yet his remarks upon it

in connection with nasal Catarrh are perfectly sound.

He says:

" For nasal catarrh, eat only a piece of beefsteak (broiled is best) half as

large as your hand, one baked potato and one slice of bread for your breakfast;

a piece of roast beef as large as your hand, with one boiled potato and one

slice of bread, for dinner; take nothing for supper, and go to bed at 8':3(>

o'clock.

Sleep, if possible, half an hour before dinner.

Drink nothing with

your meals, nor within two hours after. Drink as much cold water on rising

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and going to bed as you can.

Live 4 to 6 hours daily in the open air, riding or

Bathe frequently, and every night on going to bed rub the skin all

over with a hair glove. [There are two kinds of hair gloves, the English and

American, usually kept by druggists. The English are the best, being more

durable.] In less than a week you will get along with one handkerchief daily.

To cure even bad cases you have only to make your stomach digest well

only to make yourself healthier and your nose will quickly find it out and

adapt itself to the better manners of its companions."

Remarks. Dr. Lewis claims, and the above treatment indicates, this disease to be constitutional, and, therefore, he works upon the constitution alteratively through the digestion, which, not directly but impliedly, forbids tea,

coffee and all pastry; but while he leaves the substantial, we may well allow

him to cut off, as he does, all hurtful superfluities. It has only to be tried

faithfully to satisfy the most incredulous of its value.

It will prove equally

valuable in consumption, salt-rhevun, discharges from the ears, fever-sores, etc.,

etc. as he claims them all to be constitutional rather than simply local, as has

been generally believed. Certainly this common-sense plan of eating and care

of the person will do great good in these and all chronic diseases; and it would

be wise for everybody to use much less of the superfluities and confine themselves to the simple necessaries in the line of food, if health and consequent

long life is worthy of consideration. It will not be possible for those living in

the country to always have fresh steak or roast beef, but they must confine

themselves to the substantials, and let cake, pie and puddings alone, if they

hope to get rid of long-standing disease. And I will only add here that in any

chronic, i. e., long-standing, disease, the salt-water washings (which see) should

be resorted to, with the dry rubbings, as there directed.

walking.

—

—

,

—

Catarrh Snuff. Pulverized borax, 1 oz. loaf-sugar, pulverized, J^

Mix thoroughly, and take 6 to 10 pinches daily.

2.

dr.

;

—

Remarks. It may be used in connection with any other treatment, and will

be found especially valuable in all recent cases, and has cured many chronic, or

long-standing cases, without other aids

Still it is always best to use general

treatment in connection with it. If the throat is at all sore at the same time

you take a pinch of the snuff, it will be found valuable to take another pinch

and drop it into the fauces, or back part of the throat. It helps the cure materially.

Catarrh, Ointment for.

—

Pure tar, J^ oz.; freshly made, unsalted

thought that much will be needed. Simmer

together and apply inside the nostrils from 3 to 6 times a day, as the case seems

to require.

This is claimed to be very valuable, keeping the membrane moist

3.

butter, 1 oz., or 1 oz. to 4 if

it is

as well as being curative in itself.

EPILEPSY—

Of Long Standing— German Cure for.—According to Kunze, we possess in Curare a remedy by which cases of epilepsy of

very long standing can be cured. He uses a solution of \ grs. of Curare in 1

dr. and 15 minims of water, to which 3 drops of hydrochloric acid have been

added-

At intervals of about a week he injects 8 drops of this solution sub-

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cutaneously (under the skin), and he has found that in some cases where convulsions had occurred for some years, a complete cure was effected after about

8 to 10 injections.

Deutsche Zeitsch. f. prakt. Med. 1877, No. 9.

— The Curare

is one of the newer remedies, and may not be genby druggists but as this would have to be done by a physician,

having a suitable instrument to inject with, he can obtain the remedy with-

Remarks.

erally kept

;

out trouble to the patient.

for this terrible disease.

It will

be a grand thing if we have a cure, at last,

The following, however, which came to me m the

Medical Summary, of Landsdale, Pa., for December, 1882, long after the above

was written, seems to hold out great hopes, with much less trouble, than the

foregoing.

