Cheese
51. 51.CHAPTER XVIII MEAT
52. 52.Meat, an Article of Diet — Composition of Meat — Food Value of Meat — Sources of Meat — Care of Food Animals — Meat Unfit for Food — Danger to Health — Tapeworm — Trichinosis — Echinococcus
53. 53.SECTION II CHIROPRACTIC PEDIATRICS
54. 54.CHAPTER I THE BABY
55. 55.Feeding — Sleep — Exercise — Playroom — Sleeping Rooms or Nurseries — Control of Bowels and Bladder — Growth and Development — Weight — Height — THE SPECIAL SENSES — Sight — Hearing — Touch — Taste — Smell — SPEECH — HEAD — Sutures — Fontanels — Shape — THORAX — ABDOMEN — WALKING
56. 56.CHAPTER II DENTITION
57. 57.Hygiene of the Teeth — Adjustments during Dentition
58. 58.CHAPTER III ANALYZING INFANTS
59. 59.History of the Case — Objective Symptoms — Respiration — Pulse Rate — Zones Involved — The Child’s Cry — Palpating the Infant
60. 60.CHAPTER IV ADJUSTING INFANTS
61. 61.Untitled
62. 62.CHAPTER V RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
63. 63.ACUTE NASAL CATARRH — Symptoms — Equation — Family — Adjustment — FOREIGN BODIES LODGED IN THE NOSE — CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH — Symptoms — Equation — Family — Major Adjustment — EPISTAXIS — Equation — Family — Adjustment — INCOÖRDINATIONS OF THE LARYNX — CROUP — Symptoms — Major Adjustment — LARYNGISMUS STRIDULUS — Symptoms — Major Adjustment — ACUTE CATARRHAL LARYNGITIS — Symptoms — Major Adjustment — CHRONIC LARYNGITIS — Symptoms — Major Adjustment — TUBERCULAR LARYNGITIS — FOREIGN BODIES IN LARYNX AND BRONCHI — Symptoms — EDEMA OF THE GLOTTIS — Symptoms — Equation and Major Adjustment — INCOÖRDINATIONS OF THE LUNGS — GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS — ACUTE CATARRHAL BRONCHITIS — Symptoms — Equation and Family — CHRONIC BRONCHITIS — Symptoms — Major Adjustment — BRONCHIAL CROUP (Fibrinous Bronchitis) — Major Adjustment — PNEUMONIA — Symptoms — Symptoms of Lobar Pneumonia — Equation and Family — Major Adjustment — ASTHMA — Symptoms — Equation — Family — Major Adjustment
64. 64.CHAPTER VI DIGESTIVE TRACT
65. 65.GASTRITIS — Symptoms — Major Adjustment — CHRONIC GASTRITIS — Major Adjustment — STOMATITIS — Equation — Family — Major Adjustment — GLOSSITIS — Equation — Family — Major Adjustment — STENOSIS OF THE PYLORUS — Symptoms — Equation — Family — Major Adjustment — ACUTE INTESTINAL INDIGESTION — Major Adjustment — CHOLERA INFANTUM — Major Adjustment — CHRONIC INTESTINAL INDIGESTION — Symptoms — Major Adjustment — COLIC — Major Adjustment — VOMITING — RECURRENT VOMITING — Symptoms — Major Adjustment — CONSTIPATION — Major Adjustment — INTUSSUSCEPTION — Symptoms — Major Adjustment — ICTERUS — Symptoms — Equation and Family — Major Adjustment
66. 66.CHAPTER VII MISCELLANEOUS
67. 67.MALNUTRITION — Symptoms — Major Adjustment — INANITION — Symptoms — Major Adjustment — MARASMUS — Major Adjustment — SCURVY — Symptoms — Major Adjustment — RICKETS — Symptoms — Deformities of the Head — Deformities of the Thorax — Deformities of the Spine — Deformities of the Extremities — Deformities of the Abdomen — Equation — Major Adjustment — NEUROTIC CHILDREN — Family — Equation — Major Adjustment — CONVULSIONS — Family — Major Adjustment — NOCTURNAL ENURESIS — Incoördinations of the Nervous System — Highly Acid Urine — Excessive Quantity of Urine — Incoördinations of the Bladder — Irritation of the Genital Organs — Correction of the Condition — OPHTHALMIA — Symptoms — Major Adjustment — TETANUS IN INFANTS — Symptoms — Equation and Family — Major Adjustment — PEMPHIGUS NEONATORUM — Symptoms — Equation and Family — Major Adjustment
68. 68.INDEX — Transcriber’s Notes

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