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Mm9RIAL EDITI?f1
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Or Practical Knowledge for the People,
Prom the Life-Long Observations of the Author, embracing the Choicest, Most Valnabia and Entirely New Receipts in Every Department of Medicine, Mechanics, and Household Economy; including a Treatise on .'. .'. .*. .'• .*• . • .'•
THE DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
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PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.
In presenting this book to the public, we make no apologies. There never was but one Doctor A. W. Chase. The immense sale of his former works is evidence that the public demand all that ever came from his prolific and philanthropic pen. There is no man now living, and none dead, whose writings have been so eagerly sought for, and no man, whose whole life was so devoted to the good of others. Through reverses in business, he left no pecuniary benefits to his family except the manuscript of this book, but died with the consciousness that his work had been appreciated and that he had been a benefactor to mankind. Dr. Chase's name is a household word in millions of homes ; we trust this book will make it a familiar name in a million more, and, although this, his final work, is by him dedicated to the people whom he served so long and well, we, as publishers, think it befitting to such as he to inscribe it " The Memorial Edition " and dedicate it to his children.
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AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
The reason for the publication of this book is, that having given over fifty years of my life to the careful observation and test of Practical Receipes, as given in my first and second books, i. e., "Dr. Chase's Eeceipts, or Information for Everybody;" and "Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Bee Keeper, and Second Receipt Book," by which it has become very natural for me to make notes of and preserve for future reference, items and receipts discovered by myself and those seen in the discourses of the Scientific, Med- ical, Agricultural, Mechanical and Household Publications of the day; and observing that as time advanced, every branch of Science and Art, by continued experience, became more and more perfect, practical and positive in its development, I continually selected and preserved the very choicest items until enough was accumulated for a THIRD BOOK. And fully believing that it would be appre- ciated by the people who had purchased over twelve hundred thousand copies of my former publications, within the thirty years they have been before them, I determined to prepare it before I could willingly and conscientiously lay down my life work. I have, therefore, labored over four years faithfully and diligently in experimenting, compiling and arranging this, my third and last book, as I knew it would do good in every home it entered. I am now willing and shall forever rest from this char- acter of labor, that I may partake, a little at least, of the benefits and pleasures that I have done my best to prepare for others, feeling more than satisfied that if the people will give the time and earnestness in using this book that the author has in prepar- ing it, the benefits and pleasures will not only be mutual, but more lasting than our lives, benefitting even our children's chil- dren.
As to the reliability of the information given in this volume, the unprecedentedly large sales of my two former works will
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testify. It is only necessary to say that the longer one labors in a practice or profession, or in the mechanical arts, the more mature is his mind and judgment and the better qualified he is to carry on his work. This being universally conceded, it need only be said, then, that one who has lived nearly seventy years, doing all the good possible to his fellow creatures, as I have done, if judged by the above evidence, would certainly make his last the crowning effort of his life, and that it shall be so found I feel assured. This work is the result of nearly thirty years practice and experience since the publication of my first book, and is not a " revised edition " of the former ones, but is made up wholly of new matter and new discoveries. I, therefore, believe that it will prove of infinite value to its purchasers, and although they may have both the former ones in their possession, they cannot, if they value my first and second book, afford to be without this, my third and last one. My mature years, numbering nearly three score and ten, will not allow me to ever undertake that great labor which, in this case, covers a period of nearly five years.
A Eeceipt Book, not being calculated for general reading, can very properly be set in closer type than an ordinary book, and as it is my aim to give the greatest possible amount of informa- tion for the money invested, I have instructed the type-setters to use the smallest type that can, with ease, be read ; yet the following will serve to illustrate the fact that even a receipt book is, by some, read to a considerable extent As I was once traveling through Illinois, a gentleman, just before we reached the crossing of the Mississippi at Burlington, approached me, and said, "Isn't this Dr. Chase, the author of Chase's Eeceipt Book?" (referring to my first) to which I replied, " Yes, sir," when he remarked : " I thought I recognized you from the frontispiece in your book ;" and added, " We read it more than the Bible," etc. To which I remonstrated and begged to suggest that he instruct his family from that time forward to read the Bible most, inas- much as eternity was of infinitely more importance than this life. His name I have forgotten, but I take the liberty of giving the
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name and address of a lady in Wisconsin, whose letter I received while preparing this last work, presuming she will take no offense, as I give her name and letter only to prove to the public in what esteem my former books are held by those who have them. The following is from Mrs. 0, N. Alden, and dated at Neenah, Wisconsin :
Dr. a. W. chase,
Dear Sir:
It is not the author or compiler of every book who himself so permeates the contents that the reader feels in the author a per- sonal acquaintance, but when I am consulting Dr. Chase's Books, it seems as though I was personally consulting him, and that he is a friend, he makes what is therein so individual. But, by so doing, he exposes himself to, per- haps, annoyance, as in this instance, by being personally addressed, * * * *
The writer closes by relating her own condition of health, and making inquiry as to the character of goods made by another gentleman. I mention these circumstances among hundreds of others only to illustrate to those having neither of my former books what those who do have them think of them, hoping thus to convince the million that my third and last book shall, at least, be equally valuable. I have, however, done my best to produce a work in every respect superior to my former ones, and with the aid of thirty years' experience since my first book was published, during which time many new theories have come into vogue and many valuable discoveries have been made, I am confident that I have succeeded, and can only hope that my former works have opened the door to this, my Crowning Life Work, and that it will be a welcome visitor at every home, where either or both the first and second books have found their way and prove to be worth many times more than the sum paid for it,
THE AUTHOR,
Just two months after completing this work, and writing the foregoing preface, the "Old Doctor" passed away and his spirit took its flight to God who gave it.
PUBLISHERS.
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Dr. Alviit "Wood Chase, physician, and author of the celebrated Dr. Chase's Eeceipt Book, was born in Cayuga County, New York, in 1817. He was a son of Benjamin Chase, a native of the State of Massachusetts. When Alvin was eleven years of age his parents located near Buffalo, N. Y., where he grew to manhood, receiving a very limited education, in a log school-house. His desire for knowledge was so strong, coupled with an ambition peculiar to his naturally energetic disposition, that he far outstripped his more dilatory companions of that humble institute of learning. When seventeen years old he left New York and found employment on the Maumee Eiver, in the meantime devoting his spare moments to study. In 18-10 he located at Dresden, Ohio, where in the spring of 1841 he married Martha Shutts, daughter of Henry and Martha Shutts, natives of New York. To this noble and gifted wife, and mother of his children, may be justly attributed much of the success that followed the doctor during his long and eventful career. From the days of his boyhood he entertained a wish to study medicine, and awaited with impatience the time when he might become a member of the fraternity. After many
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wanderings he settled in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1856, where, to his intense delight, he was enabled vigorously to prosecute his studies in what was to be his future life-work.
He attended lectures in the medical department of the State University during 1857 and 1858, and graduated from the Eclectic Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the meantime. Prior to 1869 he traveled over a large part of the United States, acquiring valuable knowledge, only gained by practical experience, which proved a good foundation for the wonderful book which afterward gained such great celebrity. The first edition of the work, like all subsequent ones, proved a great success, and soon placed the author on the high road to fortune. In 1864 he built the first part of that magnificent struct- ure that still bears his name. It stands on the corner of Main Street and Miller Avenue, and is an ornament to our city. The building was completed in 1868. The business had so increased that at this time fifty persons found constant and remunerative employment within the walls of the building; and the hospitality and liberality of the Doctor to the employes of the institution, as well as to the needy ones of the city, were always subjects of admiring comment.
In 1873 he published his second book, of which many thousand copies were sold, and it is safe to say that fully one million and a half have found their way into the homes of this and foreign countries.
A few years only have elapsed since Dr. Chase was
considered one of the most prosperous and well-to-do
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citizens of Ann Arbor; losses by thousands and tens of thousands dollars greatly reduced his accumulations so honestly acquired. It is seldom the case that so much wealth is secured in so short a time by honest endeavor. He entered into no speculating schemes, but industriously pursued a very useful c-alling, bringing large profits without detriment to any, but, on the contrary, of great value to all. But, notwithstanding his losses, he did not lose his native energy and manliness of purpose, and stood before the community a conspicuous example of what energy, perseverance, and an indomitable will may accomplish. His liberality was remarkable, considering his income, though large. Many men, whose means were quadruple those of the Doctor, did not give one quarter as much for the advancement of education and benevolent enterprises.
He was once nominated for mayor of the city, but his business compelled him to decline the proffered honor. But the storms of life finally overtook him and swept with almost resistless fury around the now aged physician, and a few of the prejudices that charac- terize the human family found a resting place in the heart of this noble man; yet, when the last chapter shall have been entered in the book of life, the account will probably be balanced. The last earthly rites have been performed, and the aged veteran laid peacefully away beneath the shadow of the silent tomb. It may truthfully be said that he lived with malice toward none and charity to all. A beautiful monument marks the place where his earthly remains are laid away, but his real
and ever-enduring monument is seen in his life, devotion and usefulness to his fellow man.
L. Davis,
Secretary of the Washtenaw County Pioneer Society.
Ann Arbor, Mich.
CONTENTS.
Dedication, ......
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Publishers' Peep ACE, ....
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Authob's Preface, . . . - -
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" In Memoriam," . . . - -
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Symptoms op Diseases, - . • . •
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Medical Eeceipts, .....
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NlTRSING AND MIDWIFERY, ....
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Food for the Sick, . . - • •
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Culinary or Cooking Department, . • •
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Miscellaneous Department, . . -
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Household Memoranda, . . . -
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Mechanical Department, . - . •
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Bee-Keeping, ..--••
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Dictionary op Medical Terms,
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Index to Medical Department, . . -
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PHRENOLOGY DEFINED.
NAMES AND NUMBERS OF THE ORGANS.
MEDICAL DEPAETMENT.
STTDVCIPTOnv^dlS OIF 3DISE.A.SES.
Remarks. — In preparing "Symptoms" I have carefully given all diseases that any person is liable not to be familiar with. There are some few common complaints, that " tackle " us without giving symptoms or warning, that I have omitted A man would not need to be told that he had the toothache or earache, or what the symptoms are. He would be liable to find it out very suddenly without consulting any book or doctor. Some such simple diseases I have omitted in "Symptoms."
ABORTION OR MISCARRIAGE.— When a woman in the family way throws oflf the contents of her womb, or loses her child, during the first six months, the accident is a miscarriage, or abortion; when the same thing happens during the last three months of her term, it is a premature labor.
Symptoms. — If abortion occur during the first month after conception, the symptoms may not attract much attention, or may be regarded only as an irregularity of menstruation. Occurring at later periods, it is frequently indi- cated by some feverishness, coldness of the feet and legs, a pufled-up condition of the eye-lids with purplish discoloratione, shooting pains in the breasts, which become soft, pains in the back,, bearing-down pains in the lower part of the bowels, which come and go, and at length take the character of real labor pains. As these pains increase, blood begins to appear, and, sooner or later, the bag of water breaks, and the fetus is thrown off.
Causes. — These are very numerous. Some of the principal are, displace- ment of the womb; ulceration of its neck; syphilitic disease of the fetus received from the parent; too much exercise; heavy lifting; falls, particularly when the woman comes down upon the feet, and is heavily jarred; emetics; powerful purges; and too much nuptial indulgence. Remedy, pages 258, 259, 260,261.
AGUE. — The popular English name for Intermittent Fever. Agtie is principally applied to the cold stage. The whole disease is commonly called Fever and Ague.
Symptoms. — This fever consists of various fits or paroxysms, each of which is made up of three stages or successions of symptoms. These stages are the cold, the hot, and the sweating stages. When the sweating stage is finished, the patient is free of complaint, or the disease intermits till a future period, when the same stages as before succeed each other. The time duiing which the patient is free of the disease varies in different kinds of intermittent fever, and gives its name and character to the disease. If the stages run through their course every day, it is called a quotidian ague; if they begin again every J 1
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third day, including that on which the former paroxysm occurred, it is called a tertian; if every fourth day, a quartan. Several minuter varieties occur, ■with which it is unnecessary to trouble the general reader. Remedy, pages 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 123.
APOPLEXY. — A disease in which the patient suddenly falls down, deprived of sense and motion; and which, in all languages, derives its name from the sudden manner of its attack, as if the patient were struck down by some invisible hand, by lightning, or some other agent equally sudden and violent.
Symptoms. — A person seized with apoplexy in its most perfect form, sud- denly falls down, deprived of ^nse and motion, breathes heavily, and with a snoring sound; sometimes convulsions occur, and foam issues from the mouth. The pulse is full and strong, a cold clammy sweat breaks out over all the body; and the accumulating saliva, the bloated countenance, and the noisy laborious breathing, combine to form a distressing spectacle. The disease is not always so complete and violent, but varies in its symptoms, as is well described by Dr. Abercrombie: — "Sometimes the disease begins with a sudden attack of violent pain in the head, the patient becomes pale, sick and faint, generally vomits; and frequently, though not always, falls down in a state resembling fainting, the face very pale, the pulse very small. This is some- times accompanied by slight convulsion. In other cases he does not fall down, the sudden attack of pain being only accompanied by slight and transient loss of recollection. In both cases he recovers in a few minutes, is quite sensible, and able to walk ; continues to complain of intense headache; after a considerable time, perhaps some hours, becomes oppressed, forgetful, and incoherent, and thus gradually sinks into deep sleep, from which he never recovers. In some cases, palsy of one side occurs, but in others, there is no palsy. There is another form of the disease, in which the patient is suddenly deprived of the power of one side of the body, and of speech without stupor; or if the first attack is accompanied with stupor, this soon goes off; he appears sensible of his situation, and endeavors to express his feelings by signs. In some cases the attack passes gradually into apoplexy, perhaps after a few hours; in others, under the proper treatment, the patient recovers perfectly in a few days. In many cases the recovery is gradual, and it is only at the end of several weeks or months that the complaint is removed."
It is a matter of very great difficulty to determine what is the particular state of the brain which gives rise to the symptoms of apoplexy. Sometimes, after a fatal case, when the head is opened, we find a large quantity of coagu- lated blood, and we consider the pressure of this effused blood as completely explaining what has happened. But in other cases which have ended fatally, there is only a small quantity of fluid in some part of the brain; and in others, even after very marked symptoms, no injury whatever, or deviation from the healthy appearance, can be perceived in the brain.
There are certain habits of body that seem more peculiarly disposed to this disease. Men with short thick necks, large heads, and corpulent bellies, especially after their thirty-fifth or fortieth year, are very frequently the sub-
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jects of this disease; but very many examples occur of a make directly the reverse of this, viz., tall and slender, being also attacked with apoplexy. Remedy, page 131.
ASTHMA. — Symptoms. — A painful difficulty of breathing, recurring at intervals, with a sense of tightness across the breast; a wheezing cough, hard at first, but towards the end of each paroxysm more free, and followed by the discharge of a little mucus. The attacks of asthma are generally in the night- time, though they sometimes come on in the course of the day; and at what- ever time they come on, it is for the most part suddenly, with a sense of tightness across the breast, impeding respiration. The person, if in bed, i? obliged immediately to get up, and he requires the free admission of air. Tho difficulty of breathing increases, and is performed slowly, and with a wheezing noise. These symptoms sometimes continue for hours together; and a remis- sion takes place by degrees; the breathing becomes less laborious, and the patient speaks and coughs more easily; and if there is something expectorated, the remission is greater, and sleep comes on. In the morning, and through the day, though the breathing is better than during the fit, it is not yet free from difficulty; a degree of tightness is still felt, and a very slight motion of the body is apt to bring back the paroxysm. In the evening the breathing is worse, and about the same hour as on the former night, generally between midnight and two o'clock, the same train of symptoms is renewed. After the fits have recurred for several nights in this manner, they suffer more consider- able remissions; and, for some time, asthmatics may be free from complaint; but through the whole of life the paroxysms are ready to return, though in different circumstances in different patients.
Asthma seldom appears before the age of puberty, and seems to attack men more frequently than women; and in persons of a full habit whom it continues to attack, it commonly causes a great degree of emaciation. Though it does not often destroy life in the paroxysms, it may become fatal by passing into other diseases, as into consumption of the lungs, or by occasioning dropsy; and many cases, which have appeared a common spasmodic asthma, have been found at last to depend on organic diseases of the heart and great vessels.
Causes. — Some have the fits of si>asmodic asthma brought on by heat, whether of the weather or of warm apartments; and frequently by warm bathing. Some are hurt by cold and moist air, or by anything worn tight about the breast, or by distension of the stomach from a full meal, or windy diet; or from exercise hurrying the circulation of the blood. Sometimes the disease is brought on by causes affecting the nervous system, as passions of the mind; or by particular smells, or irritations of the lungs from smoke or dust. Remedy, pages 200, 201.
ATROPHY. — Symptoms. — A disease, of which a very prominent symp- tom is wasting of the body, from deficiency of nourishment. It is well known to the nurses in Scotland by the term Dwining. It is very common in children, and proceeds in them from various causes; from teething, from acidity of the
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stomach, and disorder of the bowels; from rickets, from diseases of the glands of the mesentery; and this last cause is by far the most common. The patient is at first languid and inactive; has a bad appetite, a disagreeable breath, a pale complexion, a large belly; the bowels are not regular, sometimes costive, at other times loose; the stools smell badly, and are of a whiter color than natural. When the disease has continued for some time, the body becomes greatly emaciated, the belly still more swelled, and the digestive functions more dis- ordered. Remedy, page 190.
BARKERS' TSCB..— Symptoms.— This is contagious and due to a fungus growth that invades the hair and hair follicles. It appears chiefly on the hairy parts of the face — the chin, the upper lip, the region of the whiskers, the eye- brows, and the nape of the neck. It consists in little conical elevations, which maturate at the top, and have the shaft of a hair passing through them. These pimples are of a pale yellowish color. Remedy, page 102.
BLADDER — INFLAMMATION.— -%TOj9toms.— The bladder is also liable to inflammation without rupture. The symptoms of this formidable complaint are a burning pain at the lower part of the belly, increased by pressure; constant desire to pass water, which is done in very small quantities, and with intense pain; and more or less general fever. Remedy, page 253.
BLOODY FLUX.— DYSENTERY.— /S^m^j^wis.— The disease comes on with loss of appetite, costiveness, lassitude, shivering, heat of skin, and quick pulse. These are followed by griping pain in the bowels, and a constant desire to pass their contents. In general the passages are small, composed of mucus mixed with blood. These passages are attended and followed by severe gripings and inclination to strain, learnedly called tormina, and tenesmus. They are sometimes, in the early stages, attended by nausea and vomiting. The natural feces, which do not pass off much, are small in quantity, and formed into round, compact balls, or irregular, hardened lumps. This tenesmus, or great desire to strain, will continue, perhaps increase, for several days, — the discharges being mostly blood in some cases, and chiefly mucus in others. Having, generally, but little odor, at first, these discharges become, as the dis- ease advances, exceedingly offensive.
Causes. — Dj'sentery is very frequently caused by sudden changes from hot to cold, by which sweating is suddenly checked, and the blood repelled from the surface. Hot climates, and dry, hot weather, are predisposing causes. All green, unripe, and unwholesome food; and all indigestible food of every sort, may induce it. Remedy, pages 60, 139, 195, 234.
BOIL. — Symptoms. — A circumscribed inflammation in the external parts, which terminates in a pointed swelling, sometimes as large as a pigeon's Ggg, attended with redness and pain, and sometimes with a violent burning heat. These inflammations generally suppurate, but they do so very slowly. They break at first on the upper part, and some drops of matter ooze out. Wliat is commonly called the core is next seen; it is a purulent substance, but thick and tenacious, almost like a solid body, and may be drawn out of the
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abscess. Its discharge is followed by a flow of thinner matter, after which the pain ceases, and the part heals. Remedy, pages 58, 59, 60, 97, 137.
BOWELS, rNTLAMMATION" OF.— Symptoms.— ^h\s disease is characterized by the symptoms of general fever, heat of skin, thirst, restless- ness, quick and hard small pulse; and by sharp pain in the belly, increased on pressure, and accompanied by vomiting and costiveness.
Causes. — Inflammation of the bowels is occasioned by acrid and irritating substances swallowed by the mouth, by hardened foeces, by vitiated bile, by long continued costiveness, and by constriction of some part of the canal in cases of rupture; a very frequent cause of it is cold, especially when applied with damp to the feet.
Diagnosis. — Inflammation of the bowels is distinguished from colic by the absence of fever in this last, and by the pain in colic not being increased on pressure; and in every case of severe pain of the bowels, with vomiting and costiveness, the practitioner should make very strict inquiries, lest a rupture should be the cause of them. Remedy, pages 137, 252.
BRAIN — INTLAMMATION — CONCUSSION.— Acute and gen- eral inflammatioH of the brain and its membranes has two stages.
Symptoms. — TJie Stage of Excitement, in which there is intense and deep- seated pain in the head, extending over a large part of it, a feeling of tightness across the forehead, throbbing of the temporal arteries, a flushed face, injected eyes, looking wild and brilliant, contraction of the pupils, great shrinking from light and sound, violent delirium, want of sleep, general convulsions, a parched and dry skin, a quick and hard pulse, a white tongue, thirst, nausea and vomiting, and constipation of the bowels.
The Stage of CoUapse, in which there are indistinct mutterings, dull and perverted hearing and vision, double vision, the pupil from being contracted expands largely and becomes motionless, twitchings of the muscles, tremors and palsy of some of the limbs, a ghastly and cadaverous countenance, cold sweats, profound coma, and death
The disease will not show all these symptoms in any one case. It runs a rapid course, causing death, sometimes, in twelve or twenty-four hours; or it may run two or three weeks. Remedy, pages 246, 247.
BRONCHITIS.— 5//TOpfem5.— This disease is an inflammation of the membrane lining the air passages, or bronchi, is a very common, and a very ■ serious disease. It is of two kinds, the acute and the chronic or " winter cough." The acute form, or severe cough, begins with the symptoms of com- mon cold, or catarrh (see Catarrh); but difficulty of breathing, attended with a wheezing sound, and pain and cough, soon come on with great severity. There is also a degree of fever, generally much increased in the evening. With the cough, there is a tenacious and glary expectoration, sometimes purulent, and even mixed with blood. Remedy, pages 123, 254, 255, 256.
BRONCHOCELE.— -Symptoms.— The goitre, or swelled neck, which so frequently occurs among the inhabitants of mountainous regions. It is a com-
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mon disorder in Derbyshire, and among the inhabitants of the Ali)S, and othe*" hilly countries in their neighborhood; also in the valleys of Savoy, and sf Milan, and among the Pyrennes, and Cevennes, in France. The swelling \r bronchocele is at first without pain or any evident fluctuation, and the skii retains its natural appearance; but as the swelling advances, it grows hard an»^ irregular; the skin becomes yellowish, and the veins of the neck put on a dis- tended and winding appearance; then the patient complains of frequent flush' ing of the face with headache, and pains darting through the tumor. Remed"?, pages 44, 45.
CANCER. — Symptoms. — By occult cancer or scirrhus, is meant a hard tumor, for the most part accompanied by sharp darting pains, which recur more or less frequently. This tumor, in course of time, breaks and ulcerates; and then is more strictly denominated cancer. The parts of the body subject to cancer are the following: The female breast and uterus (see Womb and its Diseases), the lips, especially the lower one, the tongue, the skin, the tonsils, the lower opening of the stomach, and some other parts chiefly glandular Chimney-sweepers are subject to a cancerous affection of the scrotum. Rem- edy, pages 33, 34, 35, 99, 271.
CARBUNCLE. — Symptoms. — An abscess or collection of matter, of a peculiarly gangrenous-looking nature. The first symptoms are great heat and violent pain in some part of the body, on which there arises a pimple with great itching; under this, there is a circumscribed tumor, seeming to penetrate deep into the parts below. This tumor soon puts on a dark red or purple color. A little blister frequently appears on the top of the tumor, which being broken. a dark-looking matter is discharged, and a slough makes its appearance. Some- times a little slough of a black color is seen in the middle of the tumor. The progress of a carbuncle of the gangrenous state is generally rapid. The size of carbuncles is various; sometimes they are eight or ten inches in diameter. Considerable hardness and pain generally attend the disease. As it advances, several detached openings form in the tumor; and through these, a greenish, fetid, and irritating matter is discharged. Carbuncle most commonly occurs in constitutions that have been injured by luxurious living; and from this cir- cumstance, and from its occurring not unfrequently in people advanced in life, carbuncle is commonly to be considered as accompanied with great danger; and this danger is to be estimated by the size and situations of the swellings, whether there be few or many of them, and by considering the age of the the patient, and the state of his constitution. Remedy, pages 58, 59.
CATARRH. — -Symjo^oTOs. — The disease commonly called a Cold, of which the following are the ordinary symptoms: — The patient is seized with a coldness and shivering; and shortly after, there is a degree of difliculty in breathing through the nose, and a sensation as if something were stopping that passage; a symptom well known under the term of a stufiing of the nose or head. There is a dull pain and heaviness in the forehead, and the motion of the eyes is stiff and obstructed. There soon takes place from the nose, a plen- tiful discharge of thin watery matter, so sharp as to inflame and excoriate the
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Bkin of the nose and lips. There is a sense of weariness over the whole body; and the patient is unusually sensible to the coldness of the air; and the pulse, especially toward evening, is more frequent than ordinary. These symptoms are very soon accompanied with hoarseness, and a sense of roughness and sore- ness in the course of the wind-pipe, with a difficulty of breathing, and tightness across the chest, and a cough, seemingly occasioned by something tickling or irritating the upper part of the wind-pipe. The cough is at first dry, and causes a good deal of pain in the chest, and about the head ; and at times there are other pains resembling rheumatism, in various parts of the body. Gradu- ally the cough becomes looser ; that is to say, is accompanied by the discharge of mucus, which is brought up with more-ease. The discharge from the nose becomes more mild, and also thicker; the pain of the head diminishes, but there is still a disagreeable sense of fullness about the nose, with a degree ol deafness, ringing in the ears, and a wheezing sound when a full breath is drawn. There is also a bad taste in the mouth, with a foul tongue, although the appetite is good. Eemedy, pages 57, 155, 164, 183.
CHICKEN-POX. — Symptoms.— A diseaseof the>eruptive kind, in various particulars resembling small-pox, and apt to be confounded with it. Chicken' pox arises from a peculiar contagion, and attacks persons only once in theii lives. It is preceded by chilliness, by sickness or vomiting, headache, thirst restlessness and a quickened pulse. After these feverish symptoms, which an/ generally slight, have lasted one or two days, pimples appear on different partd of the skin, in the form of small red eminences, not exactly circular; having a surface shining, and nearly flat, in the middle of which a small clear vesicle soon forms. On the second day, this is filled with a whitish lymph; on tne third day, the fluid is straw-colored ; and on the fourth day, the vesicles wh>iCh have not broken begin to subside. Few of them remain entire on the fifth day; and on the sixth, small brown scabs appear in the place of the vesicles. Oa the ninth and tenth days, they fall off, without leaving any pits. RemejDT, page 224.
CHILBLAINS- — Symptoms. — A painful inflammatory swelling on thfe extreme parts of the body, as the fingers, toes, and heels, occasioned by c old. A very common way of getting chilblains, is by bringing the hands and feet near the fire in cold frosty weather. The color of chilblains is a deep purple or leaden hue, the pain is pungent and shooting, and a very disagreeable itching attends. In some instances, the skin remains entire; in others it breaks, and a thin fluid is discharged. When the cold has been great or long continued, the parts affected are apt to mortify and slough off, leaving a foul ulcer behind. Remedy, pages 142, 143.
CHILLS AND FEVER.— See Ague.
CHLOROFORM. — The formidable symptoms which sometimes arise from an overdose of chlorofoi-m are best met by opening the patient's mouth, and forcibly making the tongue protrude, allowing the free access of air, and applying ammonia to the nostrils. Chloroform should be administered only by a medical man. Remedy, page 95.
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CHOLERA.— This disease is often attended by vomiting and purging, with cramps in various parts of the body. It first attracted notice as a wide-spreading and fatal epidemic, in the year 1817, when it appeared at at Jessore, in Bengal; and after ravaging the Continent and Isles of Asia, and spreading to China, it continued its destructive course westward through Germany and the Russian Empire, till it at length reached the British Islands in 1831. After committing frightful ravages, the disease disappeared from England in the end of 1833; but it reappeared in 1849, and carried off 15,000 people in London alone, and about 80,000 in the whole kingdom. In 1853 and 1854 the disease again caused a terrible mortality, upwards of 6,000 deaths having occurred in London alone during the first ten weeks of the epi- demic which occurred in the latter year.
SymptoTUs. — The attack of the disease is sometimes quite sudden; at other times, there are precursory symptoms, of which the duration varies from a few hours to three or four days. There is a sense of general uneasiness and oppres- sion, increased sensibility, not unlike a delusive feeling of high health and animation; pains about the navel; sometimes tremors and debility. The person is affected with derangement of the alimentary canal, more or less severe, indi- cated by sickness and vomiting, flatulent noises in the bowels, and frequent loose, but natural stools; these symptoms being accompanied or succeeded by thirst, headache, languors, and cramps or twitches in the limbs, breast, and other parts of the body. Such derangements often occur after some irregu- larity to which the patient has not been accustomed, as a luxurious meal, an indulgence in wine, spirits, beer, or porter, the eating of pastry, or other indi- gestible food; or after being exposed to the night-air, or to cold and damp. In ordinary seasons, these ailments might be left to nature, or carried off by a gentle laxative. But in seasons and districts where cholera prevails or is ex- pected, no person, through fear of being thought whimsical, should neglect even very slight uneasiness; if the alarm be a false one, little harm is done; but if there be real danger to follow, it is of unspeakable consequence to have a medical man on the watch, to apply the remedies before the strength fails, and before the second stage, or that of collapse, comes on. Remedy, pages 60, 127, 128, 139, 141, 236.
CHOLERA INFANTUM.— See Symptoms, page 226. Remedy, page 226.
CHOLERA MORBUS.— See Symptoms, page 225. Remedy, page 226.
COLIC. — Symptoms: — A painful sensation spreading over the belly, and accompanied by a feeling of twisting or wringing at the navel. It is owing to spasms acting on the intestines themselves; and very frequently the skin and muscles of the belly are also drawn inwards and spasmodically contracted. These pains are very violent, unlike the transient gripings that occur in other affections of the bowels; and costiveness is a general attendant Vomiting is also present; any thing taken in the mouth is apt to be rejected, and bile is thrown up
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Causes. — Tlie causes of colic are various. It may arise from cold, from flatulence, from mechanical obstruction, from acrid matters taken into the stomach, from accumulation of faeces after long costiveness; it may also arise from passions of the mind. It is distinguished from Inflammation of the bowels by the pain at times disappearing, by the absence of fever, and by pres- sure relieving the pain. Sometimes, however, long continued spasms induce inflammation. Remedy, pages 41, 46, 127, 129, 197, 230, 277.
CONSTIPATION OR COSTIVENESS.— The usual frequency of evacuating the bowels for persons in good health is once in twenty-four hours. The constitutions of different people vary in this respect; some having two or three motions in a day without any inconvenience or ill health; others not hav- ing above one or two in a week. When a person has habitually fewer motions than the generality of healthy people, he is said to be of a costive habit or con- stipated; and when he has at any time fewer than his ordinary rate, and when the faeces are hard, dry, and voided with difficulty, he is said to be costive or constipated.
Causes. — Independently of medicine, it is not very easy to specify any diet or mode of living that universally predisposes to costiveness. Many articles have been blamed, and yet have been used by thousands without producing that effect. Rice in various modes of cookery; the finer kinds of bread; roast meat, eaten without a due proportion of vegetables; cheese; port and other dry wines; and indolent and sedentary life; and a sea voyage, are all known to occasion costiveness in certain individuals. In some infants this state is consti- tutional; and for some time, at least, appears to do them little harm. It is very apt to occur in children, as their volatility and playfulness cause them often to disregard the calls of nature, till a great and dangerous mass of feculent matter is accumulated in their bowels. The indolent and sedentary lives of females predisposes them much to costiveness. The structure of their pelvis also allows a larger mass to accumulate without inconvenience, from which circum- stance the faeces are deprived of almost all their fluid parts, and the remainder becomes dry, hard, and difficult to be voided. Persons of the melancholic temperament; also those who are advanced in life, and those who take little exercise, are liable to become costive. Remedy, pages 46, 47, 135, 136, 280.
CONSUMPTION.— This disease is probably the greatest existing scourge of the human race, at least in the northern and middle latitudes. It is not deviating far from the truth to say that it causes about one-sixth or one- seventh of all the deaths north of the tropics. The duration of the disease is exceedingly variable. While some cases run their course to a fatal termination in less than a month, others have been known to continue thirty or forty years. The greater number of cases, as a rule, terminate in from one to two years. It is pre-eminently a hereditary disease.
Symptoms. — The earliest symptom of consumption that usually manifests itself is a short, dry cough, exciting no particular attention, being attributed to a slight cold. It, however, continues, and after a time increases in frequency. The breathing is more easily hurried by bodily motion, aad the pulse becomes
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more frequent, particularly after meals and towards evening. Towards even- ing there is also frequently experienced a slight degree of chilliness, followed by heat and nocturnal perspirations. The patient becomes languid and indolent, and gradually loses strength. After a time the cough becomes more frequent, and is particularly troublesome during the night, accompanied by an expector- ation of a clear, frothy substance, which afterwards becomes more copious, viscid, and opaque, and is most considerable in the morning; the sputa are often tinged with blood ; or haemoptysis occurs in a more marked form, and to a greater extent As the disease advances, the breathing and pulse become more hurried; the fever is greater, and the perspirations more regular and pro- fuse. The emaciation and weakness go on increasing; a pain is felt m some part of the thorax, which is increased by coughing, and sometimes becomes so acute as to prevent the patient from lying on the affected side. All the symp- toms increase towards evening; the face is flushed; the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet are affected with a burning heat; the feet and ankles begin to swell, and in the last stage of consumption there is nearly always profuse diarrhoea. The emaciation is extreme ; the countenance assumes a cadaverous appearance, the cheeks are prominent, the eyes hollow and languid. Usually the appetite remains entire to the end, and the patient flatters himself with the hope of a speedy recovery, often vainly forming distant projects of interest or amusement, when death puts a period to his existence. Tubercular deposits are also usually found in other organs of the body; the liver is enlarged and changes in appearance, and ulcerations occur in the intestines, the larynx, and trachea. These are so frequent and uniform as to lead to the belief that they form part of the disease.
Causes. — The causes of this disease are divided into remote and exciting. Of the former, the most important is hereditary predisposition It is not, how- ever, an actual cause of the disease; and hence there are many cases m which the children of consumptive parents do not fall a prey to this disease; but it renders those who are in that condition much more liable to be affected by the exciting causes. Whatever weakens the strength of the system, or interferes with the oxygenation of the blood, tends to the production of this disease. Hence living in bad air, insufficient and unwholesome food, and sedentary pur- suits, tend to it. Among tlie more exciting causes are exposure to cold or damp, especially after the body has been heated, intemperance of any kind, profuse evacuations, and exposure to the reception of dust into the lungs, as in the case of certain artificers, needle-pointers, stonecutters, and the like. Rem- edy, pages 101, 109, 110, 112, 113, 117, 118, 125, 184.
CONVULSION PITS OP CHILDIIEN„— When we speak of con- vulsions, or convulsion fits, we most commonly mean epilepsy and principally that species of it which occurs in very young children.
