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The People's Pocket Companion.
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CHARLES SAMUEL4iAVIS, M. D.






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Copyrighted in conformity with the laws oj
           the United States
     By Charles S.  Dayis, M. D.,
           October 19, 1886. 
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The object in presenting the Independ- Page
  ent System,     ....       1
The selection of the Remedies,   -    -    2
The treatment of disease not mysterious,   3
The effect that Fo6d and Medicine has
  upon the system,'                      3
The defense of the Independent System,   4
Purging and Vomiting natural efforts,     5
Alcohol not  a stimulent,    -    -   -    9
Acute Inflammatory Diseases, the causes
  and  symptoms; Inflammation of the
  Brain,......9
Inflammation of the Ears and Eyes,   -  10
Nasal Catarrh,    -    -    -    -   -   11
Inflammation of the Mouth, -    -    -12
Laryngitis, Croup and Quinsy,    -    -  13
Bronch tis, Pharyngitis and Putrid Sore
  Throat,......14
Diphtheria.  Pneumonia and Pleurisy,    15
Inflammation of Ilea; t and Stomach,     16
      "        Liver and Spleen,     -  17
      "        Intestines. Kidneys and
                 Dysentery.     -    -  18
      "        Abdomen,  Womb,  and
                 Bladder.    -    -    19
El i qmatism and Erysipelas      -    -  20
Fever, causes and symptoms,  -     -     21
      Piemittent, Intermittent,Continued 22 
 VI            TABLE OF CONTENTS.

 Fever, Typhoid,Typhus,Yellow, Conges-
         tive and Pernicious,    -     -  23
  "   Spotted, Hectic, Scarlet, Puerper-
         ial, and Epilepsy,    -     -    24
 Catalepsy and Apoplexy,                25
 Hysterics,     ------  26
 Symptoms and Causes of Chronic Dis-
  eases of the Stomach,  Liver, Spleen,
  Sweat Glands and Bowels,  -    -    -  27
 Bright's Disease,     ....    yn
 Diabetes and Suppression of Urine,    -  29
 Retention,Incontiuuence orUrine,Gravel  30
 Symptoms and causes of Constitutional
  Diseases.    -                        31
 Of Consumption.                        31
 Kings Evil and Cancer,   ...      32
 White Swelling, Rickets, Carbuncles and
  Goiter.......33
 Enlargement of the Heart,Black Cataract  34
 Symptoms and causes of skin diseases,    35
      "        "    surgical    "      38   '
 Gangreen,  Caries, Sprains, Felons, and
  Ganglion,    -     -     -     .     -  38  /
 Ulcers, Piles, Falling nf the Bowels, and
  Tumors,    ------  39
Stricture of Rectum and Uretha,      -    40
 Hemorages from the Vose, Lungs, Stom-
  ach, Bladder and Kidneys,    -     -    41
From the Ureters,                     -  42
External signs of Disease in Infants,      42 
           TABLE OF CONTENTS.          VII

Symptoms of Consumption. Etc., by dif-
  ferent authors,      -    -    -    -   "44
The Pulse in Health,     -    -     -      47
     "       Disease,                    48
Bathing,......49
The Power of the Mind,                 50
The Remedies,      ...    -     52
Explanation of the Treatment of Disease,  £5
Treatment of Acute Inflammatory  "     59
Directions in Cronic Diseases,     -    -  64
The Condition of the Feces and  Urine
  in Health,       .....65
Precautions in Rheumatism and Catarrh  66
Treatment of Suppression of Urine,    -  67
Retention and Incontinuence of Urine,
  Gravel and Hydrophobia,  -    -    -  68
Necessary Precautions in the Treatment
  of Disease,    -----    71
The Convalescent Treatment,      -    -  72
The Description of Fever,      -    -    75
A Description of Rheumatism,     -    -  76
Beer Drinking      -                   77
Price List of Remedies,      -    -    -  79
Explanation of  Doctors' Phrases,    -    80 
 
    THE  INDEPENDENT

 GUIDE  to  HEALTH.


A  irtef History of eb©8s©8„ their
      Ga«s©s5 Symptoms trad
            Treatment.
  My object in presenting to you the Inde-
pendent System  is to  inform you how to
protect yourself against the attacks of disease
when you are well;  how to cure when dis-
eased; how 10 prevent  a relapse when  the
symptoms are removed;  and how to continue
health from time to time;  for until the peo-
ple learn the cause, symptoms and treatment
of disease, there will be no improvement in
health. Hence it is necessary to place the
Independent System in the hands of the peo-
ple so that they may learn how to take care
of themselves.
  I have herein noted the cause, symptoms, 
2          HISTORY OF DISEASES.
and treatment of disease within as few pages
as  possible that the Independent Guide to
Health  can be read and  studied by every
person.
  During the past twenty-eight years I have
studied the causes, symptoms, and treatment
of diseases  and have succeeded in completing
the new system and selecting the remedies
that remove the unnatural heat in  fever in
from twelve to thirty*six hours; the unnatu-
ral  heat in inflammatory diseases in from one
to  three days;  the cause  of suffocation in
croupe in a few hours; inflammation  in all
throat diseases  in  a short time and chronic
diseases in  from thirty to ninety dajs
  When we read the earliest writings and of
the great medical school in Egypt three hun-
dred years before  Christ,  and follow  the
scientific professors down  to  the  present
time, we are utterly surprised that they have
not discovered that the  unnatural heat in
fever and inflammatory diseases can be passed
from the system as above stated.
  In m\ selection of remedies  I have avoided
the deadly poisons now  used in the treat-
ment of diseases, which always remain in the
system  unless  passed  therefrom with  the
proper reme.lies.   Being entirely free from
prejudice I have decided that poisons should
not be administered to man, no,  not even to
beast unless intended to destroy.  The  In- 
HISTORY OF DISEASES.
3
  dependent Remedies cure not because they
  are strong medicines or violent poisons but
  because they restore the system and cleanse
* the blood.  The Independent Remedies will
  restore  and  remove disease,  regulate the
  course of nature, strengthen and  purify the
  system and restore the natural complexion to
  the palest countenance.
    The treatment of disease is  not so myste-
  rious  as you  may suppose, when properly
  explained.   Any  ordinary  person may ad-
  minister with perfect safety in a large major-
  ity of cases, and  those who will  study this
  little volume will be more secure in their own
  care than in the care of any other person,  if
  they will adhere to the treatment.
    Food has a medicinal effect upon the sys-
  tem.  Some kinds act as gentle stimulants,
  some  operate as laxatives, some produce cos-
  tiveness, while others  act as diuretics, etc.
  Medicine should act the same as food with
  increased power to restore health and remove
  disease, for we can do nothing more than to
  assist  nature  by  restoring and  removing,
  hence the system  should be relaxed so that
 • disease will be more readily passed therefrom.
  then  restore the excretory organs,  then,  if
  necessary,  cleanse the blood.    Stimulants
  increase the activity of the excretory organs
  of the system, the stomach, liver, bowels and
  sweat  glands,   the kidneys, etc.  General 
 4           HISTORY OF DISEASES.

stimulents stimulate the whole system; local
stimulents stimulate one or more organs.
  In defense of the Independent S3rstem and
Treatment of Disease I will  first inform you
that the blood of the human  body is continu-
ally wasting or decaying.  That we are con-
tinually inhaling the impurities or poisons
of the air,  that  we frequently poison  the
stomach  by eating  unwholesome  food  or
drinking impure water;  that we  may also
injure the internal organs  by  spraining or
bruising the parts,  and that we frequently
cause disease by excessive labor of body or
mind. Second,  I will inform you that when
the excretory organs of  the  body are acting
harmoniously together  the  impurities and
poisons are  removed from the system as na-
ture requires, and that we can assist nature
by arousing the excretory organs to a healthy
condition and by clensing the blood.
  In the  treatment of disease, I will first in-
form  you, that when one or more of the ex-
cretory organs becomes weak or diseased the
impurities or poisons are retained in the sys-
tem  or  thrown  upon the remaining organs
to be  carried off, and by a powerful effort the
poisons and impurities may be  passed from
the system, but in delicate constitutions, or
when  the nervous system becomes  overpow-
ered from  any cause whatever, nature re-
quires assistance, hence the medicine admin- 
HISTORY OF DISEASES.
 istered should assist in removing and restor-
 ing (and not to  allay pain by administering
 medicine that will astringe the tissues of the
 system and thereby retain disease within, or
 medicine that simply prevents the raising of
 the unnatural heat in fevers, or medicine so
 is to  permit the disease to run its course.) In
 some  cases it is necessary to act myn the
 healthy organs  to  enable  them to carry off
 the accumulated poison  until the diseased
 organ or organs are restored to an active con-
 dition: for instance, in total suppression of
 urine the water  is retained within the circu-
 lation  with all the poisons that  nature re-
 quires  to  be  passed  through the  kidneys
 and which will  cause  death  in a few days if
 not.removed, hence act upon the sweat glands
 to remove the water, until the cause ofsup-
 pression is removed, then  restore the kid-
 neys to a healthy condition.  In diabetes the
 kidneys pass a large amount of water, restore
 the stomach, liver,  bowels and sweat glands
 which will pass  the water through the natur-
 al sources, then restore the kidneys.  Nature
 requires the poison that  produces the  un-
 natural heat in fever to be passed off through
 the kidneys and as soon as the kidneys  are
aroused to an  active condition the fever is
 passed therefrom.
  Purging and vomiting is a natural effort to
remove accumulations from the stomach and 
6
HISTORY OF DISEASES.
 bowels and to relax the system so that disease
 is more easily passed therefrom. It is written
 that vomiting or purging has no more cura-
 tive action than the  wiping of one's nose has
 in curing the catarrh. The same writer claims
 that vomiting or purging is a mechanical ef-
 fort.   The definition of the word mechanical
 in  reference to  the  healing  art is acting by
 physical power; the definition of physical is
 pertaining to nature  or natural  products,
 bene  the writer has proved that vomiting or
 purging is a natural effort to  evacuate  the
 stomach or bowels.  The same writer claims
 that because minute doses cure that all the
 large doses are  misapplied.   Others claim
 that disease is removed without the assistance
 of medicine, and when the nervous system
 has the power to remove it is  true, but when
 nature fails to remove  through the power of
 the nerves, medicine is required to stimulate
 restore and cleanse, and the dose should be
 large enough to arouse the excretory organs
 to an  active condition.  The  same  writer
 claims that few diseases produce the symp-
 toms of  large material doses or if they do
 such large doses  assault the  system so vio-
 lently as to call up a  convulsive action which
 convulses,  torments and poisons  while it
 does not cure.
  I  have learned from experience that per-
sons possessed of powerful nerve and muscle 
           HISTORY OF DISEASES.           7

 usually require  large doses of medicine. -
 Persons of less powerful  nerve  and muscle
 usually require smaller doses.  Persons who
 are weakly or nervous usually require minute
 doses.   Purging is frequently necessary to
 save life.  A person will soon learn the quan-
 tity of medicine that  is required to cause its
 appropriate action  upon  the system, owing
 to  the  condition of the  system  it require:-
 more at  one time than  another.  Diseases
 that run their course in a few  days and  are
 likely to  end in death  should  be promptly
 checked with-as large a dose as  the  system
 will admit of, for there  is no time to lose.—
 I have known persons to get worse when tak-
 ing large doses of medicine and after taking
 minute doses they were wonderfully improv-
 ed.  Again I have known  persons that have
 been taking minute doses for six months and
 exclaim "O! how weak I get when I take med-
 icine," and after taking larger doses improve
 rapidly.   Some persons complain of strange
 symptoms when they take a large  dose of
 medicine:  this class requires small doses or
 a change in the medicine.   It has been clear-
 ly and satisfactorily proven  that the dose
 should be regulated according to  the consti-
 tution or condition  of the  system.  There is
some good in all systems of medical practice
but none so complete that  the doctor should
not deviate from his  system to save life or 
 h           HISTORY OF DISEASES.

 shorten the period of disease.  All medical
 men should administer the best remedies to
 the sick, without any prejudice  or  mental
 reservation.
   Health and  disease are natural conditions
 upon which pleasure or pain, success or fail-
 ure depends.  Health is based upon the pros-
 perity of man.  Without the enjoyment of
 health lite is a drag.  Health is essential to
 the acco iplishment of every blessing.  The
 bf>st remedies  to restore health should be the
 universal  medicines.   I'hs  people will  soon
 learn  that the  science  of medicine is not so
 strange as they now suppose.
  Disease is sometimes removed  by the  pow-
 er of the nervous system.
  The cause of disease is the weakness or ef-
 fection of the excretory organs
  While the producing cause is overpowering
 the medical treatment it is impossible to cure.
  A cold will effect the weaker organs of the
sj'stem.
  When-a poison enters and is  retained  in
the blood it produces  its  peculiar eruption
and selects its location.
  Remember it is the  duty of every  person
 to  abstain  from  every  excess that will in-
duce disease.
  When life and health are  vigorous  let  us
not forget that life and health are uncertain.
  When we find mutual connection between 
         ACUTE  INFLAMMATORY  DISEASES.       9

    body and mind let us not  forget to do the
    best we can to retain the connection.
      Let us  not forget that the enjoyment of
    health and future prospects are founded on
    temperance and activity.
      Let us not forget that drunkenness impairs
    the mind and body and completely destroys
    the  moral faculty in  many  persons,  that
    drunkenness is  the source of many vices and
    henious crimes and should be  married to
    atheism.
      Alcohol is not a stimulent, it  excites the
    brain, debilitates the system and causes the
    form  of insanity which  may end in delerinn;
■^   tremens, or  maniapotue,  which is madnei-s
    from  drinking.
      If we are  destined for immortality, let ur-
    not forget that we may  lose its blessings.
      Let  us not forget that  the  Holy Bible
    teaches us that  we are accountable for tbe
    deeds done in the  body.
    Acute [rtfTarrinxatory Diseases*
  Inflammation is a swelling attended with
redness, heat, pain and feverish symptoms.
  Inflamaiion of the Brain.—Causes: External
injuries inflicted  upon the head, internper-
ence in  eating and  drinking, anger, labori-
ous exercise,  continued exposure to the heat 
  10      ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DISEASES.

