nausea

and vomiting, and constipation of the bowels.

The Stage of CoUapse, in which there are indistinct mutterings, dull and

perverted hearing and vision, double vision, the pupil from being contracted

expands largely and becomes motionless, twitchings of the muscles, tremors

and palsy of some of the limbs, a ghastly and cadaverous countenance, cold

sweats, profound coma, and death

The disease will not show all these symptoms in any one case. It runs a

rapid course, causing death, sometimes, in twelve or twenty-four hours; or it

may run two or three weeks.

Remedy, pages 246, 247.

BRONCHITIS.— 5//TOpfem5.— This disease is an inflammation of the

membrane lining the air passages, or bronchi, is a very common, and a very

serious disease.

cough."

It

is

of

two kinds, the acute and the chronic or " winter

The acute form, or severe cough, begins with the symptoms of com-

mon cold, or catarrh (see Catarrh); but difficulty of breathing, attended with a

wheezing sound, and pain and cough, soon come on with great severity. There

is also a degree of

fever, generally much increased in the evening.

With the

cough, there is a tenacious and glary expectoration, sometimes purulent, and

even mixed with blood. Remedy, pages 123, 254, 255, 256.

BRONCHOCELE.— -Symptoms.—The goitre, or swelled neck, which so

frequently occurs among the inhabitants of mountainous regions.

It is a com-

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mon disorder in Derbyshire, and among the inhabitants of the Ali)S, and othe*"

hilly countries in their neighborhood;

also in the valleys of

Milan, and among the Pyrennes, and Cevennes, in France.

Savoy, and

sf

The swelling \r

bronchocele is at first without pain or any evident fluctuation, and the skii

retains its natural appearance; but as the swelling advances, it grows hard an»^

irregular; the skin becomes yellowish, and the veins of the neck put on a distended and winding appearance; then the patient complains of frequent flush'

ing of the face with headache, and pains darting through the tumor.

Remed"?,

pages 44, 45.

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—

CANCER. Symptoms. By occult cancer or scirrhus, is meant a hard

tumor, for the most part accompanied by sharp darting pains, which recur

more or less frequently. This tumor, in course of time, breaks and ulcerates;

and then is more strictly denominated cancer. The parts of the body subject

to cancer are the following: The female breast and uterus (see Womb and its

Diseases), the lips, especially the lower one, the tongue, the skin, the tonsils,

the lower opening of the stomach, and some other parts chiefly glandular

Chimney-sweepers are subject to a cancerous affection of the scrotum.

edy, pages 33, 34, 35, 99, 271.

Rem-

CARBUNCLE. —Symptoms. —An abscess or collection of matter, of a

The first symptoms are great heat and

some part of the body, on which there arises a pimple with

great itching; under this, there is a circumscribed tumor, seeming to penetrate

deep into the parts below. This tumor soon puts on a dark red or purple color.

A little blister frequently appears on the top of the tumor, which being broken.

a dark-looking matter is discharged, and a slough makes its appearance. Somepeculiarly gangrenous-looking nature.

violent pain in

The

The size

times a little slough of a black color is seen in the middle of the tumor.

progress of a carbuncle of the gangrenous state is generally rapid.

of carbuncles

is various;

sometimes they are eight or ten inches in diameter.

Considerable hardness and pain generally attend the disease.

As it advances,

form in the tumor; and through these, a greenish,

fetid, and irritating matter is discharged.

Carbuncle most commonly occurs

in constitutions that have been injured by luxurious living; and from this circumstance, and from its occurring not unfrequently in people advanced in life,

carbuncle is commonly to be considered as accompanied with great danger;

and this danger is to be estimated by the size and situations of the swellings,

whether there be few or many of them, and by considering the age of the

the patient, and the state of his constitution. Remedy, pages 58, 59.

several detached openings

CATARRH. — -Symjo^oTOs. — The disease commonly called a Cold, of

—

which the following are the ordinary symptoms: The patient is seized with a

coldness and shivering; and shortly after, there is a degree of difliculty in

breathing through the nose, and a sensation as if something were stopping that

known under the term of a stufiing of the nose or

There is a dull pain and heaviness in the forehead, and the motion of

the eyes is stiff and obstructed. There soon takes place from the nose, a plentiful discharge of thin watery matter, so sharp as to inflame and excoriate the

passage; a symptom well

head.

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Bkin of the nose and lips.

There is a sense of weariness over the whole body;

and the patient is unusually sensible to the coldness of the air; and the pulse,

especially toward evening, is more frequent than ordinary.

These symptoms

are very soon accompanied with hoarseness, and a sense of roughness and soreness in the course of the wind-pipe, with a difficulty of breathing, and tightness

across the chest, and a cough, seemingly occasioned by something tickling or

irritating the upper part of the wind-pipe.