Symptoms.— In some cases convulsions come on suddenly, at other times the attack is gradual, and the first symptoms elude the observation of the attendants. In the sudden attack, the child, previously quite well, becomes livid in a moment; his eyes and features are contorted, and the limbs and
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whole body are violently agitated. These symptoms end by the patient falling into a state of insensibility, which in some cases proves fatal, and in others goes gradually off. In those cases where the attack is milder and more gradual, the child shows some degree of uneasiness; he suddenly changes color, his lips quiver, his eyes are turned upwards, and he stretches himself out, or his hands become clenched. Sometimes there is a rapid succession of fits; sometimes the intervals between them are long. Convulsions vary also in their degree of violence. Before the fatal termination of many of the diseases of infancy, convulsions occur, and appear to be the cause of death. Hence, their taking place after long or serious illness, may be considered as an indication of approaching death. But a single fit may destroy an infant. When the return of the convulsions is not suspended within forty-eight hours after active treat- ment has been adopted, there is reason to dread either a sudden fatal termina- tion, or a long protraction of the disease. In this latter case, if the infant does not become emaciated, there is a probability of his eventual recovery, even although he had been blind and insensible for days or weeks. In some rare cases, though the health be restored, imbecility of mind remains. If emacia- tion attend the protraction of fits, the living powers at last give way.
Causes. — Convulsions arise from any thing capable of strongly irritating the nervous system; hence infants and young children, whose nervous system is so very delicate, and who are exposed to so many causes of irritation, are by far the most frequently affected with convulsions. These may arise from worms in the Intestines, from certain kinds of food disagreeing with the child, from acidity, from wind; and, with remarkable frequency, from teething. Another cause of convulsions in children is the too sudden disappearance or going in of a rash or eruptive disorder. Children very frequently are seized with convul- sions just before the appearance of small-pox; and in some cases, though very rarely, they occur before the appearance of measles. The general irritation arising from want of cleanliness, living in foul air, etc., may give rise to con- vulsions. Sometimes they are only the symptoms of a more deep and violent disease, as of water in the head, or growth of bone within the skull. In this case GUI attention is to be directed to the original disease; the symptoms and treatment of water in the head will be detailed in their proper place Rem- edy, page 232.
CKOUP. — Symptomg: — In what is known as false croup the child coughs for two or three days, running at the nose, slight cold at first; or these symp- toms may be absent. Between 10 and 12 o'clock at night may occur a sudden, loud, barking cough, whistling breathing, breathing hard, face flushed, great restlessness, skin hot and dry, pulse fast, lasts from 1 to 3 hours; patient generally gets well, — subject to return ot disease.
In true croup the symptoms are: cold in head; hoarse, dry cough; voice hoarse, spittle frothy, membrane comes off when child vomits, breathing rapid, and the chest is quiet, the breathing being done by the bowel muscles; nostrils dilated, spasms of throat, and child throws itself from side to side; eyes wild; face anxious, fingers and jlips blue, between spasms of throat, child is quiet;
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pulse, 110 to 190. If symptoms lull, do not think child is better, for usually they will recommence. Disease lasts from 2 to 14 days, and 19 out of 20 die. Remedy, pages 105, 106, 107, 210.
DELIRIUM TREMENS.— -%mpi!<wM.— This is a disease consisting essentially of excessive irritability and exhaustion of the nervine functions. Physicians 'term it Delirium Tremens, from the abberation of mind and the universal shaking of the body which characterise it. It is generally caused by excessive and long continued abuse of ardent spirits; or by their sudden with- drawal; but it may arise from any cause which exhausts the brain, or excites the nervous system for a length of time.
Symptoms. —The attack of this complaint is more or less sudden in differ- ent instances. For a few days at its commencement, the patient is merely incapable of his ordinary duties and exertion; a constant restlessness, debility, and inappetency, and occasional vomiting take place, with dullness and dejec- tion of spirits, and headache. Vague suspicions are entertained of approaching danger, and he is haunted by visions and figures. Delirium generally accom- panies these hallucinations, and the patient is always looking about, apprehen sive of being seized, and distrusting every one who approaches. He is sensible for a moment when reasoned with, but soon reverts to his delusions. The pulse is quick, but soft, the skin cool or perspiring, and the pupil dilated. Remedy, page 190.
DIABETES. — Symptoms. — The name of a disease in which the urine is exceedingly increased in quantity. The normal amount of urine passed every twenty-four hours is about fifty fluid ounces, while in diabetes the patient will often pass from three to five gallons of pale colored urine within that time, and contains a great portion of sugar. There is great thirst and a voracious appetite, with wasting of the body; and the quantity of the urine far exceeds the food and drink taken in. Young persons are rarely attacked with this disorder. The most frequent subjects of it are those in middle age or in the decline of life, or who have made a free use of wine in their earlier years. It happens to persons of both sexes, and it is not easy to point out any particular constitution that is subject to it, or to say that any other disease is a forerunner of it. Dissection throws little light on the nature of this complaint; but it is now believed to be owing to a distinct lesion of the nervous system. Diabetes comes on insidiously without any previous disorder; it may continue for a long time without much emaciation, and it is commonly the great thirst and voracious appetite that first call attention to the disorder that is goin^ on in the system. Severe headache is also a symptom of some importance. The emaciation is probably connected with increased metamorphosis, as indicated by the increased secretion of urea and phosphates. Sometimes, in the progress of the disease, the stomach is considerably deranged, the skin becomes dry, parched and scaly, and there is a sense of weight and pain in the urinary passages. When the disease has continued long, there is extreme emaciation, debility, and the usual symptom* of hectic fever. Remedy, pages 176, 177, 184, 178-180.
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DIARRHCEA, OR LOOSENESS OP THE BOWELS.— A dis- ease consisting of more frequent and liquid evacuations by stool than usual, with griping and occasional vomiting. It is distinguished from dysentery by the absence of painful and ineffectual straining, and by the stools not consist- ing of blood and mucus.
Causes.— The causes of diarrhoea are many and various. 1. Cold applied to the whole body is not an unfrequent cause, and cold applied to the feet alone, in very many cases, produces diarrhoea. 2. Diseases of other parts of the body give rise to diarrhoea, as happens to infants while teething, and to persons who have a paroxysm of gout. 3. Certain emotions of the mind, par- ticularly fear, are known to cause diarrhoea. 4. Certain articles of food taken into the stomach produce looseness. 5. Certain secretions of the body itself poured into the intestines, cause a laxity of them. In this way, heat is prob- ably a cause of diarrhoea by first stimulating the liver; the increased secretion from which excites that from the small intestines, and looseness is the result.
Looseness sTwuld not be rasMy checked. From the great variety of causes inducing diarrhoea, it must be obvious that it would be impossible to lay down any plan of cure that would apply to all cases, and it is often a matter of doubt whether it should be meddled with at all; thus, when from a surfeit, either in quantity, or from taking improper articles of food, a diarrhoea is produced, a wise physician will consider it as a salutary effort of nature to get rid of what would be noxious if retained; and he will allow it to go on for a time, taking care to watch that it does not come to excess. Remedy, pages 60, 127, 128, 138, 139, 277.
DIPHTHERIA.— The disease begins in the foi-m of a whitish spot on one or both tonsils, unaccompanied at first by fever, and attended with only a trifling degree of uneasiness in swallowing. By and by this spot enlarges; its edges become of a florid color, fever steals on, and the act of swallowing becomes painful. A slough gradually forms, with evident ulceration at its edges; the fever increases, and headache and restlessness supervene. The partial separation of the slough, together with the rosy color of the edges of the ulcer, with the moderate degree of fever for some days, promise a favorable issue. But very unexpectedly, slowness of breathing, without either difficulty or wheezing takes place, with excessive and sudden sinking of the living powers; and it generally happens that within a day from this change the fatal event occurs; the breathing at first falls to eighteen respirations in the minute, then to sixteen, to twelve, and finally to ten or eight. Two other symptoms occa- sionally attend the disease; the one is a most offensive smell of the breath, and the other is the sudden appearance of croup. The disease attacks people of various ages. Remedy, pages 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 107.
DROPSY.— -S'ymp<<w^s.— A disease, of which a very conspicuous symp- tom is the effusion of a watery fluid in certain cavities and cells, where it is not perceptible in the healthy state. Thus water may be accumulated in the ventricles of the brain, in the chest, in the belly, and the cellular texture gen- erally, giving rise to a train of symptoms, different in each particular case, and requiring particular modes of cure. Water effused in the ventricles of the
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brain is commonly the consequence of previous inflammation; and gives rise to a variety of distressing symptoms, which generally prove fatal. Remedy, pages 45, 46, 161.
DYSENTERY, OR BLOODY FLUX.— This is an inflammation of the mucous or lining membrane of tlie large intestine, of which the symptoms are frequent calls to stool, with a scanty discharge of mucus, alone or mixed with blood. The stools are accompanied with copious discharges of wind, they generally exhibit a frothy appearance, and are often attended with a sense of scalding about the anus; the patient, after each evacuation, feels considerably relieved, and hopes, but in vain, to enjoy an interval of ease. Along with this affection of the bowels, there is great dejection of spirits, prostration of strength, thirst, griping pains, and loss of appetite, with fever in very acute cases. The disease varies in its duration; sometimes the patient sinks very rapidly, at other times lingers on for a long period, the slimy stools continuing, and being mixed with purulent and bloody matter from the ulceration of the bowels.
Causes. — It is a disease very common in warm climates, and is to be ascribed to exposure to heat, alternated with cold and moisture, especially in swampy localities, or the banks of rivers. Whatever tends to congestion of the liver, such as intemperance, exposure, etc., in hot climates, will predispose to dysentery, by obstructing the return of the blood from the large intestines to the liver. Sometimes dysentery attacks soldiers epidemically, when they are encamped on marshy ground, with a burning sun over-head, and having hard night duty to perform; and the disease may prevail with such virulence that there is good reason for supposing it infectious under these circumstances. In ordinary cases it is not so. At the same time, every precaution should be taken to promote cleanliness, to remove from the sick every thing putrid and ofEens- ive, and to give as little unnecessary disturbance as possible. Remedy, pages 60, 139, 195, 234.
DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION.— *Symj9to?ns.— These vary very much in different stages of the disease, and in different persons. In general the complaint begins with a sense of fullness, tightness, and weight in the stomach, sooner or later, after meals, and a changeable, diminished, or lost appetite. Occasionally, the appetite is craving, and when, in obedience to its promptings, a large meal is taken, there is pain in the stomach, with general distress and nervousness, and sometimes vomiting. Flatulency and acidity are common, with sour and offensive belching of wind; and very often there is a water-brash, or vomiting of a clear, glairy fluid when the stomach is empty. Dizziness is a prominent symptom. There is a great deal of what patients call an "all-gone" feeling at the pit of the stomach,— a weakness so great at that particular spot that it is very hard to sit up straight. There is a bad taste in the mouth; the tongue is covered with a whitish fur; there is headache, heart- burn, palpitation at times, high-colored urine, and tenderness, now and then, at the pit of the stomach. The bowels are generally irregular, sometimes very costive, at other times loose, when portions of food are passed off undigested.
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no other part of the system is materially involved. This is iTidigestion, welL marked, and distressing enough ; but it is only a part of what is understood by a case of modern dyspepsia. In this, either the indigestion, in its course, dis- turbs and involves the nervous system, or the nerves become themselves dis- ordered, and produce the indigestion. Sometimes one happens, sometimes the other, it matters not which ; both are present, — the affection of the stomach and of the nerves, in a case of thorough dyspepsia. To make out a full .case, in its tormenting completeness, we must add to the above symptoms, great depression of spirits, amounting at times to complete hopelessness and despondency; a dread and fear of some impending evil; a lack of interest in passing events; unwillingness to see company or to move about; an irritable and fretful temper; a desire to talk of one's troubles, and nothing else; a sallow, haggard, sunken, and sometimes wild expression of countenance; a dry, wrinkled, and harsh skin, with unrefreshing sleep, disturbed by all sorts of annoyances and diffi- culties, such as shipwrecks, falls down precipices, and nightmare.
The man who has all these symptoms, or any considerable portion of them, has dyspepsia, and is about as miserable as if all the sorrows of life were electrical currents, and were running through him continually.
Causes. — Accidental fits of indigestion are of frequent occurrence, and arise for the most part from overloading the stomach with food, and indulging freely in wines, spirits, or other intoxicating liquors. Confirmed or chronic indigestion may depend on debility or want of tone of the stomach, or it may be caused by the lining or mucous membrane of this organ being in a state of irritation or chronic inflammation. Drinking large quantities of cold water while eating is a prevalent cause. Over indulgence of the sexual act is a predisposing cause. One of the most frequent causes of indigestion is not masticating the food we eat properly, by which such food is bolted, instead of being reduced to a natural pulp, thereby presenting to the digestive organs a hardened mass, which it has the greatest difficulty to oper- ate upon. Another cause is habitual inattention to diet, both as regards the quality and quantity of food, irregularity in the times of eating, drinking large quantities of warm, relaxing fluids, and using malt liquors too freely. A third cause is insufficient exercise; a fourth cause, impure air; and, beside these, there are numberless other causes, which in a greater or less degree exercise their baneful influence upon this vital and all-important function of our natures. Remedy pages 59, 61, 135, 147, 148, 149.
ECZEMA, OR HUMID TETTER. — This is a cutaneous disease, which is characterized by an eruption of small vesicles on various parts of the skin. These arise principally from some irritation, as from the heat of the sun or air in the summer season and in warm climates, as we see on the back of the hands and on the face; also on the neck and forearms in women. The eruption continues for two or three weeks, and there is not much internal disorder. Little can be done by medicine; much washing and rubbing is hurtful, and ointments and stimulants are to be avoided. Simple washing with tepid water relieves the smarting and tingling. Some persons have an eruption of this kind and even more severe, by the application of acrid substances; thus it occurs sometimes in grocers from handling sugar, and is then called the grocers' itch ;
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and masons and bricklayers may have it from the touching of lime. Similar eruptions are also produced by the irritation of blistering ointment, not only where the blister has been applied, but at some distance from it, and the erup- tion has a number of bard swellings and boils intermixed with it. The irritating cause must be removed, and emollient poultices applied to diminish the heat and uneasiness, and to bring the boils to a suppuration. Even a com- mon bread and milk poultice often or long applied to a place, has sometimes a similar effect. In this case, the poultice must be left off, and simple dressing applied. A course of alteratives and gentle laxatives will do much good, and the diet should generally be good and nourishing. Remedy, pages 97, 227.
EPILEPSY, CONVULSIONS, OR FALLING SICKNESS.— A disease of frequent occurrence, and arising from many various causes, con- sisting of convulsions of more or fewer of the muscles of voluntary motion, accompanied with a loss of sense, and ending in a state resembling deep sleep. Epilepsy suddenly attacks persons seemingly in perfect health; and going off after a certain time, the patients are left in their usual state. In some patients there is a very curious wnrning of the approach of an epileptic fit. From some point on the surface of the body, perhaps one of the fingers or toes, a sensation begins, as of a cold wind, or the creeping of an insect; which appears to pro- ceed to the head, and when it reaches that part, the patient is convulsed. This is called the aura epileptioa. In other cases, the patient fancies he sees a spectre approaching him, and the contact of this figure is the commencement of the convulsions. Whether there be any warning or not, a person thus attacked loses all power of sense and motion, and either falls or is thrown with convul- sions to the ground. In '^hat situation, violent convulsions variously move the limbs and the trunk of the body, and frequently with more violence on one side than the other. In almost all cases, the muscles of the face and eyes are much affected, giving a very distressing and alarming distortion to the counte- nance. The tongue is often affected, and thrust out of the mouth; and by the convulsive action of the muscles which shut the jaw, the tongue is not unfre- quently severely wounded, and has been known to be almost bitten through. During the continuance of the convulsions, as the patient has not the power of swallowing, the spittle issues from the mouth, worked into a frothy state by the action of respiration. Tfiis is always an unseemly appearance, though by itself it is not to be greatly regarded. The convulsions remit for a few minutes, and are then renewed, perhaps with increased violence. In a little time, the con- vulsions cease altogether, and the person is in a state of complete insensibility, which remains for a considerable time. Gradually he recovers his senses, but has no distinct remembrance of what has passed from the first attack of the paroxysm. The pulse and breathing are somewhat irregular and hurried dur- ing the fit, but soon return to their natural state.
Causes.— In this, as in all nervous diseases, the explanation of causes is very diflicult. The opposite causes of over-excitement and of debility are both known to produce epilepsy. Every thing that irritates the brain, or the mental faculties, which we, in our imperfect knowledge, believe to be dependent on
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the actions of the brain, has been known to produce epilepsy; thus an injury done to the skull, the growth of tumors in the internal parts of that cavity, splinters of bone scaling off in consequence of disease, and various alterations- of structure which have been discovered after death in patients afflicted with epilepsy, give us just grounds for reckoning mechanical irritation among the causes of epilepsy.
Remarks — Persons subject to epileptic fits should be very careful to avoid excitement. Remedy, pages 165, 212.
ERYSIPELAS, ROSE, OR ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE.— An inflammation of the skin, often spreading rapidly, and extending to the cellular tissue below the skin. The disease comes on with shivering, thirst, and other feverish symptoms, and soon affects some part of the skin with swelling, and redness of an uncertain extent, on which blisters very commonly rise. It attacks various parts of the body, and very frequently the face. At the begin- ning of the disease, there is confusion of head, and some degree of delirium; and there is not unfrequently considerable drowsiness. About the second or third day, a slight redness appears, which gradually spreads till it has occupied the whole of the face, and from the face it extends to the scalp, and down the neck. The redness does not continue equally bright on all the parts affected, but fades a little on those where it began. The swelling is considerable, and sometimes so great as to disfigure the countenance, and to shut up the eyes. Blisters of various sizes, containing a thin yellowish liquor, rise on several parts of the face. Where blisters do not rise, the skin scales off at the con- clusion of the disease. The fever and inflammation usually continue from eight to ten days. The severity and danger of the disease is to be judged from its effects on the brain. If there is much delirium and drowsiness, it portenda great danger, especially when they appear early in the disease; but the absence of these symptoms is to be accounted favorable. Remedy, pages 58, 175, 176, 183.
FELON.— This is an abscess of the fingers, of which there are three kinds, — the first situated upon the surface of the skin, the second under the skin, the third within the sheath which contains the tendons of the fingers, and sometimes involving the covering of the bone.
The latter form of the disease is the most terrible, and begins with redness, swelling, and a deep-seated and throbbing pain, which gradually becomes so excruciating as to banish all sleep, and nearly drive the patient to distraction. Finally, matter forms and burrows in the deeper parts of the finger, and at length finds an opening which brings relief. Remedy, pages 130, 164.
GALL-STONES.— Concretions which form in the gafl-bladder, and by their obstructing the passage leading from it to the intestines, prevent the bile from getting into them; hence jaundice is frequently produced. These gall- stones, when the obstruction is overcome, get down into the bowels, and are discharged by stool; then the disease abates, provided there is no other cause for it The pain which gall-stones cause during their passage through the gall- duct into the bowels is very intense, and is felt in the region of the liver, some- 8
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times also extending to the right shoulder. The pain Is generally sharp, but it may be dull and aching; it comes on in paroxysms, is relieved by pressure, and is unaccompanied by fever. There is often vomiting of sour mattei, and if the flow of bile is completely obstructed by the stone, jaundice comes on, and the urine becomes very highly-colored. The best way to relieve these symptoms, which often appear very suddenly, is to apply hot bran poultices assiduously, and to give a pill containing a grain of opium and J^ of a grain of tartar emetic, every 3 hours until relief is obtained. If there is much retching or vomiting, the tartar emetic may be omitted. Remedy, page 191.
GANGRENE (Mortification.) — Gangrene is the first stage of morti- fication, so-called from its eating away the flesh. Gangrene may be considered as a partial death — the death of one part of the body while the other parts are alive.
Causes. — The causes are excessive inflammation, sometimes from hurts or injuries.
Symptoms. — All pain and sensation ceases in the part; and, if extensive, it turns from red to purple, livid, or black, with a quick low pulse and clammy sweats. If internal, there is a cessation of pain, but the body sinks and changes to a livid color, and often hiccoughs and other distressing symptoms attend The face is pinched with cold, and the tongue brown. Remedy, page 234.
GOITRE, OR BIG NECK.-%TO;)toms. -A prominent, soft, elastic tum- or, occupying the front of the throat, in the situation of the thyroid gland, and like it in shape. It is not tender, and the skin is not discolored. In old cases, the tumor becomes hard. In some instances the tumor is so large as to push the gullet to one side. Remedy, pages 44, 45.
GONORRHCEA.— See Gleet.
GOUT. — Symptoms. — The symptoms considered as characterizing gout are the following: The patient has a peculiar uneasiness about the stomach; there is a degree of fever; pain and inflammation attack the joints of the hands and feet, and principally the ball of the great toe; the feverish symptoms abate after some days; and at distant and uncertain intervals, the same series of symp- toms again occur. The paroxysms of gout generally come on in spring, when the vernal heal succeeds to the winter's cold; and according as this takes place sooner or later, and according as the patient is exposed to the changes of temperature, so the period of attack will vary. The patient is affected with a degree of languor or heaviness, the functions of the stomach are disturbed; there is loss of appetite, flatulence or indigestion; the bowels are costive, the tongue loaded, and the urine high-colored and turbid. Remedy, page 136.
GLEET, GONORRHOEA. — Symptoms. — A continued running or dis- charge, after the inflammatory symptoms of a clap have ceased. The discharge is commonly thin and clear, and is not accompanied with pain or scalding in making water. It proceeds from relaxation or debility of the parts, and is best cured by some astringent or stimulant application to them; and at the same
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time, the general health is to be promoted by the use of bark, iron, and cold bathing The best local applications are those made of the sulphate of zinc in the proportion of 2 grs to the oz , or 1 gr. of corrosive sublimate to 6 ozs. of water, and they require to be pretfy frequently thrown up. They ought to excite a little pain on first being used. If we do not succeed by astringent injections, we may be obliged to use bougies, either clean, or lightly touched with a little basilicon ointment. Balsam of Copaiba in the dose of 1 dr. 3 or 4 times a-day, or the tincture of cantharides, 10 drops as often, may be given internally, or 'the following combination may be used: Take of citrate of iron and quinine, 1 scruple; tincture of cantharides, 1 dr.; water, 3 ozs. Mix. A dessert-spoonful 3 times a day in a wine-glass of water If we find no benefit from the above recommendation, we judge that the gleet does not arise from mere relaxation of the parts or from habit, but from unhealthy action of the glands in the urinary passage, and we attempt the cure of this by bougies, and by blisters to the per- ineum. If the constitution is scrofulous, the remedies for that disease must be conjoined with our local applications. Another cause of gleet is strictures in the urethra. In such cases our attention is to be directed to the cure of the strict- ures, for which we refer to that article. Sometimes a gleet is complicated with discharges of the seminal fluid; where this occurs in an originally bad consti- tution, which has been weakened by excesses, the sexual powers of the patient are much impaired, and may even be altogether destroyed. Remedy, pages 205, 206, 207, 208, 209.
GRAVEL, OR STONE are the names applied to the diseases which are occasioned by concretions in the urinary passages. Gravel signifies small stones that pass from the kidneys through the urethra into the bladder causing severe pain, hence the disorder induced in such cases is called a^^of gravel. Stone is a calculous concretion in the kidneys or in the urinary bladder, which is too large to pass, or at least without great difficulty. The symptoms to which such concre- tions give rise are of the most painful kind, and occur so frequently, as to become objects of very considerable interest. There are so many different salts contained in the urme, that it does not appear wonderful that occasionally they should fail to be kept in complete solution When this is the case, and when a nucleus is formed, they concrete around it, and by their getting into narrow passages, or pressing upon delicate organs, they occasion the severe symptoms of stone or gravel A Fit of the Gravel is accompanied by a fixed pain in the loins, a numbness of the thigh on the side affected, sickness and vomiting, and sometimes slight diminution of the quantity of urine. Some times the acuteness of the pain occasions faintings and convulsion fits. These violent and painful affections are generally terminated by the passage of small stones through the urethra; and the patient is for the time easy. In those who are much disposed to gravel, these attacks may be expected again, at uncertain intervals.
When there is Stone in the Bladder, the symptoms are. a frequent inclina- tion to make water, which flows in small quantity, and is often interrupted; and there is generally pain at the extremity of the passage, especially as the last drop are expelled, and for some time afterwards. Remedy, page 48.
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HAY-FEVER. — Hay-asthma, and summer bronchitis, is a disease which occurs about the time of the hay harvest, and appears to be caused by the pol len of some wild plants getting into and inflaming the bronchial passages This theory is supported by the fact that those who live in situations where there is little or no vegetation do not suffer from it.
Symptoms. — A difficulty of breathing, and a burning sensation in the throat, are the chief characteristics of this affection. Remedy, page 235,
HEADACHE.— Pain, heaviness, or oppression about the head is a very frequent occurrence, and arises from a great variety of causes. It is symp- tomatic of disorders of the stomach and bowels; and in such cases it ofteu proceeds to a very distressing height. We judge headache to arise from dis- orders of the stomach when the tongue is whitish, and slightly coated, with the edges of a pale red color. The patient has a dimness and indistinctness of sight; he has a dull pain or weight in the head, with some confusion, and he is somewhat giddy. The pulse is languid and feeble, but not very frequent. There is a degree of sickness and irritation about the stomach. There is a coldness and numbness about the fingers; and the patient becomes, what, in common language, is called nervous. This kind of headache commonly occurs in the early stages of digestion. It is best relieved by an emetic, but this is a remedy which should not be employed very often. Remedy, pages 44, 74, 107, 108, 139, 183.
HEARTBURN. — Symptoms. — A disagreeable sensation proceeding from acidity in the stomach, from which there are frequent belchings of sour flatu- lence, or discharges of water with a burning heat at the pit of the stomach. It is a very pertinacious symptom, and is not easily removed; it has its chance of abatement or cure like the other symptoms of indigestion, by air, exercise, and proper diet; but it is also to be palliated by giving such substances as will combine with an acid in the stomach, and form a tasteless and innoxious salt. Remedy, pages 108, 244.
HEART DISEASE.— -^to;>!!otws.— Of all the diseases of the heart the general symptoms are nearly the same. Respiration habitually short and con- strained; palpitations and stiflings invariably produced by the motion of ascent, by rapid walking, by mental emotions, and returning even without known cause; frightful dreams, and interruption of the sleep by sudden startings; occasionally the symptoms described under the name of angina pectoris; and, lastly, a cachectic paleness, with tendency to leucophlegmatic effusion, which eventually appears, are all symptoms which, to a greater or less extent, occur in persons affected with disease of the heart. Remedy, pages 85, 108, 244.
HEMORRHAGE. — Hemorrhage from the lungs may easily be dis- tinguished from that of the stomach, as in the latter case the blood is vomited up, usually in large quantities, of a much darker color and more or less mixed with the contents of the stomach, whereas the blood from the lungs is of a florid color, is thrown up in small quantities, by coughing or hawking, and is more or less mixed with a frothy mucus. If bleeding from the stomach be but slight, a few drops of common table salt and vinegar may be sufficient to suppress it;
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alum water may also be given. If these fall give a strong tea of the beth root. The bugle weed is also good — a strong tea, made from its leaves, to be taken cold during the day. Remedies — Hemorrhage of lungs, pages 48, 50, 188, 189; nose, pages 84, 85, 188, 189; uterus, pages 48, 179, 281.
HERNIA, OR RUPTURE.— Tliis signifies the displacement of any of the internal organs from their natural situation; but it is more commonly applied to that disease which arises from the bowels getting through some of the apertures designed for the transmission of other organs. When the parts of the bowels or omentum which have protruded can be replaced by change of posture or by the hand, the hernia is said to be reducible; when it is not, it is called iiTeducible hernia; and when dangerous or painful symptoms are brought on by its being constricted, it is said to be strangulated.
Ruptures are inconvenient and dangerous in proportion to their bulk, to the place where they occur, and to the stricture or pressure they vmdergo. Remedy, pages 197, 234.
HYDROPHOBIA. — Symptoms. — The symptoms of hydrophobia are the following: The bitten part begins to be painful, then there ensue uneasi- ness, restlessness, heaviness, a desire to be alone, sudden starting, pain, spasms, disturbed sleep, and frightful dreams. These symptoms increase, pains dart from the wounded place to the throat, with a sensation of choking, and dread at the sight of liquids. The person can swallow solids, but anything in a fluid form causes him to start back with horror; and the most painful convulsions are excited by any application of it to his throat or lips. In the course of the disease, vomiting comes on, with great thirst, dryness and roughness of the tongue, hoarseness, and a continual discharge of saliva. This saliva is very thick and viscid, and the constant efforts to get rid of it are very distressing. There is great watchfulness, a dislike of light and air, difficult breathing; in some cases, delirium occurs, but in others the judgment is unimpaired. The pulse becomes tremulous and irregular, convulsions arise, and the patient sinks exhausted, about the third or fourth day from the first appearance of the symptoms. Remedy, page 243.
HYSTERIA, HYSTERICS, OR PITS. — A disease presenting many alarming appearances, though the danger to life is by no means in pro- portion to the violence of the symptoms. It is chiefly conflned to the female sex; and of them it principally attacks the high fed, the luxurious and the idle; also those who are addicted to the use of malt liquor or distilled spirits. It chiefly occurs between the age of 15 and 40; though in those who are peculiarly disposed to it, it may continue beyond the latter period. Hysteria is far more frequent at the monthly period than at other seasons. In those who are sub- jected, to hysteria, it is very readily brought on by emotions of the mind, and especially by any surprise; and by long continuance of the disease, persons are broi'ght to so morbid a state of sensibility, that the slightest noise or external impression agitates and alarms them. Remedy, page 233.
TMPOTENCY. — Impotency means incapacity in the male to perform seJ^'ll intercourse. This may arise from physical or moral causes, some of
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■which are remediable, while others arc not so. The loss of both testicles, or organic disease in them to a great extent, will render a man impotent for life; fear, weakening diseases, excessive drinking and smoking, may again make him temporarily incompetent. A skillful and kind physician should always be consulted where real or fancied incapacity exists, and under no circumstances whatever should advice be sought from advertisers of cordials, balms, restora- tives, etc. Remedy, pages 180-183.
INFANTILE ERYSIPELAS.— See Erysipelas. JAUNDICE. — This is a symptom of a disease, and not a disease, and depends upon the absorption of bile into the system from various causes. It is characterised by a universal yellowness of the skin, and of the white of the eyes; itching of the surface of the body, a white or claylike appearance of the stools; while the uriuetinges linen of a yellow color. The disease is attended by a sense of weariness and languor, a feeling of pain or uneasiness about the pit of the stomach, and there is sometimes a slight difficulty of breathing. There is also sickness, vomiting, sourness of stomach, and various other symptoms of indigestiouc There is sometimes an acute pain on the right side, below the margins of the ribs. There is not, in general, much fever. It is a vulgar error to believe that patients in jaundice see objects of a yellow color. Remedy, pages 161, 201, 202, 203.
KIDNEYS, INFLAMMATION OF,— Symptoms.— A. weakness in the small of the back, and a dull, heavy pain in the kidneys. The urine is passed often, and in small quantities. It is alkaline, — sometimes white and milky, — and has in it deposits of phosphate of lime, and triple phosphates. Remedy, page 252.
LIVER, INFLAMMATION O'F. —Symptoms.-ThesQ are sympathetic fever, with pain, and a sense of tension in the right side, inability to lie on the left side, difficulty of breathing, a dry cough, vomiting, and hiccough.
The pain is acute and lancinating generally, though sometimes dull and tensive. When sharp, it is like the stitch of pleurisy, and it indicates that the peritoneum which covers the liver is inflamed. When dull, it is the body of the organ which is suffering. When the convex surface of the liver is the seat of the disease, the pam is apt to run up to the right collar-bone, and to the top of the right shoulder. Breathing, coughing, and lying on the left side, increase the pain. A soreness is felt by pressing over the liver. The pulse is full, hard, and strong, the bowels are costive, and the stools are clay colored, owing to not being tinged with bile, — this having stopped flowing. The tongue is covered with a yellow, dark brown, or even black coat, and there is a bitter taste in the mouth Remedy, page 245.
LUNGS, INFLAMMATION OF.— When the substance of the lung itself is inflamed, the disease is termed pneumonia; and the word pleurisy or pleuritis is restricted to inflammation of the pleura, i. e., the membrane which envelopes the lungs, and lines the inner surface of the ribs. Sometimes both parts are affected, and then the term pleuro-pneumonia is used. For all prac- tical purposes, the inflammation of these various parts may be included under one common name.
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Symptoms. — The disease comes on with coldness and shivering, and other symptoms of beginning fever, then the heat of the body is increased, the pulse becomes more frequent, full, and strong, and there is v^ery marked difficulty of breathing, especially when the patient attempts to draw in a full breath. The pain is generally greater when the patient lies on the side affected, but some- times the contrary is the case. The pain is felt most commonly on one side, and some have supposed that the left side is more frequently attacked than the right, but this does not appear to be correct. Sometimes the pain is felt at the lower part of the breast, sometimes in the back, between the shoulders; the pain is commonly fixed in one spot, but sometimes shoots from the side to the shoulder, back, or breast, and such shooting pains are called in common lan- guage stitches. The disease is always accompanied by cough; and this cough, m every case, is attended with very considerable pain at the beginning of the disease, it is dry, but soon becomes somewhat moist, and the matter spit up is streaked with a little blood. 'Remedy, pages 249, 250.
MEASLES. — See Symptoms, pages 219, 220; Remedy, pages 220, 221, 222. Malignant Measles, page 221.
MUMPS. — See Symptoms, page 223 ; Remedy, page 223.
NEURALGIA. — (Neuralgia, nervous headache sometimes called), means pain in a nerve, and is generally of an excruciating, darting kind, but without any heat or swelling in the part. Neuralgic pains affect various parts of the body, but are most common in the head. Remedy, pages 73, 74, 75, 76.
PAINTERS' COLIC.-See page 230.
PALSY. — PARALYSIS. — Symptoms.— Sometimes there are no pre. monitory symptoms; but often before the attack there are flushed face, swelling of the veins about the head and neck, vertigo, a sense of fullness, weight, and sometimes pain in the head, ringing in the ears, drowsiness, indistinct articula- tion of words, or even loss of speech, confusion of mind, loss of memory, and change of disposition, — amiable persons being made sullen and peevish, and irritable ones mild and simpering. After the attack the countenance acquires a vague expression; the mouth is drawn to one side; the lower lip on the palsied side hangs down, and the spittle dribbles away. The speech is altered, and the mind is generally impaired.
In some instances the patient recovers in a longer or shorter time; in others little or no improvement takes place, and the patient, after remaining helpless, often for a long time, dies either from gradual exhaustion, or suddenly from apoplexy. Remedy, pages 130, 239.
PILES.— Painful tumors in the neighborhood of the anus. Sometimes they are situated externally, and are found in clusters, hard, painful, and giving great inconvenience by their preventing the person from sitting; at other times they are within the gut, and are forced outwards with great pain when the patient goes to stool. Sometimes they are situated so far up, that they du not appear externally at all, but indicate their presence by very great pain, or by the discharge of blood. Sometimes the pain attending piles is less, and the
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principal inconvenience attending them is the discharge of blood, either pretty constant, or when a person goes to stool. In some cases very large quantities of blood are lost in this way. Sometimes, instead of blood, a whitish fluid is discharged.
Causes. — Few persons who have attained middle age are totally free from piles, but in some they are more troublesome, and require more attention than in others. Those who are frequently in a standing posture, who are subject to costiveness, and those who are much in the habit of taking purgative medi- cines, especially of aloes, are very liable to have piles. Pregnant women are very often troubled with piles. Whatever tends to prevent the blood from cir- culating freely through the veins of the intestines will produce piles; hence affections of the liver are a common cause of the complaint, especially in hot countries where that organ is apt to be congested. Remedy, pages 141, 161, 185, 186, 187, 188.
