CHAPTER XL

MISCELLANEOUS

The dangerous housefly--Diseases transmitted by flies--Homes should be carefully screened and protected--The breeding places of flies--Special care should be given to stables, privy vaults, garbage, vacant lots, foodstuffs, water fronts, drains--Precautions to be observed--How to kill flies--Moths--What physicians are doing--Radium--X-Ray treatment and X-Ray diagnosis--Aseptic surgery--New anesthetics--Vaccine in typhoid fever--"606"--Transplanting the organs of dead men into the living--Bacteria that make soil barren or productive--Anti-meningitis serum--A serum for malaria in sight 645

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ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES