The people their own physicians, describing the nature's remedies;
Great curative properties found in the herbal kingdom. A new and
plain system of hygienic principles, together with comprehensive
essays on sexual philosophy, marriage, divorce, etc.
THE COMPLETE HERBALIST;
or, the
PEOPLE THEIR OWN PHYSICIANS,
describing the
NATURE'S REMEDIES;
GREAT CURATIVE PROPERTIES FOUND IN THE
HERBAL KINGDOM.
A NEW AND PLAIN SYSTEM OF HYGIENIC PRINCIPLES,
TOGETHER WITH COMPREHENSIVE ESSAYS ON
SEXUAL PHILOSOPHY, MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, & ECT.
BY DR. O. PHELPS BROWN.
Price, two dollars.
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR,
Jersey City, N. J.
1878
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872 , by
DR. O. PHELPS BROWN,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
A Brief History Of Medicine- In presenting this work on Crude Organic Remedies -- the Constituents of Plants, and their Officinal Preparations -- I do not propose to run a tilt against any of the systems of Medical practice,...
- A Brief History Of Medicine. Part 2
- After the Arabians, from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, the practice of medicine was chiefly confined to the hands of the priests, who, being men of great learning and followers of ...
- The Herbal World
- In the foregoing pages we have seen that from the earliest period in the history of the human race to the present time, the administration of the juices and essences of Herbs and Plants, in all ...
- The Herbal World. Part 2
- I ascertained by experiment what was before a preconceived idea, that plants afforded the best agents to antagonize the force of disease, and to re-establish the integrity of any organ or tissue ...
- The Herbal World. Part 3
- Dependent upon the causes I have already named, the plants, also, may lose their medicinal virtues; while much will be owing to the season of the year when they are gathered, in order to adapt ...
- The Herbal World. Part 4
- I repeat, from what has been seen it is evident that all herbs perhaps possess some property suitable for medical purposes. These virtues may be found in the root of one plant, in the bark of ...
- The Herbal World. Part 5
- Plants sometimes distil or secrete medicinal or nutritive fluids, which are contained in convenient receptacles. Such plants invariably grow far from the haunts of men, away from the course of ...
- Floral Clock:
- Between 3 and 4 A.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bind-weed of the hedgerows. At 5 A.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
- Epitome Of Botany
- That the reader may more intelligently understand the description of the medicinal plants in this book, the author has deemed it prudent to preface the part of this work dedicated to Herbal ...
- Anatomy Of A Plant: The Root
- The root of a plant is that portion which is usually found in the earth, the stem and leaves being in the air. The point of union is called the collar or neck of the plant. A fibrous root ...
- Anatomy Of A Plant: The Stem
- The stem is that portion of the plant which grows in an opposite direction from the root, seeking the light, and exposing itself to the air. All flowering plants possess stems. In those which are ...
- Anatomy Of A Plant: The Leaf
- The leaf is commonly raised on an unexpanded part or stalk which is called the petiole, while the expanded portion is termed the lamina, limb or blade. When the vessels or fibres of the leaves ...
- Anatomy Of A Plant: The Flower
- The flower assumes an endless variety of forms, and we shall assume in the dissection merely the typical form of it. The organs of a flower are of two sorts, viz.: 1st. Its leaves or ...
- Anatomy Of A Plant: The Fruit
- The principal kinds may be briefly stated as follows: A follicle is the name given to such fruit as borne by the larkspur or milkweed. A legume or pod is the name extended to such ...
- Anatomy Of A Plant: The Seed
- The seed, like the ovule of which it is the fertilized and matured state, consists of a nucleus, usually enclosed within two integuments. The outer integument or proper seed coat is variously ...
- Medicinal Properties And Preparations
- Every herb employed in the cure of diseases, whether in its natural state or after having undergone various preparations, belongs to the Herbal Materia Medica, in the extended acceptation of ...
- Anodynes Are Medicines Which Relieve Pain.
- ANTHELMINTICS are medicines which have the power of destroying or expelling worms from the intestinal canal. ANTISCORBUTICS are medicines which prevent or cure the ...
- Emetics Are Those Medicines Which Produce Vomiting.
- EMMENAGOGUES are medicines which promote the menstrual discharge. EMOLLIENTS are those remedies which, when applied to the solids of the body, render them soft and ...
- Pharmaceutic Preparations
- ACETA or VINEGARS are medicinal preparations where vinegar is used as the dissolving agent. Aethera Or Ethers Are Ethereal Tinctures. AQUAE or ...
- Weights And Measures
- That no error may occur, I will here append the weights and measures employed in pharmacy, together with the symbols designating each quantity. It is necessary to understand but two measures, as ...
- Acacia Vera
- COMMON NAMES. Gum Arabic, Egyptian Thorn. MEDICINAL PART. The concrete juice or gum. Description. --...
- Adder'S Tongue (Erytheronum Americanum)
- COMMON NAMES. Cockleburr or Sticklewort. MEDICINAL PARTS. The root and leaves. Description. -- ...
- Alder (Prinos Verticillatus)
- COMMON NAME. Winterberry. MEDICINAL PARTS. The bark and berries. Description. -- This is an ...
- Ale Hoof (Nepeta Glechoma)
- COMMON NAMES. -- Gill-go-by-the-ground, Ground Ivy, Cat's-Foot, Turnhoof, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. ...
- All-Heal (Prunella Vulgaris)
- COMMON NAMES. Hercules Wound Wort, Panay, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This shrub ...
- Almonds (Amygdalus Communis)
- AMYGDALA AMARA, Bitter Almonds; AMYGDALA DULCIS, Sweet Almonds. MEDICINAL PART. The kernels. ...
- Alnus Rubra (Tag Alder)
- COMMON NAMES. Common Alder, Smooth Alder. MEDICINAL PART. The bark. Description. -- This is a well-...
- Amaranth (Amaranthus Hypochondriases)
- COMMON NAMES. Prince's Feather, Red Cock's Comb, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- ...
- Anemone (Anemone Nemorosa)
- COMMON NAME. Wind Flower. MEDICINAL PARTS. Root, herb, and seed. Description. -- This is a delicate ...
- Angelica (Angelica Atropurpurea)
- COMMON NAME. Masterwort. MEDICINAL PART. Root, herb, and seed. Description. -- This plant is five ...
- Anise (Pimpinella Anisum)
- COMMON NAME. Aniseed. MEDICINAL PART. The fruit. Description. -- Anise has a perennial, spindle-...
- Aloes (Aloe Spicata)
- MEDICINAL PART. The inspissated juice of the leaves. Description. -- The spiked aloe is an inhabitant of the southern parts of ...
- Asarabacca (Asarum Europaeum)
- COMMON NAMES. Hazlewort, or Wild Nard. MEDICINAL PARTS. Root and leaves. Description. -- The stem ...
- Aya-Pana (Aya-Pana Eupatorium)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The whole plant. Description. -- While traveling in Paraguay, South America, some years ago, I became acquainted ...
- Balm (Melissa Officinalis)
- MEDICINAL PART. The herb. Description. -- Balm is a perennial herb, with upright, branching, four-sided stems, from ten to twnty ...
- Balmony (Chelone Glarra)
- COMMON NAMES. Snake head, Turtle bloom, Saltyrheum weed. MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. --...
- Barberry (Berberis Vulgaris)
- MEDICINAL PART. Bark and berries. Description. -- Barberry is an erect, deciduous shrub, from three to eight feet high, with leaves ...
- Bayberry (Myrica Cerifera)
- COMMON NAME. Wax Myrtle. MEDICINAL PART. The bark of the root. Description. -- This shrub is ...
- Bearberry (Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi)
- COMMON NAME. The upland Cranberry. MEDICINAL PART. The Leaves. Description. -- Bearberry is a small,...
- Bears Bed (Polytrichium Juniperum)
- COMMON NAMES. Hair-cap Moss, Robin's Rye, Ground Moss. MEDICINAL PART. The whole plant. Description....
- Bead Tree (Melia Azedarach)
- COMMON NAME. Pride of China. MEDICINAL PART. The bark of the root. Description. -- This is an ...
- Belladonna (Atropa Belladonna)
- COMMON NAMES. Deadly Night-shade, Dwale, Black Cherry, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description....
- Beth-Root (Trillium Pendulum)
- COMMON NAMES. Wake Robin, Indian Balm, Ground Lily, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- ...
- Birds' Nest (Monotropa Uniflora)
- COMMON NAMES. Ice Plant, Fit Plant, Ova-ova, Indian Pipe. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- ...
- Bitter Root (Apocynum Androsaemifolium)
- COMMON NAMES. Dog's-bane, Milk-weed, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This is a ...
- Bitter-Sweet (Amara Dulcis, Solanum Dulcamara)
- COMMON NAMES. Mortal, Woody Nightshade, Falon Wort, etc. MEDICINAL PART. Bark of root and twigs. ...
- Blue Flag (Iris Versicolor)
- MEDICINAL PART. The rhizome. Description. Blue Flag is an indigenous plant, with a fleshy, fibrous rhizome. The stem is two or ...
- Blue Vervain (Verbena Hastata)
- COMMON NAMES. Wild Hyssop, Simpler's Joy. MEDICINAL PART. The root and herb. Description. -- ...
- Black Cohosh (Cimicifuga Racemosa)
- COMMON NAMES. Rattleroot, Squaw Root, Black Snake Root. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- ...
- Blazing Star (Liatris Squarrosa)
- COMMON NAMES. Gay Feather, Devil's Bit, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- There are ...
- Boneset (Eupatorium Perfolliatum)
- COMMON NAME. Thoroughwort. MEDICINAL PARTS. The tops and leaves. Description. -- Boneset is an ...
- Black Root (Leftandeia Virginica)
- COMMON NAMES. Culver's Physic, Tall Speedwell. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- It is ...
- Bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis)
- COMMON NAME. Red Puccoon. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- Bloodroot is a smooth, ...
- Box (Buxus Sempervirens)
- MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- Box is a small, dense-leaved, hard-wood evergreen tree. The leaves are ovate, deep ...
- Buchu (Barosma Crenata)
- MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- This plant has a slender, smooth, upright, perennial stem, between two and three feet ...
- Burning Bush (Euonymus Atropurpureus)
- COMMON NAMES. Wahoo, Spindle Tree, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The bark of the root. Description. -- Wahoo ...
- Butter Weed (Erigeron Canadense)
- COMMON NAMES. Colt's Tail, Pride Weed, Horse Weed, Canada Flea-Bane. MEDICINAL PART. The whole plant. ...
- Cahinca (Chiococca Racemosa)
- COMMON NAME. Snow Berry. MEDICINAL PART. The bark of the root. Description. -- This is a climbing ...
- Calico Bush (Kalmia Latifolia)
- COMMON NAMES. Sheep Laurel, Spoonwood, Mountain Laurel, Lambkill. MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. ...
- Cancer Root (Orobanche Virginiana)
- COMMON NAME. Beech Drops. MEDICINAL PART. The plant. Description. -- This is a parasitic plant, ...
- Cannabis Indica
- COMMON NAME. Indian Hemp. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This is an herbaceus annual, ...
- Cassia Marilandica
- COMMON NAMEES. American Senna, Wild Senna. MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- This is a ...
- Catechu (Acacia Catechu)
- COMMON NAMES. Cutch, Gambir, Terra Japonica. MEDICINAL PART. Extract of the wood. Description.--...
- Cedron (Simara Cedron)
- MEDICINAL PART. The seed. Description. -- Simaba is a small tree, with an erect stem about half a foot in diameter, branching ...
- Celandine (Chelidonium Majus)
- COMMON NAME. Tetter Wort. MEDICINAL PARTS. Herb and root. Description. -- This plant is an ...
- Centaury (Sabbatia Angularis)
- COMMON NAME. Rose Pink. MEDICINAL PART. The herb. Description. -- This plant has a yellow fibrous, ...
- Century Plant (Agave Americana)
- COMMON NAME. South American Agave. MEDICINAL PART. The inspissated juice. Description. -- This ...
- Chamomile (Anthemis Nobilis)
- MEDICINAL PART. The Flowers. Description. -- This is a perennial herb, with a strong fibrous root. The stems in a wild state are ...
- Cherry Laurel (Prunus Laurocerasus)
- MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- This is a small evergreen shrub or tree with smooth branches. Leaves with short ...
- Chickweed (Stellaria Media)
- MEDICINAL PART. The herb. Description. -- This plant is an annual or biennial weed, from six to fifteen inches in length, with a ...
- Cinchona
- COMMON NAMES. Peruvian Bark, Jesuits' Bark. MEDICINAL PART. The bark. Description. -- The bark is ...
- Cinque-Foil (Potentilla Canadensis)
- COMMON NAME. Five-Finger. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. This perennial plant has a ...
- Cleavers (Galium Aparine)
- COMMON NAMES. Goose Grass, Catchweed, Bed-Straw. MEDICINAL PART. The herb. Description. -- It is an ...
