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Page 329 - Do not wet your fingers in your mouth when turning the leaves of books. Do not put pencils in your mouth or wet them with your lips. Do not hold money in your mouth. Do not put pins in your mouth. Do not put anything in your mouth except food and drink.
Page 345 - An anvil ; the name of one of the bones of the middle ear. In'di-an Hemp. The common name of Cannabis Indica, an intoxicating drug, known as hasheesh, and many other names, in Eastern countries.
Page 149 - Diagram illustrating the Circulation. 1, right auricle ; 2, left auricle ; 3, right ventricle ; 4, left ventricle ; 5, vena cava superior; 6, vena cava inferior; 7, pulmonary arteries, 8, lungs; 9, pulmonary veins ; 10, aorta; 11, alimentary canal ; 12, liver; 13, hepatic artery ; 14, portal vein ; 15, hepatic vein.
Page 21 - ... in the proportion of two-thirds of the former to one-third of the latter.
Page 346 - Mo'lar (L. mo'la, a mill). The name applied to the three back teeth of each side of the jaw ; the grinders, or mill-like teeth. Mo'tor (L. mo'veo, mo'tum, to move). Causing motion; the name of those nerves which conduct to the muscles the stimulus which causes them to contract. Mu'cous Mem'brane.
Page 297 - It is best that all persons who have a cough should carry small pieces of cloth (each just large enough to properly receive one sputum) and paraffined paper envelopes or wrappers in which the cloth, as soon as once used, may be put and securely enclosed, and, with its envelope, burned on the first opportunity.
Page 298 - The measures for its restriction are therefore obvious — isolation and disinfection. Diphtheria is spread by the sputa, saliva, and whatever comes from the throat and mouth of the patient and by the dust which results from the drying of such saliva, etc.
Page 346 - Literally, a lentil ; a piece of transparent glass or other substance so shaped as either to converge or disperse the rays of light.
Page 96 - Alcohol is a poison — so is strychnine; so is arsenic; so is opium. It ranks with these agents. Health is always in some way or other injured by it.
Page 349 - Ret'i-na (L. re'te, a net). The innermost of the three tunics or coats of the eyeball, being an expansion of the optic nerve.