It was first communicated to the Medical and

Surgical Reporter by

Edward Vanderpoel, M. D., who says

" "When I commenced practice, in 1833, nitrate of silver was the grand

:

remedy for this complaint. After repeated failures, however, with it, I was

told by Dr. Boyd, an octogenarian (one of 80 years, who might have seen 50 or

60 years of practice), of our city, that he had no trouble in its cure. He had

treated a man successfully who had not earned a dollar in 20 years, and who afterwards supported his family by his labor. I gladly adopted his practice, and

have been successful ever since. The remedy, oxide of zinc. Directions^

Begin J^ gr. dose, 3 times a day, for 24 doses (8 days). Then 1 gr. for 24 doses.

Then li^ grs. 3 times a day, rubbing the spine with stramonium ointment,

morning and evening, and stimulating embrocations (liniments), which I have

seen used.

Since then I have been successful; never going beyond 5 gr. doses,

except in one case of a hard drinker and opium eater who, at the time I commenced with him, had been treated for a year with bromide of potash impairing his memory badly, which was restored with the use of the zinc."

Remarks. I have great confidence in this treatment, from the age of the

originator and the length of time Dr. Vanderpool had used it, he being in practice for 50 years.

(See also " Chorea, or St. Vitus Dance," which is a species of

;

—

nervous disease, much like epilepsy.)

FAT PEOPLE— rood to Reduce Their Fleshiness.—The Medical Journal, speaking of the plan to reduce fat people, to a reasonably stout

and healthy condition, says: " If any reader is growing too fat for comfort, he

may, possibly, find the following suggestions valuable: There are three classes

of food, the oils, sweets and starches, the special office of which is to support

the animal heat and produce fat, having little or no influence in promoting

strength of muscle or endurance.

If fat people, therefore, would use less fat

and more of lean meats, fish and fowl, less of fine flour and more of the whole

products of the grains

—except the hulls—less of the sweets, particularly in

warm weather, and more of the fruit acids, in a mild form, as in the apple,

sleep less, be less indolent, and labor more in the open air, the fat would disap

In food we have

almost a perfect control of this matter, far better than we can have in the use

of drags. If we have too much fat and too little muscle, we have simply to

pear, to a certain extent at least, with no loss of real health.

use less of the fat forming elements and more of the muscle food, such as lean

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meats, fish and fowl, and the darker portions of the grains, etc., with peas and

beans."

—The above principles are facts; then,

if any person desires to be

and they will obtain their desire; indo(See also "Dropsy and

lence and self-indulgence are the mothers of fatness.

Anti-fat Medicine in One.")

Remarks.

less fat, let them be governed by them,

LIQUOR—A

Cure for the Love of it.— At a festival at a

1.

reformatory institution recently, a gentleman said, of the cure of the use of

intoxicating liquors: " I overcame the appetite by a recipe given to me by old

Dr. Hattield, one of those good old physicians who do not have a percentage

from a neighboring druggist. The prescription is simply an orange every mornTake that,' said the doctor, and you will

ing a half hour before breakfast.

neither want liquor nor medicine.' I have done so regularly, and find that

liquor has become repulsive.

The taste of the ©range is in the saliva of my

tongue, and it would be as well to mix water and oil, as rum, with my taste.

Remarks. I will add to this, keep away from where it is sold, taking.the

orange as directed, and you will be safe. If you go into saloons, no matter how

'

'

—

much you may try to avoid drinking while there, there will be pretended friends

—real enemies—who will urge you to drink, and even attempt to pull you up

and try to force it into your mouth. I speak from knowledge. 1

once had two young men I was then young myself get a cup of brandy, and

one of them behind me and the other iu front, tried to force me to drink it; but

to the bar,

—

—

I got a chance to get a foot against a

bureau and pushed back enough to get

room for a kick, and that cup and brandy went, as the saying is, "higher'n a

and then I said, " Boys, if you don't let me alone,

kite," it went to the ceiling,

But I should have had to fight, if

I will kick you, too, but drink I will not."

—

—

the boss for whom we all worked, had not stepped forward at this juncture, and

said " Boys, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

You know Chase told us

this morning that he did not drink, and, hence, went and

borrowed a rifle, and

has spent all day to get a deer for us to eat; now, let him alone." At this they

The occasion being when a saw mill, in which we worked, had been

ga-ze it up.

sold

—

this was in

1834 or '35

whiskey and a high day.