  of the sun, continued and intense study,  cos-
  tiveness.  suppression  of  urine, &c.   Brain
  fever  is  frequently caused by the cessation
  of diseases of the skin,  diseases of  the stom-
  ach and bowels, &c, when improperly treated.
   Symptoms: Constant headache,  ringing in
 the  ears, a fearful expression in the eyes,
 blindness,  wakefulness, head very hot, "feet
 and hands cold, picking at the bed clothes,
 the  urine less in quantity.
   Dangerous Symptoms. Unequal, small and
 hurried pulse, the urine passing involuntary,
 a continued costiveness from the beginning,
 and a cold, clamy skin.
   Otitis; Inflammation of the Sir—Causes: Fre-
 quently follows scariet fever, measels, &c,
 when improperly treated, exposure to cold,
 injuries to the parts, insects getting into  the
 ear,  &c
   Symptoms:  Acute pain in the  ears, red-
 ness, swelling,  throbbing,  and  sometimes
 snperation takes place.
   Dangerous Symptoms:  The extension of
 the inflamation to the drum of the ear and
 the brain.
   Ophthalmia, Inflammation of the Eyes.— Cat-
arrhal inflammation is an inflammation of the
white of the eyes,  Causes: sud .en changes
of the weather and exposure to cold.
  Symptoms:  The white of the eye becomes
inflamed with a sensation  of  smarting as it 
      ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DrSEASES.     11

 particles of sand were in the eyes.  The eyes
 are generally covered with blood vessels.
  Purulent Inflammation. Inflammation of the
 Eye Lids.—'Causes:  A poison  in the atmos-
 phere, exposures,  injuries and weakness of
 the eyes are the immediate cause.
  Symptoms:  More or  less itching in the
 eyes, sticking together of the eye lids in the
 morning at first; or in a mild form there is
 no  pain.
  Dangerous  Symptoms.—Violent inflama-
 tion may burst the cornea of the eye.
  Iris Inflammation is an inflammation of the
 colored circle around the pupil of the eye.—
 Causes: Exposure to cold, rheumatism, &c.
  Symptoms: Pain about  the forehead ex-
 tending to the side of the head, a redness of
 the white of the eyes, a watery discharge, in-
 tolerance of lights, etc.
  Xasal Catarrh is  an inflammation of the
mucus  membrane  of  the  nostrils  which
 may extend to the frontal sinues, top of the
throat, the ears and the lungs.—Causes: Ex-
posure to sudden changes of the air, inhal-
ing cold air when the body  is warm—the
more heated the body is the more severe the
attack will be—sitting when warm in draft
of cold air, cooling suddenly,  changing the
texture of clothing, &c.
  Symptoms:  Pain in the forehead, a dis-
charge from the nostrils of thin mucus, the 
12     ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DISEASES.

mucus becomes thick and  frequently forms
in clots.
  Dangerous Symptoms: The inflammation
extending to the glands of the ears which
will cause deafness, and to the lungs which
will produce consumption.
 Stomatitis, inflammation of the mucous niem-
hrane of the  mouth.  Causes: Disease of the
-tomach and bowels, painful teething, erup-
tive diseases of the skin, &c.
  Follicular Inflammation of ih^ Mo»ih -Causes:
Disease of the  stomach  and bowels, impure
blood, unwholesome food, filth, impure  air,
Arc
  Ulcerative  bflammaiinn.-Caiises: The same
is by  follicular.
  >■<incurmar is or Gangrenous Inflammation.—
Causes: Murcurial treatment, impure air, &c.
  Symptoms: The mucus membrane of the
month and  tongue  is hot,  red  and painful
when  eating or sucking, in  follicular inflam-
mation white spots are  formed  upon  the
tongue, lirs and surface of the mouth. Ulcer-
ative inflammation commences  with inflam-
ed and bleeding gums which are soon covered
with grayish matter.  Cancrumoris is a gan-
grenous inflammation of  the mouth, all the
preceding forms of inflammation may be fol-
lowed by gangreen.  In some cases small blad-
lers of an ashy dark red or black color are
vithin the  mouth  on  the  lips or  cheeks, 
      ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DISEASES.     13

 which rapidly mortify. In some cases ulcera-
 tion commences on the gums with a white
 appearance.
   Laryngitis, inflamation  of the larynx, the
 upper part of the windpipe, which may ex-
 tend  to the throat.—Causes:  Exposure to
 cold, inhaling dust or irritating vapors, &c.
   Symptoms: The voice becomes horse and
 sometimes  entirely lost,  the breathing is
 painful and laborious, the eyes bloodshot,&c.
   Dangerous Symptoms:  The eyes glaring
 and watery with  a purplish  circle around
 them, the lips purplish, cold sweats, the face
 cold and  sunken,  the  feet and hands  cold,
 respiration distressing.
   Ctmanche Trachealis, or Croup, is an inflam-
 mation of the trachea, the windpipe. Mem-
 braneous  croupe is owing to a fluid which
 thickens and adheres to the surface of the
 windpipe   Causes: Exposure to cold, change-
 able air, damp air, suppressions of the skin,
 inhalation of impure air, &c.
  Symptoms:  Hoarseness, cough, a hissing
 crowing sound, &c.
  Dangerous Symptoms:  Threatened suffo-
cation .
  Quinsy is inflammation of the tonsils which
may extend through the mucus membrane
of the throat.
  Symptoms: Soreness, difficulty of swallow- 
14      ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DISEASES.

ihg and breathing, swelling and severe pain,
enlargement of the tonsils.
  Dangerous  Symptons:  Threatened  suffo-
cation from enlarged tonsils.
  Bronchitis is an inflammation of any of the
bronchial glands,  the subdivisions of  the
windpipe which extends into the lungs.—
Causes.  Exposure to cold. It may arise from
measels,  hooping cough, &c.
  Symptoms:' Cough, quickened .breathing,
soreness and  pain  at the upper  part of the
breast, the cough at first is dry and painful
but in a short time the patient will expecto-
rate and sometimes profusely.
  Dangerous Symptoms:  Cold and purplish
surface of the skin, small and rapid pulse.
  Pharyngitis, Sore Thioat, is an inflammation
of the pharynx.  Symptoms th^  same as in
Quinsy, except in  breathing there is no  dif-
ficulty.
  Cynanche Maligna. Putrid Sore Throat.—
Causes:  a  contagious  poison in the air at-
tacking scrofulous  persons who are  subject
to sore throat.  The putrifaction is the  ter-
mination of active inflammatory diseases of
the throat.
  Symptoms.  The neck is held in one posi-
tion, grayish spots  are formed on the inflam-
ed part which leave black ulcers.
  Dangerous  Symptoms.  Sinking and weak
pulse,and bleeding from the nose and mouth. 
      ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DISEASES.     15

   Diplheritis or Dtpiheria is an inflammation
 of the throat,  tonsils, air glands, and in  se-
 vere cases the whole system  becomes involv-
 ed.  Causes.  A poison  in the air attacking
 scrofulous persons.
   Symptoms. Horseness, the throat and ton-
 sils swolen, a lalse membrane or white spots
 form in the throat which may extend to the
 air glands.
   Dangerous Symptoms. Ulceration, hurried
 breathing, and quick pulse.

   Pneumonia, an  inflammation of the sub-
 stance of the lungs.   Causes.  Exposure  to
 cold, sudden  changes of the  air, powerful
 exertions of the lungs,  inhalations of iritat-
 ing particles, &c.
   Symptoms.  A dull pain in the chest,  or
 when  making a full  inspiration breathing
 is difficult, a  painful cough, the face flush-
 ed, &c.
  Dangerous Symptoms.—Acute pain, delir-
 ium, shiverings, a short dry cough, short and
 difficult breathing and night  sweats.
  Pleuritis or Pleurisy is an inflammation  of
 the plura, the lining of the chest and lungs.
Causes. Exposure to cold, drinking cold wa-
ter when the body is very hot, the use of al-
coholic spirits, &c.
  Symptoms. A severe pain in the chest, the
pain may be located in one or both sides, the 
  16      ACUTE INFLAMMATOR DISEASES.

  remaining symptoms are  much the same as
  in pneumonia.
   Dangerous Symptoms.  Small and  feeble
  pulse,  pain  ceasing suddenly,  cold  hands
  and feet, prostration.
   Carditis is an inflammation of  the muscles
 of the heart.
   Encarditis is an inflammation of the  lining
 of the heart.
   Pericarditis  is an inflammation of the sac
 which envelops the heart.
   Inflammation of the heart may be caused
 from rheumatism, Bright's disease, pleurisy,
 &c.
   Symptoms. A severe pain in the region of
 the heart which may extend to the shoulders
 and is increased on pressure over the heart,
 suffocation is likely to be experienced.
   Gastritis is an inflammation of  the mucus
 membrane of the stomach which may involve
 the serious lining of  the abdomen.  Causes.
 Exposure to cold or intense heat, high living,
 external injuries, violent exercise, malaria.itc
  Symptoms. When the serious lining is in-
 volved the patient will suffer with pain, swell-
 ing, a burning heat and sometimes vomiting
 increased  by everything taken into the stom-
ach.   When the inflammation is confined to
the mucus lining there will  be no pain, the
patient  becomes wakeful and restless;  in 
     ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DISEASES.     17

chronic inflammation the patient will  suffer
more or less pain increased after eating and
when pressure is made; the appetite will be
irregular.
  Dangerous Symptoms.  Cold sweats, cold
hands and  feet, delirium and stupor, intense
pain, full  and frequent pulse, ulceration of
the tongue and lips.
  Hepatitis is an  inflammation of the liver.—
Causes. Attacks  of  cold,  sedentary habits.
intemperance, drastic  cathartics,  improper
diet, &c.
  Symptoms.  Pain in the right side which
ma% extend to the breast and right shoulder.
The pain is increased when the patient lays
on the left side.
  Dangerous Symptoms. Intense pain, feet
cold, costiveness and the  pulse continuing
full and frequent.
  Splenitis is an inflammation of the struct-
ure or serious lining of the spleen.—Causes,
Repeated attacks of malarial fever,  (fee.
  Symptoms.  Pain in the  left  side over the
region of  the spleen, when the stomach  is
inflamed the pain is dull.   When the serious
lining  is  involved with high inflammation,
the pain severe, and in chronic infJ|mmation
a blue  tinge  of  the white of the e^e,.some-
times there is no pain when pressure is o.ade.
  Dangerous Symptoms. Vomiting of blood,
diarrhoea and dropsy. 
 18      ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DISEASES.

   Enteritis an inflammation of the intestines.
 Causes.  The improper use of drastic cathart-
 ics, a mattery accumulation,  costiveness.
   Symptoms. Slight griping pains, increased
 until they become severe.  When the inflam-
 mation is confined to the  mucus lining,  ef-
 fecting no other tissue, there will be no pain.
 Sometimes the patient vomits, the breathing
 is laborious, painful and difficult.
   Dangerous Symptoms.   Sudden cessation
 of pain,  cold sweats, suppressed urine, weak
 and irregular pulse.
   Colortctitis, Dysentery   An inflammation of
 the mucus lining of the lower intestines.—
 Causes. Exposure to cold and dampness, un-
 ripe fruit,  mdigestable food, drastic cathart-
 ics, <fec.
   Symptoms. Soreness  and  weight of the
 lower portion of the bowels, the evacuations
 are bloody and preceded by griping pains.
   Dangerous Symptoms.  Ulceration of the
 mouth, cold  sweats, great prostration,  and
 weak, irregular pulse.
   Xaphrilis, inflammation of  the kidneys.—
 Causes. Colds, injuries, rheumatism, intem-
 perance,  irritating diuretics as spirits of tur-
 pentine,  cantharadies, &c,
  Symptoms.  Pain  in the region of the kid-
neys frequently  extending downward,  in-
creased by pressure,  by moving about, <fec. 
      ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DISEASES.     19

 When both kidneys are inflamed there may
 be a suppression of urine.
   Dangerous Symptoms. Dropsy, small and
 frequent pulse, night sweats, and  extreme
 weakness
   Peritonitis, inflammation of the peritonum,
 the lining of the abdomen.   Causes.  Expos-
 ure to cold, injuries and the ordinary causes
 of inflammation.
   Symptoms.   Great  thirst, dryness of the
 skin,  redness  of  the eyes, white and  dry
 tongue, short and quick breathing, frequent
 vomiting, the uiine muddy or high  colored
 and passed with difficulty, the  bowels  cos-
 tive, the pain increased toward morning
   Dangerous Symptoms. Vomiting, low de-
 lirium, cold sweats, involuntary  evacuations
 of urine  or feces, &c.
   Metritis, or inflammation of the womb.—
 Causes.  Injuries to the parts, excessive heat,
 &c.
   Symptoms. Constant pain in the parts, the
 urine is  passed with  pain, the skin is  dry
 and hot pain, in the hea i. &c.
  Dangerous Symptoms. Weak and frequent
 pulse,  cold sweats, quick breathing and de-
 lirium.
   Cystitis, inflammation of the  bladder.—
Causes. Exposure to cold, injuries, stone in
the bladder, the inserting  of bougies and
catheters into the bladder, &c. 
20      ACUTE INFLAMMATOR DISEASES.

