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                 ERRATA.
ggT'SPECiAL   Attention—On  page 125,  last
    formula,  should  read  Iodide  of  Potassa \
    ounce instead of 4 ounces.
On page 7, line 4, for "pop-"' read poplar.
On page 23. read  hartshorne for "heartshorn."
On page 58. under palpitation of heart, in 4, line
    read  that,  for  "than.—6, line read heart for
    "heaet.
On  page  40,  in  head-line, read Hemicrania for
    "Migraine."
On bottom of page 125, read Tcdide  Fotassa  \ oz.
    instead of "4 ounces."
On page 156 read preventives for "preventatives."
In the dictionary  of  medical terms  read Rubefa-
    cients for  "RuDescents."—Tetanies fcr "Teu-
    tonics."—Endemic for "Endemic."—Hemi-
    crania  for  "Ilemicromia."—Resession  for
    Resersion."
Sometimes "inflammation"  is  spellel with only
    one m, there  should be two.
Read  Diphtheria instead of "Diptheria. 
 
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Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1887
           By  Weston G. Hamilton,
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Introductory Remarks.
 .  In offering this  little book  to  the public, I would
 have no one to think that I by so doing, intend to dis-
 parage the Physician,  or undervalue his talent or
 worth. Nor do I propose  to sell any drug  or  proprie-
 tary medicine.  Nor would I have any one to think for
 one moment that I lay any claim to superior knowledge
 or attainments in  the cure and treatment of diseases;
 nor yet, would I have  my  fellow practitioner to think,
 or feel, that I would do him an injustice.  I claim to be
 far from this. But, my sole object in offering this little
 book to the public is to do good.
   Having been engaged for year3 in  the practice of
 medicine, I have often seen and  felt the  great  need of
 more information on the part of the people.  And,  too,
 more means of cure in their hands, with knowlede how
 to  use them, would  often not only save them from
 large and. useless bills, but  would often save  some  one
 of the family that otherwise might die.
  Sometimes life is too far spent to recover,  before the
doctor can be had; and when he  comes has to say:  "It
is too late," when  a little care at the right time would
have kept the patient in the doctor's reach. And, not
only so, but often render the doctor's visit unnecessary.
  Thousands of families live remote from the doctor,
 and often it happens that when you go for him that he
is away, or engaged, so that he cannot be  had,  it mat-
ters not how much his services are needed.  I have said
that my sole object is to do good, and In order  to do so
I have used every means and spared no pains to make
this book plain and comprehensive.  I have consulted
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experience. I have tried to reduce everythingto simple
and common sense method. I have used as few tech-
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possible, and have given a short  Dictionary, explaining
medical terms; also, I have classified the medicine, both
foreign and domestic, and given  a  table of medicines
and doses.  And when treating on diseases I have been
plain,  as  I was writing for the non-professional.  I
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may fall can find almost a ready help in time of  need,
and in the treatment of near a  hundred  different dis-
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and hope that every one may find help in reading these
pages.
  I am aware that there are deficiencies  in  my  work„
notwithstanding I have been as particular as I well
cSuld be to avoid mistakes,  and withall  I feel assured
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deal of valuable information, and will be an efficient
counsellor in time of distress and danger.
  Not  only  will the non-professional find this book of
great service, but the physician will also find conven-
ient refferences and formulas not found elsewhere.
  And now  I am done writing this little volume, and,'
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  And now praying God that it may prove itself worth
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                             W. G.  HAMILTON. 
                        5
                    FEVER.
   Under this head I  propose  to notice a great
 many diseases of  a febril  ch^acter common in
 this country..   I believe  that if fevers were named
 and  called more after  the cause than they are,
 the people would more readily understand  them
 and know much better how to treat them.
   For instance,  "Billious Fever," by this name
.one would suppose  that  this type of fever is caus-
 ed by bile or  some  derangement of its functions.
 This is a mistake, and sometimes leads to a wrong
 course of treatment.  This type of fever has been
 called by many names, such  as Billious fever,
 Billious  Iiemitent fever,  Malignant fever, • Swamp
 fever, Bogg fever,  African  fever, Bengal fever,
 Michigan fever, Hungarian fever,, and Jungle fe-
 ver.   In the late war Chickahominy fever, Mias-
 matic fever, Malarial fever, and sometimes errone-
 ously called Typhoid fever, and when it assumes
 a low, continued type, with symptoms of debility
 and nervous exhaustion it is  called Typho-Mala-
 rial fever.   Now as this  little  book  is  intended
 for non-professional readers, I do not propose to
 give all the minute discrimination in  the different
 types of this disease, if indeed it should be called
 a disease, for I do not  believe that fever is a dis-
 ease itself, but that it is a symptom of some spe:
 cific  poison or local cause as diseased  tissue.  I
 propose to notice this fever in its general charac-
 ter wider the name of Malarial  fever, regajdless
of the many  names by which  it  is  known,
because   it  is    a   well   established   fact
that   it  depends   entirely  find  alone upon 
                       6
the presence of malarial poisons.
  I consider all these types thus, congestive fever,
pernicious fever, and tyjmo-malarial fever,  modi-
fications of the same disease, and are only higher
and more dangerous types of malarial fever, Orig-
inating from the same cause, to wit: miasmatic or
malarial poison.    In order to distinguish these
different types of fever we might say  it is inter- •
mittent-malarial, remittent-malarial, pernicious-
malarial, congestive-malarial or typho-malarial.
   And while the treatment is the same mainly in
all these types of fever, yet, the more malignant
or the higher the type, the more decided  physio-
logical action of medicine  is demanded,  and the
more  prompt  should  these indications  be met.
To  go into the more minute and lengthy details
causation, clinical history and anatomical charac-
ter, would be a useless expenditure  of  time,  ink
and paper.
   I shall therefore  give such symptoms of this
fever as the non-professional can readily  see  and
understand, and  then, the treatment on general
principles.
                   SYMPTOMS.
   When you are taken with a chill or shake,  fol-
 lowed with fever and in a few hours you  begin to
sweat, and  the  fever passes  off, you may know
 that you have  intermittent fever especially. if it
 recurs in a day or two.   In this case you should
 take at first ten grains of  quinine and  then  five
 grains every four  or six hours till you pass the
 time   for   the    next   shake   and   if   it 
                       7
should recur, do the same thing over;  if you can
not get quinine  drink warm  cotton . seecl tea,, or
willow bark tea, or a cold infusion of boneset and
willow, or a tea of sweet apple tree bark, or  pop-
bark or hickory bark, or dogwood bark, peruvian
bark, wild hoarhound, or iron wood.   Of. these a
half a tea cup full may be taken three times  a day
for a  grown  person and less in. proportion for a
child.  These remedies should be continued for a
week or two in less quantities, to hinder a return.
But if the sweating stage does not come and the
fever continues,. for twenty-four hours or  more
and the symptoms  are more  severe with pain in
the head, severe aching  in  back arms and legs,
eyes or skin yellow and so on you may be pretty
sure that you have remittent fever, if the fever is •
very. high, the  first thing to  do is to get up a
copious sweat.  To  do this mix Sweet spirits of
of nitre 1 oz.,  Ipecac twenty grains, tincture of
veratrum forty drops; of this the dose for a grown
person is 20 drops every two hours til}  the  fever .
begins to abate and you begin to sweat; then you
are to take twenty grains of  quinine on a start,
and if the  fever rises again first give the  drops
and then five grains of quinine, that is  every two
hours, and if. the stomach will not retain the med-
icine put a good mustard plaster on the pit of the
stomach  and  lessen the dose of drops to even ten
drops, and if the stomach will not keep anything 
                        8
  no it, give the stomach rest, and dissolve  twenty
  grains of quinine in about two spoonfuls of water
  and vinegar  and  rub it on the stomach, repeat
  this every two hours, till the fever is broken.  A
  teaspoonful of peach tree leaf infusion every  five
  or ten minutes will arrest the vomiting in most
  cases.    If  you cannot get the nitre, ipecac and
  veratrum, mentioned above, give freely a tea made
  of the root of butter-fly weed, also  known  by the
  name of pleurisy root.   In  fact  anything to pro-
  duce a  sweat is  proper,  but  you must not lose
  sight of the fact that Quinine is the remedy in all
  malarial fevers, it is the best  ami  most reliable
  antidote >to malarial poison.   It is  i.rue that other
  remedies sometimes answer  a good purpose, but
  of all the remedies known in  the  wide scope of
  our researches in materia medica,  quinine is the
  best,    Give  your  patient water  in reasonable
•  quantities, when he wants it, give  him  lemonade
  if he wants that, and let him drink as much sweet
  milk as  he wants or can from the very start, and
  if he should sink into a low nervous state  of de-
  bility, support his strength with milk punch, egg
  nogg and toddy.    If  the bowels  are too fast or
  run off too much, give a few drops  of laudanum,
  say ten,  fifteen or twenty drops sufficiently often
  to check the bowels,   say  every two, four or six
  hours.    Of course, I earnestly insist on  your
  calling in a good and skilful physician  to attend
  on all these continued forms of fever.   But  if it
  is impossible to get a doctor, the foregoing course
  will be the best you can do in such cases. 
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               TYPHOID FEVER.
  This type or disease has been called  by several
names, nervous fever, continued fever, enteric fe-
ver,  dolthin-enteritis, and sometimes  abdominal
typus.
  I  believe the  proper name should  be enteric
fever, and in my mind it is undoubtedly an erup-
tive  fever and should be considered  under  that
head.
  The cause  of Typhoid is a  specific virus or
poison generated by decayed animal matter, while
malarial  fevers owe their origin to decayed  vege-
table matter.   I do not believe that one can run
into the other, but that the patient may be  infec-
ted by both poisons at the same time.  As to the
symptoms of this fever, perhaps  the first indica-
tion of  typhoid   fever  that  the  inexperienced
would  notice is active delirium, a dark matter called
sordes  on the teeth, and tenderness and swelling
of the  bowels, a tendency to diarrhea, a rose col-
ored eruption  on the body.  It occurs  more fre-
quently  in fall  and winter  than in spring and
summer. '  The prognosis or tendency  of this
disease is generally favorable,  though I have seen
the mildest cases prove fatal.  Many other symp-
toms are always  present, by which  the skilled
physician readily recognizes the  disease, but  are
not given here for the reason that the non-profes-
sional  could not understand them.
  As  to the treatment of Tpyhoid fever, there is 
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no medicine  known in materia medica that will
cut short the disease, consequently you are to  de-
pend* upon good nursing, nourishment and clean-
liness.    You should  give  milk and other light
nourishing -diet, eggs in moderate quantity,  (not
cooked hard), keep  the body and teeth clean, re-
move all the discharges from the patient at once
and  bury  them some  distance  from the house,
keep his room clean and well ventilated.  If  the
bowels  run  off too much  give him from ten to
twenty drops of laudanum every four or six hours.
I have found a little spirits in blackberry wine a
good thing;  In typhoid fever, quinine is useless
only as a tonic, for which purpose it acts well  in
one or two grain doses every  two or  four  hours.
No acid should be given in this disease,  nor any
solid  food until the  patient  is considered well.
Turpentine, too, is very serviceable when the bow-
els are sore and swolen, applied on a cloth.   You
should  obtain  the  services  of a well informed
medical man in these cases of  fever, if possible*
if you cannot, you should follow the  above  rules
as nearly as you can. '
               TYPHUS FEVER.
   As  this  fever is rarely seen or met with in th«
country, and when it is, it is  so  much like  ty-
phoid,  that  the inexperienced could  not make
proper discrimination an order to treat it.  I shall
therefore dismiss Typhus  and  Yellow fevers in
this place, and perhaps,  entirely,  also spotted
fever, hectic fever and small pox. 
11
       SCARLET FEVER, (SCARLATINA.)
Also called tanker rash.
  There are several  types of this infectious and
dangerous disease, but I shall notice it under its
general head and recommend a treatment  on gen-
eral  principle.
  This is  a highly  inflamatory  and dangerous
disease, and it  is  catching "from one to another.
It comes on like  other fevers, patient is dull and
stuped, loss of appetite, chilly sensation followed
by  fever,  head  ache,  red eyes, sore throat, fast
pulse, quick breathing,  skin hot and dry, swoleri
tonsils, and  an  eruption with  swelling  in  the
throat,  finally  a red eruption breaks out on the
face, neck and body.  When these  symptoms  ap-
pear you should call the best doctor in your reach
without delay, but if you cannot get one, or, until
you can get one you should give the  child  warm
catnip tea or sage or parseley root.   If the child's
bowels are bound up give some cooling purgative,,
as oil, warm lemonade is good to drink.  To wash
or gargle the throat is important  when it is very
sore and swolen.  Make a tea of red pepper, mod-
erately strong  add vinegar and salt and apply or
gargle; or bou oak bark and add  vinegar.  Take
good yeast and sweet oil, equal parts, and give  a
small  teaspobnfuf  occasionally,    and gargle or
wash the throat with yeast  Make a, strong  tea
of mullein and make a mush  of corn meal and
apply to the throat, neck and face.  Keep the  feet
Warm.   Sometimes this fever is followed by drop-
sy.   The  remedy in  that case must be to remove? 
                      12
the fluid; for this purpose,  the  best  thing I ever
used is a cold infusion of parseley root,  to one tea
cupful put ten or fifteen  grains of salt petre or a
piece as large as a pea, and a teaspoonful of cream
of tartar, and give a teaspoonful every hour.   If
the child is very weak give him wine.  After the
swelling is gone  give the  child as many drops
of tincture of iron  as it is years old, four times
daily. Parseley need «ot be used unless in dropsy.
             MEASLES, (RUBEOLA.)
   I  will just say in the the outset, you  cannot
cure measles, it  must run  its course.   All that
can be done  in measles is to paliate, to help and
combat accidents  and  complications.   Simple
measles needs no medicine, only care.  When you
are about to take the measles  you  will feel tired
and stretchy  have  head ache  and fever, eyes wa-
tery and swolen, running at  the nose,  sneezing,
more fever,  sore  throat and hoarse, some  cough,
finally eruption  breaks  out, first  in the  throat,
then on the. breast and body.  As to treatment, I
give cold water all the time and cold  lemonade.
Keep the house well ventillated.  Never let your
patient be in a  current of air, especially if it is
damp.   It  is all stuff to keep the doors and win-
dows all  shut  and  chinked  and  daubed and a
continued  roaring fire;  it  is not only  stuff, it is
actually  barbarous.   I  treat  measles just like I
would  my other case of fever.  Of course, care
should be taken  not to take cold after it breaks out 
13
 sometimes we are troubled with bleeding from the
 nose—let him snuff alum water up his  nose and
 apply a cloth wet in cold water to his nose—some-
 times he spits up blood, don't get scared unless it
 is in large quantites, if so give him a teaspoonfull
 of common salt, let him swallow it as dry as pos-
 sible, sometimes  Diarrhea is troublesome, don't try
 to check too soon, dewberry root tea or  oak bark
 tea will commonly  check it, sometimes the cough
 is very severe, a little honey and slippery elm wa-
 ter will do that good, it won't do to stop the cough1
 too soon, sometimes weak or sore eyes follow meas-
 les, in this case shade your eyes, wear green glasses'
 or stay in a few days.   Elm or flax seed poultices'
 are good for the eyes,  all through  your confine-
 ment your  diet  should be light and nourishing
 drink rnilky eat milk and mush &c.    I  know  of
 no disease more catching than measles, and I know
 of no disease when  complicated with other diseases
 that carries off a  greater number of  children,  es-
 pecially so  when complicated  with pneumonia,
 whooping cough, scarlet fever, &c.   It is more fa-
 tal in fall and winter  than in  spring  and  early
 summer.  One ounce  of preventive is  worth a
 pound of cure.   Keep out of it
             MUMPS, (PAROTITIS).
Mumps is an inflamatory effectiOn of the paroted
gland and other glands  of the mouth and throat, it
is a catching disease and you  cannot cure  it,  it
will get well itself in a few days, if you  will take
care of yourself, don't take cold  nor jump or lift 
                      14
for some Jime after you think you are well, or you
will likely find yourself mistaken, sometimes other
organs become affected  and you must put  hot
poultices to your jaws and neck and steam  your-
self over bitter herbs, stay in bed, take warm teas &c.
Mumps is not dangerous.  If you are careful you
need no medicine except a dose of salts or oil  if
your bowels are not open,  let everything sour or
sweet alone.   Jamestown leaves applied to  the
painfull parts will relieve pain.
                 HICCAUGH,
sometimes called hiccups,  may  be relieved by  a
scare or supprise  or anger or a teaspoonful of
vinegar or a  little  peppermint,  a few  drops of
Shartshorn in a little water will stop it, a mustard
plaster over the stomach will relieve it, but one of
the best remedies in ordinary cases is to lock your
hands together so you can press your fore fingers
together firmly and hold them together  till  you
can feel the pulse in your fingers beat and the
trouble is gone, you should  never  try this  only
when you have JLiccough.
                 DIARRHEA
is a too frequent action of the bowels, it is  more
common in warm weather, though  it may occur
any time.   A great mistake is  made in the treat-
ment of this  troublesome and  dangerous  disease. 
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 Of all the diseases to which the human family is
 heir,this is the most common.  And  there is  a
 larger percent of mortality among children  than
any other one disease, and  I believe that there  is
 less attention paid to it as  a rule Jnotwith standing
 the heavy mortality produced or caused  by  its
 merciless ravages upon adult and infant.
   Diarrhea has been divided into several varieties
 according to their different  types  and exciting
 causes.  These types or kinds are called:
   1st chylous diarrhea.  In this variety the dis-
charges are of a dingy milky appearance  and   is
•depending upon an inflamed or  congested  condi-
 tion of the mucus membrane of the intestines and
 is generally associated with a  diseased  condition
 of the mesenteric glands;
   2nd, lienteric. diarrhea.   This type of diarrhea
 depends mainly upon a derangement of the  stom-
 ach and digestive organs.  The food passes into
 the intestines undigested giving rise to a consider-
 able amount of pain and irritation  and soreness,
 the food passing  from the bowels almost or  quite
 as it was swallowed.
   3rd, feculent diarrhea.   In this  kind the dis-
 charges are large and watery and depends partjy
 upon the relaxed condition of the system and part-
 ly upon indigestion, bad water, bad air,  or bad
 food all or either may induce this  kind  of  diar-
 rhea.  During the late war more soldiers died   of
 this diarrhea than any other one disease.    It   is
 very exhausting,  and sometimes reduces a  fleshy
 strong man to almost a skeleton in a short time. 
16
   4th.   Billions  Diarrhea.   This type  of the
disease is more commonly accompanied with sick
stomach and vomiting, the discharges are abundent
and it is supposed to depend upon  viciated bile,
unhealthy state of the liver &c.'
   5th.  Mucus.    In this kind of diarrhea,  there-
is  considerable mucus  often streaked with  blood,.
the discharges are not  so  abundant.   General'
causes:  exposure  to heat,  cold,  improper  food,
drinking too much bad water, parasites  in the
bowels &c.   In fact it would be out of the question
to say all that might be said of this disease  in  a
book like this.  To give all the symptoms of any
and every type of this formidable and troublesome
disease together  with the various remedies  and
modes of treatment that has been and are yet being
used for a cure, it would swell this little volume
to double its size.  For when diarrhea  assumes a
chronic form it is certainly one of the most troub-
lesome and the most intricate diseases that we have
to contend with, but there are general  principals
upon which we should work, and the general rem-
edies we can use to advantage in the care and treat-
ment of this disease, and to those means and rem-
edies I shall now proceed to call the attention of
the reader.
   As a general rule it is proper  to  take  some-
thing to work off the offending matter,  for  this.
purpose I know of nothing better than ten  grains
of rhubarb and the  same  of calomel,  but as
some  people  object  to  calomel, the following 
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is better in sonic casses, and may be as good in ev-
ery case especially if too much acid is present.
         Rhubarb in powder,      £ oz.
         Bicarbonate potassa,      i oz.
  Grind well to-gether and take a half teaspoonful
in water every two hours till it  operates,  repeat
this daily, during  the interval, take a strong infu-
sion of oak bark, dewberry root, black berry wine,
&c.
  I believe I will  say right here, in the strongest
language, that I know of no remedy that  will  so
effectually strengthen the stomach  and  improve
the condition of the bowels,  neutralize  the acid,
remove flatulence, restore the bile, and  throw  off
all the  unhealthy accumulations  and  restore
healthy action to the liver and kidneys, than  the
compound syrup of rhubarb and  bicarbonate of
potassa.   I make it thus:
         Fluid  extract of rhubarb 1 oz.
         Ess. of cinnamon by measure £ oz.
         Ess. of pepermint,  I oz.
          Finely ground bicarbonate of potassa £oz.
          Simple syrup 1  pint.
   Shake well to-gether; the dose is from a tea to
a table spoonful every 2 or 4 hours as  the  case
may be.  I will now proceed to give other  reme-
 dies used with success in a case of diairhoea.
         Paregoric 4 table spoonsful:
          Ess. cinnamon 1 teaspoonful.
          Ess. pepermint  1 teaspoonful.
   A teaspoonful every two hours  till relieved. 
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         Camphor 20 gr.
        Ipecac and opium each 6 gr.
  Make 12 pills, take one every four hours,
                     OR
        Prepared chalk, 1 dr.
        Tiuct of kino 3 oz. (fluid.)
        Laudanum, 1 oz.      "
        White sugar gum arabic each 1 dr.
  Mix  and take a teaspoonful every 4 hours,
                     OR
         Subnitrate of bismuth 4 dr.
         Turpentine, I dr.
         Ipecac 15 gr.
  Mix  well and make eight powders take one  ev-
ery four hours,
                     OR
  Parch a halfpoundof rice brown, make a tea of,
and drink a half tea cup  full  every  half  hour
until cured.
  I think that the foregoing will be found  amply
sufficient for the cure of common case of diarrhoea,
the doses are adults doses, children will take less
according to age.   Many of the  remedies  under
the head of flux and  dysentery are equally  valua-
ble in diarrcea, also  under the head  of cholera-
morbus will be found remedies for diarrcea &c.
  In all these remedies containing opium, as par-
agoric  and laudanum, small children should take
very small doses, for  vomiting  in  diarrhoea you
will find the remedy  under the head  of cholera-
morbus. 
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            CHOLERA INFANTUM
or summer complint in children.
  This is one of the most  fatal diseases among
children, generally during the second  summer of
life, teething children are more subject to the dis-
ease.
  Symptoms:—This disease generally  commences
like ordinary diarrhoea with loosness of the bowels
and most commonly vomiting, with fever, though
sometimes there is but little fever at first  though
it comes on with the more  sevete symptoms  of
the disease.  The discharges from the  bowels  are
commonly greenish, sometimes yellow, sometimes
mixed with blood, sometimes  very offensive to the
smell, sometimes no smell at all,  sometimes  the
food passes through undigested, in such cases the
discharges become very thin and watery and  emit
an awful smell.  The child is very restless fre-
quently tossing himself about, rolling his head, of-
ten screaming out frightfully, drawing up his legs
and making other signs  of great suffering (I have
seen  some cases however have bnt little pain  or
vomiting for sometime.)
  The pulse are quick,  a great demand for water,
mouth and tongue dry, head hot, feet  and hands
generly cold, the abdomen swolen, and sometimes
feet,  hands and even the face, the lips  are red  or
purpleish, now everything put in his  stomach is
thrown up at once—the fever sometimes  cools a
little of a morning but rises higher in the evening-*
the child pays but little attention to calls, sleeps
with eyes half shut, ears drawn back,  nose pinch-
«d up, hiccough, convulsions and death.  Though
sometimes this disease runs on for weeks or  even
months before it proves fatal, sometimes the child
dies  in a few hours. 
   Causes: improper food, bad air, damp  and  ill'
* ventilated houses, erowded  cities,  uncleanliness,
 &c, sometimes severe heat,  unripe  fruit,  soured'
 vegitables taken into the stomach may induce an
 attack of cholera infantum.
                  TREATMENT.
   Of all the remedies that I shall give for this very
 troublesome and highly dangerous disease,   there
 is no  one remedy that will come as  nigh  curing
 every case of cholera infantum as the  compound^
 syrup of rhubarb and potassa, see under  diarrhea
 on page 17.   This syrup maybe given in teaspoon-
 ful doses every half hour till  it  operates freely,
 then four times daily.   If there is  vomiting  put
 a poultice of mustard or horse radish on the stom-
 ach or give a teaspoonful of peach tree leaf  infu-
 sion every ten or fifteen minutes, or give  a  little
 vinegar in water, or give a little ice, or give an in-
 jection of warm water up the bowls, if after  vom-
 iting stops there seems to be much thirst give  a
 little elm and wild cherry bark water, or  parched
 meal tea, a little sweetened vinegar and water but
 not too mnch of anything at a time.
    If the above syrup should fail, which it seldom
 does, you should give sweetened dewberry root tea,
 or black berry wine in boiled milk,  or give  the
 child ten grains of subnitrate  of bismuth   every
 six hours, or put a teacup full  of parched rice in
 a pint of water and let the  child  drink  of  this.
 Boiled milk with powdered cinnamon should con-
 stitute its principal diet, you  should take  the
 child out in open, pure air, keep all  the  clothes'
 clean and sweet, 'never keep the child in  a   damp
 close room.
    I should  have said in the proper  place that if 
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there is much pain in the bowels,  poulticeses of
bitter herbs over the bowels will be  proper,  live
or ten drops of paragoric will do good, a few drops
of spirits of camphor in any of the above  teas or
infusions will do good, in order to keep  the  skin
in good healthy condition you should put a tabic -
spoonful of common soda in a quart of milk warm
water and bathe the child or rather wash it  with
this every day, or if there is much fever use warm
vinegar and water  instead of the above,  nothing
will contribute more to the comfort of the  child
than this bathing, wipe the  child dry, there is no
danger of taking cold by it.  "When  the  child's
head is hot aply cloths wet in cold  vinegar  and
water to its head, care should be taken not to  let
them drain or drip, and if feet are  cold  as -they
generally are you  should  aply   warm water to
them, you may use cloths wet in mustard  water
but something dry is much better, such as  warm
flannel or shawl, some times bathing the child in
spirits does good even when death seems  ineveta-
ble, and the child pays no  attention  to the calls
of its weeping mother.
               CONSTIPATION.
   A great many people both young and old suffer
from inactivity of the bowels, their  passages  are
hard, dry and slow, sometimes it is  accompanied
with sick stomach, pains, headache, loss of apetite
wind or a rumbling sound in the bowels,  a dispo-
sition "to sleep, dizziness  of  the  head and  fever.
One of the most common causes of habitual  con-
stipation in grown people is carlessness and  inat-
tention to their bowels, and sometimes it is caused
by diet, inactivity or change of water, the  use of
opium &c. 
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  Treatment should be as simple as possible, it is
a matter of great importance to overcome this con-
dition, since it is liable to give rise to  an endless
train of evils and even death.  The best  way to
overcome it is by habit, go regular about the same
time ever day, drink slipery elm water, or  stir in
a teacup nearly full of cold water, a large table-
spoon full new corn meal and drink it down  two
or three times daily, drink a half tea cup full of
sena tea or take a spoonfull castor oil,  or  use  a
soap-suds injetion every day or  take cold infusion
of bone set.   In constipation  during  pregnancy
prepare the following:
         Powdered Rheubarb 1 dr.
         Bicarbonate of potassa J dr.
   Grind well to gether and take about what will
lie on a dime about an hour after  each meal or
regulate the size of the dose so  as to give one but
not more than two  actions daily,  or  take equal
parts by weight  of Rhubarb  and carbonate of
Magnesia, mix and take a teaspoonfull as above.
   For Infants take fruit syrup and molasses equal
parts, give a teaspoonfull two or three times a day,
or neats foot oil teaspoonfull, or castor oil same,
or insert a piece of shaving  soap  up  the bowels
every day, or use a syringe and soap suds (of shav-
ing soap).
   If people would eat more corn bread and  milk
and mush, they would be four times more healthy
and stronger people. Let a man eat cold corn bread
and peas and meat boiled,  not fried,  and drink
about one hundreth of the coffee und  more   milk
or cold water, and he will work down four  times
 his weight in hot biscuit eaters, and  no  trouble
 as a rule with his bowels.   Ask old people  about
 this. 
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                 HEAD ACHE.
   This depends upon so manv causes it would be
 dificult to point out and particularize,  but  it  is
 sufficient to say the  most  comon depends  upon
 some derangement of the stomach or  bowels, and
 cold or excessive heat some times upon the un-
 healthy condition of the blood.   Nine times out
 of ten you will cure the head ache by improving
 the conditions of the bowels and stomach, by tak-
 ing a mild lexative or by a vomit you will get re-
 lief.  If it depends upon cold ten grains of  Qui-,
 nine in a cup full of some  warm tea or even warm
 water will do good, apply  horse  radish leaves to
 the temporals will in a great many cases give re-
 lief, or a teacup full of as  hot water as  you  can
 drink will often do you good.
  Sick Headache  depends  sometimes  upon too
 much acid in the stomach  and some times a  lack
 of acid.  If too much an antacid  is required for
 this purpose take 20 drops of  hearts  horn every
 hour till relieved and try to sleep, or a  teaspoon-
 full of soda in some water  or  take the ammonia
 (hearts horn) in a teaspoonfull of paregoric  and
 water.   Smell of hearts horn or  sulphuric  ether
 every few minutes, or carbonate of ammonia, or
 suck the juice of the  comon nettle up the  nose,
 then try to sleep, or if it depends  upon the  want
 of acid as is known by a desire for something  sour,
 drink sweetened water made sour by adding  vine-
gar, or drink lemonade, try to sleep  and  when
 your head is easy or in the intervil to take tincture
of Iron 20 drops 3 times daily in water.  Keep the
bowels open by the use of Rhubarb and Potash,
See page 22. 
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   BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE (EPISTAXLS.
  Bleeding from the nose is not ordinarly a very
serious accident, some times it  is,  and  requires
treatment and this depends upon the circumstan-
ces of the case, if the bleeding should  be  unpro-
voked or natural and not severe nothing is required,
but if it should be very profused or bad, then cold
water on the head and back of the neck will  an-
swer or hold a cloth wet in cold  water  on  the
nose, or snuff cold water up the nose.  Alum  wa-
ter  or a Strang tea of oak bark  pressing  on  the
<"%t side of the nose generally stops it, sometimes
you will have to push a little role  of  cotton   or
soft cloth up the nose so that it will come in con-
tact with the bleeding vessel or pull a  piece   up
through the mouth by a string,  this string  mr.st
be put through the nose on the  bleeding side  and
pulled out through the mouth and tied to the  role
of cotton and then pulled up from the inside  till
it comes in contact with the bleeding  vessel,  this
cotton may be wet in some  astringent  water,  as
alum water oak bark or something of  like nature.
Tf the bones of the nose should  be broken from a
blow or fall or  other  accident  then  the  bones
should be replaced or put back  before the  above
means should be used.   When  the  nose  bleeds
much in fevers, measles &c. we should   not  use
to much cold water on the back- of the neck,  and
never in measles, mumps &c. but the snuffing and
plugging may be  resorted  to,  always   with
safety, but  you   should  not  alow  the  plug
to   remain  too  long   after    the    bleeding
stops  better  remove   it  if  you   have   to 
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 use another generally  speaking,  when people are
 apt to bleed much  from the  nose their blood is
 thin and face pale, they should  take  some tonic
 as tincture of iron, oxide of iron,  gentian, &c, in
 order  to overcome  this  condition of the blood
 The bowels should be  kept open or in  good  con-
 dition,  the skin  should be kept clean, and they
 should eat light,  nourishing diet,  sleep in a well
 ventillated room.    They should take care not to
 over eat or exert themselves, nor  gouge the 'nose,
 nor blow the nose—like they were trying.to. blow
 their brains out.  All  these means, and any and
 all others should be used, and every precaution
 taken in order to avoid too  much bleeding  from
 the nose.  Lock  your hands snugly over the top
 of the head, or hold your  arms  straight up  for
 some time  is  a  very popular remedy with some
 people,  or chew brown paper, or hold your mouth
 full of cold water, or slip a  piece of iron or  other
 cold metal  down  the back, or if you cannot get
 that take a stick and wrap a rag around it, wet it
 with cold  water  and  slip  it down the back.
 These are all very popular remedies, and have no
 doubt done much  good.  But I will now give one
 more remedy  for  the stopping of blood not only
 from the nose but anywhere else.   I will give this
 remedy, well aware that fools will laugh at it like
 I used to do—I  will not only give you  the reme-
 dy  but  also  the  manner of using it  and then I
 will give you a few cases of success which I  saw
 after all mechanical, surgical and medical means
 were exhausted and some  of  the patients were
abandoned as hopeless cases of bleeding. 
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  Thus you must memorize that passage of Holy
Scripture found in Ezekiel, chapter 16th, and 6th
verse.  To use this Scripture you must first call
name of the  person (all  to be said to yourself,)
then read  or  say  over  this verse; do this three
times, and the last time you will add in the name
of the Father  and of the Son and of the Holy
Ghost,  I command you in your blood live.  I used
to call  this conjureing,  superstition, stuff, &c,
and laugh at it but when I saw the  case,  I will
now give,  it stopped all that  and I was  lead to
wonder and to think.  The  first case I saw of
this wonder was a man who was wounded  in the
battle of Seven Pines.  He was shot through the
thigh,  and as  arterial  blood spurted freely and
abundantly, we  saw but little chance for him I
applied the tourniquet severely, but to no purpose.
I then  tried a  mighty  compress  and it did no
good; then I said to Dr. H.  we must cut down
and try to take up the the bleeding vessel.  Well,
said he, be quick, and I arranged myself with a
knife to make a deep and long incision and a man
stepped up and  said,  "dontt  cut,  I'll stop it"
Said I, you?  "Yes, yes," said he, "be still"  The
doctor said hold on; I stopped and wondered what
he was going to do.  I  looked at  the bleeding
wound and then  at the  man and said  to him,
what are you going to do?  He  said, "I am done."
I looked again at the wound and behold it had
stopped, and I do not believe he bled a spoonful
afterwards, and  the  young man  shouted out,
"Thank God somebody knows something  besides
 Pap. 
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   Another case was  that of bleeding from the
bowels in the Winder hospital, 3rd. division ward.
