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Side 151 - ... toward minor ailments. Obviously if overfatigue could be reduced to a minimum, this reduction would carry with it the prevention of the major part of minor ailments, which in turn would lead to a great reduction in more serious illness, and this finally would lead to a great reduction in mortality. A typical succession of events is first fatigue, then colds, then tuberculosis, then death.
Side 215 - ... in the United States, 935 of which are out-patient departments of hospitals or independent dispensaries which provide general medical and surgical service for their patients. The total number of patients in all general and special dispensaries and clinics is estimated at 8,000,000 for the year 1921 and the total number of visits by these patients during the year is estimated at 29,500,000. Most of these institutions are located in the larger cities and while many of them provide free service...
Side 20 - Service may be described under the following heads :— " (1) Protection of the United States from the introduction of disease from without. " (2) Prevention of the interstate spread of disease and suppression of epidemics. " (3) Co-operation with State and local boards of health in health matters. " (4) Investigation of diseases of man. " (5) Supervision and control of biological products. " (6) Public health education and dissemination of health information.
Side 145 - The nervous system is made up of the central nervous system (the brain and the spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (the cranial nerves and the spinal nerves).
Side 145 - ... matter of the brain, and create a sense of fatigue. Although the sensation of tiredness is referred by us to the overworked muscles, the location of the cause is less in the peripheral than in the central nervous system. On the one hand waste products act upon the muscles, diminish their contractility and render them less responsive to...
Side 148 - Fatigue is one of the most common causes of occupational disability. This is a prime cause of the fact that bodily development in factory classes remains inferior to that in other social classes. Fatigue is defined as loss of irritability and contractility brought on by functional activity. The sensation of fatigue is due to the accumulation of waste products within the system called fatigue poisons (definite chemical substances) and fatigue toxins. The poisons are acidic in character.
Side 48 - This study has been conducted under the auspices of the division's committee on medical problems of animal parasitology, and the immediate direction of Dr. WW Cort, professor of helminthology of the School of Hygiene and Public Health of Johns Hopkins University, and is supported by a grant of $24,850 from the American Child Health Association, which is available over a period of five years.
Side 144 - In the tired man the symptoms of fatigue are referred to the muscles ; they ache, or they may appear to " give way under him," but in reality the most severe bodily activity fails to produce any close approach to complete fatigue of the muscles. The fatigue is fatigue of the nervous system, though in sensation its effects may be referred to the muscles themselves. A hunted animal may be driven to intense muscular fatigue, but in this extreme case the blood becomes charged with chemical products of...
Side 145 - The problems then of industrial fatigue are primarily and almost wholly problems of fatigue in the nervous system and of its direct and indirect effects. THE RHYTHM OF ACTION AND REST.
Side 226 - The family physician who seeks to render to his patients the service which will do them the most good is bound to enter the field of preventive medicine: to become in other words, the family health advisor as well as the family physician.