Climate and Health In Hot Countries And The Outlines of Tropical Climatology
by George Michael James Giles
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About this eBook
- Author
- Giles, George Michael James, 1853-1916
- Title
- Climate and Health in Hot Countries and the Outlines of Tropical Climatology A Popular Treatise on Personal Hygiene in the Hotter Parts of the World, and on the Climates That Will Be Met Within Them.
- Credits
- Produced by Charlene Taylor, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine
- Subject
- Tropical medicine
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 57122
- Release Date
- May 9, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.CLIMATE AND HEALTH IN HOT COUNTRIES AND THE OUTLINES OF TROPICAL CLIMATOLOGY
- 2.INTRODUCTION.
- 3.LIST OF DRUGS, &c., MENTIONED IN THE TEXT.
- 4.INDEX TO PART I., CLIMATE AND HEALTH IN HOT COUNTRIES.
- 5.PART I. CLIMATE AND HEALTH IN HOT COUNTRIES. — CHAPTER I. On Housing and Domestic Architecture. — Flooring. — CHAPTER II. On Clothing. — CHAPTER III. On Water and Food. — Milk. — Butter. — Cheese. — Meat. — Eggs — Fish. — Vegetables. — Fruit. — Bread. — Other foodstuffs. — Tinned provisions. — The Question of Alcohol — Cooking and kitchen management. — CHAPTER IV. The Tropical Day. — CHAPTER V. Hints on the Management of Children in Hot Climates. — CHAPTER VI. Hints on the Construction of Tents and on Camp Sanitation. — CHAPTER VII. On the Prevention of Malaria. — CHAPTER VIII. On the Prevention and Treatment of Certain of the more Common Tropical Diseases. — Cholera. — Dysentery. — Diarrhœa. — Plague. — Small-pox. — Sleeping Sickness. — Sunstroke and Heat Apoplexy. — Prickly Heat and Dhobi’s Itch. — On the Prevention of Diseases Caused by Internal Worms.
- 6.PART II. OUTLINES OF TROPICAL CLIMATOLOGY — ERRATA. — SECTION I. General Considerations. — Temperature. — Effects of Amount and Distribution of Rainfall. — Effect of Winds on Health. — SECTION II. On the Special Characteristics of the Climates of Certain Hot Countries. — The Mediterranean Basin. — The Remainder of the African Continent. — The Asiatic Continent. — The American Continent. — South America. — Notes on the Observation of Meteorological Data.
- 7.INDEX.
- 8.Transcriber’s Notes — Changes made
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