  Symptoms. A severe burning pain  in the
region of the bladder, which is increased on
pressure, a difficulty in retaining the urine,
etc.
  Dangerous Symptoms   A very  weak con-
dition of the system, low delirium and coma.
  Rheumatism is an inflammatory condition
effecting the blood, the sciatic nerves, joints,
muscles of the back, heart, etc.   Causes.  It
is frequently an inherited disease; when the
system  becomes effected  the immediate at-
tack is caused by exposure to cold or damp-
ness, excessive labor, or any excess that will
weaken the joints or internal organs.
  Symptoms.  Severe pain, dull pain,  shoot-
ing pain, aching pain,  and sometimes there
is an aching without any  pain.   Sometimes
rheumatism  commences  with a stiffness  of
the joints.
  Dangerous Symptoms.  When rheumatism
attacks the internal organs, the heart, lungs.
stomach, or  bowels.
  Erysipelas  is an inflammatory condition  of
the blood, producing a spreading eruption
of the skin.
  Causes. Erysipelas is an inherited taint  of
the blood;  the  immediate cause  of  the at-
tack is excessive heat,  intemperance in eat-
ing,  drinking, etc.
  Symptoms.  An inflammation of the skin
attended with pain,  heat  and  itching,  the 
    CAUSES AND  SYMPTOMS OF FEVER.    21

skin is of a brick red color, the redness dis-
appearing when  touched by the finger leav-
ing a white spot for a short time.  Erysipe-
las generally commences with  symptoms of
fever.
  Dangerous Symptoms. A low, weak con-
dition of the system with delirium and coma,
and when the  eruption  recedes, costiveness
of the  bowels, inactiveness of the  kidneys,
and  a  hot and  dry  skin when continued
through the course of the disease.
  ©•uses and Symptoms ®f F©v©p.

  Fever is a chill or chilly sensation succeed-
ed by an unnatural heat.  The principal di-
vision of fevers is into remitting fevers which
abate at intervals, intermitting fevers which
entirely cease at intervals, continued fevers
which  run their course without  abating or
ceasing.
  The causes of fevers are malarial poisons
arising  from marshy districts, or from de-
caying animal substances, the poison arising
from diseased persons, excessive  heat, alco-
holic spirits, dampness, night air, poisonous
water,  filth,  indigestion,  costiveness, diar-
rhoea, &c.
  The symptoms common to all forms of fe- 
 22     CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF FEVER.

 ver are dullness, weakness, unsound sleep,
 headache,  unpleasant dreams,  etc.  These
 symptoms may increase  to  an unpleasant
 soreness, lameness  or aching  of the bones,
 which will be  followed  by chills or chilly
 sensation,  which will be  succeeded by the
 hot stage, wakefulness,  restlessness, deleri-
 um or uerhaps a constant  drowsiness.
  Remittent Fever.—The fever recurs at irreg-
 ular intervals, the patient never being with-
 out some symptoms of fever.
  Iniermdtent Fever.—The fever recurs at reg-
 ular periods; between the  periods there is no
 symptoms of fever.
  dmtinued Fever.—The fever runs its course
 with but little or no abatement.
  The Dangerous Symptoms  of  Fever.—
 When the  system  becomes very much op-
 pressed or the patient  becomes  helpless,
 it is  very  dangerous.  A great degree of
 drowsiness, low  mutterings. picking at the
 bed  clothes,  hiccough and loss of sight and
 hearing are very dangerous symptoms, when
 there is no thirst the case is not favorable.—
 When continued without  or nearly  without
 remissions the breathing becoming more la-
 borous, with  difficulty of swallowing  and
 trembling  tongue,  constant  delerium  and
 profound sleep are  dangerous symptoms.—
 When inflammation is complicated with fever
and on the subsidance of the inflammation the 
     CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF FEVER.     23

mouth,  tongue and lips ulcerate it indicates
that death is approaching, excessive diarrhoea
trembling  tongue,  sinking pulse,  indicate
dath;acold clammy  sweat over the whole
system.
  Great debility, exhausted strength, swolen
abdomen, stupor increased, indicates death
in infantile fever.
  Difficulty of  breathing, profuse diarrhoea,
continual delirium purplish  spots appear-
ing, is an indication of death in scarlet fever
in children.
  Typhoid  Fever. — Symptoms: Tenderness,
soreness or pain in the  bowels increased on
pressure, active delirium, loud talking,windy
swelling of the abdomen, the tongue red at
the tip and edges.
  Typhus Fever.—Symptoms  Low muttering
delirium, tongue, mouth, teeth and lips cov-
ered with a dark fur,  the face of a dark red
hue.
  Yellow F'ver.—Symptoms. Severe pains in
the back, head  and  limbs with vomiting;
from the beginning the skin becomes yellow.
  Congestive Fever — Symptoms. Giddiness in
the head, profound stupor, acute  pain, the
eyes dull and frequently glassy,  the counte-
nance assumes a dull and sleepy appearance.
  Pernicious Fever.— Symptoms. Great thirst,
the water being  ejected soon after swallow-
ing. 
24     CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF FAVER.

  Spotted Fewer.—Symptoms.  The  attack is
frequently sudden, often commencing with
shifting pains beginning in one joint or limb,
like the sensation of the  stinging of a bee, a
severe pain moving from place to place, par-
alysis of the limbs, etc.
  Hectio Fever.—Symptoms. Flushed face af-
ter eating,  a burning sensation in the palms
of the hands and soles of the feet.
  Scarlet Fever.—Symptoms. Sore throat with
difficulty of swallowing, the eye lids inflam-
ed, the eyes red, about the third day an erup-
tion appears on the body of a bright red col-
or,  about the fourth day  the eruption disap-
pears.   Inanginosa the attack is more severe,
is attended with stiffness of the neck and a
pain in the back of the  head.  Malignant
scarlet fever develops a state of prostration
of the vital powers, respiration is ratling and
laborious, the throat  ulcerates and presents
a black appearance.
  Puerperal Fever.—Symptoms. Weight and
soreness in the lower part of the belly, pain
is produced on  pressure over the part3 ef-
fected, as the disease progresses the pain in-
creases rapidly.
  Epilepsy is the sudden  loss of the knowl-
edge of sensation, the loss of what passes in
one's  own  mind, with violent twitching or
contraction of the muscles of the whole body,
and as the attack declines the patient passes 
ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DISEASES.     25
    into a state resembling a deep sleep, which
    continues for an hour or more.
       Catalepsy is the loss of the power of volen-
    tary motion,  with a partial or complete sus-
-   pension of smell, sight, hearing, tasting and
    feeling, the  muscles being  sometimes not
    moveable keeping  the position  they  had
    when attacked.  When the attack subsides
    the patient is in usual health, without any
    recollection of what has passed.
      Apoplexy is a sudden loss of the knowledge
    of sensation and mental operations, the loss
    of what passes in one's own mind,  and volun-
    tary  motion,  with  a slow, laborious  and
-   snoreing breathing.
      Causes of epilepsy, catalepsy, and apoplexy;
    diseasesof the stomach and bowels, improper
    food,  worms, indigestion, external wounds,
    falls, bruises, <fcc,, painful teething, costive-
    ness,   intense  study, violent exercise, the
    heat of the sun,  sudden  excitement, alco-
    holic drinks,  excessive cold, <fcc.
      Epilepsy symptoms.  The patient falls with
    convulsions and frequently with a shriek or
    strange sound, the muscles of the body act
    with great violence, the head is drawn or
    jerked to one side or backward.
      Catalepsy symptoms. The patient will fall
    and  is unable  to  move, it a hand or foot is
    moved or an eye opened it  remains as it is
    fixed. 
 26     ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DISEASES.

   Apoplexy symptoms.  The patient falls, the
 breathing is slow, laborious, loud and snor-
 ing, the veins of neck and head are swolon,
 the eyes are blood shot and either cfosed or-
 half open.  Sometimes spasmodic  contrac-
 tion of the muscles takes place.
   Dangerous Symptoms. Apoplexy is always
 dangerous, epilepsy  and  catalepsy are but
 seldom dangerous unless followed by apo-
 plexy.
   Hysterics is a spadmodic affection. Causes:
 Sedentary  habits, grief,  fear, excessive la-
 bor,  <fec
  Symptoms.  Crying, laughing, wringing
the hands, chronic spasms in which the mus-
cles contract and relax quickly, tonic spasms
in which the  contraction is of longer dura-
tion, the body is sometimes arched  back-
ward, &c. 
CHEONIC DISEASES.
27
 Cltponlo D?stae©8 ©f the  Stomach,
    U\?©p„ Spt@©ct„ Sweat (Harads*,
              acid llowellso
   Gastric Diseases of the Stomach.—Symptoms.
 Changeable  appetite,   sometimes  entirely
 lost, sometimes  craying, there is an uneasy
 feeling of weight or pain in the region of the
 stomach, water brash, vomiting, indigestion,
 headache,   heartburn,  palpitation  of  the
 heart, &c.
   Symptoms of the Liver. A dull pain in the
 right side extending to the shoulder blades,
 shortness of breath, a hacking  cough, yel-
 lowness of the eyes, feet and  hands general-
 ly cold, etc.
   Symptoms of the Spleen.  A blue tinge of
 the eyes, a pain in the left side, palpitation
 of the heart, etc,
   Symptoms of the Sweat Glands.  In con-
 nection with stomach, liver, spleen and bow-
 els, a dryness of the skin, a greasy appear-
 ance of the skin, a husky skin, etc.
  Symptoms of the Bowels.  Irregularity of
 the bowels, costiveness, diarrhoea or disentery
  The Causes of diseases of the sfomash, liv-
 er, bowels, spleen, and sweat glands:
  Causes of Vomiting.  Acidity, costiveness,
weakness, eating too  much, &c.
  Of Heartburn.  Indigestion or  rich food,
alcoholic drinks, tobacco, <fcc. 
28
CHRONIC DISEASES.
  Of Painter's Colic.  Inhaling lead poison.
  Of Bilious Cholic. Irritating substances in
the bowels, exposure to  cold, rheumatism,
costiveness, eruptions receding, &c.
  Of Flatulency or Wind Colic.  Weak diges-
tive organs, indigestive  food, constipation,
costiveness, etc.
  Causes of Dyspepsia.  Indigestible  food,
swallowing food before it  is properly masti-
cated, alcoholic drinks,  tobacco, rich  food,
an inactive life, eating fat meat  or  auy food
that disagrees with the stomach, &c.
  Of the Liver.  The continued  influence of
malaria, the use of murcury. &c.
  Of the Spleen. The same as the liver.
  Of the Bowels. Chronic dysenteiy may be
the result of an improper treatment of the
acute form, the result of improper diet, &o.
  Chronic Enteritis is the result of the acute
form, the improper treatment of fevers, the
frequent use of drastic cathartics, &o
  Causes of Costiveness.  Inactiveness of the
liver, sedentary habits, the  neglect of the
calls of  nature, «fec.
  Of the Sweat  Glands.  Neglect of cleanli-
ness, coming in contact with poisons, &c.
  Causes and symptoms  of diseases of the
kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra.
  Bdghts  Disease.—Causes.   Gravely   sedi-
ment forming in the  kidneys, an accumula-
tion of  blood in the  kidneys, a decaying of 
CHRONIC DISEASES.
29
the kidneys, the formation of proud flesh in
the kidneys;  and those  conditions ot the
kidneys may arise from or be caused by ex-
ternal injuries, alcoholic drink,  resession of
diseases of the skin, &c.
  Symptoms.  The urine may be clear, dingy
red or brown, with a considerable amount
of sediment,  pains or  uneasiness in  the
loins,  indigestion, sickness and  vomiting,
the skin is dry, the  patient drowsy,  pale,
bloodless,  or  bloated countenance,  dropsi-
cal condition, a dingy appearance of the
eyes, albumien  in the  urine.   At  first the
patient may  complain  of a slight uneasi-
ness in the region of the kidneys  tor a con-
siderable  length of time, and  through the
power of  the  nerve the  albumen may be
passed from  the  circulation  from time to
time without serious injury to  the patient.
   Diabates —Causes. Indigestion,  intemper-
ance in drinking and eating, the use of acid
drinks, the use of mercury,  &c.
  Symptoms.  Frequent discharge of urine,
amounting to  from one to five gallons within
twenty-four hours.  The urine  is clear and
pale, the bowels  are costive, frequently the
stool is dry and  hard, the skin is dry, thirst
unquenchable, digestion imperfect.
   Ischuria  Renulis, Suppression  of  Urine.—
Causes.  Inflammation  or paralysis of the
kidneys, external injuries, gravel in the kid- 
 30            CHRONIC DISEASES.

 neys  or nretres, spirits of turpentine, can-
 tharades and other poisonous diuretics, &c.
  Symptoms.  The patient is restless and anx-
 ious,  there is but little urine in the bladder
 which is tested by introducing a catheter into
 the bladder, the patient becomes drowsy and
 wanders in his mind.
  Retention of Urine.—Causes. Inflammation
 of the neck of the bladder,  pa alysis of  the
 bladder, injuries to the bladder,  gravel or
 stone, cantharadies, &c.
  Symptoms.  Uneasiness and  pain  in  the
 region of  the bladder which extends to  the
 thighs,  pressure upon the  bladder increases
 the [lain.
  Unurts s, Incontinence  of Urine.- Paral-
 ysis of  the bladder, injuries to  the spinal
 nerve, gravel,  tumors, &c.
  Symptoms.  The patient is unable to retain
 the water  within the baldder.  In some cases
 it is constantly escaping from it.
  Gravel.— Causes.  Severe injuries  lo  the
 kidneys, alcoholic drinks,  sedentary habits.
  Symptoms.  Sand or gravel  sediment  in
 the urine.   When  gravel is passing from
the  kidneys to the  bladder there may  be
acute  or severe  pain, there is a severe pain
of the kidneys  extending  down  the  groin
and upper part of the thigh.
f 
         CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.        31

       QortstttHtEonaJ BEs©as©8.