PLEURISY. — 5^OTpto?ns.— This disease is most frequently Introduced by sMverings, which are soon succeeded by high fever, with a peculiarly hard, resisting pulse; sharp, stabbing ■^aXxi in the side, — generally just below the nipple, but sometimes extending to the shoulder, arm-pit, and back; hurried and inter- rupted breathing; and a short, dry cough
The pain is greatly aggravated by motion, coughing, or an attempt to take a long breath. It holds the patient under constant and powerful restraint. We find him lying upon his back, or his well side; his countenance full of anxiety, — fearing to move, cough, or even breathe needlessly; and often crying out from the keen torture these necessary acts inflict in spite of all his cautioa
At a more advanced stage, when the tenderness has somewhat abated, he will prefer to lie on the diseased side, as this leaves the healthy lung more at liberty. Remedy, page 191.
POISONING ACCIDENTS.— Accidents from poisons are of such common occurrence, that every person should know the proper remedies, and not be obliged to wait the arrival of a physician before the proper corrective is applied. The symptoms are different in different poisons, but as prompt action and not symptoms, are necessary, we give the most common remedies, with the methods of applying them, under the proper heads. Remedy, pages 47, 62, 93, 94, 216.
QUINSY.— INFLAMMATION OP THE THROAT.— This kind of inflammatory sore throat generally commences with cold chills, and other febrile symptoms. There is fullness, heat, and dryness of the throat, with a hoarse voice, difficulty of swallowing, and shooting pains towards the ear. When examined, the throat is found to be of a florid red color, deeper over the tonsils, which are swollen and covered with mucus. As the disease progresses the tonsils become more and more swollen, the swallowing becomes more pain- ful and difficult, until liquids return through the nose, and the viscid saliva is discharged from the mouth. Very commonly the fever increases also, and there is acute pain of the back and limbs.
Causes.- Exposure to cold, wearing damp clothes, sitting in wet rooms, getting wet feet, coming suddenly out of a crowded and heated room into the
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open and cold air. It may also be brought on by violent exertion of the voice, and by suppressed evacuations. Remedy, pages 99, 154.
RHEUMATISM. — Symptoms. — A painful affection of fibrous and mus- cular tissues, affecting principally the larger joints, and places covered by muscles; thus it affects the wrists, the elbows, the knees and hip- joint, and the back and loins. The internal parts also, as the heart and diaphragm, are con- sidered to be capable of being affected by rheumatism. When the joints about the back and loins are affected, the complaint is called lumbago; when the pain is in the hip joint, it is called sciatica; and pleurodyne, or pain in the side, when the muscles of the chest are affected. Rheumatism may occur either with fever or without it; in the first case it ia termed acute, and in the second chronic rheumatism.
Not long after the application of the exciting cause, the patient feels pain and stiffness in one or more joints when he attempts to move them; this quickly increases, till motion becomes almost impossible, from the excessive pain attending it. Along with this local, and often very general j)ain, there occurs very strong fever, much thirst,heat, and dryness of skin, strength, fullness, and hardness of pulse. The tongue has a white coating, but is red at the tip and the sides, and there is often profuse perspiration with a very sour smell. The appetite is deficient, but the bowels are often in their natural condition. The feverish symptoms are somewhat increased towards evening; and when the patient gets warm in bed, the pains are more severe. In a short time some of the joints swell, and the pain is a little relieved, but by no means removed. The pain is apt to shift from one joint to another, or at least several joints in suc- cession are attacked; and when the pain seemed to be going off, it sometimes unexpectedly recurs.
Causes. — Rheumatism is a disease of the constitution, and depends on a morbid state of the blood, or, to speak morcaccurately, it is caused by a poison which circulates in the blood, and is probably carried from one joint to another. The tendency to rheumatism is hereditary, and in some families this predis- position is very marked, and the disease is excited by the most trifling causes. Cold and damp are the most common causes of this disease, and hence the poor suffer much from it. Thus, too, it is not an unf requent disease with sportsmen, who, when hot au J perspiring, are too apt to throw themselves down on the wet • grass ; and with travellers who sleep in damp and ill-dried sheets. Persons who get their clothes wet, and neglect to.change them, are often seized with rheumatism. Acute rheumatism is most common between the ages of fifteen and forty. It is not a dangerous disease as long as it is confined to the joints, but there is always the risk of the heart being attacked ; a most dangerous complication, and most to be dreaded when the disease has long existed, and when there is a strong hereditary predisposition to it. Remedy, pages 33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 141.
RICKETS. — Symptoms. — This disease is an affection peculiar to child- hood, and supposed to depend upon the action of the causes which favor the development of scrofula. The signs of rickets are, a softened gristly state of the bones, large joints, large head, prominent forehead, straightness of the ribs
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and flatness of the sides of the chest, prominent breast bone, looseness of text- ure in the bones, crooked legs and distorted spine; many other symptoms of scrofula are sometimes also present. This, lilie scrofula, disposes the system to other diseases; the treatment of rickets is nearly the same as that of scrofula, (which you will find in its proper place in another part of this work,) — rickets, however, is a more curable disease, and less apt to continue after adult age. Remedy, page 192.
BINGWORM OR TETTER.— ^S's^mpiJoms.— This disease consists of minute water blisters, arranged somewhat in rings; it begins with slight redness — small blisters form and are attended with a colorless fluid— these break in four or five days, and are covered with a thin brownish scab, which falls off about the eighth or ninth day, leaving a red surface, which gradually disappears. The eruption seldom lasts more than ten days, but it sometimes appears a second time, and continues for several weeks; it is always attended with itching smarting, and burning. It often appears on the face, neck and arms of children — and may be communicated by contact. Remedy, pages 163, 229.
RUPTURE. — Symptoms (when it is reducible and not strangulated, A swelling in some part of the belly; this diminishes a little on pressure, but returns when the pressure is withdrawn; it goes off when the patient lies down, and is increased by coughing. Patients with rupture are sometimes troubled with indigestion ; but frequently, all the functions of the alimentary canal are quite regular. When we succeed in getting up the bowels, there is commonly what is called a guggling noise.
Causes. — There are some persons in whom rupture takes place more easily than in others, and in whom it is constant. The reason seems to be, that ihe parietes of the abdomen, or the neighborhood of the openings in it, are more lax and yielding in them than in others. It is common in warm climates, in old people after long illnesses or debilitating fevers, and in the poor who have labored hard and been ill fed. The circumstance which immediately occasions ruptures, is generally some violent exertion, requiring a strong action of many muscles, especially those of respiration; hence ruptures are brought on by lifting or carrying heavy weights, jumping, running, vomiting, straining at stool, the efforts of women in childbed; or by coughing, sneezing, crying, laughing. Remedy, pages 197, 234,
SALT RHEUM.— See Eczema.
SCARLET PEVER.—SCARLATHTA.— *S^m?)<OTns.— Either mild, or malignant with putrid sore throat, exhibits different forms of a disease which is propagated by a specific contagion, like small-pox or measles, and like them is believed by the best observers to attack a person only once during life; though the apparent exceptions to this remark are more numerous in scarlet fever, than in the other diseases above mentioned. On the third or fourth day after expos- ure to the contagion of scarlet fever, a feverish attack occurs, and about the second day of this fever, a bright scarlet rash appears on the surface of the body, and within the mouth and about the fauces. The scarlet fever varies much in its degree of malignity and danger, even during the same epidemic; la
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some cases being so slight as to go off without the aid of medicine; in others; being accompanied with symptoms of great and fatal putrescency. It will be proper to notice separately, the mild and fatal scarlet fever, and to describe some cases, in which the symptoms are irregularly combined, it being always remembered that "the malignant sore-throat maybe caught from a patient who has mild scarlet fever; and mild scarlet fever may, in like manner be contracted from one who is laboring under malignant sore-throat. These forms graduate insensibly towards each other " Remedy pages 52, 64, 256, 257, 258.
Mild Scarlet Fever. — The milder form of scarlet fever is distinguished by the rash, with a moderate degree of fever, and with very little affection of the throat. The rash first appears in innumerable red points about the neck and face, and by the next day they are seen over the whole surface of the body. The skin is rough to the touch, and sometimes there are small vesicles. About the fourth day the eruption is at its height, and on the fifth it begins to decline. The surface of the mouth and fauces appears red, and little red points appear on the tongue rising up through the white crust which covers it, and when this crust comes off, the whole is red and sore, and the points are still prominent, giving an appearance like a strawberry. There is sometimes considerable sweUing of the face and of the throat. Remedy, same as above.
SCRO'F'UliA.—St/mptoms.—Scroiala. and King's Evil, are names for a tedious and multiform disease, of which one of the most characteristic marks is a tendency to a swelling of glandular parts, which, when they come on to inflammation and suppuration, discharge an unhealthy, curdy, mixed matter, and form ulcers very difficult to heal. Remedy, pages 141, 142.
SHINGLES. — Symptoms. — A disease characterized by a number ®f vesi- cles, most commonly round the waist, like half a sash; but sometimes like a sword-belt across the shoulder. It very rarely surrounds the body completely; hence, a popular, but groundless apprehension, that if the disease goes round, it will be fatal. The disease is usually preceded, for two or three days, by languor and loss of appetite, rigors, headache, sickness, and a frequent pulse; with a heat and tingling in the skin, and shooting pains through the chest, and at the pit of the stomach. After these symptoms, more or less severe, there appear, on some part of the trunk, red patches of an irregular form, at a little distance from each other; upon each of which numerous small elevations appear, clustered together. In the course of twenty-four hours, they enlarge to the size of small pearls, and are filled with a limpid fluid. The clusters are surrounded by a narrow red margin. During three or four days, other clusters continue to rise in succession, and with considerable regularity. About the fourth day, the vesicles acquire a milky or yellowish hue, which is soon fol- lowed by a bluish or livid color of the bases of the vesicles, and of the con- tained fluid. Several of them run together; and those which are broken dis- charge a small quantity of a serous fluid for three or four days; this concretes into thin dark scabs, which soon become hard, and fall off about the twelfth or fourteenth day. Where there has been considerable discharge, numerous pits are left. The feverish symptoms commonly subside when the eruption ia
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completed; but sometimes continue much longer, probably from the itching and smarting of the vesicles. Though resembling some other eruptive diseases in its rise and decline, it is not contagious, and persons may have it more than once The disease, in general, is slight and free from danger. Kemkdy, page 192.
SMALL-POX. — Symptoms.— H^Q patient is seized with coldness and shiverings, which soon abate, and are then followed by a hot stage, lasting for two or three days; during which, children are liable to sickness and vomiting, to starting in their sleep, or to epileptic fits; and adults are disposed to sweating. Towards the end of the third day, the eruption appears, and increases during the fourth day. It commonly appears first on the face, then on the lower parts, and is completed over the whole body on the fifth day. The fever generally abates about the coming out of the eruption; the sickness, vomiting, fits, and other oppressive symptoms go off; and the patient is, for the time, free from uneasiness. The eruption appears in small red spots, hardly rising above the skin, but which by degrees form pimples. On the fifth or sixth day a small vesicle, containing a colorless fluid, appears on top of each pimple These get broader on the seventh day; and about the eighth are raised into round pustules. These pustules are surrounded with a circular inflamed border; and as they increase in size, about the eighth day the face is considerably swelled, and the eye-lids are sometimes completely closed. The matter in the pustules now becomes thick and white, or yellowish, exactly resembling the matter of an abscess On the 11th day the swelling of the face subsides, and the pustules appear quite full. Remedy, pages 64, 68, 70, 71, 72.
STOMACH, INFLAMMATION OF —Symptom^.— ThQ symptoms of inflammation of the stomach are, acute pain, heat, and tension in the region of that organ, great increase of pain when anything is swallowed, vomiting, great and sudden depression of strength, a small pulse, thirst, restlessness and anxiety. Remedt. page. 251.
ST. VITUS' TiAlSCE.— Symptoms.— IhXs, disease is chiefly confined to children and youth between the ages of eight and fourteen. But few cases occur after puberty. The complaint affects both the muscles and the limbs. It excites curious antics. A few of the muscles of the face or limb*' begin their mischievous pranks by slight twitches, which, by degrees, become more energetic, and spread to other parts. The face is twisted into all kinds of ridiculous contortions, as if the patient were making mouths at some- body. The hands and arms do not remain in one position for a moment. In attempting to carry food to the mouth, the hand gets part way, and is jerked back, starts again, and darts to one side, then to the other, then mouthwarc* again; and each movement is so quick, and nervous and darting, and diddling, that ten to one the food drops into the lap. If the attempt be made to run out the tongue, it ia snatched back with the quickness of a serpent's, and the jaws snap together like a fly trap. The lower limbs are in a state of perpetual did- dle; the feet shuflie with wonderful diligence upon the floor, as if inspired witb a ceaseless desire to dauce. Remedy, page 130.
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STTN STROKE. — Symptoms. — This begins by thirst, dizziness, headache and sometimes there is vomiting or difficult breathing. The symptoms, in fact are pretty much the same as apoplexy; the patient should at once be taken into a cool shady place, and the first thing have a bucket of cold water poured slowly over his head, and, in all respects treat the case the same as a case of apoplexy. Remedy, page 131.
SYPHILIS. — Symptoms. — This disease is owing to a poisonous matter introduced into the system by absorption, thus producing more poisonous matter which in time corrupts all the fluids, and occasions many disorders in various parts of the body, and is generally the consequence of impure sexual inter- course. Remedy, page 204.
THRUSH. — Symptoms: — Comes on in the mouth, may extend down the throat, never attacks the nose or lungs, child becomes fretful, mouth and throat red, inflamed and tender, vomiting and diarrhcea. The thrush consists of white points at first, which soon run together and become patches, they are slightly elevated, and look like white mould, or curdled milk, after the disease has run on for a short time the patches have a yellowish color, it comes on in young children and is very dangerous unless properly treated. If the previous health of the child is good the case should be cured in three to six days. Remedy, pages 228, 296.
TONSILITES— INFLAMMATION OP THE TONSILS. -
Symptoms. — There is more or less thickness of speech, caused by enlarged tonsils and liability to sore throat, or quinsy. The only symptoms are inflamed and enlarged tonsils. Remedy, pages 53, 140.
TUMORS — SWELLINGrS. — Are of various kinds, either of the whole body, or of particular members, or local and circumscribed. Watery swellings of the whole body are seen in general dropsy; and the same disease in its commencement occasions partial swellings, as of the lower extremities, or of the arms or face, according to the position of the body. Circumscribed swellings occur in various glands, as those of the neck, arm pit, or groins, chiefly in scrofulous constitutions; or they may arise from inflammation, the consequence of cold. The tonsils swell in sore throat, and occasion a fullness of the external parts of the throat; gum-boils form during toothache, and swell the cheeks; and the bronchocele, or goitre, is an instance of a still more permanent swelling. The face, head, and limbs often swell exceedingly from various causes.
Wen is the common popular name for an excrescence or tumor growing on any part of the body, and frequently applied to tumors about the throat and neck. Tumors are distinguished by surgeons according to the nature of their contents; and they require treatment varied according to circumstances. Remedy, pages 33, 96, 140, 210, 270, 296.
TYPHOID, OR TYPHUS.— /%mp<<?TOs.— The disease often has cau- tionary symptoms. For several days before its actual beginning, the patient droops. He may attend to his various duties, but does not seem well; he is low-spirited and languid ; Is indisposed to any exertion of body or mind , has
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pains in the head, back and extremities; loses his appetite; and although dull and perhaps drowsy in the day time, his sleep is interrupted and unrefreshing at night. The immediate harbinger of the fever is a chill often so marked as to cause violent shivering.
The history of the first week shows increased heat of the surface; frequent pulse, ranging from eighty to one hundred and twenty; furred tongue; rest- lessness and sleeplessness; headache and pain in the back; sometimes diarrhoea and swelling of the belly; and sometimes nausea and vomiting.
The second week is frequently distinguished by an eruption of small, rose- colored spots upon the belly, and by a crop of little watery pimples upon the neck and chest, having an appearance of minute drops of sweat standing on the skin, and hence called sudamina, or sweat drops; the tongue is dry and black, or red and sore; the teeth are foul; there may be delirium and dullness of hear- ing; and the symptoms generally are more serious than during the first week. Occasionally, at this period, the bowels are perforated or ate through by ulcer- ation, and the patient suddenly sinks.
If the disease proceeds unfavorably into the third week, there is low mut- tering and delirium; great exhaustion; sliding down of the patient towards the foot of the bed; twitching of the muscles; bleeding from the bowels; and red or purple spots upon the skin.
If, on the other hand, recovery takes place, the countenance brightens; the pulse moderates; the tongue cleans, and the discharges assume the appearance they have in health. Remedy, pages 61, 62, 63,64, 65, 66, 67, 193.
TYPHOID PNEUMONIA, OR TYPHOID LUNG- FEVER.
— This is an inflammation of the lungs, differing from the preceding only in the character of the fever attending it, which is of a low typhoid character. The disease, like typhoid fever, is characterized by great debility and prostration. There are a combination of the symptoms of pneumonia and of typhoid fever. The disease begins with great weariness, lassitude, dizziness, pain in the head^ back, and limbs. Soon there is much difficulty of breathing, tightness across the chest, with a dry, short, liacking cough.
As the disease advances, the active symptoms pass away; there is a dull pain across the chest; drowsiness is very apt to come on, with the various symptoms of sinking peculiar to typhoid fever. The skin is harsh and dry, the temperature uneven, the tip and edge of the tongue red, and the middle covered with a yellow or browu fur. The bowels are tender, swollen, and drum-head-like; while there is often a diarrhoea, — ^the discharges havinga dirty- yellow color. Remedy, page 193.
ULCER — FEVER SORE.— When the nutrition entirely ceases in any I)ortion of the body, the absorbents devour all the skin, flesh and vessels of the part— leaving an open cavity, the process of taking away the flesh, &c., is idceration; the cavity left is an ulcer. Remedy, pages 99, 101, 236, 237, 238.
VARICOSE, ENLARGED OR KNOTTED VEINS.— In differ ent parts, especially of the lower extremities, tliere are sometimes seen a num- ber of unequal knotty swellmgs, of a deep blue color, occasioned by portions
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of the veins being dilated. The cause of these swellings is the obstruction to the free passage of the blood through the veins; hence tumors in the groin may cause varicose veins of the legs; and the appearance of such veins is frequent in pregnant women, from the enlarged uterus and its contents pressing on the large trunks of the veins. Sometimes the complaint arises from general debility, and from a sedentary life. When the distention is great, there is con- siderable pain; and the veins may be eroded, and cause a great discharge of blood; or troublesome and obstinate ulcers may be produced. The pain and inconvenience of varicose veins are not great at first, and hence they are too often neglected till they become very difiicult to cure.
The varicose veins of pregnant women go off when they are delivered, and require very little treatment, except attention to posture. In other cases a moderate pressure by bandages is requisite. An elastic stocking makes a good and equal pressure. Remedy, pages 235, 279.
WATER-BRASH. — Symptoms. — This disease signifies the discharge of a thin watery fluid from the stomach, with belchings, and a sense of heat at the region of the stomach. It is not unfrequently one of the symptoms attending indigestion or stomach complaints, but it sometimes occurs as an original disease. It comes on in paroxysms, usually when the stomach is empty. The patient per- ceives a pain at the pit of the stomach, with a sense of tightness, and is increased by the erect posture. When the pain has continued for some time, it is succeeded by belchings, and the discharge of a thin watery fluid, sometimes acid, but gener- ally tasteless. The belchings are repeated for a time, and then the fit goes off. When the disease has once happened, it is apt to recur frequently for a long time afterwards. It is most incident to persons of middle age; and to females, sometimes during pregnancy, sometimes when they are afflicted with the whites. It is not always connected with any particular diet; but is excited often by cold applied to the feet, and by emotions of the mind. Remedy, page 229.
WHOOPING, OR HOOPING COTJQc'H..— Symptoms.— K catching or contagious disease, generally caught in childhood, between the ages of one and two years; has three stages: first stage, sneezing, cough and mild bron- chitis, eyes slightly red, no spittle; this stage may last from three days to six weeks. The second stage then sets in, child feels a tickling in throat, which brings on a spasm of coughing, with tight feeling across the chest; child will put its head on its mother's knees or take hold of some fixed thing to help it during the coughing; pulse and breathing during the spasm are slightly faster; the sound during the spasm of coughing is called the "hoop" or "whoop." The face becomes flushed during this period; as soon as the coughing is over the child's face, pulse and breathing become natural again; the child will spit out a little frothy mucus; anger, fright, or exertion will bring on the cough. This stage lasts until the thirty-fifth day of the disease, when the third stage sets in. Spittle turns yellow and is thicker, cough becomes less and is neither so frequent nor severe. Rem:edy, pages 125, 126.
WORMS. — Symptoms. — When a child is afliicted with round worms, the face will become flushed and then pale, at irregular intervals; color leaden or
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bluish, lower eyelids swollen, and blue circle around them; thirst, sick stomach, vomiting, appetite variable, breath foul, tongue red and covered with points, pulse fast and irregular, may have spasms, twitching of muscles, disturbed sleep, nightmare, headache, eyes dilated, cross eye, colic, grinding teeth in sleep, generally diarrhoea. The symptoms of thread worm are not so pro- nounced; there is less fever, colic and nervous symptoms; the itching of the rectum is the most marked and prominent symptoms; the thread worm does not kill the patient, the round worm may. Never give worm medicine till the child has passed worms, and you have seen them. Remedy, pages 134> 143, 144, 145, 146, 147.
Remarks. — There are 21 kinds of worms. We shall take up two only, as they are the ones usually found. The first, or round worm, is reddish or reddish-yellow in color, tapers at both ends, and looks like the common earth or "angle" worm; they are prone to move from one place to another in the intestines, and may be found in the stomach. Each female worm lays about 60 million eggs. The thread, maw, or pin worm is white, and looks like a piece of white sewing thread; they are found in the large intestine and the rectum, where they create intolerable itching. Tape worms inhabit the small intestines, and will not be treated of more fully, as no one should try to doctor themselves for their removal, but should go at once to their physician.
YELLOW FEVER.— A dangerous fever, of the remittent and typhoid kind, common in the West Indies and America; and, with some little variety, occurring, too, often in Spain and Gibraltar. The yellow fever, like many others, attacks with lassitude and chilly fits, faintness, giddiness, and flushing of the face, thirst, pain in the eye-balls or forehead, pain in the back, scanty and high-colored turbid urine; irregular and diminished perspiration; the tongue is covered with a dark fur; the bile is secreted in unusual quantity, and being forced up into the stomach, is vomited; the skin is hot and dry. As the disease advances, the eyes become of a deep yellow, and the face and breast are of the same color; there is an incessant vomiting of frothy bile; great costiveness prevails, and delirium comes on. The fever sometimes remits so much about the end of thirty-six hours, that the patient thinks himself com- paratively well; but the symptoms soon return with great aggravation, and extreme debility. In the last stage of the disease the debility is very great, and symptoms of universal putrescency occur; large livid patches are observed, the tongue becomes dry and black, the teeth are incrusted with dark fur, the body exhibits a livid yellow, blood flows from the mouth, ears, and nostrils, dark and fetid stools are discharged, hiccoughs come on. the pulse sinks, and death soon follows. The order and severity of the symptoms vary in different cases; some are seized very suddenly, and fall down insensible; others, for a few days, have the warning signs of costiveness, defect of appetite, pain in the head, yellowness of the eyes, hoarseness and sore throat, lowness of spirits. In the great majority of cases there are evident remissions or intermissions. All kinds of persons are affected by it, but those principally who are in the prime of life; men more frequently than women. People of color have the disease milder than others. Remedy^ page 224.
INTERNAL LOCATION OF THE ORGANS.
a. External Jug- ular Vein.
i. Deltoid Mus- cle.
c. Pectoral Mus-
cle— Suralus Magnus.
d. Latissunus
Muscl e, or Diaphragm.
e. Transversalis
Muscle.
/. Crest of Ilium
e. Sartorius Mus-
* cle.
/;. ThyroidGland
i. Trachea, o r Wind-pipe.
k. Right Ventri- cle of Heart.
/. Right Auricle of Heart.
tit. Left Auricle.
/(.Outline of Per- icardium, oi* Sac of Heart.
e. Left Lune-
/. Right Lung.
g.
r. Cardiac Orifice of Stomach.
J. Kidneys.
t. Uretus.
u. Bladder.
y. First Ribs.
z, SubclavianAi. tery, (right and leftO
1. Apex of Heart.
2. Lumbar Glands :! Left Ventricle
of Heart. 4. Coronary Ar- teries, ■r. Superior Vena ■" Cava. (Vein.) G. Arch of Aorta. 7. Left Pulmona- ry Artery. Right — Vena Cava, or la- nomenata. r. Left — Vena ^ Cava, or In- nomenata.
10. Subtlavian Vein.
11. Interna! Jug- ular Vein.
12. Left Common CartoidArtery.
13. Brachial Ar- tery.
14. Pulmonary Veins.
15. Descending Aorta.
16. Infer. or Vena Cava.
17. Renal Vein.
18. Right— Com- mon IliacVein.
19. Left.Common Iliac Artery.
20. Femoral Ar- tery and Vein.
21. Hepatic Veina
Ds^EiDiO-A-Xi i?,eci:pes.
SWELLINGS TO BEDUCE — Liniment for. — Rum, spirits of camphor and laudanum, each 1 oz. ; mix, shake well and keep corked. Direc- tions— Heat the mixture hot (when using) and bathe the swelling thoroughly, at least 3 times daily, by pouring into the hand and thorough rubbing in. For a pin-scratch, or small pimple, a finger application will be suflBcient.
Remark. — This is claimed to reduce the worst swelling in a short time.
RHEUMATISM, SPINAL AFFECTIONS, CANCERS, ETC.
1. Dr. White's Remedy, or Liniment for. — Strongest alcohol and spirits of turpentine, each 1 pt. ; camphor gum and saltpeter, each 1 oz : beef's brine, 2 qts. Dissolve the camphor gum and saltpeter in the alcohol; then add the turpentine. Scald and skim the beef's brine, and when cold, add it. To be shaken when used.
Remarks. — Dr. "White, from whom this receipt was obtained, used it ex- tensively, and with success, in weak backs and all other spinal affections, rheumatism, etc., and also claimed to have cured several cancers with it. I have no doubt of its value for general purposes, nor have I a doubt that, if taken or commenced early in the appearance of a cancerous growth, it may scatter it, and with an occasional active cathartic and the continued use of a good altera- tive, they may be cured.
2. Kerosene, J^ pt., and camphor-gum, 1 oz., cured a friend of mine, with whom I was acquainted for forty years; his fingers and hands were set nearly shut. Bathing his hands 3 or 4 times daily for 3 or 4 days made decided im- provements, and finally cured them.
CANCER— SUCCESSFUL REMEDIES.— Persons suffering with cancers may expect to find the following beneficial:
1. Take a qt. bowl and fill half to two- thirds full of green sheep sorrel, then fill with water; let it stand one hour, then mash to get the strength; to be drank daily. Use dry sorrel same as green, only steep in hot water.
For the Sore. — Use a poultice, made by soaking the sorrel in warm water till soft; change often.
To Make the Salve. — Take a porcelain kettle holding a gallon; fill two- thirds full of the sorrel; then fill with water, and boil down to a strong ooze; take out the sorrel (pressing or straining, if necessary), and put in freshly made unsalted butter or lard; then let it simmer over a slow fire — do not burn it — and put in a lump of rosin the size of a hen's egg; when the water is simmered out, drain out the salve. Salve prepared in this way, will cure scrofula as well as cancers. I know whereof I aflSrm, as I have seen it tried successfully. It takes 3 83
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perseverance, however, as it is in tlie blood; better that, than to be eaten up with either cancer or scrofula.
2. Take equal parts of sweet fern and the bark off the north side of a black ash tree; burn both to ashes; leach and boil down thick; put a piece of sheet-lead upon the cancer, with a hole in it as large as the cancer, wet lint in the mixture ; put on and place another piece of sheet-lead over that. Let it remain till it ceases to pain, when the cancer will be dead ; then make a plas- ter of the white of an egg and white pine pitch; put on and cover w Ith a warm Indian meal poultice; keep on till it comes out. In the case of the man from whom this receipt was obtained, the cancer came out in nine days. The poultice must be renewed when cold.
Remarks. — The idea of the piece of sheet-lead, with a hole in it the size of cancer, is to protect the sound flesh or skin from contact with the cancer salve. The sorrel water, as in No. 1, or some other good alterative, should be taken a reasonable length of time, in the treatment of any cancer, for the purpose of purifying the blood.
3. Cancer — A New Remedy wMch Carbonizes tlie Cancer- ous Tumor with but Little or No Pain, and Not Poisonous. — Directions — Apply to the surface of the sore the chloride of chromium (a new salt of this rare metal), incorporated into stramonium ointment. This prepara- tion, in a few hours, converts the tumor into perfect carbon, and it crumples away. Specimens of cancers thus carbonized were inspected by a number of physicians at a recent meeting held at the N. Y. Medical University, where a paper was read on this new method of treating cancer, which had the appear- ance of charcoal, and were easily pulverized between the fingers. The remedy causes little or no pain, and is not poisonous.
Remarks. — In small places where this chloride-chromium is not obtainable, call in the assistance of a physician, and he will know where to get it; and as nothing is said as to how much of the chloride of chromium should be used, I would use 1 dr. to 1 oz. of the stramonium ointment, unless it was found by inquiry, when obtaining it, to need more or less — watch results. Poultic- ing, to remove the tumor, after it is carbonized, would be the proper way to do, then use any of the best healing salve.
4. Cancer— Esmarch's or Oerman Treatment.— I. Fowlei's solution, 1 drop, 3 times daily, for three days, then increase the dose 1 drop every three days, till intolerance of the remedy follows. Apply the following locally, i. e., upon the open sore:
//. Powder to Sprinkle Upon the Open Sore. — Arsenious acid and muriate of morphia, of each 1 gr. ; calomel, 1 dr. ; powdered gum arable. % oz. ; mix. A^, first sprinkle only a little powder upon the open sore, gradually increasing the quantity to 1 teaspoonful. This overcomes the odor, and causes a hard eschar, or scab, to form, and healthy granulation takes place.
Remarks. — It will be understood that Fowler's solution contains arsenic, as well as the powder, and as injury might arise by their use, unless the symptoms from poisoning by arsenic are well understood, it would be well, when it is
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used, to have it done by or under the care of a physician, so as to prevent any possible injury; although, if properly used, there is everything to encourage the hope of great benefit, rather than injury; but it is best, always, to be on the safe side, hence this caution.
5. Cancer, Relief of Pain in. — Dr. Brandini, of Florence, Italy, has recently discovered that citric acid will assuage (relieve) the violent pain of cancer. He applies to the part pledgets of lint soaked in a solution of citric acid, 4 grs. ; dissolved in soft water, 350 grs. (about % oz.), with the result of affording instantaneous relief in the most aggravated cases. ' 6. Cancer, Chromic Acid Found Valuable in. — Prof. John King, in his American Dispensatory, more than a dozen years ago, spoke of chromic acid being found advantageous in cancers, malignant tumors, ulcers, etc.
Bamarks. — The word "malignant," as applied to tumors, is generally understood to refer to those of a cancerous character, "tending," as Webster puts it, "to produce death, threatening a fatal issue," etc., and this fact gives me hopes, especially, that the chloride of chromium. No. 3, above, which is only another form of the chromium, will do what is there claimed for it, com- bined with the stramonium ointment. The acid, however, is being used more, of late, than formerly, as the following will show.
7. Cancer, or Fungous Growth in the Ear— Removed Safely with Chromic Acid. — Dr. Tangeman, Professor in the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, in Parke, Davis & Co.'s TJierapeutic Gazette, reports the case of a young man of 18, with a running ear. The meatus, or opening into the ear, at the bottom was full of pus, or matter; the tympanum, or drum, of the ear wholly destroyed, and the inner ear filled with a fungus, or cancerlike growth; the boy wholly deaf on that side, the result of scarlet fever. The ear was packed with powdered boracic acid, which dissolved in 24 hours, and was repacked with the same, and repeated 4 weeks, but the fungus, or lacerous growth, had to be removed by a few applications of chromic acid, and the opening enlarged by it so they could get to the bones of the ear, which were necrosed (destroyed), it being the cause of the discharge. The case was cured.
Nitrate of silver was formerly used in such cases, but Dr. Tangeman thinks its use in ear cases is among the past, and that chromic acid will take its place; but, from its activity, must be used with care. It should not be put on too freely in any case, as to endanger, or extend to other parts.
Yet chromic acid will not continue, like other acids, to eat on indefinitely, but as a particle of it destroys a particle of flesh, or fungus, it is itself de- stroyed. This peculiarity shows its great value over all other caustics or destroy- ers known. See its value for warts, under that head. Best to be used under the care of a competent physician, or one accustomed to its use, especially in cancers where considerable tissue, or fleshy tumors, are to be destroyed.
8. M. Czartoryski, M. D., of Stockton, Cal., says in the Medical Brief, of June, 1884, under the head of " Cancer — California Cure ":
" I accidentally discovered the secret process, by which an old man, living in this vicinity, has had remarkable success in removing cancers. He takes
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■wild parsnip roots (the wild parsnip resembles our table vegetable, but the roots are poisonous), allowing them to simmer on the stove until they assume the the consistency of paste; then spread on chamois skin, and apply to the cancer. At the beginning it will cause severe pain, and the cancer will contract and loosen, until it may easily be extracted with its roots. The resulting opening can be healed under any liniment or unguent (ointment) "
The best unguent, he thinks, is balsam of Peru.
Remarks. — The author rejoices in the hope that, with one or the other of these receipts, all cancer sufferers shall be materially benefited, if nou abso- lutely cured, adding many years to their lives.
1. SCIATIC RHEUMATISM.— Successful Remedies.— I. In- ternal and Alterative. Fl. ex. of poke root, 1 oz. ; fl. ex. of gelsemium, 1 dr.; mix. Dose. — Take 20 drops, morning and evening, in a little water.
II. Fl. ex. of blue flag, 1 oz. Dose.— Take 15 drops, at noon and beef time, in a little water.
III. Apply externally, along the back part of the thigh, as a liniment, tinct. of iodine and aqua ammonia, each 1 oz. ; mix, and rub on thoroughly 3 times daily.
I cured a very bad case, with this treatment, for a fat, fleshy woman, in about a week's time, who could scarcely move when I took the case in hand.
2. Sciatica Cured with Electricity.— A very Cheap, Simple Battery.— How to Make and Use. — The following case of this disease —a bad case — was published in the Physician and Surgeon, of Ann Arbor, Mich., by Charles Ferhune, M. D., of that city, for Oct., 1880.
"An electric battery was constructed, consisting of a zinc and silver plate about two inches in diameter, connected by a coil of insulated copper wire long enough to allow the silver plate to rest on the front portion of the thigh, the zinc resting over the sciatic nerve, on the back part of the thigh.
"A thin slice of sponge was placed between the platea and the skin, and these were kept wet with a strong solution of salt in water. This apparatus was retained in its position by means of adhesive straps and rubber bandage. It was necessary to change its location every other day on account of the irritation caused by the formation of chloride of zinc and electric current.
"In a week's time the patient was so much better that a battery was placed on the left leg also, and these were kept on constantly, except when it was necessary to replace the zinc as it would become corroded. September 1st she battery was taken off from the right leg, as there was no more pain and felt perfectly natural. The battery is still kept on the left leg, which was always the worst, simply on account of a little numbness of the toes; other- wise this leg also is free from any unnatural sensation.
"Whenever convenient, I applied the following preparation the whole length of nerve;
"Menthol, 12 grs. ; alcohol, to dissolve the menthol, 7 minims (drops); oil of cloves, 1 oz. ; mix. [Menthol is one of the newer remedies, sometimes also called Japanese camplior. It is made from a species of mint growing in Asia, Japan, and I think in China also. It is in the form of crystals, and smells much like peppermint.]
