fication, so-called

—

alive.

—The causes are excessive inflammation, sometimes from hurts or

extensive,

Symptoms. — All pain and sensation ceases in the part; and,

Causes.

injuries.

if

it

turns from red to purple, livid, or black, with a quick low pulse and clammy

If internal, there is a cessation of pain, but the body sinks and

sweats.

changes to a livid color, and often hiccoughs and other distressing symptoms

The face is pinched with cold, and the tongue brown. Remedy,

attend

page 234.

GOITRE, OR BIG NECK.-%TO;)toms. -A prominent, soft, elastic tumor, occupying the front of the throat, in the situation of the thyroid gland, and

like it in shape.

It is not tender, and the skin is not discolored.

In old cases,

the tumor becomes hard.

gullet to one side.

In some instances the tumor is so large as to push the

Remedy, pages 44, 45.

GONORRHCEA.— See Gleet.

GOUT.

—

The symptoms considered as characterizing gout

The patient has a peculiar uneasiness about the stomach;

Symptoms.

are the following:

there is a degree of fever; pain and inflammation attack the joints of the hands

and feet, and principally the ball of the great toe; the feverish symptoms abate

after some days; and at distant and uncertain intervals, the same series of symptoms again occur. The paroxysms of gout generally come on in spring, when the

vernal heal succeeds to the winter's cold; and according as this takes place

sooner or later, and according as the patient is exposed to the changes of

temperature, so the period of attack will vary. The patient is affected with a

degree of languor or heaviness, the functions of the stomach are disturbed;

there is loss of appetite, flatulence or indigestion; the bowels are costive, the

tongue loaded, and the urine high-colored and turbid.

GLEET, GONORRHOEA.

Symptoms.

Remedy, page 136.

— A continued running or dis-

charge, after the inflammatory symptoms of a clap have ceased.

The discharge

commonly thin and clear, and is not accompanied with pain or scalding in

making water. It proceeds from relaxation or debility of the parts, and is best

cured by some astringent or stimulant application to them; and at the same

is

i

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by the use of bark, iron, and cold

bathing

The best local applications are those made of the sulphate of zinc in

the proportion of 2 grs to the oz or 1 gr. of corrosive sublimate to 6 ozs. of

water, and they require to be pretfy frequently thrown up. They ought to excite

time, the general health is to be promoted

,

If we do not succeed by astringent injections,

we may be obliged to use bougies, either clean, or lightly touched with a little

a little pain on first being used.

basilicon ointment.

Balsam of Copaiba in the dose of 1 dr. 3 or 4 times a-day,

or the tincture of cantharides, 10 drops as often, may be given internally, or

'the following combination

may be used: Take of citrate of iron and quinine, 1

scruple; tincture of cantharides,

1 dr.; water,

3 times a day in a wine-glass of water

If

3 ozs.

Mix.

A dessert-spoonful

we find no benefit from the above

recommendation, we judge that the gleet does not arise from mere relaxation of

the parts or from habit, but from unhealthy action of the glands in the urinary

passage, and we attempt the cure of this by bougies, and by blisters to the per-

ineum. If the constitution is scrofulous, the remedies for that disease must be

conjoined with our local applications. Another cause of gleet is strictures in the

urethra.

In such cases our attention is to be directed to the cure of the strictSometimes a gleet is complicated with

ures, for which we refer to that article.

discharges of the seminal fluid; where this occurs in an originally bad constitution, which has been weakened by excesses, the sexual powers of the patient

are much impaired, and may even be altogether destroyed.

Remedy, pages

205, 206, 207, 208, 209.

GRAVEL, OR STONE are the names applied to the diseases which are

occasioned by concretions in the urinary passages.

Gravel signifies small stones

that pass from the kidneys through the urethra into the bladder causing severe

pain, hence the disorder induced in such cases is called a^^of gravel.

Stone is a

calculous concretion in the kidneys or in the urinary bladder, which is too large to

The symptoms to which such concrethe most painful kind, and occur so frequently, as to

objects of very considerable interest.

There are so many different

pass, or at least without great difficulty.

tions give rise are of

become

salts contained in the urme, that it does not appear wonderful that occasionally

they should

fail

to be kept in complete solution

When this is the case, and

when a nucleus is formed, they concrete around it, and by their getting into

narrow passages, or pressing upon delicate organs, they occasion the severe

symptoms of stone or gravel A Fit of the Gravel is accompanied by a fixed

pain in the loins, a numbness of the thigh on the side affected, sickness and

vomiting, and sometimes slight diminution of the quantity of urine.

