medical

department of

life-work.

He attended

lectures

the State University during 1857 and 1858, and graduated

from the Eclectic Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the

meantime.

he traveled over a large part

Prior to 1869

of the United States, acquiring valuable knowledge, only

by

gained

foundation

experience, which

practical

The first edition of the work,

gained such great celebrity.

like

all

subsequent

soon placed the

ones,

proved a great success, and

on the high road

author

good

a

book which afterward

wonderful

the

for

proved

to

fortune.

In 1864 he built the first part of that magnificent structure that still bears his name.

Main

to

Street

our

The

and

city.

The

business had

persons

It stands

Avenue, and

Miller

building

found constant

and

is

an ornament

was completed in

increased

so

on the corner of

that

at

this

remunerative

of

the building;

and the

and

of

the

Doctor to

the employes

well

as

institution, as

to

the

fifty

employment

within the walls

liberality

1868.

time

hospitality

of

needy ones of the

the

city,

were always subjects of admiring comment.

In 1873 he published his second book, of which many

thousand copies were sold, and it is safe to say that fully

one million and a half have found their way into the

homes

of this

and foreign countries.

A few years only have elapsed since Dr. Chase was

considered

one of the most prosperous and

xii

well-to-do

Ann Arbor; losses by thousands and tens of

citizens of

thousands dollars greatly reduced his accumulations so

honestly acquired.

wealth

It

seldom the case that so much

is

secured in so short a time by honest endeavor.

is

He entered into no speculating schemes, but industriously

pursued

very

a

useful

bringing

c-alling,

large

profits

without detriment to any, but, on the contrary, of great

value to all.

lose

his

But, notwithstanding his losses, he did not

and

native energy

manliness of

community

stood before the

and

purpose,

a conspicuous example of

what energy, perseverance, and an indomitable will may

His liberality was remarkable, considering his

accomplish.

income,

though

Many men, whose means were

large.

quadruple those of the Doctor, did not give one quarter as

much for the advancement of education and

benevolent

enterprises.

He was once nominated for mayor of the city, but

his

business

honor.

compelled

him

But the storms of

life finally

swept with almost resistless

physician,

terize

the

and

a

few

human

of

family

the heart of this noble

decline

to

man;

the

proffered

overtook him and

fury around the now aged

the

prejudices that charac-

found

yet,

a

resting

when the

place

last

in

chapter

shall

have been entered in the book of life, the account

will

probably be balanced.

The

away beneath the shadow of the

truthfully be said that

all.

earthly

the aged veteran

been performed, and

and charity to

last

silent

laid

rites

have

peacefully

tomb.

It

may

he lived with malice toward none

A beautiful monument marks the

place where his earthly remains are laid away, but his real

and ever-enduring monument is seen in his life, devotion

and usefulness to his fellow man.

L.

Secretary of the

Davis,

Washtenaw County

Pioneer Society.

Ann Arbor, Mich.

CONTENTS.

Dedication,

......

PHRENOLOGY DEFINED.

NAMES AND NUMBERS OF THE ORGANS.

MEDICAL DEPAETMENT.

STTDVCIPTOnv^dlS

Remarks.

OIF 3DISE.A.SES.

—In preparing "Symptoms" I have carefully given

all diseases

There are some few common

complaints, that " tackle " us without giving symptoms or warning, that I have

omitted

A man would not need to be told that he had the toothache or earache,

He would be liable to find it out very suddenly

or what the symptoms are.

without consulting any book or doctor. Some such simple diseases I have

omitted in "Symptoms."

that any person is liable not to be familiar with.

ABORTION OR MISCARRIAGE.— When a woman in the family

way throws oflf the contents of her womb, or loses her child, during the first

six months, the accident is a miscarriage, or abortion; when the same thing

happens during the last three months of her term, it is a premature labor.