A man  by the name 01 Cole had hemorrhage
from the bowels, four  doctors were present and
the  last remedy had  been used, and the doctor
said, "Poor fellow,  we have done all we can, and
now you must die. if there is anything you  want
to say  you must  say it soon."   I heard a faint
voice behind me say "if you will tell me his name
I will stop the blood."   I looked around and saw
a pale-faced young man on a bunk.  John  Cole,
was  the name given  by the ward master.  The
young man shut his eyes and seemed  to be whis-
pering in his sleep.  Presently he opened his eyes
and  said,  "He  will not pass any more blood."
The ward-master said, "Gentlemen,  this young
man never fails, I have seen him stop blood in
more than twenty  cases, and  it stopped right
there, too."   I stayed  there five days after that
and  Mr. Cole  never bled any more but got well
again.   A  valuable horse,  in a  spree of play,
jumped on  the yard palings and cut a large blood
vessel on the inside of the left thigh.   I was near
by and was called to see if I  could do  anything,
and at the same time there was an old lady near by
who  they said could  stop  blood, she was also*
called and got there in a few minutes after I did-
I told  them there  was  no way as I saw, unless
they could throw the horse and confine him so I
could take up the bleeding vessel. By this time
the old lady was on the ground  with  her  Bible-
open.   She walked  solemnly to the horse and
read  aloud as above recited, and  in two minute*
by my  watch,  the blood  completely stopped.. 
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  I  have heard  of  many cases as marvelous as
those I saw, and many, if not all,  no doubt, were
true.  Now,  I am not surprised at this; but, when
I read and  see  the  promises in the Holy Book,
and particularly in the four Gospels, I am utterly
surprised that a thousand times more is not done.
  Some say  that  the day of miricles are passed.
This  may  be' so,  but if so, it is because of the
weakness of our faith.   I have seen  tooth-ache
and other severe pain stopped in less than a half
a minute by the use of Divine authority.  Oh, ye
Solomons, how  is this?  To Theorists and wise
Philosophers, I propound this  interrogatory.   ■
       PAPITATION OF THE HEART.
  This  is no disease of itself, reader, but that it
is  sympathetic,  or,  rather  a  symptom  of some
other diseased organ.  This  is distinctly felt and
is sometimes so severe than medication  is  neces-
sary.  It is a rapid beating of the heart; sometimes
it is called  fluttering of the heaet.  I have seen
people fall with it; and in fact I have  seen some
cases that were truly alarming." Somtimes it will
shake even the whole body.  This  affection may
depend upon dropsy of the heart,  (Hydropericar-
deum) or dropsy of the chest,  (Hydrothroax) or
upon  an enlargement of the heart.   But nine
cases  out of ten it depends upon some derange-
ment of the organs of digestion.   If it depends
upon derangement of the great workshop itself,  a
few  doses  of the compound powder of Rhubarb
and Potassa will give relief or powdered charcoal
or magnesia or sulphur and  salts or anything 
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that will improve the stomach will help  palpita-
tion of the heart.   If it depends upon  dropsy a
removal of the fluids will give relief. (See dropsy)*
If  it depends upon Hypertrophy (enlargement)
or whatever the cause, it will be helped by taking
from ten to fifteen drops of the tincture  of Digi-
talis or Sheeps Laurel.  Diet should be light and
nourishing, avoid late or heavy suppers as well as
severe exercise and overheat and  keep the  bowels^
open.
                   VERTIGO.
   This, sometimes called swimming of the head,. <
depends  nearly  always upon a rush of blood to
the head in a minor degree,  or in other words too
full blood vessels  of the head.  This indicates
either Dyspepsia, Apoplexy, Hysteria or Epilepsy,
and sometimes it tells us of a tardy action of na-
ture in the menstrual functions.   Whatever  the
cause you will be benefitted by cold water on the
head, a quick action from the bowels,  warm  feet,
&c.  You should by all means live on  light diet,
keep  the bowels  open, take open-air   exercise
drink no coffee or tea nor  eat fat meat, drink  no
liquors, keep the brain cool, the stomach  easy and
the feet warm.
                HEART BURN.
   This is a burning sensation in the throat,  and
is not dangerous and requires but little treatment.
A little soda water, or magnesia, or corn meal,  or
a few grains of  parched corn  or coffee will do
good; it depends on derangement of the  stomach. 
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                 DYSPEPSIA.
  This  is  indigestion,  and of all the diseases or
ailments among  the people,  this  is the most
common,  for  truly  America  is a nation of dys-
peptics.  This disease  is the great torturer and
and tormenter of the  American people,  while
people of  other  nations are not exempt from its
ravages and distress.  It deranges every faculty,
seemingly every organ, in  the poor  unfortunate
victim,  both  mind  and body, and it is hard to
tell which  suffers most mind or body.  It  is  no
respecter  of person,  for it assails the king upon
tthe throne and  the beggar upon the dunghill.
It is caused by every kind of excess and intem-
perance,  in fact its causes  are so numerous that
we cannot  tell upon which it depends, for it more
commonly  depends upon a variety of causes;  but
it is generally admitted that over eating is the
greatest  and  most common cause,  and next to
that is improper diet
  The symptoms of dyspepsia are so numerous
that the poor sufferer from this disease often  im-
agines that he has almost every disease that  hu-
man flesh is heir to; and this the patent medicine
swindlers and quacks well know,  and they  know,
ttoo, that a suffering man will seek for relief  and
will give all he has for it, and therefore they are
ready  to  take advantage of this fact and get up
almost anything and  assert  that  it is good for
-everything.  They  write a medical almanac, in it
they will ^ive your symptoms, precisely, and call
it torpid liver, or kidney disease, 'or spinal disease,
or  heart disease, or  something else, or everything
else that  they  can  think of,  and  the  poor 
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suffering victim of Dyspepsia  reads  and falls  a
willing dupe to the self styled Doctor, under  the
flattering promises and prospects  of  a cure, and
consequently perhaps not less than 250,000 bush-
els of cure-all-pills are swallowed anuualy by this
class of sufferes, and perhaps that many barrels
of slop.  Just think of it, the  dyspeptics of this
country pay all the advertising, bottling, boxing,
packing and shiping of this  amount  of  stuff, and
yet they give the numerous proprietors immense
fortunes, and get worse mentally,  physically and
financially every day, and to my  mind there is
nothing more disgusting and daringly contemptous
to, or more funmaking of the  common  class  of
people, than for some lazy broken  down quack to
try to astound the people with his great secret all
healing, bloodjpurifing, sight restoring, sin cleans-
ing and soul saving Indian medicine.  Is this not
a daring insult?  Lets see, you know he is always
Doctor, of course, now just think a learned man a
man of great scientific attainments, a member  of
the great medical profession of the world, the most
learned men of all nations, a class of men able to
analyze and investigate all the material means  of
cure.   A class  of men who understand the causes
anatomical, character and clinical history of dis-
eases, as well as the properties and physiological
action of all the minerals and  vegtables   used  in
the cure of diseases.   Now see one of these great
and good men  leave home, he goes over toward
the black hills  among the most illiterate, unlearn-
ed, unskilled, ignorant and barbarous people upon
the face of the  earth, who know no  more  about
our diseases or  means of cure than  a  hog, and 
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right there and then he by some wonderful exploit
or at great cost procures a,. Root or  a Plant  and
here he comes in my mind I see him with his hat
on the back of his head (if he did not loose it in
the bushes trying to get away  from  the  Injur us
after getting  these grea secret) with  his eyebrows
all knitted to ge'ther, nearly out of breath with his ,
great big soul, heart, mind and body chuck  full
and running  over of the quint essence of philan-
throphy and  philoprogenativeness.   He now sets
up his office and factory and makes his proclima-
tion.
     Oh! ye sinners  poor and needy
     Weak and wounded sick and  sore,
   Oh ye dyspeptics, don't get out of heart though
you  have been fooled   with  five  hundred patent
medicines, and the  doctors can't  cure you be  of
good cheer, here is a box of pills, never fails to cure
dyspepsia, liver complaint, heart disease  and  kid-
ney disease 'or all other diseases of the skin,  flesh
and bone, measles, whooping cough, lung diseases,
spinal affection, headache fellons  and  sore,  toes.
Now you must remember that he learnt  this from
the Injurns, certainly, and he  can  write a  few
symptoms of dyspepsia under each heading,  and
the poor sufferer sees his case, and anxious for relief
of course he  must have those pills.   25  cents  a
box, directions; 4 pills every   night for  twelve
months, and if you don't get better get something
else, its only a dollar a bottle and the bottle holds
 nearly a gill, take a tablespoonfull; three times a
day, and in most cases you had better  take  both
together,  and  when he  gets  you  to nibble 
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at his bati,  that  is all he wants, because that
brings the money.  Now I  have been thus tedi-
ous to  show the  general modus operandi of the
patent medicine doctors.  Now, what do you sup-
pose that pill is made of?  Why  the very cheap-
est articles in all the land, rhubarb and aloes, or
white walnut root or something that has been in
use two hundred years—something that your doc-
tor  would have  given  you if you had needed it
And now you  have spent all your money and
your family has worked hard to get more, and he is
splurging on it and you are worse than you were
before you took the abominable stuff, and yet one
might have almost come to  the conclusion  from
reading the testimonials and blazing reccommend-
ations  that  if you were to employ a few bottles
around a grave yard that it would almost produce
a resurection.  You need  not tell me that dys-
pepsia does not affect the mind.  Now  I propose
to give a few symptoms of dyspepsia  and the best
remedy for the same, that I know of.
  Soreness of the  stomach,  derangement of the
bowels, colic, headache, sleepy, dull  feeling,  low
spirits, burning in.the stomach when empty, and
distress of the stomach when you eat a full  meal,
and nearly  every  other bad feeling that mortal
man can have.  The greatest remedy in the world
for this disease is temperance  in all things, cau-
tion  and care, and  you are the best doctor for
it.  If you will do your own thinking and acting
you can come nearer curing yourself than all the
doctors in Christendom.   Mind what you eat and 
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don't eat too much.  Bemember  that it is not
what you eat that does you good; it is  what you
digest   Therefore  you  should eat such articles
of food as will suit your stomach,  and  don't eat
too much of that  No  doctor  on  earth can tell
just  what  you ought  to eat, or how much; you
must learn this yourself.  The only medicine that
I have used  for  years in  dyspepsia is the com-
pound powder of potassa and rhubarb.   See un-
der  Diarrhea.   It  neutralizes  the acid of the
stomach, aids digestion, arouses the liver to action
and  removes  unhealthy  accumulation.   You
should take about what will lie  on a dime a half
hour after each meal.  Increase or  decrease ac-
cording to  action on the bowels, not more than
two a day on any account
  Now in conclusion I will say, the less medicine
you take the better, and by all means shun patent
cure-alls, otherwise you will aid in making some-
body rich, while they laugh at your ignorance.  It
is the money they  want,  they care nothing for
your health.  And the legislative councils of the
nation should look into, and stop  this  wholesale
fraud,  and  enact laws  for the protection of the
people.  No  one class of  invalids on earth con-
tribute more to the support of medical  men than
dyspeptics, and no class gets less benefits from it,
or are injured more by it
               CONSUMPTION.
  Thi8too,is a disease rarely if ever cured, but can
be often paliated and life  prolonged.  But  when
it sits down on its victim  and becomes  fixed, no
remedy known will unseat it 
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   I mesmConsumpMon, not something a little like
 it   This disease is  carrying off  its thousands
 annually, and  is on the increase.   And it,  too,
 like dyspepsia, has given great scope and fortune
 to patent medicine  men.   You  Will  see  in the
 newspapers the large, flattering advertisement
 "Consumption can  be  cfred,"  and the poor
 victim of disease readily falls a victim to the ad-
 vertiser, who  soon  gets all he has got and then
 his friends keep him in till he dies, a while^earlier
 than he would if he bad let the patent medicine
 alone.  Its  causes are numerous neglected colds,
 intemperance, indiscretion, youthful habits, snuff,
 tobacco, exposure to dampness while hot, tight
 lacing,  itnerference  with natural  discharges,
• corsets, &c.   But the disease is often hereditary.
 How often have we seen, a once beautiful,  young
 lady who wore the blush of youth and glow of
 health, intelligent and lovely, fail a victim  first
 to fashion and then  to consumption.   The  lace
 jacket  or  corset soon took the beautiful color of
 health, which  had to  be represented by  paints,
 and  snuff soon tore down the constitution,  con-
 sumption took hold  and  soon  dust returned to
 dust  How often have we heard them say,  "I had
 as  well be out of the world as out of fashion."
 Like dyspepsia, I do believe that the best remedies
 are care and proper  nourishment   Inasmuch as
 we cannot cure  this disease we should use every
 precaution  to  prevent it;  take care of ourselves,
 by this 1 mean to rfvoid excesses of every kind,
 take daily out-door exercise, keep the skin  clean,
 dress  loose and  warm, keep the feet dry,  and if 
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you  have not got it you will not take it.  I will'
not  take  up much space on this article, for it is
useless.   If  you should take a cough and short-
ness of breath, pain in the breast and side, you
should go to a good physician and  let him decide
in your case and prescribe for you.   1 will, how-
ever, for  the benefit of those who can not do so,
give a few remedies  for these symptoms.  If you
have a bad, dry cough,  boil  together, in two
quarts of water, balm  of gilead  buds one gill.
hoarhoun and  mullein  each two  ounces; boil to
one  quart, strain  and  add sugar three pounds
while hot  Dose when cold is a tablespoonful, 3
or 4 times daily.  Or
   Take Syrup of Squill      4 ounces by measure,
    "  Nitric Ether (Sweet
       spirits of Nitre)            "      "
    "  Paragoric            '  "         "
         Dose a teaspoonful.  Or
   Take  ground lobelia 4 ounces,  boil or simmer
in a half gallon  of water  for two hours, then
strain and  boil down  to a quart and  add 2£
pounds of sugar and half an ounce of annis seed.
When cold the dose is a teaspoonful four times a
day the  last dose  at  bedtime.   This will often
cure the most  troublesome  cough, and has, it is
 said, "rescued  the  consumptive from the border
land of death."
   The best remedy in consumption  known to us
 is Dr. T.  A.  Slocum's psychine and oxigenized
 pure cod liver  oil.   Address,  181 Pearl Street,
 N. Y.  This is a remedy of real merit. 
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            DYSENTERY OR FLUX.
    This disease  is known by a frequent desire to
 go  to  stool,  by  griping pain or bearing down
 called  Tensemus,  or severe  straining at stool,
 with blood and mucus  or slime,  somewhat  like
 the scraping of a hog's entrails.
   Caused by  cold and other indiscretions.   The
 best remedy in this disease is the compound pow-
 der of rhubarb and potassa, same as  in diarrhea,
 or a tablespoonful of castor oil with ten or fifteen
 drops of laudanum, repeated every day or twice a
 day better.  Salts and laudanum once or twice a
 day will do good.  An  injection of warm water
 thrown up the bowels daily will be of  great  ser-
 vice.  If the pain is very  severe, drop sixty drops
 of laudanum in three spoonfuls of  water  and
 throw it up the bowels of a grown  person, less in
 proportion  to  age.  But  the compound powder
 or syrup should be given as in diarrhea—see un-
 der that head on page 14.  Flaxseed oil given in
 tablespoonful  doses two or three times a day will
 often cure when other remedies fail.
   Take  the white  of two eggs, a tablespoonful
•of oil and two teaspoonfull of laudanum,  beat to
 a froth,  give  a teaspoonful every hour  or  two
 hours till relieved; or, give Dovers powder in ten
 grain  doses two or  three  times  a day.  Drink
 freely of a decoction made of the  root bark of
common willow, and a cure will  follow nineteen
 times  out of twenty.  Take  castor oil a table-
 spoonful, laudanum twenty drops, spirits of tur-
 pentine ten drops for a  dose two hours apart,
 repeat if necessary. 
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       CHICKEN POX, (VARICELLA.)
  This disease is not dangerous, but it is catching.
It seens to  be a disease belonging to children,
though grown people sometimes have it.
  It is not attended with much if any constitu-
tional disturbance and generally runs  its  course
in a few days.  Sometimes only one of a family
will have it, and sometimes one after another will
have it till the whole family has it, and in fact it
may assume an  epidemic form and go through
the whole neighborhood.  It will attack both
sexes  and all  classes  alike. In most cases  the
first we know of its  presence is the eruption.  The
first appearance is a few little red  pimples break
out on the skin.  This is the course of from twen-
ty-four to thirty-six hours will be little blisters,
surrounded  by a pink  color.   Quite a number
of these may  appear  or only a few and in a few
days they dry leaving only a  scab.  Thes erup-
tions are more abundant on the back and  breast
than elsewhere.   Sometimes these  become large
itching sores  if  they are scratched.  Therefore
children should be kept from picking or scratch-
ing off the scab.   This disease is sometimes  also
called glass pox. . Once  Dr. A.  told  a mother
that her  child  had  chicken pox, and afterward
Dr. B. wishing to break down A. in order  to  ex-
tend his practice, told her that he was  surprised
at Dr. A., that it was Varicella, or glass pox, the
very worst kind.   Keep the bowels  open and
keep the child dry,  is about all  the treatment
that they need.  Sometimes sage or balm  tea *is
very good when there  is any fever and  the erup-
tions break out slowly. There is no danger in the
disease alone. 
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                  DIPETIGO.
   This is another skin disease incident to young
 children.   It t is known by its own appearance.
 It begins  by a very small pustule or bump in the
 middle of a fiery red spot; if the little  pimple  be
 picked a small  quantity  of water will be seen.
 These spots are separate from each  other, unless
 the child  should pick them or scratch them, then
 they will  run together and sometimes  they  will
 make a bleeding, painful sore; and wherever  this
 matter touches it will be sure to form a new patch.
 The  best thing to do is to keep the child from
 scratching the eruptiou and wash the  parts well
 in warm water but never use an kind of soap; but
 mix Oxide of Zinc one teaspoonful in  about  two
 tablespoonfuls  of unsalted  lard and apply night
 an*  morning.   The child  would do  better to
 take a few drops of tincture of iron three or four
 times a day.  Keep the child clean and let it have
 plenty  of fresh  air and all will be well in a few
 days.  • When the bowels are bound I  mix equal
parts,  by  weight, of sulphur  and carbonate of
magnesia,  and give a small teaspoonful sufficient-
ly often to  keep the  bowels in good condition.
 This  is good in any of the skin diseases of chil-
 dren or adult  I  sometimes use cream of tartar
 in the place of magnesia.  This I think much
the best for grown people, especially if they have
any cifficulty with their water.  It is a  good thing
in nettle rash, of which something will be said on
another page. 
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          BROW AGUE, (MIGRAINE.)
  This  is  only a  peculiar type of intermittent
fever or chills and fever,  it is  sometimes called
sun pain,  and  though  it is very severe, often it
will yield to the same treatment as the chills and
fever.  It is sometimes called neuralgia and hem-
icrania,  but this is a mistake, it is altogether a
different thing.  Iron and quinine is the remedy
in this complaint, or quinine alone.   I generally
use the following: citrate  of  iron  and quinine,
(which  is Ferri Quinia Et Citrass) sixty grains or
one-eighth of an ounce in sixteen teaspoonfuls  or
two ounces of water, and take a teaspoonful four
times a day, after first moving the bowels well
with  same  cathartic  drug, for which purposes
calomel and jalop, say ten grains of each, is most
used, though rhubarb,  or salts,  or oil, aloes or
sulphur, or sulphur and cream  of tartar, or a pill
of blue  mass will answer.  Like other forms  of
intermitent* fevers, it is likely to return every 7
or  14  or  21 days so  you had better take your
quinine one or two days in every week for a while,
even after it is well.
             CORNS ON THE TOES.
soak and pare them down thin,  then apply Citric
acid  every night,  or caustic about twice a week
until they are well.  Then wear, a  shoe or boot
sufficiently broad or loose as not to rub the toe for a
while and  you will be paid for  your  trouble. 
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                   WARTS.
  Put on the wart a little blister of  Spanish  fly
ointment and confine it there and in a  few  days
the wart will come out, or to put a little sulphuric
acid on them daily and that will remove them or
trim them down closely and use costic as  in case
of corns, or just wet the wart  with  your  saliva
(spital) the first thing  in the morning.
                   DROPSY.
  Dropsy is a disease arising  from  debillity  or
weekness and depends  upon a diseased  condition
of the blood or some particular organ, it  can be
easily distinguished from any  other  disease  by
presure of the fingers upon the  swolen  part, in
dropsy it will  leave a pit, that is  the  flesh  will
not spring to its natural position  as will  other
swelling.  To this disease has been given  names
according to the different parts of the body where
the fluid is deposited,  thus:  When it  is  in  the
cavity of ths brain or in the head,   it  is  called
Hydrocephalus, when  in the breast or chest it  is
called Hydrothroax, when in the abdomen or bel-
ly it is called Ascites,  when in the scrotum  it  is
called Hydrocele and  then  again Ascites,  ovarii
&c. only children are subject to  Hydrocephalus,
but  I feel warrnated in the assertion that dropsy
is a  disease of the  whole system regardless of  the
place that is  affected, this  is  the  conclusion
to which I  have  arrived  after   many  years 
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practice and observation, independent of the same
opinion given by learned authority,  Hydro-peri-
cardium, sometimes also called Heart-dropsy while
it is an effusion fluid (serum) into the sac. (per-
ricardium) which incloses the heart, most comonly
occurs when dropsy of some other part is manifest,
as in diseases of the  heart,  lungs,  kidneys  &c.
As in the main their remedies are the same I will
not enter into the particulars of each of their  di-
visions and subdivisions, and too as all these con-
ditions  may  be  induced by the same  cause or
causes.  I will  for the benefit of the non-profes-
sional reader for whom this little book is written
give the remedies used in the case of dropsy.  The
Calomel, Squill and Digitalis  formula  will   be
omitted as professional care is  necessary in their
use.  The following has been  successfully  em-
ployed:
  Calomel fifteen grains and Jalop twenty grains
for  a dose to be given every six hours until it  op-
erate on the bowels.   It will produce large  wa-
tery discharges and by this means will relieve the
system of its burefen, after the water is thus  run
off you should give muriate tincture of iron twenty
drops three times daily in a little water,  to renew
up the blood and prevent a return of the  water,
but if the water returns or the  swelling  comes
back, then take of jalop half ounce cream of tartar
an ounce, salt petre half ounce,  grind  and  mix
well together and  of this mixture give a teaspoon-
ful  every four or six houis till it operates  as  the
above to be followed with the iron drops as before, 
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 if the swelling should be hard to  reduce,  or  if
 this does not operate sufficiently get the bark  of
 the common elder that grows along ditch banks,
 (sometimes called pith elder, or  pop-gun  elder)
 and put a hand full in a vessel and pour  boiling
 water to it let it stand til]  it gets cold, and drink
 freely of this,  it is a good remedy in dropsy  and
 has cured by itself followed by iron.  This  elder
 infusion should be used at the same time that the
 powders are being used.
 >: Another very popular remedy is, take a handful
 of nails and put them in a quart of apple vinegar,
 let it stand a few days and then  take a spoonful
 three times a day.  But still another is better put
an ounce of salt petre in the vinegar instead of the
 nails and use in the same  way.    I have never
 failed curing dropsy by the last  named  powder
 and elder, followed up with iron, when the  case
 was not too far gone.    When  the  patient  has
smothering and palpitation of the heart and  can-
not lay down, I then mix tincture of digitalis and
 tincture of iron equal parts and give twenty drops
 every six hours till relieved.   Another  remedy
for general dropsy is the following: take of whor-
tleberries (also called huckleberry)  four  ounces,
 parsly  root eight ounces, put this in a half gallon
of holand gin  or whiskey, heat to   boiling point,
then let it cool and drink a large tablespoonful of
this in a little  sweetend waterjthree or four times a
day. This will not answer for intemperate patienta 
44
 But always in dropsy depending upon or compli-
 cated with other diseases, the  treatment should
 be selected and directed accorning to the peculiar
 circumstance of the case, some good tonic, as iron,
 gentian, compound wine of comfrey,  wild cherry
 and dogwood, poplar &c. but the best of all these
 is iron.
   Care should always be taken  not  to  run  the
 purges to far at the time.   Diet should be  of a
 light nourishing kind, not much grease or pastery,
 plenty of out door exercises is best, not exposed to
 too much damp night air.   Bathing and rubbing
 the whole body one day in a week by bath is profi-
 table.   It is always best to have these complicated
 cases treated by a well informed physician.
                    APOPLEXY.
   Apoplexy is a sudden manifestation of a dis-
 eased condition in which state a person falls down
 and lies without sense or motion while the breath-
 ing is often hard and noisy, the face is of a  dull
 red color and some times the eyes  seem  swolen
 and blood-shotten, the pulse beat with unnatural
 force and frequency, though some times slow and
 very forcible, in this condition the patient is said
 to be in a coma or a comatose condition or  state,
 a person in this condition  can  neither  feel  or
 think nor can they make any  voluntary motion
 although circulation  and  respiration  continues
 though they are more or Jess disturbed, this con-
 dition does not always come on in this  way, but
■may  have   several   premonitory   symptoms, 
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 such partial blindness, dizziness of the head rush
 of blood to the head or there may he a sharp and
• severe pain in the head so the person may scream
 and turn sick and fainty with vomiting,  followed
 in from a few minutes to  some hours he gradually
 sinks into a comatose state.
   There are other cases in which the patient may
 become paralyzed and retain his senses to a  con-
 siderable degree, in fact a stranger might not no-
 tice that he was mentally deranged at  all.   In
 this case  there is a sudden loss of power, of some
 limb or one side may be  stricken,  this is called
 hemiphlegea, in this case the  patient  may tell
 you where and when and  how  he  was  attacted
 and even tell you just what is the matter, but in
 this last condition his speech is  generally  very
 much effected, sometimes in this last case the pa-
 tient gets quite well and no trace of the paraly-
 sis be seen or felt, and sometimes after a  seeming
 recovery he may be stricken again after the lapse
 of months or even years.  I have a patient in the
 ward now who is slowly recovering from the 3rd,
 or 4th. I have cases wheie only one  side  of the
 face  was effected, the eye and  the effected  side
 stands open and the mouth is drawn to the other
 side, apoplexy is becoming very common and my
 experience is the older and more  debilitated the
 patient the less hopes of their lecovery, although
 sometimes young, strong  people die and old feble
 people get up, this is an exception to the general
 rule and may not be looked for in old and weakly 
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people.  Apoplexy attacks people of all ages and
both sexes but it is mnch more common after forty-
five and fifty.  Red face Bhort stout built or short
thick neck are  said to be the most  subject to it,
but we sometimes see thin pale   and  long neck
people fall under its unexpected  stroke.    Many
people are predisposed to apoplexy owing to some
hereditary constitutional inclination.
   Remedies are few and very unsatisfactory.  One
■ounce of preventive is worth not only a  pound
of cure, but in  apoplexy  at least  ten  pounds.
When a person has  a  stroke of apoplexy you
should  loose all tight clothing and place him  in
a  horizontal position slightly raise his head,  is
hot wet a cloth in cold  vinegar or water, place it
on his head, if  his feet are cold use such means as
you have at hand to warm them and  keep  every-
thing quiet, sometimes  whipping the feet,  bleed-
ing &c.  may  do  some   good, electricity  too
has been tried  with some success perhaps  but  I
have tried all in a comatose patient and could  see
no benefit derived from their   use,  in    partial
attacks medicine and baths may do  good  but  I
have my doubts about it.   Electricity continually
-applied is one of the best  means  of  arousing  a
j>aralyzed muscle to feeling and  action,  but  un-
fortunately it will not last unless it  is aided  by
medicine, and for this purpose one sixtieth or one
thirtieth of a grain of strychnine m a pill of some
kind as bread given  three times daily is  the best,
though others are nsed  as  belladonna, toxicoden-
dron, aconite, &c.   I have  included under the 
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 general head apoplexy all the forms and types  of
 paralysis.   On account of space the remedies be-
 ing all the same in the main.
       Take iodine 8 gr.
       Iodide of potassium 1 oz.
       Syrup of sarsaparilla J pt
   Dose, a teaspoonful after each meal.
                       OR
       Take iodide potassium } oz.
       Tr. ergot 1 oz.
       Tr. aconite 2 dr.
       Syrup sarsaparilla 3 oz.
   Mix, dose teaspoonful 3 or 4 times daily.
                       OR
       Iodide of potassium i oz.
       Water l'gai.
   Dose, a teaspoonful 3 times daily.
                     COLIC.
   Under this head I shall notice  first   flatulent
 or windy colic second billious or cramp colic and
 third painters colic.  1st flatulent colic, this is a
 painful spasmotic affection of the  stomach  and
abdomen, it is characterised by a fullness  of the
 stomach and bewels with pain  and  more . com-
 monly a rumbling sound it  is  caused  by  cold,
■eating indigestable  food, constipation  &c. it sel-
dom proves fatal though  sometimes  it  strongly 
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threatens  dissolution and in fact has been known
to prove fatal in a very short time.
  Treatment is instituted according to the cause,
if indeed the cause  is  known, there are a great
many things done  and taken  for colic, some of
which  are the following: first  take  a puke, for
this purpose you may use a spoonful of  common
salt in a cupful of warm water, ground mustard
instead of the salt, or large  spoonful of sugar  the
same way, or a teaspoonful  of  ipecac, and after
the stomach is evacuated and you have pain  still
you are to take a tablespoonful of castor oil with
ten drops of spirits of turpentine, or salts in place
of oil if you cannot procure or take oil, or some-
thing or anything to move the bowels,  and until
they move you may ease your pain  sometimes by
chewing calamus or drinking a tea of it, with assa-
feotida; put hot salt on the stomach or bowels  in
a little sack, or take equal parts of sulphuric ether,.
tincture of assafeotida and  tincture of camphor,
mix and take a  teaspoonful every hour  or two,
give to children in proportion  to  age, or  equal
parts of laudanum, tincture camphor and essence
of peppermint; dose a teaspoonful, or mix paragor-
 ic, camphor and peppermint; dose  a  teaspoonful.
 It is very desirable to first  remove the  cause  by
emetics and cathartics, but sometimes the pain  is
 so severe that we cannot   wait  for  the bowels
 to act,   and  then  we   must   try    paliative 
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remedies those named and afterwards the cathar-
tic.
              BILLIOUS COLIC.
  This is a more dangerous complaint and  often
proves fatal in a short time.  This kind of colic is
generally preceded by bitter tastes in the mouth,
with the loss of appetite, and other derangements
of the stomach and bowels, often  constipation is
present, and very common the vomiting of a  bil-
lious  matter, the pain often seems at first to be  a
heavy weight in the  stomach  and  becomes  a
cramp like or twisting screwing pain and reach-
ing the  back, at other times it seems located about
the navel and often fever is present.
   When the bowels move and there is  an  abate-
ment of pain and all  the symptoms are mild it  is
a good sign, but when the bowels are obstinate and
the symptoms centinue high and the  pain  una-
bating there is great  danger and when there is a
sudden  cessation of pain cold  sweats weak  and
irregular pulse, fainting and hiccough  then the
disease  is about to prove fatal by mortification.
   Treatment must be prompt, and the best thing
that country people can do, I mean  where they
cannot get a competent physician, is to use an in-
jection up the bowels in order to empty them  as
much as possible and remove the cause,  and  for
this purpose warm salt water is good  or  warm
castil soap suds and repeat every fifteen minutes
till the bowels move  copiously you must see  that 
more than the water pass, at the same  time  you-
should apply to the stomach and bowels hot poul-
tices of bitter herbs, such as  Jamestown,  called
(jimson,)  hops, boneset, &c.  keep them renewed as
they get cool, at the same time give the patient a
tea cup full of the decoction of wild  yam  every
twenty minutes, or mix a tablespoonful of ground
black pepper in a gill of brandy or  whiskey  and
give a tablespoonful warm every few minutes  till
relieved.   One-eighth of a grain of morphine  giv-
en and retained in the stomach will  give  relief,
but it would always be better injected under  the
skin, thirty  drops of laudanum  will  sometimes
give relief at once.   But by all means move  the
bowels,  give a  large  dose  of castor oil and ten
drops of   turpentine before  you use the foresaid
injection;
   PAINTERS COLIC, (COLICA PECTONL'M.)
  Also called Lead Colic. This disease is caused
by lead in the system.
  The patient feels dull  and stupid with more or
less constipation of the bowels  he becomes pale,
his appetite  fails, he  looses  flesh  and strength,
has the taste of metal in  his mouth,  his  breath
has a peculiar fetid odor, constipation is more ob-
stinate and now he has some pain in his  lower
bowels of  a sharp cutting, or dull aching charac-
ter, pressure on the abdomen usually gives relief.
There is also generally a  blue lead line  seen on
the gums  near the neck of the  teeth  and  some-
times paralysis  of  the muscle is  observed,  the 
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pain become very severe and often there is  nau-
sea and vomiting and often aching of the limbs.
   Treatment must be prompt and a  decided  im-
pression made.  The first thing is to relieve pain.
To do this any of the means used in  the case of
the preceeding kinds of colic may be  used,  but
the last of all known remedies to  relieve the pain
in the lead colic is opium, one grain of opium or
thirty drops of laudanum, or one  eighth grain of
morphine, 01 a  large teaspoonful of  paregoric
may be given every four hours till relief is  had;
or take five grains of Iodide of Potassium  every
four hours after the acute symptoms are passed
off the bowels  should  be  moved  regularly  and
sweet oil is good for that' purpose.
   Another very good course of treatment is the
following. Take Sulphate of  Magnesia (salts) a
half pound, powdered allum one ounce, and  pure
sulphuric  acid one drachm, boiling water three
half pints.  Dose, a tablespoonful every hour till
it operates, you should take care of your teeth or
they might be injured  by  the  acid.    Sulphuric
acid  forms or converts  tho oxide of lead in the
system into the sulphate of lead which  is harm-
less.
   I have cured some very bad cases of lead  colic
by using freely the strong decoction of ground ivy.
I believe that if painters and  others who work in
lead, and  are subject to this dreadful and danger-
ous colic would take twenty drops of elixir of vit-
riol in  a cupful of ground ivy tea once or twice
a day, that they would ward off the colic or  cure
it when begun.   LTterine colic will be  treated on
in my next book  on Female Diseases. 