"Tliis mixture I have known to be of almost immediate benefit in neu- ralgic affections.
" Considermg the lon^ standing of the disease, that it was located in both legs, and the patient's habits (addicted to drink), and the great obstinacy and
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severity of Sciatica even under the most favorable circumstances, I feel it my duty to report a treatment so simple and easy and which has been of such signal service."
Remarks. — Having inquired into this case, and being well satisfied of the value of this treatment; also well acquainted with Dr. Ferhune, and as he speaks so favorably of the mixture, or liniment, for neuralgia, it would be well to try it for that purpose as well as in sciatica.
When Menthol is not kept by druggists, use one of the liniments given below.
Dr. Chase's Golden Oil (see recipe below), or strong Camphor Liniment, or some other — as preferred. The Golden Oil, however, made with capsicum, is very strong, and causes a glow of heat wherever it is freely applied.
3. The Author has several times cured Sciatica by the use of the simple Faradic current of the common Faradic "Family Battery," applying the positive pole along the sciatic nerve in the back part of the thigh, the negative pole at the feet, by means of a foot-plate, with very great satisfaction. Never use the current so strong as to cause additional pain, but simply to relieve it. Five to ten minutes to each limb, once or twice daily.
4. External Remedy, or Liniment for Sciatica, Lumbago, Stiff Joints, Contracted Cords, Rheumatism, Etc.— Very Suc- cessful.—For External Use Only.— FL ex. of aconite root (never of the leaf, for these purposes), 12 oz; oil of hemlock, 3 oz. ; sulphate of zinc, 1 oz. ; strongest alcohol, 1 qt. ; soft or distilled water, 1 qt. Directions. — Take at least a 3 qt. bottle and put in the alcohol, oil of hemlock, and extract of aconite root together; dissolve the sulphate of zinc in a little water and add lastly the water also, shake, always, before pouring out into a smaller bottle for use, and always shake before pouring out upon the parts, or into the hand for application. I have given it in these large quantities, because it is to be applied freely, at least twice daily, in any case, in very painful cases three times a day, pouring upon the parts and rubbing in several times at each application. Do not get into the eyes, nor is it ever to be taken intemdIXy in any case.
Remarks. — This is claimed by the person from whom I obtained the recipe to have cured stiff joints, as well as the other diseases named. For stiff joints I have had no opportunity of testing it, but in sciatica and rheumatism I have found it as valuable as he claimed.
3. Rheumatism— Remedy for External Application.— Cay- enne pepper, 2 teaspoonfuls, steeped in 1 teacup of good vinegar, and the parts affected to be bathed with it, is claimed to be excellent. After steeping (not to boil), strain and bottle for use. It will cause considerable heat of the surface, and would, even, if a pint of vinegar were used. Apply 2 or 3 times daily, and if limb is very painful, wet cloths in the mixture and wrap around it, as long as it can be borne.
4. Rheumatism— Golden Oil For.— Linseed oil and spirits of tur- pentine, of each 8 ozs. ; tinct. of iodine and aqua ammonia, of each 4 02a. ; jpIx. shake, and apply as often and as freely as needed.
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5. Inflammatory Rheumatism Remedy. — A mixture of pulver- ized saltpeter, % oz-; and sweet oil, J^ pt., is a certain cure for inflammatory rheumatism. This mixture must be applied externally, to the part affected, and as it can do no harm and costs so little, we advise those afflicted with in- flammatory rheumatism to try it.
6. Rlieum.atic Alterative. — Colchicum seed, anise seed, black cohosh root, poke root, blue flag root, bitter root, gum guaiac, prickly ash bark and juniper berries, of each % oz. ; mandrake root, 1 dr. ; wintergreen leaves, spear- mint leaves, of each 1 oz. ; iodide of potash, 3 drs. ; good gin, 1 pt. Direc- tions.— Bruise or grind coarsely all except the iodide, and put into the gin; keep corked, and shake daily for 10 or 13 days, strain and press out, put in the iodide, or if in a hurry, let it stand 3 or 4 days, then have a druggist to perco- late it (straining it drop by drop through a sponge pressed into the small end of a funnel-shaped percolator), adding sufficient gin to obtain 1 pt of the fluid. Good whiskey will dc, but it is not so good, as gin is more diuretic; add the iodide of potash last, dissolved in a little of the liquor. Dose — For a medium sized adult, 1 tea-spoonful 3 or 4 times daily in a little syrup, or molasses, with a small amount of water. While taking the above use a good liniment exter- nally, and the improvement will be more quickly realized.
7. Rheumatism, Successful Alterative For— The Crutches Thrown Away by the Use of Half a Bottle. — Tincts. of sarsapa- rilla and quassia, of each 3 ozs. ; iodide of potash, 1 oz.; quinine, 20 grs, ; water, 1 pt. Directions — Put all into a quart bottle, and shake when taken. Dose— 1 table-spoonful just before each meal.
Remarks. — The person communicating this recipe, " W. W.," of Inde- pendence, Ohio, says: " I was 3 months on crutches, before I took half of it I threw the crutches away." It is probable that this amount of the iodide of potash may be more than some persons can take, as there are those who can not take it in large doses — this will be known by a stiffness of the nose, throat, etc. , as though they had taken a bad cold. In such cases lessen the dose to a teaspoonful, and next time double the amount of tinctures, else use half the amount of the iodide.
8. Rheumatism, an Alterative Tincture For. — Tinct. of black cohosh, 2 parts; and tinct. of colcliicum, 1 part (say the cohosh )^ oz. ; colchi- cum. J^ oz.) Dose — Take 20 to 40 drops three times a day in a little syrup. — Mrs. E. L. Mills, of Romeo, Mich., in Detroit Tribune.
Remarks. — Twenty drops for a weak and feeble woman is plenty; 40 for a robust man, or even a tea-spoonful would be safe for him to take for a dose. While using this alterative internally, apply also any good liniment externally.
9. Acute or Inflammatory Rheumatism — A New and Suc- cessful Remedy. — After a fair trial of the salicylate of soda, in acute rheumatism, i. e., in a rheumatism with pain and often swelling of joints, etc., from having taken a cold, Uie profession and doctors have come to a very favorable opinion of its use for rheumatism, as well as in tonsilitis and sick headaches, which see.
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Dr. Clouston, in the June number of the Practitioner, thinks the action of the salicylate of soda on acute rheumatism is most marked, as in 63 per cent. — 63 in 100 — the acute stage lasted only three days; the pain being relieved in a few hours, and the remainder of the disease having no serious symptoms; he thinks, hovs^ever, its use should be commenced early in the disease, if benefit to any extent is to be experienced, and in doses not less than 10 grs. every hour, until the pain and severe symptoms are relieved, then less often, 2, 3, or 4 hours, and finally less amount. Dr. Clouston's recipe is as follows: Salicylic acid, 3 drs. ; carbonate of soda, 1% drs. ; syrup of lemon, 1 oz. ; cinnamon water to make 8 ozs. ; mix. Dose — A table-spoonful every two hours. — Medical Digest.
Remarks. — The Medical Summary, of New York, says: " The salicylate of potash has also been used with success: Salicylic acid, 2 drs. ; bi-carbonate of potash, 3 drs. ; water, 2 ozs. ; mix. Dose — A tea-spoonful every 2 or 3 hours."
10. Confirmatory of the use of salicylic acid; and also of the use of flannels, in inflammatory rheumatism, I will add Dr. Bell, of Canandaigua, N. Y., whom I met while at Eaton Rapids, Mich., in 1883, said, in speaking of inflammatory rheumatism, that his treatment, which had proved successful, was to put on flannel shirts and sheets and give salicylic acid, 120 grs. ; acetate of potash, 320 grs. ; simple elixir, or simple syrup, and glycerine, each 2 ozs. ; well mixed and dissolved. Dose — Take 1 tea spoonful every 2 hours till relief is manifested, then 3 or 4 hours apart. John K. Owen, M. D., of Harrisville, Ind., confirms the above in the February number of the Medical Brief of 1883. but adds 13^ ozs. of sweet spirits of nitre to the mixture, using the same dose.
11. Rheumatism Internal. — Try the following:
I, Salicylic acid, 3 drs. ; acetate of potassa, 3 drs. ; fl. ex. cimicifuga (black cohosh),4 drs.; wine of colchicum seed, 4 drs.; elixir of ginger, or simple syrup, to make 4 ozs. ; mix. Dose — Take 1 tea-spoonful in a swallow of water, every 3 hours, until better, then 3 times a day till well.
II. External. — Alcohol, 95 per cent, (the best). 2 ozs. ; gum camphor, 2 drs. ; mix, and when the gum is dissolved add: oils of origanum and cajeput, tinct. of capsicum and tinct. of aconite root, each 2 drs. ; mix and apply freely to the affected parts. — B. Frank Humphreys.
Remarks. — Here we have an excellent combination of the latest and best articles for internal use, and one for external, without going to different parts of the book for them. Remember, however, that in inflammatory rheumatism the flannel shirts and sheets are exceedingly valuable, and for wetting the blankets Miss McArthnr's liniment next following is cheap and good.
12. Liniment for Inflammatory Rheumatism. — Miss Bell Mo- Arthur's recipe is as follows: Spirits of camphor and strong cider vinegar, each % P^- ; muriate of ammonia, % oz. ; soft water, 1 pt. ; mix.
The gentleman, of whom Miss McArthur got the above receipt, said he liad known it to cure one of the worst cases of inflammatory rheumatism he had ever seen, in a few days, the patient being wrapped in sheets kept wet with lini- ment (The expense of this liniment is so trifling, it can be used freely.) Miss
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McArthur's experience with it came in this way: she burnt her hand by acci- dentally putting it in a pail of boiling sugar, and it became very painful. She thought of this liniment, and as soon as it was applied the pain ceased. She tried it in many ways, and found it equally successful. It it is said to be a per- fect preventive of sore breasts. Apply warm. Avoid using too near a flame. Remarks. — This is undoubtedly an excellent liniment, especially where persons have to be wrapped in sheets wet with it, as it is inexpensive and will not cause smarting like the stronger alcohol liniments.
1. LINIMENT— Mrs. Chase's— For Ladies.— Best alcohol, 1 qt.; camphor gum, chloroform, laudanum, sulphuric ether, tinctures of myrrh and capsicum, and oil of red cedar, each 1 oz. ; oil of peppermint, cloves, cajeput, and wormwood, each 14" oz. ; mix, and keep corked for use.
Remarks. — Mrs. Chase, during the latter years of her life, had occasion to use a liniment for rheumatism of the shoulder, and not liking the burning heat upon the surface, as experienced when using the stronger liniments containing capsicum, nor liking the oiliness of those known as "volatile," made with sweet oil, hartshorn, etc., asked me to get up something for her especially, avoiding both of these objections. This liniment is the result, and a very satis- factory one it proved, not only to her, but her sister who was visiting us, and who was afflicted in a similar manner. It has also given very great satisfaction in hundreds of cases since its origination. It has been used for all purposes for which liniments are applicable, and found very useful. It is applied night and morning for cold feet and limbs. For the severer cases of rheumatism in men, liniment for stock, etc., see next receipt.
2. Dr. Chase's Golden Oil, or Strong Camphor Liniment. —
I. Gum camphor, 2 ozs. ; oil of origanum, hemlock, sassafras, and tincture of cayenne, each 1 oz. ; oil of cajeput, spirits of turpentine, chloroform, and sul- phuric ether, each % oz-; best alcohol, 1 pt.; mix, and keep corked — as all liniments should be when not being used.
Remarks. — This I consider the best liniment for general purposes ever made, and it is a very strong one. This, with No. 1 (Mrs. Chase's) for the use of ladies to avoid the warmth or burning sensation of the skin as men- tioned, I honestly think would fill the bill in all cases where liniments are needed. Still, I shall give a few others for special purposes, and some because clieaper than these; and I will further say, this liniment (the main features of it) I took from Dr. King's Am. Dispensatory, which I will give, as it is made with the capsicum itself in place of the tincture. I have found that for general purposes, on the flesh of persons, this is the best plan. I have also added the chloroform and ether, which materially help to allay pain externally as well as internally. These changes make it the best thing I know of as a "pain-killer" for internal as well as external use.
Dose— The dose may be from 15 drops to a tea-spoonful, according to the severity of the case, in sugar or in a little sweetened water or milk : to be repeated in 15 to 30 minutes, also according to the severity of pain, griping of bowels, etc.
Externally — For rheumatism, severe pains, etc., it should be poured
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upon the spot, or into the hand and applied, rubbing in well 3 or 4 times at each application ; and, if the place allows it, hold the hand upon it till the heat and smarting subsides. Do this night and morning, and, if a severe case, at nooo also. For exceedingly severe cases of painful rheumatism in men and for stock, make it as Dr. King did, by using the capsicum powder as follows:
II. Best alcohol, 1 qt. ; camphor gum, 4 ozs. ; oil of origanum and hem- lock, each 2 ozs. ; oils of sassafras and cajeput, each 3^ oz. ; capsicum in powder, 1 oz. ; spirits of turpentine, J^ oz. ; mix, and let stand, shaking daily for two weeks, when it is ready for use. Keep it in the stable always, and apply for all bruises, swellings, lameness, etc. I have called this Dr, Chase's Golden Oil, to distinguish it from one or two other golden oils, which are not so strong, and consequently much cheaper.
3. Liniment— Dr. A. B. Mason's— For Man or Beast.— Best alcohol and sweet oil, of each 2 ozs.; aqua ammonia, spirits of turpentine, oils cI origanum, spike and gum camphor, each 1 oz. ; mix and keep corked for use.
Remarks. — Dr. Mason is a cousin of mine, and has used this liniment for '\ 0 years, and knows its value for veterinary and general purposes.
4. Liniment — Robinson's— For Sick Headache, Rheumatism, Dolic, etc. — Take a 2 quart bottle and put into it oil of origanum, 2 ozs.; rhloroform and sulphuric ether, each 1 oz. ; oils of sassafras, hemlock, winter- green, anise, spirits of turpentine, and aqua ammonia, each J^ oz. ; then add best alcohol, 1 qt. Keep well corked.
Remarks. — Mr. L. S. Robinson, of Jackson, Mich., formerly of Western New York, where, for many years, he made and sold this liniment, and vari- ous other medicines, cured several cases of sick headache with it, in Ann Arbor, Mich. He assured me that the person from whom he obtained the recipe offered to pay $50 for any case of rheumatism which he could not cure with it in 48 hours. It is also valuable for sore throat, to take a little on sugar, and apply freely upon the throat and holding the hand upon it while still wet with the liniment, till the heat and smarting subsides, or else wetting flannel in it, and laying upon the tliroat till quite red, and this mode of application should be adapted wherever necessary to use it. It is good for pains and aches of every description. Dose — From 15 drops to a teaspoonful, with sugar, accord- ing to age and the severity of the colic, or other pain. It has a pleasant flavor, is clear and does not soil the clothing. But bear this in mind, that to be suc- cessful with any liniment, it must be used or taken freely to get quick returns. In nervous headaches it must be applied to the back of the head and neck, as well as to the fore part, where the pain is located; snuff the fumes from the bottle also freely. A few drops put upon a pin scratch, small pimple, or slight burn frequently, will do very well. He recommended its use 3 to 5 times daily.
5. Liniment, Nerve and Bone, Very Strong.— Oil of spike, 6 ozs.; spirits of camphor, hartshorn, tincts. of anise and capsicum, oil of cedar and origanum, of each 2 ozs.; best alcohol, 8 ozs.; mix. Directions — Shake well while using. Bathe the parts affected 2 or 3 times daily, and rub briskly •with the hand 3 to 5 minutes at each application.
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Remarks. — This recipe was obtained from Mr. Colman. It is recommended for deep difficulties, strains, sprains, sweeney, etc., as it is strong and pene- trating
6. Liniment, Mustang. — Crude petroleum, or Seneca oil (so called because first gathered and sold by the Seneca Indians), 1 pt, ; olive oil, or lard oil and spirits of hartshorn, each 4 ozs. ; oil of origanum, 2 ozs. Directions ^Mix the olive oil with the hartshorn, then add the others.
7. Oriental Balm, or Golden Oil Liniment.— Linseed oil (raw, not boiled), 1 gal. ; gum camphor, 4 ozs. ; Oils of thyme and cajeput, each 1 oz. ; oils of wintergreen and anise, each % oz. Dose and Directions — For an adult 1 tea-spoonful in 2 or 3 times as much water, and l^;peat as often as required. Use externally 3 or 4 times daily; put on frequently and as soon as possible after bee-stings.
Remarks.— Thh has been sold largely in South Western Michigan and Northern Indiana, and is liked very much.
8. Another Golden Oil Liniment. — Linseed oil (raw), 1 gal.; cam phor gum, 4 ozs. ; oils of sassafras, hemlock, origanum, and cedar, each 2 ozs. Directions, Dose, etc. — Mix all except the linseed oil, and when the gum camphor is dissolved, put in the linseed oil, shake well and bottle; if to be put up in small bottles, keep it well shaken while filling. It will be seen that this is the strongest liniment, as it contains more of the essential oils, still it may be taken in J^ to 1 tea-spoonful doses, with perfect safety. It has been extensively sold in the neighborhood of Marshall and Battle Creek, Mich., sometimes there called " Oil of Gladness." It will be found good, for a cheap liniment.
9. Rheumatic Liniment, and for Pain in the Stomach, etc. — Donohue's. — Oils of origanum, sassafras, cloves, and gum camphor, each % oz. ; chloroform, 34 oz. Directions — Put all into a 3 oz. vial, and fill with alcohol; rub on the painful parts freely; take, for pain in the stomach, 5 to 20 drops on sugar, repeating in 15 to 30 minutes, if needed. This gentleman is an old friend of mine, living in Coshocton, O., where, he tells me, he has cured, ar materially benefited 50 or 60 cases of common rheuraatisjn. He thinks there is nothing equal to it.
10. Liniments, Patent or Proprietary — Perry Davis' Pain- Killer. — Some analysis recently made in the East, and published in the Driiggists' Circular, gives the following as the articles composing the medicines named: Spirits of camphor, 2 ozs.; tinct. of capsicum, 1 oz. ; gum myrrh, J^ oz.; gum guaiac, J^ oz. ; alcohol, 3 ozs.
11. R. R. R. (Radway's Ready Relief). — Soap liniment, 13^ ozs.; tinct. of capsicum J^ oz. ; water of ammonia, % oz. ; alcohol, J^ oz. This for a 50c. bottle.
12. Hamlin's Wizard Oil. — Spirits of camphor, ^oz, ; aqua am- monia, 3^ oz. ; oil of sassafras, J^ oz. ; oil of cloves, 1 dr.; chloroform, 2 drs.; spirits of turpentine, 3 drs.; dilute alcohol, 3 drs.
13. Giles' Liniment of Iodide of Ammonia. — Iodine, 15 grs.;
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camphor gum, }4: oz. ; oils of lavender and rosemary, each 1 dr. ; alcohol, % pt,; strong aqua ammonia, 1 oz.
Remarks. — Any of these liniments, which have no directions accompanying them, would be used the same as the general run of liniments.
14. Cure-All Liniment. — Gum camphor, gum myrrh, opium, pulver- ized cayenne, and oil of sassafras, each 1 oz. ; oils of hemlock, red cedar, worm- wood, spirits of turpentine, and hartshorn, each 3^ oz. ; best alcohol, 1 qt. Directions — Cut the opium finely; mix, and shake daily for a week or 10 days; then strain or filter.
Remarks. — It will be found a valuable liniment for all purposes for which liniments are used.
15. Lightning Liniment.-'Chlorofonn and ether, each 1 oz.; lauda- num, 2 oz. ; spirits of turpentine, 4 ozs. ; mix.
Remarks. — ]\Ir. Johnson, of Grand Rapids, Mich., says: " Bathe legs, back, or any part of the body with it, and it will give immediate relief. Good for nervous affections, rheumatism, etc.
16. Opodeldoc Liniment. — Alcohol, ^vt; camphor gum, ^oz.; almond or other good soap, and oil of cajeput, each 1 oz. Directions — Shave the soap finely, and put it with the camphor gum into the alcohol and dissolve by gentle heat; when cool, add the cajeput oil, shake thoroughly before it sets, and pour into large-mouthed bottles, to allow the finger to reach it for applica- tion, else it has to be warmed, to pour into the hand for application.
Remarks — Some people prefer the Opodeldoc Liniment to others, especi- ally for paralysis, enlarged joints, indolent tumors, rheumatism, lumbago, chil- blains, etc., for which this is recommended, both to arouse the absorbents and to stimulate the nerves to action, by which a cure is effected when accomplished at all.
17. Liniment— White's Nerve and Bone. — Gum camphor, oils of sassafras, cedar, and origanum, each 2 ozs.; oil of cajeput, 1 oz. ; aqua ammonia; 1 oz. ; oil of tar, 3 drs.: sulphuric ether, 4 ozs. ; best alcohol, 3 qts. ; solution of analine (red), 10 or 15 drops — to improve the color; mix, and keep closely corked.
Remarks. — Mr. "White is a druggist in Eaton Rapids, Mich., from whom I obtained this receipt. He kept this liniment on sale for a number of years. This is the liniment I refer to under the head of " Carbuncles." He speaks of it as a mild liniment, and the boys using it on their hands while playing ball, to prevent blistering, called it " Base Ball Liniment."
18. Chloroforni Liniment, Especially for Strains, Sprains, etc. — Chloroform, 1 fluid oz. ; camphor gum, ^ oz. ; shake together till dis- solved, then add olive oil, 1 oz. ; tinct. cantharides, 1 dr. ; keep well corked, as chloroform is very evaporative.
Remarks. — A nephew of mine, from whom I received this recipe, found more benefit from it on a strained knee, with which he suffered for two years, than any other liniment. Let it be used freely, when used at all, and it must do good from the known nature of the ingredients.
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19. " The Best Liniment," for Strains, Bruises, Pains, Colic, Headache, Backache, and All Other Aches— Externally.— A. Parsons, M. D., of Scottville, Ark., sends the following under the above title, to Medical Brief, page 508, of 1883. Chloroform, alcohol, aqua ammonia, spirits of camphor and tinct. of aconite root, each 2 ozs. ; spirits of nitric ether, 6 ozs. ; mix, keep corked. This is Thompson's chloroform liniment, im- proved, and is the best stimulating liniment that I ever met with. Any kind of ordinary colic may be relieved by saturating the bowels with it. Its applica- tion is very beneficial in all the above aches, and in nearly all cases removes them permanently.
Remarks. — 1 need only say from the nature of the articles composing it that it will prove an excellent liniment for external use; but do not take it in- ternally, on account of the aconite it contains.
Winter Itch— Certain Remedy.— B. I. A. Cull, M. D., of Gamilla, Ga., page 330 of Medical Brief for 1880, under|the head of "Eureka" (a Greek word, signifying I have found it), says: " After a fair trial, in several cases, to act as a specific (certain cure), in that disease. Blood root, pulverized and steeped in strong apple vinegar, to make as strong as can be made, applied 3 or 4 times a day, cures the disease."
1 . BRONCHOCELE— Goitre, or Swelled Neck, to Cure With- out Coloring the Skin or Clothing. — Compound tinct. of iodine, 4 ozs. ; pure liquid carbolic acid, % dr. ; glycerine, % oz. ; mix. Dikections — Have these articles put into a quinine bottle, having a good cork; put a small stick into the cork, suitable to tie a cloth swab upon it, with which to apply once or twice daily, as can be borne.
Remarks. — The carbolic acid prevents the iodine from coloring (aqua am- monia does the same thing), gl.voerine prevents speedy evaporation, and also keeps the skin soft and smooth. Constitutional, or alterative treatment, should also be made use of in connection with this local application. Electro-magnet- ism has also been found of great value, by hastening the reduction of the tumor. Dr. King, of Cincinnati, O., makes use of the following alterative pill.
2. Eronchocele, or Swelled Neck, Alterative Pill for— also "Valuable in All Cases Needing an Alterative. — Oleoresin of blue flag (irisin) 1 scru. ; baotisin, 5 grs. ; citrate of iron and strychnia, 80 grs. ; alco- holic ex. of aletris farinosa, 80 grs. Directions — Mix all thoroughly together and divide into 80 pills. Dose— 1 pill 1 hour after breakfast, dinner and at bed-time.
Remarks. — If the treatment is begun soon after the commencement of the swelling, a cure may be expected quickly, but if of long standing and some hardening of the tumors already commenced, it will require a perseverance, perhaps, of several months, to effect a cure. The above tincture will be found valuable to apply to any node, or knotty tumors, from bruises or otherwise, upon man or beast.
3. Goitre,Bronchocele, or Swelled Neck— Dr. Mason's Inter- xial and External Remedy.— I. Internal — Iodide of potash, 1 oz,; fl.
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ex. of sarsaparilla, 6 ozs. ; fl. ex. of dandelioo, 4 ozs. ; dissolve the iodide in a tea-cup of soft water, then add to the extracts, in a bottle sufficiently large, 1 pint of simple syrup. Dose— 1 tea-spoonful 3^ hour before each meal.
Remarks. — If in any case this causes a stuffing up of the nose, as is often said on taking cold, the dose must be lessened about one-half, or else as much more of the extracts and syrup must be added — with some people the iodide of potash causes this condition. Occasionally one cannot take it at all ; the extracts, then, must be taken without it, but the cure will not be as rapid.
II. External — Take tinct, of iodine, 2 ozs. ; soft water, 3^ oz. ; sulphite of soda, sufficient to remove the color of the iodine from the tincture before adding the water, which prevents the coloring of the skin or clothing. With a small brush, or swab, paint this tincture, once daily, upon^the swelling, and so continue until cured.
Remarks. — The doctor says: " This remedy needs no recommendation, as it has been used by quite a number, and with good results. It was sent to my wife by a Mrs. P. M. Avery, of Pennsylvania, but the idea of discoloration," he says, " I got from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal."
4. Goitre Alterative Syrup, and for All Purposes Requir- ing an Alterative. — Fl. exs. of sarsaparilla and gentian, each 1 lb.; iodide of potash, % oz. ; corrosive sublimate, 5 grs. Directions — Rub the corrosive sublimate in a mortar, with a little of one of the fluid extracts to dissolve it, then mix all together. Shake occasionally, a day or so, to dissolve, and pro- perly mix the iodide and sublimate. Dose — 1 to 2 tea-spoonfuls, according to the age and robustness of the adult, in a little water, sweetened. To be taken 4 times daily, a little before each meal and at bed-time.
Remarks. — This alterative has no superior for any general purpose. Some people, however, object to the corrosive sublimate, because it is a poison; but in the minute division of it into so many doses, it is a very valuable article, as an alterative, notwithstanding the objections. It can be left out if you wish, and still have a splendid alterative; but it will be better if put in. Having used it, and directed it for others, I know whereof I speak.
1. DROPSY— Syrup For.— Butternut bark, dwarf elder (bark of the root), and endives (chicory, also called succory), each 1 lb. ; Indian hemp, J^ lb.; black root and dandelion root, juniper berries, yellow dock and burdock roots, each ]4, lb. ; prickly ash berries, 2 ozs. ; loaf sugar, 2 lbs. ; pure whiskey, 3 pts. Directions — The recently dried roots and barks are intended, and should be coarsely ground by the druggist; place all (except sugar and whiskey) iii a four gallon jar and pour on sufficient boiling water to well cover the whole. Set the jar on the back part of the stove, cover with a cloth and plate, to keep in the heat, and let it stand 3 or 4 days, to sour; it is not to boil. "^SThen a little sour strain and simmer to one gallon, when the sugar is to be added, and when cool, the spirits; then bottle for use, Dose — A wine-glass a little before meals.
Remarks. — This recipe was obtained from a Mr. Coleman, who spoke very highly of iJ« success. It is diuretic, tonic and alterative, besides its action upon
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the liver by the black root (this is the leptandra virginica, from which the lep- tandrin is made), although it is not specially cathartic in its action, and must be found valuable. An ounce of essence of wintergreen would make it very pleasant to the taste.
2. Dropsy and Anti-fat Medicine.— M. Milton, M. D.,of DuBois, Penn., in a report through the Brief, page 439, 1883, says:
"He cured a lady patient, having a dropsical tendency, of that difficulty, also reducing her weight from 247 to 198 lbs. in 15 days, by the following treat- ment: He obtained the juice of poke-berries, and evaporated it by means of sand-bath to the consistency of pill-mass, forming into 4-gr. pills, with a little powdered licorice-root."
Dose — Two pills half hour after each meal. In connection with these pills he gave i^ gr. of elaterium in solution at night. (If its action on the bowels should be so severe as to cause distress, skip a night or two.) By the • continued use of these pills alone, for a few weeks, her flesh was reduced to 175 pounds, and she remained well up to the time of this report, 3 years after. See also " Fat People— Food to Reduce their Fleshiness."
1. COLIC, OR OTHER INTERNAL PAIN — German Rem- edy or Liniment for. — Alcohol, 1 qt. ; oil of sassafras and hartshorn, each 2 ozs. ; spirits of camphor and laudanum, each 1 oz. ; spirits of turpentine, J^ oz.; tinct. of kino, \^ o^-! "^i^- Dose — For colic, or any severe internal pain, from J^ to 1 tea-spoonful may be taken for a dose; to be repeated in i^ to 1 hr., according to the severity of the case.
Bemarks. — This recipe was sent me by Mr. Frank Spurlock (a German), of Sedan, Kan. It certainly makes a good liniment for general use, and I give it a place, to meet the desire of my German readers; for they, like Americans, think their own prescriptions are the best.
2. Colic — Cure by Quinine.— Dr. N. R. Derby, of Bergen Point, N. J., says, in the Medical Recorder, that by accident he discovered that a dose of 8 or 10 grs. of sulphate of quinine will speedily put an end to an attack of colic. He had had such attacks from childhood, but cured himself and several others in this way. This dose is for an adult. I should try it if I had occa- sion to do so.
I. CONSTIPATION OR COSTIVENESS — Valuable Pills for. — I. Solid extracts of nux vomica and hyoscyamus, and pulverized capsi- cum, each 25 grs. ; podophyllin, and ext. of belladonna, each 10 grs. ; mix thoroughly and make into 100 pills. Dose — If very constipated wh^n you com- mence taking them, take 2 each night for 1 or 2 nights, or until the bowels become easy; then 1 only at night till cured.
II. Constipation — Hot Water as a Cure. — A cup of hot water, a writer says, is a grand tonic and stomach cleanser, and a sure cure for constipation. It should be taken night and morning, just before retiring and after rising.
Remarks. — I have seen hot water recommended for this difficulty before, and think it worthy of trial. It is also recommended for dyspepsia, which
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often causes constipation. For the degree of heat and manner of taking, see " Hot Water for Dyspepsia."
2. Constipation or Costiveness— Newer Remedies.— For a few years past the fl. ex. of cascara sagrada has been much extolled, and also found quite satisfactory in relieving the difficulty, and if properly combined with other remedies, has cured very many cases, I have been very successful with the fol- lowing combination:
I. Fl. ex. cascara sagrada, 1 oz. ; tincts. nux vomica and belladonna, each 2 drs. ; with syrup of Tolu, or syrup of wild cherry, 2% ozs. ; mix. Dose — A tea-spoonful 3 times a day till the bowels become easy; then only at bed-time, till cured.
Remarks. — I have succeeded with this when other things, by other physi- cians, have failed.
II. I see that some physicians prefer the following prescription for consti- pation: Fl. ex. cascara sagrada, fl. ex. berberis aquifolium and simple syrup, each 1 oz. ; tinct. nux vomica, 25 drops, and tinct. digitalis, 1 dr. Dose — A tea-spoonful 3 times daily, till the bowels become easy, then drop off morning, then noon dose, and finally all, using only occasionally, for a while, till a healthy daily action is established. This would be the most valuable in female cases, as the berberis is claimed to be a "female regulator," uterine tonic, etc. But supposing there is no constipation, although the liver may be inactive in the secretion of bile, the stools, or passages, being light, or clay-colored, Hhen I would use:
III. Fl. ex. of fringe tree, 1 oz. ; fl. ex. of berberis, 1 oz. ; adding also, as a stomach tonic, fl. ex. wahoo, J^ oz. ; syrup of wild cherry, or Tolu, 1 oz.; and the tincts. of nux vomica and belladonna, each 2 drs., as in JTo. 1, above. Dose and management the same as in No. 1, till the stools assume their healthy color again.
3. Constipation, More Recent Remedy.— My attention was re- cently called to the following, and having a case of constipation on hand, and in which the liver did not give the usual amount of bile, giving a tendency to jaundice, I at once tried it with the happiest results — entire relief in both diffi- culties. The remedy was; Tinct. nux vomica, 1 oz. ; podophyllin, 1 gr. ; the podophyllin to be rubbed in a little of the tincture, to insure it thorough mix- ing. Dose — Take 5 drops only, before each meal, till the bowels become easy, then only 3 drops, or even 2, as required to keep them easy, for a few days; after which take occasionally, if needed, by the reappearance of the clay-col- ored stools.
Remarks. — The tincture of nux vomica, in the small doses above given, is not only safe but a very valuable medicine, still if left where children can get hold of it, and drink the whole bottle, or considerable of it, it is poisonous; and hence I give in the next item the treatment for such a mishap, as follows:
Poisoning by Nux Vomica or Strychnine— Remedy. — Should ever poisoning occur by the careless taking of over-doses of tincture of nux, or
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strychnine (which is made from it), twitching of the muscles wHl be the first sign, then convulsions, no time should be lost in getting down oils of any char- acter, sweet oil is considered best, but lard oil, or melted lard, in doses of from 1 cup to 3^ pint for an adult answers very well, and strong coffee, and then producing vomiting in the quickest way, by mustard, or thrusting the finger down the throat after the oils or coffee has been given. A pint of strong coffee saved a dog, after it appeared he was nearly dead ; four grains of camphor gum has done the same thing — then they are good for persons. It is better, however, to put such things out of the reach of children. See, also, "Poi- sons, Quick Emetics, Antidotes, etc."
1. GRAVEL — Remedy.— A strong decoction, made with a handful of smart-weed in i^ pt. of water, taken with a gill of gin, is said to have dis- charged a table-spoonful of gravel at a time in 12 hours from the time it was taken. Keep on taking it daily as long as any gravel is discharged.
1. HEMORRHAGE OR BLEEDING FROM THE LUNGS, WOMB, RECTUM, ETC. — Witchhazel and Other Specifics, or Positive Remedies for. — Hemorrhage, or bleeding from the uterus (womb) after child-birth, from the lungs and from the rectum, in some cases of piles, are of such frequent occurrence that I deem it of great importance to give the latest and most successful prescriptions for hemorrage in these cases.
Of late the homeopathists claim that the valuable properties of the witch- hazel is a discovery of theirs, and they make ado over it in the form of " Pond's Extract of Hamamelis." If this is used, give it in doses of 10 to 15 drops, repeated every 3 or 4 hours.
Among eclectics, for many years past, the common witchhazel (hamamelis) has been considered a very valuable remedy for hemorrhages or bleeding from the internal organs. Prominent among these are Professors John M. Scudder and A. S. Howe, of the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, who consider it a specific (positive cure) in all cases of debility of the nervous system — a weak and flabby condition that allows the blood to ooze through the membrane.
Prof. Howe has used this about 30 years, or long before homeopathy had become at all prominent in the United States.
Prof. John King, of the same institute named above, and also an extensive medical writer, thinks that in hemorrhages immediately following " delivery at full term " hamamelis is not equal to ergot, but in cases arising from debility, he agrees with the remarks above — that witchhazel is vastly superior.
A decoction or tea, made from the bark or from the dried leaves, will be as effectual as " Pond's Extract," which is kept by druggists.
The strenf^th of a decoction will be 1 oz. of dried bark or leaves to 1 pt. of water. Dose — A wine-glassful 3 or 4 times daily.