Some

times the acuteness of the pain occasions faintings and convulsion fits. These

violent and painful affections are generally terminated by the passage of small

stones through the urethra; and the patient is for the time easy.

In those who

are much disposed to gravel, these attacks may be expected again, at uncertain

intervals.

When there is Stone in the Bladder, the symptoms are. a frequent inclinamake water, which flows in small quantity, and is often interrupted;

and there is generally pain at the extremity of the passage, especially as the

last drop

are expelled, and for some time afterwards.

Remedy, page 48.

tion to

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HAY-FEVER. —Hay-asthma, and summer bronchitis, is a disease which

occurs about the time of the hay harvest, and appears to be caused by the pol

len of some wild plants getting into and inflaming the bronchial passages

This theory is supported by the fact that those who live in situations where

there is little or no vegetation do not suffer from it.

Symptoms.

— A difficulty of breathing, and a burning sensation in the throat,

are the chief characteristics of this affection.

Remedy, page 235,

HEADACHE.— Pain, heaviness, or oppression about the head

frequent occurrence, and arises from a great variety of causes.

is a very

It is

symp-

tomatic of disorders of the stomach and bowels; and in such cases it ofteu

proceeds to a very distressing height.

We judge headache to arise from dis-

orders of the stomach when the tongue is whitish, and slightly coated, with the

The patient has a dimness and indistinctness of

he has a dull pain or weight in the head, with some confusion, and he is

somewhat giddy. The pulse is languid and feeble, but not very frequent.

There is a degree of sickness and irritation about the stomach. There is a

coldness and numbness about the fingers; and the patient becomes, what, in

common language, is called nervous. This kind of headache commonly occurs

in the early stages of digestion.

It is best relieved by an emetic, but this is a

remedy which should not be employed very often. Remedy, pages 44, 74,

edges of a pale red color.

sight;

107, 108, 139, 183.

HEARTBURN. — Symptoms. — A disagreeable sensation proceeding from

acidity in the stomach, from which there are frequent belchings of sour flatulence, or discharges of

water with a burning heat at the pit of the stomach.

and is not easily removed; it has its chance

It is a very pertinacious symptom,

of abatement or cure like the other symptoms of indigestion, by air, exercise,

and proper diet; but it is also to be palliated by giving such substances as will

combine with an acid in the stomach, and form a tasteless and innoxious salt.

Remedy, pages 108, 244.

HEART DISEASE.—-^to;>!!otws.— Of

general

symptoms are nearly the same.

all

the diseases of the heart the

Respiration habitually short and con-

strained; palpitations and stiflings invariably produced by the motion of ascent,

by rapid walking, by mental emotions, and returning even without known

by sudden startings;

occasionally the symptoms described under the name of angina pectoris; and,

lastly, a cachectic paleness, with tendency to leucophlegmatic effusion, which

eventually appears, are all symptoms which, to a greater or less extent, occur

in persons affected with disease of the heart.

Remedy, pages 85, 108, 244.

HEMORRHAGE. Hemorrhage from the lungs may easily be discause; frightful dreams, and interruption of the sleep

—

tinguished from that of the stomach, as in the latter case the blood is vomited

up, usually in large quantities, of a much darker color and more or less mixed

with the contents of the stomach, whereas the blood from the lungs is of a florid

color, is thrown up in small quantities, by coughing or

or less mixed with a frothy mucus.

hawking, and is more

If bleeding from the stomach be but slight,

a few drops of common table salt and vinegar may be sufficient to suppress it;

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alum water may also be given. If these fall give a strong tea of the beth root.

The bugle weed is also good a strong tea, made from its leaves, to be taken

Remedies Hemorrhage of lungs, pages 48, 50,

cold during the day.

188, 189; nose, pages 84, 85, 188, 189; uterus, pages 48, 179, 281.

—

—

HERNIA, OR RUPTURE.— Tliis signifies the displacement of any

of the internal organs from their natural situation; but it is more commonly

applied to that disease which arises from the bowels getting through some of

the apertures designed for the transmission of other organs.

When the parts

of the bowels or omentum which have protruded can be replaced by change of

posture or by the hand, the hernia is said to be reducible; when it is not, it is

called iiTeducible hernia; and when dangerous or painful symptoms are brought

on by its being constricted, it is said to be strangulated.

Ruptures are inconvenient and dangerous in proportion to their bulk, to

the place where they occur, and to the stricture or pressure they vmdergo.

Remedy, pages 197, 234.

HYDROPHOBIA. — Symptoms. — The symptoms of hydrophobia are

the following:

The bitten part begins to be painful, then there ensue uneasi-

ness, restlessness, heaviness, a desire to be alone, sudden starting, pain, spasms,

These symptoms increase, pains dart

from the wounded place to the throat, with a sensation of choking, and dread

disturbed sleep, and frightful dreams.

