Word: minot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Common Worms; Dr. Charles S. Minot, of the Harvard Medical School...
Among the talks to be given under the auspices of the Natural History Society there will probably be one on "Mollusca,' by Professor E. S. Morse, of Salem; one on "Sponges," by Professor Wyett of the Institute of Technology, and one on "Worms," by Dr. Charles Minot of the Harvard Medical School. This evening Dr. Kingsley, editor of the "Standard Natural History," will speak of "Massachusetts Crustacea," illustrating the lecture by live and alcoholic specimens...
...Minot in his lecture last night, entered at once upon the topic of Hygiene, and occupied an hour in an attractive and systematic exposition of the subject. The first thing that should be considered is the matter of ventilation, drainage, and position of our houses. Especially necessary is good drainage, as most cases of typhoid fever and diphtheria can be traced to defects in this. Bed-rooms and studies should be provided with open fire-places, as all other methods of heating are open to serious objection. Furnace heat raises the air far above a healthful temperature, besides robbing...
...Minot urged the necessity of regular open-air exercise, and gave peculiar emphasis to this, especially as a preventive of consumption. Symptoms of coming disease are hard to interpret, general wasting being a sign of chronic affections; fever, severe chill or vomiting are the accompaniments of many of the more acute diseases. The lecturer closed with short directions to those who are in any way exposed to the disease, pulmonary consumption. His directions here were simply to live in obedience to the laws of hygiene, being much in the open air and not subjecting the system to protracted exertion...
Lectures on Emergencies and Hygiene. Hygiene. Dr. Minot. Sanders Theatre...