Abernethy, Dr. John,80.Acne,38.Acromegaly,119.Adenoids,105-122.Air, foul,97.Alimentary canal,274-279.Allbutt, Sir Clifford,134.Allen, Dr. Harrison,120.Animals, immune to certain diseases,255.Anti-bodies.SeeAntitoxins.Antisepsis,333,336-339.Antitoxins, or anti-bodies,9,93,94,199,200;discovery and use of the diphtheria antitoxin,230-233,236,242,401;tetanus antitoxin,345,346,398.Apoplexy,40,402.Appendicitis,269-288.Appendix, vermiform,35,36,268-270,273-279.Asepsis,333.Asthmatics,328.Attitude, the upright,76.Autointoxication,376.Bacilli.SeeBacteria.Bacteria, abundance of, in the body,10,99.Bang, Professor,148.Bath, the cold,98.Bile, in vomiting,379.Bites, danger from,342.Blood, coagulation of,39,40.Blood-corpuscles,24-29.Blood-poisoning,331-349.Bloodgood, Dr. J. C.,272.Bones, nature of,20,21.Boswell, James,88.Bridge, Dr. Norman,95.Cæcum,274-278.Cancer, a rebellion of the cells,42,351;heredity and,50,51;individuality of,350;probable nature of,351;death-rate from,352,353;natural history of,353-364;not communicable,357,358;vain search for a parasite,359,360;a disease of senility,363,364;problems of prevention and cure,365,366.Carriage, in illness,76.Cattani,398.Cellular theory of disease,18,19.Cerebro-spinal meningitis,397.Chantemesse,221.Children's diseases, importance of,243-245;prevention of,245;dangerous results of,245,246;effect on growth and development,247;reasons for,248-250;occasional severity of,251-254;taming of,253,254;causes of,254,255;treatment of,255,256;symptoms of,256,257;the three chief,257-266.Cities, disease and death-rate in,159-165.Civilization, and nervousness,406-408.Cleanliness,98.Cohnheim,364.Colds, treatment of,11,12,93-101;cause of,85-93;how to catch,101,102;their relation to rheumatism,320,321,323,324,326,327.Colic,4.Color, in diagnosis,70-74.Congenital disease,44,45.Coughing, use of,11,12.Darwin, Charles, quoted,425,426.Diagnosis,55-82.Diarrh[oe]a, use of,5;treatment of,5.Diphtheria,222-242;attacking the nervous system,400,401.Disease, causes of,3;not absolute but relative,14;former conceptions of,15-18;organic and functional,405,406;mental influence in,411-437.Drafts,94,95,99.Earache,110.Edison, Thomas A.,286.Epilepsy, heredity and,52,53.Erysipelas,348.Eustachian tubes,109,110.Expectoration,142,143.Eye-strain,377.Facial expression, in diagnosis,62-70.Fever, meaning of,7,8;treatment of,8-11.Flick, Dr. Laurence,96.Fly, house, and typhoid,210,211.Food-tube, the,274-279.Gait, in illness,76-78.Gall-bladder,37.Grip, the,90.Guinea-pig, a burnt offering,222;used in the discovery of the diphtheria antitoxin,229-231.Hand, the, in diagnosis,73-75.Harelip,37.Headache, purpose and meaning of,12,13,367-376;treatment of,370,371,381-386;from eye-strain,377,386;from digestive disturbances,377,378;sick headache,378,379,381;from stuffy rooms,380;from sluggish bowels and kidney trouble,380;from loss of sleep,380,381;from nasal obstruction,381;rest the cure for,382-384;massage for the relief of,385,386;the nerves affected in,385,386.Heart, effect of rheumatism on,314,315.Heredity, in health and disease,32-54.Hernia,36.Holmes, Oliver Wendell,125.Horses, and disease,344,345.Hospitals, blood-poisoning and antisepsis in,335-339.Humoral theory of disease,17,18.Huxley, Thomas Henry, quoted,1,112,201.Hysteria,403,406,407,435.Imaginary illness,415-422,436.Immunity,93.Indians, epidemics among,251,252.Indifference of the dying,434.Infants, diagnosis in the case of,81,82.Influenza,90.Insanity, heredity and,52-54;among savages and in civilization,408,409;treatment