Climate and Health in Hot Countries and the Outlines of Tropical Climatology
A Popular Treatise on Personal Hygiene in the Hotter Parts
of the World, and on the Climates that will be met within
them.
G. M. Giles
Climate and Health in Hot Countries and the Outlines of Tropical Climatology A Popular Treatise on Personal Hygiene in the Hotter Parts of the World, and on the Climates that will be met within them.
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CLIMATE AND HEALTH IN HOT COUNTRIES AND THE OUTLINES OF TROPICAL CLIMATOLOGY
INTRODUCTION.
LIST OF DRUGS, &c., MENTIONED IN THE TEXT.
INDEX TO PART I., CLIMATE AND HEALTH IN HOT COUNTRIES.
PART I. CLIMATE AND HEALTH IN HOT COUNTRIES.
CHAPTER I. On Housing and Domestic Architecture.
Flooring.
CHAPTER II. On Clothing.
CHAPTER III. On Water and Food.
Milk.
Butter.
Cheese.
Meat.
Eggs
Fish.
Vegetables.
Fruit.
Bread.
Other foodstuffs.
Tinned provisions.
The Question of Alcohol
Cooking and kitchen management.
CHAPTER IV. The Tropical Day.
CHAPTER V. Hints on the Management of Children in Hot Climates.
CHAPTER VI. Hints on the Construction of Tents and on Camp Sanitation.
CHAPTER VII. On the Prevention of Malaria.
CHAPTER VIII. On the Prevention and Treatment of Certain of the more Common Tropical Diseases.
Cholera.
Dysentery.
Diarrhœa.
Plague.
Small-pox.
Sleeping Sickness.
Sunstroke and Heat Apoplexy.
Prickly Heat and Dhobi’s Itch.
On the Prevention of Diseases Caused by Internal Worms.
PART II. OUTLINES OF TROPICAL CLIMATOLOGY
ERRATA.
SECTION I. General Considerations.
Temperature.
Effects of Amount and Distribution of Rainfall.
Effect of Winds on Health.
SECTION II. On the Special Characteristics of the Climates of Certain Hot Countries.
The Mediterranean Basin.
The Remainder of the African Continent.
The Asiatic Continent.
The American Continent.
South America.
Notes on the Observation of Meteorological Data.
INDEX.
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