Symptoms. If abortion occur during the first month after conception, the

symptoms may not attract much attention, or may be regarded only as an

Occurring at later periods, it is frequently indiirregularity of menstruation.

cated by some feverishness, coldness of the feet and legs, a pufled-up condition

of the eye-lids with purplish discoloratione, shooting pains in the breasts,

which become soft, pains in the back,, bearing-down pains in the lower part of

the bowels, which come and go, and at length take the character of real labor

—

pains.

As these pains increase, blood begins to appear, and, sooner or later,

the bag of water breaks, and the fetus is thrown off.

Causes.

ment of

—These are very numerous. Some of the principal

the

womb;

ulceration of

its

are, displace-

neck; syphilitic disease of the fetus

received from the parent; too much exercise; heavy lifting;

falls,

particularly

when the woman comes down upon the feet, and is heavily jarred; emetics;

powerful purges; and too much nuptial indulgence.

Remedy, pages

258, 259, 260,261.

AGUE. The popular English name for Intermittent Fever. Agtie is

principally applied to the cold stage.

The whole disease is commonly called

—

Fever and Ague.

Symptoms.

is made up of

—This fever consists of various

fits or paroxysms, each of

three stages or successions of symptoms.

which

These stages are the

cold, the hot, and the sweating stages.

When the sweating stage is finished,

the patient is free of complaint, or the disease intermits till a future period,

when the same stages as before succeed each other. The time duiing which

the patient is free of the disease varies in different kinds of intermittent fever,

and gives its name and character to the disease.

If the stages

run through

their course every day, it is called a quotidian ague; if they begin again every

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third day, including that on which the former paroxysm occurred, it is called

a tertian; if every fourth day, a quartan. Several minuter varieties occur,

with which it is unnecessary to trouble the general reader. Remedy, pages

86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 123.

APOPLEXY. A disease in which the patient suddenly falls down,

deprived of sense and motion; and which, in all languages, derives its name

from the sudden manner of its attack, as if the patient were struck down by

some invisible hand, by lightning, or some other agent equally sudden and

—

violent.

—

Symptoms. A person seized with apoplexy in its most perfect form, suddenly falls down, deprived of ^nse and motion, breathes heavily, and with a

snoring sound; sometimes convulsions occur, and foam issues from the mouth.

The pulse is full and strong, a cold clammy sweat breaks out over all the

body; and the accumulating saliva, the bloated countenance, and the noisy

laborious breathing, combine to form a distressing spectacle.

The disease is

not always so complete and violent, but varies in its symptoms, as is well

described by Dr. Abercrombie: "Sometimes the disease begins with a sudden

—

attack of violent pain in the head, the patient becomes pale, sick and faint,

generally vomits; and frequently, though not always, falls down in a state

resembling fainting, the face very pale, the pulse very small. This is sometimes accompanied by slight convulsion. In other cases he does not fall down,

the sudden attack of pain being only accompanied by slight and transient loss of

recollection.

able to walk

;

In both cases he recovers in a few minutes, is quite sensible, and

continues to complain of intense headache; after a considerable

time, perhaps some hours, becomes oppressed, forgetful, and incoherent, and

thus gradually sinks into deep sleep, from which he never recovers. In some

cases, palsy of one side occurs, but in others, there is no palsy.

There is

another form of the disease, in which the patient is suddenly deprived of the

power of one side of the body, and of speech without stupor; or if the first

attack is accompanied with stupor, this soon goes off; he appears sensible of

his situation, and endeavors to express his feelings by signs.

In some cases the

attack passes gradually into apoplexy, perhaps after a few hours; in others,

under the proper treatment, the patient recovers perfectly in a few days. In

many cases the recovery is gradual, and it is only at the end of several weeks

or months that the complaint is removed."