The person can swallow solids, but anything in a fluid

form causes him to start back with horror; and the most painful convulsions

In the course of the

are excited by any application of it to his throat or lips.

disease, vomiting comes on, with great thirst, dryness and roughness of the

tongue, hoarseness, and a continual discharge of saliva. This saliva is very

thick and viscid, and the constant efforts to get rid of it are very distressing.

There is great watchfulness, a dislike of light and air, difficult breathing; in

some cases, delirium occurs, but in others the judgment is unimpaired. The

pulse becomes tremulous and irregular, convulsions arise, and the patient sinks

exhausted, about the third or fourth day from the first appearance of the

symptoms. Remedy, page 243.

at the sight of liquids.

HYSTERIA, HYSTERICS, OR PITS. — A disease presenting

many alarming appearances, though the danger to life is by no means in proportion to the violence of the symptoms.

It is chiefly conflned to the female

and of them it principally attacks the high fed, the luxurious and the

idle; also those who are addicted to the use of malt liquor or distilled spirits. It

chiefly occurs between the age of 15 and 40; though in those who are peculiarly

disposed to it, it may continue beyond the latter period. Hysteria is far more

frequent at the monthly period than at other seasons. In those who are subjected, to hysteria, it is very readily brought on by emotions of the mind, and

especially by any surprise; and by long continuance of the disease, persons are

broi'ght to so morbid a state of sensibility, that the slightest noise or external

impression agitates and alarms them. Remedy, page 233.

sex;

TMPOTENCY. — Impotency means incapacity in the male to perform

seJ^'ll intercourse.

This

may arise from physical or moral causes, some of

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which are remediable, while others arc not so. The loss of both testicles, or

organic disease in them to a great extent, will render a man impotent for life;

fear, weakening diseases, excessive drinking and smoking, may again make

him temporarily incompetent. A skillful and kind physician should always be

consulted where real or fancied incapacity exists, and under no circumstances

whatever should advice be sought from advertisers of cordials, balms, restoraRemedy, pages 180-183.

tives, etc.

INFANTILE ERYSIPELAS.— See Erysipelas.

—

JAUNDICE. This is a symptom of a disease, and not a disease, and

depends upon the absorption of bile into the system from various causes. It is

characterised by a universal yellowness of the skin, and of the white of the eyes;

itching of the surface of the body, a white or claylike appearance of the stools;

while the uriuetinges linen of a yellow color. The disease is attended by a sense of

weariness and languor, a feeling of pain or uneasiness about the pit of the stomach,

and there is sometimes a slight difficulty of breathing. There is also sickness,

vomiting, sourness of stomach, and various other symptoms of indigestiouc

There is sometimes an acute pain on the right side, below the margins of the ribs.

There is not, in general, much fever. It is a vulgar error to believe that patients in

jaundice see objects of a yellow color. Remedy, pages 161, 201, 202, 203.

KIDNEYS, INFLAMMATION OF,— Symptoms.— A. weakness in

the small of the back, and a dull, heavy pain in the kidneys.

The urine is

—

sometimes white and

passed often, and in small quantities. It is alkaline,

and has in it deposits of phosphate of lime, and triple phosphates.

milky,

—

Remedy, page 252.

LIVER, INFLAMMATION O'F. —Symptoms.-ThesQ are sympathetic

fever, with pain, and a sense of tension in the right side, inability to lie on the

left side, difficulty of

breathing, a dry cough, vomiting, and hiccough.

The pain is acute and lancinating generally, though sometimes dull and

tensive.

When sharp, it is like the stitch of pleurisy, and it indicates that the

peritoneum which covers the liver is inflamed. When dull, it is the body of

When the convex surface of the liver is the seat

the organ which is suffering.

of the disease, the pam is apt to run up to the right collar-bone, and to the top

Breathing, coughing, and lying on the left side, increase

of the right shoulder.

the pain.

A soreness is felt by pressing over the liver. The pulse is full, hard,

and strong, the bowels are costive, and the stools are clay colored, owing to not

—

The tongue is covered

this having stopped flowing.

with a yellow, dark brown, or even black coat, and there is a bitter taste in the

mouth Remedy, page 245.

being tinged with bile,

LUNGS, INFLAMMATION OF.— When the substance of the lung

itself is inflamed, the disease is

termed pneumonia; and the word pleurisy or

pleuritis is restricted to inflammation of the pleura, i. e., the membrane which

envelopes the lungs, and lines the inner surface of the ribs. Sometimes both

parts are affected, and then the term pleuro-pneumonia is used.