- Coca (Erithroxylon Coca)
- MEDICINAL PART. The herb. Description. -- I first became acquainted with this most remarkable plant many years ago, while traveling ...
- Colocynth (Cucumis Colocynthis)
- COMMON NAME. Bitter Cucumber. MEDICINAL PART. The fruit divested of its rind. Description. -- ...
- Colt'S Foot (Tussilago Farfara)
- COMMON NAMES. Cough Wort, Foal's Foot, Horse Hoof, and Bull's Foot. MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. ...
- Columbo (Cocculus Palmatus)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- Columbo, so important in the present practice of medicine, is a climbing plant, with a ...
- Comfrey (Symphytum Officinale)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- Comfrey has an oblong, fleshy, perennial root, black on the outside and whitish within, ...
- Cundurango (Equatoria Garciana)
- MEDICINAL PART. The bark of the vine. Description. -- Cundurango, or Condor Vine, a name derived from two words, cundur and angu, ...
- Oopaiba (Copaifera Officinalis)
- COMMON NAME. Balsam of Copaiba. MEDICINAL PART. The oleo-resinous juice. Description. -- Copaiba is ...
- Cranberry (High). -- (Viburnum Opulus)
- MEDICINAL PART. The bark. Description. -- It is a nearly smooth and upright shrub, or small tree, usually from five to twelve feet in ...
- Cranesbill (Geranium Maculatum)
- COMMON NAMES. Dove's Foot, Crow Foot, Alum Root, Spotted Geranium, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The root. ...
- Crawley (Corallorhiza Odontorhiza)
- COMMON NAMES. Dragon's Claw, Coral root, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This is a ...
- Crowfoot (Ranunculus Bulbosus)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The cormus and herb. Description. -- This plant is not to be confounded with the Geranium maculatum, which is also ...
- Cubebs (Piper Cubeba)
- MEDICINAL PART. The berries. Description. -- This is a perennial plant, with a climbing stem, round branches, about as thick as a ...
- Daisy (Leucanthemum Vulgare)
- COMMON NAMES. Ox-eye Daisy, White Weed. MEDICINAL PARTS. The leaves and flowers. Description. -- ...
- Dandelion (Leontodon Taraxacum)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- Dandelion is a perennial, top-shaped herb, having a very milky root. The leaves are all ...
- Devil'S Bit (Helonias Diocia)
- COMMON NAMES. False Unicorn Root, Drooping Star Wort, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. --...
- Dock (Rumex Crispus)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- There are four varieties of Dock which may be used in medicine: the Rumex Aquaticus (...
- Dogwood (Cornus Florida)
- COMMON NAMES. Boxwood, flowering cornel, Green ozier. MEDICINAL PART. The bark. Description. -- ...
- Dragon Root (Arum Triphyllum)
- COMMON NAMES. Wake Robin, Indian Turnip, Jack in the Pulpit, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The cormus or root. ...
- Elder (Sambucus Canadensis)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The flowers and berries. Description. -- This is a common, well-known native American plant, from five to twelve ...
- Elecampane (Inula Helenium)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This plant has a thick, top-shaped, aromatic, and perennial root, with a thick, leafy, ...
- Ergot (Secale Cornitum)
- COMMON NAMES. Spurred or Smut Rye. MEDICINAL PART. The degenerated seeds. Description. -- Ergot is ...
- Eye-Bright (Euphrasia Officinalis)
- MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- This is an elegant little annual plant, with a square, downy, leafy stem, from one to ...
- Ferns (Filices)
- ROYAL FLOWERING FERN. Osmunda Regalis. COMMON NAME. Buckhorn Brake. MEDICINAL PART. The root. ...
- Female Fern (Polypodium Vulgare)
- COMMON NAMES. Rock Polypod, Brake Root, Common Polypody. MEDICINAL PARTS. The root and tops. ...
- Male Fern (Aspidium Filix Mas)
- MEDICINAL PART. The rhizome. Description. -- Male Fern has a large, perennial, tufted, scaly rhizome, sending forth yearly several ...
- Feverfew (Pyrethrum Parthenium)
- MEDICINAL PART. The herb. Description. -- Feverfew is a perennial herbaceous plant, with a tapering root, and an erect, round, and ...
- Figwort (Scrophularia Nodosa)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The leaves and root. Description. -- Figwort has a perennial, whitish, and fibrous root, with a leafy, erect, ...
- Fireweed (Erecthites Hieractifolics)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The root and herb. Description. -- This plant has an annual, herbaceous, thick, fleshy, branching, and roughish ...
- Frost-Weed (Helianthemum Canadense)
- COMMON NAMES. Rock Rose, Frost Plant, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The herb. Description. -- Rock Rose is a ...
- Fumitory (Fumaria Officinalis)
- MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- Fumitory is an annual, glaucous plant, with a sub-erect, much branched, spreading, ...
- Gambir Plant (Uncaria Gambir)
- MEDICINAL PART. Extract of the leaves and young shoots. Description. -- Gambir is a stout climbing shrub with round branches. ...
- Gelsemin (Gelseminum Sempervirens)
- COMMON NAMES. Yellow Jessamine, Woodbine, Wild Jessamine. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- ...
- Gentian (Gentiana Lutea)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This plant has a long, thick, cylindrical, wrinkled, ringed, forked, perennial root, ...
- Gillenia (Gillenia Trifoliata)
- COMMON NAME. Indian Physic. MEDICINAL PART. The bark of the root. Description. -- Gillenia is an ...
- Gossypium Herbaceum
- COMMON NAME. Cotton. MEDICINAL PART. The inner bark of the root. Description. -- Cotton is a ...
- Globe Flower (Cephalanthus Occidentalis)
- COMMON NAMES. Button Busy, Pond Dogwood, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This is a ...
- Golden Seal (Hydrastis Canadensis)
- COMMON NAMES. Yellow Puccoon, Ground Raspberry, Turmeris Root, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The root. ...
- Gold Thread (Coptis Trifolia)
- COMMON NAME. Mouth-root. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This plant has a small, creeping,...
- Guaiac (Guaiacum Officinale)
- COMMON NAME. Lignum Vitae. MEDICINAL PARTS. The wood and resin. Description. -- This is a tree of ...
- Hazel (Witch) (Hamamelis Verginica)
- COMMON NAMES. Winterbloom, Snapping-hazelnut, Spotted Alder. MEDICINAL PARTS. The bark and leaves. ...
- Hellebore (American) (Veratrum Viride)
- COMMON NAMES. Swamp Hellebore, Indian Poke, Itch-weed. MEDICINAL PART. The rhizome. Description. -- ...
- Henbane (Hyoscyamus Niger)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The leaves and seeds. Description. -- Henbane is a biennial plant. It has a long, thick, spindle-shaped, ...
- Hoarhound (Marrubium Vulgare)
- MEDICINAL PART. The herb. Description. -- This well-known herb has a fibrous, perennial root and numerous annual, bushy stems, ...
- Hound'S Tongue (Cynoglossum Officinale)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The leaves and root. Description. -- This biennial plant has an erect stem one or two feet high. The leaves are ...
- Hops (Humulus Lupulus)
- MEDICINAL PART. The strobiles or cones. Description. -- This well-known twining plant has a perennial root, with many annual ...
- House-Leek (Sempervivum Tectorum)
- MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- House-leek has a fibrous root, with several tufts of oblong, acute, extremely succulent ...
- Hyssop (Hyssopus Officinalis)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The tops and leaves. Description. -- Hyssop is a perennial herb, with square stems, woody at the base, and a foot ...
- Iberis Amara
- COMMON NAME. Bitter Candy Tuft. Description and History. -- Iceland Moss is a perennial, foliaceous plant from two to four inches ...
- Iron Weed (Vernonia Fasaciculata)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This is an indigenous, perennial, coarse, purplish-green weed, with a stem from three to ...
- Ivy (American) (Ampelopsis Quinquefolia)
- COMMON NAMES. Woodbine, Virginia Creeper, Five Leaves, False Grape, Wild wood-vine. MEDICINAL PARTS. The bark and twigs. &...
- Jalap (Ipomoea Jalapa)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- Jalap has a fleshy, tuberous root, with numerous roundish tubercles. It has several stems,...
- Jamestown Weed (Datura Stramonium)
- COMMON NAMES. Thorn-Apple, Stinkweed, Apple-peru, etc. MEDICINAL PARTS. The leaves and seeds. Description.--This plant ...
- Juniper (Juniperus Communis)
- MEDICINAL PART. The berries. Description. -- This is a small evergreen shrub, never attaining the height of a tree, with many very ...
- Kino (Pterocarpus Marsupium)
- MEDICINAL PART. Concrete juice. Description. -- Kino is a leafy tree, with the outer coat of the bark brown, and the inner red, ...
- Kidney Liver-Leaf (Hepatica Americana)
- MEDICINAL PART. The plant. Description. -- This is a perennial plant, the root of which consists of numerous strong fibres. The ...
- Kousso (Brayera Anthelmintica)
- MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- This is a tree, growing about twenty feet high, with round rusty branches. The leaves ...
- Ladies' Slipper (Cypripedium Pubescens)
- COMMON NAMES. American Valerian, Umbel, Nerve-root, Yellow-Moccasin flowers, Noah's Ark. MEDICINAL PART. The root. &...
- Larch (Abies Larix)
- MEDICINAL PART. Resinous exudation. Description. -- Larch is a very lofty and graceful tree, with widespreading branches. The buds ...
- Large Flowering Spurge (Euphorbia Corollata)
- COMMON NAMES. Blooming Spurge, Milk-weed, Bowman's Root, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The bark of the root. ...
- Larkspur (Delphinum Consolida)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The root and seeds. Description. -- Larkspur is an annual herb, with a simple slender root, a leafy stem, from a ...
- Lavender (Lavandula Vera And Lavandula Spica)
- MEDICINAL PART. The flowers. Description. -- Lavandula Vera is a small shrub from one to two feet high, but sometimes attaining six ...
- Lever Wood (Astrya Virginica)
- COMMON NAMES. Iron-wood, Hop-hornbeam. MEDICINAL PART. The inner wood. Description. -- This small ...
- Life-Root (Senecio Aureus)
- COMMON NAMES. Squaw-weed, Ragwort, False Valerian, Golden Senecio, and Female Regulator. MEDICINAL PARTS. The root and herb. &...
- Lily (Meadow) (Lilium Candidum)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- The thick stem of this plant is from three to four feet high, and arises from a perennial ...
- Lion'S Foot (Nabulus Albus)
- COMMON NAMES. White Lettuce, Rattle-snake Root. MEDICINAL PART. The plant. Description. -- This ...
- Lobelia (Lobelia Inflata)
- COMMON NAMES. Indian Tobacco, Wild Tobacco. MEDICINAL PARTS. The leaves and seeds. Description. -- ...
- Lousewort (Gerardia Pedicularia)
- COMMON NAMES. Fever-weed, American Foxglove, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The herb. Description. -- The ...
- Lungwort (Pulmonaria Officinalis)
- MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- This rough plant has a stem about one foot high. The radical leaves ovate, cordate; ...
- Madder (Rubia Tinctorum)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This plant has a perennial, long, cylindrical root, about the thickness of a quill, and ...
- Mad-Dog Weed (Alisma Plantago)
- COMMON NAME. Water Plantain. MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- This perennial herb has ...
- Maidenhair (Adiantum Pedatum)
- MEDICINAL PART. The herb. Description. -- This is a most delicate and graceful fern, growing from twelve to fifteen inches high, ...
- Magnolia (Magnolia Glauca)
- COMMON NAMES. White Bay, Beaver-tree, Sweet Magnolia, Swamp Sassafras, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The bark. ...
- Mallow (Common) (Malva Sylvestris)
- COMMON NAME. High-mallow. MEDICINAL PART. The herb. Description. -- This plant is a perennial, and ...
- Mandrake (Podophyllum Peltatum)
- COMMON NAMES. May-Apple, Wild Lemon, Raccoon-berry, Wild Mandrake. MEDICINAL PART. The root. ...
- Matico (Piper Angustifolium)
- MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- This is a tall shrub, presenting a singular appearance from its pointed stem and ...
- Mechameck (Convolvulus Panduratus)
- COMMON NAMES. Wild Jalap, Man-in-the-Earth, Man-in-the-Ground, Wild Potato. MEDICINAL PART. The root. ...
- Meadow Saffron (Colchicum Autumnale)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The cormus and seeds. Description.--The cormus of this plant is large, ovate, and fleshy. The leaves are dark-...
- Monkshood (Aconitum Napellus)
- COMMON NAME. Wolf's bane. MEDICINAL PARTS. Leaves and root. Description. -- This plant has a small ...
- Moss (Corsican), (Fucus Helminthicorton)
- MEDICINAL PART. The whole plant. Description. -- This marine plant has a cartilaginous, tufted, entangled frond, with branches ...
- Motherwort (Leonurus Cardiaca)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The tops and leaves. Description. -- This perennial plant has stems from two to five feet in height. The leaves ...