The cough is at first dry, and

causes a good deal of pain in the chest, and about the head and at times there

;

are other pains resembling rheumatism, in various parts of the body.

ally the cough

Gradu-

becomes looser that is to say, is accompanied by the discharge

of mucus, which is brought up with more-ease. The discharge from the nose

becomes more mild, and also thicker; the pain of the head diminishes, but

;

there is still a disagreeable sense of fullness about the nose, with a degree ol

deafness, ringing in the ears, and a wheezing sound when a full breath is drawn.

There is also a bad taste in the mouth, with a foul tongue, although the appetite

is good.

Eemedy, pages 57, 155, 164, 183.

CHICKEN-POX. — Symptoms.—A diseaseof the>eruptive kind, in various

particulars resembling small-pox, and apt to be confounded with it.

Chicken'

pox arises from a peculiar contagion, and attacks persons only once in theii

lives.

It is preceded by chilliness, by sickness or vomiting, headache, thirst

restlessness and a quickened pulse.

After these feverish symptoms, which an/

generally slight, have lasted one or two days, pimples appear on different partd

of the skin, in the form of small red eminences, not exactly circular; having a

surface shining, and nearly flat, in the middle of which a small clear vesicle

soon forms. On the second day, this is filled with a whitish lymph; on tne

and on the fourth day, the vesicles wh>iCh

have not broken begin to subside. Few of them remain entire on the fifth day;

and on the sixth, small brown scabs appear in the place of the vesicles. Oa

the ninth and tenth days, they fall off, without leaving any pits.

RemejDT,

page 224.

third day, the fluid is straw-colored

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;

—

CHILBLAINS- Symptoms. A painful inflammatory swelling on thfe

extreme parts of the body, as the fingers, toes, and heels, occasioned by c old.

A very common way of getting chilblains, is by bringing the hands and feet

near the fire in cold frosty weather. The color of chilblains is a deep purple

or leaden hue, the pain is pungent and shooting, and a very disagreeable itching

In some instances, the skin remains entire; in others it breaks, and a

When the cold has been great or long continued, the

parts affected are apt to mortify and slough off, leaving a foul ulcer behind.

Remedy, pages 142, 143.

attends.

thin fluid is discharged.

CHILLS AND FEVER.— See Ague.

—

CHLOROFORM. The formidable symptoms which sometimes arise

from an overdose of chlorofoi-m are best met by opening the patient's mouth,

and forcibly making the tongue protrude, allowing the free access of air, and

applying ammonia to the nostrils.

a medical man.

Chloroform should be administered only by

Remedy, page 95.

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CHOLERA.—

This disease is often attended by vomiting and purging,

It first attracted notice as a

with cramps in various parts of the body.

wide-spreading and fatal epidemic, in the year 1817, when it appeared at

at Jessore, in Bengal; and after ravaging the Continent and Isles of Asia,

and spreading to China, it continued its destructive course westward through

Germany and the Russian Empire, till it at length reached the British

Islands in 1831. After committing frightful ravages, the disease disappeared

from England

in the end of 1833;

but

it

reappeared in 1849, and carried

London alone, and about 80,000 in the whole kingdom.

In 1853 and 1854 the disease again caused a terrible mortality, upwards of 6,000

deaths having occurred in London alone during the first ten weeks of the epidemic which occurred in the latter year.

SymptoTUs. The attack of the disease is sometimes quite sudden; at other

times, there are precursory symptoms, of which the duration varies from a few

off 15,000 people in

—

There is a sense of general uneasiness and oppreshigh health and

animation; pains about the navel; sometimes tremors and debility. The person

hours to three or four days.

sion, increased sensibility, not unlike a delusive feeling of

the alimentary canal, more or less severe, indicated by sickness and vomiting, flatulent noises in the bowels, and frequent

loose, but natural stools; these symptoms being accompanied or succeeded by

is affected with derangement of

headache, languors, and cramps or twitches in the limbs, breast, and

Such derangements often occur after some irregularity to which the patient has not been accustomed, as a luxurious meal, an

thirst,

other parts of the body.

indulgence in wine, spirits, beer, or porter, the eating of pastry, or other indiIn

gestible food; or after being exposed to the night-air, or to cold and damp.

ordinary seasons, these ailments might be left to nature, or carried off by a

But in seasons and districts where cholera prevails or is exgentle laxative.

pected, no person, through fear of being thought whimsical, should neglect

even very slight uneasiness; if the alarm be a false one, little harm is done;

but if there be real danger to follow, it is of unspeakable consequence to have

a medical man on the watch, to apply the remedies before the strength fails,

and before the second stage, or that of collapse, comes on. Remedy, pages

60, 127, 128, 139, 141, 236.

CHOLERA INFANTUM.— See Symptoms, page 226.

Remedy,

page 226.

CHOLERA MORBUS.— See Symptoms, page 225.

Remedy, page

226.

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—

COLIC. Symptoms: A painful sensation spreading over the belly, and

accompanied by a feeling of twisting or wringing at the navel. It is owing to

spasms acting on the intestines themselves; and very frequently the skin and

muscles of the belly are also drawn inwards and spasmodically contracted.