For all practical purposes, the inflammation of

one common name.

these various parts may be included under

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—

Symptoms. The disease comes on with coldness and shivering, and other

symptoms of beginning fever, then the heat of the body is increased, the pulse

becomes more frequent, full, and strong, and there is v^ery marked difficulty of

breathing, especially when the patient attempts to draw in a full breath.

The

pain

is

generally greater when the patient

times the contrary is the case.

lies on

the side affected, but some-

The pain is felt most commonly on one side,

and some have supposed that the left side is more frequently attacked than the

Sometimes the pain is felt at the

right, but this does not appear to be correct.

lower part of the breast, sometimes in the back, between the shoulders; the

pain is commonly fixed in one spot, but sometimes shoots from the side to the

shoulder, back, or breast, and such shooting pains are called in common language stitches. The disease is always accompanied by cough; and this cough,

every case, is attended with very considerable pain at the beginning of the

disease, it is dry, but soon becomes somewhat moist, and the matter spit up is

streaked with a little blood. 'Remedy, pages 249, 250.

m

MEASLES. — See Symptoms, pages 219, 220; Remedy, pages 220,

Malignant Measles, page 221.

221, 222.

MUMPS. — See Symptoms, page 223 Remedy, page 223.

NEURALGIA. —(Neuralgia, nervous headache sometimes called), means

;

pain in a nerve, and is generally of an excruciating, darting kind, but without

any heat or swelling in the part. Neuralgic pains affect various parts of the

body, but are most common in the head.

Remedy, pages 73, 74, 75, 76.

PAINTERS' COLIC.-See page 230.

PALSY. — PARALYSIS. — Symptoms.— Sometimes there are no pre.

monitory symptoms; but often before the attack there are flushed face, swelling

of the veins about the head and neck, vertigo, a sense of fullness, weight, and

sometimes pain in the head, ringing in the ears, drowsiness, indistinct articulation of words, or even loss of speech, confusion of mind, loss of memory, and

change of disposition, amiable persons being made sullen and peevish, and

After the attack the countenance acquires a

irritable ones mild and simpering.

vague expression; the mouth is drawn to one side; the lower lip on the palsied

The speech is altered, and the

side hangs down, and the spittle dribbles away.

—

mind is generally impaired.

In some instances the patient recovers in a longer or shorter time; in others

improvement takes place, and the patient, after remaining helpless,

often for a long time, dies either from gradual exhaustion, or suddenly from

little or no

apoplexy.

Remedy, pages 130, 239.

PILES.— Painful tumors in the neighborhood of the anus.

Sometimes

they are situated externally, and are found in clusters, hard, painful, and giving

great inconvenience by their preventing the person from sitting; at other times

they are within the gut, and are forced outwards with great pain when the

patient goes to stool.

Sometimes they are situated so far up, that they du not

appear externally at all, but indicate their presence by very great pain, or by

the discharge of blood. Sometimes the pain attending piles is less, and the

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principal inconvenience attending them is the discharge of blood, either pretty

constant, or when a person goes to stool.

of blood are lost in this way.

In some cases very large quantities

Sometimes, instead of blood, a whitish fluid is

discharged.

—

Few persons who have attained middle age are totally free from

but in some they are more troublesome, and require more attention than

in others.

Those who are frequently in a standing posture, who are subject to

costiveness, and those who are much in the habit of taking purgative mediPregnant women are

cines, especially of aloes, are very liable to have piles.

very often troubled with piles. Whatever tends to prevent the blood from circulating freely through the veins of the intestines will produce piles; hence

affections of the liver are a common cause of the complaint, especially in hot

countries where that organ is apt to be congested. Remedy, pages 141, 161,

Causes.

piles,

185, 186, 187, 188.

PLEURISY. —5^OTpto?ns.— This disease is most frequently Introduced by

sMverings, which are soon succeeded by high fever, with a peculiarly hard,

resisting pulse; sharp, stabbing ^aXxi in the side,

—generally just below the nipple,

but sometimes extending to the shoulder, arm-pit, and back; hurried and inter-

rupted breathing; and a short, dry cough

The pain is

take a long

restraint.

greatly aggravated

breath.

It

holds the

by motion, coughing, or an attempt to

patient under constant and powerful

We find him lying upon his back, or his well side; his countenance

—

fearing to move, cough, or even breathe needlessly; and often

crying out from the keen torture these necessary acts inflict in spite of all his

full of anxiety,

cautioa

At a more advanced stage, when the tenderness has somewhat abated, he

will prefer to lie on the diseased side, as this leaves the healthy lung more at

liberty.