- Mullein (Verbascum Thapsus)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The leaves and flowers. Description. -- This biennial plant has a straight, tall, stout, woolly, simple stem. The ...
- Myrrh (Balsamodendron Myrrha)
- MEDICINAL PART. The resinous exudation. Description. -- This plant has a shrubby, arborescent stem, spinescent branchs, a very pale ...
- Narrow Leaf Virginia Thyme (Pycanthemum Virginicum)
- COMMON NAME. Prairie Hyssop. MEDICINAL PART. The plant. Description. -- This pubescent plant has a ...
- Nettle (Urtica Dioca)
- COMMON NAME. Great Stinging Nettle. MEDICINAL PARTS. The root and leaves. Description. -- This is a ...
- Net Leaf Plantain (Goodyera Pubescens)
- COMMON NAMES. Scrofula-weed, Adder's Violet, Rattle-snake Leaf, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. ...
- Nightshade (Garden) (Solanum Nigrum)
- MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- This is a fetid, narcotic, bushy herb, with a fibrous root, and an erect, branching, ...
- Norway Pine (Abies Excelsa)
- MEDICINAL PART. The concrete juice. Description. -- This is a large tree, often having a diameter exceeding four feet, and ...
- Nux Vomica (Strychnos Nux Vomica)
- MEDICINAL PART. The seeds. Description. -- This is a moderate-sized tree, with a short and pretty thick trunk. The wood is white, ...
- Oak -- White, Red, And Black (Quercus Alba, Rubra, And Tinctoria)
- MEDICINAL PART. The bark. Description. -- These forest-trees vary in size, according to the climate and soil. In diameter they are ...
- Old Man'S Beard (Chionanthus Virginica)
- COMMON NAMES. Fringe Tree, Poison Ash. MEDICINAL PART. Bark of the root. Description. -- This is a ...
- Old Field Balsam (Gnaphalium Polycephalum)
- COMMON NAMES. Indian Posy, Sweet-scented Life Everlasting, White Balsam, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The herb. ...
- Opium (Papaver Somniferum)
- COMMON NAME. Poppy. MEDICINAL PART. Concrete juice of unripe capsule. Description. -- An annual ...
- Papoose Root (Caulophyllum Thalictroides)
- COMMON NAMES. Blue Cohosh, Squaw Root, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This is a ...
- Pareira Brava (Cissampelos Paretra)
- COMMON NAMES. Velvet Leaf, Ice Vine. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This plant is a ...
- Parsley (Petroselinum Sativum)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This biennial plant has a fleshy, spindle-shaped root, and an erect, smooth, branching ...
- Partridge Berry (Mitchella Repens)
- COMMON NAMES. One Berry, Checkerberry, Winter Clover, Deerberry, Squaw-vine, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The vine. ...
- Pennyroyal (Hedeoma Pulegioides)
- COMMON NAMES. Tickweed, Squawmint, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The herb. Description. -- This is an ...
- Peony (Paeonia Officinalis)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- Peony has many thick, long-spreading, perennial roots, running deep into the ground, with ...
- Peruvian Balsam (Myrospermum Peruiferum)
- MEDICINAL PART. The balsamic exudation. Description. -- The tree from which this is procured is large, with a thick, straight, ...
- Pinkroot (Spigelia Marilandica)
- COMMON NAMES. Carolina Pink or Worm Grass. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This ...
- Pipsissewa (Chimphila Umbellata)
- COMMON NAMES. Wintergreen, Prince's Pine, Ground Holly, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The whole plant. ...
- Pleurisy Root (Asclepias Tuberosa)
- COMMON NAMES. Butterfly-weed, Wind-root, Tuber-root. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This ...
- Poke (Phytolacca Decandra)
- COMMON NAMES. Pigeon-berry, Garget, Scoke, Coakum, etc. MEDICINAL PARTS. The root, leaves, and berries. ...
- Pomegranate (Punica Granatum)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The rind of the fruit, and bark of the root. Description. -- This is a small tree or shrub. The leaves are ...
- Prickly Ash (Xanthoxylum Fraxineum)
- COMMON NAMES. Yellow-wood, Toothache-bush, etc. MEDICINAL PARTS. The bark and berries. Description. ...
- Privet (Ligustrum Vulgare)
- COMMON NAMES. Privy, Prim, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- This is a smooth shrub, ...
- Quassia (Picraenia Excelsa)
- COMMON NAMES. Bitter-wood, Bitter-ash. MEDICINAL PART. The wood. Description. -- This is a tree ...
- Queen Of The Meadow (Eupatorium Purpureum)
- COMMON NAMES. Gravel-root, Joe-pie, Trumpet-weed. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This is ...
- Ragged Cup (Silphium Perfoliatum)
- COMMON NAME. Indian Cup-plant. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This plant has a perennial,...
- Rattle Bush (Baptisia Tinctoria)
- COMMON NAMES. Wild Indigo, Horsefly Weed. MEDICINAL PART. The bark of the root and leaves. ...
- Red Raspberry (Rubus Strigosus)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The bark of the root, and leaves. Description. -- This is a shrubby, strongly hispid plant, about four feet high. ...
- Red Root (Ceanothus Americanus)
- COMMON NAMES. New Jersey Tea, Wild Snow-ball. MEDICINAL PART. The bark of the root. Description. -- ...
- Rhatany (Krameria Triandria)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- The root of this plant is horizontal, very long, with a thick bark. The stem is round and ...
- Rheumatism Root (Jeffersonia Diphylla)
- COMMON NAMES. Twin-leaf, Ground-Squirrel Pea. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This plant ...
- Rhubary (Rheum Palmatum)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- The scientific world happens to be in much argument as to the exact plant or plants from ...
- Rosemary (Rosmarinus Officinalis)
- MEDICINAL PART. The tops. Description. -- Rosemary is an erect, perennial, evergreen shrub, two to four feet high, with ...
- Pyrola (Round-Leaved) (Pyrola Rotundifolia)
- COMMON NAMES. False Wintergreen, Shin-leaf, Canker-Lettuce, Pear-leaf Wintergreen, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The herb. ...
- Saffron (Dyers) (Carthamus Tinctorius)
- COMMON NAMES. Safflower, Bastard Saffron. MEDICINAL PART. The flowers. Description. -- This annual ...
- Sage (Salvia Officinalis)
- COMMON NAME. Garden Sage. MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- Sage is a plant with a ...
- St. Ignatius' Bean (Ignatius Amara)
- Description. -- The Ignatius Amara is a branching tree with long, taper, smooth, scrambling branches. The leaves are veiny, smooth, and a span long. The flowers ...
- St. John'S Wort (Hypericum Performatum)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The tops and flowers. Description. -- This is a beautiful shrub, and is a great ornament to our meadows. It has a ...
- Sanicle (Sanicula Marilandica)
- COMMON NAME. Black-snake Root. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- Sanicle is an indigenous, ...
- Sarsaparilla (Smilax Officinalis)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- The stem of this plant is twining, angular, and prickly, the young shoots being unarmed. ...
- Sassafras (Laurus Sassafras)
- MEDICINAL PART. The bark of the root. Description. -- This is a small tree, varying in height from ten to forty feet. The bark is ...
- Savory (Summer) (Satureja Hortensis)
- MEDICINAL PART. The leaves. Description. -- This annual plant has a branching, bushy stem, about eighteen inches in height, woody ...
- Scull-Cap (Scutellaria Lateriflora)
- COMMON NAMES. Blue scull-Cap, Side-Flowering Scull-Cap, Mad-Dogweed, and Hood-wort. MEDICINAL PART. The whole plant. &...
- Seneka (Polygala Senega)
- COMMON NAME. Seneca Snake-Root. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This indigenous plant ...
- Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus Foetidus)
- COMMON NAMES. Skunk-weed, Pole-cat weed, Meadow Cabbage. MEDICINAL PARTS. The roots and seeds. ...
- Soap-Wort (Saponaria Officinalis)
- COMMON NAME. Bouncing Bet. MEDICINAL PARTS. The root and leaves. Description. -- This is a stout ...
- Solomon'S Seal (Convallaria Multiflora)
- MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- The stem of this plant is smooth from one to four feet high, and growing from a perennial ...
- Sorrel (Wood) (Oxalis Acetosella)
- MEDICINAL PART. The whole herb. Description. -- This is a small perennial herb, with a creeping and scaly-toothed root-stock. The ...
- Squirting Cucumber (Momordica Elaterium)
- MEDICINAL PART. The feculence of the juice of the fruit. Description. -- This hispid and glaucous plant has several stems growing from the ...
- Star-Grass (Aletris Farinosa)
- COMMON NAMES. Colic-root, Ague-root, Crow-corn, Unicorn root, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The root. ...
- Stillingia (Stillingia Sylvatica)
- COMMON NAMES. Queen's Root, Queen's Delight, Yawroot, and Silver-leaf. MEDICINAL PART. The root. ...
- Stoneroot (Collinsonia Canadensis)
- COMMON NAMES. Hardhack, Horseweed, Heal-all, Richweed, Oxbalm, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The plant. ...
- Sumach (Rhus Glabrum)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The bark and fruit. Description. -- Sumach is a shrub, from six to fifteen feet high, consisting of many ...
- Swamp Beggars' Tick (Bidens Connata)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The root and seeds. Description. -- This herb has a smooth stem, from one to three feet high. The leaves are ...
- Sweet Gum (Liquidamear Styraciflua)
- MEDICINAL PART. The concrete juice. Description. -- The Sweet Gum tree grows to the height of from fifty to sixty feet. Its bark is ...
- Tacamahac (Populus Balsamifera)
- COMMON NAME. Balsam Poplar. MEDICINAL PART. The buds. Description. -- This tree, also called ...
- Tansy (Tanacetum Vulgare)
- MEDICINAL PART. The herb. Description. -- Tansy has a perennial creeping root, and an erect herbaceous stem, one to three feet high....
- Thyme (Thymus Vulgaris)
- MEDICINAL PART. The herb. Description. -- Thyme is a small undershrub, with numerous erect stems, procumbent at base, and from six ...
- Tolu (Myrospermum Toluiferum)
- MEDICINAL PART. The balsamic exudation. Description. -- A full botanical description of this tree has not yet been given, but it is ...
- Turkey Corn (Corydalis Formosa)
- COMMON NAMES. Wild Turkey-pea, Stagger-weed, Choice Dielytra. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description....
- Valerian (Valeriana Officinalis)
- COMMON NAME. Great Wild Valerian. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This is a large herb, ...
- Vanilla (Vanilla Aromatica)
- MEDICINAL PART. The fruit or pods. Description. -- Vanilla Aromatica is a shrubby, climbing, aerial parasite, growing in the clefts ...
- Wafer-Ash (Ptelea Trifoliata)
- COMMON NAMES. Wing-seed, Shrubby Trefoil, Swamp Dogwood, etc. MEDICINAL PART. The bark of the root. ...
- Walnut (White), (Juglans Cinerea)
- COMMON NAMES. Butternut, Oil Nut, etc. MEDICINAL PARTS. Inner bark of the root, and leaves. Description<...
- Water Pepper (Polygonum Punctatum)
- COMMON NAME. Smartweed. MEDICINAL PART. The whole herb. Description. -- This is an annual plant, ...
- Wormseed (Chenopodium Anthelminticum)
- COMMON NAME. Jerusalem Oak. MEDICINAL PART. The seeds. Description. -- This plant has a perennial ...
- Wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium)
- MEDICINAL PARTS. The tops and leaves. Description. -- This is a perennial plant, with a woody root, branched at the crown, and ...
- Yam (Wild), (Dioscorea Villosa)
- COMMON NAME. Colic root. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This is a delicate twining vine, ...
- Yarrow (Achillea Millefolium)
- COMMON NAMES. Milfoil, Thousand Seal, Nose-bleed. MEDICINAL PART. The herb. Description. -- Yarrow, ...
- Yellow Parilla (Menispermum Canadense)
- COMMON NAMES. Vine-maple, Moonseed. MEDICINAL PART. The root. Description. -- This plant has a ...
- Plants, Their Collection And Preservation
- A Physician who would cure diseases, or seek to assist Nature to throw off all morbid accumulations from the body, should have a single eye to the perfection, purity, or quality of the remedial ...
- Mechanical Articles
- The following articles, so necessary in many instances, will be sent, prepaid by mail, securely packed from observation. We offer them to our patrons because of their being in many respects ...
- Mechanical Articles. Part 2
- Hard Rubber Syringe The above syringe is very durable, being made of hard rubber. By inserting the appropriate tubes (furnished with it), it can be used as a rectum, vaginal or urethra ...
- Food And Drinks
- MAN is an omnivorous creature, partaking of the nature both of the carnivorous and herbiverous animal. Hence, it is reasonable to suppose that man should subsist on a mixed diet, consisting both ...
- Clothing
- Clothing must be adapted to the climate in which a person lives. Warm or heavy clothing is rendered imperative in a northern climate, while the lightest and thinnest can only be tolerated in the ...