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    PNEUMONIA, (or Inflaffiatlon of the Lungs.)
  This disease has  often  been called  pleurisy,
years ago more than of late,  and,  too,  pleurisy
has often been called pneumonia  and often  it  is
that the patient has both,  pneumonia is  an in-
flamation of the lung tisue its self, while pleurisy
is an inflamation of the pleura, the serous  mem-
brane that covers the lungs.
  The fact is that you may have either independ-
ent of the other,  but most common you will have
both at the same time.  In  pneumonia  you  will
have but  very little pain,  but in pleurisy you
will, when you have pleuropneumonia you  have
both, but now I propose to  speak of pneumonia
uncomplicated and  alone,  pneumonia  generally
comes on with a  more or less marked chill, head-
ache, a furred tongue, an aching in the chest one
side or the other and an aching along the breast
bone,high fever, hot skin and lips dry, the tongue
covered with a white moist fur. He breaths quick-
ly, likes to be quiet, don't like to talk much, has
a troublesome cough,  soon spits  up  a frothy
phlegm streaked  with blood, more and more of a
orick dust collar with  sometimes wandering  of
mind and talking in his sleep.  These symptoms
generally increase till they  reach their  highest
pitch about the fifth day,  and in  favorable  cases
on the eight or ninth day the  fever abates,  he
feels better, his tongue begins to clean,  his  appe-
tite is better he breaths easy though his breath  is
short and often it is several weeks before the lung
clears up and is sound, but in severe  cases  you
must not look for such favorable out-come, for
the inflammation may spread to  the  other  lung
and double the distress and danger. 
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   Unresistable delirium, increased  difficulty  in
 breathing he is not able to cough up or to throw
 off the phlegm he lies on his back picks  at  the
 bed clothes, breaks out in a profused clamy sweat,
 followed by involuntary discharges,  coma  and
 death.
                 TREATMENT.
   The object in  the  treatment  of  pneumonia
 should be first to reduce the inflammatory action
 upon the lung, secondly to relive  it of the effects
 thereof, and thirdly to restore it to its normal con-
 dition; now to meet the first indication the  best
 thing the country people can do when there is no
 doctor is to give plenty of warm tea made of  the
 root of the butterfly weed, (sometimes called pleu-
 risy root), sweeten with sugar.    I  have  known
 many cases of pneumonia cured with  this  weed
 alone, the patient should be kept  in a comfortable
 room, and cuping over the affected lung is  good
 or warm poultices of elm, flax-seed, or corn meal
 and wheat brand is good, the fluid extract of pleu-
 risy root in teaspoon fnl doses given in warm  sage
 tea is excellent, or give  the following in  same
 size dose,
       Take paregoric 2 oz.
       Sweet spirits of nitra 2 oz.
       Syrup of squill 2 oz.
       Powdered ipacac  40 gr.
   Mix; dose 1 teaspoonful every two  hours.    Or
 give syrup of squill in teaspoonful  doses,  every
 two hours, alone or with the pleurisy root tea.   I
 have found the following to answer the best  pur-
pose in bringing down the fever in pneumonia  or
 any other fever. 
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       Take sweet spirits of Nitre 2 oz.
       Narwood's tincture of veratrnm 2 dr.
       Fluid extract of ipacac 1  dr.
  Dose from 15 to 20 drops every two hours till
pulse comes down to 70 or 80 beats in a minute,
and the patient sweats freely, at the same time give
your pleurisy root, or squill.   And when  your
patient begins to spit up freely  and  the skin  is
moist,  he is geting along well.   If  however the
pain iu the side is severe put a blister on over the
seat of pain, these measures will generally meet the
3 st. and 2nd. indications, now to restore the lung to
its normal  condition and to support the  patient,
give  egg nog, and as soon as the febrile symptoms
have past off give the syrup of iodide of iron  in
from 5 to 10 drops, 3 or 4 times a day after eating,
or drinking milk which should be his chief  diet.
Another course of treatment in this disease is  to
give a  blue pill every .two  hours, aud  cold  water
or a  little vinegar till the patient  is  thoroughly
salivated, then give turpentine with  elm  water,
then cure the mouth with chorate of potassa, and
I know of one physician who gives large doses  of
quinine first, last and all the time,  some  of  his
patients get well and some die.  I have  never  yet
been satisfied that quinine is much account in the
treatment of uncomplicated pneumouia.   It  is
good, no doubt when it is  complicated  with  any
of the  malarial fevers, and also as a tonic in con-
valesance. 
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   Pleurisy or inflamation of the  pleura.    The
symptoms in this  disease  are  very  much  like
peumonia, though commonly not so severe, but in
this disease there' is always pain in  the  effected
side.   The treatment is about the same as in the
former disease.  Cuping  and  mustard  plasters
over the pain, and drink freely  of  the  pleurisy
root tea or of the fluid extract of pleurisy root, in
teaspoonful doses in warm sage or cat-nip tea will
in forty-nine times in fifty break  up  the  disease
at once. Pneumonia, and pleurisy too are often asso-
ciated with scarlet fever, typus fever, typhoid, &c.
when it should be treated by a skilful physician.
                RHEUMATISM.
   This is another  almost irresistable  scurge of
the human family, and not much is known of its
causes history &c.  as is known of many diseases of
much less importance,  The doctor  can  do but
little  more with this disease than other  people.
There are scores of remedies for this disease  and
they all fail sometimes, and the last one you use
before you got better of course was the one  that
cured, but it will utterly fail next time probably,
and will do no one else any good.  I might write
a book double the size of this, on this disease and
and minutely describe its  different  names  and
types  with a hundered remedies and it would be
worth but little to the non-piofessional  reader, I
shall  therefore lay down some general principles 
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and a few of the most effectual remedies  now  in
use.  It is however worth while to say that rheu-
matism is called by different names as it attacks
different organs thus: hemicrania when it  affects
one side of the head, pleurodynia when it attacks
the pleura, pericorditis when it affects the  perri-
cordium (the lining membrane of the heart) and
so on.
   We will notice two kinds of  rheumatism:  in-
flammatory and chronic. The first is attended with
fever and  the other is not Inflammatory rheuma-
tism is also called acute rheumatism and  rheu-
matic fever.  This is attended with  considerable
fever a high temperature, and some painful swolen
joints and most commonly a profused sour  per-
spiration, and the great danger in this type is that
it may strike some internal  organ  and  leaving
there a permanent injury, as heart disease, &c. of-
ten however the temperature so high as to endan-
ger the patients life and indeed sometimes he does
die from excessive temperature, in these cases  the
skin becomes dry,  with  great  thirst  and  the
tongue coated white fur, the urine is high colored,
the patient can't bear to move and the  slightest
shaking of his bed  gives him great pain,  if you
motion as though you  were going to hit  him  he-
screams out with great pain in the swolen joints,
and he is so subject to relapse that we never know
when the  patient is getting well;  for joint  after
joint becomes affected, and as I said above to  af-
fect the  heart seams to   be    one    of  its
strongest  tendencise,   and  this  too   is  one 
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 of the dangers of Rheumatic fever,  and it is curi-
 ous too,  that the right, or venous, side of the
 heart  is  never  affected,  only the left, orfarterial
 side.   Corea  is  another complication of this dis-
 ease.   As  to the cause, there is now, and always
 has been, more or less  doubt and disagreement
 among authors.   Some  contend that it is a blood
 disease, depending upon some  specific  poison,
 some  lay  the stress  upon cold, others again say
 that it is both, others again say that  it  depends
 upon  the presence of lactic acid in the blood. All
it seems to me, have good  reasons for their belied
Indeed  I  believe they are all resting upon sound
hypothesis; for whatever seems most rational  in
either  event as  a course of treatment does good.
But the latter theory is  nearer sustained, I think,
from the fact that an alkaline treatment seems to
prove the  most  satisfactory.   Now,  as  to the
treatment of this type of rheumatism, I shall give
what  I believe  to be  generally considered best
first,  and  then  other remedies which have done
 good.
  1st  Salicylate of Sodium     4 drs.
       Pure Water           4 oz.
  Dose, a teaspoonful every six hours.
  2nd. Bicarbonate of Potassa    6 drs.
       Water,                   4 oz.
  Dose, same as  above.
  3rd. Salt Petre (Nitrate of Potass) 2 oz.
      Old Whiskey                1 qt
  Dose, a tablespoonful  three times daily. 
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  4th. Bark of the root of Prickly ash  4 oz.
       Whiskey or Brandy            1 quart.
  Dose, same as the 3rd.
  5th. Apply large blisters near the affected joints
for  a  few hours, then  remove  them and apply
poultices to keep up running as long as possible,
and give formula 1st.
  Oth. Grind well together the following:
       Salt Petre                      i oz.
       Gum Camphor                  1 dr.
       Powdered Opium                20grs.
       Powdered Ipicac                20 grs.
  Dose, from 5 to G grains every one or two hours.
This last is a powerful anodyne and  diaphoretic,
and very much so when given in  warm balm  or
sage tea.
  Another formula for this great  anodyne powder
is as follows:   take of
       Opium    10 grs.     Camphor  40 grs
       Ipicac     20 grs.     Salt Petre 3 drs.
  Dose,  5 grains every one, two or three hours;
useful in all febrile,  inflamatory, nervous, rheu-
matic and painful affections. It will relieve pain,
allay  nervous irritation,  promote  perspiration,
quiet the system and dispose to sleep.
  After the active stage has passed -off you should
take syrup of stillingia a pint, iodide  of  potassa
one ounce.  Take a  teaspoonful three  times  a
day.
  Electricity is worthless iii this  type of rheuma-
tism,  in the inflamatory stage at least.
  Quinine in very large doses of 20 grains some 
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 times does goo I, but prefer withholding that drug
 till the inflamatory stage is over  and then give it
 in  5 grain  doses  for  its tonic and alternative
 effect,
           CHRONIC RHEUMATISM.
   This is altogether a different affection from the
 type  just  considered.   Athough the acute may
 pass into the chronic; but generally the one ex-
 ists quite independent of the  other.   In chronic
 rheumatism  there  is seldom  any constitutional
 derangement, but sometimes there is  some  fever.
 But the pain is very troublesome and often very
 severe.   Old  people  are  more apt to suffer from
 this disease than younger persons, though it does
 attack all ages and both sexes.
   It too, has different names in different muscles,
 or parts of the body; but, it is rheumatism all the
 same.   Sometimes heat makes it worse and some-
 times cold  makes it worse; so you see one patient
 close  by the fire,  while  another  stands aloof.
 Hair-drawn  theories and  fine  discriminations
 would  be  out of  place in this little book as al-
 most everybody knows too well  what this is when
they suffer  from it once.
  As  respects the remedies; they are, too, some-
 what  different although  some  of  the remedies
 used  in the  acute or good in the chronic.  For
 the first, 3rd. and 4th. formula in the acute are
also good in the chronic, and liniments will often
do  good in  this affection.   Electricity is a very
valuable agent in the cure and treatment of chron-
ic rheumatism.  Flannel should be worn next to 
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the  skin.  A great many  remedies  have  beem
prescribed  in this disease, and strange to say,.
that as many have failed to cure,  but what will
do  one good is,  probably, worse than useless to
another.   I have had a fair chance to  try all  the
remedies recommended in this disease; for I have
had quite a number of rheumatic patients  in my
Sanitarium  for  treatment,  and  I  am well con-
vinced that the following  will benefit more cases
than  any other course I know, and I will give
one treated, as an example.
  Mr. L.—Chronic rheumatism of long standing,
muscles perished, much pain with burning sensa-
tion in the  back, hips and legs, appetite poor,
sleep disturbed, with general debility.
  Treatment—I gave him,
       Bromide of Potassium            4 oz.
       Water                          14 oz.
       Wine of Colchicum               2 oz.
  Dose,  a  teaspoonful  before  each meal and at
bedtime.   Gave  electricity  three times daily, in-
creasing  the use  of the  battery daily, until he
could take a very strong current for  20 minutea
at a time aud for 5 times in  24  hours;  and  con-
tinued this course for 30 days.    He had no pain
or burning but was  weak. I then gave citrate
of Iron  and quinine in  4 grain doses in  syrup
of stillingia  for 2 weeks, continuing the use of
the battery,  and  I dismissed  my  patient, well
from  rheumatism.  I have used formula 4th. in
the preceeding type with great success, both with
and without the battery  Bathing in an alkaline
bath is sometimes good,  but the  non-professional 
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 had better leave it off.  I have used the following
 liniment: take equal parts of laudanum,  turpen-
 tine, hartshorne,  camphor  and  sweet oil; apply
 with heat, once or twice a day.
                      OR
 Take  Tincture of Capsicum  (pepper),   Oil  of
       Sassafras, Camphor,  laudanum and harts-
       horne equal parts, apply as the above.
   Other remedies might be given, but the above
 will suffice.
                   CROUP.
 This is an inflamatory disease of the upper part
 of the wind-pipe, (Larynx).   Children from 2 to
 5 years old are more subject to this disease.  It is
 known by a peculiar sound, a hoarse and  crowing
 cough; the child gets breath with great difficulty.
 True  croup  is  not so common as many people
 think.   Genuine croup is  accompanied  by  the
 formation of a false membrane;  sometimes thick
 and tough,  and the child is strongly threatened
 with suffication.  It does not come on so  sudden-
 ly as false croup, it is often preceeded tor a day
 or two  by febrile symptoms,  a hoarse  cough
 sometimes before the first spasm, the  skin is  hot
 and dry, the mouth parched,  and after  the first
 spasm  passes off the  fever continues,   In false
 croup,  which is  by  far  the most  common, is
 known by the flushed face, the bluish cast of the
skin, the violent effort to get breath,  an express-
 ion of great anxiety and alarm, in both the action
and countenance  of  the  child.  Often it is that
 when one fit of croup passes off another comes  on 
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and  the night  is  spent in alarm, when really,
there is butjittle dauger of death in false  croup.
But  as it is difficult for the non-professianal to
tell whether it is false or true croup,  I shall pro-
ceed  to give  the best remedies known in either
type  you should apply cloths dipped in hot water
as hot as can be borne, and repeated often, being
careful  not to  allow the water to drip from the
cloths as all the clothing should be kept dry and
warm.
   You should continue  this till the child is re-
lieved,  then cover  up the child warm and all is
right.
   If however this  should fail, give the child a
half teaspoohful of allum in a teaspoonful of lard,
repeat this till the  child throws  up, then apply
the  snuff  poultice, which  is  made  as follows.
Take a piece of cloth large enough  to  cover  the
childs breast, grease it good with lard,  and then
sprinkle snuff on it till  it is pretty  well covered,
apply .this to the childs  breast till it sleeps sound-
ly and the child is well,
                     OR,
   Give the child a small teaspoonful of lard  and
sugar well worked together every fifteen or twen-
ty minutes, and I will  say  right here that  this
will  save ninety-nine cases  out of a huudrud that
is not past all hope of recovery.
   I  will  give  another  remedy that I have tried
with success in a score of cases and ahvays used
it on  my own  children and it has never disap-
pointed me  in  the first instance.   AV'hie giving
the  sugar  and  lard mixture  apply  suddenly a 
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 plenty of cold water  to the throat and upper
 part of the chest and give cold  water  to drink
 as soon as the breathing is better which   will be
 in a few minutes wipe dry and put  to bed.   An-
 other popular remedy and a good one, is to apply
 a poultice of raw onions to the throat and breast.
         ROSEOLA, (FALSE MEASLES.)
   You often hear people  say that they  had the
 measles  twice,  or both kinds.  The fact is,  that
 they had  the measles  one  time and  roseola at
 another time.  This  affection  looks very much
 like measles, but generally the symptoms of a bad
 cold are absent, also the cough.   The spots are a
 little raised,  of a rose color  and the patches are
 irregular in  shape.'   Not  much constitutional
 derangement, sometimes, however,  the throat is
 much affected, and the eyes become  a  little  red
 and  swolen, with some chilly sensation and fever.
 Not  much treatment is needed, as all these symp-
 toms pass off in a few days of  themselves.   How-
 ever, a purgative is useful, and a light diet &c, is
 all that is  necessary.   Sometimes this  eruption
 has  been taken  for  scarlet fever, but  there is a
 great difference, when  we look into the two  dis-
eases.  The non-professional  should read under
 both these heads before they attempt the treat-
 ment of either, as it is  probable that  they might
 be mistaken,  and  the treatment is  different and
 mischief might probably  grow  out of  such  a
mistake. 
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                 DIPTHERIA.
  This is a justly dreaded and very fatal disease,
It is catching from one to another. Children and
grown people are subject to  it,and both sexes.
The symptoms of this disease vary so much that
the  non-professional  are  often  misled,  till it is
very late to commence treatment  Being as it is,
surely a blood or constitutional  disease, the form-
ation or the appearance of false membrane  in the
throat and mouth  and  nose, are only too much
evidence to  us that the disease has developed  its
Self, and  the chances for the patient's life are
lessened by the lapse of time.
  This  is often the first symptom noticed by pa-
rents, and consequently we will start  right here
with our course of treatment
  1st,  Move the bowels with some light purga-
tive, as salts or oil.  Then put in a common glass
about a tablespoonful  of chlorate of potassa and
and mix by grinding the same amount of sulphur
and 20 grains of quinine.  Stir well before using,
give a teaspoonful  of this to a child every two or
four hours, keep the patient clean, don't let him
talk much,  give him light  nourishing diet, as
milk, poached eggs, light bread, soup &c, and if
the false membrane does not begin to peel  off in
the course of twelve hours, give him five drops of
tincture of iron in a teaspoonful of water, every 4
hours.   If the  patient  is feverish and yet pale,
put 30 grains of quinine in one ounce of the tinct-
ure  that  you are using.  At the same time you
may mix in a big mouth  bottle, lard a tablespoon 
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full,  spirits of turpentine a teaspoonful, spirits
camphor  tablespoonful;   warm  and  apply  on
flannel to the throat.
   A great many gargles or washes have been used
and, too, with success.  As the following:
       Salt a tablespoonful,
       Vinegar a gill—a spoonful as a gargle.
                      OR
       Borax i oz.          Alum i oz.
       Water * pint.—Use as the above.
                      OR
   Sulphite  of Soda  six  drachms  in a strong
infusion  of quassia  chips.    Dose,  a  table-
spoonful 3 times daily for a grown person.  Some
physicians use caustic in  the  treatment of this
disease, and is  sometimes the best thing  to.be
done.  But  I do not endorse it in  the hands of
the inexperienced.  The above  named remedies
have  always been  sufficient in my  hands.  But
you  must not forget the fact that when the pa-
tient seems about well, and you are in  great  hope
of his recovery, he may relapse and  die in one or
two  hours;  therefore you  should not stop your
remedies  too soon,  but go on  with your iron and
quinine and wrashes  for a few days after the  false
membrane has  disappeared;  but not so often
toward the  last, till you  are certain that  your
patient is  quite well.  I have had to blow sulphur
into the throat, through a quill, and  destroy  the
false membrane.   At  the same time I let him in-
hale the steam from bitter herbs poured on a hot
rock, smoothing iron &c. 
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        BLEEDING FROM THE LUNGS.
   This is generally  coughed  up  and spit out.
It is of a bright red color and mixed  with  foam
and frothy matter from the mouth and throat and
looks much like that in a hog's  or beef's lights.
Sometimes there is but little of it, again  it  is  so
severe as  to  take  the patient's life in a few sec-
onds or minutes.
   As  soon as possible give him a teaspoonful of
common  salt and  let him swallow it down and
repeat in fifteen or twenty minutes  till the  blood
stops.  Then he should keep quiet, restrain from
talking and coughing as much as possible.   He
should take care that another fit does not  come
on, to  this  end,  he  should keep his feet warm,
his" bowels open, his breast cool and drink astrin-
gents, such as a tea made of witch hazel,  white
oak bark, &c.
                      OR
when  the drug  can be had in time of bleeding,
give a male a teaspoonful of fluid extract of ergot
—a woman  should not take this unless given by
a careful  physician. I  have used  galic acid  in
either sex, in five grain doses, every five minutes
till bleeding stops; or give oil of Canada flea bane
(errigeron)  in five drop doses every half hour;  or
a "teaspoonful of turpentine as often.  The patient
should rest in a half sitting posture and some one
should fan his face and breast, unless it is very
cool weather, let the doors  stand  open so that  he
will have plenty of fresh air and keep quid. 
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                 BRONCHITIS.
   This is an inflammation of the wind pipe and I
 almost always find the patient with fever, having
 had a slight chill, with a pain in the breast, about
 the collar bone, a severe headache and sometimes
 coughing up phlegm and  often  a flushed face,
 eyes red,  breath short and sometimes noisy,  and
 feet inclined to be cold, pulse quick and  strong.
 Give him a purge and then sweat him wellj^or,
 if there is sickness of the stomach,  as there some-
 times is, give him first a puke  and then a purge.
 This often  breaks up the disease at once; but if
 not,  give  him  plenty  of strong tea of pleurisy
 root sweetened to taste,  and put his feet in warm
 water.  I  have  greatly aided these remedies by
 using a warm  application  of  some kind to the
 throat, as in croup.
   Take Dovers Powder                20 grs.
        Quinine                       20 grs.
   Divide into 4 doses and give one every four hours,
 keeping the patient warm in bed;  if this is given
 in the above decoction it is a powerful sweat, and is
 one of the best in this disease.
   Another good remedy is to  suck  the steam
 from hot  water out of the spout of a coffee pot.
 This is also a good thing in quinsy.  You must
 not forget the important fact that this disease is
 often the  forerunner of that fatal and dreadful
 disease, consumption; and  the  time to work is
 when  it is in  its first stages.   If it should,  by
neglect,  pass  into chronic bronchitis  it  is not
easily cured.   Then  some of the remedies under
consumption are to be used. 
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       NEURALGIA, (TIC  DOULOUREUX.)
Of all the affections to which human flesh is heir,
this  is  the most  painful.   While it attacks the
fiicc most commonly, it is no respecter of  nerves
or muscles,  and  may  strike you anywhere, as
suddenly  almost  as  lightening.  It  may shoot
from one to a hundred times along a nerve, faster
than the poor sufferer can scream; and then leave
only a numbness in the part, that a moment  ago
seemed  to be torn into shreads by hot irons.  I
have had it for five hours at a time, until it seem-
ed that the flesh was being pulled from the bones
of my face and head with red hot hooks.   I have
been stricken quick as thought,  and disturbed or
frightened every  one  around by my screams and
yells, without even knowing that I made the least
complaint.
  I know that this may seem incredible to those
who  never experienced neuralgia, and I pray God
that  they may never suffer  as I have from this
terrible scourge to mortal man.
  I consulted over forty physicians, all good and
learned men;  all  seemed to be in deepest  sympa-
thy with me; all willing to do me good, and they
recommend this or that; some of them prescribed
for me; but not the least relief could I find.  My
suffering  was in the right  side of my face and
head; and once  when suffering, as  I thought,
death a hundred fold, and  fell upon the bed crav-
ing  to  die,  my wife placed on that side of my
head and face cloths  wet in as hot water as she
could bear her hands in, and kept them renewed
for  some time,  till  I fell asleep and slept some 
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time.   I afterward  felt  better  and went longer
without  an attack  than  before,  and since that
time  it  has  been my resort and almost my cure.
I suffer yet sometimes, but not a  hundredth part
of what I did.  I have walked all night for  sev-
eral  in succession;  I  have nearly destroyed my
life several times.with opium, trying to get ease.
I have said, "Oh ye learned medical men! where
is your skill ?   Oh the boasted power of medicine,
how false! how insignificant!  Now,  I hope that
my kind reader will  pardon  me for taxing his
time to read so much of my experience; I must be
candid.  While medicine did me but little, or no
good, yet it is good for some others, and  it  may
be that I can  point  out something that will help
you.   It does  seem really  strange that patients
have  come from  ten  to  twenty miles to me for
something  to cure neuralgia, and have got relief,
when I was at the time suffering almost unendur-
able pain.  I have  prescribed the following with
great success:
       Quinine                       40 grs.
       Mur. Tinct of Iron               1 oz.
       Tinct. Black  Cohosh.              1 oz.
  Dose, 20 to 30 drops three times daily.
                      OR
       Red Oxide of Iron                6 drs.
       Sulph. Quinine                  2 drs.
       Sulph. Morphia                  6 grs.
       Water                            1 pt
  Shake well  each  time before taking.  Dose, a
teaspoonful 3 or 4 times daily.
                      OR 
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      Fluid Ex't of Gentian             2 oz.
      Fluid Ex't of Black Cohosh       2 oz.
      Sulph. Quinine                 »'.u grs.
      Elixir Vitriol                    4 dr.
  Dose,  half a teaspoonful four times daily.
                      OR
      Citrate of Iron and Quinine       1 dr.
      Sulph. of Morphia               2 grs.
      Water                           4 oz.
  Dose,  a teaspoonful 3 times daily.
  For liniments  and external applications I will
refer the reader  to the  last pages of this book,
where he will find the. formula for several of  the
best known for the relief of pain.
            BURNS AND  SCALDS.
  We all know  what a burn is, whether it is a
scald or from fire itself, and therefore no  descrip-
tion is necessary at all.   I will, therefore, call at-
tention to the best remedies I know of for  external
burns.   If burns  are very severe you should call
a medical man at the earliest moment, for some-
times death soon follows the burn in a short time.
For ordinary burns,  you may make a  batter of
water and corn meal and  apply; this will take out
inflamation; or mix corn  meal  with  linseed oil;
or  cover  the burn with  cotton lint and keep it
well wet with water in which  a spoonful of com-
mon soda has been  dissolved to a pint of water.
   If the skin is off you had better use a  poultice
of slippery elm and sweet milk.  When  the skin 
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is burnt off you can use sweet oil to great advant-
age; then cover with cotton batting.  You might
dissolve one  grain of morphia in a cup ol water
and  wet the burn with  that occasionally till it
quits hurting. Sometimes a burn, if on the fcnger,
or a small spot is burned can be relieved by blow-
ing your breath strongly upon it for several times.
If the burn is very extensive and the skin is burn-
ed off  use Turner's cerate, which is made as fol-
lows:
Take  Calamine (prepared) 3 oz.
       Yellow wax 3 oz.
       Lard 1 lb.
  Melt the wax and lard together and as it cools
and begins to thicken add the  calamine stirring
constantly till cold.  This salve or cerate should
be applied on linen cloths renewed every day.
  Every family  should keep this valuable cerate
on hand.  Another good application for  small
burns is tar.   In very painful burns,  sometimes
the following is  applied in a tablespoon of lard,
mix two or three grains of morphia and apply on
lint.   But nothing on earth will excel cold water
or ice to give immediate relief in  burns.   Water
and  soda as  mentioned  above will l»e found ex-
cellent.
            JAUNDICE, (ICTERVUS.)
  In  this  disease  the whites of the eyes and the
skin turns yellow, bad taste in the mouth, tongue
coated yellow, poor  appetite, a dull stupid feel-
ing and often an aching sensation in the right 
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side.  In  very severe  cases there is slight chills
and  fever, the  patient is very despondent and is
apt to lose flesh, his urine is high colored and the
stools*  are of a light clay color,  he is apt to have
headache with shortness of breath.
   The treatment is varied, as what will cure one
will do another but little good.  This is because,
no doubt, that  the remedy is not adapted to the
cause of the disease.  I will, therefore, give a va-
riety of remedies  so  that  the non-professional
can use them in turn.
1st.    Calomel 10 grs.
       Rhubarb 15 grs.
   For  a  dose repeat  every other day and if this
should  not work off  in eight hours, take a dose
of castor oil, and between doses take the following
mixture:
   Two  raw  eggs, two tablespoonfuIs of common
soot (clear of ashes) and one teaspoonful of salt;
beat them well  together.  Dose,  a  teaspoonful
every two hours.   This course has cured some of
the worst cases.   Or,
   2nd. Rhubarb in powder h, oz.
       Bicarbonate of Potassa 2  drs.
       Ground Ginger 1 dr.
   Grind these well together and take  a  teaspoon-
ful  once or  twice  a  day, or enough to give you
one  or  two  good actions daily, and  drink freely
of the decoction of barberry  root.   You should
also take an egg raw evey day, plenty of out doo^ 
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exercise is always best if the patient is  able.    I
have known some very bad cases of jaundice cured
by taking a fresh raw egg every morning  and  a
dose of rheubarb say 10 or 15  grains  at  night,
but of all the remedies that I have ever used  in
my practice the 2nd. formula is the best; followed
up with the eggs, root and salt.  The diet should
be light and nourishing, and horse  back   riding
is good exercise if the patient is able.    A very
popular domestic remedy is  to  make  a   strong
tincture of barbary root  in  spirits  and  take  a
spoonful three times daily.
       WHOOPING COUGH  (PURTUSSIS.)
  As this cough is  generally known, a description
is unnecessary,  especially  when  the  whoop  is
heard.  I will say right here that we do not offer
to cure the whooping cough, but to merely pali-
ate and modify the cough or  paroxism.   There
are scores of remedies proposed for  this affection
but all fail to cure, but there are  a few   simple
remedies that help, and such only will I give.
                     FIRST.
   Frequent but small doses of  the infusion  of
red clover blossoms, is one of the best,
                      OR
   A few drops of the tincture of assafoetida,  four
or five times a day  is also good.
                      OR
   Sugar and sweet oil has been used   with some
advantage, given  in teaspoonful  doses   several 
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times daily.   Or the following is said to  remove
the whoop, and cut the cough short.
  Take dilute nitric acid 8 drachms, and  enough
simple syrup to make 4 ounces.  Dose a teaspoon-
ful every four hours.
            EAR ACHE. (OTALGIA.)
  We all know well what ear ache is, although it
may arise from  many causes and require different
modes of treatment, yet one thing is needful, that
is present relief from pain and that is  what  we
most want.
  And a  great many remedies are  recommended
but the following are generally the best.
  A few drops of sweet oil dropped in the  ear.
                     OR
  A few  drops of Tr. of  camphor   (camphor  in
spirits.)               or
  Hot bread bound to the ear.
                     OR
  A poultice of roasted onions.
                    . OR
  One or two drops of laudanum and camphor.
                     OR
       Mix laudanum 10 drops,
       Glycerine a teaspoonful.
       Camphor 20 drops.
  Put a few  drops in the ear on cotton.
                     OR
       Glycerine 1 teaspoonful.
       Morphia 4 gr.
  Two or three drops in the ear, repeat it  if nec-
essary.  Hardly ever fails to cure.    Often it  is 
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best when convenient to syringe out the ear  with
warm castile soap suds and often it  is  necessary
to sweat the patient freely, a hot foot bath is good
when ear ache is of the neuralgic kind,  also qui-
nine is best given to a child five years old in  one
grain doses every four hours,if foreign bodies such
as grit, gravels,  beans, wheat and the like, it must
be removed carefully by tweezers  or  washed  out
before relief can be had.   If insects such as bugs,
worms &c. get in the ear, you should  poure cam-
phor or strong soap suds in the ear and kill  the
insect and if it does not wash out you must  care-
fully remove it.   Bear in mind these  operations
should be performed  with great care or you might
injure the tympanum or drum of the ear or  some
other delicate membrane.  Generally if  the ear
be held down  and water be thrown into it with a
syringe, the pest will readily wash out;  after the
thing is thus removed the pain may be  eased  as
above stated.
        ITCH, (ALSO CALLED SCABIES.)
   This affection is worse dreaded than small pox
and strange and worse than a  foolish  thing   is,
everybody denies having it, and by this means  it
is scattered all over the country, to save  the life
of me  I  cannot  see why any one should tell  a
lie any more about the itch than  the  mumps  or
measles or any thing else,  though some  people
will tell a lie about any thing.   If I  had the 
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itch I should try to cure it  as  soon  as  possible
and if any of my friends offered to  shake  hands
with me I would say: excuse rne please  I've got
the itch.   To conceal the matter and give   it  to
somebody else, is worse than stealing;  it  is too
mean.  If people would do right they would soon
stop the loathsome disease.   A great many people
don't want to use the best,  safest  and  quickest
remedies  for its cure that is known for fear   that
somebody will smell it and think that they  have
got the itch.   And they will fool along with poke
root and the like for months or  even  years  and
give everybody in the neighborhood the itch.
  If it is a disgrace to have the itch, what  must
it be to give it to  somebody  else  willfully  and
knowingly.   The disgrace is on the one that gives
the itch and not on the one that takes  it.   Now
go and get you 4 ounces of the  flour  of  sulphur
and make an ointment with lurd'  then  take  off
your clothes and wash yourself well  with  soap,
wipe dry and grease well with the ointment  and
repeat this for three or  four days, and if you don't
want people to smell you, bade yourself and  don't
tell a lie  about it just to get  other people into the
same trouble.
                  WORMS.
  Now under this heading I do not  propose  to
enter into a detailed account of the many kinds of
worms that infest the humun body, nor do I pro-
pose to take up valuable time in  writing   many
page?  on  symptoms,  but  I  do  propose   to 
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give a few plain symptoms whereby  any  parent
may be pretty sure as to worms, whether  present
or not and then to give a few good and  reliable
remedies or means for their removal.  When your
child is restless at night and the upper lip seems
swolen, the  eyes full and dull and he picks at his
nose a great deal, the stomach or belly round and
full, and the saliva runs  out of his mouth so as to
wet the pillow, and he is often  chewing or rather
champing his teeth, with bad breath  and  fever,
and sometimes  choking and finally  when worms
pass from him.
   I say when several of these symptoms are pres-
ent you may say the child has worms..
                  REMEDIES.
   I use the  old reliable remedies in my practice.
I will take a case, a boy of two years old.   I  will
give him a dose of calomel  say  10 grains  and  re-
peat it several alternate days  or every other  day
till the siools seam natural, then I will give  him
worm seed oil; direction is on the bottle you  buy
it in.  This will not fail one time in a hundred
but as many people are prejudiced  against  calo-
mel,  I will for their benefit  give another.  Give
oil (castor oil) and  spirits  of turpentine 5 drops
to the spoonful of oil,  after  this  works off, give
the worm seed  oil.  See  directions  on  bottle.
