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A manual of practical hygiene

Title
A manual of practical hygiene / by E.A. Parkes ; edited by F.S.B. François de Chaumont.
Author
Parkes, Edmund A. (Edmund Alexander), 1819-1876.
Publication
New York : William Wood & Co., 56 & 58 Lafayette Place, 1883.

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Additional Authors
  • De Chaumont, F. S. B. François, 1833-1888.
  • William Wood & Company, publisher.
  • Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, printer.
Description
2 volumes : illustrations, plates; 24 cm
Series Statement
Wood's library of standard medical authors ; v. 10, 11
Uniform Title
Wood's library of standard medical authors ; v. 10-11.
Subject
  • Public health
  • Water quality > Measurement
  • Water > Composition
  • Sanitation > Hospitals
  • Nutrition
  • Food > Quality
  • Food > Analysis
  • Wine > Analysis
  • Beverages > Analysis
  • Sewerage
  • Soldiers
  • Military hygiene
  • Environmental quality
  • Sanitation
  • Public Health
  • Sanitation
  • Military Hygiene
  • Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
  • Food > Analysis
  • public health
  • sewers (drainage structures)
  • Beverages > Analysis
  • Environmental quality
  • Food > Quality
  • Military hygiene
  • Nutrition
  • Public health
  • Sewerage
  • Soldiers
  • Water > Composition
  • Water quality > Measurement
  • Wine > Analysis
Note
  • "With an appendix giving the American practice in matters relating to hygiene, prepared by Frederick N. Owen."
  • "Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company 201-213 East Twelfth Street New York."
Contents
Introduction -- Water -- Air -- Ventilation -- Examination of air -- Food -- Quality, choice, and cooking of food -- Beverages and condiments -- Soils -- Habitation -- Removal of excreta -- Warming of houses -- Exercise -- Clothing -- Climate -- Meterology -- Individual hygienic management -- Disposal of the dead -- On the prevention of some common diseases -- Disinfection and deodorization -- Statistics -- The recruit -- Conditions under which the soldier is placed -- Effects of military service -- Foreign service -- Service on board ship -- War -- Appendix -- Introduction -- Water -- The characters and distribution of American soils -- Climatology and meterology -- Ventilation and warming -- Removal of house-waste -- Food adulteration -- Disinfection and deodorization -- Vital statistics -- Some hints to sanitary inspectors -- Index.
OCLC
  • ocm03300192
  • 3300192
  • SCSB-483527
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library