— and the giving possession had to be done with

—men or boys— do not say no

The difficulty is, people

When enticed to evil, let the no have a ring as though you

meant just what you said; then, unless the enticers are drunk, as they were in

the above case, you will generally have no trouble, especially if you do not put

in your presence at their haunts of vice.

In the above case, it was a boardinghouse for the mill, and I had nowhere else to go. I will only add, if a man

does not want to drink, he need not; if he wants to drink, nothing can save

him. He is bound to destruction. He is, like Ephraim, " joined to his idols,"

with sufficient vim.

—you may just as well — "let him alone."

2. Liquor— The Use of It Leaves a Permanent Injury. — An

American physician, who has given attention to the study of alcoholism, said in

the course of an address recently delivered before a learned society:

"There

are constantly crowding into our insane asylums persons, 50 to 80 years of age,

who in early life were addicted to the use of alcoholic liquors, but who had

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The injury

10, 20, or 30 years had never touched a drop.

which the liquor did to their bodies seemed to have all disappeared, being

triumphed over by the full vigor of their manhood; but when their natural

force began to decrease, then the concealed mischief showed itself in insanity,

clearly demonstrating that the injury to their brain was of a permanent

reformed, and for

character."

—

Remarks. Then is there not a double reason for not using it? The loss ot

time and money, and often the abuse of wife and children, or other friends,

while using it, and the probability of the loss of one's reason in old age. It is

greatly to be hoped that a word to the wise may be sufficient.

I.

LIFE LENGTHENED— Sensible Rules for.— Dr. Hall, in

his excellent Journal of Health, gives the following sensible and suggestive rules

under the above heading:

Cultivate an equable temper; many have fallen dead in a fit of passion.

I.

Eat regularly, not over thrice a day, and nothing between meals.

II.

Go to bed at regular hours. Get up as soon as you wake of yourself,

III.

— at

and do not sleep in the day-time

least,

not longer than ten minutes before

dinner.

IV.

Work in moderation, and not as though you were doing it by the job.

V.

Stop working before you are very much tired

—before you are " fagged

out."

Cultivate a generous and accommodating temper.

Never cross a bridge before you come to it this will save you half

the troubles of life. (In other words, " don't borrow trouble,")

VIII. Never eat when you are not hungry, nor drink when you are not

VI.

VII.

;

thirsty.

Let your appetite always come uninvited.

Cool off in a place greatly warmer than the one in which you have

been exercising. This simple rule would prevent incalculable sickness and save

IX.

X.

thousands of lives every year.

Never resist a call of nature, for a single moment.

Never allow yourself to be chilled through and through; it is this

which destroys so many every year, in a few days' sickness, from pneumonia

called by some, lung fever or inflammation of the lungs.

XIII. Whoever drinks no liquids at meals will add years of pleasurable

existence to his life.

Of cold or warm drinks, the cold ones are the most per

nicious.

Drinking at meals induces persons to eat more than they otherwise

would, as any one can verify by experiment; and it is excess in eating which

devastates the land with sickness, suffering and death.

XrV. After fifty years of age, if not a day laborer, and sedentary persons

at forty, should eat but twice a day

in the morning, and about four in the

XI.

XII.

—

—

afternoon; for every organ without adequate rest will " give out " prematurely.

XV.

Begin early to live under the benign influence of Christian religion,

now is and of that which is to come."

Remarks. These rules need no extended commendation they are certainly

for it "has the promise of the life that

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2. How Long Have "We to Live, as Shown by the Life Assurance Tables. — The following is one of the authenticated tables, in use among

insurance companies, showing the average length of life at the various ages.

In

the first column, we have persons of average health, and in the second

column

we are enabled to peep, as it were, behind the scenes, and gather from their

This table is the result of

table the number of years they will give us to live.

Of course, sudden and

careful calculation, and seldom proves misleading.

—

—

premature deaths from accidents, unusual severity of disease, etc. as well as

lives unusually extended, occasionally occur; but this is the average expectancy

of life, of an ordinary man, who lives prudently and avoids all undue exposures,

etc.