Pink root and Sena is ah excellent remedy.   But
that owing to neglect is scar*?.   I will next give 
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a more  modern  remedy,  first  give the child a
purge of oil and then give him about!  grain of
Santonan every two hours till he takes five  doses
and in two hours from the last dose of Santonan
give another dose of oil and five drops of spirits
of turpentine.
   If worms choke the child give it salt  water
a teaspoonful once in a while, this is also  good to
drive worms.   I omitted  to  say that santonan
should be given  with caution, all the  remedies
should be repeated in a month or two, and in  the
mean time the child should take  some iron and
bitters as a tonic.  The best is the folinwing:
       Muriated Tincture of Iron, one ounce,
       Sulph. Quinine  thirty grains.
   Dose, 4 or 5 grains, 3 times daily in sugar.
 ERYSIPELAS OR SAINT ANTHONY'S  FIRE.
   This is a painful inflammatory disease, it breaks
out in a scarlet red spot, and  burns  and itches
and quickly extends over the whole limb or body
and is often attended with considerable fever and
delirium, it sometimes strikes an  internal organ
causing death in a short time.  It often looks and
feels like a severe scald or burn, and blisters giv-
ing great pain to the  affected spot.   Some times
the face and hecid swells fearfully until one would
hardly recognize his patient  did  he  not already
know him. 
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                 TREATMENT.
  A wash of copperas water often cures it.
                      OR
  Keep it wet in sugar of lead water, a teaspoon-
ful  of sugar of lead to a pint of water.
                      OR
  Paint it every day, with  tincture of iodine.
                      OR
  Keep it wet with slippery elm poultices.
                      OR
  Coating  the inflamed part with castor oil has
been very highly reccommended by some.
                      OR
  Boil rye meal and mix with soft soap, apply.
                      OR
  Common wood soot mixed with lard,  apply.
                      OR
  The juice of one lemon in a gill of brandy and
apply  every  15 minutes till cured.  This is one
of the best in most cases.
  By  all means the bowels should be kept open,
and as soon as the inflammation has somewhat sub-
sided the patient, if grown, should take tincture of
iron and quinine in doses often drops of the former
and two grains of the latter every four hours till he
has  taken 8 or 10 doses, then 3 doses daily,  The
diet should  be light and nourishing,  but no fats
or other indigestible articles  of  food should be
taken into the stomach.
  Patients  should be kept  as much as possible
out of the light and wind.  I have used the above
remedies  with  success, and  never lost a case of
this disease. 
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         SCROFULA OR KING'S EVIL
  This  is a disease which is much more common
than  most  people  think,  for  there  are a great
many affections and ailments depend upon or have
their  origin in a  scrofulous  condition, such as,
often  consumption, rickets, spinal affection, bron-
chocele, white swelling, &c.  But  scrofula, purely
and uncomplicated has very plain, distinctly mark-
ed  symptoms,  such as  enlargements of glands
which amount  to tumors,  sometimes they grow
very slowly or do not grow at all for  years,  and
then  may  go  away.   But  they more commonly
grow  and  break  and  run.  These tumors long
before they  break can be moved about with the
finger and there  is neither pain or soreness, but
when they do break they often  become  sore  and
painful.   The matter,  too, that they  discharge is
commonly  very characteristic of the disease, for
it is a thin, sizey, ichorous matter  with little
flakes.  As to the causes of scrofula they are nu-
merous, and it is often difficult to tell-upon what
its  presence depends.  But  the transmission  of
scrofula from one generation to another cannot be
denied, though one, or even two,  may escape, it
will  visit  the third or fourth with seeming in-
creased violence, and  being a  blood disease,  as
well  as an otherwise  constitutional affection, it
requires alteratives, blood purifying and constitu-
tional treatment.   Indeed  we  cannot hope  for
such  a thing as a cure from local treatment,  but
can only hope, if we hope at all, for cure through 
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a course of constitutional treatment by renovat-
ing the system, purifying the  blood  and build-
ing up the waste places and diseased tissue.
  That the healing of the sores may be aided by
cleanliness and soothing applications will not be
denied, but the cure for scrofula is  in  alteratives
and renovating resolvents;  whether it is in medi-
cines or mineral waters.  I  have had a great deal
of experience in the cure and treatment of scrofula
and I have treated many cases that had been aban-
doned  as hopeless cases, and I succeeded in my
undertaking  with  the continued use of remedies
that I  shall presently  mention,   I will give one
case in detail for the encouragement of any that
are fflicted with this loathsome and dreadful dis-
class under whose eyes these pages may fall.
  J. S. H.—a  young  man of 20 years had lost
one foot and the stump was a running sore.   The
part was worse than the foot was  when  the  doc-
tors amputated it, and besides  he had other  large
running sores on his body.   He  crawled  on  his
knees and hands jtnd with all the care  and clean-
liness that his poor widowed mother could  take,
the odor of foul sores was terrible.  In  this  con-
dition  I found the young man for whom the doc-
tors refused to further prescribe, but said that he
would  live but a short time.  When  I proposed
to treat his case voluntarily he thought it was of
no use, as all had been done  that could be done.
I said to him: S.,  if you will pay for the drugs at
cost, I will  give you my services and I will put 
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you on foot, and I believe that I can cure you and
I want to try.  The young  man finally  agreed,
and  I undertook his case and in  one month he
walked about, in two months he went where he
pleased and  continued to improve, and in eight
months he took a  position as clerk  in a store and
has been engaged in hard work of that kind near-
ly all the time since, for about eight years, and is
now quite stout, though he has  some large joints
&c.   Though I have not talked with him in sev-
eral months I believe he  will take an active  part
in the selling of this book.  And I have no doubt
but  these  pages   will  be read by many who are
well acquainted with this one and scores of other
cases of a like nature, treated on the same plan
and principal.  Treatment:
       Iodine              2 drs.
       Iodide of Potassium  4  "
       Rain or snow water   i pint
  Dose, from 5 to  10 drops in water.
  This  solution  must  be kept  in a cool dark
place in  a well stopped bottle but where it will
not freeze in winter.  This is very useful  in  all
syphilitic, scrofulous and rheumatic diseases.   It
is a stimulant, alterative  and diuretic.
                      OR
       Cold infusion of walnut leaves, a teacupful
       with  five  grains  of  Iodide  potassa for a
       dose, 3 times daily.
                      OR
       Iodide Potassa            1 oz.
       Syrup of Stillingia        8 oz.
  Dose, one teaspoonful 3 times daily. 
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                       OR
       Fluid extract of Sarsaparilla 8oz.
       Syrup if Stillingia         8 oz.
       Iodide of Potassa        n   2 oz.
   Dose, a teaspoonful 3 times daily.
                       OR
       Mak a strong decoction of yellow dock root
       and  bark  of tag alder a  pint, iodide of
       potassa  2 ounces;  dose as above.
                       OR
       Syrup of Iodide of Iron in ten drop doses
       in water 3 times a day (take care of teeth.)
   All these should be  alternated—that is take
one and then the other.
   Another  good  and  safe remedy is
       Fresh Polk root           2 oz.
       Whiskey or Brandy         1 qt
       Fluid extract of Stillingia   2 oz.
   Dose, a tablespoonful 3 times daily.
                       OR
a decoction of any of the following herbs or plants
single or  together or any  two or  three together.
Tag alder,  false grape,  burdock, plantain, black
cohosh,  sassafras,  iron wood,  iron weed, yellow
dock, sarsaparilla,, stillingia, wahoo, turkey corn,
walnut leaves   or  elder  flowers.   These agents
purify the  blood, and may be, in all scrofulous
diseases, combined with iodide of  potassa  one
ounce to the pint; dose a tablespoonful, or  with-
out  the  iodide 3  or  4  tablespoonsful;  and ytiu 
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should take the potassa only two weeks in this or
in any form, as the system will soon become used
to its action, hence  the need of changing trea
ment frequently.
   And  if there  are  running sores they are best
treated with  elm poultices and should be often
washed and dressed at least once or twice  a  day.
Charcoal  powdered  very  fine and sprinkled over
the  surface of the sore will  correct the smell.
Oxide of zinc is also good, made  very  fine  and
mixed with the flour of elm and sprinkled or laid
on the sore, or if the ulcer is very offensive to the
smell  cloths  laid over the sore wet with a decoc-
tion or infusion  of  wild indigo, beet root, white
oak  bark,  sumach or lousewort; or you may use
vinegar or a weak solution of sulphate of zinc or
saltpetre.
   It takes a  long time to  cure  scrofula under
favorable  circumstances, and  patients  often get
out  of heart  and quit trying,  and the physician
too,  often dispairs of hope  of success and only
gives his attention mainly to that course of treat-
ment called paliatives, and this is only calculated
to pacify the patient.  For  I do say,  positively,
that you  can  not cure scrofula by washing and
plastering the sore no more than you can dry up
a spring of water  by building a damkbelow it and
making a pond over it, or change the constituents
and  elements of the water  under  the hills by
putting something in the spring or branch below.
Purify, alter and tone is the course to be persued
in scrofula. 
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            PILES, (HEMORRHOIDS.
   This affection  needs  but little description as -
most people have acquaintance with it.  Piles are
called by a name according  to their situation and
kind, thus;  when the  sores are on the inside of
the rectum it is called internal piles, when on the
outside it is  called  external  piles,  when  they
bleed  they are called bleeding piles, and when
they do not bleed they are called blind piles.
   Sometimes  piles are caused by the presence of
thread worms, sometimes depends on a distended
condition of the blood vesels of the rectum or low-
er bowels, over  purging or straining  at stool.
Taking too much Aloes will sometimes bring  on
piles, compound pills  of Aloes,  Gamboge  and
Jalop will bring on piles sometimes, and habitual
constipation  will produce  piles.   I will notice
piles  simple and  uncomplicated.   I know of no
affection  that  has a greater number of remedies
and cures than piles.   I will give the best reme-
dies I know of in bleeding piles.
   Introduce  a capsule  full  of  balsam copaiba 3
times daily into the rectum.
                      OR
       Rhubarb                   1 oz.
       Rosin                      1 oz.
       Powdered Alum           h oz.
   Mix  well together and take a tablespoonful in
water  3 or 4 times daily as long as the bleeding
continues and keep the parts well bathed in cold 
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water and ointment.   Use an ointment for bleed-
ing piles of
       Beeswax                   1 oz.
       Sheep Tallow              2 oz.
       Alum                     J oz.
       Linseed oil       1 tablespoonful
       Laudanum       1       "
  Warm and mix—apply to the bleeding part on
lint cotton after each stool and washing.
                      OR
  Drink plentifully of  slippery elm water and
take raw  flaxseed oil enough to keep the bowels
open  daily.   This is good in any kind of piles,
and has cured many bad cases of long standing.
  Bleeding  piles has been cured as well as  blind
piles by injecting salt water up the rectom.  In-
jecting  cold infusion of oak bark or alum  water
has stopped bleeding, and so has a few drops of
turpentine  in starch water.  For either kind of
piles ointment, salve, &c. take
       Lard                      4 oz.
       Spirits of Turpentine       1 oz.
       Laudanum                 1 oz.
       Spirits of Camphor         1 oz.
       Tincture Arnica           1 oz.
  Mix.  To  be applied on cotton lint or otherwise
convenient   This is a good liniment for all sores,
bruises, sprains, etc.
                 ANOTHER.
       Mutton Suet               1 oz.
       Beeswax                   1 oz.
       Sweet Oil                  1 oz.
       Soft,  raw  Turpentine       2 oz.
       Laudanum                 1 oz.  Mix. 
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  Apply as above.   Another very  valuable oint-
ment for piles is the following:
       Extract of Belladonna      1 dr.
       Extract of Stromonium     1 dr.
       Sulph. Zinc              20 grs.
       Sugar of Lead           20 grs.
       Prussic Acid           5 drops
       Fresh Lard                1 oz.
  Thoroughly mix—to be applied twice daily.
            ANOTHER OINTMENT.
  Express  the juice out of leaves and stems of
celandine  with  equal  parts  of  sweet   cream
and  apply to the  pile  tumor.   This is said by
some writers to be the remedy of all remedies and
cures when all others fail.  I have no doubt but
that it is good.  One more  remedy for bleeding
piles is  to drink freely of the decoction of black
currant, three times daily.
          TETTER  OR SALT RHEUM.
  This is a troublesome,  itching inflammation of
the skin  in small patches, with a small eruption
a little  raised and  rough, covered with  whitish
scales like fine wheat bran.   It generally  appears
on  the hands and  forearms, sometimes on other
parts of the body and feet  Soap and heat often
make it worse and it is troublesome in the night
and when the body is heated or sweaty, 
  There   .re many remedies  recommended  for
 ^rter, and the following are the best I have tried.
  Steep puccoon root in vinegar and wash several
 times a day  for a week or two.
                     OR
 make a strong solution of copperas and apply the
 same as the  other.
                     OR
  LTse a strong soda water the same.
                     OR
  Paint twice a day with tincture of iodine.
                     OR
  Sometimes, old salty grease with soda will  cure
 retter;  but  if  there is not much inflammation a
 saturated  solution of oxalic acid will  seldom fail
 to cure.   It must be applied like the other.
            SHINGLES OR HERPS.
  This  disease is known by a number of spots of
 eruption  confined  to one  spot of a red color, a
 painful itching, sometimes considerable fever  with
 headache  and other constitutional disturbance.
 It gradually extends until half  of the body or
 limb is affected, the skin where the eruption ap-
 pears becomes sore  and inflamed and gives pain
 in moving the body or limb, and often the appe-
 tite  is impaired  and the bowels are constipated.
There is a great deal of  superstition in the coun-
 try about  shingles.  There is  a saying that if it
 goes around the body or limb it will surely  kill;
 but  this  is a  mistake, although it very seldom 
 if ever goes around.   Some  writer  says he has
 known  it  to  go around without any increase of
 trouble.  Another superstition  is,  that nothing
 will cure the shingles but the  blood of a  black
 cat  So when they suspect that they have shin-
 gles, the  first  thing to do is to find a black cat
 and the poor cat has  to suffer  the  amputation of
 his tail  and  the blood is applied from the piece
 cut off.  Now,  it may  be that cat's blood will
 cure herps  or shingles, but  I cannot see how the
 color of the cat would make any difference, neith-
 er why it should be blood from the  tail.
                 TREATMENT.
   Shingles need  but  little  treatment  besides
 opening the bowels well with  salts  or oil or salts
 and sulphur or anything you have at hand, and a
 tonic should be taken, such as  iron  and  quinine
 or tincture  of iron alone; and apply to the affected
 part an ointment of oxide of zinc, or sugar of lead
 a teaspoonful to the  pint of water and apply on
 cloths.   But the best of all  is the leaves of house-
 leek bruised  and  applied  as  a poultice, I have
 never known this to fail, but sometimes it cannot be
 had and then we must use such others as we have
 at hand.  Linseed  oil is said to be good, and also
 castor oil, though I have never tried either. Milk
 and wheat bran  will be found very soothing, or
 an ointment of lard or sweet oil and soot is also
 good. But in old people, tonics are of great value,
•such as good bitters or iron.  Citrate of iron and 
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quinine in three grain doses will be valuable, but
by all means you  should keep the bowels gently
open with some mild laxative as given  above and
the diet should be light and nourishing.
           ASTHMA, OR PHTHISIC.
  This  is a spasmodic affection of the lungs and
the muscular fibers of the bronchia.
  It is a very distressing  disease, though there is
not  so  much danger  of immediate  death as the
patient thinks,  for indeed it seems almost impos-
sible  sometimes to live  an hour, for the patient
rushes to an open door or window for breath and
seems to  be gasping  for  his last breath.  And
persons  unacquainted with the disease would say,
"he is surely dying," or "he cannot live."  Every
feature shows great distress, the eyes blurred, the
face flushed,  all the  leaders  of the neck and the
blood vessels  are  distended  to their utmost ca-
pacity and the whole body is bathed  in  perspira-
tion,  a  hard  laborious  wheezing  respiration or
breathing, a severe, constant cough and abundant
expectoration.
  These alarming symptoms,  fortunately, do not
last very long, but gradually subside leaving the
patient in a state of  exhaustion.  These attacks
most commonly come on at night, though  not
always.   Sometimes he may be suddenly attacked
with asthma without any previous notice and it
may last an hour or more and pass off and  occur
no  more for  a  year or  several years and return
again with increased violence. 
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   Again some patients  are  never without some
symptoms  of  asthma, such  as wheezing  and
coughing &c, but never have very severe fits of it,
only a little worse sometimes  than others.  Per-
haps not less than forty causes have been assigned
by different writers, and a large majority of these
are absent in every case of asthma.   So that it is
very difficult to know positively upon  what cause
asthma does  depend  in a very large majority of
cases.   Then  owing  to  the  uncertainty  of our
knowledge as to the cause that may induce an attack
of asthma  in  an individual  case, we can do  no
better  than to treat the symptoms of each case as
they present themselves, upon general principles.
There  are two indications to be met in the treat-
ment of asthma.  The first is to arrest the spasm
and the second is to hinder its return.  Then the
first to palliate or relieve  the paroxysm.
   There is  nothing  better than to give a puke;
say 20 grains of ipacac in half a pint of warm
water,  two  or three spoonsful to be taken at in-
tervals  of  five or ten minutes until vomiting is
induced, then afterwards an occasional  spoonful
is to be taken if the symptoms continue. Though
lobelia  is better in my  judgement than ipacac.
Smoke Jimson leaves (Thorn apple or Jamestown
leaves.) will often  give  instant relief, or smoke
paper  that  has  been soaked in a solution of salt
petre.  A strong tea made of the root of butter-
fly weed, (also known as  pleurisy root) and com-
mon pennyroil taken in half teacupful doses every 
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fifteen  or twenty  minutes will often stop the
most severe fits of asthma.
  Suck the steam of a strong decoction of peach
tree  leaves,  (from the spout  of a coffee pot) will
often help.
  A cupful of good strong coffee is very good in
asthma every twenty or thirty minutes, or smell
strongly  of  sweet  spirits of nitre.   After the
spasms pass off you should use something to keep
it off as much as possible.  And  the best  thing
I ever tried is the following pill taken four times
daily.
       Extract of Stramonium  20' grs.
       Capsicum               20 grs.
       Quinine                20 grs.
       Ipicac                  10 grs.
       Sulphate of Morphia      2 grs.
  Syrup  enough  to  make mass.   Divide  into
twenty pills.
                     OR
       Extract of black Cohosh  30 grs.
       Sulph. Quinine          30 grs.
       Morphine                3 grs.
       Capsicum               20 grs.
  Made into 30 pills  and taken as the above.
                     OR
  The  tincture of Black Cohosh and Black  Haw
root in equal quantities,  the dose is a teaspoonful
two or three  times  daily.   A  Capsicum plaster
between the shoulders is also good in asthma 
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                 SORE LEGS.
  A great many people have sores on their legs;
some  of long  standing and very ugly, offensive
ulcers.  When they have existed for a considera-
ble time  they should  not be healed up at once.
But you  should first purify the blood and build
up  the whole system  as much as possible, keep
the bowels  open, and  for this  purpose epsom
salts  in  teaspoonful  doses once or twice a day is
good,  or  equal parts of sulphur and cream of
tartar  a teaspoonful  night and morning is good
or salt petre 15 grains two or three times daily will
be found a very cooling laxative.  You should also
take a tonic and a blood purifier; for this purpose
quinine and iron is best, say tincture of iron or
oxide of iron.   The lollowing is a good formula:
       Mur. Tincture of Iron      1 oz.
       Sulph. Quinine          40 grs.
  Dose, 20 drops in water three times daily.
                     OR
       Reduced Iron'            40 grs.
       Sulph. Quinine          40 grs*.
       Extract Black Cohosh    20 grs.
  Make 40 pills;  take one 3 times a day.
                     OR
       Syrup of Sarsaparilla       4 oz.
       Syrup of Stillingia         4 oz.
       Red Oxide of Iron        2 drs.
  Dose, a teaspoonful 3 times daily. 
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   The  sores should be kept clean and healthy as
possible.  Pouring cold water on sores is a good
thing  if done on an  empty stomach.  If there
is  much  fever   in  the  sores  a  poultice  of
light bread  and mik, or slippery elm or flaxseed
poultices will, if applied cold, take out the fever.
Or wash them in cold infusion  of white oak bark
is also good, or a  salve made of Jamestown  weed,
or of elder bark is very good; but one of the best
remedies  to  cool and heal an old sore is to keep
them covered  with tow and  wet in new sweet
milk.  When old  sores are hard to heal a poul-
tice  made of common  garden  carrots will  be
found of great service.
   Old sores  should be kept clean as before said,
and to do this they should  be washed with warm
castile soap  suds and dried with a soft cloth be-
fore  other applications  are made.  You should
keep the foot and leg well wrapped with  a band-
age  commencing  at the toes and then wrapping
comfortably  tight  till  above  the sore.  A little
opium or morphine may be used if painful.  Diet
should  be light  and  cooling; you must not use
spirits if you want to get well.  Sometimes a very
weak solution of nitric acid will help  materially
in healing an  old sore, but as I told you  in the
outset you  must not heal an old sore too fast or
it may  cause  your death.  Before you begin to
try to  heal  and  all the time you are healing you
must take purifying medicine and tonics as above
directed. 
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            QUINSY OR TONSILITIS.
   This  is  an  affection of the throat or rather of
 the tonsils on each side of the throat   These are
 popularly called the almonds  of  the ear.  In
 quinsy these  tonsils  become inflamed, sore and
 often  swolen  so that they meet and obstruct the
 passage of food or air and they become  very pain-
 ful.  Often  there  is  high  fever,  headache and
 very sore throat with some constitutional disturb-
 ance  and the  whole throat becomes  sore and
 inflamed and the patient has to keep the mouth
 open  in  order to  get breath, and often when he
 tries to drink or take fluids—for he  cannot take
 solid food—it will return through the nose; often,
 too, on  an  examination of  the throat we see the
 tonsils almost covered with a heavy coat looking
 much  like  the false membrane in diphtheria; if
 now we detach this substance it will leave a raw,
 bleeding surface.  When  we see a case like this
 we should be  very  careful  in discriminating or
 deciding  whether we have  a case of quinsy or
 ■diphtheria.   It is very important to know if possi-
 ble.  Quinsy is not catching, diptheria is; besides
 a different course of treatment is often very nec-
 essary in two diseases.  I have seen a great many
 cases of quinsy or tonsilitis that were pronounced
 diphtheria,  which though it does not come on so
 suddenly, many times it is called and treated in-
 stead of quinsy.  In the treatmeet of quinsy  local
 treatment is more beneficial than in diptheria and
may be varied  according to the urgency of the 
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case when the  chill comes  on or when there is
liver you should  put,the feet in warm water and
use every available means to produce perspiration
and at the same time, if the patient suffers much
pain, you  should give him a dover's powder, 10
grains for  a grown person,  and let him inhale
steam  from hot water; this is best done from the
spout of a coffee pot, at the same time use warm
applications to his throat, such  as flannels wrung
out  of warm water and bound to the throat or
bitter herbs.  A liniment may be made as follows
and applied to the throat
       Spirits of Camphor       ' 1 oz.
       Spirits Turpentine        1 oz.
       Laudanum               $ oz,
       Lard or Sweet Oil         2 oz.
  Mix well together.
  At the beginning and all  through the attack
he should use a gargle or wash made thus:
       Chlorate of Potassa         h oz.
       Sulph. Quinine          30 grs,
       Sulphur        1 tablespoonful.
  Mix well  together let him  gargle his throat
with a spoonful of this every two hours and then
swallow it,  at  all events he must wet his throat
and tonsils with this frequently.
  If these  cannot  be  had, a  tea of any of the
following  may  be  used, red  oak, white oak, su-
mach berries  or root, or persimmon, or use alum.
These  last must not  be swallowed as they will
constipate the bowels and cause fever. 
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  Another very good prescription when the ton-
sils are coated and the patient weik is the follow-
ing:
       Sulph.  Quinine          30 grs.
       Mur. Tinct of Iron         \ oz.
       Water to make             3 oz.
  Dose, a teaspoonful every 2 hours.
  You  should  not  lose  sight  of the diet, he
should  drink  milk, quail's soup, and egg-nog or
milk punch if he is weak and be kept indoors for
some time after he seems to be getting well.
        ELONGATION OF THE UVULA.
  This  is a chronic enlargement of the palate.  It
 commonly  depends upon tne same cause that the
enlargement of the tonsils do, and a similar course
of treatment will  often be sufficient, but some-
times it  becomes so large and long that it gives
us a great deal of trouble.   It often interferes
with breathing and speech, and gives rise to a very
troublesome cough, and I have  no doubt  but that
consumption has  been induced by it or the con-
tinuous cough and effort to clear the throat, and
the general health of  the patient is otherwise'in-
terfered with long before these  more  grave pul-
monary symptoms are manifest. So this condition
of the palate should not be allowed to continue.
   When astringents &c. does no good  you should
go to  a  surgeon and have it amputated; this is
neither a dangerous nor painful operation, but will
often save much trouble if not  your life. 
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          HIP  DISEASE, (COXALGIA)
  This  is  a disease of the hip and depends upon
a scrofulous  condition,  and  it is sometimes mis-
taken for  inflammatory rheumatism, for indeed
the symptoms  are  very  much alike.  It is more
commonly  met with in children of a scrofulous
habit; but it may, and does sometimes attack old-
er people.  The cause of  attack,  although not
well understood  are undoubtedly contributed to
largely by cold, injuries, falls, bruises from blows,
severe strains, improper diet &c.
  The symptoms are not very suddenly developed;
generally the  pain -is first felt in the knee joint,
and often completely lames the patient for several
days before he experiences any  pain  ih  the hip;
and too, sometimes  the  pain is felt in both hip
and knee at once, and as the disease advances the
general  health' is  more  or  less interfered  with,
such as  high  fever, disturbed sleep,  impaired
appetite, profused sweats of a fetid smell, a  wast-
ing of  the muscles  and  often a losing of flesh
generally, as well as losing of hair.   The patient
is unable to  move himself in bed without  great
pain.   Sometimes  at the   commencement of this
disease  it  may be mistaken for neuralgia of the
knee, and  too,  neuralgia may be taken for coxal-
gia, and the only way to determine or decide is by
•striking  the  knee  with your knuckle or punch
the a'l'e ted spot of the 'aiee with the end of your
finger  and if  it is coxalgia a severe pain will be
felt, but if  it is neuralgia it will produce no pain
at all.   So  as  a general  rule  the  diagnosis  are
easily made  out.   Now that  we are pretty well
sure that the patient has hip disease, what  shall 
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we do?  1st, give the hip perfect ease.  2nd, give
the patient plenty of fresh air.  3rd,  bathe him
in  salt  water and  wipe him dry, then feed him
well on eggs,  beef, mutton, vegetables, soup, oys-
ters, fish, &c.
   The remedies that  are  given in scrofula are
proper in this disease, and therefore I will refer
the reader to  that  head.  Iron and  quinine are
proper,  for your success depends  on sustaining
the strength of the patient.  Liniments are worth-
less but  you  must continue persevereingly and
patiently in the use of  tonics and  alteratives if
you expect to  save your  patient;  you may look in
vain  for  success without  it.  Read  under  the
head of scrofula and you will find  alteratives pro-
fusely given  and £hose combinedwith Iodide of
Potassa  are  generally  best in this disease.   You
must not be careless in  the treatment of this dis-
ease for your patieut may die  after  all.   Fortun-
ately  for mankind  this disease is not very com-
mon.
              WHITE  SWELLING
Also known as Hydrarthrus and Synovitis.  Phy-
sicians  recognize three kinds of synovitis, thus:
rheumatic, strumous and syphilitic.   Now under
these heads we might  write twenty  pages that
would be of some importance  and interest, but as
we are not writing for the profession we will give
the general symptoms  and also a general course
of treatment, for the reason :that  the non-profes-
sional  would  not be at all likely to  see or under-
stand the different marks of discrimination from
the meagre discription that we could give in such
a limited  space. 
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  The symptoms of this dreadful disease are very
slow  and at first very uncertain, but gradua lly
become more and  more characteristic.   The  kn ee
joint more commonly is the chosen seat,  but the
ankle, toes, elbow, wrist or even the  hip may be
affected,  though rarely.
  The joint becomes swolen and a little sore and
after awhile pain  is felt,  but slight, which grad-
ually gets worse and worse till it  is  very severe
and the skin has a very smooth, shining  appear-
ance;  and  now there is considerable heat of fever
in  the part affected, and soon the body becomes
feverish, appetite impaired,  a low quick pulse,
and now the patient is very restless, cannot  sleep
and takes night sweats and perhaps diarrhea and
sinks into extreme debility and dies.
   These symptoms may be a few weeks to several
months developing, but this is the general course
of white swelling unless interfered with by a proper
course  of  medication  and treatment.    In the
treatment  of  this  disease we should employ the
best alteratives and diet as in the  case of hip dis-
ease  and scrofula.  Give the joint rest;  use the
remedies under scrofula;  iron and quinine are in-
dicated  and you  may use the following  in  con-
junction with the other remedies.
       Citrate of  Iron and Quinine  2 drs.
       Water (pure)                8 oz.
   Dose a teaspoonful three times daily.
   But one of the best alterative compounds that
we can use in this disease is the following in  doses
of 15 to  20 drops on sugar three times daily. 
      Fl'd Ext. Podophyllum peltatum 1 oz.
      Fluid Ext. Poke root           1 oz,
      Syrup of Iodide of Iron         1 oz.
  Mix,
             ANOTHER AS GOOD.
      Fl'd Ext. of Sarsaparilla    4 oz.
      Fl'd Ext. of Yellow  Dock   2 oz.
      Fl'd Ext, of Black Cohosh  1 oz1,
      Fl'd Ext of Tag Alder      1 oz.
  Mix.   Dose, a teaspoonful 3 time daily.
            OR STILL ANOTHER.
      Fl'd Ext. Sarsaparilla       4 oz.
      Fl'd Ext of Bur Dock      4 oz.
      Iodide of Potassium        1 oz.
  Mix.   Dose, a teaspoonful 3 times daily. These
doses are for grown people; for children give less
in proportion to age.  Local application in white
swelling does good; the object of  this  is to  keep
down excess of fever,  or to keep out cold, or to
relieve pain.  To keep  down fever cooling poul-
tices, such  as  milk  and  bread or red oak and
wheat bran and such like.  To relieve pain jim-
son  or  peach  tree leaves may  be used or both
together.   Pounded  lettuce  leaves applied are
very good to keep  out cold, or grease a lock of
wool  and wrap on.  Liniments  are  sometimes
useful.
      Sweet Oil                 1 oz.
      Spirits Turpentine         i oz.
      Laudanum                  1 oz.
      Tincture of Camphor       1 oz.
      Bee's Wax                  i oz.
  Mix and apply 2 or 3 times a day. 
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  And  if there are openings discharging matter
these should be washed well with castile soapsuds
and  with a small syringe wash the the inside as
well as out.  If it  is' smelling  bad use carbolic
soap and keep  the parts protected from  cold.  If
night sweats come on let your patient drink plen-
of cold sage  tea or  white oak and wild cherry
bark infusion,  or give  him 15 drops 3 or 4  times
a day of the following.
       Elixir of Vitriol            1 oz.
       Sulph.  Quinine          30 grs.
  If diarrhea   comes  on give  him two or three
times a day  10  grain  of  kino or  10 grains of
catechu or  20 drops of laudanum.   If  he has
night  sweats  and  diarrhea both, then give him
the following  in fifteen drop doses 3 or 4 times a
day in sweetened water or cold sage tea.
       Elixir of Vitriol            1 oz.
       Tanic Acid                1 dr.
  Mix.   Do not forget to feed your patient well
on eggs, beef,  mutton,  squirrels,  young rabbits,
birds, soups and gruels,  and by all means sweet
milk in plenty.  In derangement  of the bowels
boil the milk and flavor it with nutmeg or ground
cinnamon or both.  Give him stewed dried fruit,
apples are best; if the bowels are in a constipated
condition you should try to regulate  the bowels
with  diet, and if you have to give a purgative I
would prefer cream of tartar in teaspoonful doses
once or twice, a day. 
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      GALL STONES, (BILIARY CALCULI.)
  These are concretions found in the gall bladder
or bile ducts and depend on an unhealthy  condi-
tion of the bile.   They  vary in size, from the size
of a wheat grain to the size of a hen's egg.   And.
we  know nothing of their existence till they begin
to pass from their place of formation,  when the:
patient  is suddenly taken with pain in the right
side,  after  awhile it passes off and the patient is
free from pain and only feels a little exhausted,
and again  he  is  seized  with another and ofteni
vomiting.  These  fits may come often or may
last for  some time.
  Generally  about these times the whites of the
eyes,  and maybe the skin,  turns yellow, and you
will notice after these fits of gall stones and wash
the  stools and  you  will find these stones  on the
water, for they will swim.   It is  useless for you
to try to cure your patient till  these are  passed,
for  they  will continue, and sometimes too, until
the patient is unable to stand the repeated shocks-
and dies of exhaustion.  Well, what must we do?
First, relieve the pain while they are passing.   I
apply the following to the side and stomach 3 or
4 times  a day whether the patient has pain or not.
Hub it on well.
      Camphor in Spirits         2 oz.
      Laudanum                 2 oz.
      Spirits of Turpentine      1 oz.
      Tincture of Capsicum      1 oz.
      Citric Acid                2 oz. Mix. 
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   To give ease at  the  time give one-eigth of a
grain of sulph. morphine, or if the stomach will
not  retaiu it inject  one-eighth grain under the
skin  with a hypodermic syringe,  or yet, if you
cannot do that,  give  sixty drops of laudanum by
the  rectom,  that is  throw  it up the bowels, or
if you have  no morphine  or  cannot weigh and
proportion a  dose,  and if the stomach is not too
much deranged give 25 or 30 drops of laudanum.
  These means are only intended to relieve the
sufferings while the gall stones are passing.   Now
we should do our best to hinder the  formation
of more gall stones, for like causes will  produce
like effects.   Therefore,  we  should  use means to
prevent the formation of gall stones  by'' arousing
the liver to action, changing the condition of the
bile  and  neutralizing the  excess  of acid in the
stomach and  strengthen the  system;  and  for this
purpose the following is best
       Powdered Rhubarb       4 drs.
       Bicarbonate of Potassa    2 drs.
