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Quantity of food and stimulant requisite for different persons . . . 400 



Rapid and slow growth ... ... ... ... ... ... 412 



Renewal of vital power ... ... ... ... ... ... 408 



Repair of tissues, after injuries by inflammatory process ... ... 122 



Report of the Medical Officer of Privy Council on contagia ... 237 



,, author's, on the cattle plague ... ... ... ... 240 



,, Mr. Crookes' ,, ... ... ... ... ... 267 



Respirator, as a protection against entrance of disease germs into 



the organism ... ... ... ... ... 168 



Rest and support during the antefebrile state ... ... ... 359 



Retrogression in formative power ... ... ... ... ... 115 



Retrograde forms, production of ... ... ... ... ... 1 1 6 



Rheumatism, desperate cases of acute, treated by alcohol and ice 332 



Ricci, Dr. De, treatment of zymotic diseases ... 303 



Rotifera, under the influence of carbolic acid ... ... ... 275 



Saline waters, purgative 365 



Samuelson, Mr., on dust ... ... ... 26 



Sanderson, Dr., on development of bacteria from microzymes ... 294 



,, ,, nature of disease germs ... ... ... 237 



,, ,, propagation of cattle plague ... ... ... 148 



Sansom, Dr. E., "antiseptic system" ... ... ... ... 307 



,, ,, on the sulpho-carbolates 306 



Scarlatina, poison oi eliminated by the skin and kidneys... ... 206 



Scarlet fever, communicable after complete recovery ... ... 87 



Scepticism, therapeutic ... ... ... ... ... ... 351 



Science teaching, popular ... A. ... ... ... ... 43 



Scientific prophecies ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 45 



Secretion, nature of ... ... ... ... 201 



Secretions, bacteria in... ... ... ... ... ... ... 69 



,, living disease germs in ... ... ... ... 132, 151 



Self-propagating power of the living germ ... ... ... ... 5 6 



Sensational science teaching ... ... ... ... ... ... 44 



Sick room of the patient 434 



,, as a larder ... ... ... ... ... ... 37 1 



Simon, Mr., on disease carrying properties of vegetable fungi ... 236 



Simple exudation ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 134 



Sheep, smallpox transmitted to, from man ... ... 157 



Skin, free action of, in febrile affections ... ... ... ... 35^ 



"Sleeping off" feverish ailments ... ... ... ... ... 354 



Slight cases of fever, principles of treatment 348, 352 



Slow and rapid growth ... ... ... 4 J 7 



Small pox, Dr. Calthrop, on a case of 44 



,, elimination of, by skin and kidneys ... ... ... 207 



,, remarkable case of protection from, by vaccination ... 441 



,, ' transmitted to sheep from man... ... ... ... 157 



Smith, Dr. Angus, on antiseptic properties of cresylic acid . . . 269 



Sodium, sulpho-carbolate of 3 IQ 



