circumscribed. Watery

swellings of the whole body are seen in general dropsy; and the same disease

in its commencement occasions partial swellings, as of the lower extremities,

or of the arms or face, according to the position of the body. Circumscribed

swellings occur in various glands, as those of the neck, arm pit, or groins,

chiefly in scrofulous constitutions; or they may arise from inflammation, the

consequence of cold. The tonsils swell in sore throat, and occasion a fullness

of the external parts of the throat; gum-boils form during toothache, and

swell the cheeks; and the bronchocele, or goitre, is an instance of a still more

permanent swelling. The face, head, and limbs often swell exceedingly from

various causes.

Wen

is the common popular name for an excrescence or tumor growing

on any part of the body, and frequently applied to tumors about the throat and

neck.

Tumors are distinguished by surgeons according to the nature of their

contents;

and they require treatment varied according to circumstances.

Remedy, pages 33, 96, 140, 210, 270, 296.

TYPHOID, OR TYPHUS.— /%mp<<?TOs.—The disease often has cautionary symptoms.

droops.

For several days before its actual beginning, the patient

He may attend to his various duties, but does not seem well; he is

low-spirited and languid ; Is indisposed to

any exertion of body or mind has

,

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pains in the head, back and extremities; loses his appetite; and although dull

and perhaps drowsy in the day time, his sleep is interrupted and unrefreshing

The immediate harbinger of the fever is a chill often so marked as to

at night.

cause violent shivering.

The history of the first week shows increased heat of the surface; frequent

pulse, ranging

from eighty to one hundred and twenty; furred tongue; rest-

lessness and sleeplessness; headache and pain in the back; sometimes diarrhoea

and swelling of the belly; and sometimes nausea and vomiting.

The second week is frequently distinguished by an eruption of small, rosecolored spots upon the belly, and by a crop of little watery pimples upon the

neck and chest, having an appearance of minute drops of sweat standing on the

skin, and hence called sudamina, or sweat drops; the tongue is dry and black,

or red and sore; the teeth are foul; there may be delirium and dullness of hearing; and the symptoms generally are more serious than during the first week.

Occasionally, at this period, the bowels are perforated or ate through by ulceration, and the patient

suddenly sinks.

If the disease proceeds unfavorably into the third week, there is

low mut-

tering and delirium; great exhaustion; sliding down of the patient towards the

foot of the bed; twitching of the muscles; bleeding from the bowels;

and red

or purple spots upon the skin.

If, on the other hand, recovery takes place, the countenance brightens; the

pulse moderates; the tongue cleans, and the discharges assume the appearance

they have in health.

Remedy, pages 61, 62, 63,64, 65, 66, 67, 193.

TYPHOID PNEUMONIA, OR TYPHOID LUNG- FEVER.

—This

is an inflammation of

the lungs, differing from the preceding only in the

character of the fever attending it, which is of a low typhoid character.

The

typhoid fever, is characterized by great debility and prostration.

There are a combination of the symptoms of pneumonia and of typhoid fever.

The disease begins with great weariness, lassitude, dizziness, pain in the head^

disease, like

back, and

limbs.

Soon there

is

much difficulty of

breathing,

tightness

across the chest, with a dry, short, liacking cough.

As the disease advances, the active symptoms pass away; there is a dull

pain across the chest; drowsiness is very apt to come on, with the various

symptoms of sinking peculiar to typhoid fever. The skin is harsh and dry,

the temperature uneven, the tip and edge of the tongue red, and the middle

covered with a yellow or browu fur. The bowels are tender, swollen, and

drum-head-like; while there is often a diarrhoea,

yellow color.

—

^the discharges havinga dirty-

Remedy, page 193.

ULCER — FEVER SORE.—When the nutrition entirely ceases in any

I)ortion of the body, the absorbents devour all the skin, flesh and vessels of the

part— leaving an open cavity, the process of taking away the flesh, &c., is

idceration; the cavity left is an ulcer.

Remedy, pages 99, 101, 236, 237,

238.

VARICOSE, ENLARGED OR KNOTTED VEINS.— In differ

ent parts, especially of the lower extremities, tliere are sometimes seen a num-

ber of unequal knotty swellmgs, of a deep blue color, occasioned by portions

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The cause of these swellings is the obstruction to

the free passage of the blood through the veins; hence tumors in the groin may

cause varicose veins of the legs; and the appearance of such veins is frequent

in pregnant women, from the enlarged uterus and its contents pressing on the

Sometimes the complaint

large trunks of the veins.

debility, and from a sedentary life.

siderable pain; and the veins

arises

from general

When the distention is great, there is con-

may be eroded, and cause a great discharge of

blood; or troublesome and obstinate ulcers may be produced.

The pain and

inconvenience of varicose veins are not great at first, and hence they are too

often neglected till they become very difiicult to cure.

The varicose veins of pregnant women go off when they are delivered,

and require very little treatment, except attention to posture. In other cases a

moderate pressure by bandages is requisite. An elastic stocking makes a good

and equal pressure. Remedy, pages 235, 279.

WATER-BRASH. —Symptoms. —This disease signifies the discharge of

a thin watery fluid from the stomach, with belchings, and a sense of heat at the

region of the stomach.

It is not unfrequently one of the symptoms attending

indigestion or stomach complaints, but it sometimes occurs as an original disease.

The patient perIt comes on in paroxysms, usually when the stomach is empty.

ceives a pain at the pit of the stomach, with a sense of tightness, and is increased

by the erect posture. When the pain has continued for some time, it is succeeded

by belchings, and the discharge of a thin watery fluid, sometimes acid, but generally tasteless. The belchings are repeated for a time, and then the fit goes off.

When the disease has once happened, it is apt to recur frequently for a long

time afterwards.

It is most incident to persons of middle age; and to females,

sometimes during pregnancy, sometimes when they are afflicted with the

whites.

It is not always connected with any particular diet; but is excited

often by cold applied to the feet, and by emotions of the mind.

Remedy,

page 229.

WHOOPING, OR HOOPING

K

COTJQc'H..—Symptoms.— catching

or contagious disease, generally caught in childhood, between the ages of one

and two years; has three stages: first stage, sneezing, cough and mild bronchitis, eyes slightly red, no spittle; this stage may last from three days to six

weeks. The second stage then sets in, child feels a tickling in throat, which

brings on a spasm of coughing, with tight feeling across the chest; child will

put its head on its mother's knees or take hold of some fixed thing to help it

during the coughing; pulse and breathing during the spasm are slightly faster;

the sound during the spasm of coughing is called the "hoop" or "whoop."

The face becomes flushed during this period; as soon as the coughing is over

the child's face, pulse and breathing become natural again; the child will spit

out a little frothy mucus; anger, fright, or exertion will bring on the cough.

This stage lasts until the thirty-fifth day of the disease, when the third stage

sets in.

Spittle turns yellow and is thicker, cough becomes less and is neither

so frequent nor severe. Rem:edy, pages 125, 126.

WORMS. —

—

Symptoms. When a child is afliicted with round worms, the

face will become flushed and then pale, at irregular intervals; color leaden or

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bluish, lower eyelids swollen, and blue circle around them; thirst, sick stomach,

vomiting, appetite variable, breath foul, tongue red and covered with points,

pulse fast and irregular, may have spasms, twitching of muscles, disturbed

sleep, nightmare, headache, eyes dilated, cross eye,

sleep, generally diarrhoea.

colic,

grinding teeth in

The symptoms of thread worm are not so pro-

nounced; there is less fever, colic and