       Ground Ginger           1 dr.
  Mix well by grinding in a mortar.  Dose half a
teaspoonful  two or three times a day, or enough
to move  the  bowels once or twice every day, but
not more; and take also the following.
       Citrate of Iron and Quinine     2 drs.
       Water  ,                       6  oz.
  Dose, a teaspoonful three times daily. 
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                 SNAKE BITES.
   Snake bites are of frequent occurance and so
 much so that it needs a separate and  special no-
 tice.   All snakes are not dangerous, while many
 are.  The common black snake is  harmless  but
 the most dreaded snakes in our country are the
 rattle snake, the copper head or pilot, the cotton
 mouth and black adder,  while others are more or
 less poisonous.  The effects vary in different per-
 sons according to circumstances,  age,  condition,
 &c.  Sometimes people  are bitten by very poison
 snakes and suffer but little from it,  while  again
 others are  bitten by shakes less  poisonous  and
 suffer very much.   This may  depend  upon  cir-
 cumstances in the case, for instance, the snake
 bites  through clothes, it  often happens  that the
 poison is lodged in the clothes and  therefore does
 but little harm.  Again  the person bitten may be
 cool and the bite may be slight, or the skin thick
 and tough so that the teeth do not enter, or  they
 may not strike a blood vessel of any size, or if a
 man is under the  influence of liquor, he is ex-
 empted to  a great degree from the  constitutional
 effects of tke  poison.  But of all the  snakes
 known in our country, the rattle snake is the most
 dangerous, for it sometimes happens that the bit-
 ten man dies in thirty minutes  after he  is bitten
by this snake, or he may  live several days, or even
 weeks, and then die.  In  short we should, always
conclude the rattle snake's bite is fatal,  unless
prompt and affective remedies are immediately
employed, and this must  be employed boldly and
with nerve and judgement and too, at the  earli-
est possible moment if we expect to  do good. 
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  It is a source of great satisfaction to the bitten
man as well as his friends to know what kind  of
a snake bites him, as much may depend upon  the
energy to be used in the treatment of his case.  It
is proper to state here that the rattle snake always
gives his  intruder notice before  he deals his
deathly blow, he rattles or sings as it is called be-
fore he bites, and this seems to be a very peculiar
and benevolent trait in his nature, and  his war-
ning has  been  heard  and heeded  by  thousands
who otherwise would have been bitten.  A rattle
snake is capable of jumping  several feet and  in-
flicting a  fatal wound.  My preceptor, a man  of
unquestionable veracity, said that he experimented
with a rattle snake  (with fourteen  rattles)  for a
long time to learn what he could without being
bitten  and with a fishing pole  teased the  snake
for  some time and  then would hold an old hat to
him on the pole to see him bite, he said that the
blows were given with great force and after strik-
ing the hat three or four times  the snake  refused
to further notice it or the pole, but watched him
closely and fiercely, and  finally the snake made
an effort to remove the cause of his trouble and
jumped toward  him, the snake  jumped   sixteen
feet just missing his face.  He  then  managed to
capture the reptile and with great  care extracted
his  fangs, and in a few days he let the snake bite
a dog which bite was  harmless, and  afterwards
suffered the snake to strike his own foot and  be-
yond the blow which he said was with great force
he suffered no pain or  constitutional  effect,  the
snake had  bitten himself several times before his 
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fangs  were  drawn and it effected nothing that
could be seen.  Hogs will destroy rattle snakes or
any other and their bites never hurt hogs.  Take
it for granted that when one is bitten  by a  snake
that he knows of it, and I will  therefore proceed
to give the various remedies that have been em-
ployed in snake bites, and all are said to be  good.
  But as the rattle snake is so poisonous and  fa-
tal, and that too so quickly, that we will give  at-
tention first to the  bite of a  rattle snake.  We
have no time to stop and fool  with  a  so  called
"mad stone," nor is there time to send a mile or
two for the doctor  for  before  he can  get  there
death  may render  his visit unnecessary,  nor
should we go about hunting snake roots and teas,
uor should we wait till some  one  could  go  for
whiskey but at once tie something, a hem of your
clothing or a piece of your handkerchief or any-
thing you can get the moment you  are  bitten,
tightly around the limb above the bite to stop the
circulation completely, then let some one put  his
mouth to the wound if he has  no sores  or  cuts
&c. in his mouth, and suck the poison out.   You
need not fear this  operation for there is no  harm
in this poison if it is swallowed.  If it can not be
sucked out, then take your knife  and  cut  the
whole bite out, don't be afraid of its bleeding cut
it out and then burn the cut surface with  a  hot
iron or with caustic or nitric acid, don't be  afraid
of hurting, remember that you are now trying to
save life and a little hesitation on the part of any 
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 one to do these things will prove fatal.  Give him
 a gill of whiskey or brandy and  apply  the  same
 to the  wound, after this you may loosen the band-
 age a little for. a moment and then every ten min-
 utes loose it for a minute until you  can  leave,  it
 off entirely.  Give him  spirits,  say  a gill  at  a
 time, till he has taken two or three doses or  man-
 ifests some sign of intoxication,  then give him
 less at a time; and if there are signs  of sinking,
 called  the "shock," give him the more  and for
 fear you1 should be mistaken as to the shock you
 will  know it by a pale face,' cold  skin,  feet and
 hands, &c.  If he throws up the spirits then lose
 no time, get a syringe if you can and if not make
 a squirt of anything  you have at hand and throw
 a double quantity up the bowels  and bathe the
 whole  body in the same; and as soon as he begins
 to recover from the shock you should  wet large
 cloths  in hot water and  wrap it around  the  limb
and renew it often, and give him all the milk and
soups,  rice or other food he can take.  Give  him
 five grains of quinine in  a  little  whiskey  every
 four or six hours.  I have no confidence  in  teas;
 "mad stones" and the like in a rattle  snake bite,
 such as that will do when you are bitten with  a
snakes that is not poisonous,  then remember first
bandage the limb, then cut out the wound,  then
cauterize it.   Give spirits, loosen  the  bandage a
few seconds every ten or  twenty minutes for an
hour or two, support the strength, give plenty  of 
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food,  milk, &c.  This  if  the safest remedy in a
rattle snake bite.   And1! say again, for the third
aud  last  time, l&k "nothing deter you, suck the
poison out, them cut out the wound.
  Also other snake bites and rattle snake  bites,
too,  there  are  a  host of  remedies which are as
follows.
       Iodine                   30 grs.
       Iodide of Potassium      30 grs.
       Water                     1 oz.
  Apply on lint cotton, keep it wet until  the bite
is cured.
                      OR
Apply whiskey in a big mouthed bottle, fit the
mouth over  the  wound and hold it there for an
hour  or  half an hour and give the patient whis-
key until he shows some signs of intoxication.
  By holding the bottle over the bite so that the
spirits will come in direct contact with the bite
you will  see the poison mixing with the contents
of the bottle.  Of course you should always cord
the limb before you do anything else.
                      OR
Warm Spirits  of turpentine may be used on the
bite  in the same way as  the whiskey, but not
taken in  the same way.  Another cure has been
recommended as follows:  beat together the whites
of two  eggs and a tablespoonful of common salt
and apply; but you must use stimulants as before. 
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  "While we have antidotes and remedies and all
'that, where snakes are found the safest way to be
well of snake bite is to take care at all times not
to get bit and teach our children never  to  tread
carelessly on  or  play with a snake.  When one
learns  to watch for snakes he rarely, if ever gets
bit.
               SPIDER BITES.
   Under this  heading I shall notice the effect of
spider bites and the remedies  as generally em-
ployed.   There are a few kinds of spiders that we
may very much  dread.   The  black spider that
lives under rocks  and  slabs  is  very poisonous;
some  of them have red spots on their backs, and
the torantula.
   Some  of  the  most alarming symptoms that I
ever saw was  from a spider bite and from that
circumstance the spider is very much dreaded, I
mean from the alarming symptoms  that immedi-
ately  follow the   bite.   I  saw a man who was
bitten  by 'a spider so  violent  that it took four
stout men to  hold him.   I was called to his as-
sistance  in  a very short time after he was bitten,
and when I  saw him  he knew nobody but vio-
lently  threw  himself  to end fro and made every
demonstration of suffering.  I  applied hartshorn
to the bite, injected a double charge of morphine
in  his  arm  and  he drank a gill of whiskey in a
half pint of.sweet milk and  in  a half  hour all
was over, only he was weak and drunk. 
                     Ill
  When I  was a boy my father was bitten by a
large black spider and  from  the effects of that
bite,  in  less than  half  an hour he was raving,
distracted and remained so for a night and  day;
and  all  that could be done for him seemed to do
no good; he was sick a long time. About  a year
after a young  man was bitten by about the same
kind of a  spider and  he had a physician with
him and he came near dying and said he  could
always feel the  spider  bite.  I  talked  with 0. C.
B. Esq.,  who  was bitten by one of the black spi-
ders and he said he suffered untold  misery  until
an old gentleman cured him,  which he said was
done quickly when the remedy was  found.   The
remedy  by which  he said he was cured was the
following:  he  procured  one of those snuff balls
that you often see, looking somewhat like a mush
room,  but  it contains a snuff of a dark grayish
color, and this they boiled in sweet milk,  about a
pint, and he drank it  and  in a few minutes it was
all  over.   I saw  an  old  lady who said she was
cuEed with the  same remedy.
  For spider  bites the treatment necessary is  to
alleviate pain; for this purpose a dose  of lauda-
num according to age may  be given and some
anodyne  application  may  be  made to the spot.
A greaf mimy remedies are in popular use, such
as cabbage leaf, j*mson leaves,  peach  tree leaves,
camphor, hartshorn,  laudanum, spirits  of tur-
p2ntine,  &c.  But one hypodermic injection  of
morphine  is sufficient in any spider  bite I have
seen. 
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  But  as this  is not convenient many times the
next best thing  is a dose of laudanum as before
said and bathe the bitten part with the same.  A
little  spirits  in sweet milk will do about all that
anything will towards neutralizing the poison.
               MAD DOG BITES.
  Hydrophobia, rabies  or canine madness arises".
from, or is produced in the human  being  by the
rabid animal such as a dog, cat, fox, wolf, &c.
  Of all the deaths to which mortal man  is sub-
ject, that by hydrophobia is most dreaded; and
yet a great many people will keep an unprofitable
pack  of distempered, half starved curs or hounds
or half dozen squalling fices and run the risk of
destruction.  It is not my intention to wage war
agrinst a useful dog or cat, nor is it my purpose
to describe the  appearance or symptoms of hydro-
phobia in the worthless dog.  I shall try  to  de-
scribe  the most common symptoms in our species
and then give such remedies as are recommended
in  the cure of  rabies v or hydrophobia.   I shall
commence by saying fortunately a  very  few run
mad who are bitten by the dog and this is because
no  doubt, that the saliva is cleaned off the teeth
while  going through the clothes or  some  portion
of tough skin, as sometimes the foot or hand and 
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 too, sometimes the teeth may have been wiped by
 the snapping of something else before biting the
 man.  And  furthermore the  bite may be very
 slight and care being taken forthwith to remove
 any poison that may have been deposited that he
 may escape.  I said under snake  bites that an
 ounce of  prevention is worth  a pound of cure; I
 say now that it is worth more  than the weight of
 the dog in cure, even if he weighed  a thousand.
 And my  advice is, as soon as the dog shows the
 least signs of madness or strange feats to kill him;
 he  is  not to be trusted, and that there ought to
 be  a  law to compel the people to kill every dog
 they see running and roving through the country
 by himself.  Mad dogs prove  a  great terror  in
 some places.   I will now give  you the symptoms
 of the disease  as they present themselves.  The
 first sign of hydrophobia in the bitten man is  an .
 uneasy sensation  and  pain in the bitten part; if
 the bite has healed up a number of little  bumps
 or red pimples will  appear  on the scar.  The
 pain becomes more severe and now comes distress
 in the stomach, fullness in the head, loss of ap-
 petite, pain in the body, lowness of spirits, fright-
 ful dreams,  cannot sleep, a great anxiety in the
.countenance,  pale  and haggard look, twitching
 in the muscles, more pain in  flesh and  bones,
 nothing  tastes  right, nausea  and vomiting of'a
 green matter, temperature rises and falls,  pulse
 very quick, skin cold and a very  strange  uneasy
 feeling about  the  throat  and breast; now it is
 difficult  to  swallow any  thing,  light hurts the
 eyes. 
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   All the above  are  augmented, a dread of the
 sight of water or anything glistening, a  draught
 of air or any sudden noise  will excite him into a
 terrible convulsion.  It is impossible for any one
 to tell of the looks and horrow of a run mad man
 or any thing else run mad.   See  a man gnaw the
 flesh  off  his  own  arms, see him rave, hear him
 howl, look  at his wild countenance, champing
 his own tongue,  then see him for a moment seem
 rational and talk and beg his family not to come
 near him.  The nearest and dearest friend cannot
 minister unto him in  safety.   I had rather die
 from  a dozen  snake bites or  be shot or drowed or
 burned or draged to death by wild beasts—any-
 thing before hydrophobia.
               TREATMENT.
  Now I want  to be distinctly understood that
 the only  safe and  sure remedy, if there is any,  is
 to cut out the bitten part  the  moment you are
 bitten, and  cut deep so as to cut out the poison
 flesh,  then burn the parts with a red hot iron as
soon  as  you  can,  or burn with  caustic or nitric
 acid.   I  have  no confidence in  "mad  stones,"
since  but very few of the number that are bitten
 take hydrophobia, and too many people are bitten
by  dogs  not  mad  that are supposed to be mad,
and only about ten per cent, of that very' small
manority of  only a few  ever see a "mad stone."
 Then  who on earth  can tell whether the stone
■did good or not?    If  there  were no signs of the
disease in the patient how could we tell that the 
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"pati ent was going to be mad, or be effected by the
 disease?  And if he  were already  mad  is it at
 all probable that mere sucking at the scar would
 neutralize the poison then absorbed into the sys-
 tem and had diseased every organ in the human
 body.   A great  many remedies have been used
 and recommended  (I  should  have said means or
 things) but when hydrophobia is present they are
 worthless.  A great many, so called, sure cures
 have been  discovered and used  with apparent
 success, but  the  fact is, when a man has hydro-
 phobia there has never yet been found a remedy
 that  can be  relied upon as a cure.  It is true
 that  many people have been bitten by dogs that
 were very  suspicious  and  even had fits and all
 that, yet he had  no hydrophobia, and of course
 the bitten  subject  could not take the disease,
 and I think these are the patients that are cured
 with "mad stones," "mad dog  weed," etc.   Ihave
 read after many writers on this disease.  One ^wri-
 ter says he  has much  experience in this disease
 and has  cured several  cases  of madness with
 strong  aqua  ammonia,  which is hartshorn, and
 has given it to patients who had convulsions, (fits).
 and they got  well.  But did  they have  Hydro-
 phobia ?
   One  man of undoubted  veracity, who was  a
 minister, made the following statement:
   "My only brother was bitten by a genuine mad
 dog—one tooth entered the fleshy part of his leg,
 as he was undressed for a bathe in a brook; the
 dog had followed him and the other boys  to the
 creek and as soon as the dog came near the water
 and saw  the  boys plunge in he  took a  fit  and 
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snapped his brother who had not yet leaped into
the water.  The dog, having a fit, frightened all
the boys and Jthey carried the  bitten boy to the
house and sent for a " Mad Stone "  a half mile
off.  In 30 minutes from the time the boy  was
bitten  the stone*was  applied ;  " it stuck " five or
six times. This mad stone, said he, " had cured a
great many cases," and coutinued, "it was applied
every day for a week.   When my brother  began
to complain of the sore which had about healed
up, and during all this time he was taking an in-
fallible cure—mad dog weed—but as soon  as the
suspicious symptoms began to appear he was car-
ried about sixty  miles to a  doctor  who  always
cured,  and the doctor said, " Yes, I'll cure him."
But still the boy grew worse, and another  never-
failing doctor was at once called to his assistance,
and in about five days the  boy had fits  and showed
clearly' that he had Hydrophobia—both the doc-
tors agreed that the  cure was  in hartshorn  and
mad dog weed, and believed still that they  would
cure the boy.  Another mad dog bite doctor came
in and said that if they had a certain Mad stone
he  could cure  him,  and my father  asked him
where it  was, and he said it was fifty or sixty
miles away,  and he  found out that it was the
same Mad stone that they had  just wore  out on
the boy's leg.   The boy grew  worse, and  one, of
the doctor's  said if he had  taken a few pints pjf
the strong decoction of this mad dog  weed (scull
cap) along when  he was bitten he  would have
been now as well as he ever was  .My father told
him that he had taken large quantities of it from 
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the first hour after  he was  bitten.  And my
brother died in a few days the most horrible death
that any of us have ever seen.  The doctors said
that it was the first case they had ever lost.  Yes,
said I, it was probably the first case of  Hydro-
phobia they had ever seen.  When I was  a boy a
relative of mine, a boy, was bitten by a mad dog
(the dog was realy mad and died  in a few days of
Hydrophobia) in  the left hand, his  grandfather
brought him to Dr. Nixon at  once, who  excised
(cut out) the whole bitten part—the cut was made
larger  and deeper than the bite.  And then he
cauterized it,  that is, he  took a piece of lunar
caustic and burnt the cut surface thoroughly and
burnt  the wound the second time,  and the boy
never run mad.   Now, if you  don't want to die
of Hydrophobia you must not be bitten  by any
rabid animal.  But if you  should be bitten, cut
out the bite right there and then.  While I believe
that caustics and  red hot iron may  do, the surest
plan is to cut it out, and then use your caustics,
&c, for before you can go somewhere and heat an
iron, or go somewhere for caustic or nitric  acid,
a part, at least, of the, virus  or poison  will be
taken into the system  by the blood.   I have often
injected  morphine under the skin of a patient's
arm who would tell me that they could distinctly
feel the  effects of the drug  in two minutes-
would hot the poison of a snake or a dog be taken 
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up  in a few minutes, now inject morphine into
a small blood vessel and you will feel the effects
of the  drug allo^er in from five to seven minutes,
and, too, the higher the circulation the sooner is
it taken up.  Now, run a mile or half mile, what
good would a little caustic do on the bitten part ?
If, however, you should have the caustic with you,
why then, if you are a little cowardly .with  the
knife,  or careless about the matter, or have no
knife, you  should plunge the caustic to the very
bottom of the wound and  thoroughly and effec-
tually cauterise or burn everywhere  that the skin
is broken.  But the great advantage in bandaging
the limb between the wound and heart and cut-
ting out the part that is bitten, is, that instead of
the blood carrying the poison into the  system, it
will bleed it out and save your life.
             •  NETTLE RASH.
  This disease, or affection, is also called Hives—
(Urtiecaria) &c.
  It breaks out in patches or  raised  spots of  a
pale red color—the skin thickens up and  itches
like the sting of  a nettle or a bee—these whelks
come quickly and often the whole body breaks out
in  these large spots—white on  top and redish
around the border, and often when they disappear
they leave  purple  spots,   I have seen this rash
appear in  stripes  and ridges—sometimes  these
patches burn and itch till the patient  would cry
and writhe in his suffering, and scratch off the 
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skin, and maybe when he would get done scratch-
ing one place another would be claiming his im-
mediate attention, and would suffer thus for hours
—one spot may disappear and in a few minutes
another will  appear near by, and so it may con-
tinue for several hours.
  Hives sometimes come on by itself, but most
commonly  there is  some other trouble or consti-
tutional derangement. We are now writing about
nettle rash alone.   I  have been in  the habit of
giving the  following in  order to get a full deter-
mination to the skin:
       Sweet Spirits of Nitre,    -    1 oz.
       Tr.  Veratram,     -    1  drachm,
       Fl'd Ex, Ipecac,     - 20  drops.
  Dose—20 drops  every two hours till  sweating
is produced.  If the patient  is suffering  much I
will give the following:
      .Opium,      -     -      5 grains,
       Gum Camphor,  -    - 20 grains,
       Ipecac,    -       -     10 grains.
       Salt Petre in fine powder,  2 drachms.
•  Mix well and divide into ten powders.
  Give one every two hours till rest is produced.
  It is sometimes best to commence the treatment
of Nettlie  Rash by  an emetic.  A  spoonful of
ground mustard in warm water will  empty  the
stomach at  once,  then a dose of  salts will  do.
good.  Flour rubbed  on the skin will sometimes
do good.  When a person is subject to this affec-
tion he will  relieve himself by taking  Fowler's
solution, 5  to 10 drops after meal, for  a few days, 
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but should not be  too long continued.   Another
prescription sometimes will cure it and will also
break up the disposition to the disease.  Take
      Cream of Tartar,     -     1 ounce,
      Flour of Sulphur,    -     1 ounce.
  Dose—a teaspoonful twice a day.
  You may apply,  with a soft cloth, to the skin,
the following:
    Oxide  of Zinc,       -       2 drachms,
    Calamine  powder,      -   \ ounce,
    Glycerine,    -             2 ounces,
    Water,     -.               4 ounces.
  A great  many other remedies are used some-
times, but the  above will  be generally  sufficient.
                 FRECKLES.
  Freckles on  the face and  hands are very objec-
tionable to some people  and they would like  to
get rid of them.
  These  are an  excess of pigment which is the
matter that gives color to the skin, freckles ap-
pear in patches on the  face, neck and hands—they
are not always produced by the sun or heat, but
some  people seem  predisposed to freckles while
others are exempted all their  lives, notwithstand-
ing the supposed cause.  They may be  removed,
fiays a writer, by the daily application of the fol-
lowing poisonous solution:
     Corrosive Sublimate,     -    2 grains,
     Water,      -      -      - 2 ounces.
   Apply with a flannel rag. 
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       INTUSSUSCEPTION OF THE BOWELS.
     This term means in plain .english one part of an
   intestine  introduced in to another, and is  some-
   times called by physicians invagination, this gene-
   rally takes place near the portion called the ileum
   when the intestine passes into one  below,  it  is
   called progressive, and  when  it  passes  into  it
   above, it is called retrograde, invagination,  pro-
   gressive invagination may take place so low down
   that it will happen down through the rectom, this
   does not very often come, but when it does, there
   is obstinate  constipation,  great  tenderness  over
   the abdomen or belly, sick  stomach and  vomit-
   ing with sudden attacks of pain,  and sometimes
   the fasces are vomited up, there is  fever,  quick
   pulse, cold  feet and hands &c. This is sometimes
   the result of  long  constipation, cramp in  the
   bowels, but more  commonly it is  thought to  de-
   pend upon  the concentration of  the  segment of
   the intestine, one becomes contracted while  the
   other is dilated so that the one can pass  into  the
   other.   The treatment of intussusception  should
   be   trusted  only  to  the  most skillful  sur-
%  geon—nevertheless we should use large quantities
   of warm castile soap suds by  injection,  this will
   do no harm and often does good, when this diffi-
   culty is suspected we should use only such means
   as will most likely subdue the spasm and relax
   tie muscular contraction or  cramp  and  this is
   best done by  the above  named injection and
   warm .relaxing poultices over the bowels,  but all
   stated above you should call a doctor. 
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              LIVER DISEASES.
  Oh this poor liver is abused  and  blamed and
belied more than every other organ, or gland of the
body, and patent medicine men make the poor in-
offensive, honest, hard working liver a target to be
shot at with their big guns, (Medical almanacs) and
the liver has to stand  a continual volley of pills
and it does seem strange to me how  a  man in
New York can induce a man here to fall out with
his own liver, and assist the New  Yorker  in  di-
recting his volley to that organ, aud I  am firmly
fixed in the opinion to day that at least nine hun-
dred and ninety nine  out  of every thousand  are
worsted by the liver pills,  one man took 26  boxes
of------'s liver pills and was worse than  when
he begun, and he wrote the doctor and explained
his case, and asked his advice,  the doctor  wrote
back "continue the pills"
   The fact is,  that the great liver doctors  are
smart  enough  to know that a man who leels bad
wants  to feel better, and when a man is afflicted
with pain or  sick  stomach  or headache or any
other ache or bad feeling it is charged to the  liv-
er and the poor liver has to foot the bill, or go in-
to bankruptcy the poor thing is not allowed even
a homestead, of course the liver as well as any and
every other organ  is  liable to become deranged
and even diseased.   But  I do  think that it is
malpractice to try to cure  every affection and? dis-
ease to  which  the  human family is subject, by
eternally medicating the liver. 
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  The liver  sometimes beoomes diseased; it is.
subject  to inflammation,  boils, tumors, cancers,
neuralgia,  rheumatism,  hypertrophy,  atrophy,
torpidity, congestion, &c.   And it should not be
forgotten that other organs  are subject to the •
same diseased  action, and  "when  one member
suffers all the members suffer with it;" and while
the liver is undoubtedly diseased, often  the  dis-
ease is  only  a symptom of some other cause not
depending upon any liver  derangements, and  yet
the liver is to blame; for instance, not long since
I  read  an  article  under the head of gall stones
and the writer strongly urged that this is a liver
disease.  Now, the  formation of these gall stones
are undoubtedly owing to an unhealthy condition
of bile,  and this  is  induced by over-stimulating
food and fermented drinks  &c.  Now is the liveri
diseased for the reason that we over-eat and drink
and otherwise misbehave ourselves ?  See again, a
torpid liver liver, is this not an over-worked liver?
And is  it not only an a symptom of  engorgement
somewhere else? If you over-load your wagon does
that disease your team,  and must you go to phys-
icing your horses?   The truth  is that uncompli-
cated diseases of the  liver are Very rare.   I am
well satisfied in my own mind that nine-tenths of
the so-called  chronic  liver complaints are only
symptoms of inactivity, or over-action, or diseased.
action  of  other organs, such as the  stomach kid-
neys, &c.  I am writing for  the non-professional
reader  and  I - will  say that all these liver com-
plaints  shou-ld, in the main, ;be treated upon gen-
eral  principles; in fact I think that it would
rather blunt and obstruct  the understanding of 
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the non-professional  or  uninformed  to attempt
every minute symptom and description of all the
intricate complications  and supposed diseases of
the liver.  These conditions are alluded to under
the head of dyspepsia on page 30, snd  it is a curi-
ous  fact that so  many men are misled by these
symptoms of dyspepsia, when ninety-nine  cases
in a hundred might be remedied  by  attention to
the skin, diet, exercise, temperance and prudence
in all things.
  The continual drugging, or pilling,  or  regula-
ting the liver under the mistaken idea that  it is
the great rebel and  sinner  in our bodies  who
stands in battle array, as an enemy to  all and ev-
ery healthy  organ and  condition  of the human
body, and I  am sorry to say that so many doctors
are still in the old ruts,  "as  daddy did so do I."
It is strange that dyspepsia, still is  regarded as
liver complaint.
   Now I propose to lay down a few general prin-
ciples upon  which the liver  complaints may  be
treated satisfactorily and  successfully when  not
complicated with  other diseases.    If you  have
pain and other uneasiness in the right side, just
under the ribs, that is on  the  right side of the
>stomach, and have fever, coated tongue, constipa-
ted bowels,  dull headache, sometimes  vomiting of
a billious matter and  chills,  cold  feet  &c.  you
may suspect inflammation of the liver.  Reme-
dies, warm poultices to the side, a dose of  calo-
mel and jalop, or rhubarb, or oil and  turpentine,
•or salts, or anything else that will move the bow-
•els, and by  this means you  will  greatly modify 
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all distressing symptoms, if the fever is very high
drink  plenty of the  decoction of pleurisy root,
or take five grains of each, Dovers powder and
Quinine every two hours  till copious perspiration
is produced, but if you have not the Dovers pow-
der substitute ten or fifteen drops  of laudanum
with  the  quinine.  But  you  should move the
bowels well before using Dovers or  laudanum.
After the more urgent symptoms have passed off
you should use a laxative every day, as well as to
keep up a moisture—you will find the following
very good: The  compound  powder of Rhubarb
and  Potassa, on page 17,  in  half teaspoonful
doses, sufficiently  often as to  produce one  good
action every day.   You should take light, nour-
ishing diet  For  the  yellow color of, the skin
that sometimes  appears  in this  condition, read
under the head of Jaundice, on page 71.
  Some times abscess of the liver is the result of
this form of congestion  and inflammation of the
liver,  then  alteratives and tonics are called for..
See under the head of Pleurisy, &c.
  A very good alterative for this affection is :
    Fluid Ex. of Poke Root,      1 ounce,
    Syrup of IodMe of Iron,       1 ounce.
  Mix.  Dose—15 qxops 3  times daily; or,
   , Syrup of Sarsaparilla,        4 ounces,
    Iodide of Potassa*      -     4 ounces.
 t Mix.  . Dose—Teaspoonful 3.times, daily.
 ' You should take eggs, milk, mutton, beef, rice,.
mush, fish, and plenty of soups. 
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  The fact is not only in liver complaints, but in
all other complaints, Ave should treat the disease
by its  symptoms and not by its  name.    Where
there is constipation use laxatives,  Avhere  there
is pain use anodynes, where there is fever use di-
aporetic or sweating medicines  and  sedatives  as
.large doses of quinine etc.   If there is sick  stom-
■ach use means  to  allay that, such as bismuth,
•peppermint,  peach tree leaf, mustard poultices
and so on.
  You should always try to correct  every disor-
der that you  can by diet, exercise, sleep  aud  at-
tention to the skin, you will find that nine-tenths
of this supposed chronic liver diseases will disap-
pear and give you no  trouble after  you  correct
the condition of the stomach, and that  is  best
done by diet  in part, the less drugs you  swallow
as a rule the better off you  will be at last.   The
above  disease of the liver in its acute or  chronic
stage,  is generally called liver  complaint.  Tor-
pid liver, billiousnes and billious disorder.  And
under the same heading might be classed  enlarg-
ment,  congestion, induration &c.   and upon  the
above  condition depends deficient action, morbid
secretion, functional derangement, and so on and
on.   But when the above more urgent symptoms,
as described  above, are met and subdued  and the
general system is built  up, and  diet and  cleanli-
ness, with prudence in everything is  observed, the
patent pills are unnecessary and the  patient will
enjoy  life and become inspired  with new hope 
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and  energy life  will  not be a burden and sleep
will  be sweet and  refreshing, the once dull eye
and  haggard countenance  that  indicated gloom
and distress now shows life and animation.
  I  will now give a few of the best medicines for
these supposed liver troubles.
       Tinct Podophyllum Peltatum 1 oz.
       Tinct. Black Cohosh         1 oz.
  Dose, 15 to 20 drops three times daily.
                      OR
       Fl'd Ext. of Yellow Dock     2 oz.
       Fl'd Ext of Poke Root        2 oz.
       Tinct of Puccoon Root (red)  1 dr.
  Dose 20  drops three times daily.
                  ANOTHER.
       Fl'd Ext. Blue Flag          1 oz,
       Fl'd Ext. of  Burdock         2 oz.
       Fid Ext of Tag Alder  %      3 oz.
  Dose a teaspoonful three times daily.
  If the  bowels are  constipated, or  if there is
soreness in the stomach use
       Rhubarb in Powder         4 drs.
       Bicarb. Potassa in powder    2 drs.
  Mix.  Dose, 15 grains after meals once or twice
a day,  or enough to produce one good action daily
but not more than two.
                      OR
       Rhubarb in powder          2 drs.
       Gum Camphor             30 grs.
       Mucilage of Elm            1 gill.
  Dose, a tablespoonful twice a day (slippery elm
bark  in  water.)  Also a tablespoonful of corn
.meal, in cold water will do good. 
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         SORE MOUTH, (STOMATITIS.)
  This is an inflammation of the mucus membrane
of the mouth,  as it  may prove to be partial  or
complete, for it may include  the whole  inside of
the  mouth, including  the gums, tongue and
cheeks,  or  it may  be seen  only in little yellow
spots or uncers, with swollen border, very sore
and inflamed in acute cases the mouth is^dry and
hpt—or sometimes the flow of saliva is great and
very acrid,  if swalloAved it will inflame the throat
and  stomach and bowels,  and often gives rise to
pain in the stomach and bowels, and too, gets up
a diarrhoea, and in some cases there will be fever
and other signs of constitutional disturbance, and
if left alone it will soon interfere Avith the  func-
tions of the stomach, and the patient soon begins
to lose  flesh and show  signs  of failing  health;
sometimes they refuse to eat because of the pain,
the breath becomes offensive and sleep is disturbed.
This is  sometimes caused by improper food, indi-
gestion, poorly nourished  blood, syphilitic  taint,
&c.
   Local remedies.   I have generally succeeded in
healing the mouth by the use of the following:
Borax (borate of soda)              4 drachms,
Strong decoction of Sumac root,      1 pint,
Glycerine,                          1 ounce.
   Wash the mouth several times daily.

     Chlorate of Potassa,        4 drachms,
     Cream of Tartar,          2 drachms,
     Glycerine,                  1 ounce. 
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water, half pint—wash the mouth and swallow a
spoonful 3 or 4 times  a day.
                      OR
     Chlorate of Potassa,        4 drachms,
     Iodide of Potassa,          1 drachm,
     Sulphur,                  1 teaspoonful,
     Quinine,                  40 grains,
     Water,                    J pint.
   Dose.—Teaspoonful every two  or three hours.
Wash the mouth well before  taking it, and then
wet the mouth well with the dose before swallow-
ing it.
   Another form of sore  mouth (called Stomati-
tis Materna), or Nursing Sore Mouth.
   The above  course  of treatment will, in most
cases, be  sufficient, though  it sometimes happens
that nothing will do good till the child is weaned.
In addition to the above the
     Tinct. of Iron,              1  ounce,
     Sulph.  Quinine,              40 grains.
   Dose.—20  drops in water will do  good.  It
should betaken 3 or 4 times daily, and the mouth
should be washed with the above more frequently.
Sometimes you should use the  compound  pow-
der of Rhubarb and  Potassa.  See page  17.  It
should be taken in such doses as to produce one
or two actions from the bowels a day;  for usually
the bowels are constipated, and sometimes sore-
ness is felt in the stomach. I have prescribed the
following with good success: 
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Citrate of Iron and Quinine,         2 drachms,
Water (pure)                        4 ounces.
  Dose.—A teaspoonful 3 or 4 times daily.
                   THRUSH.
