Surgical instrument with circular edges, used to cut out disks of bone from the skull.
Outstanding accomplishment. Principal dish of a meal.
Salt or ester of salicylic acid.
Squash plants with elongated fruit and smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh.
Perennial Old World buttercup with yellow flowers in late spring to early summer.
Tincture Camphor drop doses every hour followed by Belladonna and Arsenicum.
"Spread pure lard, or any unsalted grease over burned surface: cover thickly with flour and wrap with soft cloth after pain has ceased. Remove the flour and spread again with lard...
Aconite 2X dil. At beginning. Belladonna 3X dil. and Bryonia 2X dil. following.
This usually comes late in pregnancy and is due to the pressure of the womb upon the diaphragm; the patient should avoid excitement and sleep with the shoulders well elevated. In t...
In suffocation by smoke or any poisonous gas, as also by hanging if the neck is not broken, and in suspended breathing from effects of chloroform, hydrate of chloral, or electric s...
Cocculus 2X dil. Put ten drops in a glass half full of water and give two teaspoonfuls every fifteen minutes. Caulophyllum 3X dil. can be used if Cocculus fails. Pulsatilla 3X dil....
A form of tuberculosis affecting the lymph nodes, especially of the neck. Common in children. Spread by unpasteurized milk from infected cows. scurf Scaly or shredded dry skin, suc...
Sulphur 6X trit. (tablet form). One tablet four times daily and sulphur ointment.
Formation or discharge of pus. Also called pyesis, pyopoiesis, pyosis.
Influenza.
Jumbled, confused manner; helter-skelter; frantic disorderly haste; headlong:
Paroxysmal pain and soreness of the muscles between the ribs. Epidemic disease caused by a coxsackievirus, causing pain in the lower chest and fever, headache, and malaise.
Tropical Asiatic and Polynesian perennial plants: ginger.
Mild form of smallpox occurring in people previously vaccinated or who previously had the disease.
Coryza, cold in the head. Aconite 2X dil. Prepare as usual. Use first twenty-four hours. Arsenicum 3X trit. (tablet form). One tablet every hour for burning watery discharge from t...
One of three metameric acids; the typical one (called also inactive valeric acid), C4H9CO2H, is from valerian root and other sources; it is a corrosive, oily liquid, with a strong...
Buckthorn of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields cascara sagrada.
See chorea
"A tea made of ripe dried whortleberries and drank in place of water is an excellent remedy."
Thorny shrubs of the genus Astragalus, especially A. gummifer, of the Middle East, yielding a gum used in pharmacy, adhesives, and textile printing.
Shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus, having compound leaves, clusters of small greenish flowers, and usually red, hairy fruit. Some species, such as the poison ivy and poison o...
Protein.
Annual, biennial, or perennial herb (Dianthus barbatus), native to Eurasia, widely cultivated as an ornamental for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers.
"Poultice of hops or salt and grease; grease is to keep salt together. Hops are always kept to be used in berry season." As a poultice it draws the poison out.
Located above the kidney; a suprarenal part, especially an adrenal gland.