In the earlier years of

life,

the female, from less exposure, has from 1 to

2 years more of life in expectation than the male; but as life advances, this overaverage comes down gradually to nearly the same but still there is a trifle, or

;

small part of a year, always in favor of the woman.

that the average life of all born into the world

and for females, 41y*^ years.

is,

I will say, at the start,

for males, about 39^^]^ years,

I shall only give the figures for

every 10 years,

up to 20 and after 60, for, so far as business is concerned, before 20 and after 60,

It will

not be of much account, yet interesting as a matter of curiosity.

table is given in years and hundredths of a year, by Dr.

Age.

William Farr,

The

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my tongue. If it was not perfectly clean and moist I should not consider

myself perfectly healthy, nor perfectly sane, and would postpone my proceedWhat does a

ings in the hope that my worldly prospects would get brighter.

The tongue symphysician discover by looking at the tongue? Many things.

pathizes with every trifling ailment of body or mind, and more especially with

ar

That thin, whitish layer (fur) all over the surface,

(t. e., the fur in patches) shows that the

stomach is very much out of order indeed. A yellow tongue points to biliousthe state of the stomach.

indicates indigestion.

ness.

A patchy tongue

A creamy, shivering, thick, indented tongue, tells of previous excesses;

and I do not like my friends to wear such tongues, for I sincerely believe that

real comfort can not be secured in this world bj^ any one who does not keep his

feet warm, his head cool, and his tongue clean."

Remarks. That we may know what further the tongue may teach us we

will give the "Synopsis of a Paper read before the Eclectic Medical Association of Ohio, by Prof. John M. Scudder, of the Eclectic Medical Institute of

Cincinnati," and published by him in the Eclectic Medical Journal, of which he

The paper was prepared to explain, and does

is the editor and proprietor.

fairly explain, the leading point, or basis upon which " Specific Medication" is

established or founded, and that is, the indication for treatment as shown by

the condition of the tongue, or " What the Tongue Tells Us," as shown in our

And although it is quite lengthy, yet as it contains so

first heading above.

—

much valuable information for those who may desire to take care of themselves

and their families, I think it best to give the full synopsis as he

gave it in the Journal, Vol. XXXI., pages 425-8, under the head of

"Specific Medication," but as it relates largely to what the tongue teaches or

shows us, I will head it accordingly.

The Tongue, the Condition of the System Shown by it,

2.

and the Remedy their Conditions Call for.— After the prehminary

business of the association was completed, he addressed them as follows:

—

Gentlemen: At the last meeting of the State Society I was requested to

prepare a paper on Specific Medication, which should serve as a basis for a discussion in this new departure (as it has been called) in medicine.

I do not propose, in doing this, to occupy much of your time in details, but

rather to present the principles upon which specific or direct medication rests.

It will be well for us, first, to think for a moment (if it is possible for us to

realize it) what an un-specific or indirect medication is.

It means that we never

oppose remedies directly to processes of disease, but, on the contrary, influence

diseased action in a roundabout, indirect, and uncertain manner.

As examples We violently excite the intestinal canal with cathartics to

Or it

arrest disease of the brain, the lungs, the kidneys, or other distant parts.

is possible that we confine our ministration first to the gastric sac (stomach),

then follow with potent cathartics.

In order, we excite the skin and the kidneys

in the same manner.

This not sufficing, we counter-irritate with rubefacients,

blisters, etc., and so far as possible keep up an influence counter to the disease,

by unpleasant, nauseating and irritant medicines.

Whatever may be said in favor of such a practice, and how fine-so-ever the

theories in reference to it may be spun, it is based upon the idea that two diseases can not exist in the body at the same time, and if the medicines are sufficiently potent their action will surely be the strongest^ and the disease will stop

—leaving the patient to recover slowly from the influence of the medicines.

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Did you ever know the patient to stop instead of the disease?

T have, many

a time, and have in this way, myself, been a wonderful dispensation of ProviIn the olden time men would not believe that the doctors aided large

numbers of people out of the world. Oh no! The doctors, God bless them,

pulled the sick through they would all have died if it had not been for the

dence.

;

faculty.

It is wonderful

things.

how statistics take the conceit out of some people and some

When we find hundreds of cases of severe diseases tabulated— such as

—

typhoid fever and pneumonia with a mortality of but one to three per cent.,

with only good nursing and food, no medicine; and active, potent medication

gives a mortality of five to fifty per cent.

