These appear rather suddenly. They are circular bald patches which may appear on any hairy part of the body, but more frequently on the scalp. It is considered a chronic trouble, b...
This is the death of a part of the body in mass. There are two forms, moist and dry. Dry Gangrene. This is a combination produced by a loss of water from the tissues. The skin beco...
Transparent, often yellowish, viscous oleoresin from South American trees of the genus Copaifera in the pea family, used in varnishes and as a fixative in perfume.
Poisonous Eurasian ornamental shrub (Daphne mezereum) with fragrant lilac-purple flowers and small scarlet fruit. The dried bark of this plant was used externally as a vesicant (bl...
Cures rheumatism, sprains, bruises, chilblains, etc. We have made an examination of the foregoing liniment and find it to be essentially a liquid petroleum product, containing larg...
In twin pregnancy the symptoms and disorders of pregnancy are apt to be exaggerated, and watery swelling above the pubic bone is almost always present in the latter months. The abd...
Aromatic plants of the genus Teucrium, with purplish or reddish flowers.
This is simply a tuberculous knee. Treatment. Rest. Stop motion of the joint by some form of splint or plaster of Paris cast. Get a good physician at the beginning in these cases a...
Dried root of seneca snakeroot containing an irritating saponin and was formerly used as an expectorant
Sulphur l-1/2 drams Plumbi Acetatis 2 drams Glycerin 3 ounces Water, flavored to make 6-1/4 ounces Dissolve the plumbi acetatis in the water then add the glycerin and sulphur. Any...
Small genus of perennial old world tendril-bearing vines (family Cucurbitaceae) having large leaves, small flowers, and red or black fruit; Dried root of a bryony (Bryonia alba or...
Place the patient on his side half lying, head and shoulders raised and apply a cold compress to the forehead, nose, and to the back of the neck. Press the end of the nose firmly a...
This is fortunately a rare disease. There is rapid progress, and it is fatal in nearly all cases. The liver is very small and flabby. The symptoms are many and are hard to differen...
It is characterized by exophthalmos (bulging of the eyes), Goitre, fast beating of the heart, trembling and nervousness. Causes. It is most common in women from twenty to thirty. S...
Rabies and hydrophobia are two different terms, meaning the same disease, the former meaning to rage or become mad. This term applies more especially to the disease as it exists in...
Causes. This may be caused by strangulation, telescope (intussusception) of the bowels, twists and knots, strictures and tumors, abnormal contents. 1. Strangulation is the most fre...
Other names: Polyneuritis, Disseminated Neuritis, Peripheral Neuritis. Meaning--Multiple neuritis is an inflammatory disease of the peripheral (toward the end of the nerves or exte...
Aconite 2X dil. In the first twenty-four hours when there is fever, full pulse and dry skin. Belladonna 3X dil. instead, when there is much redness and swelling of the parts with m...
Unless properly done, massage may do more harm than good. If one can afford a few treatments by a scientific masseur and study her methods, it is a great help. The thing is not to...
Strip of decorative, gathered or pleated material attached by one edge, as on a garment or curtain.
1. Home Remedy. The patient must go to bed and remain there. It is a good thing to get the patient in a sweat. For this purpose you can use the corn sweat described under treatment...
Fine, hard, white, odorless soap made of olive oil and sodium hydroxide.
1. Constipation, a Good Substitute for Pills and Drugs"Two ounces each of figs, dates, raisins, and prunes (without pits) one-half ounce senna leaves. Grind through meat chopper, a...
l. Atropine in doses of 1-120 to 1-60 grain is good to stop the sweating. It must be used carefully, three doses in twenty-four hours are enough. 2. Tonics to keep up the appetite...
White, crystalline, aromatic compound, C10H14O, derived from thyme oil and other oils or made synthetically and used as an antiseptic, a fungicide, and a preservative.
Causes. Heredity may predispose to it. It is most common in those who are exposed to hard labor in the cold and wet; especially in women about middle age. It occasionally follows s...
Undergo thickening or cause to thicken, as by boiling or evaporation; condense.
This is a severe form, usually seen in delicate girls. The cause is unknown. Symptoms. Weakness, extensive purpuric spots (small blood spots in the skin), eruption, hemorrhages fro...
They are analogues, anatomically, of the testes in the male. They are two egg-shaped bodies situated one on each side of the womb on the posterior aspect of the broad ligament, bel...
A condition in which there is air or gas in tissues that normally have none, or an excess of air in tissues that normally contain a certain quantity of it. A condition of the lungs...