2. Uterine Hemorrhage — Specifics in. — C. J. Pitzer, M. D., of Detroit, 111., a practitioner of over 16 years experience, in a communication to the Eclectic Medical Journal, asks for practical items from the experience of other physicians, and in giving his own, says: "Cinnamon and erigeron are specifics (positive cure) in uterine hemorrhage; I know it by actual
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experience. I don't tell you anything new, but recall your attention to the fact and confirm, as far as my evidence goes, what has been said of these articles by others. Let me say, while speaking of these invaluable remedies, that in uterine hemorrhage you can't have too much confidence in them. They are just what you want. Don't resort to ergot. Give oil of erigeron, 10 drops, every hour, and oftener, if needs be; and between each doze give 15 drops tinct. oil of cinnamon, made by adding oil of cinnamon, 1 fl. dr., to best alcohol, 95 jg 1 fl. oz. I use both remedies in every case, alternating. Don't know which does the most good; neither do I care much, so I save my patient. Just had a bad case last week, caused by retained membranes. The case had been managed by other physicians, and 4 or 5 days after the delivery, the hemorrhage was very excessive and threatened the life of the patient in a short time. The doctor who sent for me had used ergot, opium, lead and tannin, and had resorted to the tampon. I suggested the above named remedies, and com- menced the use of them at once. The hemorrhage ceased almost entirely in 4 hours, and we had no trouble in controlling it afterwards."
Remarks. — It is facts like these which have now well established the belief in the specific, or positive action, of medicines, and I trust that others may have sufficient confidence in them to use them when needed. This is one of the objects in writing this book, that these well established facts may reach the thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of the people, rather than stop with only a few physicians.
3. Hemorrhage from the Womb, With High Pulse and Fever. — Being called to a case where an abortion had been performed, in au early stage of pregnancy (not knowing for some time after, of the cause), find- ing the wasting, or hemorrhage, considerable, I gave:
I. Fl. ex. of ergot, % oz. ; gallic acid, 40 grs. ; mixed. Dose — J^ tear spoonful every 2 hours, until pain and contraction of the womb was produced, then once in 4 or 5 hours only, until the wasting ceased.
II. For the High Pulse — I gave tinct. veratrum vlride, 6 drops, vdth tinct. aconite, 3 drops, every 2 hours, alternating with the first, giving the second 1 hour after the ergot mixture had been given, dropping each into a tumbler, so as to get this number of drops, of each, in a tea-spoonful of water, when given. For instance, 36 drops of the veratrum and 18 drops of aconite, with 6 tea- spoonfuls of water, gave the right dose each time.
Remarks. — Remember, however, that the veratrum and aconite mixture is only to reduce the pulse, which was about 120; when this comes down to 80, then give this only once in 4 or 6 hours, to keep the pulse at about this grade; if continued too long, it will reduce too much, and also distress and nauseate the stomach, which is not necessary, and should always be avoided if possible. The strength must be helped up with 2 or 3 grain doses of quinine, or " Dex- tro " quinine, in same doses three times daily.
The urine in such cases may need some attention, and call for acetate, or nitrate, of potash (I like the acetate best, some others prefer the nitrate-niter. 4
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or the sweet spirits of nitre), to correct any disturbance of these organs, for which purpose. See ' ' Diuretics " for directions.
4. Hemorrhage, Slight, of the Lungs, with Cough— Regu- lator or Allopathic Treatment For. — I. Give fl. ex. of ergot, 15 drops in a little water, putting in a little essence of wintergreen to lessen its bitter taste. (The author would say, in such a case, a few drops of essence of cinna- mon, which will cover the bitter taste as well as the wintergreen, is of itself good for the hemorrhage.) Give the above every six hours.
II. Between these doses also give gallic acid, 4 grs., in a little syrup of lemon. This alternation brings the doses only three hours apart. A few doses of each will generally allay any slight hemorrhage. If the cough is pretty per- sistant, i. e., continuous and irritating, give laudanum, 15 drops, once in 4 or 5 hours, and 25 drops at bed-time, to allay the cough and help in procuring sleep. Give also laxatives, if needed, to prevent costiveness.
Remarks. — I know this treatment to have proved eminently satisfactory when the hemorrhage was not very extensive.
5. Hemorrhage, or Bleeding From Slight Cuts, etc.— Simple ilemedy. — To stop the flow of blood bind the cut with cobwebs and brown - sugar, pressed on like lint. Wheat flour and salt, in equal parts, bound on with a cloth, for man or beast; mix well, without wetting, the blood will wet them enough.
Treatment for Hemorrhage. — Soon after the above was written we had the value of the cobweb treatment confirmed, by the Toledo Post, in a case of a lady of that city, who had a tooth drawn; hemorrhage from the cavity set in and continued, in spite of all common remedies, from Saturday noon until 3 o'clock Sunday morning, when the cobweb was procured and applied and the bleeding stopped by this move, leaving her very weak.
7. Hemorrhage from Wounds— Styptic Colloid, to Prevent and Cure. — The following will instantly coagulate blood, forming a con- sistent clot, under which wounds will readily heal: Collodion, 100 parts (grs.); carbolic acid, 10 parts; tannic and benzoic acids, of each 5 parts; mix the ingredients in the above order.
Remarks. — If the wound is so large that a slight application does not stop the hemorrhage or bleeding, wet lint with it and bind on if necessary, and leave on until the healing process is accomplished.
1. DIPHTHERIA — Successful Remedies. — My first remedy, although simple and easily obtained, is from a paper presented to the French Academy of Medicine by Dr. Revillout, who asserts from an experience of 18 years, that:
I. Lemon juice is one of the most efficacious medicines that can be applied in Diphtheria, and relates that when he was a dresser in the hospital, his own life was saved by this timely application. He got a quantity of lemons and gargled his throat with the juice, swallowing a little at a time in order to act an the more deep-seated parts.
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It Is also recommended for any inflammatory or irritable coi>^tion of the throat in their commencement.
II. Lemon juice in Diphtheria is endorsed by American physicians, as the following will show. Let it be tried by all means.
Dr. J. R. Page, of Baltimore, in the New York Medical Record, invites the attention of the profession to a topical use of fresh lemon juice as a most effici- ent means for the removal of the membrane from the throat, tonsils, etc., in diphtheria In his hands (he has heard several of his professional brethren say 'the same) it has proved by far the best agent he has yet tried for the purpose. He applied the juice of the lemon, by means of a camel's hair pr(>>)ang (a piece of cloth on a stick will do as well), to the affected parts every 2 or 3 hours, and in eighteen cases on which he has used it the effect has been all he could wish. A little remarkable — one has 18 years successful experience, the other 18 cases; either is enough.
2. DiiAtheria — Ice a Successful Bemedy for. — The French have also been very successful in the use of ice as a remedy in Diphtheria, which was introduced into this country by a Dr. Chapman, repoited through the New York Tribune, by which means it was brought to the notice of the Oneida community in that state, where the disease was prevailing, and was suc- cessful in 60 cases. They aroused the mind of the patients, old enough t<? understand the necessity, to the greatest possible resistance to the advance of the disease. This determination of resistance is valuable against the advance of any disease. Directions — The ice is broken into small pieces and ^ven to the patient every ten minutes, night and day.
3. Diphtheria, Cvire For.— A Mrs. R. S. K., of Toledo, Ohic, give? the following cure for diphtheria to the Blade Household: I. Syrup of squills, 1 oz. ; gum camphor, }^ oz.; laudanum, 3^ dr. ; cayenne pepper, J^ tea-spoonful; good whiskey, J^ pt. Directions — Camphor to be dissolved in as small a quantity of alcohol as possible. Four large onions are to be cut in slices, put into a deep earthen plate (that will stand heat), sprinkle thickly A\ith loaf sugar, cover with another plate, place a heated flat iron on the upper plate, leaving it set on the back of the stove. Heat and pressure will extract all the juices without losing any of its medical properties. All the juices thus extracted are to be mixed with the other ingredients ; when all are mixed together and the camphor added, it will curdle; but when it stands awhile, it will become clear. Dose — For an adult, 1 tea-spoonful every 3^ hour; for a child, ^ tea-spuonful everj' J^ hour; to be diluted for a child, as it is pretty strong.
II. Apply also the following: Salt pork, j4 lb , and 2 large onions; chop all together finely and put some upon the throat. For an infant place a thin piece of muslin on the poultice next the skin; change every 15 or 20 minutes
Remarks —A poultice of mashed onions to the arm-pits, stomach, soles of the feet and palms of the hands, in bad cases of fevers, has worked wonders. Why not good then for diphtheria?
4. Diphtheria, Sulphur Treatment. — Our attention was first called to the use of sulphur, in this disease, by a report from Dr. Fields, in England.
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fle found an advantage in its use, in some bad cases within ten minutes of its commencement. His manner of using it with those old enough, was in the form of a gargle, a tea-spoonful of the powder, or flour of sulphur, in a wine glass of water, gargling frequently. If the patient was unable to gargle, or too young, blow some of the dry sulphur through a quill upon the diseased parts of the throat, or burn some of the sulphur upon live coals near the pa- tient, so that he will inhale the fumes. The patient should always be kept warm and the bowels open. In extreme cases, when Dr. Field was called, just in the nick of time, when the fungus was so near filling the throat, as not to allow the gargling, he first blew the sulphur through the quill into the throat, and after the fungus had shrunk to allow of it, then the frequent gargling. He never lost a patient from diphtheria under this treatment. He recommends after gargling a couple of times, to cleanse the throat, to swallow some of the sulphur water occasionally, so as to reach the fungus deeper in the throat, which also has a tendency to keep the bowels open, which is recommended a very im- portant point to accomplish. This fungus is believed to be a living parasite, of plant-like growth, and that sulphur is absolutely destructive to them, as has been proved by its use, by applying upon the parasites of the grape vine. It has been proved that sulphur kills every fungus or parasite on man, beast, or plant. One Dr. Langautiers also found that one tea-spoonful doses every hour, of a mixture of sulphur, in 4 ozs. of water, taken every hour, is very beneficial in the treatment of croup.
5. Diphtheria, Specific for— Also Scarlet Fever, and Preven- tive in Both. — The best physicians of New York city, Brooklyn and Phila' delphia are equally in favor of the sulpho-carbolate of soda.
[The sulpho-carbolate of soda is composed of soda combined with sulphur and carbolic acid, either of which alone is good in diphtheria, scarlet fever and any other inflammatory condition of the throat, and the combination is more decidedly beneficial than either would be alone; at least it seems so to me from my knowledge of their properties. ]
Dr. May, of New York city, says the sulpho-carbolate of soda is a specific (positive cure) in diphtheria, also in scarlet fever, and claims that this article is a preventive to the development, even after exposure, as well as a cure for both these diseases. The writer of this report is very much impressed in favor of this article. He says:
"The use of sulpho-carbolate of soda in diphtheria has become a settled fact by the best physicians, as above named, to be the only certain specific (pos- itive cure), for that dreaded disease which has taken off so many children in the United States during the past 8 years. He also says it is certain to destroy the parasitic fungus in the throat and glands in two hours.
" Ten grs. dissolved in a tumbler half full of cold water, and take from J^ to 1 tea-spoonful every hour, until the parasite is destroyed; then take 1 tea- spoonful every 2 or 3 hours, according to the circumstances of the case. There is no use in pliysicians fighting against this remedy, for they will have to ise it if they have success in the treatment of scarlet fever and diphtheria. It is a specific in both diseases, as they are both zymotic (acting like a ferment, spreading quickly through the system) in their nature, and are produced by the parasite in the system. It will prevent both diseases, if given before an attack, 9& well as a remedy. This remedy has been used for scarlet fever and diphtheria
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for over 3 years, and if given before gangrene (mortification) sets in, ■will work ■wonders in every case. It was discovered by an English physician, and has grown into favor as a specific ever since, particularly with children.
" The trichina parasite of pork, as soon as it enters the stomach, is absorbed by the blood, then into the muscles of the body. It is not so with the diphtheria parasite; it is generated in the stomach, and when it spreads up the oesophagus (comes from Greek words, signifying to bear, to carry and to eat; being the passage way of the food and drink to the stomach, commonly called the gullet), it produces such a high state of inflammation that gangrene sets in, which dis- solves the parasite, and carries it all through the blood, which is always fatal. Gangrene always dissolves the parasite, but before that takes place the use of the sulpho-carbolate of soda will save every case. I have written these lines by special request of very many citizens and friends who desire it made public for the benefit of all."
Remarks. — I am only sorry that I have not had an opportunity to test this myself; but, as I have not, I can only say to physicians, and heads of families, try it, by all means. Whenever either of these diseases gives you an opportunity, have it on hand and lose no time in beginning its use.
6. Diphtheria — Chlorine Water a Specific for. — At a recent breaking out of Diphtheria in a considerable number of places, which was also alarming in its fatality, the Springfield Republican, in commenting upon the fact, called attention to some remedies which have entirely divested this fearful disease of its terrors, if applied in the early stages. Among these it claimed the most simple and effective to be chlorine water, diluted by adding 2 to 4 times the amount of water. A well known physician of that city, the Republican asserts, has used this specific conclusively for fifteen years ■with complete success, pre'vious to its use having lost about half his cases. He repeatedly, by its use, eradicated the disease in different places, when all other remedies failed. Another medical writer claims that the chlorine water and sulphur treatments, as given above, are the only positive cures. Dose — 1 to 3 tea-spoonfuls, largely diluted with water, 2 or 3 times daily; also as a gargle in sore throat, even of a putrid character.
Remarks. — To give confidence to those who are not acquainted ■with the uses of chlorine water, I will say it is powerfully antiseptic (overcoming putre- faction), quickly destroying all bad odors arising from decay. It has been suc- cessfully used internally in chronic inflammation of the liver, typhus fever, malignant sore throat, scarlet fever, etc.
7. Diphtheria — Successful Remedy in Forty Cases — Also Preventive. — Dr. MacLean, of Norwalk, Ct., recommends the following a? a preventive of diphtheria, remarking:
"During the past 4 years I have used it, and in 40 well marked cases oi diphtheria, wliere 140 persons were exposed to a contagion, not a single case lias been reported to me. I use 1 dr. of Monsel's salt in 8 ozs. cold water, add- ing plenty of sugar to overcome the taste of the iron. Dose — 2 to 8 tea-«!poon- fuls each day, according to the violence of the disease."
Remarks. — The dose would be 1 tea-spoonful, 2, 3 or 4 hours apart, as the case may require.
8. Diphtheria, Sore Throat, Swollen Tonsils, Etc.— Home- opathic Remedy. — Bin -iodide of mercury, 10 grs.; sugar of milk. 100 grs.'
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triturate (rab) together 30 minutes in a wedgewood mortar. Then take 10 grs. of this triturated article and 100 grs. more of sugar of milk, and triturate again as before. Dose — Give 1 gr. of this second trituration every hour in ordinary cases; if a bad case, give the same amount every 15 to 30 minutes, until relieved; then every hour or two, as needed. A few doses makes the cure.
Remarks. — Dr. Mason used this a number of years, and very successfully, on some very bad cases. The above is the Homeopathic treatment, except some of them use in addition to this a gargle, every hour, of % alcohol and J^ water.
9. Diphtheria, Dr. Scott's Treatment for.— After the foregoing recipes had been prepared I noticed Dr. W. A. Scott, of Sandyville, Iowa, reported through the Chicago Inter-Ocean his success with the following treat- ment:
I. Dissolve 20 grs. of pure permanganate of potassa (permanganate of potassa is a powerful disinfectant, also a great purifier of sick rooms, clothing, etc.) in 1 oz. of water, and apply it to the affected parts with a swab, gently, but thoroughly, every 3 hours, until better; then not so often. (Better get 80 grs. in a 4 oz. vial of water.) After the patient gets better weaken the solution by adding an equal quantity of water. This solution does not give any pain, nor is there any danger in its use, but it has a nasty taste, which is its only ob- jection. (Its staining clothing is another objection.)
Prof. King, in his American Dispensatory, says:
" One dr. of permanganate dissolved in ^^ oz. of water, in a saucer, and placed under the table, bed or other convenvient place destroys all odors. An- other writer in speaking ot permanganate of potash to purify the air of sick rooms says: }4, o^- ^^ ^^< ^^ water, 1 qt. , and cloths wet in it and hung up, is a quick and certain disinfectant. For disinfecting or cleansing clothing of diph- theritic, scarlet fever or small pox patients, bedding, etc., 1 oz. of the perman- ganate to 2 gals, of water is sufficient to soak them in, an hour or two, before the boiling and washing in the regular way.
II. " Apply a good liniment to the throat outside, 3 or 4 times a day. (Dr. Chase's golden oil or liniment, or Mrs. Chase's, will be found good for this pur- pose.) Keep a cotton cloth, not woolen, around the throat till well. The above IS all I use in simple cases, and all that is needed.
III. "If there is much fever I mix 5 drops of fl. ex. of aconite root with 4 ozs. of water, and give to a small child J^ tea-spoonful ; a child 5 to 10 years, % tea-spoonful; 10 to 15 years, 1 tea-spoonful; over that age, 2 tea-spoon- luls. Give every 1 or 2 hours, as may seem needed, to lessen the fever.
rV. " If there is blood poisoning, which maybe known by the bad smell- ing breath and quick beating of the heart, give: Chloroform, 1 fl. dr.; comp. Bpts. lav., 1 dr.; alcohol, 1 oz. ; mix. Dose — Five to 20 drops, according to the age, mixed in cold water, every % to 2 hours, as may seem necessary. This will quickly quiet the heart's tumultuous action and aid it to throw off the poison.
V " Do not give harsh physics. If needed, give castor oil or purgative magnesia. Keep the patient from exposure to chilly air or cold baths. This treatment, which I have published in several medical journals, will rob this disease of its terror and save from the grave many a loved one."
Remarks. — Let the medicine be obtained where there are families of chil- dren, so as to have it in the house as soon as needed, on the approach of the dis- ease into a neighborhood. Then when it begins, lose no time in applying the remedy, aud the different aids he recommends, if needed.
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10. Diphtheria— Latest Allopathic Treatment For.— In a re- cent conversation with Dr. Haney, of Toledo, Ohio, he claimed to cure every case of diphtheria, even in small children, by swabbing the throat with cal- omel; for quite a young child he gets 10 grs. into the throat, by a swab, and a child 5 to 8 years, 20 to 30 grs., so it will be swallowed. He says it stops the change in the blood, by which the fibrinous portions form the membrane in the throat. He follows 3 or 4 hours after with the liquid physic (see ' ' Liquid Physic"), to help carry off the accumulation of the intestines; and then supports the strength with liquid food of a nourishing character. He is a successful physician, and claims not to have lost an average of one child a year for the eleven years, practice there; and I know he has a good share of practice among the children. I have also seen accounts in a recent medical journal, by some allopathic physicians, that they have been using calomel very simi- lar to Dr. Haney, in this disease. Therefore I have not dared to pass it by ■without mention, as it may save many lives for future usefulness.
11. Diphtheria— Remedy by the French Academy of Medi- cine.— ' ' The vapor from the burning of a mixture of tar and spirits of turpen- tine, near the bed, it is said, will dissolve the false membrane which is so often fatal in this dreadful disease. If this simple remedy is complete, as the French Academy of Medicine is said to have declared, it should be widely published." American Messenger, October, 1884-
Bemarks. — Notwithstanding there are two "is saids" in this, yet, as it is simple, and would not interfere with any other treatment, and obtaining it from a purely religious paper, which seldom touches anything of this kind, I have felt, from the knowledge of love of the effects of these articles, it should have my help on its way to a wider publication. Equal parts should be used, although they do not so state, thoroughly mixed, and pour a few drops from a tea-spoon upon hot coals, to keep up the fumes, is all that is needed.
Blistering in Diphtheria— History of a Case at Black Rock, N. Y., Saved by It. — In the December number, 1884, of the Tlierapeutic Oazette, of Detroit, Mich., F. W. Bartlett, M. D., of Buffalo, reports the case of a man about 45 years old, to whom he was called, and who was very sick at the time, and continued to get worse for four days, when he considered it hope- less from the condition of the throat, and so informed his patient, who took it calmly, but asked to have something done to relieve the suffering of the stomach, for which he directed his wife to dip cloths in hot water, and wring out, then put on a few drops of turpentine, to be applied over the bowels; but in the confusion of such a case, expecting to lose her husband, she heated the turpentine, and saturated flannel with it, and laid it on, which he bore as long as he could, then violently flung it across the room, saying he "would rather die than suffer such agony." And when the wife saw what an inflammation she had caused, covered it with fresh lard, and waited the doctor's morning call; who found a blister {vesication, as M. D's most call it) a foot square, covered with a diphtheritic exudation, the throat better, and the patient saved. All I have to say further is, let others make similar mistakes
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In bad cases, and save their patients too. In other words, draw a blister in the regular way, in time, not to let the throat get beyond control. I would put a blister on both arms, breast and bowels too, if I thought it necessary to save my patient's life.
12. Diphtheria, to Avoid by Diet — Pork Believed to be the Exciting Cause. — With an explanation as to this exciting cause of diphtheria, I will close the subject, having given a large number of the most popularly known remedies, although there are many writers who think thst the abundant use of pork in our diet is a very fruitful source of this disease, I shall only quote from one. A recent medical correspondent of the Lancaster New Era argues at considerable length: " That eating of pork is an inciting (arousing, stirring up,) cause of this terrible disease." His idea is that an unhealthy appetite is created by the use of so much pork, in the every-day diet of the country, until the specific pork poison is manifested in the exudations depos- its from the blood into the throat, which is the characteristic symptom in this disease. lie especially advises parents not to allow their children to diet on pork, nor sausage, but fruit and vegetables in greater abundance.
Remarks. — Although beef, veal, lamb, chicken, etc., may be allowed to children generally, yet it would be well for parents during the prevalence of diphtheria in a neighborhood, to put their children upon a bread and milk and vegetable diet exclusively, lest their loss might be charged home to their neg- lect, which would not be a pleasant thought for after-consideration.
13. Diphtheria— Closing Remarks Upon. — The author leaves the subject with his readers, believing that he has presented a larger number and more reliable remedies or recipes for the cure and prevention of diphtheria than are to be found in any other publication whatever; he also believes that if these recipes are well studied, and one or more of them adopted by the heads of households containing young children, and the articles obtained and kept oa hand ready for use, night or day, nothing like the fatality will hereafter take place from diphtheria, as has heretofore been the case. I feel certain that there can be no drug store where some of the articles mentioned may not be obtained. Then the responsibility rests with each one who shall have this knowledge, and yet neglect to use it. The author has done his duty, which is a great consolation to him. The same will also hold good upon many other subjects in this work. See " Disinfectants," to prevent this disease from spreading.
1. SORE THROAT— The Good Old Grandmother's Gargle for. — Steep 1 medium-sized red pepper in i^ pt. of water, strain, and add J^ pt. of good %nnegar, and a heaping tea-spoonful, each, of salt and pulverized alum, and gargle with it as often as needed.
2. Sore Throat, New Gargle for.— In all recent inflammations, or colds, affecting the throat, a gargle made by putting a heaping tea-spoonful of the bi-carbonate of soda (common baking soda) into a glass of water, and gar- gling with it frequently, will be found exceedingly valuable. A tea-spoonful, or a little more, of it swallowed, will quickly relieve a tickling cough; also neu
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tralize the acidity of the stomach often arising after meals, water-brash, etc. But if it should irritate, weaken one-half or more.
3. Sore Throat— Heat Strong Tea as a Gargle for Speedy Relief in. — It is well to know that sore throat can be speedily relieved by using strong, hot tea as a gargle. It is a convenient remedy and rather a pleasant one.
Remarks. — Hot water has proved valuable in many diseases of late, as dys- pepsia, consumption, etc., taken internally before meals, which see, for these diseases.
4. Sore Throat and Catarrh— Gargle for.— Comp. spirits of lavender. 3^ oz., into a 4 oz. vial; put in also the carbonate of ammonia, 20 grs. ; fill with distilled, or rain water.
Directions. — Put 1 teaspoonful of this to % cup of warm, soft water and gargle vdth it two or three times daily ; and if any catarrh, or nasal inflamma- tion, put into the hand, what it will hold, and snuff into the nostrils at each time. After the gargling and snuffing, a little vaseline, or cosmoline, mutton tallow, or some sweet oil, or sweet almond oil, should be introduced into each nostril with the finger.
Remarks. — Follow this course faithfully, and for a considerable time, in catarrh, if any good is expected to result; also use occasionally some good cathartic to act freely, together with an alterative and tonic course of medicine.
5. Sore Throat, Common Gargle for.— For common case of sore throat, a valuable gargle can generally be made at almost any dinner table.
Directions. — Take % pt. tumbler, or common goblet, and put into it a small salt cellar of salt (about 2 tea-spoonfuls), Vi tea-spoonful of black pepper, and a little cayenne (3 or 4 little taps on the bottom of the cruet, or pepper-box containing it, will be sufficient; a tea-spoonful or two of pepper-sauce, if on the table, is better than the cayenne powder), then fill the tumbler with cider vine- gar and water, equal parts, stir well, a few times, and gargle with it often.
Remarks. — If you have alum and borax in the house, about J^ tea-spoon- ful of each, pulverized, may be put in, or if only one of them, 3^ tea-spoonful will improve the gargle. (Other gargles will be found in connection with the subject of diphtheria.)
6. Sore Throat, Several Simple Remedies for. — The follow- ing are some of the most common, or simple, remedies for sore throat, easily obtained and often effectual:
I Salt and water is used by many as a gargle; but a little alum and honey dissolved in sage tea is better.
II. Others, a few drops of camphor on loaf sugar, which very often affords immediate relief.
III. An application of cloths wrung out of hot water and applied to the neck, changed as often as it begins to cool, has great potency in removing in- flammation in recent cases.
IV Borax the size of a pea in the mouth relieves hoarseness quickly (See also hoarseness, bronchitis, etc., for other remedies.)
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SORE ITOSE — Akin to Erysipelas — Certain Cure.— I had a
case of sore nose, a very bad case, which nothing in the ordinary line of trea^ ment would benefit at all, except for a very short time. The sufferer would cry out: " Cannot something be done to relieve this intolerable suffering," etc. Directions — I prepared a little stick, 3 or 4 inches in length, and wound it vdth 3 or 4 thicknesses of cotton cloth, wrapped with thread, and dipped this Into the full strength muriated tincture of iron, and held it firmly, for J^ min- ute, or so, to each spot, and over the inflamed nose, and to the inner edges, where it was sorest. The first moment or two it smarted like fire, but I held it the more firmly and said never mind that, it won't be so bad next time. So night and morning, for 3 or 4 days, then once daily as much longer, made a perfect cure — now over 6 months, without the least return and no sign of soreness remaining. I should continue to apply for a month or more, if ne- cssary, or until cured. I gave him also internally 5 drops of the same tinc- ture 3 times daily in a little water. Of course he had an iron-colored nose, but a piece of lemon rubbed on a few times soon removed that ornamental shade and left him all right again, the same as it will remove recent iron rust spots from clothing.
Sore Fingers of Printers, etc., to Cure and Blood Blisters to Prevent. — I. Generally a compositor's (type-setter's) sore fingers result from lye, low cases, splinters, scratches in handling brass rule, paper cuts, type poison, etc., and often occasion loss of time, expensive doctoring and great pain. For these sores a correspondent writes: " I have never lost an hour from business, nor been put to more than a trifling expense. Plentiful and frequent application of laudanum has been my panacea (cure all). It also cleanses, re- moves the soreness and rapidly heals old sores."
II. Blood blisters may be prevented from forming by immediately rub- bing the bruise briskly with any non-poisonous hard substance. — London Pho- netic Journal.
Rtmarks. — The fact here given as to the curative action of laudanum upon 8ore fingers, and old sores, is that laudanum alone would be valuable upon all ordinary chaps, or cracks upon the hands, lips, etc. , no matter from what cause they may have arisen, as the opium relieves the pain, and the alcohol in it stim- ulates the parts to heal.
CARBUNCLE— Treatment Which Saves Pain and Soreness — Also Applicable to Boils. — Having just passed through a three weeks, siege with a six hole carbuncle, I feel competent to tell others how I saved myself much pain, soreness and suffering, although it is bad enough when all has been done that can be done for relief.
"What it might have proved without my mitigating treatment, I do not know; it was the agony that compelled me to adopt some plan of relief; hence I took:
I. A mild liniment, Mrs. Chase's, given in this book (any mild liniment •will do), 2 ozs. ; chloroform, 1 oz. ; laudanum, 1 oz. ; mixed. Shaken, when used, and applied every hour or two, night and day. There were only short
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catches of sleep for about two weeks; after which, an hour or two was occa' Bionally obtained.
After applying the above mixture freely at each time, I then applied the following anodyne, emollient, or softening mixture:
11. Sweet oil, 7 drs. ; laudanum, 1 dr. ; mix. The application of the fore- going mixtures would relieve very much of the agonizing pain, even before I would be done applying the first; and the second kept the surface soft, as well as to help keep down the pain. (The same thing will be just as effectual for boils, I have not a doubt.) The situation was such that no poulticing could have been done, if desired, to hasten it; and even if it could, I have never known one under the poulticing process to subside in less than 5 or 6 weeks, while by the above process nearly all the pain and soreness subsided in 3 weeks.
At one time I thought it was going to repeat itself: but by the application of the permanganate of potash, 1 dr. to 1 oz. of water, applied by rolling up a strip of cotton cloth, and tieing a bit of cord around it in the centre, the size of the roll being just to fill the mouth of the vial, by which means I could wet one end of the roll of cloth without spilling it upon the clothing (permanganate colors the clothes), and apply to the swelling, it was driven back, or scattered, and by taking an active cathartic dose of crab-orchard salts (any active cathartic will do the same) it was carried out of the system.
2. Carbuncle, Specific for. — R. H. Johnson, in the Medical Beview, Bays, he has found tannin a specific for carbuncle. He sprinkles the tannin upon the openings as long as it will dissolve; and 24 hours after washes off with castile soap, and sprinkles it again. He claims it to soon heal up with but little pain. It is worthy of trial, as it can do no harm.
BOILS.— Remedy Against their Continuance.— Prof. Scud- der, in his work on Specific Medication, speaking of lime, says: Its specific use is in cases of furunculus (boil), and other inflammations of the cellular tissue (the cell-like tissue immediately under the skin) terminating in suppura- tion. Why it has this specific influence I do not propose to say, but I have proven it in scores of cases. Taken in a case in which boils are continually developed, the use of lime water will effect a radical cure. [The proper strength for lime water to be used in these cases, in fact, in all cases, is: stone lime, 4 ozs.; distilled water, 1 gal., or in these proportions. Slack the lime with a little of the water, then pour the rest of the water over it and stir; cover the bowl and set aside for three hours; then bottle and keep the liquor upon the lime, well corked, and use only the clear liquid as wanted.] See " Milk Diet for Infants and Adults.". Dose— It is given in doses of a wine-glassful, 3 or 4 times a day. If too alkaline use additional water.
This lime water is often very properly used with the milk fed to infants which have to be raised upon the bottle; a tea-spoonful to a bottle of milk, or suf- ficient to prevent acidity of the stomach; and it is also valuable in Dyspepsia in adults when there are acid eructations of gas, or, as commonly called, belching or rifting of wind from the stomach, after eating. Dose — For adults in these dyspepsia cases, 3 or 4 table-spoonfuls to a bowl of milk , suflicient only is
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needed to keep down the acidity. See " Dyspepsia, Milk and Lime Water, Cure for." Lime water can often be borne by patients who cannot take the. salts of soda, or potash. This also proves its value and adaptation to the human system,
2. Boils— To Relieve the Pain of and to Scatter.— The pain of boils, it is said, can be relieved very much by frequently applying castor-oil on the parts.
Painting a boil with tincture of iodine, it is also claimed, scatters tnem; but I prefer to scatter them by frequently applying a strong liniment. I have recently scattered two from my own neck in this way. I used Dr. Chase's golden oil, or strong camphor liniment; I think I applied it at least fifteen differ- ent times in the day, rubbing over the boil hard and long at each application, which scattered it, and is doing so again, at this writing, so that I see they are in the system, and I have therefore made 1 qt. of the lime water (1 oz. stone lime to 1 qt.), and am going to use it, expecting I shall thus cleanse the blood and eradicate them — the boils from the system or blood. It did do it, as I have not had any more, or any indications of them, now over four months, after writing the above.
3. Boils, Alterative Syrup for. — Blue flag and black cohosh root, each 1 oz. ; yellow dock root and the bark of the root of bitter-sweet, Peruvian bark, the bark of the root of sassafras and prickly ash berries, each J^ oz. ; pyrophosphate of iron, 2% drs. ; whiskey, J^ pt. ; glycerine, 6 ozs. ; water, 12 ozs. Directions. — The barks, roots and berries are to be coarsely ground, or bruised, then steeped in water in a covered dish, to leave, when strained, 1 pt,; then add the glycerine, whiskey and pyrophosphate of iron. Dose — A tea- spoonful 4 times daily, at meals and at bed-time.
Remarks. — This is not only a valuable alterative in boils, but to follow the treatment of inflammations, after the acute stages have been overcome by cool- ing purgatives, such as salts, seidlitz powder or cream of tartar, attention to the skin, etc., especially so if there is a scrofulous tendency, or considerable debil- ity, shown by the loss of strength, flesh, etc.
1. MILK IN DIARRHEA, DYSENTERY, INCIPIENT CHOLERA, TYPHOID FEVER, ETC.— Considerable has lately been said in medical journals concerning the value of milk as a remedial agent in certain diseases. An interesting article upon this subject lately appeared in the London MUk Journal, in which it is stated, on the authority of Dr. Benjamin Clark, that in the East Indies warm milk is used to a great extent as a specific for Diarrhea.
I. For DiarrJiea. — A pint every 4 hours will check the most violent di- arrhea, stomach-ache, incipient cholera and dysentery. The milk should never be boiled, but only heated sufficient to be agreeably warm, not too hot to drink. [The author would say 140" Fah. is as hot as one can take it comfortably with a tea-spoon.] Milk which has been boiled is unfit for use. He continues: It has never failed in curing in from 6 to 12 hours, and I have tried it, I should think, fifty times. I have alao given it to a dying man who had been subject
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to dysentery 8 months, latterly accompanied by one continual diarrhea, and ft acted on him lilie a charm. In 2 days his diarrhea was gone, in 3 weeks he be- came a hale, fat man, and now nothing that may hereafter occur will ever shake his faith in hot milk.
II. For Typhoid Fever. — Another writer also communicates to the Med' ical Times and Gazette a statement of the value of milk in 26 cases of typhoid fever, in every one of which its great value was apparent, checking diarrhea, nourishing and cooling the body.
III. For Debilitating Diseases. — People suffering from disease require food quite as much as those in health, and much more so in certain ■ diseases, where there is rapid waste of the system. Frequently all ordinary food, in some diseases, is rejected by the stomach, and even loathed by the patient; but nature, even in all disease, is beneficient, and has furnished a food that is bene- ficial— in some, directly curative. Such a food is milk. The writer, Dr. Alex- ander Yale, after giving particular observations upon the points above men- tioned, viz.: Its action in checking diarrhea, its nourishing properties and its action in cooling the body says: " We believe that milk nourishes in fever, pro- motes sleep, wards off delirium, soothes the intestines, and in fine is the sine qua non (an indispensable — just the thing) in typhoid fever."
IV. For Scarlet Fever. — The writer goes on to say he has lately tested the value of milk in scarlet fever, and learns that it is now recommended by the medical faculty in all cases of this often very distressing disease of children. He says:
Give all the milk the patient will take, even during the period of greatest fever; it keeps up the strength of the patient, acts well upon the stomach, and is in every way a blessed thing in this sickness. Parents, remember it, and do not fear to give it if your dear ones are afflicted with this disease.