  This is a form of Stomatitis  to which infants
are  subject.   This  is a  kind of inflammation
known -by a crop of little ulcers,  Avhite or yelloAv,
very painful and often seem  to  interfere  Avith the
child's nursing.
  Treatment.—Borate  of  Soda (Borax) in wa-
ter, say a teaspoonful of  borax  to a gill of water
Avill generally cure the thrush.   You must Avash
the mouth Ayith a soft mop  or. rag, if sweetened
with honey it  will be better.  Tf this does not
cure, use chlorate of potassa in  placeof the borax,
the child's bowels should be kept regular and the
skin clean  and sweet. There  is some little su-
perstition about the cure of this disease.  It is
said that anyone  Avho  never saw their "dada"
can blow in the child's mouth  and cure the dis-
ease. I should love to know Avhat the seeing or
not seeing their daddy Avould have to do with the
curing of the Thrush.   I think that not using of
tobacco Avould be more reasonable than not seeing
their father.   AncT there  is another  superstition
about putting  on  and   pulling off the  babies
clothes, that is, if  you put  the clothes  over the
child's feet and off over the head, they say it will
have u fits."   While yet  another party  says, " if
you put the clothes on over  the head and off from
the feet, the child will die with diarrha?." 
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               BRONCHOCELE.
   This is a tumor on the forepart of the  throat
which is an enlargement of the Thyroid Gland.
The growth of this tumor is very sIoav and some-
times stops  for awhile and groAvs again very slow-
ly, and again it seems to stand still for years and
then  grows rapidly till  it gains a considerable
size.   The  inhabitants of mountainous districts,
or in moist sections, are more liable to this affec-
tion.   Females are far more liable  to the disease
than males, and is often  assosiated Avith  uterine
difficulties.  Its  cause is not much understood,
though  it has been attributed  to many  causes,
such as  eating snow,  &c, but  the. fact  is, it is
often transmitted from parents to children. Some-
times the swelling takes place on but one side of
the neck and sometimes  on both  sides at once.
This is most common  and often groAvs. to a con-
siderable size  without pain or  any disturbance to
the patient, or any change in.  the color of the
skin.  Again, the tumor may  greatly interfere
Avith breathing, and sometimes  threatens suffoca-
tion.   It is most  generally soft and  feels  like
dough under, the skin.  It does  not always make
the same appearance  in different  persons.  The
face of the  patient is subject to flushes,  the skin
assumes a yellowish hue, the tumor becomes hard
and knotty and the patient suffers from choking,
often, and sometimes a weight in the upper part
of the breast,  and often a cough  comes   on, the
patient's health  begins to fail, and they  become
weak, appetite fails and the patient dies. 
                     m
  Treatment.—I have had a great many cases of
this kind in the last few years and have had a lair
ohance to try the many remedies that  are recom-
mended for the cure of  Bronohocele, and I shall
emphasize the best that 1 have tried. Among the
best course that I have tried is the following: . ii
there is  not  oontra-indication I would use the
compound  solution  of Iodine,  commencing  with
five drops and increase to ten,  three times  a dajV
at the same time I would pass  a current of  eJeo
tricity through the tumor twice a day, or as often
as I could see the patient.  If I could not  use
the above solution of Iodine I  would use the fol-
lowing :
    Bromide of Potassium,,       4 ounces,
    Water,                      1 pint
   Dose,—A large teaspoonful at first, twice a day,
for three or four  days, then 3 times for as long,
then 4 times a day afterward, and at th'e  same
time using the following ointment:
     Bromide Potassa,           2 drachms,
     Lard (fresh)                1 ounce.
   Mix well  and  apply once  a  day, on a cloth,
wearing  the  cloth all the time.  I should  have
said above that I painted the skin over the tumor
daily with the tineture of Iodine.  But I always
used  the electro-magnetic current.   In  the ab-
sence of  the Battery the above will cure after a
while if  the patient will continue  the use of the
remedies.  There are other  remedies proposed,
but the above are the best I have ever tried, and
I have tried a great many. 
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         ST. VITUS' DANCE (CHOREA.)
  This disease is one of common occuranceof late
years, and it is one too, the cause of which  is not
understood. I say this because different writers as-
scribe different causes or course of reasoning.   It
is, however, a kind of muscle or nerve convulsions
The patient cannot use his foot or hand that  i.
affected as he  pleases, for some times when it is
his aim to  do a thing  his hand will involuntarily
take the contrary  direction,  and so with his foot,
he cannot put his foot where he pleases and there
seems  to be a continuation  of convulsive move-
ments of the affected  limb or limbs.  These mo-
tions are very  irregular, both as to time and  ex-
tent.   I have  seen some patients that  would be
still for a moment and then for sometime would
continue to jerk and  move in any and every di-
rection  and again become nearly still, or maybe
quite still,  and then, on the least attempt to move
the Jhand or foot, would  fly in a different direc-
tion.   If he tries to drink, sometimes he will
make a great many motions before he  gets it to
his mouth, if he does at all.  One unacquainted
with this affection will think  that the  patient is
just fooling, or doing it for fun, and  sometimes
laughs  at  him, but when  he sees that the poor
fellow cannot  help it, he laments his  error; the
patient is  sometimes  unable  to perform labor
-and becomes weak and pale  and he  can hardly
talk at all. His eyes may be affected. Sometimes 
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Ave  meet Avith  cases of acute chorea and in these
cases Ave may be deceived for the whole body may
be suddenly jerked and every muscle seem to  be
excited  at once like he Avas touched by the elec-
tric spark.  I saAV one case in which  there was
considerable fever, and  the patient laughed  at
himself till he  cried,  and at last he became scared
at his situation, and that made the matter Avorse.
lie could not  hold one thing  in his hand, and
Avhen  anything Avas given him to drink he  some-
times  would snap the A-essel and spill the water or
whatever it Avas.  When  he  would try to put the
pilloAv under his  head he Avas  just  as likely  to
throw it off the bed.   This Avas a singular  case.
I gave him  30 grains of  Chloral Hydrate  with a
little  success.   I then  repeated Avithout any ben-
efit.  I then injected morphine, Avith great diffi-
culty in holding  his arm still.  This did  good,
and I  repeated it in four hours and he  became
quiet.   I kept him  under the influence of that
drug  for about 36 hours.   In the mean time  I
gave him Quinine  and strychnine, as much as he
could  bear of the last named  Alcoloid.   I then
let him up  from under the influence of morphia
and the trouble  did not return,  but he had  a
great deal of feA*er and in a few days he was well,
only complained of being very sore.   I  am not
sure that strychnine had anything to do with the
eure,  but I am very sure that it did good while he
Avas under the influence of it, and I do .not believe
that  he could  have stood the shocks 48 hours. 
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  I have treated a number of cases of chorea and
have  seen benefit  derived from  medicine,  but I
have more confidence in the electro-magnetic ma-
chine, Avith medicine.   There are a great  many
remedies used  in  the  treatment of chorea, but
Avhile they have cured some, they did others no
good at all.   Electricity is a great auxilliary^in
the treatment of this affection.
  The following are the remedies generally used :
Syrup of Iodide of Iron, 5 drops after meal.
                      OR
Citrate of Iron and Quinine,        2 drachms,
Cod Liver Oil and Glycerine, each,  2 ounces,
Dose,—A teaspoonful 3 times daily.
                      OR
    Mux. Tinct. of Iron,           1 ounce,
    Tinct. black Cohosh,          1 ounce,
    Sulph. Quinine,              40  grains.
  Dose.—20  drops 3 times daily.
                      OR
  Fowler's Solution of Arsenic.   Commence Avitk
3 or 4 drops and increase  to six or eight, just
after each meal.
                      OR
Horse Radish root,                   J pound,
White Mustard Seed,                 J    "
Good Cider,                          1  gallon.
  Let this stand a Aveek,  then take a tablespoon-
ful or two 4 times  daily.   This  is an old remedy
and it is a good one in recent cases.
   Tonics are surely needed in  this disease, and
the one I generally employ is  Tincture of Nox
Vomica and  Tr. of Iron, equal  parts, and Tine.
of Gentian as  mach as  both.   Lose—10  or  15 
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drops a day. I do not believe that much is gained
in too large doses of drugs, but  they should  be
continued a long time.
  The diet should be nourishing, the body warm
and clean.
                   BOILS.
  We all  know what  boils are and what it is to
have them.  The big  name as generally used by
the learned is, Furunculus.
  When a boil is just coming, if you will burn
the   summit  with  caustic  it  will  stop  it  at
once,  or  if it has gone too far put a poultice of
poke root  roasted and  mashed up with  wheat
bran  or light bread, where puss is  formed in  a
boil it should be opened at once,,it is much better
to open a  boil than  to let it burst.  The best
thing  to prevent boils is  to take epsom salts in
broken doses, say  a teaspoonful once or  twice a
day, or I have sometimes prescribed equal parts
of Cream of Tartar and Flour of Sulphur.  Dose.
—Teaspoonful once or twice a day.  All that can
be done to any advantage  in boils is to keep the
bowels open and the blood in good condition, and
if boils come, burn them on top with lunar caus-
tic before they form matter,  and if they do form
then you should open them as soon as there  seems
to be any softness on top,  and not wait for them
to break, for in so doing, the  matter is often re-
absorbed and causes another boil, if  this course of
treatment is  carefully  carried  out, you will rid
jour self of boils. 
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        CARBUNCLES  (ANTHRAX)
  These are much more serious than  boils, they
are much more painful and larger and malignant,
and often they  give rise  to great constitutional
disturbance, such  as  fever, loss of appetite, dis-
turbed sleep, loss of flesh, &c.  Carbuncles gen-
erally manifest themselves by presenting  several
little bumps  or heads not larger  than peas, all
soon become mounted upon a pone swollen under
the skin.  They are very slow in their  progress,
and very painful.   On opening these pimples or
little heads, they show  that they  are very deep-
seated and discharge a little thin, bloody matter,
but gives no relief to the patient
  They  eventually mature in size  from  one  to
four or six inches in diameter, and seem disposed
to gangrene, and are disposed to slough, and are
slow to heal,  and sometimes  they run but little
and these are the most painful and sIoav,
  Treatment.—Should be directed to the  gen-
eral condition of the patient.   You should use
anodyne poultices'on the sore, such as will favor
supuration and cool the fever and ease the pain.
Jimpson leaves, peach tree  leaves, mullein, house
leek, milk and bread, strong red oak  bark tea
and wheat bran  have been used to some advan-
tage.   But I have  seen the best results  from a
poultice of roasted  poke root.  Take a poke root
and roast it in the ashes  like roasting  a  potato.
When it is soft mash it up well with a little milk
and wheat bran, and poultice  with this.  Some-
times this poultice will scatter a boil or carbuncle. 
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I have had to inject  morphine into the tumor to
give ease.   If it is very painful  you may  keep a
cloth wet in laudanum on the swelling.
  But, by all means, you should give tonics and
support the strength of the patient.  Give  him
Iron and Quinine and a plenty of rich, nourish-
ing diet.   I  generally  prescribe  the  following
Avhen the patient is Aveak and pale :
Muriate Tine, of Iron,                 1 ounce,
Sulph. Quinine,                     40  grains,
Proof Spirits,                          1 pint
  ])ose—Tablespoonful 3 times daily,  and Avhen
the carbuncle  begins to  suppurate )run)  I  will
give the folloAving:
Fluid Ex. of Sarsaparilla,             4 ounces,
Syrup of Stillingia,                   2 ounces,
Syrup of Iodide of Iron,              1 ounce.
  Mix.  Dose—A teaspoonful 3 times daily.
  The opening of the carbuncle should be thor-
oughly washed  out twice a day,  Avith a syringe,
and you may ase castile  soap suds for this  pur-
pose, and sometimes some benefit can be obtained
by using the following solution :
    Oxide of Zinc,              2 drachms,
    Water,                    6 ounces.
  Shake Avell just when you are going  to use  it
and pcurit in, or inject it in, once  or twice a day.
Some people, and in fact, soma  physicians think
the knife  is the best treatment,  but I  am  well
satisfied in my own mind tbat deep cutting is not
only unnecessary punishment to the patient, but
often  makes  a larger  and more malignant  sore.
Though the heads should he  kept opened fully. 
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           FELONS, OR WHITLOW.
  These are risings generally on the fingers. The
matter is very deep and generally  seated under
the membrane that covers the bone, called peri-
ostrem—indeed  a  more paintul  rising   could
scarcely be imagined,  nor could a more sensitive
seat be selected than the end of a finger.
  The cause of felon is not ahvays known, though
they  come from  bruises and  the like  often, no
doubt.  Some people think  and speak  lightly of
a felon, but I Avill assure my readers that if they
never had  a felon they  have  been  blessed,  for
nothing else seems to be able to give half the pain
nor last half so long to the appearance.
  The symptoms of felon are,  in common Avith
other risings, only,  at first  you are  apt to think
that you have a brier  or nettle in the  finger and
often pick it for no purpose, and the end of the
finger becomes hot and painful, grows worse and
Avorse, and as it is called, throbs  hard and fast.
By this time you may be  sure that you have a felon
and too, that it av.11 keep you company for a time,
say about ten  days, Avhen it will  break and run
and at the same time a joint or tAvo  of the bone
Avill come away.  It will be  slow to  heal and will
leave a blunt, ugly,  tender finger's end. _ You
Avill never want but one felon,  for while it is pro-
gressing you  can neither  eat, nor  sleep  much,
sometimes patients will  Avalk and cry  both day
and night until worn out for want of sleep, and
look as badly as if they  had  just got up  from a
long spell of feArer, 
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   Noav I shall give you only  such  remedies
as have proved themselves to cure felons, not neg-
lecting to mention the knife which I  use  after I
find that none of the  following will  stop the
swelling and  pain,  although they  rarely  fail.
Take the inside of an egg  shell,  the skin,  and.
wrap the finger with it, the wet side  of  the  skin
next to the finger and let is stay twelve  or eigh-
teen hours, this has cured  many  felons,  it  will
bind so tightly that it will  kill the felon, or wrap
tape or strip  of cloth around  the  finger,  com-
mencing at the end and  continue  half  way  the
finger and let it stay for a day, and if the felon is
not dead repeat it.  Mix turpentine and salt and
bind that on the felon for a day or two, keep it
wet with the turpentine.  Soak the finger in warm
tincture of lobelia, this is said to be a sure  cure
for felon, or for cures, take salt, turpentine, hard
soap, work together and bind on, or mix salt  with
the white of an egg and apply,  this  is  good,  or
you may mix equal parts of unslaked lime  and
brown soap with whiskey and fill a  thimble and
apyly and in a day the matter will be  drawn  to
the skin.  But the best is when matter has form-
ed, to cut to the bone and  be sure  to open  the
membrane that covers the bone,  and then  mild
poultices is all that is necessary.  Uunless you cut
down to the bone it will be of no  avail,  therefore
be sure to make the incision deep and effectual. 
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               TOOTH ACHE.
  This  is  an affection  too well known to nee d
any description, and I shall proceed at once to
give the remedies.  Of course, the best and quick-
est,  and I  might  say, and only absolutely sure
remedy for tooth ache is to have the tooth pulled
out  But  when  this is not convenient, and you
want to have  the  trouble of easing your tooth,
you may try the following  by putting the remedy
on  the  tooth if you cannot get it to the nerve of
the aching tooth which is best done by wetting a
small bit of cotton  and placing in the cavity of
the tooth.
      Alum in fine powder      1 dr.
       Sweet Spirits of Nitre     7 drs.
                     OR
      Gum Camphor in powder 2  drs.
       Chloroform              1 dr.
      Aqua Ammonia (hartshorn) J dr.
                     OR
      Oil of Cloves             i dr.
      OilofCajeput             i dr.
      Oil of Amber            1 dr.
      Gum Camphor (powder)    J dr.
                     OR
      Strong Spirits Camphor   2  drs.
      Tinct of Red Pepper     2  drs.
      Sulph. Morphine      4 grains.
      (Or Laudanum          2 drs.)
                     OR
      Salt Petre (po wdered)    2 drs.
      Laudanum               4 drs.
      Spirits of Camphor,      2 drs. 
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                     OR
       Oil of Sassafras            1 dr.
       Oil of Cloves              1 dr.
       Laudanum                1 dr.
   All these remedies, are  good  for tooth ache,
■but to kill the nerve' and to destroy the tootii
drop pne  or two drops of nitric acid in the tooth,
cr muriatic acid  will do the same.   There are
many other remedies Avhich have eased the tooth-
ache,  but  as I told you  in the outset, if it is not
contraindicated the best thing  to do is to have the
tooth pulled out.
                    FITS.
   When  a child  has fits the best thing to do is
 to put it in warm  water  up to its neck and hold
 it there  for ten  or fifteen minutes, all the time
 pour cold water on its  head, or keep a cloth Avet
 in cold  Avater  on its head, ai^er the fit has pass-
 ed  off wipe  the child dry and lay it in the bed,
 not on feathers, but a  hard bed and keep its head
 cool Avith Avet cloths.
   You should move its bowels as soon as possible
 and this  is best  and quickest  done by the use of
 warm  castile  soap suds throAvn up the boAvels
 with a  syringe.   If  you  have  it give the child
 (say six months  old) ten or fifteen drops of  sweet
 spirits of nitre every  half  hour  till it appears
 better, or you may give catnip tea, or sage tea,  or
 salt Avater in small  doses.  Sometimes  Bromide
 of Potassium is excellent, put one drachm in  an
• ounce, of  Avater and give a teaspoonful  every two 
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or  three hours,  or you may use Salt Petre in the
same way.  , Sometimes Fits depend upon teeth-
ing when  it  is  best to cut. the gums, or if fits
depend on  the presence of worms remove them,
or whatever the  caus&'if known, and it can be re-
moved, it should be done at once.    And  do  not
forget  that an ounce of preventive is  worth a
pound of cure.
           BOWEL CONSUMPTION.
  This disease is also called Mesenteric  Derang-
mentandis thought by many to be a"scrofulous con-
dition  of the mesenteric glands.  Children are by
far the most subject to this disease, though grown
people are not exempt from its attacks.  From its
symptoms it has been called "Tobes Mesentericu"
the symptoms are commonly  Very characteristic
of the  disease and may be ahvays suspected Avhen
the following symptoms are present, a very severe
cutting pain in the abdomen (belly) with  milky
or  chalk colored  frothy  discharges,  sometimes
small streaks or specks of blood are seen but not
often, the bQAvels become swollen and often sore
on pressure, while the rest of the body and limbs
loses flesh  and strength, though the appetite  is
generally good, food seems to do but little good
and the patient soon becomes  sluggish and stu-
pid, the skin is dry and often scaley,  not often
much thirst though the pulse are from one hun-
dred to  one  hundred  and twenty or more in a 
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 minute, and soon dropsical swelling appears about
 the feet and legs and often  the face and other
 parts of the body.
                 TREATMENT.
   Keep the skin clean and in good condition,
 keep the bowels open by the use of the compound
 powder of Rhubarb and Potassa, or the compound!
 syrup  of the same, mentioned under "diarrh ctf*
 on page 14.  Give good nourishing and unstimu-
 latingfood, soft eggs and milk, toast, rice, vegeta-
 bles &c, and as to medicine  you should use Anti-
 corbutic anti scrofulous  remedies, such  as  are
 found under the heading of Scrofula,, page 80.
   I have used the following  with success,
       Syrup of Yellow Dock,     4 oz.
       Syrup of Sarsaparilla,      4 oz.
       Tincture  of Blach Cohosh,  1  oz.
   Dose, a small teaspoonful three times daily.
                     OR
       Syrup of Stillingia,         1 oz.
       Syrup of Yellow Dock,      2 oz.
       Syrup of Sarsaparilla,      2 oz.
       Syrup of Iodide of Iron,     I oz.
   Dose, as above.
                     OB
       Citrate of Iron and  Quinine, 1 dr.
       Syrup of Rhubarb,          4 oz.
       Tincture of Black Cohosh,   1 oz
  Dose, as above.
  Whatever you use  you should continue for  a,
long time, changing  occasionally  as  the  system
gets used to the action. 
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                 DEAFNESS.
  Deafness  may depend upon so many causes
that it Avould be impossible to give them with a
correct course of treatment to the non-profession-
al, in a book like this; besides  it  would  be  pro-
ductive of more harm than good for the unskilled
hand  to  undertake to treat diseases of such im-
portant and yet delicate  organs as the  ear, eye,
heart,  &c.
  I shall therefore propose such treatment of this
affection  as  will not harm the  ear or any  of its
nerves or  membranes,  for I believe that the ear
and eye should  be  treated  only  by the skilled
specialist,  for  a great many ears and eyes have.
been lost by submitting them to the  experiment-
ing hand of the unskilled and careless  pretenders
in the  practice of medicine, or by the use of the
"patent cure alls"  so  much advertised in  neAVS
papers and medical almanacs.   I  will  here urge
upon  my  readers,  if you  are  unable from any
cause  to  get the services  of  a good and  Avell
skilled oculist  or  optician, by  all means try to
keep  your  hearing as well and as long  as possi-
ble  (and also your  sight,)  by  rigidly  refraining
from the treatment  offered by  Tom, Dick and
Harry, and  let patent  medicines alone, because
Avhere  one man is made better ten are made Avorse
and  no one should be Avilling to run  the risk of
losing  their hearing or sight in this  way.  The
patent medicine man  wants to sell his stuff and
he  cares  not Avhether  you ever see light or hear
thunder so he gets the money. 
                     14G
   Now  I  Avill  just say, that whether your ear is
 dry or  running,  it  will  help it to wash it out
 with warm castile soap suds and  keep  it clean,
 and if it  runs much or a long time, you will do
 well by using one of the remedies under  Scrofula
 or BoAvel Consumption; for often this ear running
 is owing to a taint of scrofula,  and when the ear
 is dry, often its  condition  will  be remedied by
 using  something  to  supply the want of natural
 Avax and moisture.  And  to do this you may wet
 a piece of cotton with the following and  insert it
 in the  ear.
       Glycerine                 1 dr.
       Oil  of Turpentine          $  dr.
                      OR
       Sweet Oil                  1  dr.
       Glycerine                  1 dr.
   You  should wash out the ear every few days,
 and if  there  is  an  accumulation of wax, as is
sometimes the case, you should,  of course, dissolve
 this and  remoA^e it,   You  can do so by using the
 following as  the  above and frequently Avashing
 out the ear, aftenvard.
      Sweet Oil                  £ oz.
      Glycerine                  1 dr.
      Sassafras Oil       6 or 8 drops.
   For  bodies  in the ear and painfulness of the
ear &c.  read  under the head of earache  on 74th
page. 
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   INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER.
   This  is called by physicians Cystitis.  This, as
 its name  indicates is an affection of the bladder,
 which may either attack the muscular coat or the
 mucus membrane of this organ.  It is an inflam-
 mation,  either acute or chronic, hardly ever acute
 but most always chronic.  In the acute form the
 symptoms are mainly as follows: a severe burning
 about the  bladder, a beating or throbbing pain
 with  soreness about the organ, a constant desire to
 pass water, Avhich will only pass aAvay Avith great
 pain and difficulty, it only drops away, and some-
 times it will not pass at all and the bowels become
 constipated  and will not move,  there will be fe-
 ver, skin  hot and dry, sometimes  nausea  and
 vomiting is present  As the  disease goes on to-
 Avard  a fatal termination a Ioav typhoid  condition
 takes place and the patient dies in coma or con-
 A'ulsion.
                THE TREATMENT
 is first to induce a copious SAveat,  now  use any-
 thing you have at hand that Avill accomplish  this
 end,  Dover's  PoAvder in  ten grain doses every
 six hours, folloAved  with some Avarm teas Avill be
 good,  but  I Avould use the folloAving poAvder in
 five grain doses  every hour till ease and sweating
is brought about  Mix AArell together:
       Opium                   10 grs
       Camphor in powder      40 grs.
       Ipecac in powder        20 grs.
       Salt Petre in poAvder      3 drs. 
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  The above  to  be taken in Avarm teas of some
kind.  You should take a teaspoonful of cream
of tartar in a tea cup full of elm Avater every  two
or three hours till the bowels move.  Warm water
thrown up the bowels will do good.  Warm poul-
tices applied to the  bladder and  peritoneum  will
do good.
  Doctors  sometimes use cup plasters  &c, but
the  above  will  be  about all the family can  usej
unless they are Avell  read and prepared  for  the
treatment of such diseases.   When  the  catheter
has  to be used  the hand of a skilled physician
should guide it.
  In  the chronic  form of Cystitis, which is the
most common, is sometimes called  Cystirrhea.and
Catarrh of the bladder.  * The symptoms  are  not
so severe as in the former, there is  more mucus in
the urine and less fever.  But as  the disease ad-
vances there will  be  a dull aching pain in the
region of the bladder with  a frequent  desire to
pass water, and also with a considerable difficulty
in retainining  the  urine, whether  the  urine  is
much or little.  As the disease  advances there
will be an  increase  of mucus, which if alloAved to
stand in a vessel, will settle  to the bottom. When
abscesses form you  will see blood mixed  Avith the
mucus,  and often   very large quantities of this
puss is passed in a day,  even several pints, often
much pain of a spasmatic kind will be felt when
attempts are made to empty  the bladder. 
                     149
  Noav there is generally some fever, skin hot
and dry, tongue coated, and  considerable thirst
Noav,  diseases of the prostrate gland,  as well as
ulceration of the bladder, takes place. Now, gen-
eral debility  and emaciation is present  Avith hec-
tic fever,  nervous debility  and irratability, cold
clammy sweats, coma and death.
                    CAUSES.
  It  may  be caused by anything that  will bring
on the acute form,  or  it may folloAv  the  acute
form, and it is often brought on by intemperance,
excessive veuery, highly seasoned food,  retaining
 the  urine too  long are all sometimes  the causes
 of chronic cystitis, but I believe that  the most
common cause of this disease is masturbation.
  Treatment consists in mild stimulating diuret-
ics and sedatives.   One of the best means of cure
is absolute rest and drink of the decoction of the
following:  Bucu leaves, 1 ounce,  steeped  in 1
quart of boiling Avater.   Dose, Avhen cool, half a
teacup full t hree or four times a day.   You may
drink slippery elm Avater at the same time.
                      OR
take the leaves of 17va Ursi and use as the other,
or you may  use  them together, half of each, or
you may use the compound infusion of trailing
Arbutus.
  Dr.  King, of Ohio, has used the folloAving with
great success.
       Alum                   10 grs.
       Benzoic Acid            15 grs.
       Water                    1  gill- 
                    150
Take  the Avhole for a dose and repeat this th ree
or four times a day.
                     OR
you will  find the  daily  use  of the infusion of
common bean hulls (or pods) good; this is a good
and cheap as well as a convenient remedy.
   The above remidies will be found sufficient in
nearly all cases.  I  have  had several  bad cases
and never failed to bring about the desired relief,
by the  use of the above remedies.  Sometimes,
however,  it is best to inject certain infusions into
the bladder, but this should be done by, or under
the directions of a competent physician.   In ad-
dition  to the above it will be found necessary to
keep the  boAvels open, and for this purpose I have
used the compound powder of Rhubarb and  Po-
tassa,  see under  the head of Diarrhoea, or I have
used the following:
      Flour of Sulphur           1 oz.
      Cream of  Tartar            2 oz.
   Mix and take a teaspoonful once or twice a day,
or enough to move the bowels.   The body should
be kept  clean  and Avarm, the skin well rubbed,
diet light and easy of digestion.
          RETENTION  OF URINE
or dysuria is no small matter, and when it is  of
long continuance it is dangerous and should have
prompt attention. 
                     151
   Inasmuch as this affection may depend upon so
 many causes, it would be difficult to lay down, in
 a book of this size, the different modes and means
 of  cure  Avhich  must  necessarily depend upon so
 many different circumstances. All, therefore, that
 could be expected in so brief a sketch,  will be to
 lay down a few general principles and such reme-
 dies as can be used without particular  regarding
 causes;  though  it is  proper to give a few of the
 many causes. Retention of urine, or dysuria may
 depend upon gravel,  tumors,  paralysis  of  the-
 bladder  or of the urethra, ureters, or some me-
 chanical  obstruction,   or  inflammation  of  the
 bladder or neck  of the  bladder, or from canthari-
 des  taken inAvardly or absorbed from blisters, or
fro m bloAvs,  falls, fevers, &c.
                   SYMPTOMS.
   There  is  an  inability  to  void  urine, and on.
 attempting to  do  so  there will be more or less
 pain, and the water will only drop,  if any pass at
 all;  or  in some cases  when gravel is  present
 it  may start and stop.  Now the pain is more  se-
 vere, and the  bladder  becomes more and more
 distended  and  tender  on  presure.   The  patient
now becomes greatly alarmed, and tries often and
strains to force his Avater, which often does harm.
Sometimes the bladder becomes so full as to over-
come the  resistance and pass off some fluid and
give great relief, and sometimes it Avill so distend
the bladder as to burst, or if not that it often sets
up  dangerous inflammation.   The  bladder has 
                     152
been  known to hold a gallon without rupturing,'
though much  less  has  done the final and fatal
work.  As  to treatment, a great mistake is often
made  in giving  all  kinds  of  teas to excite the
kidneys, Avhen the cause is in the  bladder or ure-
thra, Avhich does great harm because the  kidneys
secrete the  more, and the bladder cannot pass it
off but is forced to hold the fluid Avhile it is be-
ing more rapidly filled by the use of teas.
   Warm hip-bath is  always  admissable when
there is no other cause for not using it—I mean
ay hen the condition of the patient otherwise, will
admit of it.   Cloths wet in hot  water and laid
OA'er  the  bladder will  often do good.  Jimson
leaves or peach tree leaAres steeped  in hot  water
in a sack or cloth, used in the same way  will do
much good.   Sometimes Balsam Copaiba on su-
gar, every 4 hours will do much good, or I have
given  Spirits of Nitre  in an infusion of Buchu,
say 20 drops every hour or  tAvo till four or six
•doses are taken.   A tea made of Avater melon seed
or  pumpkin seed  is a very popular remedy, and
sometimes does good, but as I have just told you,
teas often do harm.  When  these means fail, and
the cause is  not knoAvn, you should lose no  time
but  resort  to the catheter.    This  instrument
should always be used by a well instructed hand.
If, hoAveA'er,  the  Dysuria should  happen,  as in
fevers  you  should  use the warm applications as 
                    .153
above  directed, and give ten drops of Muriated
Tincture of Iron in a little tea of melon seed,  or
Buchu,  or Uva  Ursi  &c, every two hours; this
Will often give relief.
    INCONTINENCE OF URINE (ENURESIS )
   This is a condition in which the  patient  can-
not hold water, and it is common among children
and old people.  It may depend upon many cau-
ses, such as paralysis of the bladder, gravel,  tu-
mors, spinal  affection,  great irritability  of  the
bladder, enlargment of the prostate gland, mas-
turbation,  pregnancy, and among children it of-
ten depends upon habit acquired  through care-
lesness, and like oth&r diseases of this  class  the
cause  should  be found out  if possible   and.be
removed by proper  means.   But when this can-
not be done you should treat this affection as oth-
ers, on general principles.   I  shall now prescribe
for  a  child  five  }-ears old,  Avhich dose will be
found sufficient for old  people.  Take a  roll  of
long shape Isinglass, boil in a pint  of Avater till
dissoh^ed,  then add a pint  of good sweet milk,
heat to a boiling point, flavor Avith cinnamon, or
nutmeg and feweeten.  Give a wine glass,  or tAvo
tablespoon fuls tAvice a day.
                       OR
       Muriated Tinct.  of Iron    1 oz.
       Balsam Copaiba            1 oz.
       Tmct.  of cantharides,      1 oz.
   Dose, ten drops  three times daily for a Aveek.
                       OR
you may use the folloAving, 
                     154
       Spirits of Nitre,            1 oz,
       Tinct of Iron,             1 oz,
       Tinct. of Nux vomica,      2 drs.
  Dose, ten to fifteen drops  in  cold infusion of
Avild cherry bark.
                      OR
  Slippery Elm Avater has often proved good.  It
must be taken freely, and  I have  used Avith it
enough cream of tartar and sulphur (half of each)
to keep the bowels open.
  Persons afflicted in this  way drink but  little
Avater  or  other fluids,  especially at night they
should abstain from tea and coffee.
  And we should always try to correct the  diffi-
culty  by  care  and change of habit as much as
possible.   The patient should be often called up
in the night that they should evacuate  the blad-
der and should be cautioned  in  the daytime to
hold as long as possible.
  Infusion of the  following barks, single,  or to-
gether Avill be found very beneficial in this affec-
tion.   Dogwood, poplar,  wild cherry, black haw,
tag alder, sugar maple, sweet  apple,  peach  tree
leaves, lions tongue, bean hulls, a strong decoc-
tion of cabbage stalks, &c.   This  should be taken
in wine glass doses several times daily.
  The use of electricity should not be lost sight of
in the treatment of this affection,  a light current
should be passed through the bladder and along
the spinal column, twice a day, and a tepid  bath
is often of great benefit in the treatment  of this
affection. 
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             GRAVEL (CALCULI.)
  By this term is generally  meant a  stony like
deposit in the kidneys, or bladder, or both.  For
want of space we cannot consider this disease in
all its details, neither can we give all  the  differ-
ent remedies as used under so many different cir-
cumstances   As I am writing for  the benefit of
the non-professional, I shall only give a few of the
most common symptoms and also  a  few  of the
most available  means of relief.  Pains  in the
back and in the regions of the kidneys and blad -
der with a difficulty in passing water, at times
worse than others, often suggests the  presence  of
gravel or calculi.
  And often on letting the  urine  stand a short
time in a clean vessel you will find one or more
gravel, varying in  size  from  that  of  a mustard
seed to that of a small  pea, Avhen the small grav-
els are found, of course all doubts as to the pres-
ence of gravel is to an end.  Then the treatment
should be directed first to relieA^e the pain and
assist in the passage of the gravel,  and second to
hinder the formation of others.
  While you are suffering from the  passing  of
gravel you should  use a warm hip bath, sit in  a
tub of warm water, and take 30 drops of  lauda-
num, or one oi» two teaspoonfuls of  paregoric to
ease the  pain, or if you have it take 10 grains  of
Dover's powder, and when the fit has  passed off
you should use such remedies as will  hinder  re-
turn of the trouble,  or the  formation of  stone.
