The soil in relation to health.

  • Miers, Henry Alex, 1858-1942.
Date:
1893
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Credit: The soil in relation to health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chalk, Water from, 87, 89, 90, 94 Chilly 69, 73, 74 China-clay, 13 Chlorides in water, 83 Clay, 7, 10, 13, 17, 65, 66, 67, no. Clay-ironstone, 18 Clay, Water from, 88, 89 Clay soils, 116 Climate and soil, 109, 113 Coal measures, 23 Water from, 94 Colour of the soil, 30, in Conductibility of soil for heat, X11 Conglomerate, 16 Coprohtes, 85 Cornbrash, 94 Cornwall, Diarrhoea in, 38 ' Cotswold Hills, Streams of, 53 Cretaceous rocks, 24 Crystalline schist, 8 Darwin on earthworms, 29 Daubree on capillarity, 64 De Chaumont on chlorides in water, 84.. Decomposition of rocks, 9, 20, Delesse on imbibition, 66 Devonian rocks, 23 Water from, 87 Diarrhoea, 37, 95, 98 Diathermancy, no Diatomaceous earth, 12 Dip, 92 Diphtheria, 45 Diseases, Drinking water and, 94 Disease maps, 123 Distribution of soils, 21 Dolomite, 13, 16, 66 Water from, 90 Drainage, Subsoil, 44, 70, 118 Drinking water, 94 Dublin, Typhoid fever at, 108 Dyspepsia, 98 Earthworms, 29, 40 Enteric (typhoid) fever, 36, 47, 57, 59, 81, 108 Eocene rocks, 24 - Epidemic infantile diarrhoea, 37 Epidemic pneumonia, 48, 106 Epidemics of typhoid fever, 59 of diphtheria, 46 Eucalyptus, 44 Felspar, 6, 109 Fire-clay, 17 Flagstone, 15 Fleck on ground air, 103 Flint, 12 Fodor on ground air, 103, 104 Fuller's earth, 17, 53, 89 Fyffe on malaria, 96 Garrod on rheumatoid arthritis, 74 Gault clay, 24, 26, 56 Geological epochs, 22 Gneiss, 8 Goitre, 97 Granite, 7, 20, 66, no Gravel, 15 Greenhow on diphtheria, 46 Greensand, 15, 24, 56, 68, 85 Water from, 87, 93 Greenstone, 8 Grit, 15 Ground air, 102 Currents of, 36, 38 Movements of, 105 Ground, Temperature of, 112 Ground watei-, 54 and enteric fever, 59 Level of, 54, 55, 56 Movements of, 55, 56 Gypsum, 19, 65, 67, 85, 88 Hrematite, 13 Hardness of water, 86 Hastings sand, 24, 26 Hatfield Broad Oak, Enteric fever at, 63 Haviland on disease maps, 123 Havre, Typhoid fever at, 62 Heart disease, 128 Humus, 2, 28, 30, 65, 66, 67, no, 112, n3 Humic Acid, 30 Hydrophobia, 42