Do Eclectic physicians kill people too? This brings the matter home, and

one doesn't like to confess his own sins, as a rule. But in this matter I am like

Artemus Ward in the last war— I am willing to shed the blood of all my relanot so many as the old

tions and I answer in the affirmative they do kill

practice, it is true, but yet enough to cause us to look at home and rid ourselves

of the evil.

Now, I am glad to know that you, and Eclectics as a rule, have a very

much better practice than theory. Whilst they occasionally wander off after

these phantasms, it is the exception and not the rule.

—

—

—

As a body of physicians, we recognize the fact that disease in all its forms

And we recognize the necessity of conserving this

is an impairment of life.

and of employing such means as will increase it, and enable it to resist and

throw off disease, and restore normal structure and function.

life,

We

recognize the importance of the functions of circulation, innervation

(health)' action of the nerves giving strength), excretion, etc., and the necessity

of obtaining as nearly a normal (healthy) performance of them as possible.

And all experience shows that just in proportion as we get this normal perform-

ance disease is arrested.

From its inception (commencement) Eclecticism has been, to a very considerThe earliest writings point us to Dioscorea

able extent, Specific Medication.

(wild yam or colic-root) as a remedy for bilious colic, Hydrastis (golden seal)

for enfeebled mucous membranes, Aralia (dwarf elder) and Apocynum (Indian

hemp) for dropsy, Baptisia (wild indigo) for putrid sore throat, and similar conditions of mucous membranes, Hamamelis (witch-hazel) for hemorrhoids,

Macrotys (black cohosh) for rheumatism, etc.

In our Materia Medicas remedies were classed as emetics, cathartics, diaphoretics, tonics, alteratives, etc. but in reading the description of medical properties, some special use or curative action would be pointed out, and for this it

would be commonly used.

In all acute, and most chronic diseases, our examination of the patient and

our therapeutics will take this order: 1. With reference to the condition of the

stomach and intestinal canal bringing them to as nearly a normal condition

as possible, that remedies may be kindly received and appropriated, and that

sufficient food may be taken and digested.

2. With reference to the circulation

of the blood and the temperature obtaining a normal circulation as regards

frequency and freedom, and a temperature as near 98° as possible. 3. With

reference to the presence of a zymotic poison, or other cause of disease, which

may be neutralized, antagonized or removed. 4. With reference to the condition of the nervous system giving good innervation.

5. With reference to the

processes of waste and excretion that the worn-out or enfeebled material may

be broken down and speedily removed from the body. 6. With reference to

blood-making and repair that proper material be furnished for the building of

tissues, and that the processes of nutrition are normally conducted.

may illustrate this further by calling attention to the tongue as a means

of diagnosing (determining) the conditions of the stomach and intestinal canal,

and of the blood.

,

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—

We

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Tbu will bear in mind that diagnosis or determining the real condition of

And that it is not

disease is the most important part of specific medication.

that rough diagnosis which will enable us to guess oif a name for the associated

symptoms, at which name we will fire our Materia Medica promiscuously.

Hence when we question the tongue, it is not with reference to a remittent or

typhoid fever, an inflammation of lungs or rheumatism, but it is I want you

to tell me the condition of the stomach and intestinal canal, and especially the

condition of the blood.

let us briefly see what it will tell us, with regard to the conditiou of

the primcB vim (first passages stomach, intestines, and kidneys).

If the tongue is heavily coated with a yellowish white fur, we know that

there are morbid accumulations in the stomach; and we have to determine between the speedy removal by emesis (vomiting), and the slower removal by the

alkaline sulphites (sulphite of soda is generally used), or the indirect removal

by catharsis (cathartics).

If the tongue is uniformly coated, from base to tip, with a yellowish fur,

rather full and moist, we have the history of atony (weakness) of the small intestine, and we give podophylin, leptandrin, and this class of remedies, with considerable certainty.

If the tongue is elongated and pointed, reddened at the tip and edges,

papillae elongated and red, we have evidence of irritation of the stomach with

determination of blood. The therapeutics (application of the proper medicine)

is plain: get rid of the irritation ^/'si, and be careful not to renew it by the application of harsh medication.