   Scrofulous diseases are constitutional and
 arise from scrofulous  taints  or poisons in
 the  blood inherited from  the parent  or
 parents.  The blood can be cleansed and the
 taint or poison  passed  therefrom which will
 prevent scrofulous  diseases.   The child is
 "f the same blood and flesh and consequent-
 ly is heir to the same diseases as the parent,
 but nevertheless the scrofulous taint  can be
 removed from  the  blood  by administering
 the proper remedies.  When the lungs com-
 mence to consume or waste away there is  no
 cure, but there are  many who are believed
 to be wasting  away  with consumption who
 are lingering with other diseases.
  Phthisis Pulmonalis, Consumption.-Causes.
 Exposure to cold, sedentary habits, exposure
 to dust,  resession  of  measels,  dampness,
 night air, <fec.
  Symptoms. Slight fever  increased  by the
 least excercise, a slight  difficulty in breath-
 ing increased  when  exercising, a slight dry
 and hacking  cough, a burning and dryness
 in the palms of the hands, a chilly sensation,
 an increase of urine, a dryness of  the skin,
 the eyes secrete a watery matter while sleep-
 ing, slight pains in the  breast, an occasional
flushing  in  < ne  or  both cheeks, the  cough
becomes  moist, a thin or frothy substance is 
32      CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES,
expectorated which will sometimes be streak-
ed with blood: a burning  sensation in the
soles of the feet, etc.  The above symptoms
are claimed to be the first symptoms of" con-
sumption,  but in many cases they are the
previous warning of  consumption.  The fol-
lowing are  the  true symptoms:  The cough
increases to severity, cheese-like particles are
expectorated, the difficulty in  breathing  is
increased to a state of  depression when  as-
cending steps  or any steep  place,  the chiliy
sensation  is increased  to actual chills, the
patient becomes lean (by gradual waste) and
debility,  the appetite  fails, etc, in the last
stages all the true symptoms are increased,
the cough  is  very distressing and almost
constant, the voice is weak and  horse, the
nails curved inward, the hair falls off, the
feet and ancles swell, etc.
  King's Enil.- Causes.  The excessive use  of
fat meats, mercury, opium, excessive heat,&c.
  Symptoms. Enlargement of the lymphatic
glands, principally about the neck, these en-
largements  become  inflamed and painful,
soften  and ulcerate, and discharges matter
of a thin, colorless and  wattery consistency,
the parts around the  ulcer are a bluish red
color.
   Carcinuma,  Cancer,  a  malignant  tumor
which finally ulcerates.—Causes. Injuries to
the parts by bruises, continued pressure, <fcc. 
        CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.        3.1

  Symptoms.  A red,  purplish or  blueish
spot or spots near each other  which  finally
run together.  The pain at first is  usually
sharp, shooting and finally lancinating, and
is  increased on pressure.  It may be at first
a small  hard tumor.  Warts,  wens and tu-
mors may become cancers.
  Hudrahhrus, White Swelling, is a disease of
the joints, usually the  knee  joints.   Causes.
Bruises, sprains,  rheumatism, &c.
  Symptoms. Swelling of the knee joint, the
skin around the part remaining  the  natural
color, slight pains at first which become se-
vere.
  Rachitis, Rickets, a disease  in which the
bones become softened.—Causes.  Exposure
to  cold, tilth, dampness, &c.
  Symptoms. The flesh becomes flabby, the
head is unusually large, the neck small, the
bones become soft and  unable to support the
body, the backbone becomes curved, etc.
  Anthrax Carbuncle is a malignant boil.—
Cause.  A corrupt  condition  of the blood
caused by a  peculiar poison which determin-
ates to the parts.
  Symptoms.  Heat  and severe pain in the
tumor,  the  tumor becomes of  a dark  red,
bluish or purplish color, which discharges
a thin dark  colored fluid, the tumor sloughs
off. etc.
  Goitre Bronchocele is  a tumor on the  fore- 
34      CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES,
part of the neck.—Causes.  Scrofulous tain
of the blood.
  Symptoms. As the tumor increases it grows
hard, the skin is natural at first but becomes
brownish or copper colored as the tumor in-
creases.
  Hypertrophy, Enlargement of the Heart, is
an increase of the  muscular structure of the
heart.—Causes. Alcoholic  drinks, continued
exertion, gout, rheumatism, &c.
  Symptoms. Difficult breathing caused  by
any exertion, palpitations  which are  some-
times so violent as to shake the whole body,
the patient is often unable to  lie in bed.
  Gutta Serena Amaurosis, Black Cataract, is
a partial or complete paralysis of  the  optic
nerve of the eyes. —Causes. Violent blows on
the head, exposure of the eyes to bright lights,
severe exercise, &c.
  Symptois. Appearance  of bright spots or
colored specks before the  eyes, sometimes a
sensation as if dust were upon the  eyes, etc. 
SKIN DISEASES.            35
            Skin Diseases.

  Porigo Favosa, Scald Head.—Causes: Neu-
tr.itive debility.
   Symptoms.  Pale yellow  eruptions,  the
parts become iDflamed, a formation of a yel-
low crust upon the parts, &c.
  f'soriasis, Salt  Rheume, Tetter,—Causes.
lnuigi stion.nervous debility.sudden changes
from  heat to cold,  &c.
  Symptoms.  Thin  whitish scales, formed
upon the parts, frequently there  is an itch-
ing of the parts.
  Ringworm of the Scalp.—Causes. Debility of
the system, heat,  cold, irritation of  the skin,
etc.
  Herpeszoster, Shingles.—Causes.  Debility,
heat,  cold, &c.
  Symptoms. Little bladders filled with hu-
mor,  collected  together on  inflamed parts
of the  skin which frequently encircle  the
whole body.
  Milk Crust— Causes. Constitutional debil-
ity, a peculiar taint of the blood.
  Symptoms. An elevation of the scarf skin
with an inflamed base containing pus, there
is crusts formed on the  parts of a yellowish
green color.
  ilentagra Scyosis Menti, Barber's Itch.—
Causes. The use of dull  razors,  the  use of
towels used by many persons, uncleanliness. 
36
SKIN DISEASES.
  Symptoms.  Small  elevated eruptions on
the beard part of the face attended with itch-
ing and  pain, these elevations shrink and
are succeeded by thin scabs.
  Scibies  Psora,  Itch.—Causes.  Unclenli-
ness.  sleeping with  those infected, shaking
hands, &c. with  those diseased.
  Symptoms.  Slight elevations  of the scarf
skin presenting a slight red tinge, excessive
itching increased by heat, etc.
  ^lcnc. Blotched Face.—Causes.  Heat, eat-
ing too much, strong  diet,  uncleanliness,
cosmetics, etc.
  Symptoms. Small red and inflamed pimp-
les with pale yellow heads which are some-
times  painful, sometimes  the  pimples  be-
come purplish and discharge matter, some-
times there is a blackish spot formed in  the
centre of  the pimple.  The different forms
of Acne are called Acne Rosacea, Acne Vul-
garis, Acne Indurata.
  Comedones, Grubs in the  Skin.—Round
black spots clustered together;  when  the
spots  are  pressed between the  fingers  the
grubs are  pressed  out.  Causes.   Inaction of
the capillaries, general debility, &c.
  Gelulns,  Frostbites.—Causes. Intense cold.
  Symptoms. The skin is of a bluish-red col-
or, followed by a paleness of the  parts, sore-
ness and  itching  on a change from cold to
warm. 
             SKIN DISEASES.             37

  Pernio, Chilblains.—A painful inflamma-
tion which affects the fingers, toes, heels and
other extremities, the pain appears at certain
periods and is accompanied by an itching.—
Causes. Severe cold.
  Lallosiiies, Corns.—A small hard substance
upon certain parts which are painful when
pressure is made.  Causes. Hard substances
pressing against the parts, &c.
  Furunculus, Boils.—An inflamation the size
of a pea or larger,  which increases to the size
of an ounce weight or larger, accompanied
with pain, bursts and discharges  matter.—
Causes. A  poison in the blood, <fec.
   Lentigo, Freckles.---Brownish-yellow or
greenish-yellow spots.—The causes are con-
stitutional.
  Warts.—A scrofulous poison in the blood.
If a wart on the hand is  cut  and the  blood
is allowed to spread  warts will  arise there-
from.  Causes. The blood  oozing out upon
the skin, bruises,  &c. 
38
SURGICAL DISEASES.
          Surgleal  Diseases.

   Gangrene, Mortification.—Causes.  Violent
inflamation, severe injuries, scurvey, &c.
   Symptoms.  Inflamation with severe  pain.
frequent delerium, the  pain  ceases  and the
part becomes cold and of a dark color.
   Xecrosis  Caries,  Decaying of the Bone.—
Causes. Constitutional taint of the blood, the
use of murcury, external injuries,  etc.
   Symptoms.  Inflammation of the  part with
increased heat and pain, the pain is general-"
ly severe and deep seated, in the more active
form there  is fever, delerium, abscesses form
through which matter and pieces of bone are   '<-
discharged.
   Sprains.—Causes.  The  injuring of the
joints or  sinews by  forceably shocking or
otherwise.
   Symptoms.  Pain,  inflamation,  swelling,
and a dark or black color of the parts.
  Paronychia,  Whitlow,  Felon.—Causes. In-
juries to the parts,
  Symptoms.  Redness,  swelling and  deep
seated pain, the pain continues to increase
until  it  becomes very  severe. Felons are
situated on the joints of the fingers or toes
which terminate in an absess.
   Ganglion or Bursal Tumor —Causes. Press-
ure upon the  parts, blows, sprains, the ef-
fect of rubbing, &c. 
SURGICAL DISEASES.
39
   Symptoms.  A moveable swelling of the
 parts,, there is no change in the color of the
 skin, generally  without pain,  when ulcera-
 tion takes place a thin fluid issues, the tum-
 or becomes sore and sometimes painful.
   Ulcers.—Causes  Hereditary taint  of the
 blood and other blood  poisons, the exciting
 cause is inflammation, bruises, burns, &c.
   Svmptoms.  Purulent  ulcers  present  a
 bright red appearance, the matter discharged
 will be thick having no offensive  odor.  In-
 dolent ulcers will present a pale appearance,
 the puss will be thin and waterv or a yellow
 color.  When the muscular fibers are affect-
 ed the puss will be thin and watery, with an
 offensive smell,  the ulcer will be covered  by
 a red or  gray substance, the parts are pain-
 ful, &c.
   Hemmorrhoids, Piles —Causes.  Disseases
 of the liver and  bowels, costiveness, &c.
   Symptoms.  Itching  about  the  parts,  a
 stinging or burning pain when there is an
 action upon the bowels.  Piles are small tu-
 mors in the rectum or externally, they some-
 times discharge  blood.
  Prolapsus  Ani, Falling of the  bowels.—
Causes.   Diarrhoea, dysentery,  costiveness,
pin worms, drastic cathartics, straining  at
stools, etc.
   Tumors.  An  unnatural accumulation  or
growth of a tatty substance  or fleshy m ate- 
40
SURGICAL DISEASES.
rial.  Causes.  Poisons in the blood.  The ex-
citing cause may be bruises, sprains, &c.
  Symptoms.  Fatty tumors have  a soft ap-
pearance, without pain or without any dis-
coloration of the skin, the commencement is
a small roundish accumulation of fat which
sometimes increases to a large size.
  Encysted tumors or wens commence  the
same as  fatty tumors.  A wen. is  composed
of a sac which contains various matter.  Ei-
ther of the above tumors may become ihflam-
med and painful.
  Polypus of the Nose.—A polypus is a tumor
with many roots and  with a narrow base re-
sembling a pear.
  Symptoms.  Sneezing,  dull  pain  in  the
head, loss of the sense of smell, difficult res-
piration through the nostrils which may be-
come entirely closed and the  patient  forced
to breathe through the mouth.
  Stricture of the Rectum.—Causes.  Sedentary
habits, costiveness, etc.
  Symptoms:  If the  feces is  hard it passes
in flattened  pieces, if thin it is passed with
force as water is passed through  a syringe.
As the stricture becomjes more contracted the
feces is passed with difficulty and pain.  A
stricture is a drawing together of  the parts,
thickening, shrinking and hardening.
  Stricture of the  Urethra.—Causes.  Forceable
introduction of syringes, bougies,  etc. 
SURGICAL DISEASES.
41
  Symptoms.  A difficulty in urinating, the
stream is divided into two or more parts,
urinating becomes more difficult  and pain-
ful, more frequent, etc.
   Hemorrhages.—From  the  Nose.—Causes.
Any derangement of the circulation that will
cause an  increase of the flow of blood to the
head,  injuries, blows, <fec.
  Symptoms.  Heat and itching of the nos-
trils, pain n the bead, giddiness,  ringing in
the ears,  etc.
  From the Lungs. —Causes. The rupture of
bloodvessels of the parts, the escape of blood
by  exhalation  from  the capilliaries  of the
heart.  The exciting cause  is violent strain-
ing, injuries, &c.
  Symptoms.  Weight an I pain in  the breast.
difficult breathing, a saltish taste,  etc.
  From the Stomach.—Causes. The frequent
use of powerful emetics and diastic cathart-
ics, bruises, blows,  intemperance, &c.
  Symptoms,  fain or uneasiness  in  the left
side, oppression in  the stomach,  hands and
feet cold, pale face, the blood is vomited up
and is dark and clotted and sometimes mixed
with food
  From  the Bladder—Symptoms.   A dull
pain in  th<* parts, the blood does not mix
with the  urine but remains in small clots.
  From the Kidneys.—Symptoms. The urine 
42
DISEASE IN INFANTS.
resembles bloody water, a heat and pain will
be felt in the loins.
  From  the Ureters —The  blood is  passed
by drops or  in a small  stream  and is not
mixed with urine.
  Causes of Hemorrhages from the Kidneys,
Ureters, Bladder and Urethra,  Violent exer-
tion, stone in the kidneys or uretras, spirits
ot turpentine,  cantbaradies, external  inju-
ries, &c.
(External SSgcis o>f disease In Cnfants

