The Elements of military hygiene

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Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915 - 351页

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第203页 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; Nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
第236页 - Typhoid fever gradually disappeared in the fall of 1898, with the approach of cold weather, and the consequent disabling of the fly. It is possible for the fly to carry the typhoid bacillus in two ways. In the first place fecal matter containing the typhoid germ may adhere to the fly and be mechanically transported. In the second place, it is possible that the typhoid bacillus may be carried ir the digestive organs of the fly and may be deposited with its excrement.
第143页 - He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death
第233页 - We may eliminate all danger by avoiding the handling of ice with dirty hands, by washing the ice with pure water, and by using only clear ice.
第225页 - Corps developed typhoid fever. 2. More than 90 per cent of the volunteer regiments developed typhoid fever within eight weeks after going into camp.
第236页 - My reasons for believing that flies were active in the dissemination of typhoid may be stated as follows : a Flies swarmed over infected fecal matter in the pits and then visited and fed upon the food prepared for the soldiers at the mess tents. In some instances where lime had recently been sprinkled over the contents of the pits, flies with their feet whitened with lime were seen walking over the food.
第92页 - ... whole trough is flushed by simple removal of the cylinder, which allows it to empty. Another plan that has been found to afford a certain amount of satisfaction in a permanent camp emptying its waste into a small stream includes large closed boxes or tanks made of concrete (wood might be used) into or through which the sewage flows and in which enough sedimentation and disintegration occur to make the outflow a pale opalescent fluid almost free from odor and easily visible particles. It is not...
第223页 - Report on the Origin and Spread of Typhoid Fever in United States Military Camps during the Spanish War of 1898.
第225页 - Typhoid fever is so widely distributed in this country that one or more cases are likely to appear in any regiment within eight weeks after assembling.
第93页 - Within the writer's experience ihe most satisfactory of these methods has been the disposition of the contents of Reed troughs into large pits, where the surface of the refuse was kept covered with a layer of crude petroleum. This resulted in absence of odor and of flies, but the labor involved in handling excreta from troughs to pits was considerable, that expended in digging pits more, and accidents occasionally happened which resulted in soiling the ground of the camp.

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