Again, we have a tongue that might be designated as "slick." It is variously colored, but it looks as if a fly should light upon it he would slip up.

It is an evidence of a want of functional power, (general weakness), not only

in the stomach and bowels, but of all parts supplied by sympathetic nerves.

treat such a case very carefully, avoid all irritants, and use means to restore

innervation (strength) through the vegetative system of nerves.

The tongue tells us of the acidity and alkalinity of the blood, and in language so plain, that it can not be mistaken.

The pallid tongue (pale, or without color), with white fur, is the index of

usually a salt of soda with a certainty that

acidity, and we employ an alkali

Indeed, one who has never had his attention

the patient will be benefited.

directed in this way, would be surprised at the improvement, in grave forms of

disease, from one day's administration of simple bi-carbonate of soda.

The deep-red tongue indicates alkalinity, and we prescribe an acid with the

positive asssurance that it will prove beneficial.

Grave cases of typhoid fever

—

Now

—

We

—

—

and other zymotic (epidemic or contagious) diseases, presenting this symptom,

have been treated with acids alone, and with a success not obtained by other

means. But it makes no difference what the disease is, whether a recent diarrhea, or a grave typhoid dysentery, if there is the deep-red tongue, we give

muriatic acid with the same assurance of success.

Impairment of the blood sepsis (blood-poisoning) is indicated by dirty

coating, and by dark-colored fur brownish to black.

"When we have either

the one or the other we employ those remedies which antagonize the septic

—

—

—

(poisoning) process.

The bitter tonics are indicated by fullness of tissue, with evident relaxation,

impairment of circulation and muscular movement. The same condition will

be an indication of iron.

give tincture of chloride of iron, if the tongue is

red, iron by hydrogen if the tongue is pale.

The pale, trembling tongue, is a very good indication for the hypophosphites.

The pale blueish tongue, expressionless, is the indication for the administration of copper.

The dusky, swollen tongue demands baptisia (wild indigo).

You will notice that we have made this unruly member tell us a good deal.

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— will

us more when we thoroughly study it.

it, but to show that it

is possible to arrive at positive conclusions, from symptoms tliat are always

definite in their meaning.

In making our diagnosis, we question every function in the same way.

make the pulse tell us the condition of the circulation, and to some extent the

nervous system that it supplies. We question the nervous system, the secretory

organs in fact every part.

One might suppose that diagnosis in this way would be a matter of ^reat

difficulty, as would the therapeutics based upon it, from the large number of

remedies needed to meet these varying conditions of the several functions. But

On the contrary, the method is not only direct and certain, but

this is not so.

Vet it might tell us

more

it

tell

My object, is not to point out all that we might learn from

We

—

it is

easy.

We have but one life, though its manifestations are so varied.

trol of this life is centered in a

through this the various parts and functions are united.

tion of

tills life

—

life iu

The con-

common nervous system — the ganglionic, and

a wrong direction.

Disease is an aberra-

Though it manifests itself in vari-

ous ways, and though we study in detail, as I liave named, it is to grasp it at

and oppose to it one or more remedies.

In some cases we liave a first preparatory treatment, to fit the patient for

the reception of remedies which directly oppose disease.

As when we gave an

emetic to remove morbid accumulations, or means to relieve irritation of the

give

acid

alkali,

vise

veratrum

and

aconite to reduce

an

or an

or

stomach, or

frequency of pulse and temperature, to obtain the kindly action of quinine in

last, as a unit,

intermittent or remittent fever.

In other cases there are certain prominent symptoms indicating pathologiAs,

cal conditions which may be taken as the key notes of the treatment.

when we have the full, open pulse, indicating veratrum; the hypochondriac

fullness, umbilical pains, and sallowness of skin, indicating nux vomica; the

bright eye, contracted pupil, and flushed face, calling for gelsemium or the

dull eye, immobile pupil, tendency to drow.siness, which calls for belladonna.

In some cases the indication for a special remedy, like one of these, is so

marked, that we give it alone, and it quickly cures most severe and obstinate

;

diseases.

I would like to continue this subject further, for it is one in which I am

greatly interested, and I know it is one in which you are interested, but the

shortness of our session will not permit further remarks.

