Everyman in health and in sickness / edited by Dr. Harry Roberts.

  • Roberts, Harry, 1871-1946
Date:
[1935]
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    Vegetables, Cooking (q.v.); composition of, 141-2, 147-8; dust from, 236; green, 128, 147-8, 154, 623, 653; iron in, 278; over¬ eating difficult of, 142; preference for, 124; pregnancy, in, 288; root and tuber, 146-7; saliva stimulated by, 229; salts in, 131, 132; uncooked, 153, 357; Vitamins (q.v.); water in, 132, 348. Veins, bleeding from, 671; blood-pressure in, 44, 45, 670; colour of, 40; eye, of the, 448; lower limbs, of the, 216; neck, of the, 221; pulmonary, 40, 42, 474; valves in, 45; venae cavae, 40, 45; other refs., 11, 39, 46, 361. Venereal Disease, acquired, 625; bacteria causing, 402, 421; infection by and treat¬ ment of, 403, 420-1; marriage, in relation to, 284-5. Ventilation, house, of the, 209-12; methods of, 210-11; perspiration, in relation to, 159; principle of, 157-8; regulation of, 112, 113; sick-room, of, 696. Ventricle (of the heart), heart disease, in, 483, 484; other refs., 40, 41, 42, 43, 46. Venules, 12. Vermicelli, 143. Vertebrae, cartilage between, 171; cervical, 170, 172; dorsal, 29, 170, 172; lumbar, 32, 170, 173, 438; number of, 675; terminal, 32; thoracic, 171, 438; other refs., 82, 179 Vertebral Column. See Spinal Column. Vertigo. See Giddiness. Vichy, 349. Virus, Filter-Passing, detection of, 400-1; diseases caused by, 414, 415, 422, 423, 492, 582, 583; other ref., 394. Vision. See Eyesight. Vitamin A, cod-liver oil, in, 133; deficiency of, 429; fat, in, 131, 274; halibut-liver oil, in, 133; teeth, for the, 248; vegetables, in, 133. -B, animal organs, in, 133; eggs, in, ib.; seeds, in, ib. -- C, breast-milk, in, 256; child’s diet, in, 276-7; fruit, in, 133, 276; milk (cow’s), in, 276; vegetables, in, 133. -D, breast-milk, in, 256; child’s diet, in, 276; cod-liver oil, in, 133, 471; deficiency of, 112, 641; fat, in, 274; halibut-liver oil, in, 133; milk (cow’s), in, 471; overdosage of, 276; rickets prevented by, see under Rickets; cause and prevention; Teeth (q.v.). Vitamins, bread (brown), in, 143; breast- milk, in, 256, 260; child’s diet, in, 91, 276; cod-liver oil, in, 133, 275, 471; concen¬ trates of, 276; Cooking (q.v.); deficiency of, 112, 113, 466, 471; discovery of, 133; eggs deficient in, 137; function and impor¬ tance of, 113,132-3; milk, in, 270, 271, 471; vegetables, in, 124-5, 133, 147, 148; other ref., 127. Viterbi (hunger striker), 55. Vitriol, 681. V XTTEL 349 Vocal Cords, 76, 468, 487, 579. Voice, ‘breaking’ of, 281; Brain (q.v.); Hoarseness (q.v.); larynx in relation to, 467-8; lung, sound in, 491; production, 603, 606, 609, 610. See also Speech. Vomiting, blood, of, 509, 691; cause of (in child), 615; fevers (acute), in, 409, 416, 418, 419, 420, 616; hysterical, 593; pro¬ jectile, 615; symptom, as, 577, 582, 583, 586, 615-16, 620, 660, 681, 691, 695, 701, 709; other refs., 66, 247, 508. Walking, childhood, in early, 248-9; child’s attitude to, 320; correct way of, 196-7 ; defective, 195; exercise, as, 215, 568; mechanics of, 182; Rickets (q.v.). Warts, electrical treatment of, 634; radium treatment of, 637; removal of, 664; other refs., 371, 529, 531. Wassermann. See under Syphilis. Waste Products. See under Digestion; also Elimination; Excretory System. Water, blood, in, 55; blood supply, essential to, 349; bodily exchange of, 54-7, 132; bowel absorption of, 164; brain, on, see Hydrocephalus; Cells (q.v.); cereals, in, 142; distilled, 349; drinking, 132 (quan¬ tity); egg, in, 138; fasting, during, 150, 359; fat lighter than, 67; Food (q.v.); fruits, in, 148; ground (sub-soil), 206-7; infected, 570; insufficiency of, 165; lacta¬ tion, in relation to, 259; loss of, 54, 55, 56; lungs, excreted by, 351; meals, in relation to, 349; meat, in, 139; milk, in, 135, 141; mineral, 348-9; nuts, in, 148; pure supply of, 115, 397, 407; retention of, 57; tynhoid conveyed by, 402, 407, 418; vegetables, in, 141, 146, 147, 148; other refs., 29, 73. Water-Bed, 706. Water Brash, 290. Watercress, 133, 141, 153, 418. Watson, John Broadus (American psycholo¬ gist), theory of association, 90. Weaning, child’s attitude to, 307; method of, 279; other refs., 252, 253, 264, 265, 266, 306. Weather, adaptation to, 111-13, 201, 205; influence of, 55, 56. Weber, Sir Hermann, on sleep, 375. Weight, carrying of, 181-2; Child (q.v.); consumption, in, 490, 494, 495; distribution of, 180-1; exercise in relation to, 345; food in relation to, 53, 346; Height (q.v.); hyperthyroidism, in, 431; increases in, 184; Insulin (q.v.); length of life in relation to, 152; loss of, 436, 510. See also Obesity. Weismann, August, theory of heredity, 107. Whale, milk of, 135. Wheat, 142. Whey, 506. Whites, The. See Leucorrhoea. Whiting, 140. Whooping-Cough, complications of, 416, 496, 709, 710; incubation and quarantine for, 416, 711; pneumonia of, 416, 496; symptoms of, 416; vaccination against, 416; other ref., 698. Widal. See under Typhoid. Wildeyer’s Ring, 466. Will, control by, 82, 83; nature of, 85; other refs., 7, 9, 78. Wind, stimulant to breathing. 111. Windpipe (Trachea), anatomy of, 30, 48, 487, 488, 611; infection of, 493; other refs., 221, 427. Wine, 153. Wireless Waves, 640. Woman, ailments of, 624—8; basal metabolism of, 74; food required by, 126; footwear of, 202-3; Menopause (q.v.); normal life of, 560-2; secondary female characteristics, 97. See also Girl; Labour; Pregnancy. Womb (Uterus), Cancer (q.v.); corpus luteum in relation to, 439; haemorrhage of, 691; injuries and infection of, 624, 625, 626; labour, during and after, 294, 295. 297; pituitrin, effected by, 441; pregnancy, movement during, 287-8; Tumour (q.v.); other refs., 96, 97, 281, 282, 283, 330-42 passim. Wool, 201. Wool-Sorter’s Disease, 238. See also Anthrax. Work, brain, 221; change of, 88; conditions of, 230-4; environmental factors in, 111,