It is a matter of

very great difficulty to determine what is the particular

state of the brain which gives rise to the symptoms of apoplexy.

after a fatal case,

Sometimes,

when the head is opened, we find a large quantity of coagu-

lated blood, and we consider the pressure of this effused blood as completely

explaining what has happened. But in other cases which have ended fatally,

there is only a small quantity of fluid in some part of the brain; and in others,

even after very marked symptoms, no injury whatever, or deviation from the

healthy appearance, can be perceived in the brain.

There are certain habits of body that seem more peculiarly disposed to

Men with short thick necks, large heads, and corpulent bellies,

especially after their thirty-fifth or fortieth year, are very frequently the subthis disease.

SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES

3

but very many examples occur of a make directly the

and slender, being also attacked with apoplexy.

jects of this disease;

reverse of this, viz., tall

Remedy, page 131.

ASTHMA. —Symptoms. —A painful difficulty of breathing, recurring at

a wheezing cough, hard

each paroxysm more free, and followed by the

intervals, with a sense of tightness across the breast;

at first, but towards the end of

discharge of a little mucus.

time, though they sometimes

The attacks of asthma are generally in the nightcome on in the course of the day; and at what-

come on, it is for the most part suddenly, with a sense of

The person, if in bed, i?

obliged immediately to get up, and he requires the free admission of air. Tho

ever time they

tightness across the breast, impeding respiration.

and is performed slowly, and with a wheezing

These symptoms sometimes continue for hours together; and a remission takes place by degrees; the breathing becomes less laborious, and the

patient speaks and coughs more easily; and if there is something expectorated,

In the morning, and through the

the remission is greater, and sleep comes on.

day, though the breathing is better than during the fit, it is not yet free from

difficulty; a degree of tightness is still felt, and a very slight motion of the

In the evening the breathing is

body is apt to bring back the paroxysm.

worse, and about the same hour as on the former night, generally between

midnight and two o'clock, the same train of symptoms is renewed. After the

fits have recurred for several nights in this manner, they suffer more considerable remissions; and, for some time, asthmatics may be free from complaint;

but through the whole of life the paroxysms are ready to return, though in

difficulty of breathing increases,

noise.

different circumstances in different patients.

Asthma seldom appears before the age of puberty, and seems to attack

men more frequently than women; and in persons of a full habit whom it

continues to attack, it commonly causes a great degree of emaciation.

it

Though

does not often destroy life in the paroxysms, it may become fatal by passing

into other diseases,

dropsy; and

as

into

consumption of the lungs, or by occasioning

many cases, which have appeared a common spasmodic asthma,

have been found at last to depend on organic diseases of the heart and great

vessels.

—

Causes.

Some have the fits of si>asmodic asthma brought on by heat,

whether of the weather or of warm apartments; and frequently by warm

bathing.

Some are hurt by cold and moist air, or by anything worn tight

about the breast, or by distension of the stomach from a full meal, or windy

diet; or from exercise hurrying the circulation of the blood.

Sometimes the

disease is brought on by causes affecting the nervous system, as passions of the

mind; or by particular smells, or irritations of the lungs from smoke or dust.

Remedy, pages 200, 201.

—

—

ATROPHY. Symptoms. A disease, of which a very prominent symptom is wasting of the body, from deficiency of nourishment. It is well known

to the nurses in Scotland by the term Dwining. It is very common in children,

and proceeds in them from various causes; from teething, from acidity of the

DB. CEASE'S RECIPES:

stomach, and disorder of the bowels; from rickets, from diseases of the glands

of the mesentery; and this last cause is by far the most common. The patient

is at first languid and inactive; has a bad appetite, a disagreeable breath, a pale

complexion, a large belly; the bowels are not regular, sometimes costive, at

other times loose; the stools smell badly, and are of a whiter color than natural.

When the disease has continued for some time, the body becomes greatly

emaciated, the belly still more swelled, and the digestive functions more disordered.

Remedy, page 190.

