A manual of practical hygiene / by Edmund A. Parkes ; edited by F.S.B. Francois de Chaumont.

Date:
1887
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    PAGE Bottles, shaldng, for soap-test, . 688 KOUDET on Paris water, . . 55 BoUDiN on case of Argo, . . 62 • on inipm-e water at Oran, . 58 • ■ on yellow fever from water, . 73 Boiifaric, in Algeria, fever lessened by subsoil drainage, ... 7 BouTKON and Boudet method with the soap-test, . . 689 BowuiTCH on effects of drying-soil, 6 and Philbkiok on siphonage of traps, .... 104 Bowels, condition of, . . . 376 Boyd on the recruit, . . . 488 Boyle's ventilator, . . . 198 Brackish water, effects of, . . 59 Braxy in sheep, . . 258, 266 BrazU, calentura in, . . 15 Bread, . . . .287 acid, _ . . . . 289 alum in, . . . 291 : chemical examination of, . 717 di-ied, . _ . . .313 examination of, . . 717 loss of weight in, . . 290 making of, . . . 287 microscoj)ical examination of, 290 Breadth of houses in India, . . 502 Brickfields and cement works, air of, 173 British Guiana, . . . 601 British or potato arrowroot, . . 297 Bhutan and Swayne on bodies in air of cholera ward, . . 138 Broad Street pump, ... 68 Bromine as an air purifier, . . 433 Bromus serrafalcus, . . . 287 Bronchial catarrhfrom impure water, 61 Brucine solution, preparation of, . 736 Brunel, huts designed by, . . 507 Brushwood, effects of, . . 12, 24 Bryden's tables of mortality in India, 635 Buckwheat, . . . .295 structure of, . . 284,285 Buohan's trap, . . 105 (fig. 20) Buchanan on cause of enteric fever, S on effects of drying soil, . 6 on health of towns, . . 120 ■— water-poisoning at Caius Col- lege, .... 66 Buda-Pest, rate of movement of ground water, . . . 5, 6 enteric fever at, . . 8, 10 BoDn on enteric fever, . . 65 Buhl on ground water and fever, . 8 BuiST, on heat of soU in India, . 13 Bulama, diarrhcea from impure water at, 57 Bukdon-Sandeeson on bacteria in water, .... 67 Burdwan, fever at, . . . 7 Burettes, size of, . . . 68 used in measuring porosity of soil, .... 3 Burnett's fluid, . . .442 Burning of the dead, . . . 380 Butter, .... 305 adulterations of, . . 308 examination of, . . 306 -8 fat of, . . . . 306 melting, sinking, and floating points of, . . . 307 proportion of fixed and volatile .acids in, . . . 307 -r: preservation of, . . 309 page Butterine, or margarine, . . 308 Butyrate of lime causing diarrhoea, . 59 Butyric acid, presence of, in water, . 50 Buxbaum, on enteric fever, . 8, note, 9 Byene on filtration, . . .83 Cabbage, composition of, . . 243 Cactus as an antiscorbutic, . . 301 Cajanus indicus, . . . 296 Calamus aromaticus, . . . 319 Calandra granaria, . . . 277 Calcium carbonate in water, import- ance of, . . . . 687 Calculation of velocity of air currents, 194 Calculi, effects of water in producing, 16, 74 Calcutta, Lewis and Cunningham on soil of, . . . 9, 13 water supply,. . 26, 31, 60 Calorigen, Geoege's, . 196, 231 Calvert on tin-lined pipes, . . 42 Calvert's carbolic acid powder, 125, 444 Cambridge Hospital, water used in,. 31 description, . . . 224 Camellia sasanqua, . . . 344 Camels, water required for, . . 30 Cameron, Sir C, on lead alloyed with tin, .... 43 on toxicity of silicon fluoride, 153 Camps, .... 512 conservancy of, . . 513 hospital. . . . 515 • order of, . . 512 Canada, .... 605 Canal de I'Ourcq, as source of water in Paris, . . . . 55, 60 Canna arrowroot, . . . 297 Cape Coast Castle, . . . 611 frontier, impure water at, . 60 of Good Hope, . . 612 • Herschel on heat of sands, . 13 Carbalite, substitute for carferal, . 84, 88 Carbide, magnetic, as filter, . . 86 Carbo-hydrates, . . 234, 239 in articles of diet, . . 243 Carbolic acid as air purifier, . . 433 • acid or jihenol, . . 443 powders, . . .444 Carbon dioxide. See Carbonic acid. Carbon disulphide in air, . . 159 Carbon in articles of diet, . . 245 Carbon monoxide. See Carbonic oxide. Carbonates in water, action on lead, 41 Mohe's process for, . . 699 Carbonic acid, behaviour with soap, 690 calculation of, in air, . 710 effects of, . . . 156 elimination of, during exercise, 356 free, in water by soap-test, 690 given off in respiration 140, 176 in air, . . . 130, 131 in air, estimation of, . . 710 in soil-air, . . . 1, 10 in solids of water, . . 686 in water, . . . 676 in water, action on lead, . 41 ■ oxide, effects of, . . 157 oxide from stoves, . . 231 Carboniferous formations, . . 16 Carbonisation of sewage, . . 126 Carburetted hydrogen in air, . 158 in soil-au', ... 1 in water, ... 53