of,411,412.Intestines,274.James, William,425.Johnson, Samuel,89.Joints, diseases of,318,319.King, Dr. Albert F. A.,298.Koch, Robert,126,152,153,155,156,228,308.Laveran,295.Lister, Lord,332.Liver, functions of,6,7.Lockjaw,344-346,397,398.Locomotor ataxia,399; diagnosis of,77,78.Lungs, their liability to disease,175-178.Lupus,126.Malaria,289-310.Measles,243,246,248-252,260-263.Medicines, repulsive,17.Meningitis,399,400.See alsoCerebro-spinal meningitis.Mental influence in disease,411-437.Metschnikoff, Elie,214.Meyer, William,105.Mind, its relation to the body,390,391,411-437.Mosquitoes, and malaria,297-307.Mouth-breathing,103-119.Moxon, the pathologist,187.Mumps,252.Nails, the, in disease,74,75;pus-germs lurking under,334,336,349.Nature, as a physician,2,3;not to be trusted too blindly,7;coöperating with,9.Nerves, affected in headache,385,386;old notions of,387,388;reality of,389,390;function of,390;their diseases due to morbid changes in their tissues,391,392;affected by the bodily condition,393-395;causes of disturbances in,395-397;diseases that attack them directly,397,398;late effects of other diseases on,398-401;nervousness and,401-408;death-rate from diseases of,409,410.Nervousness,403-408.Neurasthenia,401,402.Nocard, the veterinary pathologist,157.Northrup, Dr. William,196.Noses, narrow,118,119.Operations.SeeSurgery.Opiates,431,432.Osler, Dr. William,160,282.Ovariotomy,336.Pain, nature's command to halt,13,382;nature's automatic speed regulator,383.Paresis,399.Pimples,38.Pituitary body,119.Pneumonia, cause of,84,85,88,178-183,185,186;easily recognized,174,175;recent increase of,184,186;habits of the pneumococcus,186-191;its relations to age and to other diseases,192-194;symptoms of,194,195;treatment of,195,196;outlook as to,196,197.Poisons in the body, elimination of,3-13;from fatigue,373-376.Psychotherapy,413.Pus,331-336;germs of,339-344,346-349.Pyæmia,346.Quinine,293,294.Repair of the body in the lower animals,41,42.Rheumatism,311-330.Ross, Dr. Ronald,247.Savages, nervousness among,407,408.Scarlet fever,243,247,257-260.Sciatica, cure of a case of,389,390.Sclerosis, lateral,399.Scrofula,126.Seasickness,379.Senn, Dr. Nicholas,357.Septicæmia,346.Sleeping porches,96,97.Smallpox,125,255.Smell,111.Spitting,142,143.Staphylococcus,339,340,343,348.See alsoPus.Sticking-plaster,343.Stomach,274.Streptococcus,339-341,348.See alsoPus.Surgery, and blood-poisoning,331-339.Syphilis congenital,44;organism of,255,399;attacking the nervous system,399.Tait, Lawson,336.Taste,111.Teeth, crowded,114,115.Tetanus,344-346,397,398.Tonsillitis,320,323,324.Tonsils,107-109,116-118.Tooth, wisdom,36,37.Tuberculosis, congenital,45;seeming inheritance of,46-50;diagnosis of,68,72;discovery of the bacterial nature of,123-126;means of fighting,127,128;treatment of,129-132;prevention of,132,135-139;universality of,133,134;prevention of transmission of,140-145;in cattle and other animals,146,158;encouraging outlook as to,159-166;civilization and,166-173;cerebral complications from,399;hopefulness in,433.Tumor, Jensen's,358,362.Typhoid fever,199-221.Typhus,203,204.Uric acid,327,328.Vestigia,35-39,268,269.Virchow, Rudolf,18.Vis medicatrix naturæ,2.Voice, in diagnosis,78.Voltaire, on doctors,14.Vomiting, use of,4,5;from headache and seasickness,378,379;bile in,379.Waters, mineral,17.Whooping-cough,244,246,249,263-266.Williams, Dr. Leonard,93.Williams, Dr. Roger,364.Wound-fever, among soldiers,347.Wounds, healing of,40,41;blood-poisoning in,331-335,341-344;treatment of,342-344,346.Wright, Dr.,221.