BARKERS' TSCB..—Symptoms.— This is contagious and due to a fungus

growth that invades the hair and hair follicles. It appears chiefly on the hairy

parts of the face the chin, the upper lip, the region of the whiskers, the eyebrows, and the nape of the neck. It consists in little conical elevations, which

maturate at the top, and have the shaft of a hair passing through them. These

pimples are of a pale yellowish color. Remedy, page 102.

—

BLADDER — INFLAMMATION.—-%TOj9toms.— The bladder

is also

inflammation without rupture. The symptoms of this formidable

complaint are a burning pain at the lower part of the belly, increased by

liable to

pressure; constant desire to pass water, which is done in very small quantities,

and with intense pain; and more or less general fever.

Remedy, page 253.

BLOODY FLUX.—DYSENTERY.— /S^m^j^wis.— The disease comes

on with loss of appetite, costiveness, lassitude, shivering, heat of skin, and

quick pulse. These are followed by griping pain in the bowels, and a constant

desire to pass their contents.

In general the passages are small, composed of

mucus mixed with blood. These passages are attended and followed by severe

gripings and inclination to strain, learnedly called tormina, and tenesmus. They

The

are sometimes, in the early stages, attended by nausea and vomiting.

natural feces, which do not pass off much, are small in quantity, and formed

This tenesmus, or

into round, compact balls, or irregular, hardened lumps.

great desire to strain, will continue, perhaps increase, for several days, the

discharges being mostly blood in some cases, and chiefly mucus in others.

Having, generally, but little odor, at first, these discharges become, as the dis-

—

ease advances, exceedingly offensive.

—Dj'sentery

by sudden changes from hot

suddenly checked, and the blood repelled from

Hot climates, and dry, hot weather, are predisposing causes.

the surface.

All green, unripe, and unwholesome food; and all indigestible food of every

Remedy, pages 60, 139, 195, 234.

sort, may induce it.

Causes.

is very frequently caused

to cold, by which sweating is

BOIL. — Symptoms. — A circumscribed inflammation in the external parts,

which terminates in a pointed swelling, sometimes as large as a pigeon's Ggg,

attended with redness and pain, and sometimes with a violent burning heat.

These inflammations generally suppurate, but they do so very slowly. They

break at first on the upper part, and some drops of matter ooze out.

Wliat is commonly called the core is next seen; it is a purulent substance, but

thick and tenacious, almost like a solid body, and may be drawn out of the

SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES.

abscess.

Its discharge is followed by a flow of

5

thinner matter, after which the

Remedy, pages 58, 59, 60, 97, 137.

BOWELS, rNTLAMMATION" OF.— Symptoms.— ^h\s disease is

characterized by the symptoms of general fever, heat of skin, thirst, restlessness, quick and hard small pulse; and by sharp pain in the belly, increased on

pain ceases, and the part heals.

pressure, and accompanied by vomiting and costiveness.

Causes.

—Inflammation of the bowels

is occasioned

by acrid and irritating

substances swallowed by the mouth, by hardened foeces, by vitiated bile, by

long continued costiveness, and by constriction of some part of the canal in

cases of rupture; a very frequent cause of

it is

cold, especially when applied

with damp to the feet.

Inflammation of the bowels is distinguished from colic by the

Diagnosis.

absence of fever in this last, and by the pain in colic not being increased on

pressure; and in every case of severe pain of the bowels, with vomiting and

costiveness, the practitioner should make very strict inquiries, lest a rupture

—

should be the cause of them.

Remedy, pages 137, 252.

BRAIN — INTLAMMATION — CONCUSSION.—Acute and general inflammatioH of the brain and its membranes has two stages.

Symptoms.

—

TJie Stage of Excitement, in which there is intense and

deep-

seated pain in the head, extending over a large part of it, a feeling of tightness

across the forehead, throbbing of the temporal arteries, a flushed face, injected

and brilliant, contraction of the pupils, great shrinking

eyes, looking wild

from light and sound, violent delirium, want of sleep, general convulsions, a

parched and dry skin, a quick and hard pulse, a white tongue, thirst,