- Sleep
- Sleep is as much a necessity to the existence of all animal organizations as light, air, or any other element incident to their maintenance and healthful development. The constitutional relation ...
- Bathing
- Were all to follow the natural laws of their organization in respect to eating, drinking, clothing, exercise, and temperature, an occasional bath or washing would be sufficient; but as the laws of ...
- Exercise. Physical And Mental Development
- Everything tends to prove that man was destined to lead a life of bodily action. His formation--his physical structure generally, and that of his joints particularly--his great capacity for speed ...
- Exercise. Physical And Mental Development. Part 2
- Walking, running, leaping, hopping, dancing, rowing boats, etc., are physiologically adapted to strengthen the whole muscular system. Even boxing and fencing are to be advised when properly ...
- Air And Sunshine
- As air may be said to be the very pabulum of life, it is highly essential that it should be pure, -- inasmuch as any deterioration of it never fails to render the blood impure, and thus ultimately ...
- Old Age, Or Longevity
- The true philosophy of life is to live and enjoy -- to use and not abuse the essentials to human longevity and happiness. As we read in Holy Writ, in the earlier history of man, when the air was ...
- Life, Health, And Disease
- What is life? In general terms life may be said to be a subtle emanation of Deity -- a principle that pervades all the works of creation, whether organic or inorganic. It is a sort of ENTITY, ...
- Regulating The Passions
- It has been truly said that we may religiously observe all the laws of hygiene in relation to air, light, drink, food, temperature, exercise, clothing, sleep, bathing, and the excretions, and yet ...
- Things For The Sick-Room
- BARLEY WATER. -- Pearl barley, two ounces; boiling water, two quarts. Boil to one quart and strain. If desirable, a little lemon-juice and sugar may be added. This may be taken freely in all ...
- Things For The Sick-Room. Part 2
- BEEF LIQUID. -- When the stomach is very weak, take fresh lean beef, cut it into strips, and place the strips into a bottle, with a little salt. Place into a kettle of boiling water and let it ...
- Things For The Sick-Room. Part 3
- NUTRITIVE FLUIDS. -- Below will be found directions for preparing three nutritious fluids, which are of great value in all diseases, either acute or chronic, that are attended or followed by ...
- How To Assist The Doctor
- The Sick-Room If there is a choice of rooms, the patient's welfare demands that he should be placed in the one affording to a greater degree light, pure air, warmth, etc. The patient ...
- Nurses And Nursing
- Next to the physician, the nurse has responsibilities that must be faithfully discharged, as the life of the patient is not alone dependent upon the skill of the physician, but in a great measure ...
- Nurses And Nursing. Part 2
- Then there is the fussy nurse, and there are many of this sort. Her zeal to benefit the patient is so great, that she sadly overdoes it: she bustles in and out of the room every few minutes, ...
- Part II: Diseases
- The great difficulty of treating disease, by those who are not physicians, is the liability to mistake the character of the affection, being unable through obscurity of the symptoms to ...
- Miasmatic Fevers
- These, as signified by name, owe their origin to, or are caused by, a peculiar principle to which the name of malaria or miasm has been given. Of the chemical nature of miasm we literally know ...
- Intermittent Fever
- This is commonly called Fever and Ague, or Chills and Fever. As the name implies, the fever is not constant, as in the continual fevers, but intermits, so that in its career there are well-marked ...
- Remittent Fever
- This is commonly called Bilious Fever. It is a disease whose attack is generally sudden and well marked, without prominent premonitory symptoms, if any, at all times. There is sense of languor and ...
- Yellow-Fever
- The first symptoms of this fever seem identical with remittent, often well marked by periodicity, but finally reaction occurs, and it assumes a typhoid character. The disease is ushered in ...
- Typhus Fever
- This is also called Hospital, Jail, Camp, Putrid, and Ship Fever. It is usually preceded by lassitude, debility, and loss of appetite, and ushered in by rigors and chills, and characterized by ...
- Eruptive Or Exanthematous Fevers
- These are all characterized by fever and the usual constitutional disturbances, together with an eruption or exanthem distinguishing each variety. They owe their origin to animal or vegetable ...
- Typhoid Fever
- This is a very insidious disease, its commencement being scarcely perceptible. The patient has a sense of indisposition, but is unable to describe his condition. He feels slight debility, a dull ...
- Diphtheria
- Diphtheria is scarcely more than a modification of scarlet fever. The patient first complains of lassitude, headache, loss of appetite, has rigors and chills, active and quick pulse, a light ...
- Small-Pox (Variola)
- The symptoms are divided into four periods. The period of invasion occupies about three days, and is marked by languor, lassitude, restlessness, stretching, gaping, petulance, sullen mood; these ...
- Chicken Pox (Varicella)
- This is a very mild eruptive disease, characterized by a slight fever of short duration, and followed by vesicles which desquamate about the fifth or sixth day. The fever is sometimes ushered in ...
- Measles (Rubeola).
- This is an acute inflammation of the entire skin, of an infectious and contagious nature. It is ushered in with chills, followed by heat, drowsiness, pain in head, back, and limbs, sore throat, ...
- Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina).
- Also a contagious disease. The eruption is in the shape of pimples of a scarlet hue, displayed in patches over the whole surface. The fever is usually more intense than in measles, and ...
- Nettle Rash
- This commences with fever, lasting two or three days; then itching pimples, diversified in shape, appear, which go off during the day and come again at night. Teething causes it sometimes, while ...
- Erysipelas
- This disease commences with languor, aching or soreness of the limbs, chilliness, alternating with flushes of heat. The pulse is quick, skin hot, tongue foul, appetite gone, thirst, nausea ...
- Rose Rash (Roseola)
- This is an eruptive disease of little importance. The febrile symptoms are slight, more or less attended with gastric derangement, which continues two or three days before the rash appears and ...
- Erythema
- The eruption of this disease is of superficial redness, generally in irregular patches, slightly elevated, and attended with heat, tingling, and sometimes slight pain. It may be local or owing to ...
- Glanders
- This may be contracted from the horse, and is a very malignant disease. It is characterized by a purulent and sometimes bloody discharge from the nose, a peculiar pustular eruption, and by tumors ...
- Dandy Fever (Dengue)
- This disease occasionally prevails as an epidemic in the southern seacost towns. There is pain, stiffness of the neck, back, and loins, and swelling of the muscles of the limbs and joints. ...
- Purpura
- This affection is characterized by a greater or lesser number of livid spots on the skin, from extravasated blood. In simple cases the effusion is confined to the skin and cellular tissues, ...
- Anatomy Of The Organs Of Digestion
- Mouth. -- The mouth is separated from the nose by the hard and soft palate, and communicates. It is bounded in front by the lips, and its sides by the cheeks. The space between the lips and ...
- Diseases Of The Digestive Organs: Stomatitis
- This is characterized by inflammation of the mouth. It may involve the whole membrane, or be confined to isolated portions. The first prominent symptom is a loss of taste, and a sensation similar ...
- Glossitis
- This is inflammation of the substance of the tongue, involving its muscular structure. It usually commences with a throbbing pain in the tongue, followed soon after with redness and swelling. In ...
- Quinsy (Tonsillitis)
- This consists of inflammation of the tonsils, which may in many cases extend to the adjacent tissues. It usually commences with a slight chill, followed by much febrile excitement, uneasy feeling ...
- Pharyngitis
- This is characterized either by acute, sub-acute, or chronic inflammation of the pharynx. There is slight pain upon pressure, or in the act of swallowing. It is seldom attended with fever, but in ...
- Parotitis (Mumps)
- Mumps is an inflammatory affection of the salivary glands, especially the parotids. It generally commences with slight fever, stiffness of the jaws, and a slight pain or swelling in one or both ...
- Oesophagitis
- This is an inflammation of the oesophagus, or that portion of the alimentary canal which conveys the food from the pharynx to the stomach. Heat and pain, increased by swallowing, at some point ...
- Inflammation Of The Stomach Gastritis)
- This usually commences in the acute form with violent vomiting and a burning pain in the region of the stomach. Swallowing becomes difficult, thirst is intense, tongue is dry and smooth, headache ...
- Cancer Of The Stomach
- The early symptoms of cancer of the stomach are usually similar to chronic gastritis. The appetite is impaired, and frequent nausea and vomiting supervene. The pain in the stomach is of a ...
- Heart-Burn (Gastralgia)
- Two forms of heart-burn are commonly observed: one, attended by acid eructations, causing irritation of the throat and fauces; and in the other, the ejections from the stomach are rancid and ...
- Gastralgia, Or Gastrodynia
- This consists of a sense of pain, stricture, or contraction, occurring in paroxysms. The stomach feels as if rolled into a ball, or drawn towards the back. It assumes different degrees of violence,...
- Spasm Of The Stomach
- This consists of a sense of pain, stricture, or contraction, occurring in paroxysms. The stomach feels as if rolled into a ball, or drawn towards the back. It assumes different degrees of violence,...
- Water-Brash (Pyrosis)
- This also occurs generally in paroxysms. The pain is intense, and of a burning character. An eructation of a thin, insipid, watery liquid occurs, and, when discharged, affords momentary relief....
- Dyspepsia, Or Indigestion
- This is one of the most common affections in the whole catalogue of diseases. Scarcely a human being lives that has not or will not be a victim to this harassing disease. In simple indigestion, ...
- Anatomy Of The Liver
- The liver is the largest glandular organ in the body; its office is to secrete bile. It is oblong and oval in shape, and occupies the position on the right side, under the lower ribs. It weighs ...
- Diseases Of The Liver: Hepatitis
- Inflammation may be confined to its outside covering, or involve the entire substance of the liver. It usually makes its appearance with sympathetic fever, pain, a sense of tension on the right ...
- Chronic Hepatitis
- Chronic inflammation of the liver usually involves the entire organ, and may be the result of the acute form, although it exists independently of it. It is a disease very common in the South and ...
- Cirrhosis
- The result of chronic inflammation of the areolar tissue of the entire organ is often induration or cirrhosis of the liver. The tissues become so firm, and ultimately so constricted, as to ...
- Gall-Stones
- These concretions are generally oval or pear-shaped, and formed in the gall-bladder or hepatic ducts. They vary in size, from that of a small pea to a fowl's egg, and in chemical composition ...
- Jaundice (Icterus)
- The most prominent symptoms are yellowness of the skin, eyes, and urine, owing to the deposit of the coloring matter of the bile in the blood. The appetite is impaired, the food is loathed, an ...
- Anatomy Of The Spleen
- The organ occupying the right of the following cut, is the spleen. It is a soft vascular organ of a purplish color. It is not a true gland, as it has no duct. The shape of the spleen is ...
- Splenitis
- The functions of the spleen have formerly been the cause of much controversy, nor are they better understood at the present day; but the organ is evidently concerned somewhat in the blood-making ...
- Diseases Of The Pancreas
- The pancreas is rarely the seat of disease. The symptoms of its morbid conditions are usually obscure. It may be affected by inflammation, passive or acute. In typhoid, typhus, and puerperal ...
- Diseases Of The Bowels
- The intestinal tube is very seldom affected throughout its whole extent, but inflammation may involve any portion of it at one time. If the duodenum is affected it is called Duodenitis,if the ...
- Dysentery (Colitis)
- This is also known as bloody flux, and consists of an inflammation of the membrane of the colon and rectum, and characterized by small mucous or bloody evacuations, griping, and straining. The ...
- Diarrhoea
- This common disorder is characterized by frequent and urgent demands to evacuate the bowels. It is usually preceded by a sense of indigestion, fulness of stomach, flatulency, and more or less ...
- Constipation
- By this is understood a collection of excrementitious matters in some part of the intestinal tube. It is marked by unfrequency of stool, and by the recurrence of fulness and tension in parts of ...
- Intestinal Worms
- Every animal seems to be a nest for other animals, and man is no exception to the rule. There are five varieties of intestinal worms, all more or less familiar to every one of my readers. ...
- Peritonitis
- This is an inflammation of the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity, and investing the viscera, and may be either acute or chronic. During the early stages of the disease there is a ...
- Summer Complaint (Cholera Infantum)
- This is a complaint which usually attacks children between the ages of two months and three years; it occurs in the warm season, and is chiefly confined to cities. It is very fatal. It commences ...
- Cholera Morbus
- This is characterized by violent purging and vomiting of bilious matter, attended with griping, sickness and a constant desire to go to stool. The attack is usually abrupt, but it is sometimes ...
- Asiatic Cholera
- This is an endemic disease of India, and visits other lands by travelling in what is called the cholera cycle. The Hindoos call it Purrhee morlii (rapid death); The Mahometans, euncrum vaudi (...
- Prolapsus Of The Rectum
- This is more common to children than to adults, and is frequently a sequel to protracted diarrhoea, the falling caused by the debility occasioned thereby. It is also associated with disease of the ...
- Anal Fistula
- This consists of an abscess occurring in some portion of the cellular tissue around the anus. As suppuration occurs the pus can be detected by the touch, and which sooner or later makes its way to ...
