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Venereal lymphogranuloma, 238, 420
Ventilated improved pit latrine, 139
Verrucase (warts), 210
Village health committee, w24
Village health worker, w1–w7, w29, 43, 340
Village medicine kit, 336–337
VIP latrine, 139
Virus, 19, 399–401
Vision (See Eyes)
Vital signs, 41, inside back cover
Vitamins, 110, 111, 116–118, 391–393, 405
injections of, 65, 67, 118
the best way to get, 52, 118
vitamin A, 226, 391
vitamin B, 208
vitamin C, 248, 335,
vitamin B6, 360, 393
vitamin B12, 51, 65, 392
vitamin K, 265, 272, 337, 392
(Also see Iron, Zinc)
Vitiligo, 207
Vomiting, 161
during pregnancy, 248, 249
enemas and laxatives with, 15
how to cause vomiting, 103, 388
in the newborn, 273
medicines for, 161, 335, 385–386
violent vomiting, 151
with blood, 128, 328
with diarrhea, 151, 157
with urine poisoning (uremia), 239
W
Wandering eyes, 223
Warm compresses, 193–195
Warts, 210, 212, 400, 402
Water, healing with, 45–48
and cleanliness, 46, 131, 135, 137–139, 144,
146
and spread of disease, 146, 188
for fever, 75
to ease pain of burns, 96
vapors, 47, 168, 383
Weakness, fatigue, 23, 124, 323, 400
Weight
and diet, 110–111, 127
deciding dosage by, 340
homemade scales, 250
importance of losing, 125–127, 325–326
in pounds and kilos, 62
measuring medicines, 59–61
weight gain, in children, 297–304
weight gain in pregnancy, 247, 250
Weight loss
chronic, 179, 180, 400
different causes, 20
how to lose weight, 126
in the newborn, 273
sudden (dehydration), 151
(Also see Malnutrition)
Welts (hives), 68, 203, 238
Wet malnutrition (kwashiorkor), 113
Whipworm (Trichuris, Trichocephalus), 142
White spots and patches on the skin, 206–207,
232
Whooping cough (pertussis), 168, 313
medicines for, 336
vaccination, 147, 296
Witchcraft, 5, 24
Withdrawal
from drug addiction, 417
to prevent pregnancy, 285, 294
Womb, 428
cancer of, 280
contractions of, 258, 266
infection (See Childbirth fever)
massaging, 264–265
position of the baby in, 251, 257
Women’s health care, 241
Working together, w5, w24
Worms, 140–146, 227–228, 406–407
causing obstructed gut, 94
in children, 308
medicines for 335, 373–375
prevention of, 47, 131–134
Wounds
abdomen, 92
bullet, 90–93
chest, 91
controlling bleeding of, 82
deep, 89–92
from a broken bone, 99
how to close them, 85–86
infected, 88–89, 213, 401
knife and bullet, 89–93
medicines for, 93, 334
small, 84
that may cause tetanus, 89, 182
to the eye, 217–218
X
Xerophthalmia, 113, 226, 306, 337, 391, 428
Xerosis (See Xerophthalmia)
X ray, 102
Y
Yaws, 198, 202, 238
Yeast infection, 58, 232, 242, 369–370, 372
Yesca, 11
Yogurt, 57, 155, 232, 242
Zinc, 155, 159, 393
Z