Chloroform 1 ounce Sassafras Oil 2 ounces Linseed Oil 8 ounces Cotton Seed Oil 1 pint Mix. The above, nearly two pints, would cost about 60 cents.
Swelling or oedma of the glottis or more correctly of the structure which forms the glottis, is a very serious affection. It may follow acute laryngitis or may be met with in chron...
Gum Camphor 1 grain Chloral Hydrate 1 grain Oil of Cloves 2 drams Chloroform to make 1 ounce Mix. Put on some cotton and put around the tooth. No physician can give a better prescr...
Machine-woven net fabric with hexagonal meshes. boil Painful, circumscribed pus-filled inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissue usually caused by a local staphylococcal inf...
Laudanum 2 drams Oil Cloves 15 drops Oil Cassia 15 drops Compound Tincture Catechu 4 drams Alcohol to make 4 ounces Mix. Dose: Teaspoonful every ten minutes to produce vomiting. Th...
Relating to joints: the articular surfaces of bones.
Near the tail or hind parts; posterior. Similar to a tail in form or function.
Space around the altar of a church for the clergy and sometimes the choir, often enclosed by a lattice or railing. chary Cautious; wary; not giving or expending freely; sparing.
Herbs of the poppy family (Papaveraceae) with brittle stems, yellowish acrid juice, pinnately divided leaves, and small yellow flowers that includes the celandine. Preparation of c...
History of a wound. The muscles of the jaw may be stiff and set. When there are spasms the muscles remain stiff and hard for some time.
People over middle age are more liable to it. It comes chiefly in winter, in changeable, cold and damp climates. It may follow repeated acute attacks. Symptoms. These are variable...
The pulse may be slow and weak or fast and weak. Digitalis. Give five drops of the tincture in a little water. Another dose can be given in fifteen minutes. Then another in an hour...
"Strong spirits of ammonia applied to the wounds of snake bite or rabid animals is better than caustic. It neutralizes the poison and is an excellent remedy."
This may be defined as a reduction of the amount of blood as a whole or of its corpuscles, or of certain of its more important constituents, such as albumin and haemoglobin. Primar...
Caused by the varicella-zoster virus; indicated by skin eruptions, slight fever, and malaise. Also called varicella.
Slight fever, chilly feelings. In twenty-four hours the eruption appears upon the body, face and forehead often only a few separate red pimples which soon become rounded vesicles;...
Therapeutic procedure, no longer in use; an evacuated glass cup is applied to the skin to draw blood to the surface.
A chronic affection characterized by the passage of large quantities of normal urine of low specific gravity. Causes. It is most often found in young males and is probably of nervo...
Due to taking cold or over using the voice; hot liquids, poisons. It may occur in influenza and measles; from irritating gases; some are subject to it. Symptoms. Tickling in the la...
Excitement at first, soon weariness, weighty limbs, sleepiness, pin-point pupils, pulse and breathing slow and strong, patient roused with difficulty and later it is impossible, sn...
1. Flaxseed (unground) 3 teaspoonfuls Extract of Licorice 30 grains Boiling water 10 ounces "Allow the mixture to stand one to four hours in a warm place. Then add a little lemon j...
This is due to the fact that the flesh or bony parts do not quite properly unite. It may form a single or double hare-lip, or complicated, or it may involve the soft parts, or the...
This means poison in the blood occurring in acute and chronic nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys). The cause is unknown. The disease is acute and chronic.
This is an acute inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by groups of vesicles upon the inflamed base, distributed along the course of one or more cutaneous (skin) nerves....
Women who suffer from womb troubles such as leucorrhea, torn cervix, falling womb displacements and diseases of the inner womb, ovaries and tubes, suffer from all kinds of headache...
Poisonous, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C17H23NO3, obtained from belladonna and related plants. Used to dilate the pupils of the eyes and as an antispasmodic.
White or colorless mineral, essentially Zn4Si2O7(OH)2.H2O (hemimorphite). Pink, odorless, tasteless powder of zinc oxide with a small amount of ferric oxide, dissolved in mineral o...
Camphor Gum 1/2 ounce troy Oil Turpentine 1 fluid dram Oil Peppermint 1/2 fluid dram Oil of Wintergreen 1/2 fluid dram Tincture Capsicum 1/2 fluid ounce Alcohol sufficient to make...
Aconite 2X dil. Ten drops in a glass one-half full of water and give two teaspoonfuls everyone to three hours, in the first stage attended by fever, hot and dry skin. Belladonna 3X...
This is an accumulation of serous fluid in the peritoneal cavity. It is but a symptom of disease. Local Causes. Chronic peritonitis, obstruction of the portal (vein) circulation as...