- Piles (Hemorrhoids)
- By these are understood the existence of small excrescences within the rectum and around the anus, which are characterized by a varicose condition of the hemorrhoidal veins. They may be situated ...
- Diseases Of The Absorbent System
- These are diseases affecting the lymphatic glands. The lymphatic system is that particular system of organs inservient to the formation and circulation of lymph, and consists of glands and vessels....
- Scrofula
- This is commonly known as King's Evil, and derives its name from the Latin scrofa, a sow, because it was supposed that it also affects swine. It is most apt to occur in persons of sanguine ...
- Tabes Mesenterica
- This consists of an engorgement and tubercular degeneration of the mesenteric glands, followed by emaciation and general disorder of the nutritive functions. It occurs particularly in children of ...
- Larynx
- The larynx is a canal formed of cartilages, whose various movements regulate the voice. It is situated in the median line in the upper and anterior part of the neck. It can readily be felt from ...
- Trachea
- The trachea (see figure) is a cylindrical tube, four or five inches long, reaching from the larynx to the point of division into the bronchial tubes. It is formed of from sixteen to twenty ...
- The Lungs
- The lungs are the organs of respiration properly; they are two in number, and situated in the chest, placed side by side, being separated from the abdomen by the diaphragm. The size varies ...
- Pleurae
- The pleura is a serous membrane investing each lung, and then reflected upon the walls of the chest. That portion in contact with the chest is called the pleura costalis; thata covering the lungs, ...
- Diseases Of The Respiratory And Circulatory Systems: Coryza
- This is the running at the nose or cold in the head, so frequently contracted. It consists of acute inflammation of the Schneiderian or mucous membrane of the nose, and the sinuses connecting ...
- Ozoena
- This consists of chronic inflammation of the nostrils, with an uneasy feeling, heat, and stiffness of the nose, swelling of the mucous membrane, and an offensive discharge. The nostrils are ...
- Catarrh
- We now come to a disease that is a bane to the existence of many a person. The catarrhal patient is never happy, for he knows that he is inseparably connected with a disease that is excessively ...
- Laryngitis
- This consists of an inflammation of the parts composing the larynx, especially the mucous membranes, and may be either acute or chronic. When it is known that in the larynx are situated the vocal ...
- Bronchitis
- Inflammation of the bronchial mucous membrane is of common occurrence. Its severity is proportionate to the size of the tube involved. The disease may exist independently, but is often associated ...
- Croup
- Croup is an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx and trachea, or windpipe. It is one of the scourges of childhood. False membranous croup is owing to an oozing of a peculiar fluid, ...
- Pneumonia
- This is commonly called lung fever. It is characterized by inflammation of the parenchyma or texture of the lungs. The patient is generally found lying on his back, complains of pain in his side, ...
- Asthma
- This is characterized by difficult breathing, occurring in paroxysms, accompanied by a wheezing sound, a great desire for fresh air, and unattended by fever or organic disease of the lungs or ...
- Pleurisy
- This is characterized by inflammation of the pleura or serous membrane enclosing the lungs. The disease usually commences with a chill, which is succeeded by a sharp, lancinating pain in the side; ...
- Apnoea, Or Asphyxia
- Literally the word asphyxia means pulseless, and was for a long time only used in that sense, but is now applied generally to all cases of suspended animation. It is produced by the non- ...
- Asphyxia By Extreme Cold
- When a person is subjected to extreme cold, the first symptoms are painful feelings, followed by sensations similar to those produced by inhalation of carbonic acid gas. He becomes benumbed, ...
- Asphyxia By Inhalation Of Gases
- Some gases cause death by spasmodic closure of the glottis, others by want of oxygen. Carbonic acid gas is the most common noxious gas. TREATMENT. -- Place the patient in a region where ...
- Asphyxia By Submersion, Drowning
- Death in this case is not caused by the stomach and air passages being filled with water, but ensues in consequence of the person being plunged in a medium unfit for respiration. In no case where ...
- Consumption (Phthisis)
- This is a constitutional affection manifesting itself in most essential changes in the tissue of the lungs. It may be acute or chronic. The acute form, or galloping consumption, commences with ...
- Anatomy Of The Heart
- The heart is a hollow muscular organ, surrounded by a membranous sac called the pericardium. It lies between the two pleurae of the lungs, and rests upon the cord-like tendon of the midriff, in ...
- Diseases Of The Heart And Circulatory System: Palpitation
- This is the most common disease of the heart, and may be connected with various structural changes of the organ, yet it frequently exists independently of any organic lesion, and is often ...
- Angine Pectoris
- This disease presents rather difficult pathological features. By some writers it is called neuralgia of the heart. The principal symptoms are, violent pain about the breast bone, extending towards ...
- Pericarditis
- This consists of inflammation of the sac in which the heart is contained. It does not essentially differ from other serous inflammations, as there may be exudation and liquid effusion, the ...
- Endocarditis
- This is an inflammation of the internal lining of the heart. There is at first pain about the heart, whose disordered action may be violent, or else feeble irregular, and intermitting. There is ...
- Chronic Valvular Disease Of The Heart
- This frequently results from chronic endocarditis. They may either be contracted or distorted, preventing accurate closure, or ulceration may occur through the valves. Vegetations and a peculiar ...
- Atrophy Of The Heart
- This may result from various causes. When it exists, greater resonance accompanies percussion, and the two sounds of the heart will be more feeble, but more distinctly heard. The symptoms are ...
- Hypertrophy And Dilatation Of The Heart
- As these are generally coexistent, they should be considered together. The dimensions of the heart may be increased either by augmentation of its muscular walls, or enlargement of its cavities. ...
- Cyanosis, Or Blue Disease
- In this disease the skin bears a leaden or purple tinge over the whole body. There is a reduction of warmth, and labored breathing. It is due to the admixture of blue or venous blood with arterial ...
- Diseases Of The Blood-Vessels
- Inflammation of the arteries is rare in the acute form. The symptoms are pain and tenderness along the course of the vessel, attended with a thrill or throbbing. Lymph is effused within the vessel,...
- Aneurism
- This is a pulsating sac, filled with blood, which communicates with an artery. True aneurism consists of a sac formed by one or more of the arterial coats. False aneurism is owing to a ...
- Plebitis And Varicose Veins
- This is an inflammation of the veins. The signs are pain and tenderness in the course of the vessel, which soon becomes cord-like and knotted, by which it may be distinguished from arteritis. ...
- Milk Leg (Phlegmasia Dolens)
- This is caused by inflammation of the crural veins, hence called crural phlebitis. The inflammation is owing to the pressure of the gravid womb. The popular idea that in this disease, the woman's ...
- Diseases Of The Blood: Scurvy (Scrobutus)
- This disease was known to the ancients. The first distinct account of scurvy is contained in the history of the Crusades of Louis IX. against the Saracens of Egypt, during which the French army ...
- Bleeding From The Nose (Epistaxis)
- There is no part of the body more disposed to hemorrhage than the mucous membrane of the nose. The blood effused through this membrane escapes generally through the nostrils, but may enter the ...
- Haemoptysis
- This is a hemorrhage from the respiratory organs. The blood that is expectorated comes from three different sources. It may come from the mucous membrane of the bronchial tubes, from a vessel ...
- Haematemesis
- This is hemorrahage from the stomach. Whatever irritates the mucous surface of the stomach, or interrupts the return of blood from that organ is liable to cause this disease. Blows and injuries ...
- Haematuria
- The source of the blood voided through the urethra may be either from the kidney, bladder, or urethra. When it proceeds from the kidneys, it is attended with a sense of heat and pain in the loins, ...
- Dropsies
- If in man a large venous trunk is compressed or obliterated, so that the blood no longer circulates through it, while the collateral vessels can relieve but imperfectly, dropsical effusion is sure ...
- Bright'S Disease Of The Kidney
- This is a dropsy owing to a disease of the kidneys. Dr. Bright, of England, first pointed out, 1827, the frequent connection which exists between dropsy and what has since been called ...
- Ascites
- This is a collection of water in the belly, though sometimes the fluid is outside of the peritoneum and next to the muscles. There is a sense of distension and weight, especially on the side on ...
- Hydrothorax
- This is a dropsy of the pleura, rarely existing as an independent affection, but generally associated with a general dropsical condition of the system. It is particularly liable to be connected ...
- Dropsy Of The Heart
- This consists of a collection of fluid within the pericardium. There is a feeling of uneasiness, or pressure in the cardiac region, a slight cough, difficult and irregular respiration, faintness, ...
- Dropsy Of The Ovaries
- This consists of an accumulation of fluid in one or more cells within the ovary, or in a serous cyst connected with the uterine appendages. The ovary loses its original form and structure, and ...
- Dropsy Of The Scrotum (Hydrocele)
- This is a collection of water in the membrane which surrounds the testicles. It is often caused by rheumatism, gout, scrofula, etc. In some cases the accumulation is very large. It may be ...
- Anatomy Of The Urinary Organs
- The kidneys are two hard glands for the secretion of urine, placed in each lumbar region, just above the hips; they are outside of the peritoneum, or lining membrane of the abdomen, and surrounded ...
- Bladder
- The bladder is a musculo-membranous sac for the reception of urine. It is situated in the cavity of the pelvis, behind the pubic bones, and in front of the rectum in the male, but in the female ...
- Diseases Of The Urinary Organs: Nephritis
- This is inflammation of the kidneys, and which may occur either in its substance, its lining membrane, or in its capsule. The symptoms are deep-seated pain in the small of the back, extending ...
- Diuresis
- This is the diabetes insipidus of some writers. By this term is understood the excessive secretion of pale, limpid urine, without sugar. The principal symptoms are insatiable thirst and the ...
- Diabetes Mellitus
- This is characterized by increase of urine, containing sugar. The first indications of this disease are languor, dry, and harsh skin, intense thirst, pain in the small of back, constipation, with ...
- Gravel (Lithiasis)
- This disorder consists in the deposition from the urine, within the body, of an insoluble sand-like matter. In health the urine carries off the results of the waste and disintegration of the ...
- Ischuria, Or Suppression Of Urine
- This frequently attends inflammatory diseases, especially acute nephritis. It may either arise from an irritation of the kidney beyond the point of secretion, or from a torpor or paralysis of the ...
- Cystitis
- This is an inflammation of the bladder. The symptoms are pain above the pubes, tenderness on pressure, the pain extending into the penis, scrotum, and perineum, producing straining and pain in ...
- Anatomy Of The Nervous System
- The principal divisions of the nervous system are the brain, spinal marrow, and nerves. The tissue of this system is included in membranes or sheaths, and consists of two differently colored pulpy ...
- Spinal Marrow
- The spinal marrow is the medullary column included within the bones or vertebrae of the spinal column. It has three coverings: 1st, The dura mater, which is a white fibrous membrane, and forms the ...
- The Brain
- The brain consists of four principal parts: medulla oblongata, pons varilii, cerebrum, and cerebellum. Like the spinal marrow it also has three coverings bearing the same names. The dura mater ...
- Diseases Of The Nervous System: Inflammation Of The Brain (Cerebritis)
- This consists of inflammation of the cerebral substance, and due to long exposure to a vertical sun, the inordinate use of ardent spirits, cold, fright, external injury, the sudden disappearance ...
- Apoplexy
- This is a condition in which all the functions of animal life are suddenly stopped, except the pulse and the breathing. There is neither thought nor feeling, nor voluntary motion; and the patient ...
- Congestion Of The Brain
- This consists of an accumulation of blood in the cerebral vessels. The countenance is flushed, the eyes suffused, light becomes intolerable, and there is singing in the ears, vertigo, momentary ...
- Sunstroke
- The injury done to the brain in this case is the same as in apoplexy, with the exception of the clot. It is essentially congestion of the brain. Persons who are exposed by necessity of pursuit to ...
- Insanity
- This is an unsound manifestation of intellectual power. The indications which should excite alarm are headache, vertigo, mental confusion, fretful temper, inaptitude for usual occupations, ...
- Delirium Tremens
- This is also called mania a potu, and in common parlance it is the horrors or jim-jams. It is caused by the sudden withdrawal from the habitual or prolonged use of alcoholic stimulation. ...
- Headache (Cephalalgia)
- This, in its widest acceptation, includes all uneasy sensations of the head. It may be confined to one spot, or embrace one side, as in hemicrania; or it may be diffused, and of indefinite extent. ...
- Hypochondria
- Among the causes of this distressing complaint are disappointment, misfortunes of a heavy character, care, masturbation, excessive mental labor, undue anxiety, costiveness, neglect of cleanliness, ...
- Neuralgia
- This disease affects one tissue only -- the nervous, and pain is the only symptom. The pain is of every degree of intensity. It may affect every nerve, but is more commonly confined to the most ...
- Bilious Colic
- This is neuralgia of the mesenteric net-work of nerves, or rather hyperaesthesia of the plexus. By hyperaesthesia is meant excessive sensibility of passability. It is characterized by sharp ...
- Hiccough
- This consists in spasmodic contraction of the midriff, and a certain degree of constriction, which arrests the air in the wind-pipe, thus producing sudden, short, convulsive inspirations, attended ...
