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Title: Physiology, hygiene and sanitation, an elementary textbook of physiology, with special attention given to hygiene and sanitation
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Heizer, W. L. (W. Lucien), b. 1880
Subjects: Physiology Hygiene Sanitation
Publisher: Louisville, Ky., C.T. Dearing Printing Co., Incorporated
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he lymphatics into the lungs, or bones or othertissues of the body. When tuberculosis attacks thelymphatic glands in the neckthey become large and oftenrun or discharge matteror pus. This condition is com-monly called scrofula. Plies readily eat sputum andoften get their feet loaded withtubercle bacilli. Their next visitmay be to some article of food,such as a glass of milk in whichthey may take a swim. Theliving seed of the disease are thus washed off in the milk. Milk infected in this and otherways have been the means ofinfecting hundreds of thous-ands of people. Infected sputum on theside walks, floors and in pub-lic places, may be carried byrats, or on the feet into thehouse where in some way itreaches the food or isbreathed with dust into thelungs. The germs of tuberculosis,like most other germs thatproduce disease, are easilykilled by strong sunlight.Thorough drying also destroys them. In half-driedsputum which may become broken up and be mixed withdust, they may live for weeks.
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Fig*. 97.—A bed in a screen-ed porch protected fromwind and rain by curtains. 210 PHYSIOLOGY, HYGIENE AND SANITATION Bed-clothing used by a consumptive may remain danger-ous for this reason for months. Such clothing should neverbe used after being purchased at second-hand stores orpublic sales until it has been boiled or sunned for manydays. Untidy, tuberculous waiters, cooks, clerks in food storesand laundry-women often carry infected sputum into thehome where, through the food or air, the disease seed maybe planted in the body. Milk cows, on the farm, or in a dairy, many times arevictims of tuberculosis in such a form that the seed of thedisease escape in the milk. Babies often, after using suchmilk, develop tuberculosis of the bowels, which in later life,is carried by the blood or lymph to the lungs, where c con-sumption develops. Milk cows should be tested for tuberculosis and if in-fected, should be killed. Summary-Tuberculosis is a world-wide disease, which attacks,probably, n

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