  When the pupils of the eyes are shrunk or
are drawn together, the eyes partially closed,
the white ot the eyes red streaked and of a
frowning appearance, is a sign of  inflamma-
tion of the brain.  An enlargement of the
pupils ot the eyes  a discolored tint  of the
countenance,  the  face soft,  is  a  sign of
water on the  brain.   When the lips are
pale and cracked, the inside of the nose dry,
the brain is about to be attacked wit h dis-
ease.  Wakefulness is a sign ot  irritation or
unnatural heat of the brain.   Moaning, d^ep
sighing are signs of effusion upon the brain.
The  eyes bright, fixed and turned up, the
pupils enlarging aal  shrinking is a sign of 
DISEASE IN INFANTS.
43
spasms.  A very pale face is a sign of bron-
chitis.   Any unnatural movement about the
nose and lips  is a sign of pain or inflamma-
tion of the bowels. When the legs are drawn
up it is a sign  of pain oc inflammation of the
bowels.  When the legs are drawn up and
the body doubled up, i'  is a sign of inflam-
mation in the chest.   Fits of screaming are a
sign of painful disease of the air glands.  A
hollow appearance of the eyes with  a dark
circle around  them, is a sign of  debility.—
When  the nose is drawn in during respira-
tion, the mouth open, the lips parched, there
is some obstruction in the air glands.  When
a hand or leg is moved by sudden jerks it is
a sign of pain.  A constant flush  to the face
is a sign of  fever.  Continued fretting is a
sign of disease.   Moaning is a sign of debil-
ity  and pain.  Wakefulness is a sign of great
weakness.  A  tossing of the head  is a sign of
pain therein.  A cough  with an  expectora-
tion, is a t-ign  of inflammation of the lungs
or air glands.   A dry, hacking cough arises
f.-om the stomach.  A short, catching inspi-
ration with cough, and an expression of pain
is a sign of  inflammation of one or more of
the organs of  the chest.  Quick breathing
and panting is a sign of pneumonia. 
44      SYMPTOMS  OF CONSUMPTION.

 The Symptoms of @@ras«ntptt©ii,
   ip@ncfeltts8  Ikapyrcgltls, Pfeap-=
      yngltls and Qnlnsjp by Mf°t
            feirent Au,tSi©ir§0

  "In the first stage of consumption the ex-
pectoration is of a thin or frothy character.or
resembling mucus; in  the second  stage the
expectorations present small cheese-like par-
ticles ot a light yellowish hue; in  the third
stage the expectoration is purulent anil con-
tains the cheesy particles.
  "In the first stage the expectoration is mu-
cous; in the second stage, if  any expectora-
tion, the matter expectorated is of a ropy and
visid nature; in the third stage the expecto-
ration is changed and becomes more copious,
opaque and visid, more massive and frequent-
ly streaked with blood or mixed with flocu-
lent wool-like or curdy particles; in the fourth
stage the expectoration is of a greenish-yel-
low,  or even sometimes  like tnfts  of wood
chewed, appearing  when viewed in water like
ragged round balls."
  "Expectoration at first scanty, then slight-
ly increased, colorless, frothy and mucous, af-
ter a time it becomes opaque, yellow and more
or  less watery, then  muco-purulent (mucus
and mattery), and  finally purulent, copious
and visid, when  tubercular matter is freely 
         SYMPTOMS OF CONSUMPTION.      45

 expectorated  with but little mucus, which
 sinks in water."
   "A spitting of  white, frothy spittle, as the
 disease advances the spitting becomes more
 copious and frequent, and sometimes streak-
 ed with blood, of d tough opake or dark sub-
 stance, solid,  and of a yellowish-green color,
 having an  unpleasant  or feted smell when
 thrown on burning coals, or if this matter is
 put into pure water it sinks to the bottom."
   "In  bronchitis the expectoration at first is
 a whitish, viscid, frothy matter, becomes thick
 and of a muco-puriform character, and is oc-
 casionally streaded with blood.  As the dis-
 ease advances the  expectoration  becomes
 more copious  as well as purulent and some-
 times quite fetid."
   "A ciear.frothy expectoration,with a saline
 ta:ste, which changes to a yellowish or green-
 ish sputa, or it may be streaked with blood."
   "In  laryngitis  the expectoration is white
 and frothy,  bot as the disease advances.dark
 and  bluish spots or masses will be observed
 in it, and sometimes it will be streaked with
 more or less blood; if it has extended  into
 the bronchial  glands the  expectorations be-
come  streaked at times with blood  and  in
other respects resembling puss."
   "At first the matter expectorated is mucus-
but as  the  disease advances, and ulceration 
46      SYMPTOMS OF CONSUMPTION

progresses  it becomes muco-pnrulent, per-
haps lumpy, bloody or is almost wholly pure
puss."
  "In pharyngitis tht re is a copious expecto-
ration of mucous from the throat."
  "In Quinsy there is a frequent but difficult
expectoration of mu^us."
  "In Consumption the cough may be slight
and hacking; at first it is dry but is soon at-
tended with an expectoration.   In the second
stage  the cough  increases in severity and
as more frequent.  In  the  third sta^e  the
cough  is almost constant and  very distress-
ing."
  "In  Bronchitis  the cough is more or  less
troublesome in cold and changeable weather
but is absent during pleasant or warm weath-
er.  When it is more of a serious character
the cough is very troublesome and is apt to
be more distressing at night and in the morn-
ing the cough is very apt to occur in  violent
paroxysms: upon the expectoration of mucus
the nt of  coughing becomes  somewhat re-
lieved."
  'In Consumption, first stage,  the cough is
very trifling.  In the second stage the cough
begins to assume  an anxious aspect and be-
come troublesome.  In the third stage the
cough is increased  In the fourth stage the
cough becomes severe."
  "Tn Bronchitis at first  the cough is spas- 
THE PULSE.
47
modic; thecough becomes persistent though
to some extent relieved by free expectoration
the cough becomes croup ."
   Palse In  Mealtn and  Disease.
  The Pulse in Health—The pulse in a child
 one  month old beats from  115 to 120 times in
 a minute; one year old 106 to 120; two years
 old 90 to  100; three years  old 80 to 100; sev-
 en years old 70 to 85; twelve years old 65 to
 70; twenty-one years old (it* to 75; old age, 50
 to 65.
  The pulse is generally a little more  plaint
 in males,  and a little faster.
  When the pulse beats faster than natural,
 it is  termed  hurried, rapid  or frequent pul-
 sation.  Corded pulse feels like a stretched
 cord beating against the finger.  Boundii g
 pulse feels full jumping at the fingers.  Fu 1
 pulse feels as if the arteries were full of blood
 Hard pulse, when the pulse cannot be sup-
 pressed;  intermittent pulse when the pulsa-
 tions cease  momentarily;  irregular pulse.
 when the pulse changes at short and unequal
 intervals; small pulse, when it strikes feeble
and  slender; soft  pulse, when  the pulse is
 easily  compressed  by the  fingers; strong
 pulse, when the pulse strikes the fingers 
48
THE PULSE,
with strength; tense pulse, the same as cord-
ed pulse; when it is irregular in striking as
well as in its  intervals;  wiry pulse, feeling
like wire.
  The Pulse in Disease.—Pulse small, quick
and irregular denotes the cold stage of inter-
mittent fever;  hot stage,  regular, quick,
strong  and hard;  sweating stage,  less fie
quent,  less strong and less hard.  Pulse full
and frequent as the  disease  progresses, the
pulse being slower than usual or quick and
weak denotes remittent or  bilious fever.—
Pulse variable, full, bounding and tense, or
weak and slow, or irregular and easi'y com-
pressed denotes congestive fever.
  Pulse quickened as the disease progresses,
quick  and small or hard  and full, denotes
scarlet  fever; when the pulse art; small, in-
distinct, irregular, easily compressed, and so
rapid as hardly to be counted, denotes scar-
let  malignant fever.  The pulse ^eeble and
irregular denotes typhus  fever in a  mild
form.
  The  pulse quick and small, fluttering and
irregular as  the disease progresses, increas-
ing to  190 beats to the minute, denotes ty-
phus fever in the malignant form. The pulse
quickened, hard and wyry but seldom over
100 beats to  the  minute (as the disease pro-
gresses) the pulse becomes more feeble some- 
THE PULSE.
49
 times more frequent, sometimes nearly nat-
 ural in its number of beats, denotes typhoid
 fever.
   Pulse soft, quick and small denotes hectic
 fever.  Pulse frequent,  often  120  beats to
 the  minute increasing to 140 denotes infan-
 tile remittent fever.  Pulse full and quick,
 some  slower  than  natural,  denotes yellow
 fever.
   Pulse  variable, may be weak and tremu-
 lous, may be tense and hard  but compress
 able, may be intermittent, may be  frequent,
 even  150 beats  to  the minute, flickering or
 impressable at the wrist denotes pernicious
 fever.
   Pulse small, feeble and irregular, becomes
 more full and regular, denotes spotted fever.
 Pulse  full, strong  and  frequent,  becomes
 small  and wiry, sometimes 160 beats to the
 minute denotes  puerpeal fever.  Pulse full
 and  quick  denotes dandy fever.  Epilepsy,
 the pulse small.  Apoplexy, pulse full,strong,
 regular or slow, becomes weak, rapid and
 unequal.
   Inflammation of the Stomach, pulse small,
hard and frequent;  in chronic inflammation,
small,  tense, frequent;   of the liver, strong,
hard and frequent;  of the spleen, pulse ir-
regular;  of the bowels, the pulse hard and
frequent, sometimes full;  of the  kidneys,
the pulse hard and frequent;  of the covering 
50              BATHING.

of the abdomen, pulse full, strong and fre-
quent, sometimes 140 beats to the minute.
  Pulsation is caused  by the  contraction of
the heart which  propels  the blood through
the arteries, which is returned through  the
veins to the heart.
               SathSng.

  Bathing is necessary in the treatment of
many diseases, and is indispensable in sup-
pression  and retention of urine,  A warm
bath cleanses the surface  of the skin, regu-
lates the  capillery  circulation  and reduces
the increased action of  the heart, and calms
nervous  excitement.  When it is necessary
to bathe the body a large sponge  should be
selected,  and when the patient is able to sit
or stand up the bathing should be commenc-
ed at the  shoulders and continue downward,
and  immediately dried with a coarse or fine
towel to correspond with the sensativeness
of the skin.  The time consumed in bathing
should not be more than fifteen minutes.—
When the patient is unable to sit or stand up
the water should  be  squeezed out of the
sponge so that the bed clothes do not become
wet, and  if they do they should be changed
for dry clothes at once.  The patient should 
THE MIND.
51
be continued  perfectly warm after bathing
by being placed in bed or otherwise to pre-
vent chilliness or cold.  The bathing should
be in a close room so  that the patient will
not contract cold by the air coming in con-
tact with the body.   The best way to bathe
the feet and legs is to immerse the  feet and
legs  in water contained in a tub. The arms
should be sponged.  In all cases of bathing
great care should be  taken to prevent cold.
   Pewetr and Iffeet ®tf the  Rtlnd.