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
- This is a hyperaesthesia of the pneumo-gastric nerve, and not due to inflammation, as may be supposed. It is a contagious disease. It consists of a convulsive cough, attended by hissing and ...
- Spasm Of The Glottis
- This is also called the crowing disease or false croup. It is common to children, and rarely occurs in adults. It is a spasmodic disease, and distinguishable from croup by the absence of fever. ...
- Epilepsy
- This is characterized by the sudden loss of consciousness and sensibility, accompanied with spasms and convulsions. It comes on suddenly, and epileptics, by the sudden attacks, are at all times ...
- Hysterics
- This is a nervous condition confined to females, though well marked cases of hysteria are occasionally met with in males. The invasion of the disease is sudden and irregular, but in many cases ...
- Catalepsy
- This is an affliction of rare occurrence, and appears to be constitutional, or dependent upon some derangement of the nervous and muscular system which baffles inquiry. The sufferer is suddenly ...
- St. Vitus'S Dance (Chorea)
- This is characterized by irregular contractions of the voluntary muscles, especially of the face and limbs, there being incomplete subserviency of these muscles to the will. It is a disease which ...
- Locked-Jaw (Tetanus)
- This is a disease of the true spinal system, and is manifested by spasm and rigidity of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the neck and face are affected it is termed Trismus, or locked-...
- Paralysis (Palsy)
- The most characteristic symptom of cerebral hemorrhage is paralysis. Very slight effusion produces this effect, and, in general, its intensity is in direct ratio of the extent of the effusion. It ...
- Hydrophobia
- This is caused by the bite of a mad dog or other hydrophobic animals. The human subject is not as liable to hydrophobia as the lower animals, and it is consoling to know that only about one-tenth ...
- Diseases Of The Skin: Humid Tetter (Eczema)
- This consists in the appearance of minute shining vesicles, not larger than the head of a small pin, on different portions of the body. They are usually clustered together, and surrounded by a red ...
- Tetter, Shingles (Herpes)
- Tetter is a transient non-contagious eruption, consisting of circumscribed red patches, upon each of which are situated clusters of vesicles, about the size of a pea. After a few days the ...
- Itch (Scabies)
- This annoying disease is caused by minute white insects, the acarus scabei or sareoptis hominis, which insinuate themselves beneath the skin. It is said that these insects travel in pairs, male ...
- Watery Blebs (Pemphigus)
- This is characterized by loss of appetite, febrile symptoms, at first, followed by a bright red eruption of a smarting or burning sensation. In the centre of this eruption, minute vesicles appear, ...
- Rupia
- This is a small blister, or vesicle, about the size of a chestnut, which at first contains a darkish fluid, which dries into a crust, falls off, and leaves an indolent ulcer. It is always ...
- Crusted Tetter (Impetigo)
- This consists of mattery pimples developed on a highly inflamed skin, appearing chiefly on the extremities and rarely met with in children in the acute form. It is either acute or chronic. The ...
- Papulous Scale (Ecthyma)
- This consists of mattery pimples developed on a highly inflamed skin, appearing chiefly on the extremities and rarely met with in children in the acute form. It is either acute or chronic. The ...
- Leprosy
- The eruption in this disease makes its appearance as a small red spot, elevated a little above the general skin, usually occurring first on the limbs. The scales occurring on these patches occur ...
- Dry Tetter (Psoriasis)
- This differs from leprosy in the eruption being more irregular. The spots sometimes come out in thick clusters, and blend in various ways. The eruption is not circular as in leprosy, but consists ...
- Pityriasis
- This name is from the Greek pityron, signifying bran. It is characterized by patches of yellowish, or reddish yellow color, covered with fine branny scales, accompanied by smarting, itching, and ...
- Lupus
- This is the Jacob's Ulcer of common parlance, and from its rapacity it is named Lupus, which is the Latin name for wolf. It is also called noli me tangere, touch me not. It occurs in a ...
- Elephantiasis
- This is characterized by the development of tumors upon the skin, varying in size from the head of a pea to that of an apple, or even larger. Eventually these tumors ulcerate, and discharge an ...
- Acne
- This is a small pimple or tubercle which appears on various parts of the face. The disease leads to no particular evil results, save that it is unpleasant, slightly painful, and disfiguring. It ...
- Warts And Corns
- Warts consist of collections of hypertrophied cutaneous papillae, on loops of veins, arteries and nerves. These loops, frequently, without any apparent cause, take on a disposition to grow, and by ...
- Pruritis
- This is dependent upon an altered condition of the nerves of the skin, and consists in a painful sensation of itching. There is no perceptible alteration in the appearance of the skin, and the ...
- Maculae, Or Spots
- This affection, which is characterized by an increased hue of the pigment of the skin, consists of freckles and moles. Ephelis lenticularis, or common freckles, appears in small yellowish, ...
- Scalled Head (Tinea Favosa)
- This is caused by an insect by the name of achorion Schonleinii. The eruption takes the shape of large flattened pustules, which have an irregular edge, and are surrounded by inflammation. ...
- Tinea Sycosis
- This is commonly known as Barber's Itch, and is confined to the face, especially to that portion covered by the beard. It is characterized by inflammation of the hair follicles, causing an ...
- Baldness (Alopecia)
- This may be partial or general, temporary or permanent, and occur at any period of life. Senile baldness usually takes place gradually, the hair first becoming thin on the crown, or on the ...
- Entozoa
- These grow in the body without forming attachments to its structures, have an independent life of their own, and possess the power of reproduction and generation. Several species infest the human ...
- Trichiniasis
- This is a disease caused by the trichina spiralis which infests various animals, especially swine. If the meat of the hog affected is eaten raw or insufficiently cooked, it is most like to cause ...
- The Proper Care Of Children
- The first requisite of an infant is plenty of pure and fresh air. It should be kept in open air as much as possible, and when in-doors in well-ventilated rooms. When carried in the open air, their ...
- Teething
- Many children are lost from teething. The process of dentition often occasions fits. Its symptoms are, swollen and inflamed gums, fever, pain, and heat in the head, sore mouth, etc. Scarification ...
- General Diseases: Gout
- This is due to the presence of lithic or uric acid in the blood. The attack usually makes its appearance in the night. The patient is first awakened by an intensely burning and wrenching pain in ...
- Rheumatism
- This very painful affection is most frequently brought on by exposure to wet and cold after violent and fatiguing exercise of the muscles. The acute form is characterized by high fever, with a ...
- Hip Disease (Morbus Coxarius)
- This is a disease of the hip-joint, and common to scrofulous children. At first there is slight pain, commonly felt in the knee, lameness, and stumbling in walking, tenderness in the groin, and ...
- White Swelling (Hydrarthrus)
- This disease occurs most frequently about the middle period of life, but is, however, very often seen in children. It will never appear before the age of puberty without a deviation from health, ...
- Hectic Fever
- Hectic fever is remittent, dependent upon local irritation, and rarely, if ever, idiopathic. It is attended by great and increasing debility, a weak, quick pulse, hurried respiration on any ...
- Curvature Of The Spine
- Curvature of the spine is due to caries or destruction of the bodies of the vertebrae. There are several varieties of curvature; what is known as lateral curvature consists in the distortion of ...
- Imperfections Of The Human Form
- These embrace those only which are of slighter degree, and of idiopathic origin. They are usually acquired more or less early in life. Not unfrequently they result from bad management of the ...
- Abscess
- An abscess is a collection of pus or matter in the substance of some part of the body. When the matter is poured out from some part, the process is called suppuration, when it collects in a tissue,...
- Felon (Paronychia)
- This is also called whitlow, and 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 ...
- Ulcers
- Ulcers are breaches of continuity of surface, being caused by disease or unrepaired injury. A simple or healthy ulcer has its surface covered with a thick, creamy, yellow pus, not too profuse, and ...
- Boils (Furunculus)
- Boils occur most frequently in the young, and in those of plethoric habit, in those parts where the skin is thickest. They are usually gregarious, and depend upon derangement of the stomach and ...
- Carbuncle (Anthrax)
- This is a serious disease; it is a solitary inflammation of the cellular tissue and skin, presenting a flat, spongy swelling of a livid hue, and attended with dull heavy pain. It varies in size, ...
- Chilblain'S (Pernio)
- This is an affection of the skin, produced by sudden alternations of cold and heat, most commonly affecting the toes, heels, ears, or fingers. It is attended with itching, swelling, pain, and ...
- Burns And Scalds
- There are three principal divisions of these injuries, which may be produced by hot fluids, vapor, flame, or solids. 1st. Those which produce mere redness and inflammation, terminating in ...
- Goitre (Bronchocele)
- This is an enlargement of the thyroid gland, an organ that if it performs any functions at all, does so only in foetal life. It generally commences by moderate increase of the gland, or ...
- Rupture (Hernia)
- This signifies a protrusion of the abdominal viscera. The predisposing cause is a weakness of the abdominal walls, at the natural openings. This weakness may be increased by injury, disease, or ...
- Diseases Of The Eye And Ear
- The eye is one of the most delicate as well as the most complicated organs of the body, and its diseases are but very imperfectly understood by the ordinary practitioner. A great deal of mischief ...
- Conjunctivitis
- This is an inflammation of the conjunctiva or mucous membrane of the eyelids. The sensation is as if particles of sand had insinuated themselves beneath the lids, accompanied by heat, pain, and ...
- Purulent Ophthalmia
- The symptoms of this disease peculiar to children are similar to the Catarrhal Ophthalmia of adults. The eyes are kept constantly closed, the lids are red and swollen, and glued together by thick ...
- Scrofulous Ophthalmia
- This disease is chiefly confined to children. The child scarcely can bear the light, the lids are spasmodically closed, and the head constantly turned away from the light. The eye is not very red, ...
- Stye (Hordeolum)
- This is a small painful pustule on the margin of the eyelid, having its origin in ciliary follicles. TREATMENT. -- It may usually be cured by applying spirits of hartshorn by means of a ...
- Amaurosis
- This complaint is due to anaesthesia of the optic nerve. The patient sees objects indistinctly, even when they are lit up by a bright light; they appear surrounded with a fog or mist, and no ...
- Foreign Bodies In The Eyes
- These should be sought for by inverting the lids, and having the patient turn the eyes in every direction. If it be found to adhere to the mucous membrane of the cornea or conjunctiva, it can ...
- Foreign Substances In The Ear
- Children frequently put peas, beans, kernels of corn, etc., into the ear, which, if allowed to remain, will produce active inflammation. Foreign bodies may also enter the ear by accident. These ...
- Ear Ache (Otalgia)
- This is a neuralgic afffection, and is caused by local inflammation, cold and exposure, and carious teeth. TREATMENT. -- If caused by inflammation, a warm poultice of slippery-elm, ...
- Cancer (Carcinoma)
- This is a malignant tumor. In the first stage it is hard, in the second stage it ulcerates. The seat of cancer is in the female breast, the skin, the tongue, the stomach, the womb, the lips, etc. ...
- Syphilis
- Syphilis is occasioned by a specific poison which is conveyed by contagion or actual contact. It first shows itself upon the genital organs in the form of a small yellowish pimple, or pimples, the ...
- Gonorrhoea
- This is vulgarily known as clap, so named from the French clappe, a bow-string. It received this name on account of the chordee occurring in the disease. This is caused by the violence of the ...
- Gleet
- This is one of the results of abused or neglected gonorrhoea. It is a continued discharge of a thin and clear character, after the inflammatory and painful early symptoms have disappeared. It is ...
- Debility Or Loss Of Vitality
- This is a condition of the organism characterized by loss of vitality, or deterioration and diminution in the quality and tone of the vital forces. It is one of the chief predisposing causes of ...
- Sattyriasis
- This is a disease characterized by a constant and insatiable desire for coition, and so called because the satyrs of mythology were greatly addicted to excesses. The disease is accompanied by a ...
- Stricture Of The Urethra
- This is a diminution or contracted condition of the tube, and may be either spasmodic or permanent. Spasmodic-stricture depends on spasm of the muscles of the perinaeum, or upon contraction of the ...
- Prostatitis
- This is inflammation of the prostate gland. It usually accompanies gonorrhoea, but may exist independently. The discharge is similar to that of urethral inflammation, and when the result of ...
- Orchitis
- This is the hernia humoralis of older writers. Swelled testicle is a common accompaniment of mumps. It is often the result of an injury, but oftener of gonorrhoea and its treatment; exercise, wet ...
- Varicocele
- This is a varicose condition of the veins of the spermatic cord. The causes are such as to produce obstruction to the return of blood: constipation, corpulence, tight belts around the abdomen, and ...
- Diseases Of The Female Organs Of Generation
- The genitalia of the female is the controlling centre of her whole economy. If the womb and its appendages are in a healthy state, the female figure preserves its artistic rotundity, her mind its ...
- Vulvitis
- This is characterized by redness and slight tumefaction of skin, covered with mucus, while in neglected cases the parts are found much excoriated. It generally arises from want of cleanliness, or ...
