Annual report of the State Department of Health of New York. 1882State Department of Health, 1882 |
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Page 497 - In the case of food: (1) If any substance or substances have been mixed with it, so as to lower or depreciate, or injuriously affect its quality, strength, or purity; (2) If any inferior or cheaper substance, or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it...
Page 24 - ... the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover.
Page 260 - States shall be required to obtain from the consul, vice-consul, or other consular officer of the United States at the port of departure, or from the medical officer where such officer has been detailed by the President for that purpose, a bill of health, in duplicate, in the form prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury...
Page 497 - In the case of drugs: (1) If, when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality, or purity laid down therein.
Page 508 - Provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to mixtures or compounds recognized as ordinary articles or ingredients of articles of food, if...
Page 117 - Afterward, they should be hung in the open air, beaten, and shaken. Pillows, beds, stuffed mattresses, upholstered furniture, etc. should be cut open, the contents spread out, and thoroughly fumigated. Carpets are best fumigated on the floor, but should afterward be removed to the open air and thoroughly beaten.
Page 498 - ... whether manufactured or not ; or in the case of milk, if it is the produce of a diseased animal.
Page 662 - ANSTIE. — Stimulants and Narcotics, their Mutual Relations, With Special Researches on the Action of Alcohol, ^Ether, and Chloroform on the Vital Organism. By FRANCIS E. ANSTIE, MDMRCP 8vo.
Page 400 - The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one: it must husband its resources to live. But health or fulness answers its own ends and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
Page 118 - Disinfectants to be employed : "1. Roll-sulphur (brimstone) for fumigation. "2. Sulphate of iron (copperas) dissolved in water in the proportion of one and a half pounds to the gallon ; for soil, sewers, etc. "3. Sulphate of zinc and common salt, dissolved together in water in the proportion of four ounces sulphate and two ounces salt to the gallon ; for clothing, bed-linen, etc.