  The mind has great power and effect upon
the nervous system, and the powers of life
in health and disease.
  Be cheerful, laugh and be happy, turn up
the bright side of all questions;  always have
some pleat-ant object in view, be resigned to
your fate or the will of God, and the nervous
system and powers of life will be continually
stimulated, you will be less subject to dis-
ease, and  when  diseased medicine will act
more powerfully upon your system.  Moder-
erate  love and joy produces a  happy influ-
ence upon the whole system and an increas-
ed action upon all  the organs thereof.  An-
ger, grief, fear, and great anxiety has  a de- 
52             THE  REMEDIES.

bilitating effect upon the nervous system and
powers  of  life, an 1  in many cases  it is the
cause of disease, hysteria, <fcc.  It requires a
powerful effort to overcome anger, fear, grief,
and great anxiety.  The most prompt efforts
to suppress these passions is to let the high-
er powers of the mind control you. and all
will be  well   We  should make  every effort
to be  cheerful and  happy;  we should give
God the glory for all  blessings received and
do unto all  men as we would have men do
unto us.
            Tne Rectt©<28eg0

  The remedies administered and applied in
the Independent Treatment are numbered
thus:
  No. 1.  Removes all accumulation from the
stomach and bowels and relaxes  the system,
so that disease is more readily passed there-
from and destroys worms.
  No. 2  Restores the stomach, liver, second
stomach and bowels, the spleen, capillaries,
and excretories of  the  skin and  destroys
worms.
  No. 3.  Restores she kidneys, uretus, blad-
der and urethra, and removes all unnatural
heat trom the system. 
THE REMEDIES.
53
  No. 4. Separates and removes that scrofu-
lous taint which is the cause of constitution-
al disease, with all other impurities and pois-
ons Iron the blood.
  No. 5. Stimulates and invigorates the nerv-
ous system and the powers of life.
  No. 6. Removes the mucus from the lungs
air glands and mucus lining of  the head and
nose  and restores  the organs of hearing.
  No. 7. Removes all the accumulations from
the stomach by vomiting.
  No. 8. Produces free sweating.
  No. 9. Restores the stomach  in case of lo-
cal disease.
  No. 10. Restores the bowels in case of dis-
interry,  diarrhoea, and when too  much  re-
laxed from any cause by astringing the parts.
  No. 11. Restores the stomach, lungs, etc,,
in ease of hemorages by astringing the parts.
  No. 12. Is applied  to withdraw pain  and
unnatural heat from the head.
  No. 13. Restores the urinary organs in case
of incontinency of urine.
  No. 14. Removes the  water  through the
urinary organs in  dropsical  diseases  and in
retention and suppression of urine.
  No. 15. Is a gargle administered  to remove
the false membrane  or spots  in diptheria,
and  to   cleanse the  parts  in  sore mouth,
thrush, etc.
  No. 16, Is applied to reduce inflammation, 
54            THE REMEDIES,
to remove  rheumatic  pain, to remove the
cause in shortness of breath, croup, cough,
etc., and to stimulate the parts in nasal cat-
arrh
  No. 17.  Relieves severe pain in tb« joints
and muscles when not  inflamed or when the
inflammation is reduced.
  No. 18.  Superates  boils, felons, etc.
  No. 19.  Counteracts the effects of  poisons,
snake bites, insect bites, bee stings and the
effects of poisonous eruptions of the skin
  No. 20.  Removes cancers, tumors, etc.
  No. 21.  Relieves stiffness in the joints.
  No. 22.  Reduces inflammation of  the eyes
and ears and heals the parts.
  No. 23.  Cleanses the head of dandruff and
restores the hair when  falling off.
  No. 24.  Is a bath to cleanse the skin.
  No. 25.  Is an injection injected to remove
accumulations of the bowels. 
          TREATMENT OF DISEASE.        55

 An Explanation  ©ff the Treatment
              of Disease.

  The Independent  System stimulates and
restores the excretories to an active condition
and thereby removes the cause of acute dis-
ease in a  few hours, or from three  to five
days, and chronic  diseases in from thirty to
ninety days as a general  rule with but few
exceptions.   The  question arises now can
disease be removed as above  stated?  The
answer is, Restore the diseased or debilitated
organ or organs and cleanse the blood.  And
in order to restore we should first remove the
unnatural  accumulations  from  the stomach
and bowels by catharsis which will also re-
lax the system so that disease will be more
easily  removed  therefrom.  In some cases
it is necessary to remove the accumulation
from the stomach by vomiting.  When the
accumulation is removed and the system re-
laxed, what next? is the question.  The next
question is, Where is the cause, is it  within
the stomach, liver, spleen or bowels, or is it
within the kidneys and urinary organs, or is
it within the lungs,  air  glands, or mucous
membrane of the head or nose ?  (Remember
that the above  excretories are the  organs
through which the  impurities and poisons
are passed from the system by the power of
the nerves.; 
56       TREATMENT OF DISEASE.

  The next question, What is the cause?—for
instance, What is the cause of fever ?  The
first cause is poisons inhaled, <fec.  The sec-
ond caus« is the retention of the poisons from
debility of  the kidneys  and  urinary organs
through which nature requires the poisons
to be passed, and  consequently debilitates
the whole  system,  hence first  restore the
kidneys and urinary organs, then the stom-
ach, liver, spleen, sweat glands  and bowels.
As soon as the kidneys  and urinary organs
are restored to an active condition the poison
will pass from the system, the patient will
become calm and rest easy.
  The  immediate cause  of  suppression of
of urine is inflammation or parysis, gravel in
the ureters, and perhaps causes unknown. —
Whatever the  cause may be, all that we can
do  is to stimulate the kidneys  by  applying
external  remedies and at same time make
every effort to pass the water  through the
bowels and sweat glands.
  In suppression of urine the kidneys fail to
secrete the urine, consequently will  not se-
crete medicine.  From this fact we learn that
it is useless to administer diueretics.
  Thus in all cases,  remove the  cause.  If a
cold affects the mucus membrane of the head,
nose, air glands, or lungs, stimulate the parts
When a cold affecfs the liver  or  stomach,
stimulate the parts,  and so on.  Food stimu- 
           TREATMENT OF DISEASE.        57

 lates the stomach, consequently it should b«
 as rich as the s omach will admit without
 injury.
   Air stimulates the  lungs, consequently we
 should avoid  the air which arises from filthy
 places, decaying animal substances, &s.
   Light stimulates the eyes, consequently we
 should  not place ourselves in a position to
 be shut in  from daylight  or  the light of
 the son,  neither should we continue  the
 light of a lamp  during the night  because
 whatever stimulates over-stimulates and will
 cause an injurious effect.
   Sound stimulates  the ears, consequently
 we should not be exposed to sound that will
 cause contusion of sound in the ears.
   The blood stimulates the heart, the brain,
 nerves and all the tissues of the system, con-
 sequently the blood  should be pure.
   Moderate love and joy stimulates the pow-
 ers of life, consequently  we should  make
 every effort to be happy.
   The first five  numbers  are the principal
 remedies in the general treatment of disease.
   Nos 1, 2 and 3 restores the system to an
active condition and removes a large amount
of poisonous accumulations therefrom.  No.
4 separates and removes from the blood that
scrofulous  taint  which  is the cause of con-
stitutional  disease, together with all other
poisons of  the blood. 
58        TREATMENT  OF DISEASE.

  No. 5 stimulates and  restores the nervous
system and the powers of life.  The remain-
ing internal remedies are helping  remedies,
and  are frequently  indispensible, thus  in
case of  dropsy No. 14 is administered  to re-
move the accumulation  of water through the
urinary organs.  In  case of  suppression  or
retention  of urine No. 8 is administered to
remove the water through the sweat glands.
No. 6 is administered to remove the matterv
accumulations from the  air glands and mu-
cous membrane of the head and nose, and to
remove the cause of deafness.
  The  external applications are also  indis-
pensable as you will  see in directions.
  In all cases of disease regulate  the bowels
so as to produce one or  two  actions every 24
hours.
  In all cases of acute  disease (except here-
in-after otherwise directed) administer  No 1,
then No. 3.
  In all obstinate cases of costiveness  or in-
digestion  in acute diseases administer No."
to produce free vomitiug, then No. 1.
  In all cases of excessive  vomiting caused
from disease  or otherwise  apply  mustard
over the region of the stomach, which should
not remain long enough to blister.
  In all cases of excessive heat or pain  in the
head apply No. 12 to the soles of the feet.
  In all cases of disease of the throat, nasal 
          TREATMENT OF DISEASE.        59

catarrh, air glands and  lungs, inflammation
of the kidneys,  etc , apply No. 16 over the
part effected.
  When  the  inflammatory  symptoms are
passed from the system the pulse will become
moifc regular with a relief of the severe symp-
toms.
  When the pulse becomes slower and irreg-
ular in inflammation  or fever it is an unfa-
vorable symptom.
Treatment  ef  Acute  Bnfl.tmntatQrj
               diseases.

  In acute inflammatory diseases administer
No. 1, then in six hours No. 3 in doses large
enough  to produce a cathartic action  upon
the bowels,  then  reduce  the  dose so as to
regulate the bowels to once or twice a day—
administer every two, three or four hours as
the urgency  of the case may require.   Con-
tinue one, two or three days or until the un-
natural heat is passed from the system, then
administer No. 2 until restored.
  In cases of a typhus or typhoid condition
of the system administer No. 3 and No. 5 al-
ternately; also No. 2 and  No. 5 alternately,
first one and then  another. In  addition to 
60        TREATMENT OF DISEASE.

the above treatment in case  of inflammation
of the  brain, apply warm water to the head
(and evaporate byfanning) and apply No. 12
to the soles of the feet, and so continue until
the severe symptoms of the head are relieved
  In case of inflammation of the ears inhale
No 6 alternately with the treatment.
  In case of diptheria, quinsy, bronchitis,
lyrangitis, pharyngitis, asthma, pneumouia,
pleurisy and inflammation of the heart, ap-
ply No. 16 over the parts effected.
  In case of croup  administer No. 7 to pro-
duce free vomiting, and  apply No. 16 over
the part effected, and except pleurisy, croup
and inflammation ot the heart, inhale No. 6
three times a day.
  Inflammation of  the stomach, in connec-
tion with  the general treatment in  case of
vomiting administer  No. 9  in minute doses
and in  all cases apply No. 16 over the region
of :he stomach.
  When  inflammation is caused by taking
poisons into the stomach, if  discovered be-
fore there are any  symptoms of misery or
pain or immediately after, administer No. 7
to produce  free vomiting,  then, when the
poison  is an opiate or any other narcotic ad-
minister strong coffee; when mercury or the
preparations thereof,  calomel, corosive sub-
limate, red  precipitate,  white  precipitate,
vermillion and turpeth mineral, arsenic, cop- 
          TREATMENT OF DISEASE.        61

per,  bismuth, tin, zinc, creasote,  oil of to-
bacco and fusel oil, first produce free vomit-
ing, then  administer milk  and the white of
PggS—all  the stomach will admit.  When
the severe symptoms are  removed adminis-
ter No. 1 to produce a complete actioD upon
the bowels, then administer flaxseed tea four
or five days.
  In inflammation of  the liver and spleen
when there is a pain in either side apply No.
16 over the part affected.
  In inflammation of the kidneys apply No.
16 over the region of the kidneys.
  In case  of suppression of  urine proceed as
directed under the head ot  suppression.
  Inflammation of the womb, apply No. 16
over the region of the pain.
  In inflammatory rheumatism apply No. 16
to the joints  or parts effected  and rub with
the hand or flannel.
  In  erysipelas apply  No.  19 over  the part
effected.
   In the treatment of fever administer No. 7
everv fifteen  minutes until  free vo • iting is
produced or  the unhealthy accumulation is
removed from the stomach, then administer
No. 3. the first two doses  large enough to
produce a cathartic action  upon the bowels,
the second dose in four hours  after the first,
then reduce the dose •one-half or two-thirds
so as not to physic  too much, and continue 
62        TREATMENT OF DISEASE.

until the unnatural heat is  passed from the
system  and  the severe  symptoms relieved
(wiiich  will require fvom four to  ten doses)
then  administer No. 2 until health is re-
stored.   When the treatment  has been com-
menced  by other cathartics omit No. 7 and
commenje with No  3.  If  the system  has
been  reduced  to a typhoid or typhus condi-
tion administer No. 3 and No. 5 alternately,
also No 2 and No. 5.
  Fever can be commenced the same as in-
flammatory diseases but it will require a few
hours longer to restore.
  J n all cases of severe pain in the head ap-
ply No. 12 to the soles of the feet.
  In the treatment of epilepsy, catalepsy, ap-
oplex ,  Hysterics and paralysis, all that can
be doue to remove the cause of these diseases
is to administer the constitutional  treatment
commeucing with No. 1 and continue No. 2,
No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5. and  to  prevent by
removing   the  immediate cause  when the
symptoms precede the attack. Thus, when
the cause  is accumulations  in the stomach
administer No. 7 every fifteen minutes until
the accumulation is removed,  then  adminis-
ter  a  dose of No. 1.   When  opium  is  the
cause, or any other narcotics which produce
stupor or  unnatural sleep, administer No. 7
and No. 1 as  directed, then  strong coffee.-
When  costive is the cause  remove by  ad- 
          TREATMENT OF DISEASE.        63

ministering No  I  and  No.  2  until  the
stomach  and  bowels are  restored.   When
female disease is the cause administer N'os.
I, 2 and 3 and  if the disease  is  hereditary
No. 4.  When excitement is the cause restore
the system to a healthy condition and  avoid
as near as possible  all that will  create  ex-
citement,   When pressure of bone upon  the
brain is the cause or if the  pressure is caus-
ed  by bony excressences  or  tumors, or if
teething is the cause a surgical operation is
necessary.   Whatever  the cause may  be,
when it can be ascertain- d, ren>ove by  ad-
ministering the proper remedy and applying
external applications.
  No internal treatment  is  required  during
the attack of epilepsy or catalepsy.  In epi-
lepsy apply  cold  water  to the neck and
breast.  During the attack of apoplexy cloths
wet with cold water should be  applied to the
head and No. 12 to the soles of the  feet.  A
reaction should be produced by rubbing  the
head and temples with the hand.  When  the
patient has  recovered  administer No. 7 to
remove the accumulation from the stomach,
then Nos.  1, 2, 3 and 4 as directed. 
64        TREATMENT OF DISEASE,

  ©lireotl@ns In <Broir@nl©  Disease.