- Clitoritis
- Inflammation of the clitoris, both acute and chronic, may exist from want of cleanliness, or be produced by indiscretions. It is accompanied with burning, itching, and smarting sensations. ...
- Imperforate Hymen
- This is not likely to be discovered until the commencement of menstruation. It may then be suspected, if the female has all the symptoms which accompany the menses, without the discharge of the ...
- Vaginitis
- This consists of either acute or chronic inflammation of the vagina. It may be confined entirely to the mucous membrane, or it may extend to the cellular tissue beneath. It is attended with pain, ...
- Menstruation
- Though this is not a disease but a healthy function, but as, from various causes, derangement of the function occurs, it is proper that it should be perfectly understood. Menstruation is the term ...
- Amenorrhoea
- This may occur in three forms. 1st. Where evacuation has never occurred, or retention of the menses. 2d. Where there has been no secretion. 3d. Suppression. There are cases where the secretion has ...
- Dysmenorrhoea
- Painful menstruation occurs generally in single women, and is produced by inflammation or ulceration of the mouth of the womb, neuralgia of the womb during menstruation, indiscretions, ...
- Menorrhagia
- This is characterized by profuse, prolonged, or too frequent menstruation, separately or conjoined. It is accompanied by headache, hot skin, full pulse, weight in the back, hips, loins, pelvis, ...
- Vicarious Menstruation
- This is a discharge from some other part than the uterus, usually occurring in the unmarried. In the married, they are usually barren. The blood may escape from any part of the skin or mucous ...
- Chlorosis
- This is a disease characterized by chronic anaemia, or bloodlessness, affecting females about the age of puberty. In some instances it is undoubtedly dependent upon a nervous affection, but in ...
- Cessation Of The Menses
- We have already stated that this usually occurs between the ages of forty and fifty but in some cases it occurs much earlier, in others much later. The courses become irregular, often staying ...
- Leucorrhoea
- This is commonly known as the whites. It consists of a discharge from the vagina, or inner cavity of the womb, of a catarrhal character, varying in color from a light to a yellowish-green, or ...
- Ulceration Of The Womb
- This is chiefly confined to the neck of the organ, occurring most frequently in those who have borne children. It is caused by excesses in married life, imprudence during menstruation, as standing,...
- Falling Of The Womb (Prolapsus Uteri)
- This is denoted by pain in the back and loins, heat in the vagina, painful copulation, painful and irregular menstruation, constipation and diarrhoea in alternation, irritable bladder, etc. The ...
- Uterine Dropsy (Hydrometra)
- This is an accumulation of fluid in the womb, caused by inflammation and constitutional debility. During the first months the symptoms resemble those of pregnancy; but by introducing the finger, ...
- Anteversion And Retroversion
- If the womb falls forward upon the bladder, and towards the pubes, it constitutes anteversion. In this case the top or fundus of the womb is turned forward to the bladder, and the mouth towards ...
- Hydatids
- These consist of a formation of small cysts or bladders of water in the uterus, developed from the inner membrane, and vary in size from half a pear to a partridge's egg. They are usually oval, ...
- Pregnancy And Its Accidents
- The first sign of pregnancy is a cessation of the menstrual flow. This will generally be noticed between two and three weeks after conception, and about the same time the woman will discover her ...
- Pregnancy. Puerperal Fever
- Child-bed fever is a very fatal disease, and frequently follows parturition. Scrofulous women are peculiarly liable to it. The disease manifests itself in every degree of intensity. The usual ...
- Pregnancy. Inversion Of The Uterus
- This may be partial or complete. When partial, it may be known by the absence of the fundus or top of the womb behind the pubic bones, and the presence of a large solid tumor in the vagina, ...
- Pregnancy. Abortion Or Miscarriage
- Abortion or miscarriage signifies the expulsion of the foetus from the uterus, before it is sufficiently developed. The causes may be either natural or violent. Among the most prevalent causes, ...
- Pregnancy. Inflammation And Abscess Of The Breasts
- During and after pregnancy the breasts are very liable to become inflamed and sore. The patient shivers, has pain in the head, loss of appetite, is constipated, and her urine is high-colored, and ...
- Pregnancy. Sore Nipples
- This is one of the most common and troublesome difficulties connected with the breasts, after child-birth. It is very frequently caused by want of cleanliness on the part of the mother or child....
- Pregnancy. Relaxation Of The Abdominal Muscles
- One of the most frequent sequels of pregnancy is a permanent relaxation of the abdominal muscles, more or less in degree. The abdomen becomes pendulous, occasioning great inconvenience, suffering, ...
- Pregnancy. The Conduct Of A Case Of Labor
- This should never be attempted except by a physician or competent midwife, but, as it may sometimes take place in railroad cars, in voyages, etc., the duty may fall to the lot of almost any woman ...
- How Do You Know That The Patient Is In Labor?
- This the mother frequently knows herself, but she may sometimes be deceived by what are spurious pains. If she is in labor, she will have what is called come and go pains, which at first are ...
- Patient Is In Labor: What Next?
- You must now pay attention to the exhausted but joyous mother, rejoiced that she has passed such an agony of pain as you can form no conception of, such that you have never felt and never can feel,...
- Lochia
- For some time after child-bearing, a discharge takes place from the womb which is called lochia. It is at first red; but if all goes well, in a few days the red appearance subsides and gives ...
- The Treatment In Accidents
- The treatment of fractures, dislocations, etc., should always be intrusted to the surgeon, but the emergency of such cases may be so great in certain instances that a few minutes' delay might ...
- Wounds
- In case of wood-choppers, hunters, etc., away in the backwoods, or in any other case where this precaution is necessary, they should provide themselves always with bandages, Monsel's solution, and ...
- Fractures
- These accidents often happen where no surgical aid can be conveniently procured. Any one can easily detect a broken bone by the person not being able to raise the limb, by its bending where it ...
- Head
- The bones of the head and face are liable to be broken by blows, falls, etc., and need immediate medical attendance. All you can do before the arrival of the surgeon, is to raise the head, apply ...
- Collar Bone
- This bone is usually broken by violence upon the shoulder, arm, and hand. It is generally broken near the middle of the bone, the part is painful and swollen, and every attempt at motion produces ...
- Broken Ribs
- This is known by pain when the patient breathes, or on pressure where the injury has taken place. Crepitation is also felt when the hand is placed over the part during respiration or coughing, and ...
- Fracture Of The Humerus
- This is the bone between the elbow and shoulder. It may be detected by the ordinary methods. TREATMENT. -- Place the bones in apposition, making sure that it is right, by comparing it with ...
- Fracture Of The Bones Of The Forearm
- There are two bones here, the radius and ulna. They may both be fractured, or only one of them. The fracture is easily detected. TREATMENT. -- The difficulty here is to observe the space ...
- Fracture Of The Bones In The Hand, Foot, Or Ankle
- These solid bones are almost always wounded by such accidents that tend to crush them, as machinery, threshing machines, heavy weights falling on them, etc. TREATMENT. -- Dress the open ...
- Fracture At The Hip-Joint
- This is a very serious accident, and liable to occur in aged people. One that receives this injury cannot stand or rise from the ground. If the patient is placed upright the injured limb will be ...
- Fracture Of The Thigh-Bone
- Fracture of the shaft of this bone is easily recognized by shortening, crepitation, etc., and you should treat it just the same as advised in the fracture of this bone at the hip-joint. If this ...
- Fracture Of The Cap Of The Knee Or Patella
- There are two bones below the knee, the tibia and fibula, and a fracture, occurring in one or both of them from a fall or direct violence, is a frequent accident, the tibia being most frequently ...
- Dislocations
- The signs of limbs being out of joint are deformity, swelling, and a hollow where none should be, shortening or elongation, pain and immobility of the limb. Broken Neck, Or Back <...
- Dislocation Of The Jaw
- This is often caused by yawning, by convulsions, or by blows on the chin, when the mouth is wide open. The mouth gapes and cannot be shut, the saliva trickles, there is great pain, and the ...
- Dislocation At The Shoulder
- This may be displaced in three directions, viz.: inwards, downwards and backwards. By comparing the injured with the sound shoulder, you may be able to tell that it is a dislocation. Where the ...
- Dislocations At The Elbow
- When both radius and ulna are dislocated, the forearm is bent nearly at a right angle, and is immovable. When the ulna alone is dislocated, there is a tumor projecting posteriorly, the elbow is ...
- Dislocations At The Wrist
- The luxation of both bones of the forearm from the bones of the hand is rare. When it occurs forward there is a great projection in front, and the hand is bent backwards; when backwards, the ...
- Dislocation Of The Bones Of The Hand
- Displacement of the bones of the carpus or body of the hand rarely occurs. The bones of the fingers are occasionally dislocated, but more frequently the thumb is dislocated backwards. ...
- Dislocation Of The Ribs
- Dislocation of the ribs from the spinal column may sometimes occur by severe falls, or blows upon the back, and from the breast bone, by violent bending of the body backwards. Great pain and ...
- Dislocation At The Hip
- In this case the leg is shortened and the foot is turned inwards. It may be dislocated in five different ways;--upwards and backwards is, however, the most common dislocation. In all cases you may ...
- Dislocation Of The Knee-Cap
- This may be dislocated in various directions. It is characterized by the leg being stretched, and a prominence formed by the patella in an abnormal situation. TREATMENT. -- Raise the ...
- Dislocation At The Ankle
- This may be forwards, backwards, inwards and outwards, and are the results of severe force. The bones' ends are usually fractured at the same time. It is a very serious accident, and when it ...
- Prevention Of Epidemic Diseases
- The alarming fatality consequent upon an epidemic reign of disease demands the closest scrutiny upon the part of communities, large or small, to guard against its approach or prevalence. Medical ...
- Japanese Corn File
- This file is the only practical cure for corns. It should always be used instead of a knife. With a little care the corn can be filed down to a perfectly smooth, level surface, which result can ...
- Part III: The Philosophy Of The Sexes
- Admitting the delicacy of the subject, it is, however, eminently within the province of the medical writer to teach the scientific bearings of the marital prerogative of the sexes, inasmuch as ...
- Anatomy Of The Male Organs
- These consist of the organ itself, seminal vesicles, prostate gland, testes and scrotum. The male organ conveys the urine from the bladder, and the seminal sections from the seminal ...
- Semen
- This is a secretion formed by the testes, which anatomically we have seen are composed of lobules formed of convoluted seminiferous tubes. The number of lobules is about 450 in each testis, and ...
- Anatomy Of The Female Organs
- The organs of generation in the female are generally divided into the external and internal. The external consist of the mons veneris, labia externa, clitoris, lumphae, vestibule, meatus urinarius,...
- The Internal Organs
- The vagina is that canal extending from its origin in the vulva obliquely through the cavity of the pelvis to the uterus. Its usual length is about four or five inches and about three in ...
- Social Status Of The Organs
- We have now described the most important anatomical features of the genital organs with the same composure and desire to instruct, as when we described the anatomy of the other organs, and I am ...
- Preservation Of The Health Of The Organs
- Complete health of the organs is necessary to the full vigor of the general economy, and it should be the aim and desire of all to maintain the vigor of the genitalia. The male delights in the ...
- Marriage
- This is, in law, the conjugal union of man with woman, and is the only state in which cohabitation is considered proper and irreprehensible. The marriage relation exists in all Christian ...
- Polygamy
- This is a state in which a man has at the same time one or more wives, or a woman more than one husband. The latter custom is more properly called polyandry, and prevails in Thibet and a few ...
- Monogamy
- This is the conjugal union of a male with one female only. We have seen that monogamy was co-equal with the dawn of civilization, and that most probably the majority of the males had but one wife, ...
- Marriage Customs
- It would probably be interesting to many to describe the marriage ceremonies observed by different nations, but to enter into a descriptive detail would occupy too much space. It is sufficient to ...
- The Basis Of A Happy Marriage
- The state of conjugal union should be the happiest in the whole of the existence of either man or woman, and is such in a congenial marriage. Yet in the history of very many marriages contentment ...
- The Basis Of A Happy Marriage. Part 2
- Marriage implies the utter abandonment of the interests and advancement of self to the exclusion of the other marital companion. If circumspect, by noting marital conduct in others, a fair ...
- The Basis Of A Happy Marriage. Part 3
- Marriages are usually contracted to gratify varioius desires, as love, fortune, or position. The results are most truthfully stated by an eminent divine in the following passages: -- Who ...
- The Basis Of A Happy Marriage. Part 4
- Married couples should most carefully husband their affections for each other. It is a most deplorable fact, that the love between many too soon loses its fervor. This loss is not due to ...
- The Basis Of A Happy Marriage. Part 5
- It is not only the duty of physicians, but of every one who has the welfare of society at heart, to put their voices against the doctrine of free love, which has of late been promulgated and ...
- The Basis Of A Happy Marriage. Part 6
- Finally, when the scandal has assumed its worst aspect, some order-loving Christian (!) will with considerable embellishment acquaint Mrs. Smith of her husband's crime, and Mrs. Jones of his wife'...
