One thousand medical maxims and surgical hints / by Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies.
- N. E. Yorke Davis
- Date:
- 1883
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: One thousand medical maxims and surgical hints / by Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![678.] 671. People often think that a locality does not agree with them, when really it is the house they live in which is at fault from some insanitary cause. 672. In taking a house, particular attention should be paid to the state of the drains and water, as certain fevers {e.g. typhoid fever, diphtheria, etc.) owe their origin to a foul state of one or both. 673. To ensure a water-closet being always sweet, a pipe should be carried from beneath the pan to the roof; this will carry off all foul air in the soil- pipe. 674. Rats, by opening up direct communication between the drains and the interior of houses, often spoil the best systems of trapping, and the mys- terious cause of many cases of fever may be traced to their agency. 675. All house-drains should have some disin- fectant thrown down them once every month; and servants should not be allowed to throw water in which meat or vegetables have been boiled, down sinks in the house. 676. A publican cannot refuse to take into his house' a body found dead on the road, either from the result of an. accident or from sudden death. 677. In all cases of accident, where death has been caused by that accident, if it occur within a year, it is necessary to have an inquest, even though a doctor has been in attendance. 678. In cases of death from accident a post- mortem examination may be prohibited by the relatives of the deceased, unless there is suspicion](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24874577_0087.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