  In chronic diseases pursue  the  following
treatment, except in  cases otherwise direct-
ed, administer No. 1 every six hours, one,
two or three doses as  the case  may require,
to move the bowels twice or three times.
In obstinate cases of costiveness administer
No. 1 twice or three times a day as the case
may require to move th^ bowels twie<* every
twenty-four hours for five or six days, then
in complicated diseases or general debility
of the stomach,  liver,  spleen, bowels  and
sweat  glands, kidneys, uters, bladder and
urethra, administer No. 2 three times a day
ten or  fifteen days as the case may  require to
restore the  stomach,  liver, &c. to  an active
condition,  then  No. 3 ten or  fifteen days,
then No.  4 if necessary to cleanse the blood.
  In diseases  of the  lungs, air glands, and
mucous lining of the head and nose while ad-
ministering the above treatment inhale No.
6 and No. 2 alternately  thus.  No.  2 at six
o'clock No. 6 at nine. No 2 at twelve and so
on, and apply No. 16 over the  parts affected
three times a day.
  In nervous diseases,  catalepsy, epilepsy
apoplexy, paralysis, hysteria, &c,  and in all
weak conditions ot the body administer No. 5.
  The  milder form or chronic  disease  is re-
moved in from thirty to  forty days, the more 
TREATMENT OF DISEASE.        65
 obstinate  cases in fror> forty to sixty days,
 and perhaps one of every Ifteen may require
 ninety days.
   In inherited diseases  and poisons  of the
 blood restore the excretories to an active con-
 dition by administering  Nos. 1, 2 and 3, then
 No. 4. ar.d  continue until the  symptoms are
 removed.   If the  bowels or urinary organs
 fail to act as nature requires while  adminis-
 tering No  4 administer a dose or two of No.
 1  to restore the  bowels  or  three  or four
 doses of No. 3 to restore the urinary organs,
 then continue No. 4.
   When the stomach, liver and  bowels are
 restored to  an active and healthy condition
 the  feces will be of a yellowish color, a soft
 consistency and passed once a  day.
   When the kidneys and urinary organs are
 restored to an active  and  healthy condition
 the urine will be of a slightly yellowish color
 and  passed  three  or four times a day, and
 when the  blood is cleansed  of all poison
 which nature requires to be  passed  through
 the urinary organs there will be no sediment
 in the urine and the foam which  arises  to
 the  tcp of  a vessel will remain but a few
 minutes.
  That rheumatism, nasal catarrh, bronchitis
and all  diseases of  the throat,  air gland and
lungs (except consumption) can  be  cured
there is no doubt if the appropriate remedies 
66        TREATMENT OF DISEASE.

are administered  in  time, and the patient
use every precaution to prevent contracting
cold, or  continuing  the parts weak by exer-
tion.
  Remember that while the producing cause
is overpowering the  medical treatment it is
impossible to cure.
  For instance:  In  rheumatism,  when the
patient is continually exposed to  the  causes
of the acute  attack it is but seldom cured,
and when  rheumatis™ has effected the hip,
knee, or ankle joints, it-is almost impossible
to cure while  the weight of the body is con-
tinued upon the effected parts.
  Nasal catarrh is the most difficult  to cure.
The cause is  inhaling the cold  air  to  the
parts  effected.  Bronchitis, &c.. are  a little
less difficult, but in all  cases  use all nit ans
possible to prev< nt cold;  thus,  when gong
out into the cold air wear a veil or handker-
chief over the nose and mouth  to  prevent
the cold  air  from being  inhaled, and avoid
all exposure from  which yon  will contract
cold,  an I  thus  continue throughout  the
treatment and convalescent treatment or un-
til the parts are restored.
  In rheumatism  while administering  the
constitutional treatment apply No. 16 to the
joints or parts effected.   In erysipelas apply
\'o. 19 to the iuflammed  parts;  in  case of
king's evil No. 20; in cancer No  20;  in case 
          TREATMENT OF DISEASE.        67

of boils apply No. 18;  in case of carbuncles
and in all eruptions of the skin apply No. 19
to the parts.   In case of dropsy administer
No 14 to remove the water, then the general
treatment.    In  diabates  first  restore the
stomach, liver,  &c, then the  kidneys and
urinary organs.  In incontinence ot  urine
administer Nos. 1, 2, 3 and  13.  In  partial
suppression  of urine  restore the  stomach,
liver, etc.. then if necessary administer No
8 to produce  free sweating, then administer
No. 3 and at  the same time apply No. 16 over
the kidneys.

        >>< i  ression of Uine.

  In total suppression of  urine  all  means
must be employed to remove the water from
the system;   the kidneys do not secrete the
urine, consequently it  is useless to adminis-
ter medicine  to act upon the urinary  organs.
The sweat glands and bowels the are organs
to act upon  to  remove the water until the
cause of  the  suppression is removed, then
restore the kidneys to a healthy condition by
administering No. 3.
  First place  the patient in a warm bath for
fifteen minutes, then dry  the  skin  with a
towel and administer  No. 1  once, twice or
three  times to produce a complete cathartic
action upon the bowels.  Continue the bath-
ing three times a day from the first beginning 
 68        TREATMENT OF DISEASE,

 and when  the cathartic  action is produced
 then administer No. 8 every two hours and
 apply No. 16 over the  region of the kidneys
 after each bathing.   Continue this treatment
 until free sweating is produced and the cause
 of suppression is removed, then  administer
 No 3 until the kidneys are restored.  When
 the cause of suppression is removed the se-
 vere s\ mptoms will be relieved an d the urine
 will pass through  the urinary organs.  As
 soon as the cause of suppression is  removed
 the bathing  and  No. 8 should be omitted—
 Continue the application of No. T6 over the
 region of the kidneys.
  Retention  of urine requires the same treat-
 ment as suppression of  urine  except No, l(j
 which is applied over the region of the blad-
 der and  the course of the  uretha, and in
 cases of total retention a catheter should be
 introduced.
  In incontenence of urine administer No. 3
tor ten or fifteen days, then No. 13 until re-
 stored .
  In case of  gravel  administer No. 3 for ten
 or  fifteen days or until the kidneys are re-
 stored to an active condition, then No. 4 un-
til the urine becomes natural.

              Hydrophobia.

  The first symptoms are pain in the  bitten
part, great thirst, and loss ot appetite, an ex- 
           TREATMENT OF DISEASE.        69

 pression  of alarm, pain in the bones, chok-
 ing, hearing noises, &c.
   In case of mad dog bites apply No 19 every
 eight hours uutil the  parts are'healed at the
 same time administer No.  1 every six hours
 until complete catharsis is produced, then
 No. 3 ten days, then No.  4 twenty  days.—
 Regulate the bowels  twice a day during the
 treatment by administering No. 1 if neces-
 sary.  This  treatment may prevent  hydro-
 phobia, but if not. upon the first symptoms
 place the patient in a warm bath for  fifteen
 minutes,  then dry the skin  with a towel and
 administer  No. I  once, twice or three times
 to produce a complete cathartic action upon
 the bowels.   Continue the bathing three
 times a  day from the first beginning  and
 when the cathartic action  is produced then
 administer No. 8 every two hours  Continue
 this treatment until  free  sweating  is  pro-
 duced,  then a minister No.  4  every four
 hours until restored.
  Marochetti. of  Moscow,  made some very
 interesting observations on  persons bitten by
 mad dogs, and  he asserts that in most cases
 small knots appear under the tongue, at the
opening of the ducts of the sub maxillary
glands, which are situated at each side of the
tongue string; and that by the use of a probe
a fluctuating fluid, which is the hydrophobia
poison,  may be perceived.  On one occasion 
70        TREATMENT OF DISEASE.

fifteen persons  bitten by a mad dog applied
tor cure on the same day and the small knots
which he mentions were observed in twelve
of them.   On another occasion the treatment
of twenty-six persons—nine men, eleven wo-
men and six children— was confided to him,
and the same knots  occurred in nineteen of
them; in those the worst bitten, on the third
day. in others on the fifth, seventh and ninth
days, and in one  woman who was very su-
perficially  bitten  in  the leg,  only on the
twenty-filth day.  Thus  the  usual time for
their  appearance seems to be within  the
third  and ninth days.
  The means of  prevention  employed by
Marochetti consisted in  carefully examining
the mouth once or  twice  a day, and as  soon
as these  knots or  pustules appeared  they
were opened  and cauterized with a red hot
needle, after which  the  patient washed his
mouth frequently  with  a decoctiun of  the
Genista Tinctorm or  "Broom  Tops."   It is
proper to remark, however,  that if the  pus-
tules are not opened  and treated within the
first twenty-four houis after their formation,
the poison is absorbed into the  system aud
the patient is lost beyond the power of cure.
The  result of this  treatment  was that all
those ot the first experiment  (fourteen  in
number, two of whom had no knots,)  were
dismissed cured at the end of six weeks, and 
           TREATMENT OF DISEASE.        71

 all the twenty-six cases mentioned afterwards
 recovered under the same treatment.   They
 were  all  sound and well three years after-
 wards when  seen by Marochetti.  During
 the period of treatment  the patients  also
 drank the decoction of "broom," but it was
 effected  by opening and cauterizing the pus-
 tules, without the decoction having any in-
 fluence over the disease.

 The  Necessary Precautions in the  Treatment of
                  Disease.          k

   Remember  whatever stimulates will  over-
 stimulate and produce irritation of the parts,
 consequently while  administering tUe con-
 stitutional treatment be careful not  to over-
 stimulate.  When you have administered
 No. 2 'en days, the stomach  and bowels be-
 ing restored to an active condition,  and the
 severe symptoms relieved, commence  with
 No. 3, administer ten days, then if the urin-
 ary organs are restored to an active condi-
 tion commence  with  No. 4 and  administer
 ten days or continue until the urine becomes
 as nature requires and all poisonous symp-
 toms of the blood removed, or if necessary,
administer Nos. 1, 2 and 3 each fifteen  days,
then No 4 until all symptoms are passed from
 the system.
  When the severe symptoms are removed
and as the  patient continues to improve les- 
72      CONVALESCENT TREATMENT.