2. Milk as a Medicine. — Under the head of "Milk as a Medicine," the American Journal of Medicine, of St. Louis, says that this article, once looked upon with distrust, has now become a valuable agent in treatment of disease, and is, on all hands, recommended by practitioners of medicine as being a safe and reliable article in the list of curables. Given warm it is declared to be almost a specific (positive cure) in diarrhea, stomach-ache, incipi- ent cholera and dysentery. It is also pronounced invaluable in typhoid fever.
II. The Journal then quotes the sentence of Dr. Yale, given in III above, and closes by saying that he also agrees with the opinion of Dr, Benjamin Clark, in the London Milk Journal, given in I.
Remarks. — I understand that the milk is not to be boiled, that it is to be heated only to allow its being drank without scalding the mouth or throat. There can be no doubt of its efficacy with such an amount of testimony from the medical profession in India, England and America. See also " Treatment of Scarlet Fever with Sulphur," wherein I have recommended the milk to be also used.
3. Milk Diet, with Lime Water— For Infants ana Adults who have "Weak Digestive Powers.— Dr. H. N. Ch^man says that
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milk and lime water is not only food and medicine at an early period of life, but also later, when, as in the case of infants, the functions of digestion and assimilation have been seriously impaired. A stomach taxed by gluttony, irritated by improper food, inflamed by alcohol, enfeebled by disease, or other- wise unfitted for its duties, as is shown by the various symptoms attendant upon indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery and fever, will resume its work, and do it energetically, on an exclusive diet of lime water and milk. A goblet of cow's milk to which 4 table-spoonfuls of lime water has been added, will agree with any person, however objectionable the plain article may be, will be friendly to the stomach when other food is apprehensive, and will be digested when all else fails to afford nourishment. Of this statement I have had positive proof in very many cases. The blood being thin, the nerves weak, the nutrition poor, the secretions defective, the excretions insufficient, the physician has at hand a remedy as common as the air, and as common, almost as water. In it all the elements of nutrition are so prepared by nature as to be^ readily adapted to the infant or the adult stomach, and so freighted with healing virtues as to work a cure where drugs are worse than useless.
Remarks. — It certainly needs no further remarks to show the estimation that milk is now held in. Let it be used accordingly, with the lime water, and you will also be satisfied.
4. Milk an Antidote and Preventive to Lead Poison. — The
Journal de Medicine states, upon authority, that milk has been found to be an antidote and preventive to lead poisoning by those working in its manufacture. (Why not, then, for painters?)
A quart a day was furnished to each man, after which no colic nor other harm to health occurred.
The remedy is simple, easily obtained, and no doubt effectual. Used as a drink during the day would be the manner of taking it. See also its vise in "Accidental Poisoning."
5. Milk as an Aliment or Food. — So much has been said on the use of milk as a medicine in diseased conditions of the system, it is but proper to say it ought to enter into our daily food to a very much greater extent than it does. It is believed to be good for children; but I beg leave to say it is as good for adults as it is for children ; and if every family would adopt the old plan of corn-meal mush and milk for supper for everyone in the family, as we used to do in an earlier day, the general health of the people would be better than it is. If it produces costiveness, in any case, put in a little lime water, or a little baking soda; but with the mush there is no danger of this,
6. Milk, Hot, as a Restorative after Fatigue. — A glass of hot milk, when one is fatigued, is so refreshing and strengthening it will astonish the one who takes it. A supper, made with a couple slices of toasted bread in a bowl of hot milk, is very satisfactory in the absence of the mush mentioned above.
1. SCARLET FEVER— Successful Treatment of.— Dr. Henry Pigeon writes to the London Lancet as follows:
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" The marvellous success which has attended my treatment of scarlet fever by sulphur induces me to let my medical brethren know of my plan, so that they may be able to supply the same remedy without delay. All the cases in which I used it, were very marked, and the epidermis (outer or scarfskin) on the arms, in each case, came away like the skin of a snake. The following was the exact treatment followed in each case:
" The patients were thoroughly anointed twice daily with sulphur ointment [the sulphur ointment used was made by the London Pharmacopoeia as follows: sulphur, 4 ozs. ; lard, 3^ lb. ; oil of bergamot, 20 minims (drops); mixed]; giving 5 to 10 grains of sulphur in a little jam, or jelly, 3 times a day, according to the age of the child and severity of the case. Sufficient sulphur was also burned, twice daily (on coals on a shovel), to fill the room with the fumes, and, of course, was thoroughly inhaled by the patient.
" Under this mode of treatment each case improved immediately, and none was over 8 days in making a complete recovery; and I firmly believe in each; it was prevented from spreading by the treatment adopted. Having had a large experience in scarlet fever last year and this, I feel some confidence in my own judgment, and I am of the opinion that the very mildest cases I ever saw do not do half as well as bad cases do by the sulphur treatment, and as far as I can judge sulphur is as near a specific (positive cure) for scarlet fever as pos- sible."
Remarks. — I can see no reason why the milk, as indicated under the head of milk in diarrhea, dysentery, etc., may not be given with the sulphur treat- ment; I believe both to be good; and as I see the medical journals speak with such confidence of Dr. Pigeon's sulphur treatment, I place also great confi- dence in it, and recommend it most heartily.
2. Scarlet Fever, Sulphurous Acid Treatment of.— Dr. L.
Waterman, of Indianapolis, Ind., in an epidemic there, in 1876, gives his expe- rience in the use of sulphurous acid. He says:
"I early adopted an anti-zymotic (anti-poisoning) principle, the administra- tion of 10 to 30 drops, every 2, 3, or 4 hours, of sulphurous acid, diluted, in a little water. I treated eleven severe cases. The ten treated after its adop- tion recovered. "
3. Scarlet Fever, Simple Remedy, or "Warm Lemonade for.
— An eminent physician says he cures 99 out of every 100 cases of scarlet fever by giving the patient warm lemonade with gum arable dissolved in it. A cloth wrung out in hot water and laid upon the stomach should be removed as rapidly as it becomes cool.
Remarks. A writer in Good HeaXih gives the philosophy of the above treatment, with the warm lemonade, with an addition (which I know to be val- uable), the wet hot sheet, or pack, over or around the whole body, guaranteeing that not one in one hundred will die of scarlet fever, if this treatment is pro- perly carried out. He says:
4. Scarlet Fever, Unnecessary for a Child to die with it.—
" It is as unnecessary for a child to die of scarlet fever, as it is that it should be blind with cataract. Let us see: At any time before the body has finished its ineffectual struggle we are able to help it, not by wonderful medicines, but by the knowledge of anatomy, and the application of common sense. * * * * Undress the child and place it in bed at the very first sign of sickness. Give it, if it has already fever, sourish warm lemonade, with some gum arable in it,
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Then cover its abdomen with some dry flannel. Take a well folded bed sheet and put it in boiling water; wring it out and put this over the whole body and wait. The hot cloth will perhaps require repeated heating; according to the severity of the case and its stage of progress. Perspiration will commence in the child in from 10 minutes to 2 hours. The child then is saved; it soon falls asleep. The hot, wet sheet must be continued, however, till perspiration takes place. Soon after the child awakes it shows slight symptoms of returning in- clinations for food; help its bowels, if necessary, with injections of oil, "oap and water, and its recovery will be as steady as the growth of a green-house plant, if well treated. Of course if the child is already dying nothing can save it. With this treatment I will guarantee that not one in a hundred chil- dren with scarlet fever will die."
Remarks. — I once succeeded in curing scarlet fever in one of my own chil- dren, before I had read medicine, by the cold pack, or sheet, but I should not try it again — I know the hot is better — the strain or struggle of the system being much less, and consequently the most safe and satisfactory. There is no doubt of the value of the foregoing treatment, but any of the others may be tried, according to the conveniences to be obtained in different places.
5. Scarlet Fever and Small Pox— Successful Treatment. —
Dr. W. Fields, of Wilmington, Delaware, says to one of the medical journals: " Having had much experience in the cure of scarlet fever and small pox of the most malignant type, I would thank you, for the sake of humanity, to publish a recipe, which, if faithfully carried out, will cure 45 cases out of every 50, without calling on a physician.
I. Scarlet Fever. — " For adults give 1 table-spoonful of brewers' yeast in 3 table-spoonfuls of water, 3 times a day; and if the throat is much swollen gar-
fle with the yeast, and apply the yeast to the throat as a poultice; mix with ndian meal. Use plenty of catnip tea to keep the eruption out on the skin for several days.
II. Small Pox. — " Use the above doses of yeast 3 times a day, and milk diet throughout the disease. Nearly every case can be cured without leaving a pock mark."
Remarks. — I have had this used, in scarlet fever, with very great satisfaction.
6. Scarlet Fever— Length of Time Dangerous to Others.—
In this disease the parent and the school teacher are often concerned to know how long a time must elapse before it is safe to admit those who have had the disease to mingle with other children, or with the family, and go to school.
For a month, at least, the body of a scarlet fever patient is casting off scales, or particles, from the skin. The nose, throat, bowels and kidneys are also throwing off poisonous matter for this length of time, which will commu- nicate the disease to others. The cliief danger, however, is from the skin, as this is the main outlet for the blood poison to escape, and every scale or parti- cle of dry dust from the skin carries the infection.
Therefore greasing tlie patient, by rubbing a bacon rind over them, which, by some, has been recommended as beneficial to the patient, will certainty do this good, i. e. it will keep these minute scales from rising into the air, and thus prevent the communication of the disease to others from this source. Bu* a Dr. Chapin, in a communication to the Brief, of St. Louis, informs its readers
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that he has used the ham fat (as he calls the bacon rind) in every case for 20 years, and has lost but few patients since using it, and must have treated some hundreds, and gives the following as his plan; "As soon as I diagnose (i. e., determine it to be) a case of scarlet fever, I have the patient put on Canton flan- nel, or better, if in winter, tine all wool underclothing; then cut a piece of rind from a pretty fat, fresh smoked ham, with a half inch of the fat upon it; then warm the hand, also the slice of ham, rub the hand on the fat, and then on the patient, till they are well covered, except the face. (The author cannot see why the fat may not be rubbed directly upon the surface, rather think it is the best plan, then rub it in with the hand.) Do this night and morning as long as the eruptions and fever continue; put them in bed, cover up warm and give as much cold water as they hke. (I prefer the warm lemonade if agreeable to the child, as named above in No. 3.) The greasing is very satisfactory, allaying the burning and itching, which are so annoying." (See also the sulphur oint- ment in No. 1 of scarlet fever; note for making it.)
7. Scarlet Fever— To Prevent its Spread. — Scarlet fever has been so prevalent and so fatal, for several years past, it has become of the utmost importance to prevent its spreading in schools as well as in families, and the above thoughts and statements being so fully corroborated by the following cir- cular, prepared by the Boston Board of Health, and sent to every house in that city, I have deemed it best to give it in full. It says:
I. " Scarlet fever is like small pox in its power to spread rapidly from person to person. It is highly contagious (catching). The disease shows its first signs in about one weefi after e.xposure, as a general rule, and persons who escape the illness during a fortnight after exposure may feel themselves safe from attack. Scarlet fever, scarlatina, canker, rash and rash fever, are names of one and the same dangerous disease.
II. " When a case of scarlet fever occurs in any family, the sick person should be placed in a rot)m apart from the other inmates of the house (an upper room is best), and should be nursed as far as possible by one person only. The sick chamber should be well ventilated and well warmed; its furniture should be such as will permit of cleansing without injury, and all extra articles, such as window drapery and woolen carpets, should be removed from the room. The family should not mingle with other people. Visitors to an infected house should be warned of the presence of a dangerous disease therein, and children especially should not be admitted.
III. " On recovery the sick person should not mingle with the well until the roughness of the skin, due to the disease, shall have disappeared. A month is considered an average period during which isolation is needed. The clothing before being worn or used by the patient or the nurse, should be cleansed by boiling for at least one hour, or if that cannot be done, by free and prolonged exposure to out door air and sunlight. The walls of the room should be dry- rubbed, and the cloths used for that purpose should be burned without previ- ous shaking. The ceiling should be .scraped and whitewashed, the floor should be washed with soap and water, and carbolic acid may be added to the water, 1 pt. to 3 or 4 gals. The infected clothing should be cleansed by itself, and not sent to the laundry.
IV. " In cases of death from scarlet fever, the funeral services should be strictly private, and the corpse should not be exposed to view. Because chil- dren are especially liable to take and to spread scarlet fever, and because
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schools afford a free opportunity for this, the Board of Health has excluded from school every child from any family in which a case of the disease has occurred, and has decreed that the absence shall continue four weeks from the beginning of the attack, except in cases subject to the discretion of the Board, and that the scholar to be re-admitted to his school-room must have the certifi- cate of a physician that the required time has passed."
Remarks. — I think the above directions are so plainly given that they will be readily understood, and if properly followed out, the spread of this disease will be almost, if not wholly prevented. I will say, however, that the use of the carbolic acid is not as much used as a disinfectant as formerly. See " Cop- peras Solution of the National Board." This and zinc solution will answer for all purposes, and are not only cheap, but absolutely reliable.
1. TYPHOID FEVER — Treatment in Its More Malignant Character. — The malignant character of this disease not being as prevalent in the North as in the South, I will first give the treatment used by Dr. J. J. Jones, of Conway Station, Ark., reported through the Medical Brief, of St. Louis, who has treated this disease in all its grades for over 25 years. "When it takes on its malignant character of dysentery or pneumonia, which are inflammatory and dangerous if not properly met or treated in their commencement, he said that after testing various modes of treatment, he adopted the following:
I. First cleanse the alimentary canal with syrup of rhubarb and bi-carbon- ate of soda.
IL Follow this with spirits of turpentine, 30 drops; oil of sassafras, 6 drops; tinct. opium (laudanum) 25 drops; mix into well beaten whites of two eggs well sweetened with loaf sugar. Dosk — Give an adult 1 table-spoonful of this emulsion every 3 hours.
III. If the pulse is full and firm, and over 100 per minute, give the fol- lowing: Tincture of gelseminum, 1 oz. ; fluid extract of aconite (of the root is best), 3^ dr. ; spirits of niter, 2^^ drs. ; mix. Dose — Give 10 to 15 drops, for an adult, every 3 hours, until the pulse drops below 100. [The author would say, keep the pulse under 100, giving this alternately with the emulsion — first one, then, 1)4 hours after, the other; but these drops must not be continued to reduce the pulse much below 100 at the first. If it does this, lessen the dose, or make it 4 or 5 hours apart.]
lY. To control the temperature (heat of the surface), if it runs very high, which it frequently does, we resort to the wet sheet pack, as It is an important agent in the successful treatment of typhus and typhoid fevers. Use vinegar and spirits of camphor in place of water to wet the sheet, as it is much more sedative (calming, allaying irritation and pain), and less dangerous than water. After the pulse and temperature is brought below 100, we give large doses of tinct. of iron (muriated tinct. of iron is meant, and 15 to 20 drops would be large enough, once in 3 or 4 hours), checking the diarrhea, which is so common in typhoid fever. Alternate this (the iron tincture) with pure hard cider or lemonade. Diet: dried-beef tea, and milk gruel seasoned with pepper; give egg-nog if there are pneumonic symptoms.
Remarks. — It would be well to say here, see " Use of Milk in Diarrhea»
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Dysentery, etc." I also say that my own plan has been to sponge the whole surface with bay rum and water (equal parts), sufficiently often to keep down the excessive heat; and if bay rum is too expensive, use whiskey and water — warm, if preferred by the patient; or vinegar and spirits of camphor will be good, if the heat is not too excessive. The bay rum, however, is more agree- able in flavor, especially for use about the face and hands. The patient can do this face sponging as often as the heat demands it, keeping a dish of the mix- ture and a small sponge near for the purpose. If the sponging, in place of the wet sheet, is resorted to, let it be done as often as the comfort of the patient demands it — doing it under tlie bed clothes, to avoid any exposure to cold air.
The lemonade recommended by Dr. Jones, or some of the drinks for fever patients in other parts of this work, would be very desirable; but what he calls "pure hard cider," unless reduced with cold water, would generally, I think, be a little too " hard; " however, it can soon be ascertained by trial. Whatever the patient craves in the line of drink or food, I believe in allowing moderately; and never to refuse even cold water right from the well or spring, as old allo- pathy used to do in the years " auld lang syne," by which, I have not a doubt, thousands of persons, burning up with fever, have lost their lives, where, if water had been allowed, they might just as well have been saved to their friends and usefulness. So well satisfied am I of this, that I cannot but give an inci- dent reported recently by a Dr. Fairchild while lecturing in New York. Touch- ing upon the old plan of the doctors not allowing water to fever patients, he gives the case of his uncle in the South, while slavery was in force, as follows:
" My own uncle, for one, lay, as we supposed, at the point of death.
"A trusty old colored man, his watchman, was called to his bed about mid- night. Speaking just above a whisper, he said:
" 'Abe, I am going to ask of you just one last request. Will you grant it? '
" ' Yes, massa, anything you ask, I do.'
" ' Take the old wooden jug; go to the spring back of the barn, fill it with cold water and bring it to me quick.'
" 'Oh, massa, massa, anything else you ask, I'll do. Do you know what missus and doctor said? — ' no water, no water.' '
" 'Abe, you go; if you don't and I live, I'll shoot you dead.'
"After deliberating for a moment, he said, 'Massa, I go.'
" It was brought to him. He drank his fill. By morning every drop was gone. The fever broke. He fell into a quiet, peaceful sleep, and was soon restored to health. And not until then, was any one told what cured him.
" Such examples as these finally changed the system of treating fevers. In this specific disease common sense is, at last, master of the situation."
It is to be hoped that such a condition of suffering and final death, as above spoken of, may never be allowed to gain the ascendency with any class of phy- sicians again.
2. Typhoid Fever, the Value of Coffee in.— Dr. Guillasse, of the French Navy, on typhoid fever, says: "Coffee has given us unhoped for satisfaction; after having dispensed it, we find, to our great surprise, that its action is as prompt as it is decisive. No sooner have our patients taken a few table-spoonfuls of it than their features become relaxed, and they come to their senses. The next day the improvement is such that we are tempted to look upon coffee as a specific (positive cure) for typhoid fever. Under its influence
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the stupor is dispelled, and the patient rouses from the state of somnolency in which he has been since the invasion of the disease. Soon all the functions take their natural course, and he enters upon convalescence." Dose — Dr. Guil- lasse gives to an adult 2 or 3 table-spoonfuls of strong, black coffee every two hours, alternated with 1 or 2 tea-spoonfuls of claret or Burgundy wine. A little lemonade or citrate of magnesia should be taken daily, and after awhile qui- nine. From the fact that malaria and cerebral fever appear first, i. e., a gen- eral prostration, with head, or brain fever, accompanied with stupor, or great tendency to sleep, somnolency, from the Latin soimuis, to sleep. The doctor regards typhoid fever as a nervous disease, and the coffee acting on the nerves is peculiarly indicated in the early stages before local complications arise.
DISINFECTANTS FOR ALL CONTAGIOUS DISEASES— FOR
THE SICK-ROOM, BODY AND BED-CLOTHING,
WATER-CLOSETS, SEWERS, ETC.
The following instructions were published in the Hospital Gazette by the National Board of Health, which was composed of some of the most promi- nent men in the medical profession, as will be seen by the names accompanying the instructions.
" Disinfection is the destruction of the poisons of infectious and contagious diseases.
" Deodorizers, or substances which destroy smells, are not necessarily dis- infectants, and disinfectants do not necessarily have an odor.
'• Disinfection cannot compensate for want of cleanliness|nor of ventilation.
1. Disinfectants to be Employed.— I. " Roll sulphur (brimstone) for fumigation.
II. Copperas Solution. — " Sulphate of iron (copperas) dissolved in water in the proportion of ly^ lbs. to 1 gal. ; for soil, sewers, etc.
[The author, during the present summer, (in the month of August, 1882,) dissolved 3 lbs. of common copperas in a common wooden pail, holding about 2% or 3 gals , by pouring on hot water, and with an old dipper threw it all about on the privy used by about 15 persons, which so completely deodorized and disinfected it that it required no more until late in the season.]
III. Zinc Solution. — Sulphate of zinc and common salt, dissolved together in water in the proportions of 4 ozs. sulphate and 2 ozs. of salt to 1 gal. ; for clothing, bed linen, etc.
" Note. — Carbolic acid is not included in the above list for the following reasons: It is very diflicult to determine the quality of the commercial article, and the purchaser can never be certain of securing it of proper strength; it is- expensive, when of good quality, and experience has shown that it must be employed in comparatively large quantities to be of any use; besides it is liable, by its strong odor, to give a false sense of security.
2. How to Use Disinfectants.- 1. " In the Sick Room.— "Tha mo^.i valuable agents are fresh air and cleanliness. The clothing, towels, bed linen, etc , should, on removal from the patient, and before they are taken from the room, be placed in a pail or tub of the zinc solution, boiling hot if possible. All discharges should either be received in ves.sels containing the copperas solu tion, or, when this is impracticable, should be immediatery covered with the
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solution. All vessels used about the patient should be cleansed or rinsed with the same. Unnecessary furniture — especially that which is stuffed — carpets and hangings, should, when possible, be removed from the room at the outset; otherwise they should remain for subsequent fumigation, as next explained.
II. " Fumigation. — Fumigation with sulphur is the only practical method for disinfecting the hou.se. For this reason the rooms to be disinfected must be vacated. Heavy clothing, blankets, bedding, and other articles which can- not be treated with the zinc solution, should be opened and exposed during fumigation, as next directed. Close the rooms tightly as possible, place the sulphur in iron pans supported upon bricks placed in wash-tubs containing a little water, set it on fire by hot coals or with the aid of a spoonful of alcohol, and allow the room to remain closed 24 hours. For a room about 10 feet square at least 2 lbs. of sulphur should be used; for larger rooms, proportionally in- creased quantities.
III. "Premises. — Cellars, yards, stables, gutters, privies, cesspools, water- closets, drains, sewers, etc. , should be frequently and liberally treated with the copperas solution, No. 2. The copperas solution is easily prepared by hanging a basket containing about 60 lbs. of copperas, in a barrel of water. [This would be 13?^ lbs. to the gallon, or about that. It should all be dissolved.]
IV. " Body and Bed- Clothing, etc. — It is best to burn all articles which have been in contact with persons sick with contagious or infectious diseases. Articles too valuable to be destroyed should be treated as follows:
"(a.) Cotton, linen, flannels, blankets, etc., should be treated with the boiling hot zinc solution; introduce piece by piece; secure thorough wetting, and boil for at least half an hour.
" (6.) Heavy woolen clothing, silks, furs, stuffed bed-covers, beds, and other articles which cannot be treated with the zinc solution, should be hung in the room during the fumigation, their surfaces thoroughly exposed, and the pockets turned inside out. Afterward they should be hung in the open air, beaten and shaken. Pillows, beds, stuffed mattrasses, 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.
V. " Corpses. — Corpses should be thoroughly washed with a zinc solution of double strength; should then be wrapped in a sheet wet with zinc solution, and buried at once. Metallic, metal-lined, or air-tight cofilns should be used when possible, certainly when the body is to be transported for any considera- ble distance. The following named gentlemen composed the board: George F. Barker, M. D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelplaia; C. F. Chandler, M. D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, Health Department, New York; Henry Draper, M. D., University of the city of New York; Edward G. Janeway, M. D., Bellevue Medical College, Health Department, New York; Ira Remson, M. D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. ; S. O. Vanderpoel, M. D., Albany Medical College, Albany, N. Y.; Health Department, New York, Health Officer of the Port of New York."
Remarks. — Certainly no commendation of mine is needed to give strength to these instructions, as the most implicit confidence should be placed in them, coming, as they do, from the highest authority in the United States upon mat- ters of this kind. I will add, however, that no time should be lost in using them as soon as an occasion calls for them. The copperas solution I have found entirely satisfactory. See also "Note," following Dr. Scott's treatment of diphtheria, upon the permanganate of potash as a disinfectant; also see the "Nitrate of Lead as a Disinfectant in Small-pox," and also the " Use of Yeast and a Milk Diet in Scarlet Fever and Small-pox." It is well to keep all these
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valuable things before the mind, to be able to save pain and suffering of our fellow creatures.
1. SMALL-POX — A Certain Cure. — Wm. Grandy, of Detroit, communicated the following item of Mr. Hines' to the Detroit Tribune, which he had seen in the Toronto Weekly Globe, with these remarks:
" Small-pox being so fatal and so much feared, an unfailing remedy like the following, so simple and so safe, once discovered, ought to be brought to the knowledge of the masses without hesitation or delay. "
"I am willing," says Edward Hines," to risk my reputation as a public man if the worst case of small-pox cannot be cured in three days simply by cream of tartar. This is the sure and never-failing remedy Cream of tartar, 1 oz., dissolved in boiling wat«r, 1 pt. ; to be drank when cold, at short intervals. It can be taken at any time and is a preventative as well as a curative. It is known to have cured thousands of cases without fail. I have myself restored hundreds by this means. It never leaves a mark, never causes blindness, and always prevents tedious lingering."
Remarks. — Although this seems to be very strong language, yet I have never seen it disputed, nor have I seen by any reports of cases that it has been adopted in this country; but, as it is deemed very important to keep the bowels in asolvent condition in this disease, no better and no safer medicine can be adopted for this purpose. Let it be used, by all means.
2. Small-Pox — A Cure for, or Relief in. — As the prevention or cure of this disease is a question that concerns every person, we take the fol- lowing from the New York Journal of Commerce, one of the most conservative and reliable dailies published in this country
" A lady, the mother of six children, had often sought relief for a pain in the back by taking saltpeter and brandy. She was exposed to the small-pox and contracted the disease. The premonitory symptoms were violent fever, severe pain in the head and excruciating pain in the region of the kidneys. A physician was called during the night, but in doubt as to the nature of the dis ease, though suspecting it to be a case of small-pox, he made no prescription, promising to return early next morning. The fever and pain increasing, she begged her husband to prepare for her the old prescription of saltpeter and brandy. The brandy was not to be had, but he crushed a piece of saltpeter as large as a common white bean. This she took in a tea-spoonful of cold water. Feeling better, the dose was once or twice repeated. Pain soon sub- sided and she slept well during the remainder of the night and awakened feel- ing perfectly well. She had 60 well defined pustules in her face, but they were but slightly inflamed and not at all painful. The developments of small-pox on her entire person were in number and appearance in keeping with those on her face. In due time all her children and her husband were affected, as she had been, by fever and pain in the head and back. They received the same treatment with the same favorable result. Several families caught the disease, used the same remedy, and in every case the resuli was favorable."
Remarks. — Not long after preparing the above given, I saw a report that "Mexican doctors were curing small-pox in 3 days, and no marks left," by the use of cream of tartar and water, which would go to strengthen the idea that Mr Hines' treatment above given is reliable
3 Small-Pox Pitting, to Prevent.— It is well known that patients in rooms that are well lighted, pit very much more than in darkened rooms. I should, then, have the room as dark as possible for small pox patients; and not
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only this, but should cover the face, neck and hands with black cambric, or muslin, cut and made into suitable shape to keep oflf, or out, all possible rays of light. (The rays that make the chemical changes in photographing are absorbed into the pus, so changing it as to produce the deep pitting.) Certainly, then, no trouble, nor inconvenience, necessary to avoid this should be considered for a moment, to save a life-long annoyance, that none of us would like to have placed upon us by the terrible pitting we often see. Then take all these pre- cautions and avoid it, certainly not overlooking the yeast and milk diet, before named; or pursue the following plan, as practiced in China:
4. Small-Pox, to Prevent Pitting, Practiced in the English Army in China. — It is very simple and easily followed, and if a blister on the arm of a diptheritic patient will draw off the irritation from the throat, as it has done, why should not this cause the small-pox eruption to come out on such parts ? It is done in this way: When the fever, which always precedes the eruption, is at its highest, and before the eruption appears, rub the chest with croton oil and tartar emetic ointment, which causes the whole eruption to appear on that part of the body, to the relief of the face ; and as it is claimed also to cause a full eruption to appear, it prevents its attack upon internal organs, which is usually fatal. It is claimed by the German Reformed Messen- ger to be done in the English army in China by general order. It was reported through the Medical Brief, 1883, page 550, by J. A. Proctor, M. D., of Union City, Ind. It is worthy of trial.
5. Small-Pox, the Nitrate, or Chloride, of Lead as a Dis- infectant in. — The mode of preparing and using the nitrate, or chloride, of lead, as a disinfectant, is from the Physician and Pharmacist, as follows: Chlo- ride of lead is said to be the most powerful, safe and economical deodorizer and disinfectant known. To prepare it for use, on a small scale, for ordinary purposes, take nitrate of lead, ]4 dr- and dissolve it in hot water, 1 pt. ; dissolve also )4. oz of common salt in water, 2 galls., and mix the two solutions, which makes the chloride of lead, in solution, ready for use. A cloth wet with this and hung up in a room filled with a fetid atmosphere, will sweeten it instantly, and the solution thrown into a water-closet, sink or drain, will produce the same effect. It is not carbonic acid, but the sulphite of hydrogen and ammonium, which are eliminated with the breath and through the pores of the skin of the living body, that makes people who are exposed to such an atmosphere so de- pressed, and which, when highly concentrated, develops typhus poison, which causes, or at least aids, in developing fevers of a low grade, or typhoid charac- ter. Nitrate of lead is in dry crystals, and is sold according to its quality at 18 to 25 cts, per pound, which would make several hundred gallons of solution of chloride of lead.
Remarks. — Then let this, or those of the National Board of Health above, be used as freely as necessity insures the purification of the sick room, in all contagious diseases, cess-pools, water-closets, etc., and thus not only avoid the spreading of contagion, but prevent the development of the disease by the poisonous efl3uvia arising from these places.
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6. Small-Pox, Prevented by Vaccination.— Dr. Woolsey reported the case in the Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal as follows: "Small-pox occurred in a Chinese boarding house, at a jute factory, containing seven hun- dred and ten persons, under the same roof. Seven were sick, one of whom died, when all were vaccinated, and no other case occurred, thus exemplifying the protective power of vaccination, or of some very remarkable coincident. "
Remarks. — Webster says "coincident" is having coincidence (i. e..some circumstance), agreeing, corresponding, conmtent. I have italicised the word consistent merely to show how inconsistent it would be to suppose that any other circumstance could have given such protective power, except the vaccina- tion. Then I think I have said enough when I say there cannot be a reasonable doubt but that vaccination is not only a protection, but that it is also safe; and therefore it ought to be adopted and insisted upon by boards of health, and also by parents and guardians.
7. Small-Pox, the Origin of Vaccination for.— Upon the question of vaccination, I will give an item from Leonard's Medical Journal, of Detroit, Mich., Oct., 1883, as to the origin of this practice; which, by this item, it seems must now be given to woman — the milkmaid instead of Dr. Jenner, as hereto- fore accredited. That is, his mmd was capable of grasping or comprehending the philosophy of the fact communicated by the maid, and out of that he, Dr. Jenner, worked out the practice of vaccination which has saved millions of lives, no doubt; but it should also teach us, what some physicians have already claimed to be important, the fact that virus from the cow or some young and healthy animal should be used to vaccinate with, and not the virus from the human subject, which, it has been claimed, has communicated the disease to those vaccinated with it. Jenner, no doubt, used the virus from the cow of the " maid.' Let others do the same from other cows. The poetry, it is claimed by the above named journal, is founded upon fact; but if it is not, it shows the greater power of the rhymer's imagination. It is as follows:
"Where are you going, my pretty milkmaid?"
"To see Doctor Jenner," the milkmaid said,
'' I have such a cough, and it bothers me so, I promised Jack Robin for sure that I'd go For a draught from the Doctor to-day." And she nodded her head with so saucy a smile. That no one would think, who was looking the while. That she needed the Doctor, his pills or his plaster, I doubt she could swear that she did, if you asked her; That sunny, bright morning in May.
Ah! how little she thought, that unthinking young lass. While her little pink feet went atrip o'er the grass, If Jack Robin had not been so true to his fancy, As to fear the least whisper of harm to his Nancy,
The great loss 'twould have been to us all. But so it has proved such a number of times. As I have not the space to recount in rhymes.
Great events have beginnings so small.
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Well! to keep by my milkmaid (as long as I can), When she'd courtesied her best to the medical man, And had told (heaven bless her) how badly she felt, With such pouting red lips, and such ruddy good health.
As no doctor could hope to improve, She sat down to await his compounding her pill, And their chat led along to the terrible ill
That the small pox was threatening to prove.
Doctor Jenner looked grave when she mentioned the matter; '. He thought it too bad for so careless a chatter;
But saucy young Nancy had nothing to dread, "But few of the milkmaids would get it,' she said, " For their hands had been sore from the cows. And altho' it was horrid to milk when the beast Had her bag all broken out, it was certain, at least. To keep the small-pox from the house."
I hope Doctor Jenner, that morning in May, When he finished her pills and then sent her away. Remembered enough of the lass and the stuff
Not to give her a dose for a cow, For his mind went far off From the girl and the cough;
But what does it matter, just now? For her few simple words, while she waited. Oh! think with how much they were freighted. When Jenner's quick mind they awakened, to find How science could conquer the foe. And gave every nation that blessed Vaccination
That takes out the stmg from the blow."
1. NEURALGIA— German Cure of a Very Bad Case.— A tea
and poultice, made from the leaves of our common field-thistle, is reported to have cured a person who had suffered horrible pains from neuralgia. Failing to obtain relief in this country, and hearing of a noted physician in Germany who invariably cured the disease, he crossed the ocean and visited Germany for treatment. He was permanently cured after a short sojourn, and the doctor freely gave him the remedy as above given. Directions and Dose — The leaves are macerated (soaked or steeped in water to become very soft) and used on the parts afflicted, as a poultice, while a small quantity of the leaves are boiled down to the proportion of a quart to a pint, and a small wine-glassful of the decoction drank before each meal.
Remarks. — The gentleman says. " I have never known it to fail of giving relief, while in almost every case it has effected a cure." It is certainly simple, and easy of trial, and no doubt will prove effectual in many cases.
There must be something in this thistle-cure, for a Mr. F. K. Ford, of Shellsburgh, Iowa, who was an agent of the Chase Publishing Co., virrote to the company desiring to got the same recipe into their Receipt Book. He also sent the onion and tobacco cure for earache, which vrill be found under that head. As Mr. Ford gives a more definite mode for preparing the thistle tea, 1 will give it. It is as follows:
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1. For the Tea — Take the leaves of the large field-thistle (not Canada). [The technical or botanical name of this species of indigenous (native) Amer- ican thistle is cirsium lanceolatum. (Certainly it has many lances, or prickers, as sharp as a lance.) In western New York, where the author was raised, to distinguish it from the Canada, it was always called the " bull-thistle."] Press a gallon measure full of them ; then put in all the water it will hold ; boil down to % gal. : strain, and let cool (I should say, let cool and strain). Dose — Of this take a wine-glassful every morning before breakfast ; the same before tea.
II. For the Poultice. — Take the leaves of the same kind of thistle, put them into a clean cloth and pound to a jelly: put a layer of this on the afflicted part, bind on with cloth, every night. Be sure to get fresh leaves.
2. Neuralgia, Headache, etc., English Remedy for.— The inti- mate mixture of equal parts of chloral hydrate and camphor will produce a clear fluid, which is of the greatest value as a local application in neuralgia. Dr. Lenox Brown states, in one of the English medical journals, he has em- ployed it in his practice, and induced others to do so, and that in every case it has afforded great and, in some instances, instantaneous relief. Its success does not appear to be at all dependent on the nerve affected, it being equally efficacious in neuralgia of the larynx, and in relieving spasmodic cough of a nervous or hysterical character. It is only necessary to paint the mixture lightly over the painful part, and to allow it to dry. It never blisters, though it may occasion a tingling sensation of the skin. For headache it is also found an excellent application. Directions — Rub the two together in a mortar, which liquifies them, then bottle, and paint over the parts, lightly, as above. For toothache apply with lint, and rub upon the gums. I called upon one of the principal druggists pf Ann Arbor, Mich., where I was then living, to see if they would mix, and also to see if they would make a clear fluid, as men- tioned in the recipe; but I found he had mixed them several times for the last two years, and the result had been satisfactory. He had used the mixture per- sonally, by wetting cotton in it and putting it into a decayed tooth, but the tooth was so extensively ulcerated at the roots, although it kept down the pain, yet it had to be extracted some two montlis after. But for common neuralgic pains the rehef was generally instantaneous.