Various remedies have  been  suggested, such   aa
the following. 
                     156
  Warm infusion of Uva Ursi leaves or Buchu
leaves, say an ounce to the quart of water.   Dose,
a Avine glass full every six hours.
                      OR
      Xitro Muriatic Acid     5 drops
      Oil of Pumpkin Seed   10 drops
  Three times daily on  sugar or in some Avarm
infusion.
                      OR
  Liquor  Ammonia in  10 or 15 drops doses, in
sweetened Avater three times a day; but should not
be continued too long.
                      OR
  Give  Bicarbonate of Potassa in 20 grain dose s
three times a day.
                      OR
  Give Benzoic acid, 10 grains, three times daily.
                      OR
  G ive Carbonate of Lithia, 5 grains, as often.
  The  above  are all used as preArentatives and
may be  relied on.  I  prefer the  Bicarbonate of
Potassa.   You  should  not  use  much  fats  or
heavy strong diet, but light nutricious diet The
skin  should be kept clean and the bowels open.
I prefer for the last named purpose the use  of the
compound powder  of  Rhubarb  and Bicarb. Po-
tassa.   I will  just say that there has nothing been
found sufficient to  dissolve the  stone when once
formed, and if too large to pass it must be removed
by surgical operation, if removed at all.  Therefore,
we should direct our remedies to prevention rather
than cure. 
                   ,  157
              BROKEN BONES.
  In case a bone gets broken it is very important
to set it as early as possible, and too, it should be
set by a competent physician, but if you  cannot
get the doctor in time you should take hold  and
try to fi rst get the ends together as  near  as they
Avere  before  the  bone  was  broken as possible,
and then use  the best  means you can to keep
them in this  position  till  they heal.   If it is  a
limb broken you  can do this easily  with splinters
and bandages, so applied as to keep the limb in  a
proper shape and position.   You must remember
that you  must  overcome  the  insistence  of the
muscles, this requires great force sometimes,  and
require that the system must be  relaxed.   When
this is necessary, you should get a doctor espe-
cially if it is a thigh, after the  bone  is set,  you
should support it in an easy  position,  and keep
doAvn inflammation as much  as possible; for  this
purpose I know of nothing better than  plenty of
cold water.   The boAvels of patients should be
kept open and the diet should be Ioav and  bland,
or unheating, but of course  enough to  keep up
strength, milk and mu-sh, or rice is  the best diet
The above  are  the general  principles  Avhich  is
about all that can be laid doAvn in a book  of  this
 size.  But I Avould  say again, that you  should
 obtain the  services of a good physician and that
too, Avithout the loss of much time,  because, after
a few hours delay it is  hard, if  possible,  to set
some broken bones. 
                     158
         DISLOCATION OF BONES.
  The object is always  to reduce the dislocation
by which is meant to put it back in place.  There
are some joints very easily adjusted, while  others
are often very difficult, and sometimes impossible.
  As this book is intended for those who are un-
acquainted with the anatomy of the joints,  it
would take more space  than  we have  to  give  a
description of the joints with the signs, or symp-
toms of the various dislocations that may  occur,
so much depends upon such  information, that I
think it probable that more mischief may be done
than good by just any one undertaking to replace
dislocated bones.  I  have often seen joints out o f
place still, that were supposed to be set right by
some one that  happened to be handy when the ac-
cident occured, and I have had to reset the bones
 after they hadjbeen out of place for weeks.  The
Avrist and ankle may be  pulled back  by almost
any one and they may  be right, but  as to the
shoulder, hip and knee, it  is  very importanthat
some one should superintend the reduction and
treatment of these joints who has both knowledge
and experience in  such  practice.  You  should,
therefore, call a good and responsible  physician.
To give the non-professional reader a correct idea
of all symptoms and mode  of operating  Avould
take a book larger than this.   True, I  could give
some plain directions by  which you  might ope-
rate, but still it would  be best to call in the doc-
tor. 
                      159
             CATARRH OR COLD.
   This affection is so common and so well under-
 stood it would seem at first unnecessary  to  men-
 tion.  But when  we  consider the fact that it is
 one of the  worst enemies  to the human family
 (people look upon colds as trivial and  say,  "Oh,
 it is nothing but a bad cold,") when  it lays the
 foundation for one of the most dreaded, fatal and
 incurable  diseases that  afflicts mortal man, and
 as long as  you  call it a cold, nothin g more is
 thought of  it though  it lays up the patient for
 days at the  time and he seems unable to sit up,
 "it is only a cold;" yet it is often dealing a  dead-
 ly blow.   While   it  is  true that  many people
 have colds and seem to get Avell, ye t a bad cold is
 dangerous.  And  the worse the  cold  the more
 danger,  and still a slight cold is more apt to be
 neglecte d.   Cold  should ahvays be promptly met.
 if there is  fever especialy; fever and  sore throat
 ahvays  calls for attention.  Hundreds of people
 have died  of consumption that  might have lived
 to old age  Avithout it,  if  they had paid attention
 to a bad cold.  Catarrh  in the head is the resul t
 often of a neglected cold and' wrill, if left to itself\
 nine times^out'of ten bring on a much  worse  dis-
 ease, consumption, of which few, if any,  are ever
 cured.  In fact, many diseases and affections OAve
 their very existence  to neglected  colds, such as
 rheumatism, for  instance,  if it does not depend
 upon colds,  it  is  often made worse,  as is many
other diseases by the presence of cold. 
                     1G0
   Its symptoms  are too well known to require
much description; its  causes  are also  too Avell
understood  to  require  much space in so small a
book.  More than three-fourths  of all  the  evil
consequences of  colds  might  be avoided by due
care and caution.  It is often said that an ounce
of prevention is worth a pound of cure,  and it is
certainly so in colds.   Although  there are many
remedies and cures for colds, often it Avill happen
that they  will all fail  and  leave the patient in ;i
Avorse condition.
   Noav,  as  to  the  treatment of catarrh or colds
without fever,  the following may be relied on as
being both safe and effectual if done at the prop-
er time.
   Make  a strong tea of pleursy root (sometimes
called butter-fly Aveed),  for a grown person put in
a tea cup full of this Avarm tea ten grains of qui-
nine and drink it doAvn and go to bed,  cover up
warm  and  stay  there  till you get done  sweating
and dry off.  If it is not  broken  up  repeat at
night;  but this will rarely have to be done.  Then
keep dry and warm.   If you  have much fever,
headache, back and leg  ache you  may add a small
teaspoonful of  paregoric.
   The  above dose is for a groAvn person and you
must give less to children according  to  age, and
very old people must  take less.  Camphorated
Dover's poAvder in 5 grain doses every two or four
hours  is  also  very  good.   That is a dose for a
grown person; it is not  well suited to  small chil-
dren. 
                    161
         CANCER  (CARCINOMA).
  Cancer  is certainly ona of the most formidable
diseases that ever afflicted mortal  man,  and it is
much  more dreaded than consumption, and be-
cause of its almost incurability.  Hundreds of self
styled  cancer  doctors  have  gone forth into the
world with great cancer cures that were  worse
than the disease,  for often they make the disease
worse  and get the  patient's money, and hasten
the unfortunate to the grave.  I do not intend to
reflect upon those who have really cured cancers,
and who  have good remedies &c, but I do say,
that many a poor sufferer  has been duped an<J
made worse by ignorant, irresponsible puffs.   I
have seen so many of them, and asked them ques-
tions, as if I myself had something, and was des-
titute  of  any  information whatever; and by this
means  I found out that they were as- ignorant,
almost, as mules.    I  saw  a young man once
strutting and splurging around,  with his old hat
mashed in at the top and his neck curved,  hunt-
ing cancers.   He  cured cancers, so he must be
heard,  he  said the  doctors had no sense, they
could not cure a cancer; he could,  he knew  all
about '"em".   He  had cured hundreds that the
doctors had tried and failed.  While he yet  spake
a young  man  came  up with a boil on his breast
and asked the doctor (?) what he thought of that?
The doctor examined  it  closely and asked the
young  man if somebody  had not  been fooling 
                      162
 with it.  The  patient told him that he shoAved it
 to a doctor aAvhile ago,  who said that he would
 knife the thing in a day or two.   "No, Sir,"  said
 the Dr.,  "don't  you let him do it"   Using his
 own grammar,  "It  is  the most worst cancer in
 the world.  It is what we cancer doctors calls a
 smugg cancer."  "Well," said the patient, "Avill
 it kill a  fellow, you  reckon?"   "Kill a fellow?
 yes, in less 'an two months."   "Well," said the
 patient, "can  you cure  it?"  "Oh,  yes,  I have
 cured hundreds of them."   "Well, what will yoa
 Charge me?"   "Well, let me see it again."  He
 now spit on his finger and rubbed the formidable
 smugg cancer slowly and said: "Well, ! will cure
 you for fifty dollars; can't cure you lor any less."
 The young man now commenced  laughing at the
 doctor, then  all  hands joined  in and  I stopped
 them and commenced a conference  with the doc-
 tor, and I do say  candidly,  that  I  never   talked
 with a man that knew less about  cancers or their
 cure, and finally I got mad and told him tbat  he
 ought to  be  kicked out of the country.  lam
 quite willing  to  admit that  cancers have been
 cured by plasters  when taken in time, but I have
 the  best  of reasons to believe that thousands of
 little warts, wens  aud tumors  haA'e been  driven
 into ugly,  and even  dangerous,  sores bv cancer
 plaster made up by fools and quacks, Avho kneAv
 nothing, and cared as little, so they could scare
 the  money out of the patient.   I heard of one
doctor  who they said  carried about six pounds
of beef gristles and one chicken gizzard to sIioav
 for cancers that he had taken out. 
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  And  with these he scared many timid women,
and gulled many a five dollars out of poor people
for nothing.
   I  say again,  that there is cure sometimes for
even  cancer; and  there are men who have had
some reputation as cancer doctors, and have tak-
en out many tumors &c, that might have proved
fatal; yet, not one-tenth of the so-called cancers
are real cancer.   My opinion is, that an  absolute
cancer  can be cured only by the knife,  and that
must be applied in time.  Though  I will give a
few  of the many remedies and cures for cancer,
that  haAre been  used with success in removing
tumors and cancer-like sores;  and they may haA'e
cured the absolute cancer—not the smugg.
   I could write tAventy pages describing  cancers,
but I will not write a line for that  purpose.  If
you have  anything you suspect as being a cancer
you go to an educated and well  informed physi-
cian  and  surgeon  and  ask him his opinion and
advice.
   I  have  noAv about ten or tAvelve remedies that
were used, by celebrated cancer doctors.   *  *   *
use the folioAving:
       Chromic Acid applied to cancer,
                      OR
       Oxalate of Copper dissolved in Oxalic acid,
                      OR
       Sulph. of Zinc            1 .dr.
       Sanguinaria              2 drs.
       Extract of Red Clover enough to
       form a plaster and apply. 
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  One that has  done wonders was made as fol-
lows:
      Sulphate of Zinc           1 oz.
      Sulphate of Copper        1 oz.
      Sulphate of Morphine     1 dr.—Applied.
                     OE
      Strong Apple Vinegar      1 gal.
      Honey                    1 qt
      Vertigris                  1 lb.
      Pewter                    5 lbs.
  Boil slowly down to one-half,  skim and put it
in glass stopple bottles and keep close from light
and air; this applied after washing the sore and
repeating if necessary.
                     OR
  Dr. King gives the following:
      Lard                     3 lbs.
      Vertigris                  2 oz.
      Bee's Wax                2 oz.
      Scotch Snuff               1 lb
  Melt  the Lard and Bee's Wax and stir in the
other ingredients.  He says this is known to have
cured several so-called cancers of the face.
                     OR
      Sulphate of Zinc alone has been used.
                     OR
Evaporate  the juice of Sheep sorrel in a pewter
dish in the sun, and apply on leather or silk.
This  should be  applied daily till the cancerous
growth is killed.   This I  have seen used by an
old gentleman in Davidson county, N. C, whose 
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  name  is  Peter  Byerly,  who  disclaimed being a
  a cancer doctor, yet he cured many ugly looking
  sores called cancer.   He  gave me the  recipe
  eighteen years ago.
    I  will now  give the reader thg famous old re-
  cipe known as Fell's  Plaster and  treatmet of
  cancer.
        Chloride of Zinc           3 oz.
        Blood Root in fine powder  1 oz.
        Bayberry wax             h oz.
        Extract Conium          3 drs.
        Watery Extract of Opium 3 drs.
   Mix all together and form into an ointment
           HOAV TO USE FELL'S PLASTER.
   Remove the  skin and apply the plaster to the
 raw  tumor,  and  when  it forms a scab cut lines
 through  the scab so you do not cut the sound or
 live  skin, a half inch  apart, and continue the
 application  alternating  this plaster every twelve
 hours with the following:
       Glycerine                2 drs.
       Spermaceti ointment        4 oz.
       Iodide of Lead       2 scruples.
  Mix and apply every 12 hours.
  Internally  he gave the following pill:
      Blood Root          2 scruples
      Iodide of Arsenic         4 grs.
      Extract of Cicuta     4 scruples.
  Make  80 pills; take one pill three times daily.
This is an old remedy and a  good one. 
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  And  Avhile I am writing on cancer I Avant to
say that there is a variety of  ulcers and tumors
that if left  to  run their course will prove fatal,
and  yet  £hey are not cancers; and many of those
are cured by.ointments and plasters and are call-
ed  cancers Avhen  indeed they  are  not cancers.
I say  again  that a genuine cancer is not easy to
cure; and  indeed  I  have  my doubts Avhether a
cancer after  it  is  well  developed and become
marked by its  true  peculiar characteristics has
ever been cured.  I saAV  one cancer of the breast
Avhich Avas  treated by a celebrated  cancer doctor
Avho said he had it in  plenty time, and the  most
powerful remedies were used, but still the patient
died.  I  saw another lady Avho had cancer  of the
breast; she had the  breast amputated when the
cancer was  not larger than half a  bird egg,  and
thought herself free from the malady, but yet she
died of cancer.   I  knew  of  an old lady to die
of cancer of  the face, after it had been  cured, as
all thought, years before.   I knew  another  case,
a gentleman had cancer in the face.  As  soon as
it was discovered he Avent,  I think,  to  the great
National Surgical  Institute,  at   Indianapolis,
Avhere a cure  was to be sure, and had it taken out
and  the  wound healed  up.  He  came home as
every one  thought,  well;  but in a short time it
made its appearance, and from cancer  he   died.
I believe  the nearest a cure I ever knew Avas a
lady Avho  liATed about  tAventy-one  years   after 
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 having a cancer cut out;  but she, too, died with
 cancer.   It was once  discovered that a man by
 the name of Smith,  in Rowan county, had some-
 thing near his left eye.  It was supposed to be a
 cancer,  and  he  forthwith put himself under the
 care of a corps of "cure-all cancer doctors,"  Avho
 were infallible,  of  course,  no pains or money
 spared, but he died,   I saw him often during his
 illness and he said treatment  was begun  in a few
 days  after the little bump or wart Avas discovered,
 and too, before it seemed the least sore.
   But  I do  not recite these cases to discourage
 any  one  from  trying  to be  cured, for often if a
 cure is not affected, life is prolonged.  And  too,
 it is  possible that  it is not cancer, and may be
 healed.   But  I would in  all candor advise you to
 go to a well informed physician, and by no means
 hazzard your life "in the hands of ignorant quacks
 or fools  Avho  pretend to know  so much about
 cancers,  and indeed,  know nothing; and so they
 get your money they care but  little Avhat becomes
 of their patient
  A man once,  Avhile sharpening his  plow in the
 black-smith shop, got burned by a little scale, in
 the corner of his eye;  he  concluded to have some
 fun and Avent to a "cancer doctor" Avho told him
it Avas a cancer of the Avorst kind, and  ass died the
farmer that if it was not killed it would kill him
in six months, and agreed to cure  it  for  twenty
dollars; and  said that he could cure it Avith one
plaster  Avhich  cost  over  fifteen dollars—which
Avas all a lie. 
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  The farmer told the doctor that he would risk
one eye  on it,  and went on about his business.
I do believe that hundreds of people  have been
scared by these upstarts and robbed of their mon-
ey and disfigured for life, if not killed, Avhen  in
reality there was nothing the matter.  So  I send
them  over Avith the patent medicine men.
                  SPRAINS.
   By the  word sprain we mean a forcible strain
of a joint,  or near a joint,  such as a crean of the
ankle or Avrist which gives rise to pain, swelling
and fever in the injured part  A sprain does not
mean  a dislocation or out of joint.   Sprains are
common and  very painful, and they are so com-
mon as not to need a further description; though
I will say that a severe sprain is often worse than
a broken bone and takes longer to get well.   I
knew a sprain to keep a man from walking four-
teen weeks; while another  man had both bones
of his leg broken by  a fall and  got well enough
to  plow in seven weeks.  A sprain is a serious
accident and should  not be looked upon as a mere
bruise,  for often the joint is injured for life, and
it should  be  treated with  some judgment and
care.  When you sprain your ankle or other joints
you  should  put  it to rest at once and keep it in
an easy position till it gets well. 
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  As for other treatment  you should try to keep
down fever and swelling as much as possible, and
to do this many things are recommended, such as
a poultice of red clay made up with vinegar  and
applied.
                      OR
Burnt dirt  prepared in the same way is also very
good
                      OR
A poultice of elm bark, or Jamestown leaves com-
monly called jimson
                      OR
Cold water from the well or  spring applied on
cloths, or poured on is good
                      OR
If circumstances forbid  applications of  cold  wa-
ter you may use red oak and wheat bran
                      OR
You may use tincture of camphor and at the same
time keep warm elm poultices on
                      OR
Use  a liniment made as follows:
       Tincture of Camphor       1 oz.
       Tincture of Opium        1 oz.
       Spirits  Turpentine          1 oz.
       Hartshorn                 1 oz.
       Sweet Oil                  4 oz.
  Shake and apply on cloth, or otherwise two or
three times in  twenty-four hours.  If you will be
still, you will  often get well quicker without  any
treatment than you will with the best treatment
if you keep moving and trying to use the  injured
joint. 
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         RUPTURE OR (HERNIA.)
   This means a protruding of the  intestines  not
 through the skin but through  the  membrane of
 the abdomen or belly,  sometimes at the navel
 called the umbilicus and sometimes in  the  groin,
 and sometimes loAver down on the upper and fore-
 part of the thigh and so on.  And Avithout giv-
 ing a minute description of all the different kinds
 of hernia, or rupture, I will just say  when you
 find a soft tumor  occuring  suddenly in any of
 these places after much exercise, you had  better
 go forthwith to a doctor  and  let  him ascertain
 the nature of the swelling, for no one  who is not
 well skilled in the treatment of hernia, and  the
 humau anatomy should undertake to fool with or
 handle a rupture, as sometimes life is lost by care-
 less and unskillful handling and too, by  neglect
of patients  hoping to  get better.  A friend of
 mine lost his life by just  waiting to get  better,
 Avhen, if he had just told some  body an  hour or
 two sooner he could have been saved.  Often men,
 and more commonly women, try to keep  it a se-
 cret, when they should go at once  to  a medical
man and have their condition made better and
safer without any sacrifice of modesty, or unneces-
 sary exposure, go therefore at once  as   your  only
 safety and never wa'it to get better and  through a
 false modesty die, Avhen relief could be  had. 
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             VISITING THE SICK.
   Much good or harm can  be done by  visiting
 the sick.   I have had a good opportunity to  wit-
 ness the effects of visiting the sick.  Some people
 are so full of* care and love for the sick, that they
 seem to make it a point to try  to talk the poor
 sufferer to death, and while  they do  not think
 that they  are  doing harm; they are doing in a
 great many cases more harm to the sick than the
 doctor  can do good.  While  it is a good  thing to
 visit the sick, yet Ave should  be very careful  hoAv
 Ave behave onrselve Avhile there, for when  Ave see a
 patient suffering we cannot expect  to make  his
 suffering  less  by  keeping hmi disturbed Avith
 much loud talking which  is calculated  to aug-
 ment, his anguish and disturb his  rest,  I have
 known some people  go to  set up  Avith the sick
 (and sometimes when the patient was  very low)
 and as soon as they entered the  sick room, they
 Avould set their tongue in motion and nothing but
 a continual clatter and roar of gab could be heard
 all night, the patient could not sleep or rest, and
 the family, though Avorn out for want of sleep and    •
 rest, could not sleep for that tongue; and of course
 they hate to say anything for fear they will make
 the  talking  machine  mad,  and thus for fear of
 hurting feelings  they endure the  torment all
 night,  and  if  the patient  is  in his right mind
prays for day, in hope that he may sleep and rest,
and  yet if  the  neighborhood  has  tAvo or three
of these incessant talkers, and they agree to take 
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it turn about; oh!  what a pity!  Sometimes the
poor, unfortunate sufferer sinks and dies for Avant
of that necessary  sleep and rest, and the doctor
is often blamed.
  I  have often  seen these cases and wondered
how on earth a well man could stand it; and not
only that, but  sometimes it seems  that  some
young  people are glad when somebody gets sick
enough  to sit up  with;  for they can meet and
court, and laugh and talk all night and keep the
family awake, and the poor sufferer  rolling  and
groaning  in  his  agony all night   Sometimes,
again, we see  a dozen there one night and  nobody
the next; this is for  want of understanding.  And
again,  Ave  see sometimes  a poor family, (though
good people) afflicted and therefore they are com-
pelled to undergo heavy expenses that the  people
in the neighborhood ought to bear cheerfully; for
sometimes  there  are people who seem to  have so
much care for  the sick, that as soon as any one
gets much sick in the neighborhood that they
will throw down  everything,  and  the old man
and old woman,  and maybe five children  will go
to board  and stay  till the sick gets well  or dies,
and the family has them to cook for  and wait on,
and  Lord, help, when  they happen to be  of that
talking family.  And, too, I never saw a neigh-
borhood,  that I now remember, but Avas cursed
with a  tattler, and often  the sick-room is a con-
venient place  for that class to go to get up a muss
and uproar in the settlement,  and to their shame 
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■go  and  talk  about the afflicted family or some^
thing that they had, or did,  or had not, or  did
not  Did I say cursed with such  people?  Yes,
I would emphasize the word cursed.  Many times
the  sick  are  made  worse by  their best friendji
whose hearts  are full of love and sympathy, by
feeding too much, or giving them something they
ought not to eat; while they are aiming it all good,
yet, they should be very cautious,  for often diet
interferes with medicine and changes the action
of  drugs  from good to bad and does harm.
  I will  here speak of another class of visitors;
though they  do  not talk too much, yet they do
not talk right, nor act right   They will come to
the door of the sick-room,  and  stand  and look
amazed,  with their eyes fixed on the patient and
after awhile break out with:  "Oh!  George, how
bad you  do  look!   Do  you think you will ever
get well?  You look so much worse than  you did
when I saw you last."  After scaring the patient
out of his wits, then  Avalk up to the bed: "How do
you feel, George?   You look awful bad.  Can you
eat  anything?  I  am awful feard you won't get
well."  Then  away  to the kitchen and scare the
family out of their senses.  Although  these peo-
ple  do not  mean to  do harm, yet, they help to
hurry  the patient out of the  world, and that is
not all, they are responsible.
  I will speak of another class of visitors  which I
think does  more harm  than all the others put
together.  I mean that class of meddlers who  try 
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to  make  the patient and family dissatisfied Avith
the doctor and nurse, for it is a well  known  fact
that the  more  confidence a  patient  has in his
medical advisor the  better are his  chances for
recovery.  And  when  you see or hear any one
trying to destroy that confidence, by telling that
some one died, that this feame doctor treated,  and
somebody else got well that Dr.  so and so treat-
ed, you may know at once that he or she is a fool;
for Avhere is the doctor that lost all of his pa-
tients, or where is the doctor Avho never lost any?
Noav, Avhat are the facts in the ease?  It  may be
that he is owing this same doctor, and this same
doctor Avanted  his money,  and therefore,  "he is
not fit to doctor my dog."  "Now, send  and get
Dr.  so and so,  he is the chap."  Noav, what do
you  suppose he  cares if the patient dies in one
hour,  so  he has destroyed confidence and other-
wise injured the  doctor, and succeeds in  getting
them  to  send for Dr. so and so.   I shall  have to
dismiss this class of Aisitors,  from the  fact, that
I  am  not able  to employ  language to tell how
dangerous and mean such people are.
   There  is  another class, however, belonging to
this category that I must mention, for this article
Avould be too deficient  without it.  I  mean that
class of people Avho "knows something,"  and has
been just like the patient,  and if they had not
turned their stocking wrong side out and drank
witch  hazel  tea, they would have died "shoer."
Another steps in  and finds that the patient has 
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"yaller janders" (jaundice)  and he  must  take
whiskey and  barbary.  Then  in comes another
and says he has mumps, and  he must be steamed
with double tanzy.  In comes another and says he
has got the  bowel consumption and nothing in
the world will do him any good but black-berry
wine.   And yet  another says, "Oh,  heavens,  the
patient has  got brown skeets (Bronchitis) and
Dr. so and so  give uncle  Ben a medicine that
looked  like  'lasses, and if I was in your place I
would change doctors.
   I will  give the  reader tAvo examples of these
visiting know-alls.   Once when my dear mother
Avas sick, and  Dr. Bulla, of Randolph county was
treating her,  he left some  pills for her to take
in his absence.  One day an old lady came in to
see mother, and  wanted to see her medicine; when
she saAv the pills she blared her eyes and stamped
the floor, saying, "Oh,  mercy, Avhy Puah, don't
take 'em,  for the Lord's sake, Avhy them pills is
nothing in the world but rat's veins and quick-
silver.   I  am surprised;  but then  the doctors
don't knoAv nothing."
   Once an unmarried lady, about thirty-five years
old, who knew—she was one of the knowing kind
—called in to see one of my patients; while I Avas
in an adjoining room.  She examined my patient
carefully and said,  "Mary, you are point blank
like I was, I was just like you for the Avorld," and
I don't  knoAv Avhat she Avould have said if I  had
not interrupted her by saying, "Oh, yes, you have 
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told on yourself, have you?  Now, if I had told
that yon had the child-bed fever, you would have
been  mad  enough  at me to tear my eyes out  I
would net tell such things as that, if I were you.
  Now my dear reader, I want to call your atten-
tion to another class of  visitors, and I want you
to follow me closely.  It is  a  class that you will
admire,  and  maybe you will  want them to visit
you.  I mean a visitor who, when he comes,  will
walk light, enter the sick-room with a smile, and
a soft "good morning, Willie.  I am glad to see
you looking as well  as you do; are you not feeling
much better?  I am so glad you are doing as well
as you are.  Oh,  I hope  you will soon be well
again.   You must not get out   of  heart, Willie,
take your medicine and get well, and come over
and see me.   Is there anything I can do for you?
If there is anything in the world you want, that
we have, or can  get, you must let us know and
you shall have it, if it can be had.  I'll  call and
see you again, Willie."
  God bless such a  visitor,  such are sent of Him
who said, "visit the  sick."  Now, reader, you can
not imagine  hoAv  such  a visitor can soothe and
quiet the wrecked system and   the anxious and
troubled mind.  Such visitors do good;  they are
worth more than their weight in gold; they bring
h&pe, light, peace and heaven-born  tranquility to
the sick; they drive  away gloom, fear, doubts,  de-
spondency  and care; they give joy and gladness. 
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  And  by  their kindness they cool the burning
cheek, they quiet  the throbbing heart, they still
the heaving sigh, they strengthen the feeble nerve,
they bring back lost confidence, they increase the
desire to live,  and by  their Avilling efforts and
quiet and constant care and prayerful  watching,
they  have often snatched  victory from the very
jaws of defeat.
  No one can imagine how  powerfully  soothing
it is  to a  suffering mortal to remember  that
"They care for me, and they pray for me."
           NURSING  THE SICK.
  When we consider how much depends upon
accuracy  of judgment,  decision of mind, nerve
and  care,  we begin to see how important it is to
have an educated nurse; for the  doctor'may do all
he can, and advise properly, and if his directions
are not  carried out, of course his aim is missed;
and  often  the  patient  dies and  the  doctor is
blamed,  Avhile the nurse is solely responsible.   I
can call to my mind many  cases where a  good
nurse was worth more than a dozen doctors,  un-
less they could have stayed Avith the patient. The
doctor comes, examines his patient and prescribes
according to his best judgment, and  gives direc-
tions  concerning medicine,  diet,* care, &c, and
expects,  of course,  that everything  will be done
according to order.   Noav,  suppose a nurse fails
and the patient dies, who is to  blame?   Not  the 
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   doctor,  I am sure.  The  nurse took the case out
   Of the doctor's  hands.   It  may  be because the
   patient  complained of bad  taste or  something
   of that kind, or  some one  of our "know- all"
   visitors comes in and suggests something, and the
   nurse is thus drawn off.
     A nurse ought to know what the doctor wants
   to accomplish with his  medicine;  they  should
   knoAv what medicine is  doing and they should
   know what and  how  to  feed and when to feed;
   how cool or warm to keep the room; in short,  a
   nurse should  know how to take care of the sick.
   The doctor should carefully and thoroughly in-
   struct the nurse as to what, how and when to do,
   and then the nurse should go and do precisely as
   directed.  No one  else should give  medicine  to
   the patient or feed or water or anything else with-
   out  the  nurse's knowledge  and sanction.   It is
   the nurse's business to see that the sick  is not
   weary with company; in fact, no one should call
   on  the  patient without the consent of the  nurse.
   All  the  family  should listen to, and mind the
   nurse, so far as concerning the sick.  The doctor
   should always be thoughtful enough to advise as
   to the arrangement of the room &c, as well as
   company,  and the  nurse  should see  that every
   injunction is carried into effect  A nurse is never
   to give a patient a harsh word but  always  show
   firmness with kindness.  The doctor should in-
,  struct his nurse, so well as to know what his med-
   icine should do, and what it should not do, that
   he can be notified at once in case some  important
   change or unexpected effect should be seen. 
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   The best doctor in the world can do but little
 with a careless nurse, but a poor doctor can do
 wonders, aided by a good, careful and competent
 nurse, while the doctor's advice  and  professional
 services is often indispensable, yet, the services of
 a good nurse is worth  equally  as much, if not
 more; for the doctor leaves medicine and if  it is
 not given, of course, it will do no good, and  if it
 is given wrong it is worse than not at all.  Then
 seeing the need of a good  nurse, somebody in eve-
 ry neighborhood should study and learn  how to
 nurse, and it would be to the advantage of the
 people in it to give  encouragement by paying a
 good nurse well for their  services.  I  do believe
 that there should be  schools for the  purpose of
 educating nurses and then employ them,  many
 die as it is, that would get well if that  were the
 case, no one  can  nurse well  unless  they  know
 how, and if the doctors would take a  little more
 pains to instruct their nurses, they Avould  have
 much better success, and would  sacrifice nothing.
 I do not want you to forget that a nurse that will
 alloAv the patient disturbed by visitors and noise
or any thing else unnecessarily,  ought to be sent
 home if  they are  not at  home,  and  if they are,
somebody  should  take  their  place.   A nurse
should never be afraid of making any body  mad,
but do their duty and  mind  the doctor's  direc-
tions. 
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   PROPERTIES OF BARKS, ROOTS &C.
  Alteratives are medicines that cure  diseases by
purifying the blood &c, they are given for liver
complaints, skin diseases, scrofula,  rheumatism
and so on, you may use them single, or several to-
gether by making a tea or decoction  and  drink-
ing a half tea cupfull two or three times daily.
  I will give a list of a few out of  a  great  many
plants.
Stillingia,	Blue Flag,
Sarsaparilla,	Elder Flowers,
May Apple,	Sassafras,
Plantain,	Tomarac,
Iron Wood,	Dwarf Elder,
Water Dock,	Iron Weed,
Yellow Dock,	Guaiacum,
Burdock,	Turkey Corn,
Adders Tongue,	Button Snakeroot,
Wahoo,	Black Snakeroot,
Prickly Elder,	Tag Alder.
Spikenard,	Wild Cherry.
  These are a feAv that may be culled from mate-
ria medica.  We will notice  a few  astringents,
such as will stop exhausting discharges &c, which
may be prepared as  above  and taken  the same
way or more freely if demanded, as they are  very
plenty.  I will just name them, so as to give  the
reader a thought if such agents  are  required, as
in diarrhoea, flooding, &c. 
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    Alum,                   Catechu,
    Alum Root,              Cat-tail Flag,
    Persimmon Bark,         Hounds Tongue,
    Black Birch,             Blackberry Root,
    Raspberry Root,          Dewberry Root,
    Yarrow,                 Uva [Jrsi,
    Witch Hazel,            Oak Bark,
    Logwood,               Hard Hack,
  Many others might be added, but the above are
quite sufficient
  Diaphoretics are  medicines used  to produce
SAveating and are given in fever, colds,  &c.  when
the skin is dry.
  These may be used as the others, warm.
              DIAPHORETICS.
    Pleurisy Root,            Horsemint,
    Catnip,                  Sage,
    Ginger,                  Peppermint,
    Smartweed,              Thyme,
   . FeverfeAv,                Pennyroyal,
    Balm,                   Skullcap,
    Blue  Vervain,            Boneset,
    Cotton-seed,              Spicewood.
And many other agents are used for this purpose,
but you can nearly always obtain one or  more of
the above, pleurisy-root  and balm together  are
good for colds, in fact, any one or more will  be
found good in catarrh, coughs, &c, but care should
be taken not to take cold after their use, as  they
will leave the skin open. 
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  A decoction or oil of the folloAving are good for
colic, or pains in the bowels, and given Avith med-
icines, often keep them from griping, they can be
used as the other classes, that is, in quantity.
    Allspice,             Calamus (Sweet Flag,)
Anise,		CaraAvay,
Angelica,		Cloves,
Camphor, (small dose,) Cinnamon,		
Ginger,		Catnip,
Sage,		Nutmeg,
Pennyroyal,		Peppermint,
Horsemint,		Ditney.
And many other	plants,	&c. but the above will
suffice.		
We will now notice such as will give action		
from the bowels with their doses,		
Aloes,	from	5 to 10 grs.