- The Basis Of A Happy Marriage. Part 7
- We have now in many aspects considered the prudent course for the conjugal pair to pursue in search of wedded bliss. We have confined ourselves merely to their social relation, there yet remains ...
- The Basis Of A Happy Marriage. Part 8
- Frequency of indulgence does not only deteriorate the moral tone of the coitive act, but it often provides the germinal agencies of serious diseases. The remote cause of insanity and consumption ...
- The Basis Of A Happy Marriage. Part 9
- To come back to the point from which we started -- the management, namely, of young children--there is one thing to be laid down: let there be no divided rule in a house. Do not let children see ...
- Advice To The Children
- The most impressive words in the whole range of language are Father and Mother. Their fill significance is only realized and understood when the prattling babe stretches out its tiny arms and ...
- Advice To The Children. Part 2
- Relative sterility is not amenable to medical treatment. The most common cause of infecundity of this character is the want of adaptation or fitness of the genital organs of the conjugal pair to ...
- Impotence Of The Male
- By this is generally considered the inability to engage in the virile act. It essentially signifies a loss of the virile powers. Impotency may be either partial or complete, and, like sterility, ...
- The Philosophy Of Generation
- The greatness, importance, and responsibility of the marital relation are but improperly appreciated and understood by the majority of males and females who enter into that relation. There is a ...
- The Philosophy Of Generation. Part 2
- The child in utero is technically but an appendage or parasite, over which the maternal mind and body exerts a marked influence; consequently, if mothers in the pregnant state pay heed to the ...
- Divorce
- This implies the separation of the married pair, by legal dissolution of the matrimonial bonds. Divorces are most commonly given by the courts for causes occurring after marriage; but jurists, in ...
- Bridal Tours
- Some essays have been written on the barbarisms of civilization; many more might be. Many of the habits prevailing in what ought to be our most refined society are at variance with almost ...
- Poisons And Their Antidotes
- Nothing that appertains to domestic treatment is of greater value than a knowledge of poisons, and the treatment necessary in cases of accidental or premeditated poisoning. So many substances of a ...
- Arsenic
- ARTICLES. -- Scheele's green, arsenious acid, orpiment, king's yellow, realgar, fly powder, ague drops, arsenical paste and arsenical soap, rat poison. SYMPTOMS. -- Pain and burning in the ...
- Acids
- ARTICLES. -- Oxalic (salts of sorrel), sulphuric (oil of vitriol), nitric (aquafortis), muriatic (spirit of salt), but not prussic acid. SYMPTOMS. -- These acids are all corrosive, and ...
- Antimony
- ARTICLES. -- Tartar emetic, butter of antimony, oxide of antimony. SYMPTOMS. -- Severe vomiting (if this does not occur it should be induced), cramps, faintness, purging, colicky pains, ...
- Bismuth
- ARTICLES. -- Nitrate, Pearl Powder, Face Powders. SYMPTOMS. -- General inflammation of the whole alimentary canal, suppression of urine, hiccough, vomiting, cramps. TREATMENT. -- ...
- Copper
- ARTICLES. -- Blue copperas, blue verditer, mineral green, verdigris, food cooked in copper vessels, pickles made green by copper. SYMPTOMS. -- Coppery taste in the mouth, tongue dry and ...
- Gold
- ARTICLES. -- Chloride Of Gold, Fulminating Gold. SYMPTOMS. -- Similar to other irritant poisons. Pink patches about the lips and mouth. TREATMENT. -- Give sulphate of iron, which ...
- Iodine
- ARTICLES. -- Iodides of potassium, mercury, iron, or sodium. SYMPTOMS. -- Burning pain in throat, lacerating pain in stomach, heartburn, vomiting, colicky pains, very likely salivation....
- Iron
- ARTICLES. -- Sulphate of iron (copperas), green vitriol, chloride of iron. SYMPTOMS. -- Colic pains, constant vomiting and purging, violent pain in throat, coldness of skin, feeble pulse....
- Lead
- ARTICLES. -- Acetate or sugar of lead, white lead, red lead, litharge. SYMPTOMS. -- Metallic taste in mouth, pain in stomach and bowels, painful vomiting, often blood, hiccough. If taken ...
- Mercury
- ARTICLES. -- Calomel, corrosive sublimate, red precipitate, vermillion, white precipitate, turbith mineral. SYMPTOMS. -- Harsh metallic astringent taste, burning pain in the stomach, ...
- Phosphorus
- ARTICLES. -- Lucifer Matches. SYMPTOMS. -- Pain in stomach and bowels, vomiting, diarrhoea, tenderness and tension of the abdomen, great excitement of the whole system. TREATMENT. ...
- Silver
- ARTICLES. -- Nitrate Or Lunar Caustic. SYMPTOMS. -- Similar to other irritant poisons, especially arsenic. TREATMENT. -- Give a large teaspoonful of common salt in a glass of ...
- Tin
- ARTICLES. -- Chloride, called muriate by dyers, oxide, or putty powder. SYMPTOMS. -- Vomiting, pain in stomach, purging, convulsive twitchings. TREATMENT. -- Milk must be given ...
- Zinc
- ARTICLES. -- Sulphate, or white vitriol, Acetate, chloride (Burnett's disinfecting fluid, also used to destroy cancers). SYMPTOMS. -- Violent vomiting, astringent taste, burning pain in ...
- Volatile Oils
- ARTICLES. -- Creasote, Dippel's animal oil, oil of tar, oil of tobacco, oil of turpentine, fusel oil. SYMPTOMS. -- Burning pain, vomiting, pungent taste, purging. The oils of tobacco and ...
- Alkalies
- ARTICLES. -- Spirits of hartshorn, muriate, or sal ammoniac. POTASSA. -- Caustic potash, liquor potassa, carbonate, or pearl ash, salts of tartar, nitrate, or saltpetre, or liver of ...
- Prussic Acid
- ARTICLES. -- Oil of bitter almonds, laurel water, peach-kernels, cyanide of potassium, used by photographers. SYMPTOMS. -- If the quantity be large, death instantly ensues. In smaller ...
- Vegetable Poisons: Opium
- ARTICLES. -- Laudanum, paregoric, black drop, soothing syrups, cordials, syrup of poppies, morphine, Dover's powder, etc. SYMPTOMS. -- Giddiness, stupor, gradually increasing to a deep ...
- Strychnine
- ARTICLES. -- Rat poison, nux vomica, St. Ignatius' bean. SYMPTOMS. -- Lockjaw, twitching of the muscles, convulsions, the body is bent backwards, so as to rest on the feet and head only....
- Other Poisonous Plants, Or Seeds
- Such as false mushrooms, belladonna, henbane, or anything a child may have eaten, or taken in mistake by any person. Vegetable poisons act either as an irritant, acro-narcotic, or narcotic. If it ...
- Animal Poisons: Fish and Serpents
- Poisonous Fish POISONOUS FISH. -- Old wife, crawfish, land crab, gray snapper, hyne, dolphin, conger eel, mussel, barracuda, smooth bottle fish, grooper, rock fish, Spanish mackerel, ...
- Poisonous Insects. Spanish Fly, Potato Fly.
- SYMPTOMS. -- Nauseous odor of the breath, acrid taste, burning heat in the throat, stomach, and abdomen, bloody vomiting, excruciating pain in the stomach, heat in the bladder, strangury or ...
- Venomous Insects. Tarantula, Scorpion, Hornet, Wasp, Bee, Gnat, Gad-Fly.
- SYMPTOMS. -- In general, the sting of these insects occasions only a slight degree of pain and swelling, but occasionally the symptoms are more violent, and sickness and fever are produced by the ...
- Recipes Applicable To Many Diseases And Afflictions
- In the following pages will be found a variety of recipes, applicable to many diseases and afflictions for which symptomatic treatment is all that is required. They will be found to be very ...
- Recipes Applicable To Many Diseases And Afflictions. Part 1
- Golden Tincture No. 1. Balsam of tolu, two ounces; gum guaiacum, two ounces; gum hemlock, two ounces; gum myrrh, two ounces; each coarsely powdered: oil of hemlock, three ounces; oil of ...
- Recipes Applicable To Many Diseases And Afflictions. Part 2
- Anti-Bilious Pill No. 4. Aloes, pulverized, five ounces; fine, dry castile soap, half a drachm; gamboge, pulverized, one ounce; colocynth, one ounce; extract of gentian, one ounce; ...
- Recipes Applicable To Many Diseases And Afflictions. Part 3
- Sarsaparilla Syrup No. 9. Good sarsaparilla, two pounds; guaiacum, three ounces; rose leaves, two ounces; senna, two ounces; licorice root, two ounces; oil of sassafras, five drops; oil ...
- Recipes Applicable To Many Diseases And Afflictions. Part 4
- Acetic Blood-Root Syrup No. 17. Blood-root in powder, one drachm; acetic acid, or vinegar, one pint; water, one pint. Add the blood-root to the vinegar and water mixed, and steep for ...
- Recipes Applicable To Many Diseases And Afflictions. Part 5
- Sleeplessness No. 26. Camphor, one grain, formed into a pill, followed by a draught of an ounce and a half of the infusion of hops, with five drops of sulphuric ether. Chronic ...
- Recipes Applicable To Many Diseases And Afflictions. Part 6
- Diarrhoea No. 33. Syrup of orange peel, one ounce; acetate of morphia, two grains; tincture of cinnamon, six drachms; tincture of cardamom, two drachms. Mix. Dose. -- A ...
- Recipes Applicable To Many Diseases And Afflictions. Part 7
- Tincture For Fever And Ague, Etc. No. 42. Peruvian bark and wild cherry bark, each two ounces; cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, each one drachm; wine, two quarts. Let it stand for a few ...
- Recipes Applicable To Many Diseases And Afflictions. Part 8
- For Gravel, Dropsy, Etc. No. 50. Queen of the meadow, milk weed, juniper berries, dwarf elder, spearmint, wild carrot seed, of each two ounces. Put all in a mortar and bruise, and boil ...
- Recipes Applicable To Many Diseases And Afflictions. Part 9
- Injection For Costiveness No. 61. Castor oil, two ounces; tincture of prickly ash bark, half an ounce; compound tincture of Virginia snake root, two drachms; infusion of boneset and ...
- Recipes Applicable To Many Diseases And Afflictions. Part 10
- For Fevers And Other Acute Diseases No. 72. Asclepin, one-half drachm; warm water, four ounces; compound tincture of American hellebore, thirty drops. Dissolve the asclepin in the warm ...
- Recipes Applicable To Many Diseases And Afflictions. Part 11
- For The Teeth No. 82. Make charcoal of bread, pulverize it until it is reduced to an impalpable powder, then apply daily, morning and evening, with a soft brush and pure cold water. ...
- How To Use Dr. O. Phelps Brown's Standard Herbal Remedies In The Diseases For Which They Are Designed
- The several Standard Herbal Remedies described in this article have grown up out of many years of labor. Their sales at the present time are very large, extending almost over the whole globe. They ...
- Usage of Dr. O. Phelps Brown's Standard Herbal Remedies. Part 2
- Nervousness and sleeplessness (from each of which so many persons suffer at the present day), in nine cases out of ten arise from a disarranged stomach. A few doses of the Restorative Assimilant ...
- Dr. O. Phelps Brown's Standard Fluid Extracts
- The fluid extract is the most elegant form for administering medicinal agents, being concentrated, and containing just enough alcohol to preserve them from degeneration by age. They can, therefore,...
- Electro-Magnetic Machine
- Formerly electric machines were unreliable, always troublesome, and constantly getting out of order, a source of annoyance and perplexity. All these inconveniences are now obviated in this ...
- Glossary: A-C
- It is confidently believed that all the technical terms introduced into this work are fully defined in this Glossary. Many of the medical terms are explained where they occur, and even some ...
- Glossary: D-F
- DEGLUTITION, The action of swallowing. DELIRIUM, Straying from the rules of reason; wandering of the mind. DEOBSTRUENT. A medicine having the power of removing ...
- Glossary: G-L
- GANGLION, A name generally given to a knot-like enlargement in the course of a nerve. GANGRENE, Privation of life or partial death of an organ; mortification. ...
- Glossary: M-P
- MACERATION, An operation which consists in infusing, usually with heat, a solid substance, so as to extract its virtues. MAMMARY, Relating to the mammae, or female ...
- Glossary: R-S
- REGIMEN, Diet; the rational and methodical use of food. RENAL, Relating to the kidneys. RESPIRATION, The function of breathing, by which is accomplished the ...
- Glossary: T-Z
- TAXIS, A pressure exerted by the hand on a hernial tumor for the purpose of reducing it. TISSUE, The various parts which, by union, form the organs. THORACIC, ...
- The Elastic Truss And Supporter: The Highest Award
- A medal and Diploma has been given by the Centennial Exposition to our ELASTIC TRUSS. Thus confirming the verdicts which have heretofore been given by the American Institute, the Brooklyn ...
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