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Release: 2012-01-03
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN/ASIN: B006TH266O
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Home Hygiene and Prevention of Disease pdfDescription
..........TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTION
people is to cough or sneeze without protecting the mouth with a piece of cloth. As a result of the coughing the saliva is expelled in a fine spray which may float about in the air and be inhaled by someone else at a distance of several feet.
The next most certain way for a consumptive to infect other people is to spit on the floor anywhere around him; and the reason is that when the phlegm dries it becomes ground into the dust by the feet, and the dust floats up into the air which others breathe, gets into the air tubes of their lungs, and thus starts the disease in a new place.
The consumptive needs to be treated as an invalid, and should be made to take regulated exercise and regular rest, and regular meals. The appetite may be encouraged by mixtures containing vegetable and acid tonics, and the digestion may be assisted by doses of pepsin, and pancreatin, or by food partly digested by chemical processes.
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