Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus, tuberculosis, and characterized by the formation of nodules or diffuse masses of new tissue. Man, fowls and cows are c...
What women should know regarding it. The menopause or change of life comes on gradually, rarely suddenly. It is not preceded by excessive flowing or discharge or pain in a healthy...
Awkward or tactless act, manner, or expression.
This is the narrowing of the valve opening. It is most common in young persons, chiefly females. The narrowing of the valve opening may be due to thickening or hardening of the val...
Diarrhea of children that in hot weather; often caused by ingestion of food contaminated by microorganisms.
Dr. J. L. Horr says in Boston Medical and Surgical Journal: "Having without solicitation on my part, become possessed of the knowledge of the 'secret remedies' employed by the late...
Body opening or passage, such as the opening of the ear or the urethra.
Diagnosis. It is uncommon under thirty, quite common after. Epithelioma of the lower lip is limited almost entirely to men. If, then, a man of from forty to seventy develops a smal...
This parasite lives in the clothes. It is apt to be found in the folds or seams, especially where the clothes come in close contact with the skin, as about the neck, shoulders and...
This is more common in men than women. Occurring during, and at the end of or after inflammation of the urethra. It usually involves many joints, such as the temporal, maxillary an...
The symptoms of all these are the same, except that in tertian fever, the paroxysms occur every third day; in quartan they occur every fourth day. Quotidian occurs daily. The incub...
Tincture Nux Vomica 2 drams Dilute Nitro-hydrochloric Acid 3 drams Compound Tincture Cinchona 1-1/2 ounces Compound Tincture Gentian 3 ounces Mix. Dose: Two drams in water three ti...
Sand in the urine. Lycopodium 30X trit. (tablet form). One tablet three times a day, for red sand. Sarsaparilla 2X dil. Two drops three times a day for white sand. Berberis Vulgari...
First: Lose no time in recovering the body from the water. Always try to restore life; for while ten minutes under the water is usually the limit, still persons have been resuscita...
Sulphur 6X trit. (tablet form). Use tablets; take about four times a day. Kali Bich 3X trit. (tablet form) thick crusts from ulcers in the nostrils, one tablet four times a day. LA...
Brownish or orange resin from trees of the genus Garcinia of south-central Asia and yielding a golden-yellow pigment.
These are enlarged tags of the skin. They frequently follow the absorption of the clot in the venous piles where the skin is bruised and stretched. There may be one or many and usu...
"Mix small quantity of gunpowder and lard and apply. One application cured me." This is an old, tried, standard remedy.
It begins with a chill, fever, pain in the lungs, expectoration with cough, and the material spit up may be mixed with blood (rusty sputa). Then also rapid rise of temperature, "gr...
Yellowish crystalline compound, CHI3, used as an antiseptic.
Appearance of millet seeds. Small skin lesions with the appearance of millet seeds.
Fluid Extract Rhamnus Purshiana 1 ounce Syrup Rhubarb 1 ounce Simple Syrup 2 ounces Mix. Dose: Teaspoonful four times a day. Is a sure cure for constipation and the very best catha...
Plant of the genus Digitalis, including foxgloves. Drug prepared from the seeds and dried leaves used as a cardiac stimulant.
This is a rapidly spreading gangrenous affection of the cheeks and forms a rare occurrence and ending fatally in most cases. The trouble may extend to the jaws and lips. Causes. It...
This is an inflammation of the muscle substance of the heart. It may be acute or chronic. Causes. Endocarditis and pericarditis in the course of rheumatism; acute fevers like typho...
Remove the sting in the wound. Diluted vinegar applied to the bites is sometimes of help. Camphor is also good.
Sprains or wrenches of the joints are caused by a twist or a blow. The injury consists in the tear or rupture of a number of the fibres of the ligaments. Symptoms. Severe pain, the...
Flavored with sour orange peel. Popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
Foods that can be used: Milk, milk-water, milk and lime-water, Mellin's food, malted milk, imperial granum, albumin water, rice water, oatmeal water, barley water, egg (white part)...
Preparation made by mixing or dissolving a substance in glycerin.