sen the dose; if  three  pills  is  the  dose re-
duce  to  two or one pill.  If any symptoms
appear which is not  common  in  disease
discontinue the medicine for  a  few  days
or a month.
  In  some cases the  system  will  not ad-
mit of a certain  remedy which must be dis-
pensed with as  soon as discovered.  These
remedies will be known from the symptoms
they cause.  When disease is removed from
the system and the nerves restored, medicine
will over-stimulate  and  cause  nnpleasaut
symptoms.   You should  not entertain any
fears from  the  above precautions,   because
any person will  know from the effects when
a remedy is not admitted or when he is re-
stored.  It  will be but very seldom that one
of my remedies will  be contra-indicated in
the treatment of disease.
   The GenvaBeseent Treatment.
  When the symptoms of disease are remov-
ed, and the stomach, liver, bowels and sweat
glands, the kidneys and  urinary organs, the
lungs, air glands and mucous membrane of
the head and nose are restored  to a natural
condition, the diseased organs or the whole
system remains  weak, and  patients should 
         CONVALESCENT TREATMENT.       73

 be very careful in order that they don't col-
 lapse,  either  by exposure  to  cold  or the
 changes of the atmosphere, by going against
 the cold  wind,  by cooling  suddenly when
 warm,  by setting in a cold draft of air, over-
 powering the nerves at laborious exercise, or
 whatever tends to  weaken or injure, as eat-
 ing too much, drinking too much, &c.
   When a "old is contracted or from what-
 ever cause  the  organs fail to perform their
 part, restore by administering the  proper
 remedy and  so  continue  until the natural
 health  and strength is restored.   In diseases
 of  :he lungs, air  glands, nasal catarrh, and
 throat,  the patient should prevent  the inhail-
 ing of  cold  or night air  by wearing a veil
 over the  mouth and  nostrils.   The diet
 should  be easy digested and  as rich as the
 stomach will admit of.
  When the system is  restored to a healthy
 condition  continue health by removing the
 cause of disease.  Thus when a  cold  is con-
 tracted  administer the  appropriate remedy.
Thus when a cold effects the mucous lining
 of the head, nose, air glands or lungs admin-
 ister No. 6;  when the stomach or bowels is
 the seat of the cold administer No.  1 and No.
2:  if the kidneys or urinary organs is  the
seat administer No.  3. &c.
  Why  do not  the  whole family become ef-
fected with the same disease? 
74      CONVALESCENT TREATMENT.
  When  one of a family  contracts  disease
from causes to which the whole family is ex-
posed, why do they not all contract the same
disease?  For instance,  when  a family are
exposed to malarial poisons, one or two will
become sick with malarial fever and the rest
will not be  effected with  fever.  One  of a
family may be attacked with typhoid fever
and the rest remain well, or  all but one of a
family be attacked with  contageous  disease;
sometimes the whole family is attacked with
the same disease.  Why is it?  It is because
of the weakness or inability of the excretories
to pass the poison from the system, which is
the cause of disease.  When the excretories
of the system  are acting harmoniously  to-
gether the ordinary poisons  and impurities
will pass therefrom.
  The question is, can disease be prevented
after we are exposed to the causes ?
  The answer is, it can in  many  cases  be
prevented and when it is not prevented the
symptoms are mucn less severe and of short-
er duration.  The unnatural  heat in cases
of typhoid fever  has been  passed  from the
system in five hours after the unnatural heat
arose when the  treatment was commenced
with the  first symptoms. 
FEVER.
75
                 Fever.
  Fever is a disease of the fluids of the sys-
 tem.  It is an annatural heat caused by a re-
 tention of poison, which  nature requires to
 be  passed through the kidneys.  Fever is an
 unnatural heat let the condition of the sys-
 tem be as it may, the fever is the same.  For
 instance,  a typhoid condition  of the system
 is a low and weak condition of the nervts.-
 The word 'typhus' is used to denote a de-
 pressed and  sinking  state of the powers of
 life.  Biliary  effections are diseases of the
 stomach,  liver and bowels, hence the terms
 typhoid fever, typhus fever, bilious fever, &c.
 That fever, as a general rule can be passed
 from the system in from twelve  to thirty-six
 hours, and health restored  in from three  to
 five dajs  has been proven in Hampstead and
 vicinity.   If fever  can be passed from the
 system and  health restored as above stated,
 is it not dangerous to permit the fever to run
 its course and destroy all those who are not
 able to resist the severity of its attack ?
  The duration of fever is from seven to nine
 days; convalescence about  the  same time,
 which is from fourteen to eighteen days until
health is restored.  The average duration of
typhoid and typhus fever is twenty-one days
convalescence  twenty-one  days which is for-
ty-two days until restored and health is not
fully restored  for a long time. 
76
RHEUMATISM.
              Rheumatism

Described b> different authors and cured by
administering the Independent Eclectic and
Restorative Medicine.
  Rheumatism was supposed by the ancients
to proceed from an increased secretion  of
fluid matters.  Some locate it in the muscu-
lar tissues, others decide that rheumatism is
an inflammation of the surface of the joints,
others view it as a nervous  disease,  another
decides that it is a disease of the blood.
  Acute rheumatism is described as a pain*
ful disease affecting the nerves, muscles and
joints.  Chronic rheumatism is described  as
pain in the joints and muscles frequently ex-
isting  without  any previous inflammation.
  Neuralgia is described  as  pain of a nerve,
attacking the nerves of  the  face,  breast,
joints, &c, not caused by any other disease.
  Sciatica is described as rheumatism or neu-
ralgia  ot  the sciatic nerve.   Lumbago  as
rheumatism  in the  museles of the back.—
Hemicrania as rheumatism  or  neuralgia  in
the scalp.
  Rheumatism may be complicated with  oth-
er diseases, such as hip disease, white swell-
ing, broken bones, sprains, gout,  &c.
  The Independent System treats rheuma-
tism  as an  inflammatory condition of the
blood.  See page 20. 
BEER DRINKING.
77
   leer  Banking Destructive  ©f
                Health,

  Upon this  subject Colonel Green,  Presi-
dent ot the Connecticut Mutual  Life Insur-
ance Company, says:  "In one of our largest
cities, containing a great population of beer
drinkers, I had occasion to note the deaths
among a large group of persons whose habits
in their own eyes and those of their friends
and  physicians were temperate; but  they
were habitual  users of beer.  When the ob-
servation began they were upon the average
something under middle age, and they were,
of course, selected lives.  For two or three
years there was nothing very lemarkable to
note among the group.  Presently death be-
gan  to strike it, and until it had dwindled
to a fraction of its original proportions the
mortality in it was astounding in extent, and
still more remarkable in the manifest identi-
ty of  cause  and mode.  There was no mis-
taking it;  the history was almost invariable;
robust, apparent health, full muscles, a fair
outside, increasing weight, florid faces; then
a touch of cold, or a snuff of malaria, and in-
stantly some  acute  disease with, almost in-
variably,  typhoid symptoms, was in violent
action, and ten da  s or less ended it.   It was
as if the system had been  kept fair outside,
while within it was eaten to a shell, and at 
78            BEER DRINKING.

the first touch of disease there was utter col-
lapse;  every fiber was  poisoned and weak.
And this, in its  main  features,  varying of
course in degree, has been my observation
in beer drinking everywhere.   It  is  peculi-
arly deceptive at  first;  it is  thoroughly de-
structive at  the last." 
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            Hampstead, Carroll Co., Md. 
80
doctors'  phrases.
An IxpJanatlen ©ff B>@©t@ir§8 Pnrases

  Anatomy—The art of seperating the differ-
ent parts of the body-
  Abdominal Viscera—The  stomach, liver,
spleen, intestines, kidneys, &c.
  Acromion Process—The long projection on
the top of the shoulder.
  Aerate—Receiving  the oxygen of  the air
into the lungs.
   Albumen—A  poison  circulating  in  the
blood, which partakes of the character of an
egg
  Amaurosis—A partial  or complete  loss of
sight without any apparent alteration in the
eye except a changeable  condition ot the pu-
pil through which the rays of light pass.
  Anemia—Paleness  from want of red glob-
ules in the blood
  Aneurism—A swelling or an expanded con-
dition of an artery.
  Arteries—The vessels  which convey  the
blood from the heart.
  Aorta -The largest artery of the body from
which the principal arteries arise. The Aorta
arises from the  left ventricle and circulates
the blood through  the  whole  body.  The
pulmonary arteries arise from the right ven-
tricle, and condeys the blood to the lungs to
receive the oxygen of the air.
  Aphonia—The loss  of voice. 
             doctors' phrases.           81

   Areola—A colored circle around a pimple.
   Asphyxia—Apparent death.
   Asthenic—A disease of debility.
   Atrophy—Decrease in size.
   Ausculation—Listening  to  the  different
sounds.
   Biliarv  Affections—Diseases in which  the
flow of bile is connected.
   Bilious—An increase of bile.
   Capillaries—Hair-like glands  placed  be-
tween the arteries and the veins.
   Cache—Calcarious oxalate of  lime  in  the
blood.
   Calculus—Stone or gravel in  the kidneys,
bladder,  &c.
   Cartilage—Gristle attached to the ends of
bones.
   Cerebel Disease—Disease of the brain.
  Cervical Vertebra—The first  seven  joints
of the backbone commencing at the skull.
   Cervix—The  neck.
  Clonic—Spasms alternating with periods
of sudden relaxation,
  Coalesce—Running into each other.
  Coccyx—The lower bone of the spinal col-
umn.
  Collapse—Failure of strength, prostration.
  Coma—Stupor or sleep.
  Congenital—Existing from birth.
  Congestion—An accumulation of blood.
  Contortions—Unnatural twitching. 
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DOCTOBS' PHRASES.
  Contraindisated—A medicine which makes
a disease worse.
  Crisis—The turning point in disease.
  Critical—Certain periods of disease which
indicate a favorable or unfavorable change.
  Deliquium—Fainting.
  Delirium—Wandering of the mind.
  Diathesis—Any particular habit of consti-
tution.
  Discriminate—To tell one disease from an-
other.
  Dorsal Vertebra—The twelve joints of the
backbone below  the curvical vertebra.
  Etiology—That branch of the science of
medicine which treats of the cause of disease.
  Ecstaoy—Suspension of  Ihe  senses  from
the rrind being occupied with certain ideas.
  Edema—A soft white swelling filled with
fluid which  gives no  pain on pressure.
  Effete Matter—Worn out particles.
  Effluvia—The  invisable  emanations from
diseased bodies; and from all other bodies.
  Effusion—The  pouring out of  blood  or
other fluid into  the cavities of the body.
  Emaciation—Leanness, reduced in flesh.
  Hygene—The  department  of  medicine
which treats of the preservation of health.
  Hemoplysis—Spitting of blood  from the
lungs.
  Hepatization—When the lungs  are filled
with water so that the air cannot enter them. 
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  Hypertrophy—An unhealthy enlargement
of an organ without change of structure.
  Ichos—Thin discharge.
  Incipient—The beginning.
  Indolent Ulcers— Ulcers that progress slow-
ly and without pain
  Infectious Diseases—Those which one per-
son will catch from another.
  Interstices—Minute   tubes  coiled  upon
themselves, which separates the perspiration
from the blood in the capillaries.
  Lassitude—Dullness and weariness of body
  Lethargy—Sleep  from which a person is
wakened with difficulty.
  Livid Color—B'ack and blue or of a lead
color.
  Malady—Disease; maladies, diseases.
  Malaria—Gasses arising from decomposed
animal or vegetable matter.
  Malignant—A serious :disease,  sometimes
incurable.
  Marastmus —Wasting away.
  Metastasis—Removal of disease from one
part to another.
  Mitigation—Soothing,relieving the severity
of disease.
  Neciosis—Mortification of a bone.
  Nosology—That branch of medical science
which treats of the classifisation of diseases.
  Nosography—The science of the descrip-
tion of disease. 
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DOCTORS  PHRASES.
  Orthopnea—Great difficulty of breathing.
  Ossification—The formation of bone.
  f anereas—A gland seated behind the stom-
ach,  secreting  the panereatic juice.-
  Parotid Glands —The large salivary glands
situated  near  the  angle  of  the lower  jaw,
which secrets the liquid that  moistens the
mouth and food.
  Pelvis—The bony cavity at the lower ex-
tremity of the body which supports the in-
testines.
  Predisposed—Having a tendency to become
affected with certain diseases.
  Premonitary Symptoms—The first symp-
toms of disease which indicates the nature of
disease, thus:  disease of the liver, &c, the
symptoms of the kidneys.
  Prognosis—  1 he art of foretelling how dis-
ease will  terminate.
  Ptyalism—Salivation.
  Pulmonary—Belonging to the lungs or pro-
ceeding therefrom.
  Pulmonie—Disease of the lungs.
  Paranchema—The substance contained  in
the intersticies between the blood vessels of
the viscera.
  Poison in this volume has reference to the
deadly poisons which  will cause death by
taking an overdose.
  Physiognomy—The science of discerning
the mind from the features of the face. 
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  Physiology—The offices of the different or-
gans ot the body; the offices which the organs
perform; the science of the mind.
  Philosophy—The love of wisdom;  in gen-
eral terms, denoting an  explanation of the
reason of things.  The objects of philosophy
are to ascertain facts or  truth and  the cause
of things.
  Prophylactic—Medicine  which  preserves
health, a preventative.
  Pathology— That part of medicine which
explains the nature of disease.
  Rectum—The  lower bowel.
  Salifiable—Capable of combining with an
acid to form a salt.
  Symptomatology—That part of the) science
of medicine which treats of the  symytoms of
disease.
  decretory also  Excretory Vessels—The  or-
gans that  receives the secreted fluid on poi-
sons from  the blood, and excretes the poisons
to the external parts.
  Transient—Short lived.
  1 remors—Trembling, shaking.
  Theraputics—The  healing  art;  the art of
re toring.
  Verix—An  enlargement of a vein in whioh
the vein presents soft, knotty tumors.
  Virus—The contageous principle of infec-
tions disease, an unhealthy poison.
  Viscena—The organs contained in the cav- 
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DOCTORS' phrases.
ity of the body, the liver, kidneys lungs,&c
  Ventricles—The right and  left cavities of
the heart which propel the blood into the
arteries.
  Veins—The vessels which return the blood
to the heart.  The blood is conveyed  from
the arteries to the veins through  the  capil-
laries.  The auricle receives the blood from
every part of  the body.
  Zoogony—The doctrine of  the formation
of living beings. 
 
 

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