The Home Medical Library, Volume 5 (of 6)

Adulteration when applied to foodstuffs is a broad, general term, and covers all classes of misrepresentation, substitution, deterioration, or addition of foreign substances; ad...

The writer was recently engaged to plan and install a water-supply system for a country house which had been erected and completed without any provision whatever having been mad...

From the standpoint of the health of the community, the most vital problem is to get pure water. Almost equally important, when comfort and peace of mind is considered, is the p...

The germs of infection once being lodged within the body cause certain reactions producing specific pathological changes and a variety of groups of symptoms which we know by the...

Because of the serious and often fatal injury it inflicts on man, the most dangerous animal known is the mosquito. Compared with the evil done by the insect pest, the cobra's de...

=Definition.=--By the term "soil" we mean the superficial layer of the earth, a result of the geological disintegration of the primitive rock by the action of the elements upon...

=Purpose and Requisites for House Plumbing.=--A system of house plumbing presupposes the existence of a street sewer, and a water-supply distribution within the house. While the...

=Waste Products.=--There is a large amount of waste products in human and social economy. The products of combustion, such as ashes, cinders, etc.; the products of street sweepi...

We have so far discussed only the various sources of potable water. We must now turn our attention to the mechanical means for making it available for use, which comprise applia...

=Definition.=--The air within an uninhabited room does not differ from that without. If the room is occupied by one or more individuals, however, then the air in the room soon d...

The receptacles or fixtures within the house for receiving the waste and excrementitious matter and carrying it off through the pipes to the sewer are very important parts of ho...

=MUSHROOM POISONING.=--Vomiting, cramps, diarrhea, pains in legs; possibly confusion, as if drunk, stupidity, followed by excitement, and perhaps convulsions. Lips and face may...

=The House Drain.=--All waste and soil matter in the house is carried from the receptacles into the waste and soil pipes, and from these into the house drain, the main pipe of t...

=Ventilation and Heating.=--The subject of the heating of our rooms and houses is very closely allied to that of ventilation, not only because both are a special necessity at th...

The materials used in house plumbing are many and various, the parts are very numerous, the joints and connections are frequent, the position and location of pipes, etc., are of...

Iron is used only for pipes of small diameter; and as most of the sewers are of greater diameter than six inches, they are made of other material than iron.

The most common method of heating the modern dwelling is by a hot-air furnace in the cellar, with sheet-metal ducts for conveying the heated air to the various rooms. The advant...

The character and scope of this volume render it a most useful book for the home maker. The question of sanitation is one that closely affects the life of each individual, and m...

We beg to tender grateful acknowledgment to author and publisher for the use of Dr. George M. Price's valuable articles on sanitation. The following extracts are taken from Dr....