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Index
abdominal adhesion, 159
abdominal cavity, 159, 171–72, 175,
195 –96
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (Scotland),
22
acetazolamide, 195–96
acetylcholine, 8
actinomycetes, thermophilic, 91, 93–
94, 97–98, 100
Addison’s disease, 193
adrenaline, 243
Aeromonas, 41, 44
aerosolized, 125
AIDS, 50
air pollution, 99–100
Alaskan salmon, 10
Alexandra Bay, 18
alkaloid, hyoscyamine, 122
alkaloid, scopolamine, 122
allergy, 44, 95, 100, 142
Amazon River, 41
American Dietetic Association, 166 American Thoracic Society, 113 ammonia, 107, 202
anaerobic, 7–10
aneurysm, 76, 117, 120–21
cerebral artery, 117, 121
angel’s trumpet (Datura suaveolens),
126–27
angiogram, 120–21, 127
anisakiasis, 42
Annals of Internal Medicine, 114 antibiotics, 46
antidote, 161, 163
antigen, 97–98, 100, 134
antihistamine, 140, 142–43
antitoxin, 11–13, 15–16
anti-ulcer therapy, 143
anxiety attack, 133–34
apoplexy, 124
apothecary, 125
appendicitis, 42, 159, 165, 172 apple cider, 82, 69, 72
aquarium, 41–44
aquarium finger, 43
areflexic, 81
Argentina, 23, 24
artificial kidney, 62, 68
asbestos, 172
asbestos-free, 111
asbestosis, 114
ascending paralysis of Landry, 79 asymmetric pupils, 117, 151
ataxia, 85
ataxic, 76
Atropa belladonna, 121–23
atropine, 121, 123, 125, 127, 128 atropine drops, 126
atropine poisoning, 125
Atropos, 123
autonomic nervous system, 118, 125
bacillus, 7, 20, 22, 27–28, 37, 63
bacterium, 5, 7, 8, 20, 27, 36, 37, 39, 41,
43 –44, 49, 50, 51, 63
Baker, Josephine, 30
Banaszak, Edward, 97, 99–100 Barré, Jean-Alexandre, 5, 12, 14, 78–
83, 85–86
bather density, 51
237 Bedford Village, New York, 10 Bell’s palsy, 78
Belmont, Massachusetts, 197
Bernard, Claude, 131, 133, 143, 198–99 Besser, Richard, 66–67, 69–70 bezoars, 161–64, 168
Biafran war, 97
Bland-Sutton, James, 203
blood urea nitrogen (BUN), 60 blown cans, 8
bluefish, 133, 135–39
Bolshevik Revolution, 191
Bon Vivant, 10
Boston City Hospital, 20
Boston Globe, 208
Boston University School of Medicine, 201
botox, 11
Bottone, Edward J., 46–49, 53–57 botulism, 5–17, 43
infant, 11
types A, B, and C, 9, 15–16
wound, 11
botulus, 5
bowel obstruction, 159–60
Bowen, Walter, 29
brass fever, 109
brass founders’ ague, 109
breast cancer, 46
British Columbia Department of
Agriculture, 84
British Journal of Homeopathy, 161 British Medical Journal, 92
Brompton Hospital, 95
bronchial tube constriction, 142 Brown University School of Medicine, 113
bruits, 119
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 104 Burkitt, Denis, 165–66
BZ (chemical agent), 125
Clinton, Bill, 115
Clostridium botulinum, 5, 7–11
Colavita, 14, 16, 17
Coleman, Neville, 46
colitis, ulcerative, 60
colon. See intestine, large
Colorado Department of Public
cadaverine, 136, 139
calcipotriene, 206
Cambridge, Massachusetts,
116, 134,
166
Campbell, J. Munro, 92, 93
campylobacter, 36, 60
cancer, 20, 46, 50, 88–89, 91, 127, 145,
163 , 165–66, 172–75, 193, 200–201 canned corned beef, 22
Cannon, Walter B., 199
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 34–36 cardiac arrest, 40, 116
carrier (carrier state), 22–23, 27–28,
30 –31, 33
carrots, 9, 195
Castleberry, 10
catheter, 62, 65, 68, 85, 121, 174 Catskills, 3, 18, 31–32
cellulitis, 34, 43
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 12–15, 25, 35, 38, 51–52, 62, 77, 81, 87, 97, 137
Central America, 21, 32
cerebrospinal fluid, 81, 119, 191–92 Chandelor v. Lopus, 162
chemotherapy, 50, 127
Chick, Harriet, 203
chicken pox, 47–49
Children’s Hospital Boston, 65–66,
127 , 185, 190
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), 75
Chilean Andes, 122
Chinese okra. See loofah
cholera, 35, 37–38, 60
cholesterol, 158, 164–67
cholestyramine, 164
Christie, A. Barnett, 5–6, 9
ciguatera poisoning, 43
Civil War, 20
Cleopatra, 122, 124
Health and Environment, 38 colorectal cancer, 165
commercial fishing, 141
compost, 91, 94
conjunctivitis, 35
consensual reaction, 119
contact dermatitis, 48
contaminated, 8–10, 22–24, 27, 44, 53,
55 , 71, 98, 111, 140, 178, 182
contamination, 24, 26, 56, 135, 208 Cookstown, Ireland, 28
coronary heart disease, 164
Cournoyer, Joyce, 137
cranial nerves, 76, 78, 80, 82, 119–21 creatinine, 60–62
Crescent Ridge Dairy, 204, 206–9 crushed velvet. See velour
CT scan, 86, 88, 120, 127, 158, 173, 175,
188 –89, 191–92
cyanotic, 92
cystic fibrosis, 50
Dark Harbor, Maine, 29
Datura inoxia, 123
Daugherty, Reza, 81, 86–87
deadly nightshade. See Atropa belladonna
decay, 107, 108
dehydration, 34, 39, 59–61, 66, 199–
200
depression, 124, 200
Dermacentor tick, 82–83, 85
dermatitis, 48–49
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