Remedy, page 191.

POISONING ACCIDENTS.— Accidents from poisons are of such

common occurrence, that every person should know the proper remedies, and

not be obliged to wait the arrival of a physician before the proper corrective is

The symptoms are different in different poisons, but as prompt action

and not symptoms, are necessary, we give the most common remedies, with the

methods of applying them, under the proper heads. Remedy, pages 47, 62,

93, 94, 216.

applied.

QUINSY.—INFLAMMATION OP THE THROAT.— This kind

of inflammatory sore throat generally commences with cold chills, and other

symptoms. There is fullness, heat, and dryness of the throat, with a

hoarse voice, difficulty of swallowing, and shooting pains towards the ear.

When examined, the throat is found to be of a florid red color, deeper over the

febrile

tonsils, which are swollen and covered with mucus.

As the disease progresses

the tonsils become more and more swollen, the swallowing becomes more pain-

ful and difficult, until liquids return through the nose, and the viscid saliva is

discharged from the mouth.

Very commonly the fever

increases also,

and

there is acute pain of the back and limbs.

Causes.- Exposure to cold, wearing damp clothes, sitting in wet rooms,

getting wet feet, coming suddenly out of a crowded and heated

room into the

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open and cold air. It may also be brought on by violent exertion of the voice,

and by suppressed evacuations. Remedy, pages 99, 154.

RHEUMATISM. — Symptoms. —A painful affection of fibrous and mus-

cular tissues, affecting principally the larger joints, and places covered

by

muscles; thus it affects the wrists, the elbows, the knees and hip- joint, and the

back and loins.

The internal parts also, as the heart and diaphragm, are con-

sidered to be capable of being affected by rheumatism.

When the joints about

the back and loins are affected, the complaint is called lumbago;

is

in the hip joint, it is called sciatica;

when the pain

and pleurodyne, or pain in the side,

when the muscles of the chest are affected. Rheumatism may occur either

with fever or without it; in the first case it ia termed acute, and in the second

chronic rheumatism.

Not long after the application of the exciting cause, the patient feels pain

and stiffness in one or more joints when he attempts to move them; this quickly

increases, till motion becomes almost impossible, from the excessive pain

attending it.

Along with this local, and often very general j)ain, there occurs

very strong fever, much thirst,heat, and dryness of skin, strength, fullness, and

hardness of pulse. The tongue has a white coating, but is red at the tip and

the sides, and there is often profuse perspiration with a very sour smell. The

appetite is deficient, but the bowels are often in their natural condition.

The

somewhat increased towards evening; and when the

patient gets warm in bed, the pains are more severe. In a short time some of

the joints swell, and the pain is a little relieved, but by no means removed. The

pain is apt to shift from one joint to another, or at least several joints in succession are attacked; and when the pain seemed to be going off, it sometimes

feverish

symptoms

are

unexpectedly recurs.

—

Causes.

Rheumatism is a disease of the constitution, and depends on a

morbid state of the blood, or, to speak morcaccurately, it is caused by a poison

which circulates in the blood, and is probably carried from one joint to another.

The tendency to rheumatism is hereditary, and in some families this predisposition is very marked, and the disease is excited by the most trifling causes.

Cold and damp are the most common causes of this disease, and hence the poor

suffer much from it.

Thus, too, it is not an unf requent disease with sportsmen,

who, when hot au J perspiring, are too apt to throw themselves down on the wet

grass and with travellers who sleep in damp and ill-dried sheets. Persons who get

their clothes wet, and neglect to.change them, are often seized with rheumatism.

Acute rheumatism is most common between the ages of fifteen and forty. It

;

is not a dangerous disease as long as it is confined to the joints, but there is

always the risk of the heart being attacked a most dangerous complication,

;

and most to be dreaded when the disease has long existed, and when there is a

strong hereditary predisposition to it.

Remedy, pages 33, 36, 37, 38, 39,

41, 42, 141.

—

—

RICKETS. Symptoms. This disease is an affection peculiar to childhood, and supposed to depend upon the action of the causes which favor the

development of scrofula.

The signs of rickets are, a softened gristly state of

the bones, large joints, large head, prominent forehead, straightness of the ribs

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and flatness of the sides of the chest, prominent breast bone, looseness of texture in the bones, crooked legs and distorted spine;

scrofula are sometimes also present.

many other symptoms of

This, lilie scrofula, disposes the system to

other diseases; the treatment of rickets is nearly the same as that of scrofula,

(which you will find in its proper place in another part of this work,)