But when we come

together another year, with another year's experience, we may discuss it again.

—

Tlemarks.

If the foregoing is studied well, "it will pay," by helping to

understand the diseased conditions to which all are liable, as shown by the

tongue; and, besides this, there are quite a number of things explained, which,

if studied and heeded, will also prove of great value to those who are sick, or

who have the care of the sick.

LEMONS—Their Value in Sickness and in Health.— One of

the journals, speaking of the use of lemons, says:

sickness or in health, lemonade is a safe drink.

"For all people, either in

It corrects bilousness.

specific (positive cure) against worms and skin complaints.

best antiscorbutic remedy known.

Sailors make a daily use of

it

It is a

Lemon juice is the

It not only cures the disease but prevents it.

for this purpose.

A physician suggests rubbing

of the gums daily with lemon juice, to keep

them in health. The hands and

the nails are also kept clean, white and soft by the daily use of lemon instead

of soap.

It also

prevents chilblains.

Lemon used in intcriuittcnt fever is

Neuralgia may be

mixed with strong, hot, black tea, or coffee, without sugar.

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cured by rubbing the part affected with a lemon. It is valuable, also, to euro

"warts and destroy dandruff on the head, by rubbing the roots of the hair with

it.

In fact, its uses are manifold, and the more we use of them the better we

shall find ourselves."

Remarks.

— See also their value for freckles, and the use of hot lemonade

to cure colds, and also lemon juice a cure for small-pox, etc.

Food as Medicine. — Dr. Hall relates the case of a man who was cured

of his biliousness by going without his supper, and drinking freely of lemonade.

Every morning, says the doctor, this patient arose with a wonderful sense of

rest and refreshment, and a feeling as though the blood had been literally

washed, cleansed and cooled by the lemonade and the fast. His theory is, that

food will be used as a remedy, for many diseases, successfully. For example he

cures cases of spitting blood by the use of salt epilepsy and yellow fever, by

water-melons; kidney affections, by celery (water-melons are very valuable also

for the kidneys); poison, olive or sweet oil; erysipelas, pounded cranberries

So the way to keep in

applied to the parts affected; hydrophobia, onions, etc.

not to know what medicines to take.

good health is really to kiwio what to eat

Remarks. These are all good for what he recommends them; then use

them freely, in their season.

;

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—

1. ERYSIPELAS— New and Successful Remedy.— Dr. T. B.

King of this city (Toledo, O.), an old physician, of the "Old School, "-Allopathic tells me he has cured erysipelas upon a woman's leg (by the way do

—

women have "legs" — I believe not so understood, but "limbs"), after ulcerit must be amputated.

But by

simply dusting upon it, freely, the per sulphate of iron (Monsel's salt), cleaning

off twice daily, with warm suds, and re-applying, without other treatment,

effectually cured her.

Remarks. This salt, or preparation of iron, is a great favorite with Dr.

King. He applies it, through a speculum (from the Latin specere, to look), to

ated and swollen so bad that other doctors said

—

ulcers at the mouth of the

womb, or upper part of the vagina, he says, with

equal success. I have also used it, with success, in several of these ulcerations,

so I have confidence in it, in erysipelas also. To avoid staining the clothing, in

these cases, wear a suitable bandage to absorb any escaping fluid, as the iron in

this leaves an iron-rust appearance upon the clothing.

2.

Erysipelss of the Pace (Facial Erysipelas).— Dr. J. B. John-

son communicated the following to the Medical and Surgical Reporter, which

he has always found to arrest the disease at once and allay the heat and burning

promptly. He says: " As the tongue is always more or less coated, I usually

introduce my treatment by a dose of pills composed of blue mass, 10 grs.

;

calo-

mix and make into 3 pills; to be taken at one dose; and to be followed in 3 hours by a dose of sulphate of magnesia (epsom salts, dose, ordinarily, a heaping table-spoonful); and without waiting for the action of the pills

and salts, I immediately commence with iodide of potassium, 1 dr. tinct. of

mel, 5 grs.;

;

hyoscyamus, 2 drs.; tinct. aconite leaves (tincture of aconite root is seldom

given internally), 13 drops; distilled water (clear soft water will do) 8 ozs. mix.

table-spoonful every hour, day and night, when awake; and I have

Dose

:

—A

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the face bathed every 2 or 3 hours, and constantly covered with a linen cloti^

saturated (all it will hold) with the following solution:

" Hyposulphite of soda, 1 oz.

carbolic acid No. 1, 1 oz. : distilled water

Mix.