3. Neuralgia and Sciatica, Simple Home Remedy.— Dr. Eb-
rard, of Nines, France, states that he has for many years treated all his cases of neuralgic and sciatic pains with an approved apparatus, consisting merely of a flat-iron and vinegar, two things that will be found in every house. The iron is heated until sufficiently hot to vaporize the vinegar, and is then covered with some woolen fabric, which is moistened with the vinegar, and the appara- tus is applied at once to the painful part. The application may be repeated two or three times a day. Dr. Ebrard states that as a rule pain disappears in twenty-four hours, and recovery ensues at once.
4. Neuralgia, Facial— Quick and Permanent Cure.— A quick and permanent cure of this disease, says a prominent physician, can be effected by using a spray -shower of sulphuric ether upon it. The intense cold is sup-
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posed to act upon the diseased nerves, so as to produce a complete change in their nutrition and action.
Remarks — I trust it will so prove. To do it properly a spray instrument kept by druggists would have to be used, continuing its use until relieved, and if to be permanent, I should say occasionally for a few days. I know its effi- ciency in ordinary pain — why not in neuralgia? But I cannot see why apply- ing it as a liniment may not do as well.
5. Neuralgia Pill, Tonic Alterative and Stimulant for.— Quinine, 1 dr.; morphine, IJ^grs , strychnine, 1 gr. ; arsenious acid, 1]4. grs. ; solid ex. of aconite, 10 grs. ; mix very thoroughly and divide into 30 pills Dose — Take 1 pill only, 2 hours after each meal; never more than 3 daily, and never more than 1 at a time
Remarks. — This will be found a very valuable pill for neuralgia and all cases requiring tonic, alterative, anodyne or stimulating treatment, and espe- cially so far as females of a weak and feeble habit, or condition generally. Valuable in ague, or chills and fever particularly. Some will say they contain some poisonous articles, so they do, and so does most medicines; but if they are made carefully and taken only as directed they will hurt none, but benefit many. (See also remarks after next recipe; see also tonic elixir, etc.)
6. Neuralgia of the Head, Toothache, etc., Immediate Cure.
J. W, M Czartoryski, M. D., of Stockton, Cal., writes to the Brief, page 463, 1883, as follows: Dr. W. C. Frederick, of Lonoke, Ark., desires a remedy for the above diseases If he will moisten cotton well and introduce it into the previously cleaned ear of the patient, with the following lotion (mixture), he will be surprised with the miraculous effects: Fl. exs. of belladonna, viburnum opulus (liigh cranberry) and gelseminum sempervirens (yellow jasmine), each equal parts (say J^ oz.); mix. By its local application on dental branches of the quintus trigemine, (fifth pair of nei'ves ). It will relieve, in the same way, even toothache in the worst form in less than five minutes.
Remarks. — Druggists are now keeping all the prominent fluid extracts. If they have them not in any place, try tinctures, which will answer for most pur- poses. For toothache, wet cotton in the mixture and put into the tooth, if hoi low, and rub a little on the gums and in front of the ears. (See also Ely's headache and toothache remedy, and the pain killer.)
7. Neuralgia— Warning of a Poor State of Health.— I cannot do better, in closing the subject of Neuralgia, than by giving the following sensible statement from the London (Eng.) Lancet, to show the importance of toning up the system of those afflicted with this terrible disease. (The Neuralgic Pills mentioned will do it nicely.)
" The great prevalence of neuralgia — or what commonly goes by that name — should be regarded as a warning mdicative of a low condition of health, which must necessarily render those who are affected with this painful malady especially susceptible to the invasion of other diseases of an aggressive kind This is the season (autumn) at which it is particularly desirable to be strong and well furnished with the sort of strength that affords a natural protection against disease. There will presently be need of all the internal heat which the organ-
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ism cau command, and a good store of fat for use as fuel is not to be despised. It is no less essential that the vital forces should be vigorous, and the nerve power, especially, in full development. Neuralgia indicates a low or depressed state of vitality, and nothing so rapidly exhausts the system as pain that pre- vents sleep and agonizes both body and mind. It is, therefore, of the first moment that attacks of this affection, incidental to and indicative of a poor and weak state, should be promptly placed under treatment, and, as rapidly as may be, controlled. It is worth while to note this fact, because, while the spirit of manliness incites the ' strong minded ' to patient endurance of suffering, it is not wise to suffer the distress caused by this malady, as many are now suffering it, without seeking relief, forgetful of the condition it bespeaks, and the con- stitutional danger of which it is a warning sign."
Remarks. — If the system is to be toned up, the first question is, how? Start out with a brisk cathartic ; then follow with an alterative, as for rheuma' tism (which see), and also a good tonic bitters, or the Neuralgic Pills, as you choose; the pills are both tonic and alterative, and may cover both points with entire satisfaction, and especially so with females in a debilitated condition.
8. Neuralgia — The Ladies' Cure. — A lady writing upon this sub- ject says: '' If the lady that has neuralgia will make a strong tea of wild lady- slipper root — also called nervine (nerve-root is one of its common names, yellow moccasin flower, Noah's Ark, umbel, etc.) — and drink it, it will cure her; at least, it did me."
Remarks. — It is safe to try it, as it is tonic, stimulant, diaphoretic and anti- spasmodic. It is, in fact, valuable in most nervous and uterine difficulties. Take lady-slipper, with catnip and scullcap, equal quantities of each, powder and evenly mixed, and divided into powders of 13^ ozs. ; then 1 pt. of boiling water poured over one of the powders, and steeped 15 or 20 minutes, taking at first 1 oz. or about 2 table-spoonfuls of the warm infusion, after which 1 table-spoonful every }4, bour for 3 or 4 hours, or until relieved, for sick or nervous headache, says Dr. King in his "Dispensatory," and repeating thus for 3 or 4 attacks, has permanently and invariably cured these neuralgic head- aches.
9. Neuralgia of the Face. — The latest cure for neuralgia of the face is from a Dr. Nussbaum, which he reported in the Munich ^rztliche Intelligence, consisting of salicylic acid, Z% grs. , and salicylate of soda, 32 grs. To be pul- verized and mixed for 1 powder, taking 4 to 6 such powders in the 24 hours.
Remarht. — Dr. Nussbaum considers this as a specific, or positive cure. It consist, of what has been recently brought out, as a cure for rheumatism. Neuralgia being, in fact, a species of rheumatism, why should it not cure it?
1. EARACHE— Cure for. — Take a large onion and cut it into slices; put a slice of onion, then a slice (the author would say a piece of leaf the size of the onion) of strong tobacco, then a slice of onion again, then tobacco, till the onion is all laid up, then wrap in a wet cloth and cover in hot embers, till the onion is cooked; press out the juice with heavy pressure, and drop into the ear. It gives mstant relief. Solution of morphine will have a good effect also.
Rem,arks. — I should drop in only 3 or 4 drops of the onion and tobacco juice, vX first, lest the influence of the tobacco might be too great, and repeat.
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if it was necessary. What is called a solution of sulphate of morphia, or liquor morphia sulphatis, kept by druggists, is of the strength of 1 grain of sulphate of morphia to 1 ounce of water only. Each tea-spoonful of it would contain }/^ grain and would be a full dose, by mouth, which could be repeated, on an adult, in from 30 minutes to 2 hours, according to the severity of the pain for which it was given. To drop into the ear it might be, probably, twice as strong, without danger of injury. A few drops, say 4 or 5, of laudanum ought to have the same effect. The laudanum may be put with an equal amount of sweet oil, and the amount doubled, which would have a good effect in softening the wax of the ear. The onion cure is from Mr. Ford, of Iowa, who was referred to in the neuralgia (German cure, which see).
2. Earache and Deafness, Valuable Remedy for. — Wine ot opium (not laudanum), 1 dr. ; oil of anise, 10 drops; put into an ounce bottle, and fill with oil of sweet almonds (sweet oil will do very well). Directions— Shake well, and drop from 3 to 5 drops into the ear, or ears, if both are affected. If no relief in 5 or 10 minutes, repeat; and follow along to relieve the sound o\ roaring in the ears.
Remarks. — " Old " Dr. King thinks this one of the most valuable combina- tions for earache or deafness which can be tried, having tested it several times. His remark was: " I think it will not fail once in 7000 cases, as it has not failed me in dozens of cases." He has been in practice fifty years. The one for " Ulceration " below is also from him.
3. Earache, Remedy for. — A writer says: "There is scarcely any ache to which children are subject, so bad to bear and difficult to cure, as the earache. But there is a remedy, never known to fail. Take a bit of cotton batting, put upon it a pinch of black pepper, gather it up and tie it, dip in sweet oil, and insert into the ear. Put a flannel bandage over the head to keep it warm. It will give immediate relief."
Remarks. — These simple remedies are easily tried, and will often prove successful.
4. Ear, ITlcerations in — Very Certain Remedy. — Pulverized
sanguinaria canadensis (blood root), 1 dr., in soft water, 1 pt. ; steep and strain. Directions — Pour into the ear, or, what is better, syringe out the ear 3 or 3 times daily with it — a little warm.
1. TOOTHACHE— Common Cures for.— The following are com- mon things recommended for the cure of toothache, outside of the profession, and are good remedies:
I. Alum, in very fine powder, \i oz.; spirits of nitrous ether, 7 drs. ; mix, and apply with lint if the nerve is exposed, and also around the tooth. This is claimed to never fail, unless it is of a rheumatic character.
II. Equal parts of powdered alum and salt, mixed; then wet a bit of cot- ton, to make the powder adhere, and apply to the hollow of the tooth.
ni. Saltpeter, pulverized and applied by cotton, cures nervous toothache at once.
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2. Toothache, to Cure so It Will Never Ache Again.—
If the following is the fact, it is the best of all the cures: Dissolve a piece of opium, the size of a small pea, in spirits of turpentine, ^ tea-spoonful. Put in the hollow of the tooth upon cotton. It does not stop the pain at once, says the writer, but, if well applied, — the cotton saturated and frequently changed— wiU soon cause it to never trouble again.
3. Toothache Drops, Dr. Chase's. — Best alcohol, 2 ozs.; chloro- form, 1 oz. ; sulphuric ether, \% ozs. ; laudanum, oil of cloves, and oil of oassa- f ras, of each % oz, ; oil of lavender, 1 dr. ; gum camphor, 1 oz. ; mix all, and keep well corked.
Bemarks.—l have used this very successfully for a long time; have manu- factured and sold it, and have put others into the same business. I put it up in 2 dr. bottles, retailing it at 25 cts., and have yet to find anything better. Apply to the exposed nerve by means of cotton, and put freely around the gums.
4. Toothache from Decaying Teeth— Solidified Creosote for the Pain of. — Creosote has been for a long time used in its fluid state, to wet cotton in, and put into the tooth; but it has been found that 10 drops of collodion added to 15 drops of creosote makes a gelatinous mass that can be put upon the nerve, closing up the orifice and preventing the air from reaching the nerve, and it does not flow out into the mouth to irritate and make it sore.
Hemarks. — This vnll prove a blessing to those preferring the use of crea sote.
1. POLYPUS IN THE NOSE— Very Effectual Bemedy.— Dr.
King is very sanguine in the belief, or knowledge, that it is not necessary to twist off, nor to ligate (tie a cord around) them, but that the powdered blood root, snuffed into the nostril, will destroy and cure every case, unless the nostril is entirely filled with it, in which case it may have to be twisted off, and the powder applied to the base by wetting a piece of cloth tied on the end of a probe, or stick, dipping it in the powder, and touching it upon the base, or neck, from which the polypus was removed, to prevent a return.
Remarks. — The celebrated Dr. Wooster Beach, of New York, uses the powder of blood root and bayberry bark, in equal parts, for the same purpose. He, if the polypus was large, used the powdered poke root, introduced by the stick, or probe, as above, to cause them to slough off, often repeating, either medicine.
2. Polypus of the Nose has been cured by mixing the powdered blood root, 4 grs., with vaseline, 1 oz., and putting this upon cotton and press- ing it up against the tumor. One month's application removed it. This was done by Dr. W. W. Carpenter, of Petaluma, Cal., and reported in the Medi- cal Bi-ief.
3. Polypus, Another Cure for.— A polypus, so large that it filled the whole nasal cavity, was cured by the use of carbolic acid, 1 part, and gly- cerine, 4 parts, and injecting 20 drops of this mixture by the hypodermic
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syringe (a syringe made to inject under the skin), into the base of the tumoTc This, says Dr. Henning, of Redkey, Ind , who reported the case, is all I did. In one month it was gone, and it is still well, five months after the operation. Remarks. — Certainly one of the plans ought to cure every case without twisting off or tearing out. Of course a physician would have to be called upon if this latter, or hypodermic, plan is adopted.
1. BURNS— From Gunpowder, Prof. Gunn's Treatment.—
While Prof. Qunn was in the medical college, in Chicago, he gave the follow- ing item, through one of the journals of that city. It seems almost superflu- ous to add a word of endorsement, for, from several years acquaintance with him, as professor of surgery in the University of Michigan, it is well known that his recommendations could be relied upon. It is only for the benefit of those who are not acquainted with this fact that I have mentioned it. He says: " In bums from gunpowder, where the powder has been deeply imbedded in the skin, a large poultice made of common molasses and wheat flour, applied over the burnt surface, is the very best thing that can be used, as it seems to draw the powder to the surface, and keep the parts so soft that the formation of scars does not occur. It should be removed twice a day, and the part washed with a shaving brush and warm water before applying the fresh poultice. The poul- tice should be made sufficiently soft to admit of its being readily spread on a piece of cotton. In cases in which the skin and muscles have been completely filled with the burnt powder, we have seen the parts heal perfectly, without leaving the slightest mark to indicate the position or nature of the injury."
2. Burns and Scalds, Instantaneous Relief for. — The bi-car- bonate of soda (the common cooking soda, found in almost every kitchen) has been found an exceedingly valuable remedy in the treatment of burns and scalds, giving almost, it not absolutely, instantaneous relief from pain, as well as a cure for the wound, by continuing its use. Mode op Application — The injured part is to be moistened, then the dry soda, finely powdered, is to be sprinkled carefully upon it, to entirely cover the injury, and the whole wrapped with a wet cloth — linen is best The relief is often instantaneous.
Remarks. — Harper's Weekly informs us that a Dr. "Waters, of Salem, Mass., in speaking of the new remedy for burns and scalds, before the Massachusetts Dental Society, deliberately dipped a sponge into boiling water and sqeezed it over his wrist, producing a severe scald around his arm some two inches wide, and continued the application, despite the suffering, for half a minute. Then he at once sprinkled on the bi-carbonate of soda, and applied the wet cloth, which almost instantly deadened the pain; and on the next day after this single application of the soda, the less injured parts, were practically well, only a slight discoloration being perceptible, the severe portions being healed in a few days, by simply continuing the wet cloth bandage.
Remarks. — When I wrote this out some two or three years ago, I added to the above: I should have wet the cloth in a solution of the soda, for the continued wrappings, in every case. My idea above mentioned of wetting the cloths in a solution of soda, I h-.ve since seen, has been practiced by a Dr.
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Froizke, of Russia, who reports its use, in this form, upon 25 cases of severe burns, caused by fire, in a conflagration, which shows that it is good for burns from fire, as well as scalds from hot water. In cases where the wounds were deep, and where there was considerable matter, the clothes were carefully re- moved and the wounds were cleansed to prevent the absorption of the matter into the blood before replacing the wet cloths.
I. DROWNED PERSONS — Rules for Resuscitating — By the Michigan State Board of Health, and the Humane Society of Massachusetts. — The following directions, or rules, for resuscitating, or bringing to life again, the apparently dead from drowning, are made up from a recent circular of the Committee on Accidents of the Michigan State Board of Health, and distributed throughout the State, and also from directions pub- lished at the request of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts.
The general public should be well informed upon this subject; for, if life is to be saved, there must be no loss of time when one is taken from the water, and life apparently gone.
I. Lose no time. Carry out these directions on the spot:
II. Remove the froth and mucus from the mouth and nostrils. IIL Instantly loosen all neckwear, lacings, or waistbands.
rV. Hold the body, for a few seconds only, so that the water may run out of the lungs and windpipe.
V. If the ground is sloping, turn the patient upon the face, the head down hill ; step astride the hips, your face towards the head, lock your fingers together under the belly, raise the body as high as you can without lifting the forehead from the ground, give the body a smart jerk, to remove the accumulating mucus from the throat, and water from the windpipe; hold the body suspended long enough to slowly count five ; then repeat the jerks two or three times.
VL The patient being still upon the ground, face down, and maintaining all the while your position astride the body, grasp the points of the shoulders by the clothing, or, if the body is naked, thrust your fingers into the armpits, clasping your thumbs over the points of the shoulders, and raise the chest as high as you can without lifting the head quite off the ground- and hold it long enough to slowly count three.
VII. Replace the patient upon the ground, with the forehead upon the flexed (bent) arm, the neck straightened out, and the mouth and nose free. Place your elbows against your knees and your hands upon the sides of his chest over the lower ribs and press downward and inward ^\ith increasing force long enough to slowly count two. Then suddenly let go, grasp the shoulders as before and raise the chest; then press upon the ribs, etc. These alternate movements should be repeated 10 to 15 times a minute for an hour at least, unless breathing is restored sooner. Use the same regularity as in natural breathing.
VIII. After breathing has commenced (and not before, unless there is a house very close), get the patient where covering may be obtained, to restore
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the animal heat. Wrap in warm blankets, apply bottles of hot water, hot bricks, etc., to aid the restoration of heat. Warm the head nearly as fast aa the body, lest convulsions come on. Rubbing the body with warm cloths or the hand, and gently slapping the fleshy parts, may assist to restore warmth, and the breathing also.
IX. When the patient can swallow, give hot coffee, tea, milk, or a little hot sling. Give spirits sparingly, lest they produce depression. Place the pa- tient in a warm bed, give him plenty of fresh air, and keep him quiet.
X. Let all the work be done deliberately and patiently, and do not give op too quickly ,"for success,"says the Massachusetts society, "has rewarded the efforts of hours."
Remarks. — These rules cannot be too well understood (where it is possible for such accidents to occur), and no delicacy of mind or circumstances should prevent anyone from taking right hold of any case that may occur, because they have not done it before. No time to await the arrival of a physician^ immediate action will insure success.
Let good judgment and great carefulness be exercised by everyone who finds himself called upon to act in any accident of this kind, and let no one hesitate a moment to do the best he can till some one more acquainted with the work, or a physician, may arrive, as life is too precious to allow of anyone neglecting to do what he can to save it.
• 2. Drowned Persons— A Case in Hand.— I will make a condensed statement here of a ease reported in the New Yoi'k Mail and Express, in 1882, to show what perseverance did in resuscitating a boy, by one of the officers of one of the life saving stations, who, with the reporter, happened to be pass- ing along one of the wharves of that city, where a number of fishing vessels were tied, upon one of which was a boy who had been under water for 10 min- utes, or more, and had lain as much longer upon the deck without an effort to restore him to life, and the bystanders, and even the police present, thought he was really dead; but the life-saving man took a different view of it, and went to work with a will; first opening the boy's mouth and removing the mud from it, he turned him over, on his face, and placed his coat, done up as a pillow, under the boys stomach, then took hold of the boy's ankles and raised them several feet above the boy's head, and put them into the hands of some of the bystanders, to keep them thus, he pressed gently, but firmly, upon the small of the boy's back, when immediately a stream of water gushed out of his mouth, which had all this time been in the lungs, waiting only for this treatment to help it out. This was continued a minute or two, to get out all the water he could, when he was turned upon his back, and the officer, kneeling over him, put one hand upon the boy's right side, the other on the left, just against the short ribs, he gave them a powerful compression, and then suddenly let gc, the ribs springing back to their natural position, and the air rushed into the lungs; this was done a dozen or more times, but still no appearance of life, and the bystanders said to him: " Can't you let a drowned boy alone;" "why," says the 0
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officer, " I haven't begun yet, stand back and give more air here; " then he be- gan slapping one of the boys hands, and put a man to the other, and one to each foot, they continued tlie slapping vigorously thus, upon each limb, and the reporter taking the officers place at that hand, the officer returned to the rib squeezing process, when after about five minutes of this vigorous work the boy gave a slight gasp for breath, to the great surprise of the bystanders and the delight of the life-saving officer. He then redoubled his efforts at the artificial breathing process, of pressing the ribs, etc., and called for brandy and varm blankets, the boy meanwhile gasping again and began to twitch in the legs, ftnd as the boy began to breathe the brandy was given and the warm blankets Were applied, and the boy was saved. (See hot sling in the rules above which, if it can be provided, is better than the raw brandy.) Thus you see what per- Beverance will sometimes do. Go then, in all such cases, and do likewise, and valuable lives may be saved.
1. THE TRUE WAY TO HEALTH— Simmered Down to a Few Short Rules. — A recent writer, whose name I do not know, has given us the most facts, in the fewest words, of anything I have seen. He says: The only true way to health is that which common sense dictates to man. Live within the bounds of reason; eat moderately; drink temperately; sleep regu- larly; avoid excess in everything, and preserve a conscience void of offence. Some men eat themselves to death; some drink themselves to death; some wear out their lives by indolence; and some by over-exertion; others are killed by the doctors, while not a few sink into the grave under the effects of vicious and beastly practices. All the medicines in creation are not worth a farthing to a man who is constantly and habitually violating the laws of his own nature.
BANDAGING — In Broken Limbs and Ulcers.— In broken limbs, it is necessary to use the bandage, and it has become quite common also, ia the treatment of ulcers. They are more generally made of cotton sheeting, being torn off in strips of 3 to 4 inches in width, and sewed together until the required length is obtained, after which they are to be rolled into solid rollers for tne convenience of passing them around the limb, and to euable the one who applies them to draw them evenly at all stages of their application. In applying the bandage one can get a better idea from the illustrations than any other way. All parts should be covered evenly, lapping about one-half of the bandage upon the previous round, and in order to keep it smooth and not run up or down on the limb, it will be necessary to turn the bandage upon itself, as the cross lines in the cut will show, wherever the form of the limb causes the bandage to pass either way upon the limb from the center of the previous round. In this way the pressure is even, leaving no loose, or unbound place for an accumulation of blood, which wo\ild cause pain, and finally mortification. And it must not be applied so tight as to stop the circulation, for this would cause the same difficulty ; the object is to lessen the circulation, but not to stop it entirelv.
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TJlcers. — Most ulcers, in their early stage, upon the lege or arms, may be cured by judicious bandaging, and keeping the ulcer and the bandage wet with cold water, or perhaps cold water % and whisky J^ as much, merely to stimulate a little. This mixture I have found better than water alone in dressings. Our homeopathic friends are very much in favor of the arnica lotion iu place of the cold water. It is certainly a valuable remedy if used in sufficient quantities to have its legitimate, or specific effects, say 13^ drs. of the tincture to a teacupf ul of cold water. A common teaspoon holds about 1 dr. Mix by pouring back and forth from one cup to another, then keep the bandage wet with it. Of this strength it does seem to have a specilic effect upon fresh bruises, fresh cuts, etc. Two drs. of the tincture to alcohol, )^ pt., is highly recommended in rheumatism of the joints, pains of the feet or limbs from walking, etc., to be used freely as a liniment.
1. PUNCTURED WOUNDS — New Cures to Avoid Lock- jaw.— Mr. S. W. Hemenway writes to the Scientific American that he wishes to publish the following cure for punctured wounds for the benefit of all who may need it: As soon as such a wound is inflicted, get a light stick (a knife or file handle -^ill do) and commence to tap gently on the wound. Do not stop for the hurt, but continue until it bleeds freely and becomes perfectly numb. When this point is reached, you are safe; all that is then necessary is, to pro- tect it from dirt. Do not stop short of the bleeding and the numbness, and do not on any account close the opening with plaster. Nothing more than a little simple cerate on a clean cloth is necessary. I have used, and seen this used, on all kinds of simple punctures for thirty years, and never knew a single instance where a wound becoming inflamed or sore after the treatment as above. Among other cases, a coal rake tooth going entirely through the foot, a rusty darning needle through the foot, a bad bite by a sucking pig, several instances of file shanks through the hand, and numberless cases of rusty nails, etc., but never knew a failure of this treatment
Bemarks. — This being the class of wounds from which lock-jaw arises, let no one fail to adopt it or one of the following plans as soon as a small, deep wound is received.
2. Punctured and Other "Wounds and Bruises— To Relieve and Prevent Lock-jaw. — The following remedy, simple as it is, is said to have saved thousands from death by lock-jaw: Smoke the wound or bruise with the smoke of wool. Twenty minutes in the smoke of wool will take the pain out of the worst wound, and repeated once or twice, will allay the worst case of inflammation arising from a wound.
3. Lock-jaw or Tetanus Remedy and Preventive.— A medical authority says: " Let anyone who has an attack of lock-jaw take a small quan- tity of spirits of turpentine; warm it and pour it into the wound — no matter what the wound is, or what its nature is — and relief will follow in less than one minute. Nothing better can be applied to a severe cut or bruise than cold tur- pentine; it will give certain relief almost instantly."
4. Lock-jaw, or Tetanus, Quickly Relieved. — A Dr. Bigelow reports, In the Prcietitioner, a case of lock-jaw, or tetanus, caused by a rusty
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nail penetrating the foot, which was relieved in less than 20 minutes by intro- ducing 1 dr. of the hydrate of chloral into the wound after it had been enlarged by incision.
5. Flesh Wounds and Presli Cuts — To Prevent Bleeding, Relieve Pain, Etc. — Everybody is liable to be cut or to receive other flesh wounds, away from surgical or veterinary aid; hence, they ought to know how to proceed to save their own, or the life of a friend, or beast, by exercise of common judgment.
I. If there is a flow of blood, close the wound with the hand and hold it firmly together, so as to check the flow, and keep it thus until a bandage can be obtained or stitches can be taken, if necessary, and the final bandaging is applied. Bathing well with cold water, and keeping bandages wet with it, is the latest method of treatment. I have known, however, one-half whiskey to be used for this purpose, and believe it to be the best.
II. If the wound is painful, take a pan of burning coals and sprinkle upon them common brown sugar, and hold the wounded part in the smoke. In a minute or two the pain will be allayed, and the recovery proceed rapidly.
Remarks. — If the burning of wool will relieve pain and prevent lock-jaw from punctured wounds, why should not sugar do the same? Although I can- not understand the why nor the wherefore, yet I still believe that both the smoke of wool and sugar have cured many cases, otherwise these items would never have been reported.
6. Wounds, Hemorrhage or Bleeding from. — It is also claimed that bleeding may be stopped, on man or beast, by binding on a mixture of equal parts of wheat flour and salt; of course they are not to be wet, but evenly mixed, before binding on — the blood does the wetting.
1. NOSE BLEED AND HICCOUGHS — Novel, but Certain Remedy. — The Scientific American reports the following novel plan for check- ing bleeding at the nose: The best remedy for bleeding at the nose, as given by Dr. Gleason in one of his lectures, is in the vigorous motion of the jaws as if in the act of mastication (chewing). In the case of a child a wad of paper should be placed in its mouth, and the child should be instructed to chew it hard. It is the motion of the jaws that stops the flow of blood. This remedy is so very simple that many will feel inclined to laugh at it, but it has never been known to fail in a single instance, even in very severe cases.
Remarks. — About the time of writing upon the subject I received a letter from a Mrs. Harlan, of Hutton, Coles Co., 111., wherein she confirmed the above as to bleeding from the nose; and by the additional point of pressing the fingers into the ears, with the motion as if chewing, it also cures hiccough. And now I have an endorsement of my own as to its value in hiccough, for I, at that time, had a little granddaughter living in the family who had been often troubled with hiccoughs, and only a day or two after the receipt of Mrs. Har- lan's letter the child again had an attack of them, and in two minutes, at most, from the time I directed her and showed her how to do it, according to Mrs,
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Harlan's plan of putting the fingers into the ears, and then "chew," the child was cured. She has had no further attack as yet, a little over three years, while before they had held her an hour or two, and sometimes longer, and it occurred quite frequently. It seems to have been an absolute cure. Mrs. Harlan in- cluded in her letter what she calls a simple cure for nose-bleed, hiccough and palpitation of the heart. I will give them in her own words, as follows:
2. Nose-Bleed, Hiccough, and Palpitation of the Heart — Mrs. Harlan's Cure for. — I. A simple cure for nose-bleed is to crowd the fingers tight into the ears and chew, pressing the teeth well together, as if chew- ing food.
II. It is said to be a cure also for a persistent hiccough. [This is what I tried with the grandchild.]
III. Palpitation of the Heart. — Hold the breath as long as possible and repeatedly, I have found it an almost certain remedy. And when it failed to stop the paroxysm at first it was relieved by it, and, after a time, stopped.
Remarks. — Mrs. Harlan is undoubtedly correct in the matter of relief, or cure, of "Palpitation;" for, in holding the breath, the blood is not invigorated by the absorption of oxygen in the air by its passage through the lungs, and hence the blood does not pass so freely nor quickly to the heart, and, therefore, its excessive action soon diminishes, and is finally quieted altogether. There is certainly philosophy in this. Mrs. H. had used these plans in her own family and among her friends, and sent them to me, as she expressed it, " for the good of the world."
3. Hiccough, French Remedy for Children— Instantaneous Relief. — According to the Lyons (France) Medicale, Dr. Grellety says:
" I have observed that hiccoughs in children are immediately stopped by giv- ing them a lump of sugar saturated with table vinegar. The same remedy was tried on adults with similar instantaneous success."
The sugar plan is confirmed by the following from Henry Tucker, M. D., in the South Medical Record, under the heading of " A Specific for Singulturs" (the physicians', or the Latin, name for hiccough):
" This very common affection, of infants and children especially, has a spe- cific remedy, at least one which I have never known to fail. Moisten granu- lated sugar with cider vinegar; give to an infant from a few grains to a tea- spoonful. The effect is almost instantaneous, and the dose seldom needs to bfi> repeated. I have used it for all ages, from infants of a few months old to peo- ple on the down-hill side of life."
4. Another writer puts it in the following manner: " Take 3 or 4 swal lows of sweetened vinegar."
Remarks. — Not much different, except in quantity. I should try this il Dr. Grellety's or Dr. Tucker's lump of sugar did not succeed.
5. Hiccough, a Cure for by Pressure — French. — The latest French discovery as to the cure of hiccoughs is given in La Scalpel, as follows: A very easy cure for a continued hiccough, sometimes complicated with spasms of the air-passage to the lungs, is introduced bj' Rostau, and highly recom- mended by Deghillaye, of Mons, France. It consists in placing the hand flat
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upon the pit of the stomach, immediately below the cartilage forming the end of the breast-bone, and making firm pressure. Should this prove unsuccessful, place a firm roll of muslin on the same place, securing it by a bandage bound tightly around the body. In an hour this may be removed, and it will be found that the hiccough has entirely disappeared.
Remarks. — The cure in this case is by the pressure, preventing the spas- modic action of the diaphragm, which is the cause of hiccoughs.
BILIOUSNESS, BILIOUS FEVER, FEVER AND AGUE,
CHILLS AND FEVER, INTERMITTENT FEVER,
PERIODIC FEVER, ETC.
BILIOUSNESS. — The symptoms are too well known to need describ. ing. If your bones ache, and you feel languid, your mouth tastes unpleasant, etc., you are bilious, and if you don't remedy it soon your complexion will be sallow.
Cholagogue or Bilious Tonic— Quinine, 1 dr.; oil of wintergreen, 1 teaspoonful; oil of peppermint, 5 drops; oil of lemon, 15 drops; alcohol, 3^ pt. ; water, i^ pt. ; sulphuric acid, 30 drops. Mix well, then add red Peru- vian bark, finely pulverized, 2 ozs. ; rheubarb root, also finely pulverized, 2 ozs. ; simple syrup, or molasses, to make all 1 qt. Those who are acted upon easily by cathartics can not bear more than half of this quantity of rheubarb. Let such have it made accordingly — the object of its use is to just keep the bowels solvent, not loose like diarrhoea.
The quinine, oils and acid should be put into the alcohol first, then the water, and afterwards the bark and rheubarb, and then the syrup; or what would be a little more palatable, would be to steep the Peruvian bark and rheubarb root in as little water as will answer, then strain off into the mixture and steep again, to get all the strength, by pressing out the second time; then make up the quart with syrup, as this avoids the sediment of the bark and root in taking off the medicine, as some people object to taking the medicine with the powders in it. It may be taken at once, if well shaken; or, if shaken 2 or 3 times daily for a week, after that it may be taken without shaking, as the strength of the Peruvian bark and rheubarb will by that time be extracted. Dose — For an adult, 1 or 2 tea-spoonfuls 4 times daily, at meals and bed-time; for a child of 12 years, half dose. If very bilious take a full cathartic dose of rheubarb or such other cathartic medicine as you are in the habit of using, or prefer, to move the bowels freely.
Remarks. — This will be found a very valuable tonic in all cases requiring one, and is absolutely the best known remedy for biliou.sness. If a person inclined to be bilious will take this every spring and fall, they will not be troubled. It will break up 99-100 of all the agues and remittent fevers in a few days; if not, repeat the cathartic, and continue the Cholagogue until the work is accomplished — never try to "wear out the ague"; it will either wear you
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out, or leave you the woi'se for wear." Repeat at intervals of a week, 2 or 3 times; and in nearly every case a permanent cure will be effected, if the medi- cine is taken for 3 or 4 days at each repetition.
[Note. — This is not an easy remedy to prepare. For a good many it will be cheaper to send $1.00 to the Chase Medicine Co., Detroit, Mich., and get a bottle already prepared.]
Bilious Remittent Fever — Symptoms. — The attack is generally sudden and well marked. Some writers say it has no premonitory symptoms; others, that it has. Tlie more general understanding is, that for a day or two, or even longer, before the onset, there is a sense of languor and debility, slight headache, lack of appetite, furred tongue, bitter taste in the mouth in the morning, pains in the joints and general uneasiness.
The formal onset is nearly always marked by a distinct chill or rigor, — sometimes slight and brief; at other times severe and prolonged. The chill may begin at the feet, or about the shoulder blades, or in the back, and thence run like small streams of cold water poured in every direction through the whole body. There is generally but one well-marked chill, the returns of the paryoxysms of fever being seldom, after the first, preceded by the cold stage.
During the hot stage the pulse is up to one hundred and twenty, or one hundred and thirty. There are pains in the head, back and limbs, of a most distressing kind.
The tongue is generally covered with a yellowish, or dirty white fur; and in bad cases, in the advanced stage, is frequently parched brown or nearly black in the center, and red at the edges. There is no appetite for food, and generally nausea and vomiting; and usually there is pain and tenderness in the epigastrium. The bowels are at first costive, but afterwards become loose, and there are frequent evacuations of dark, offensive matter.
Causes. — This disease is produced by malarial exhalations from the decom- position of vegetable matter. It is most prevalent in hot climates, and in the summer and autumn.
Treatment. — If the fever be in the formative stage, and has not fully developed itself, give an emetic (see page 180), and follow it with a mild cathartic— rochelle salts, 2 drs.; bi-carbonate of soda, 2 scruples; water, J^ pt. Mix. To this mixture add 35 grains of tartaric acid, and take the whole foaming. This is the recipe for Seidlitz powders.