These pains are very violent, unlike the transient gripings that occur in other

affections of the bowels; and costiveness is a general attendant

Vomiting is

also present; any thing taken in the mouth is apt to be rejected, and bile is

thrown up

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—

It may arise from cold, from

Tlie causes of colic are various.

from mechanical obstruction, from acrid matters taken into the

stomach, from accumulation of faeces after long costiveness; it may also arise

It is distinguished from Inflammation of the

from passions of the mind.

bowels by the pain at times disappearing, by the absence of fever, and by presSometimes, however, long continued spasms induce

sure relieving the pain.

Remedy, pages 41, 46, 127, 129, 197, 230, 277.

inflammation.

Causes.

flatulence,

CONSTIPATION OR COSTIVENESS.— The usual frequency of

evacuating the bowels for persons in good health is once in twenty-four hours.

The constitutions of different people vary in this respect; some having two or

three motions in a day without any inconvenience or ill health; others not having above one or two in a week.

When a person has habitually fewer motions

than the generality of healthy people, he is said to be of a costive habit or constipated; and when he has at any time fewer than his ordinary rate, and when

the faeces are hard, dry, and voided with difficulty, he is said to be costive or

constipated.

Causes.

—Independently of medicine,

it is not very easy to specify

or mode of living that universally predisposes to costiveness.

any diet

Many articles

have been blamed, and yet have been used by thousands without producing

Rice in various modes of cookery; the finer kinds of bread; roast

meat, eaten without a due proportion of vegetables; cheese; port and other dry

wines; and indolent and sedentary life; and a sea voyage, are all known to

occasion costiveness in certain individuals. In some infants this state is constitutional; and for some time, at least, appears to do them little harm.

It is very

apt to occur in children, as their volatility and playfulness cause them often to

disregard the calls of nature, till a great and dangerous mass of feculent matter

The indolent and sedentary lives of females

is accumulated in their bowels.

that effect.

predisposes

them much to costiveness.

The structure

of their pelvis also

allows a larger mass to accumulate without inconvenience, from which circumstance the faeces are deprived of almost all their fluid parts, and the remainder

becomes dry, hard, and difficult to be voided. Persons of the melancholic

temperament; also those who are advanced in life, and those who take little

exercise, are liable to become costive.

Remedy, pages 46, 47, 135, 136,

280.

CONSUMPTION.—

This disease is probably the greatest existing

scourge of the human race, at least in the northern and middle latitudes. It

is not deviating far from the truth to say that it causes about one-sixth or oneseventh of all the deaths north of the tropics. The duration of the disease is

exceedingly variable. While some cases run their course to a fatal termination

in less than a month, others have been known to continue thirty or forty years.

The greater number of cases, as a rule, terminate in from one to two years.

It

is pre-eminently a hereditary disease.

—The

earliest symptom of consumption that usually manifests

dry cough, exciting no particular attention, being attributed

to a slight cold.

It, however, continues, and after a time increases in frequency.

The breathing is more easily hurried by bodily motion, aad the pulse becomes

Symptoms.

itself is a short,

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more frequent, particularly after meals and towards evening.

Towards even-

ing there is also frequently experienced a slight degree of chilliness, followed

by heat and nocturnal perspirations. The patient becomes languid and indolent,

and gradually loses strength. After a time the cough becomes more frequent,

and is particularly troublesome during the night, accompanied by an expectoration of a clear, frothy substance, which afterwards becomes more copious,

viscid, and opaque, and is most considerable in the morning; the sputa are

often tinged with blood or haemoptysis occurs in a more marked form, and to

a greater extent As the disease advances, the breathing and pulse become

more hurried; the fever is greater, and the perspirations more regular and profuse.

The emaciation and weakness go on increasing; a pain is felt m some

part of the thorax, which is increased by coughing, and sometimes becomes so

acute as to prevent the patient from lying on the affected side. All the symptoms increase towards evening; the face is flushed; the palms of the hands and

the soles of the feet are affected with a burning heat; the feet and ankles begin

to swell, and in the last stage of consumption there is nearly always profuse

;

The emaciation is extreme the countenance assumes a cadaverous

appearance, the cheeks are prominent, the eyes hollow and languid. Usually

diarrhoea.

;

the appetite remains entire to the end, and the patient flatters himself with the

hope of a speedy recovery, often vainly forming distant projects of interest or

amusement, when death puts a period to his existence. Tubercular deposits

are also usually found in other organs of the body; the liver is enlarged and

changes in appearance, and ulcerations occur in the intestines, the larynx, and

trachea. These are so frequent and uniform as to lead to the belief that they

form part of the disease.

Causes.

The causes of this disease are divided into remote and exciting.

Of the former, the most important is hereditary predisposition It is not, however, an actual cause of the disease; and hence there are many cases m which

the children of consumptive parents do not fall a prey to this disease; but it

renders those who are in that condition much more liable to be affected by the

exciting causes.

Whatever weakens the strength of the system, or interferes

with the oxygenation of the blood, tends to the production of this disease.

Hence living in bad air,