The Home Medical Library (Volume V)
by Kenelm Winslow
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Winslow, Kenelm, 1863-
- Title
- The Home Medical Library, Volume 5 (of 6)
- Credits
- Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Chris Logan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- RC: Medicine: Internal medicine
- Subject
- Medicine, Popular
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 27947
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27947
- Release Date
- January 31, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Home Medical Library
- 2.Medical Advising Editors
- 3.Special Contributors
- 4.The Home Medical Library
- 5.Contents — PART I — PART II — PART III
- 6.The Editor's Preface
- 7.Part I — CHAPTER I — Adequate Water Supply Important — Points to be Borne in Mind — Relation of Water to Health — How Water Becomes Contaminated — An Ample Volume Necessary — A Good Pressure Required — Collection of Rain Water — Quality of Water Obtained from Lakes — Strong Winds Dangerous on Lakes — The Water of Springs — Not all Spring Water Pure — Different Kinds of Wells — " Water Finders " — Definition of "Ground-water Level" — Precautions Regarding Wells — Character of Water From Deep Wells — Laws Regulating Appropriation of Water — CHAPTER II — Machines for Pumping — Windmills Used for Driving Pumps — The Use of Engines — Advantages of Pumping Engines — Expansive Force of Heated Air Utilized — Gas and Gasoline Engines — Kerosene or Crude Oil as Fuel — Steam and Electric Pumps — Pumps Worked by Hand — Reservoirs and Storage Tanks — A Simple Pressure System — An Ideal System for a Country House — CHAPTER III — Clear Water Often Dangerous — Bad-Tasting Water not Always Poisonous — Plants Which Pollute Drinking Water — A Cheap and Available Remedy for Algæ — A Practical Demonstration — The Copper-sulphate Method Tested — A Prescription for the Copper Cure — What the Agricultural Department is Doing — Actual Purification Simple — Directions for the Copper Cure — Cost of the Treatment — Effect of Copper Sulphate on Fish — Water May be Drunk During Treatment — The Use of Copper Tanks — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER IV — Mosquitoes Responsible for Yellow Fever — Effect of a Mosquito Bite — Presence of Mosquitoes Depends Upon Winds — Destroy the Larvæ — Best Preventive Measures — Quantity of Kerosene to be Used — Employing Fish to Destroy Larvæ — Remarkable Work Accomplished — The Campaign on Long Island — Investigations in Connecticut — A Simple Household Remedy — FOOTNOTES:
- 8.Part II — CHAPTER I — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER II — POISONOUS MUSHROOMS FREQUENTLY MISTAKEN. — FOOTNOTES:
- 9.Part III — Acknowledgment — CHAPTER I — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER II — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER III — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER IV — CHAPTER V — CHAPTER VI — CHAPTER VII — CHAPTER VIII — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER IX — CHAPTER X — Physical Disinfectants — Gaseous Chemical Disinfectants — Chemicals Used as Disinfectants — Disinfection of Rooms — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XI — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE.
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