If the disease be already developed, sponge the body all over several times a day with cold or tepid water, according to the feelings of the patient, and give cooling drinks. To moderate the fever give 3 to 10-drop doses of tincture or fluid extract of veratrum viride. The compound powder of Ipecac and opium is a valuable preparation for the same purpose. Give cold water as drink, if desired by the patient, or let him eat ice.
When the headache is very severe, let wet cups be applied upon the temples, or behind the ears; and the same remedy to the pit of the stomach, when there is great tenderness, is often desirable; though a mustard plaster will sometimes do better.
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During the remissions of the fever, quinine and other tonics are to be given, as in fever and ague.
AGrUE.— What is generally called ague is also known by all these names, which mean one and the same thing. Doctors generally say " intermittent fever," and what will cure it are also known as "anti-periodics." The two fol- lowing recipes for ague originated with Dr. B. F. Humphreys, of Tyler, Texas, as substitutes, or to be used instead of quinine. He published them in the Eclectic Medical Journal, more especially for the benefit of other physichns; but if they are good for physicians, and I know they are, to use upon their patients and save the expense of quinine, they are as certainly good for the people to have them prepared by druggists for their own use. I have confi- dence in them, hence I give them. Dr. Humphreys gave the recipe for the " solution" to make 16 pts. (2 gals.), so that physicians could make up enough for a whole neighborhood; but I have reduced it by 16, so that families will make only 1 pt. If desired to make in larger quantities, simply keep the same proportions. The pills I will give for 240, as he gave them; if less are needed, to keep the proportions is all that is necessary. They are as follows:
1. Ague Solution, Pills and Liniment for— Without Qui- nine.— I. Solution, or Br. Humphreys' " Tip-Top Tonic." — Sulphate of cin- chonia, 1 dr. ; sulphate of strychnia, 2 grs.; tinct. of stillingia, J^ pt.; tinct. of enonymus (wahoo), 4 ozs. ; tincts. of leptandra (Culver's physic) and of podo- phyllum (mandrake), each 2 ozs. ; oil of wintergreen, to flavor, (15 or 20 drops, only, in a little alcohol), and elixir of vitriol (aromatic sulphuric acid), to dis- solve the sulphates. Directions. — Rub the sulphate of strychnia, first, in a mortar; then put in the sulphate of cinchonia, and rub together, and add to them as much aromatic sulphuric acid as necessary to dissolve them; then put into the bottle with the other articles, shake well, and it is ready for use. Dose. — For adults, 1 tea-spoonful 4 or 5 times daily. For a child, 3 times as many drops as it is years old, same number of times daily as for adults.
Remarks — Dr. Humphreys called this his "Calisaya Anti-Periodic: or, Tip-Top Tonic," and considered it as cheap and efficient as anything that can be got up. "Calisaya " is the name which the Indians of South America applied to what we know as Peruvian bark; hence the Doctor applies it here, as he knew all physicans, for whom he was writing, would know what he meant, i. e., that the sulphate of cinchonia and calisaya was made from the Peruvian bark.
2. Ague, or Chills and Fever — Simple Cure Without Quinine. — H. Q. D. Brown, of Copiah Co., Miss., gives the following as a certain and thoroughly tried cure for fever and ague: "Take 1 pt. of cotton- seed; 2 pts. of water boiled to 1; strain and take warm 1 hour before the attack. Many persons will doubtless laugh at this simple remedy; but I have tried it effectually, and unhesitatingly say it is better than quinine, and could I obtain the latter article at a dime a bottle, I would infinitely prefer the cotton- seed tea. It will not only cure invariably, but permanently, and is not at all unpleasant to the taste."
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3. Ague or " Chills " — Positive Cure, witli Quinine. — This
receipt is from Dr. Joseph Spaiilding, of Lafayette, Ind., in answer to an inquiry from a lady through the Blade Household, which explains itself. He says:
"Dear Madam: — You say 'don't prescribe whiskey nor quinine,' hut I will, and I know whereof I speak, as I was a sufferer with the ague for three years, in the malarial district of Indiana, and this cured me, and I have not had a chill for five years; and I am sure it will do as much for others. The toper who takes his morning bitters out of this, will not want them a second time from the same bottle.
I. "A thorough cathartic. Now, I mean thorough when I say it.
II. " Two days after take quinine in 6 gr. doses every 4 to 6 hours, just as you can stand it, till you have missed a chill; then take the following:
III. Tonic Bitters, to Strengtiien and Tone up the System after Ague, oi Chills and Fever have been broken, or for General Use. — "Tinct. capsicum, 1 dr.; citrate of iron and quinine, 1 oz. ; comp. tinct. of gentian, 1 oz. ; elixir cin chonia, 2 ozs. ; whiskey, 5 ozs. Dose — Take 1 tablespoonful 3 times daily just after meals."
The elixir of cinchonia is also known as " elixir of calisaya," or "elixir oJ bark," meaning, of Peruvian bark. It is made as follows: Peruvian bark, 1 oz.; fresh orange peel, 14. oz. , cinnamon bark, coriander seeds and angelica seeds, each 3 drs. ; caraway and anise seeds, each 1 dr. ; brandy and water, as given below; simple syrup, 10 ozs. Bruise or coarsely grind the bark and aromatics, and treat them with brandy until 10 ozs. are obtained; then continue the perco- lation with equal parts of brandy and water, until 22 ozs. have been obtained; then add the syrup to make 2 pts. tonic and cordial.
Remarks. — I know that some people object to using quinine, believing that it causes rheumatic or other pains, etc. , but I am well satisfied that the pains, or other difllculties supposed to come from the quinine, came from the disease, ot the climate, and not from the use of the quinine. It is not only a perfectly safe remedy, but is indeed a valuable antiperiodic and strengthening medicine. It can be obtained anjTvhere, and will cure ague everywhere, with only an occj»- sional exception. The position I have taken above, that it is the disease, C malaria in the system, that causes the pain in the bones, etc., and not the qu^ nine that does it, I have since seen, is also claimed to be the fact by some of ou? most eminent pysicians.
4. Ague, or Chills and Fever — Certain Cure for. — Quinine 31 grs. ; aromatic sulphuric acid and laudanum, each, 31 drops; water, 3 ozs- Dose — A teaspoonful 3 times a day, before meals.
Remarks. — This was given me by Mrs. Catharine Baldwin, of Toledo, O.. formerly of Put-in-Bay, where she obtained it, and knew of its curing severai of the most obstinate or long standing chronic cases, which " noiliing," as the saying goes, "would cure." I have used it with success, making onlV" this dif- ference with the receipt: Using 40 grs. of the quinine and 40 (kops of the oil ov vitriol and laudanum, in 4 ozs. of water (to make the quantity a little roore); then, for an adult, directing a tablespoonful three hours, two hours and ope hour, before the chill should commence — which will break it. After that, 1 tea-spoo}'*' ful 3 times daily, just after meals, till all is taken, will cure most cases.
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5. Ague Pills, Very Cheap and Very Effective, Without Quinine. — Chinoidine, 1 oz. ; do vers powders, 3 drs. ; piperine, 40 grs. ; sub carbonate of iron, 2^^ drs.; stiff mucilage of gum arabic sufficient to work *nto pills, and mix very intimately and make into usual sized pills. [The author would say to make into 440 pills, to be sure to have 1 gr. of chinoidine in each pill.] Dose. — Take 2 pills every 2 hours until 6 or 8 are taken, in the absence of fever. After the first day 2 pills 3 times a day, just before meals, in the absence of chills or fever.
Remarks. — This recipe is decidedly a good one, either as an ague cure or af a general tonic. Chinoidine pills, however, in warm weather get soft and should, therefore, have plenty of powdered liquorice root among them to pre- vent their sticking together; but from this tendency the following, in liquid form, may be preferable:
6. Chinoidine for Ague— How to Give It.— C. E. Ellis, M. D., of Gooch's Mill, Mo., in answer to an inquiry of Dr. A. Barry, of Dresden, Tex., in The Brief, page 505, 1883, for " a convenient mode of administering chinoid- ine," made the following answer: " The following is a prescription used by my father and myself with no dissatisfaction from any patient, except one col- ored woman, who complained of nausea after taking: Chinoidine, 2 ozs.; alcohol, 1 pt. ; nitric acid, dilute (a formula druggists understand), 1 oz. ; aro- matic syrup of rhei. (rhubarb), Sozs. ; water, 8 ozs. Mix. Dose. — When dis- solved, take 1 tea-spoonful before meals and bedtime. If Dr. Barry will try this mode of giving the chinoidine he will find it all I recommend it to be. I have used it a great deal, and I hope he may have as good success with it as I have had,"
Remarks. — Being so much cheaper than quinine is the main reason for its use. For those who oppose the use of quinine, and all similar ingredients, as cinchonidia or chinoidine, and would like to try a novel, yet a simple, cure, I give the following:
7. Ague and Fever, Wovel but Simple Cure. — Take a medium- sized nutmeg and char it by holding it to a flame by sticking a piece of wire inside, permitting it to burn by itself vrithout disturbance; when charred, pul- verize it and combine with it an equal quantity of burned alum and divide into three powders. On the commencement of the chill give a powder. If this does not break it, give the second powder on the appearance of the next chill, and if not cured the third powder must be given as the succeeding chill comes on. Usually the first powder effects a cure, and it is seldom that the third pow- der will be required. The bowels should always be acted upon by a purgative previous to their administration. It is certainly deserving attention, though I do not pretend to accoimt for its action. — Prof. King.
Remarks. — Pfvof. King says he has "known it to have cured several cases of intermittent fever" (fever and ague), and also says he has "been assured of its almost imiversal success in this disease;" and also adds that "it is recom. mended for the cure of other forms of fever." I am, like himself, unable to give a reason why or how it should so act; but that it has so acted I have not a doubt.
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8. Ague Pills for Obstinate Cases.— Alcoliolic ex, of nux vomica, 10 grs. ; quinine, 30 grs. ; pulverized capsicum, 20 grs. Dikections — Mix very thoroughly and divide into 30 pills. First give an active cathartic to get a good action upon the bowels; then give 2 of the pills an hour before eating, 3 times daily, until cured, then 1 pill for a dose the same way until all are taken.
Remarks. — This was from an old physician in Tennessee to a Baptist min- ister who had had ague a long time, not being able to get it cured. This did the work. He gave it to my cousin, Dr. A. B. Moon, of Toledo, O., who says he failed only in a single case for the many years he had used it.
9. Ague, Tonic Elixir for. — Tinct. of capsicum, 1 dr.; citrate of iron and quinine and compound tincture of gentian (the first is in crystals, the lat- ter a fluid), each, 1 oz. ; elixir of cinchonia, 7 ozs. Mix. Dose — From 1 to 2 tea-spoonsful 3 times daily, just after meals; for a general tonic, once in 1 to 2 hours; if to break up an ague, 4 doses at least, the last to be taken one hour before the chill returns.
Remarks. — I know this to be a valuable tonic whenever one is needed.
10. Ague, Tonic Pills for. — Sulphate of cinchonia (made from the Peruvian bark), 40 grs. ; arsenious acid, 1 gr. ; iron reduced (ferri pulvis, or iron in a pulverized state) and solid ex. of gentian, each, 1 dr. Mix thoroughly and make into 40 pills. Dose — As a general tonic, 1 pill 1 hour after each meal and at bedtime; or, if handier, half an hour before meals and at bedtime; to break up an ague, 2 pills, 4, 3, 2, and 1 hour before the chill should begin; then 4 daily for a few days as above.
11. Ague, Elixir, or German Cure for. — Quinine, 16 grs.; quin- idia and cinchonidia, each, 20 grs. ; comp. tinct. of Peruvian bark and tinct. of columbo, each, 2 ozs. ; tinct. of rhubarb, 1 oz. ; aromatic sulphuric acid, to cut the sulphates, and "Simple Elixir," to fill an 8 oz. bottle. [Lest some per sons may want to have druggists fill this recipe, in small places where they may not have the simple elixir, I give the formula, it is as follows: Spirits, or essence of orange, J^ oz.; essence of cinnamon, 10 drops; alcohol, 4 ozs.; simple syrup and water, each 6 ozs. ; mix.] Dose — 1 teaspoonful every 3 hours, till the ague is broken; then 8 times daily, etc., as with other tonics.
Remarks. — I obtained this recipe of G. M. Nill, a druggist and pharmacist, of Broadway, Toledo, O. ; and I had it filled by him several times, finding it very valuable. In one family the lady used it first, for herself, then for a child and finally for her father, successfully in each case, and I have used it in sev- eral other cases with equal success. Notice this, in this prescription, it con- tains three of the best anti-periodic and tonic preparations made from the Peru- vian bark, and besides the compound tincture of bark itself, which will account for the great success I have had, and which I believe others will have, with its use, either as a cure for the ague or to prevent its return, and also as a general tonic.
12. Ague, Tonic Febrifuge for — Not Needing a Cathartic Before Commencing its Use. — Quinine, 40 grs. ; elixir of taraxacum (dandelion), 2 ozs. ; simple syrup to fill an 8 oz. bottle. Shake when taking.
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Dose — Foi an adult, 1 table-spoonful, or a- small swallow, 3 or 4 times daily; for a child of 6 to 12 years., a dessert-spoonful; 3 to 6 years, 1 tea-spoonful; if very young, y^ tea-spoonful.
Remarks. — The beauty of this is, the elixir of dandelion acts on the liver and bowels, so you do not have to wait to take cathartics before you begin with the febrifuge. It is best, however, with this, as before remarked in several places, to begin with the doses 4, 3, 2 and 1 hour before the chill would come on. I obtained this from a friend of mine in Toledo — M. 0. Waggoner — who has been familiar with its use for several years, and says ' ' there is no equal to it." I have taken it, and given it to others, with entire satisfaction. It is indeed a febrifuge (opposed to fever) worthy of the name.
13. Fevers in Low, Wet Country— Dr. Buchan's Preventive and Cure. — Best red, unground Peruvian bark, 2 ozs. ; Virginia snake root, root, 2 ozs. ; gentian root and orange peel, each 1 oz. ; brandy or good whiskey, 1 qt. ; or whiskey and good worked cider, each 1 pt., will do nicely. Direc- tions— Grind coarsely, or bruise, and put into the spirit, and shake daily for 10 or 12 days, before using. Dose — Two table-spoonfuls immediately after each meal, either as a preventive or a cure.
Remarks. — Dr. Buchan, of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburg, Scotland, in his Domestic Medicine, claims this to be the remedy for fluxes, putrid intermittents, and all other fevers in low, wet countries of an unhealthy climate. It is certainly valuable, as the gentian improves the appetite and the snake root benefits the kidneys and skin.
14. Ague and Fever, How to Avoid. — The foregoing remedies will cure ague, or chills and fever; but an important question is, how to avoid or prevent having them. To do this successfully, avoid exposure to the damp air of the early morning, except when exercising; and then do not remain in the open air to cool off. Avoid great fatigue; sleep eight hours of the twenty- four. Be sure that the water used for drinking and cooking is perfectly pure. Wear flannel underclothing at all seasons. Keep the feet dry and warm. And, after being careful in all these particulars, if you get the ague, take your choice in the foregoing list of remedies to cure it, until you can leave the ague district for a more healthy location.
1. CINDEES OR DUST IN THE EYES — To Remove. — A
correspondent writes to the Scientific American this remedy for cinders in the eye: "A small camel's-hair brush dipped in water and passed over the ball of the eye on raising the lid. The operation requires no skill, takes but a moment, and instantly removes any cinder or particle of dust or dirt without inflaming the eye."
2. Anotlier writer says: " Persons traveling much by railway are subject to continual annoyance from the flying cinders. On getting into the eyes they are not only painful for the moment, but are often tlae cause of long suffering that ends in a total loss of sight. A very simple and effective cure is within the reach of every one, and would prevent much suffering and expense were it more generally known. It is simply one or two grains of flax seed. It is said
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they may be placed in the eye without injury or pain to that delicate organ, and shortly they begin to swell and dissolve a glutinous substance that covers the ball of the eye, enveloping any foreign substance that may be in it. The irritation or cutting of the membrane is thus prevented, and the annoyance may soon be washed out. A dozen of these grains stowed away in the vest pocket may prove, in an emergency, worth their number in gold dollars."
1. ACCIDENTS, POISONING, ETC.— Short Rules for Man- agement. — Prof. Wilder, of New York, gives the following short rules to govern the action in such cases:
I. For dust in the eyes, avoid rubbing, and dash water into themj remove cinders, etc., with the rounded end of a lead-pencil.
II. Remove insects from the ear by tepid water; never put a hard instru- ment into the ear.
IIL If an artery is cut, compress above the wound; if a vein is cut, com- press below,
IV. If choked, get upon all fours and cough.
V. For light burns, dip the part in cold water; if the skin is destroyed, cover with varnish.
VI. Smother a fire with carpets, etc. ; water will often spread burning oil, and increase the danger.
VII. Before passing through smoke take a full breath, and then stoop low; but if carbonic acid is suspected, then walk erect,
VIII. Suck poisoned wounds, unless your mouth is sore. Enlarge the wound, or better, cut out the part without delay. Hold the wounded part as long as can be borne to a hot coal or end of a cigar.
IX. In case of poisoning, excite vomiting by tickling the throat, or by warm water, or mustard and water, or salt and water, always warm, if possible.
X. For acid poisons give alkalies.
XI. For opium poisoning give strong coffee and keep moving.
XII. If you fall in water float on the back, with the nose and mouth pro- jecting. (See falling into the river, etc.)
XIII. For apoplexy raise the head and body; for fainting lay the person flat.
2. Quick Emetics for Accidental Poisoning. — Another writer gives the following instructions for the management in accidents, poisoning, etc. He says: " Quickly mix a couple of ounces of powdered chalk or magne- sia with a pint of milk and swallow the whole at one draught. Then run the finger down the throat and move it gently from side to side. This will induce vomiting; after which drink freely of warm milk and water and repeat the vomiting. Milk is an antidote for almost all poisons, narcotics excepted, espe- cially if used promptly, and followed by vomiting. In narcotic poisoning, as by laudanum, opium or morphine, promptly give an emetic of mustard and water, followed by copious draughts of warm water and salt, until vomiting is induced. Keep the patient moving, and do not allow him to sleep. Send in haste for your family physician."
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3. Poisoning by Accident or Intention, What to do. — Another medical writer on tlie subject of accidental or intentional poisoning, says: 'To neutralize any poisonous mineral or vegetable, taken intentionally or by acci-. aent swallow 2 gills (3^ pt.) of sweet oil; for a strong constitution, more oil."
Remarks — The sweet oil is good and a bottle of it ought to be kept in every house, to meet, immediately, any emergency of this kind; but lard oil or even melted lard will do Vomiting is also very important.
4. Poisoning by Poison Ivy — Remedy. — Bromine, ISgrs., ruobed in 1 oz. of olive oil, or glycerine, and apply 3 or 4 times daily; one appli- cation at bed-time has been found effectual; a poultice of clay-mud has also cured many cases.
5 Poison Ivy— Poisoning Cured by an Old Fox Hunter.— The following was sent to Forest and Stream, which explains itself The writer says: " I have probably suffered more from poison ivy than any other man. Three times in one summer I have been blind from its effects. I have tried every remedy without success, until last summer. I was out shooting, and, with my usual luck, I got another dose that confined me to the house. I could not walk An old fox hunter living in the neighborhood, hearing of my con- dition, came to see me, and brought me a remedy that acted like magic. In 3 days time I was up and enjoying what I love better than anything else in this world, the best of all field sports — fall woodcock shooting. I give you the recipe: Take 1 pt. of the bark of black spotted alder and 1 qt. of water, and boil down to 1 pt Wash the poisoned parts a dozen times a day, if conven- ient; it will not injure you."
Remarks. — Perhaps the better plan is to learn that the poison ivy has its leaves in clusters of three, while the non-poisonous has its leaves in clusters of five; knowing this, keep clear of the poisonous.
6. Poisoning by the Poison Oak, Remedy.— J. B. Murfree, M. D., of Murfreesboro, Tenn., says he has found the blacK wash made of calo- mel and lime-water (calomel, 1 dr. to lime-water, 1 pt.), an invariable success for several years. — Medical Brief . This is supported by the following, also from the Brief, by Dr. James A Douglass, of Poland, 0., under the head of:
7. Poisoning by Rhus, wherein he says: "Since the discovery by Professor Maisch, that the toxic (poisoning) quality was due to an acid, which he denominated toxicodendric acid, the treatment has been based upon a true Bcientific basis {i e., that alkalies neutralize acids, and vice mrsa, that acids neutralize alkalies), I therefore," he continues. " apply alkalies to neutralize the acid. I prefer," he also says, "the liquor calcis (lime-water) applied locally; in severe cases use internally also. I sometimes combine it (the lime-water) Tvith soda bi-carbonate, or hydrate of chloral. 1 oz. to 1 pt. " This he closes by sajing is as near a specific (positive cure) as any one could wish. (See tumor, poison wound, and wild vine poisoning, earth cure for.)
8. Poisoning by Henbane, Tobacco, or Stramonium, and
Bites of Snakes— Remedy.— The oil of sassafras has been found a remedy against the poison of these articles. Given in 15 drop doses, 30 minutes apart.
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for six doses, restored consciousness when the flowers of stramonium had been eaten by a boy 4 years old; after which a dose of castor-oil was given to work it off by the bowels.
Remarks. — This is from a Dr. A. W. Lyle, of Castleton, Ind., in Medical Brief, in which he also gives Dr. Thompson's account of the value of oil of sassafras for henbane and tobacco poisoning, and also says: " It will destroy all insect life, and is an effectual antidote for the bite of venomous copperhead snakes." He recommends all physicians to try it, and, the author thinks, it is equally good for the people. He does not give the dose in these last cases; but if a boy of four years can take 15 drops, an adult may take at least 40. And in the snake-bites. I would rub it on the wounds also, and repeat as he directs.
1. ACCIDENT FROM CHLOROFORM — To Prevent, by Mixing Spirits of Turpentine "with it. — "A preventive for those acci- dents which so frequently occur in the administration of chloroform to produce anaesthesia (insensibility to pain) has been suggested by Dr. Wachsmuth, of Berlin, Germany: the method consisting simply in the addition of one part of the rectified oil of turpentine (spirits of turpentine) to five parts of chloroform. The oil of turpentine in vapor appears to exert a stimulating or life-giving effect on the lungs, and protects those organs from passing into that paralyzed state which seems to be produced by chloroform narcosis (to benumb, or to become unconscious). It appears that Dr. Wachsmuth, while lying on a sick-bed, acci- dentally breathed the vapor of turpentine, and he experienced from this a strongly refreshing feeling — a fact which induced him to try the plan of adding oil of turpentine to chloroform when using the latter for anaesthetic purposes."
Remarks. — People, even physicians, speak unadvisedly when they say oil of turpentine, meaning the spirits, as it should be called ; there is no oil of tur- pentine proper. The sticky mass, as it runs from the trees, is distilled, when it becomes very limpid, i. e., pure and clear, having scarcely an appearance of oil — clear as water, as the common saying is. The only object of this explana- tion is, that no one shall suppose that there is an oil, and a spirit, too ; they ar* both one and the same thing.
2. Accident from Chloroform— To Prevent by Management.
—It is believed that many of the deaths from the administration of chloroform have arisen by the patient lying upon the back, and the tongue, from loss of muscular power or contractility, has fallen back into the throat and thus suffo- cated the patient. This should certainly be looked to by everyone who admin- isters it The tongue can be held with a cloth, if need be.
I see also by a recent statement in the Ann Arbor Register that Dr. McLean, of the University of Michigan, in his surgical practice of 25 years, prefers chloroform to any other anaesthetic, and has never had a death occur from it. nor seen a death by its use. He has always used if when necessary, and is a strong advocate for its use, and, all things considered, prefers it to ether. With the foregoing cautions as to the breathing, to prevent suffocation from the iongue falling over the glottis while the muscles are all relaxed by the chloro- form, there need be no apprehension of danger from it; still, I can see no abjection to mixing the turpentine with it.
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The London Lancet confirms the idea advanced above, about the attention to the tongue, in the following words: " Death from chloroform need never occur, according to the doctrine of Syme, Lister and Hughes (all celebrated surgeons) if this simple rule is observed: Never mind the pulse, never mind the heart, leave the pupil (of the eye) to itself. But keep your eye on the breath- ing, and if it becomes embarrassed to a grave extent, take an artery forceps and pull the tongue well out. (A piece of cloth in the fingers will hold the tongue with but little difficulty.) Syme never lost a case from chloroform, although he gave it five thousand times "
PALLING INTO DEEP WATER — What to do for Those Who Cannot Swim. — For those who may fall into deep water, and can- not swim, it is thought best that a little fuller instructions ought to be given-
I. "When one falls into deep water let it always be remembered that he will rise to the surface at once ; and now is the time to remember, also, that he must not raise the arms nor hands above the water, except there be some- thing to take hold of ; if he does it will sink the head so low he cannot breathe. But:
II. Any motion of the hands may be made under the water, as you please, without endangering the life, for if the water is quiet, the head being thrown a little back, the face will float above the surface, unless heavy boots or clothing bear one down.
III. And a motion of the legs as if walking up stairs, while it can be borne, keeping the perpendicular as nearly as possible, will greatly aid in keep- ing one afloat until help arrives; and even good swimmers had better not ex- haust themselves, if a boat is coming, only to keep afloat. (See also drowned persons, rules for resuscitation, etc.)
SALVES, PLASTERS, OINTMENTS, POULTICES, ETC.
1. Salve or Plaster for Chaps, Cracks, etc. — Rosin, 10 ozs.; mutton tallow, 2 ozs. ; beeswax, 1 oz. Directions — Simmer together and work as shoemakers do their wax, and make it into convenient rolls. Spread on slips of cloth to suit the place, and apply as hot as the flesh will bear it — it will need no tying. If too stiff in very cold weather use a little more tallow and beeswax, or a little less rosin.
2. Ointment of St. John's Wort and Stramonium, for Tumors, Bruised and Blackened Spots, etc.— Tops and flowers, recently picked, of St. John's wort {hypericum 'perforatum), fresh stramonium leaves, each % ^^- 5 ^^^d, 1 lb. Dikections — Bruise the herbs and put into the lard and gently heat for an hour, then strain. Rub and heat into the swell- ings, caked breasts, hard- tumors and ecchymosed spots (spots which have been bruised and the blood settled under the skin) thoroughly.
Remarks. — Prof. King also says the saturated (as strong as can be made) tincture of the St. John's wort is nearly as valuable as that of arnica, for bruises, and may be substituted for it in many cases. (See also the recipe for coughs, colds, hoarseness, etc., for the further value of St. John's wort.)
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3. Salve or Ointment for Cuts, Sores and Cracks made in Husking, Salt-Rheum, Scurvey, Head Boils, etc. — Mutton tallow, 3 lbs.; rosin, 1)4, lbs. ; sal-ammoniac (crystals) ,2 ozs.; sweet oil, 1 pt. Directions — Melt the rosin and tallow togetlier; dissolve sal-ammoniac in a little water, i«£ter having powdered it fine, then stir it into the mixture; put in the oil, or enough of it to reduce to a paste, or ointment, then place in boxes, or a jar that can be covered. To apply, it is best to keep a little of the sal-ammoniac dissolved in a little water, sufficient to give the water rather a sharp taste, and first wet the part to which the ointment is to be applied, with the sal-ammoniac water. The healing will be quick and satisfactory.
Remarks. — I obtained this from a Welsh blacksmith at IMoawequa, III., who thought it had no equal in the world as a healing ointment, or salve, as he called it. It will be found valuable for cracked fingers in husking, as well as for general purposes.
4. Itch Ointment, or Wash, Preferable to the Old Method.—
Quicklime (good stone lime, just slacked), 1 part; sulphur, 3 parts; water, 10 parts; by weight say % oz. of the lime, 1 oz. of the sulphur, and 5 ozs. of water, make the right proportions. Directions — Boil together in a porcelain dish, stirring constantly with a stick, till it is the shade of cinnamon essence. When cool, bottle and keep corked. Apply a small quantity to the parts affected. Remarks. — This is from Dr. A. B. Mason, who says of it: "It is much Tiicer to use than the old sulphur ointment: and will effect a cure with fewer applications." It can be relied upon.
5. Ointment and Salve for General Purposes, Norton's.—
I. For the ointment, lard, 1 lb.; rosin, 5 ozs.; beeswax and gum camphor, each 2 ozs. ; oil of origanum and spirits of turpentine, each 1 oz. Directions — Melt the lard, rosin and beeswax together; break up the camphor gum as fine as you can, and when you remove the first from the fire, after all are melted, stir in the gum and continue to stir till the camphor gum is melted and all is quite cool; then put in the origanum and turpentine, and keep stirring until it sets, or stiffens; box, or put in a fruit can, and cover to exclude air.
Remarks. — " It is good, very good, for all general purposes," says my sister, Mrs. Norton, from whom I obtained it.
II. For the Salve. — Use 5 lbs. of rosin; and in place of the lard use 6 ozs. of mutton tallow; all the other ingredients as for the ointment, and melt; but as soon as the gum camphor is melted, and after having removed it from the fire, put in the oil and turpentine, and stir well for a minute or two; then pour into cold water, and pull and work the same as shoemaker's wax; then roll into sticks, and wrap each stick by itself.
Remarks. — Valuable as a strengthening salve or plaster to apply over all weaknesses, rheumatic and other pains, anywhere on body or limbs.
6. Glycerine Ointment for Chapped Hands, Lips or Face, Chafes, Hemorrhoids, etc. — Oil of sweet almond, 2 ozs. ; spermaceti and white wax, each 3^ oz. ; best glycerine, 1 oz. ; oil of rose, a little. Directions —Melt the spermaceti and wax in the oil of almond by gentle heat; then stir in
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the glycerine and oil of rose, and put up in small jars or wide-mouthed bottlea In cold weather it must be warmed to apply. Keep covered or corked.
6)^. Balm of Gilead Ointment or Oil.— Take any quantity of Balm of Gilead Buds, place them in a suitable dish for stewing, pour over them suffi- cient melted lard to cover them — or to make the Balm of Gilead Oil, pour the same quantity of sweet oil — stew thoroughly, then press out all of the oil from the buds, and bottle ready for use.
This will be found to be a very excellent ointment for cuts, bruises, etc., and the oil will also be found to be very healing.
7. Salve, or Balsam, for Wounds, Cracks, or Internal Pains. —Rosin, 23^ lbs. ; spirits of turpentine, 1 qt. ; balsam of fir, 4 ozs. ; oil of hem- lock, 2 ozs. Directions — Melt the rosin, and remove from the fire; then, when a little cool, stir in the fir, turpentine, and last, the oil of hemlock, continuing to stir until cool enough to remain permanently mixed.
Reviarks. — I saw this salve on the hands of a Mr. E. B. Mason, a farmer of Ann Arbor, Mich., upon cracks and a wound of considerable extent. Noticing its white appearance and adliesiveness, I inquired about it; he told me he had used it for several years, and thought it had no equal for wounds, sores, cracks from husking, etc., and also as a "plaster" over any internal pains whatever. He spoke of it so highly that I was induced to obtain it for my Third Book. I know it must be valuable; but I think it will prove too soft <or hot weather. Then to use only half of the spirits of turpentine and possibly 1.^ lb. more rosin is all the modification needed to adapt it as a plaster to be applied to other parts of the body. It would be very valuable to wear over a sore breast, whether from strain or soreness of the lungs. See also the Centen- nial Recipes from " Poor Will's" Almanac, at the close of this department, for an ointment for these purposes.
8. Salve for Inflamed Wounds, Prom Taking Cold in Them.
—Lard, 8 ozs., melted 3 or 4 times, and cooled each time in cold water (vaseline or cosmoline is now used without the purification, and will do as well, and pos- sibly better,); then stew in it 2 fair sized onions sliced, and strain. This is an excellent salve for inflamed wounds. Apply twice or thrice daily, as needed. Twice is enough unless excessive ulceration, or running of consider- able matter
9. Salve, Carbolic, for Burns, Sores, etc.— Lard, 10 ozs.; white wax, 5 ozs.; balsam of fir and carbolic acid, each 1 oz. Directions — Melt the lard and wax together, then add the fir, and when it begins to thicken, by cooling, stir in the carbolic acid, and put up in tin boxes, or a suitable jar, covered tightly for use.
Remarks. — The balsam of fir is very soothing and healing, and makes the salve stick better to burns or other open sores, at the same time it hides the dis- agreeable odor of the carbolic acid Many persons think there is no salve equal to those made with the carbolic acid. I think vaseline, 10 ozs., would be better than the lard as above giveru
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10. Salve, or Ointment, Green, for Old Sores, TJlcers, Can- cers, etc. — Rosin and beeswax, each 1 oz. ; mutton tallow or lard, 4 ozs.; pulverized verdigris, 1 dr. Directions— Melt the two first together and stir in the verdigris, stirring till cold. Dress the sores, ulcers or wounds, above named, morning and evening, after cleaning them properly with castile soap, if necessary, and apply a mixture of equal parts of tinctures of myrrh, aloes and blood-root. And if any fungus (proud flesh), sprinkle on powdered blood- root or finely pulverized burned alum, then the salve, or more properly, the i)intment.
Remarks. — Dr. Gunn thinks this a very valuable treatment, especially for old or long standing ulcers.
11. Salve or Poultice, Robinson's, for Sores, Inflammation,
etc. — Scrape plenty of raw potatoes and thicken it with finely pulverized char- coal. Apply freely to the sore, or inflamed part, and renew as often as it becomes dry, or once in 3 or 4 hours.
Remarks. — It cured a boy's leg which had been injured in such a way as to cause a large sore and extensive swelling, becoming so bad the doc- tors expected amputation would be necessary; but a neighbor recommended this salve, or poultice, which cured and saved the leg. Then it will do it for others too.
11. A flaxseed poultice thickened with pulverized charcoal will prevent the spreading, or extension, of mortification, separating the mortified parts from the healthy, at least it did this once on my own person, when only a boy, where one of my feet, and some of the toes, had been badly crushed by a threshing machine and mortification set in. Fail not to try one or the other, as occasion may demand.
12. Pumpkin Poultice for Painful Inflammations, Swell- ings, etc. — A correspondent of the New York Farmers* Club, published in the American Agriculturist, gives an instance in which a woman's arm was swollen to an enormous size and painfully inflamed. A poultice was made of stewed pumpkins, which was renewed every 15 minutes, and in a short time produced a perfect cure. The fever drawn out by the poultices made them extremely offensive as they were taken off.
Remarks. — In such cases after the inflammation is reduced by the poultices some good, mild liniment, like Mrs. Chase's, should be applied from time to time, for the purpose of strengthening, healing, etc.
13. Salve and Other Treatment— For Quinsy and Gathered Breast. — I. Obtain oil of spike, sweet-oil, British oil and spirits of turpen- tine, each 1 oz. Put lard, 1 pt., over the fire in a suitable dish, and burn or heat it till it is a brown color, then remove from the fire, and, when cool enough to allow the finger in it, add the oils and mix well.
II Take oats, 1 gal. , and put in a kettle, with vinegar to cover, and boil ; then fill two woolen stockings with the boiled oats, and sew up, and keep steam- ing hot, or as hot as can be borne, upon the neck; now grease the throat thor- •ughly with the salve, and apply one of the stockings to drive in the salve.
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changing every 10 mimites, greasing well each change until the sweating is kept up 2 or 2)^ hours; then wash off with soda in warm water, change all damp clothing, and allow a good rest. It may be repeated next day, if needed, but seldom will be. It is equally good for gathered breasts; but in either case be careful not to take cold.
14. Weak Back, Valuable Plaster for. — Burgundy pitch and camphor gum, each 1 oz.; opium, 1 dr. Directions — Melt the pitch, and having broken up the camphor, and made the op