" This allays, most promptly, the burning and itching of the skin and face,

and is in no wise disagreeable.

" This treatment, I have always found, to arrest the erysipelas almost at

once, and my patient to be about his room in 4 or 5 days.

My cases have not

only escaped complications of congestion and inflammation of the brain, but of

the throat also, and without the use of either iron, quinine or wine; 5 gr. doses

of iodide potassium (as above) every hour, has never disappointed me in their

action; and long experience has enabled me to declare, in my opinion, the

internal use of iodide of potassium, to be a specific (positive cure) for facial

;

(soft water will do), 8 ozs.

erysipelas."

Remarks.

—This will please

all

who prefer calomel to the other treatment,

and the author has confidence in this plan of treatment, as he is not afraid of a

small dose of calomel, nor blue mass, if worked off directly as was done in

this case.

Facial Erysipelas, The Author's Treatment

3.

been

recently

called

to

a

case

of

this

kind,

I

will

of.

give

— Having

my

treat-

ment of it, as it may help others. It was a young lady of about 18 years of

age, in which there was an hereditary tendency to this disease, her grandmother

having died of it. I found the left side of the face swollen and inflamed, and

I had it painted,

just below the eye the flesh was quite hard and very tender.

or wet, at once, with muriated tincture of iron, full strength, and covered with

a soft cloth, to protect it from the air. This was in the forenoon, and in the evening I instructed the same application, and then a poultice of stewed cranberries to

be applied, always wetting with the tincture before applying the poultice.

I gave her a seidlitz powder at once, to open the bowels, the next morning to

be followed with a rounding table-spoonful of epsom salts, and after that, every

other day a seidlitz powder and salts, alternately. I gave her 5 drop doses of

the tincture of the iron 3 times a day from the first, by dropping it into a spoon

and adding water, and telling her to put the spoon past the teeth, so the iron

should not stain them, which it does without this precaution. After the first

24 hours, as the inflammation began to go down and the hardened spot below

the eye to become more soft and natural, I weakened the tincture to be applied

with one-third water, keeping up the cranberry poultice nights, until the inflammation was cured, reducing the strength of the tincture for application as the

case improved, until it was only one-third tincture and two-thirds water; and

thus, in one week, she was again able to resume lier labors in a candy manufactory where she was engaged, no ulceration or open sore having occured; the

scarf-skin only peeled off from the effect of the iron, poulticing, etc.

Let each

one, then, afflicted with this disease, suit himself as to which plan he will

adopt, as circumstances seem to demand.

1.

DIABETES— Valuable Diet for, and Diet to be Avoided.

—Experience has shown that the only way

the ordinary to the following plan of diet:

to cure diabetes is to

change from

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Food and Dnnhs which may be

Ihe patient to beef and bread

parts of the

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The quickest way is to confine

Used.

made of gluten flour, which has all the starchy

wheat removed from it in its manufacture; but mutton, tripe,

tongue, ham, bacon, sausage, poultry, game, oysters, clams and eggs

may be

occasionally used for variety's sake (but liver never); so also salads, made with

cabbage or lettuce; cucumbers, water-cress, cauliflower, spinach and stringbeans in their season; so also peaches and strawberries with cream, but never

with sugar; in fact, all tart fruit may be used, especially nice sour apples,

peeled, quartered and cored, dipped in beaten eggs and rolled in fine or powdered crumbs of the gluten bread, then fried in very hot fat and drained while

hot, make the best substitute there is for potatoes, which you will see below,

must not be eaten. Milk in moderate quantities, cream, nice butter, buttermilk, and all freshly made cheese and Neuchatel (Swiss) cheese may be eaten.

Nuts in moderation may be allowed, and eggs freely, cooked to suit the patient.

Coffee or cocoa, in moderation, with cream, but never with sugar.

If tea must

be used, let it be weak, and only taken in small quantities. Sour wines, as

claret. Burgundy, Rhine, etc., for those who will use them, may be taken in

moderation at dinner time.