Jallap,	«	10 to 20 grs.
Rhubarb,	u	10 to 20 grs.
Calomel,	a	10 to 20 grs.
Castor Oil	M	1 to 2 table-spoonfuls
Salts,	«	1 to 2 table-spoonfuls.
  Many other agents will operate in the same way,
such as elder bark in warm infusion, senna, prick-
ly elder, Locust  bark, blue flag, blackroot,  &c.
which must be taken in half teacupful doses of
the warm infusion, and repeated if necessary in
an hour or two.   The above will be sufficient, as
some, or several can be had at any time. 
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              ANTIPERIODICS
Are medicines that are given  in  chills, or  ague
(intermittent fevers) remittent fevers  &c.   The
powdered article a half teaspoon or  teaspoonful
may be given at a dose, or of the decoction one
or two teaspoonfuls several times daily,
              ANTIPERIODICS.
     Apple Tree Bark,        Dogwood Bark,
     Poplar Bark,             Peruvian Bark,
     White Willow,            Wild Horehound,
     Ironweed,                Black Snakeroot,
     Hickory Bark,            Iron Wood,
     Horse Chestnut
These are \ised as remedies in fever, &c, but it is"
best to use quinine &c, when it can be had con-
veniently.
   Diuretics are medicines that are  used to cure '
difficulties in passing water, some are used in cold
water, these are marked (*) before  them, others'
may be used in warm infusion, and are taken in»
tablespoonful doses frequently.
                  DIURETICS.
   Artichoke,  Apple Tree Bark,  Sunflower Seed,
Water Plantain,   Parsley,  Bush  HoneysucMe,. •
(*) Watermelon Seed, Squill, (*) Elder Flowers^
(*) Pumpkin Seed, Onion, Mullein, (*) Slippery
Elm, Horse Radish,  Mountain  Pink,  Sassafras,
Smart Weed, Garlic.
   Spirits of Nitre should be given  in  half tea-
spoonful doses in  cold water.  Turpentine 5 drops
on sugar. 
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            EMMENAGOGUES
Are medicines Avhich bring on the menstrual flow
and  are  useful  to  Ladies Avho have taken cold,
&c, and a warm infusion of one or more, may be
taken in half teacup doses three or four times
daily.
Pleurisy Root,
Spanish Needles,
Tansy,
Rue,
Thyme,
Pennyroyal,
Winter Fern,
Rosemary,
Saffron,
Partridge Berry,
Origanum,
  Feverfew,
  SmartAveed,
  Mayweed,
  Life Root,
  Cotton Bark,
f Black Cohosh,
\ Black Snakeroot,
 Blue Cohosh,
 Savin,
 Mothenvort,
SquaAv Weed.
  The following may be  given  in  tablespoonful
doses, of the decoction, or teas for colds, or  dry
coughs.   They  will  aid  in spitting  up.  This
class of medicines is called
             EXPECTORANTS.
    Balm of Gilead buds,     Cat-tail Flag,
    Speedwell,                Flax-seed,
    Horehound,              Licorice,
    Comfrey,                Sunflower Seeds,
    Spanish Needles,          Slippery Elm,
    Mullein,                Catnip,
    Lobelia,                 Boneset. 
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  Gargles are used  in sore throat, relaxed condi-
tion  of the mouth and throat; and may be used
often,  and may be made of any or several of the
following:
Black Haw Root,
Blue Cohosh,
Sage,
Vinegar and Salt,
Honey,
Rattle Snakeroot,
Witch Hazel,
Red Pepper,
Sumach berries,
 Sumach Bark,
 Hyssop,
 Alum Root,
 Alum,
 Hops and Salt,
Wild  Cherry Bark,
 Borax,
 Bayberry,
 Blackberry Root.
  The folloAving are tonics, and may be taken in
cold infusion.  They will strengthen the system,
increase the appetite and renew the blood.  I will
only give  such  as anybody may use, and will be
found almost everyAvhere.
                  TONICS.
    Dogwood Bark,
    Wild Cherry Bark,
    Hickory Bark,
    Horse Chestnut Bark,
    Pleurisy Root,
Bitter Root,
Virginia Snakeroot,
Tansy Leaves,
Barberry,
Chamomile, •
Swamp  Dogwood,
 Bellwort,
 Turkey Corn,
 Yellow Root,
 Black HaAV Bark,
 Rhubarb,
 Quassia Chips,
 Black Ash,
 Beth Root,
 Buchu Leaves,
 Dandelion,
Gentian Root 
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    Poplar Bark,             White Willow,
    Horehound,             Black Alder,
    Colombo,               White Ash,
    May Weed,              Common Nettle,
    Ironweed,               Mistletoe,
    Peony,                  Buck Bean,
    Ground Ivey,            Tofmarac,
    Peruvian Bark,          Boncset
  The folloAving are also tonics,  Avith the dose
given.   They should  be  taken in water,  and
many of them will injure the teeth, and therefore,
should be  taken through a quill or wash the
mouth immediately Avith a solution  of soda.  They
may be taken  three times daily  for some time,
say a week or two.
       Dilute Muriatic Acid       10 drops
       Dilute Niric Acid from 5 to 10 drops
       Dilute Sulphuric Acid 10 drops
       Muriated Tincture of Iron 15 drops
       Elixir of Vitriol 10 to 15 drops.
  The Tinctures of all  the Plants, Barks, &c.,
mentioned  above, may be taken  in teaspoonful
doses.
       Oxide of Iron 5  grains,
       Phosphate of Iron 5 to 10 grains,
       Reduced Iron 1 grain,
       Citrate of Iron 10 grains,
       Citrate of Iron and  Quinine  3 grains,
       Sulphate of Iron (Copperas) 1 grain,.
       Prussiate of Iron 3  grains,
       Syrup Iodide of Iron, 10 drops;
       Lactate of Iron 1 grain,
       Protoxide of Iron 3 grains. 
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  There are other preparations of Iron, but they
all possess so nearly the same properties that it is
not necessary to continue the list.
  Many other  properties of Plants, Roots, &c,
might be given, such as Vermifuges, stimulants,
internal and  external,  Sedatives,  Sialagogues,
Snuffs, Narcotics,  Fomentations,  &c;  but Avhere
they  are  indicated they  are mentioned in the
treatment of diseases in the body of the Avork,
                TINCTURES.
  We Avill devote a few pages to Tinctures; how
to make them, and what for, with their doses.
      TINCTURE ACETATE OF IRON.
       Water                   9 oz.
       Sulphuric Acid           6  drs.
  Dissolve by gentle heat in this mixture
       Sulphate of Iron          8 oz.
  Then mix  together
       Nitric Acid              4  drs.
       Water                    1 oz.
and  add to  the above and then evaporate to the
consistency  of  syrup, then dissolve the Avhole in
      Alcohol                   1 qt
Now mix separately
      Acetate of Potass.         8 oz.
      Alcohol                   1 'qt.
and shake till dissolved—mix the whole  together
and filter. 
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  This  is a  good astringent Tonic and can be
used in doses of 20 drops.   This is  a good injec-
tion for  Leucorrhea.
       TINCTTURE OF ASAFETIDA.
      Asafetida                2 oz.
      Alcohol                  1 pt
Shake together, occasionally, for two weeks, then
strain through cloth.   Asafetida is good for Colic,
Hysteria, Low Spirits,  &c.  Dose, 20 to 30 drops.
   TINCT. BLACK COHOSH, (Snake Root).
      Powdered Cohosh Root     2 oz.
      Alcohol                  8 oz.
Let stand wtwo weeks, frequently shaking  and
filter (strain).   The dose is from 10 to 40 drops,
and may be given in all diseases, as Rheumatism,
Neuralgia, Lung affection, &c, as a gentle Tonic.
  TINCTURE OF BLOOD ROOT, (Puccoon).
     , Powder of Blood Root     3 oz.
      Alcohol                  1 pt.
Let stand two weeks and  filter.  Dose,  from  10
to 40 drops—useful in suppressed menstruation.
It is an Expectorant,  Alterative and Tonic,  and
good in affections of the liver, stomach and lungs,
In large doses it will vomit. 
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    TINCTURE OF CAPSICUM, (Pepper).
       Ground Red Pepper      4 drs.
       Alcohol                  1 pt
Let stand two weeks and filter.  Dose, from lO^to
40 drops.  This  is a  paramount Stimulant and
Tonic—useful in all debilitated conditions of the
stomach and system.  It is  useful in sore throat
and  as a stimulant  on the skin.  It is a part
of many Liniments,
         TINCTURE OF CAMPHOR,
       Gum Camphor            2 oz.
       Alcohol                  1 pt.
Let  it dissolve—this  is useful  in colic, cramp
of the stomach, and is also good for external pur-
poses, as in rheumatism, sprains, pains, &c.
         TINCTURE OF CATECHU,
       PoAvdered Catechu         2 oz.
       Powdered Cinnamon       1 oz.
       Alcohol                  1 pt.
Let  it stand two weeks*in filter.  This is used in
Bowel  complaint, &c, in doses of from 20 to 60
drops,
        TINCTURE OF CINNAMON.
       Ground Cinnamon       1J oz.
       Alcohol                  1 pt
Let stand two Aveeks and filter.  This is good in
Diarrhoea, Dysentery,  Flux, Profused Menstrua-
tion, Flooding, &c.  Dose, from 1 to 3 teaspoon-
fuls in  sweetened water or milk. 
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   TINCTURE OF COTTON ROQT BARK.
      Bark of Cotton Root      4 oz.
      Sweet Spirits of Nitre     8 oz.
Let stand two  weeks and filter.  This is useful in
derangement of Menses,  such as painful or sus-
pended Menstruation.  The dose is.from 20 to 40
drops diluted in water &c.
        TINCTURE OF GENTIAN.
      Pounded Root of Gentian   1 oz.
      Dilute Alcohol (or Brandy) 1 pt
Let stand 2 weeks  and filter.   This is a grand
tonic when the stomach is weak in  dyspepsia &c.
Dose a teaspoonful three times daily.
         TINCTURE OF GINGER.
      Ground Ginger           2 oz.
      Alcohol                 1 pt.
Let stand two  weeks and  filter.  This is good in
Cramp in stomach, Colic, &c.  It is also given in
weak stomachs, in doses from 20 to 40 or 60 drops
in'sweetened water.
    TINCTURE  OF OPIUM, (Laudanum).
      Good Opium in powder    1 oz.
      Work it up well  in
      Warm Water             4 oz.
      Then add Alcohol        12 oz.
Shake occasionally  for forty-eight  hours,  then
filter and it is  ready for use. 
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  This Tincture of Opium, or Laudanum, is used
to allay pain,  check the bowels in summer •om-
plaint, to quiet the system, &c.  Dose, from 10 to
30 drops.   This should not be given to infants or
very old people, as it is capable of destroying life,
in small doses; in fact, it should be taken or giv-
en with great  caution to anybody.
                  SYRUPS.
  Simple Syrup is made by taking:
       Loaf or Crushed Sugar    2£ lbs.
       Water                  1  pint
Simmer together till well dissolved, strain while
warm.  We use this in making medicated Syrups.
              LEMON  SYRUP.
       Water                    1 gal.
       Citric Acid                J lb.
       Ivory Black               1 lb.
       Refined Sugar           13 lbs.
Boil together  and filter, then add
       Oil  of Lemon              1 dr.
Or  you can make it in this way:
       Citric Acid                1 dr.
       Simple Syrup            1 P*-
       Oil  of Lemon          3 drops.
To'make Lemonade  mix this syrup Avith water to
.suit your taste. 
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                OINTMENTS.
  For Sugar of Lead Ointment—melt together in
a clean vessel
      White Wax                2 oz.
      Lard                      4 oz.
Add after melted,
      Sugar of Lead          2 J drs.
and stir  till cold.  This  Ointment  is good on
burns, sores, blisters, &c.
       OXIDE OF ZINC OINTMENT.
      Lard                      3 oz.
      Oxide of Zinc              $ oz.
Rub them  well  together.   This is good for skin
sores, sore nipples, sore feet, cracked  heels  chap,
&c.
             POKE OINTMENT.
      Extract of Poke           1 dr.
      Lard                     1 oz.
Work well  together.   This is excellent for skin
diseases, scald head, itch, and old sores.
           OINTMENT OF SOOT.
      Clean Wood Soot          1 oz.
      Lard                     4 oz.
Work well  together  and  you have a good oint-
ment  for burns, scalds, erysipelas and other in-
flammation of the skin; should be applied on cot-
ton batting and reneAved daily. 
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  One of the  most healing ointments for old
sores, cuts, wounds, &c. is the following:
      COMPOUND LEAD OINTMENT.
      Sweet oil                2 J lbs.
      White Turpentine       h lb.
      Beeswax                4 oz.
      Unsalted Butter         4 oz.
Melt this together and strain.  Then heat to near
a boiling point and add gradually red lead one
pound, stir the mixture till  it is  nearly black,
then add after it is nearly cool,
      Honey                  12 oz.
       Powdered Camphor        8 oz.
            IODINE OINTMENT
Is used in bronchocele  tumors,  enlarged  tonsils,
scrofulous tumors, &c.
Take Iodine	15 grs
Iodide of Potassa	30 grs.
Rub them in a	
	h dr. of alcohol.
Then add Lard	1 oz.
And well mix.	
COMPOUND POWDERS.	
Dover's Powder	
Nitrate of Potassa	8 drs.
Powder Opium	ldr.
Ipecac in powder	1 dr.
Grind well together. Dose 10 grains.	
 
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COMPOUND  POWDER  OF IPECAC  AND
                 OPIUM.
      Opium in powder        10 grs.
      Camphor in powder      40 grs.
      Nitrate of potassa       8 Scruples.
Grind well together.  This is useful in all  febril,
inflammatory and rheumatic or painful  diseases,
it relieves pain, allays nervous irritation and pro-
motes perspiration, quiets the system, and  dispo-
ses to sleep.  Dose, from 3 to 6 or 8 grains, every
one, two or four hours.
COMPOUND POWDER OF RHUBARB AND
                POTASSA.
      Rhubarb in powder       4 drs.
      Bicarb. Potassa           2 drs.
Mix well together.  Dose, 10or 15 grains.   This
is one of our best remedies in sour stomach, diar-
rhoea, flux, dysentery, &c.
        MILD LAXATIVE POWDER.
      Sulphur Flour            2 oz.
      Cream of Tartar          21 oz.
Mix well.  Dose, teaspoonful night and morning.
                    OB
      Rhubarb                 1 oz.
      Magnesia Carb.            J oz.
Mix.—Dose as above in water. 
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                 MIXTURES.
       To Water                 1 pt.
Add Elixir of Vitriol            i oz.
       Sulph Quinine            3 drs.
       Sub, Carb. of Iron        3 drs.
       Tincture Pepper          1 oz.
Dose, a large teaspoonful 3 times daily will cure
any kind of chills, and is a good tonic.  Renews
the blood, gives an appetite, and strengthens the
system.
                    TAKE
       Water                    1 pt
       Bromide of potassa        4 oz.
       Tincture of Velerrin      2 oz.
       Tincture of Colchicum    2 oz.
Dose,  a large teaspoonful in water.  Good for
chronic rheumatism, pains, and wakefulness; also
for fits of the epileptic kind.
                    TAKE
       Muriated Tincture of Iron 1 oz.
       Tincture of Digitalis      1 oz.
       Camphor water           6 oz.
Dose, a teaspoonful in a little water.   Good  for
palpitation of heart and nen^ous excitement.
                    TAKE
Equal parts of soda and cream of tartar.    Dose,
lialf teaspoonful for  heartburn. 
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         SNUFF AND ITS EFFECTS.    •
  When  we look around us we cannot fail to see
the heart sickening effects of strong drink.  Alco-
hol,  in his merciless  ravages  on our race, has
crippled  every branch of business; he has made.
his thousands of widows and tens of thousands
of orphans;  he has sowed broadcast misery, suf-
fering  and shame;  he has  destroyed the peace
and happiness of thousands he has not killed; he
has  brought  down the cloud  of despair  upon
thousands of once happy families;  he is bold in
his  work,  defiant in  his  march; he yells as he
carries his multitudes to ruin.
  But what  of snuff ?  Snuff does not make its
consumer so drunk, nor do the consumers of snuff
do so  much rioting  or murder,  nor  does the use
of snuff produce nor cause so much dread,  neith-
er does it bring the same kind of despair  as alco-
hol ;  but  its work  is more  like the  noiseless
midnight assassin,  who silently steals his way to
the  chambers  of  the  fairest and  most beloved,
of our land, and silently deals out debility, disease
and  death upon our  wives,  sisters,  mothers and
daughters, sapping the very foundation of health,
undermining  the  constitution;  weakening every
organ, debilitating every nerve and weakens both
body and mind.  It  silently sows its seeds of dis-
ease and constitutional debility  away down in the
third  and fourth generation,  lessening and de- 
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troying the sweetness of life, both physically and
mentally;  thus  paving the way to vice debauch-
ery  and rum.  For when the mind, body and
nervous system are all weakened, who can deny
but  that the will  and  power to resist evil are
Aveakened also ?   And  Avho can deny for one mo-
ment in  the face of all these  facts that the very
tendency is to evil, and that continually ?
   It  causes  female Aveakness  and thus prepares
the system for disease and disables  the constitu-
tion to resist. The use of snuff brings  on dys-
pepsia,  Avith  all  its  horrors,  by Aveakening the
stomach ;  it favors consumption,  for it depresses
the  lungs and  weakens  the action of the heart.
It favors hysteria,  for it  destroys nerve force and
deranges the menstrual function.  And,  thus,  it
brings on  displacement  and  disease  of certain
organs, by its debilitating influence.
   I am well satisfied, from observation and inves-
tigation, that thousands  are  to-day  in asylums
and houses of prostitution,  that would have been
virtuous and pious mothers, sisters and daughters,
loved and respected by all, and they would have
been  to-day  intelligent and  useful members of
their respective  families,  but  for the ruinous ef-
fects of tobacco and corsets.
   Since  I have made a specialty of the treatment
and cure of female diseases I have treated tAventy-
one cases  of Nymphomania,   in the  last  eight
years, and I am satisfied from careful investigation 
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that seventeen of these cases Avere chargable to
the  excessive use of tobacco and corsets.  The
other four  Avere dependant upon other causes
mainly,  yet I am not satisfied that snuff and cor-
sets had nothing to do with them.  That it effects
the third and fourth generations cannot be denied
for do Ave net almost daily see the  fulfillment of
that promise and declaration  in divine  Avrit:   "I
am a jealous God, visiting the iniquitities of the
fathers  upon the  third and fourth generations,
and showing mercy unto thousands that love me."
   I spoke above of corsets;  now, I do not believe
that any lady can lace on a corset and stoop down
or get  a full  breath, but what they can see the
damaging effects or tendency of  her enemy,  the
corset   And why is  it that our Avomen  are Avill-
ing to sacrifice the glow of health and the happi-
ness and ease with delight and long life  for that,
that is a thousand times Avorse than nothing, and
that too, Avhich not only inclines themselves, but
their posterity, evil and ruin, is a problem that I
cannot solve.   But I  intend  to  give this subject
more thought and consideration in  my  book  on
"Causes and  Cures of Female Diseases."
  We cannot undo the mischief  that  is already
done, but I appeal to husbands, parents, guardi-
ans, and friends of our wives, daughters and  sis-
ters to use every effort available to  check this evil
and save our own people and  their  posterity from
further wreck and ruin, and I do most  earnestly 
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 appeal to the female members of our*  families to
 look to their interest and the interest of their pos-
 terity and stop before  their health is forever gone.
   But you say that snuff does not hurt you.  Why
 then the shortness  of  breath,  that palid cheek,
 that palpitation of heart, loAvness of spirits, that
 derangment of stomach, that relaxed condition of
 the system, that sunken eye, that  general  debili-
 ty, that wasting of tissue,  Avhy that nen-ousness,
 that death like appearance of the  skin?  Look at
 the gome about your mouth, that muck and filth
 on your teeth and tongue, go and smell the fetid
 stench of such a deposit someAvhere else and  then
 consider that you breathe off of such filth and
 tell me, is that healthy?  Go measure  the saliva
 or fluid that you rob from the  stomach, supplied
 by the God of nature to aid digestion,  to  supple-
 ment the waste of tissue and to convert  starchy
 food into sugar, without Avhich starch  is insoluble
 and hurtful, then tell  me it  does  you  no harm,
 well, one  says, "it  is a fashion and  I  had just as
 Avell be out of the Avorld as to be out of fashion."
 Go on madam, you will soon be out of both, and
 will be held responsible at the bar of God for self
 abuse and untimely death, as well  as for  the  in-
 fluence you  exert,   and the  evils  entailed  upon
your posterity* 
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          CLASSES OF MEDICINE.
   Medicines are prescribed by physicians  for the
 purpose of producing  a  certain  effect,  that  is
 Avhen they Avant to meet a certain indication  they
 prescribe one or more of a certain class  of medi-
 cines whose effect upon the human system, is such
 as to counteract the effects of some  other cause.
 Thus medicines are prescribed in view of certain
 physiological action upon the system,  it  can be
 readily seen therefore  that  medicines are given
 for the effect required.  And medicines are  often
 called by these properties, thus  Ave  say we  will
 give the patient a cathartic, Ave mean that we will  "
 give him a medicine that Avill have that  effect, or
 if we wish to give a medicine that will check di-
 arrhoea &c, we say we will give him  an astrin-
 gent, or to ease pain  we will give him an  ano-
 dyne, &c,  &c.
   Now I Avill give a  short  dictionary  of  these
'terms.
 Alteratives.—Medicines which  restore  health
     by gradually acting upon  the  system, and
     neutralizing morbid condition.
 Anttperiodics.—Medicines which cure  diseases
     that  come on  periodically,  as chills, sun
     pains, &c.
 Antispasmodics.—Medicines that will  cure,  or
     relieA-e spasms, &c. 
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Astringents.—Medicines that check  discharg-
    es by puckering up the tissues, &c.
Anodynes..—Medicine that eases pain, &c.
Aphrodisiacs.—Are  medicines  that  excite, or
    increase the sexual propensities.
Antaphrodisiacs.—Are  medicines  or   agents
    which blunt sexual propensities.
Abortives or Ecbolics..—Agents that will  pro-
    duce or bring on abortion.
Anthelmintics or Vermifuges.—Agents  that
    will remove worms.
Antacids.—Agents that will neutralize acid, &c.
Antalkalies.—Agents that will neutralize al-
    kalies, &c.
Antilithics or Lithontripics.—Hinders the
    formation of stone in the bladder.
Antiseptics.—Agents that will remove putrefac-
    tion.
Antiscrofulous.—Agents that cure scrofula, &c.
Antisyphlics.—Agents that cure syphilis, &c.
Antiscorbutics.—Agents  which  cure  scurvy,
    &c.
Aperients.—Agents  that act  mildly on  the
    bowels. 
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Cathartics.—Agents that act on the boAvels and
    cause them to throAV off their contents, &c.
Carminatives.—Agents that cause the expul-
    sion of wind from stomach and boAvels.
Diaphoretics.—Agents that will cause perspi-
    ration (sweat).
Diuretics.—Agents that increase urine, &c.
Diluents.—Which  increase  the  fluids in the
    blood.
Discutients.—Agents that remove, or ^disperse
    tumors, &c.
Disinfectants.—Agents that will neutralize of-
    fensive matter.
Demulcents.—Agents applied externally to soft-
    en or relax imflamed parts, such as elm poul-
    tices, &c.
Detergents.—Agents that cleanse wounds sores,
    &c.
Emetics.—Agents  that  Avhen  swallowed   will
    cause vomiting.
Expectorants.—Agents that loosen the phlegm
    from the throat and lungs so you can congh
    it up, or spit it off.
Errhine.—Agents that will cause sneezing.
Epispastics.—Agents  that   will  blister   the
    skin, &c
Escharotics.—Agents that will burn and leave
    a scab or slough same as caustics, &c. 
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Hypnotics.—Agents that will produce sleep.
Hydragogue (Cathartic).—Agents that will
    produce Avatery discharges from the boAvels.
Nauseants.—Agents that produce  sickness  on
    the stomach.
Narcotics.—Agents that depress nervous  action
    of the brain, &c. as opium, strammonium, &c.
Pectorals.—Agents to cure lung or chest  dis-
    eases.
Parturients.—Agents  that promote   uterine
    contractions, &c.
Relaxants.—Agents which relax  muscles, &c.
Refrigerants.—Agents that diminish the heat
    of the body without depressing  nervous ac-
    tion.
Rubescents.—Agents that  will  turn the  skin
    like mustard.
Stimulants.—Agents that increase action and
    they are general, local, or diffusible.
Stomachics.—Agents which give  tone  to  the
    stomach, &c.
Sedatives.—Agents that diminish  nervous ac-
    tion,
Sudorifics.—Agents that produce  copious per-
    spiration.
Sialagogue.—Increases the discharge from the
    mouth. 
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Tonics.—Agents that tone up, or invigorate  the
    system, they are general, special, or  local.
Teutonics.—Agents  that produce  twitting, or
    spasmatic actions of the muscles.
Styptics.—Agents that act upon the blood ves-
    sels and general system, so as to  stop blood.
Counter Irritants.—Derivatives, Revellents, or
    revulsions, are agents which produce  redness
    of the  skin and relieve inflammation  of inter-
    nal organs, or parts.   When this effect is pro-
    duced  externally, it is called counter irrita-
    tion, Avhen internally it is called revulsion.
Emmenagogues.—Are agents that  excite  or in-
    crease  the  menstrual  functions.  These are
    uterine tonics, generally.
  Now some of these are sometimes subdivided,
but for our present purpose the foregoing are suf-
ficient for the common reader  to see the  impor-
tance  of understanding these agents, and their ac-
tion on the system, for without  this  information
you cannot prescribe medicine Avith any certainty
of success.   Some medicines possess two or more
of these properties.   Take opium  for instance,
opium may be  administered  as Astringent, or
Sedative, Narcotic, Anodyne, or Stimulant  and
Hypnotic, and it has also Diaphoretic properties. 
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  The success of a physician mainly  depends on
his knowing what is the  matter,  then,  knoAving
how to# remedy that matter.  In order to do this
he must be able to diagnose, that is, he  must be
so well posted in symptoms and signs  of diseases
that he can tell from them just what is the mat-
ter of his patient
  Now he must be so well posted in  the physio-
logical actions of the different  drugs  and  medi-
cines that are used in the cure of diseases, that he
can select at once the thing, or  things  that  will
arrest the disease, and at the same time  counter-
act its effects, or cure the effects of the disease.
  Now as age, sex, and circumstances very much
modify the administration of drugs, he must take
circumstances into consideration, both in diagno-
sing and prescribing, and he must also  consider
surrounding  circumstances in  prognosing,  by
which term is meant,  foretelling the  final  result
or ending of the disease, and not only  should he
be  acquainted  with  circumstances,   conditions,
and  symptoms, but he should know the cause of
such symptoms, or disease, so that if it  depends
upon an existing cause, that cause should be  re-
moved if possible. 
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  EXPLANATION OF MEDICAL TERMS.'
               ABDOMEN,
The belly, or from the stomach down to the pu-
    bic bone.
              ABDOMINAL,
 Belonging to the belly, as Abdominal organs,  or
    cavity, &c
          ABDOMINAL VICERA,
 Are the organs of the belly.
              ABNORMAL,
 Means unhealthy, or not natural.
               ABLUTION,
 Means bathing, or washing, cleansing, &c.
                ABSCESS,
 A tumor containing matter, as a large boil.
                 ABATE,
 To decrease in power or strength.
              ABSORBENTS,
 Are glands, or small vessels  which take up, or
    soak np fluids, or liquids.
              ABSORPTION,
 Art of taking  up, or drinking as  dry earth  ab-
    sorbs the  water,
              ACCELERATE,
 Means to increase  in speed,  or force,  or both.
    Stimulants accelerate the action of the heart. 
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             ACCUMULATE.
To gather together in one place, as water accu-
    mulajtes in the body or some part of the body,
                  ACID.
Sour, as vinegar and many other substances.
                ACETOUS.
Tasting, or smelling like vinegar.
                ACETATED.
Mixed with acid, like water made sour with vin-
    egar.
                  ACRID.
As acrid taste, burning in  the mouth, or throat
                  ACUTE.
Sharp, or very severe  when applied to  disease,
    means a disease severe in its attacks, effecting
    the  whole  system, and  running  a speedy
    course, like croup or pneumonia, &c.
               ADMINISTER.
fe medicine means to give medicine, or to pre-
    pare the dose and give to the patients, other-
    wise to manage affairs.
                   AIR.
The atmosphere,  that which we breathe.
              AIR PASSAGE.
Nose, throat, windpipe, lungs, &c.
                ALBUMEN.
The white of an egg, or matter like that.
             ALBUMENARIA,
Urine containing albumen detected by heat
                ALIMENT.
Means food, &c,  in  the stomach and bowels. 
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         ALIMENTARY CANAL.
The canal through which  the  food  passes,  as
    stomach, bowels, &c
                 ALKALI,
Is a substance that forms salts with acid, as am-
    monia, soda and potash.
               ALKALINE,
Partaking of the nature of alkali.
               ALKALOID,
Is a vegetable  alkali, or  nearly  so,  like  Sulph*
    Quinine, Morphine, &c, which will neutral-
    ize acid like alkali.
               ALTERNATE,
To take by turn, first one and then the other.*!
              ANAESTHESIA,
Means insensibility.
             ANAESTHETICS,
Are medicines or drugs that produce that  effect.
               ANASARCA,
Means general dropsy.
                 ANEMIA,
Want of red globules in the blood, pale.
               ANTERIOR,
Means before, or in front.                    4
                 AREOLA,
Is a dark circle around the nipple of the breast.
                 ASCITES,
Means dropsy of the belly.
                ATROPHY,
Means to lessen in  size, or perished, wasted, &c,
                AUGMENT,
Means to make larger, to increase in size.
               ASTHENTIC,
Means debility from disease. 
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                    BILK,
A secretion of the liver, yellow ..u,! i.invr.
                  BILIOUS,
Due, or pertaining to the bile.
                   BLAND,
Mild, nourishing, but not stimulating.
                 BISTOUin.
A surgeon's small knife.
                 BRONCHIA.
Air tubes leading to the lun^s
                 BRONCIIAV
Pertaining to the bronchia or tul..-.-
                BRONCHITls.
Inflammation of the bronchal tub.•-.
                 BIENNIAL
Means lasting, or coming ever} (■«■,. v,-.tr<.
                  BAFFLE,
To disappoint, or bother, or dei'«-.-ii.
                  BLISTER,
Water gathered under the skin. ...-■ tV..n, .-, Mini.
               CALCAREOI>.
Lime, or something formed  of line-.
         CALCULUS, OR.OAI.' I" I.I.
Stone, or stones found in the b^'Uter. .\.-.
              CANCRUM 0II\
Mortification of the mouth and (':(.•••.
                CAPILLARS .
Small blood A^essels and nerves «.»r id.-  -kin.  ie.
    Those hair like vessels  of -'h< .-kin uj:<- «-:*lied
    capillary A'essels.
                CAPRIC[OI>
Changable, irregular, not conn.mi.  a<-.  An  ir-
    regular appetite is  called '•;!pn.-i<'n.v 
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                CALTEKIZE,
Means to burn with caustic, or hot iro-i.
                CAT A.MEN I A,
Monthly Hoav of females,  menses.
                CATAPLASM.
Means a poultice of anything applied.
                CEREBRAL,
Appertainuitr to the brain, as disease of t.h^ i'i-;iin.
         CERVICAL VERTEBRAE.
The first seven joints of the back  bone ••■•rrnr.tn.i;
    from the skull downward.
                CESSATION,
Discontinuation or stopping of motion, A.-.
               CHALVBEATE,
Medicine or water containing iron, &<•.
           CHRONIC DISEASES,
Are diseases that continue Avithout influMiinai.wv
    symptoms,  they often last for year,-.
                COLLAPSE,
A failure of vital  force  or  strength,  a  ,-tai.-  ..t
    prostration, a  sudden sinking, <xc.
                   COMA,
A profound sleep or stupor, like  one in  .an  un-
    conscious sleep after a fit, &c.
              COMPLICATED,
Several diseases existing at the same time in ?ii..-
    same person, as mumps,  measles, iV--.
                CONGESTION,
An  accumulation of blood in some vessel >>i  -.art
    opposing reaction, as in congestive t<-v .■•!-.
                CONTAGION,
A poison matter that causes diseases, Avlnn a  .li.-
    ease is catching  it is called  "cont*i^i<'iis." 
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                CONTRACTED,
 When applied to organs means drawn up or nar-
     rowed, but Avhen applied to disease it means
     caught or taken, as contracted a disease or a
     cold, &c.
            CONTRAINDICATION,
 Means contrary or opposed  to  as  an  astringent
     medicine is contraindicated in  constipation
     of the bowels; sedatives in prostration,  &c
          COUNTER IRRITATION,
 Means irritating one part  to cure another; to cure
    • a pain in the stomach by applying a mustard
     plaster on the outside is called curing or re-
     lieving by counter irritation, &c.
             CONVALESCENCE,
 Is that state of the  patient  after  the disease  is
     broken up and before perfect health.
                 CRITICAL,
 Means dangerous and uncertain, and often means
     a turning point in disease.
                   CRISIS,
 Means about the same thing, a turning point.
                CUTANEOUS,
 Belonging to the skin, diseasees of  the  skin are
     called cutaneous diseases.
              COLLIQUATIVE
 Means a.Aveakening discharge of fluids, &c, night
     sweats in consumption, &c, are called  colli-
     quative sweats.
              CIRCUMSCRIBE,
Means to limit or keep in certain  bounds, when a
     disease is confined to a certain  spot, it is said
     to be circumscribed to that place, &c. 
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DEBILITY.
Weakness or feebleness.
               DECOCTION.
The  water in which a vegetable is boiled, a tea.
                DELIRIUM.
A Avandering derangement of the mind, out of the
    right mind, as in fevers, &c.
                DEMENTIA,
Means a weakness of the mind—silly minded.
                DENTITION,
Is the time of cutting teeth.
               DEPLETION,
Means draining  the system of fluids; thus, bleed-
    ing with the lancet is called depletion.
             DETERMINATION,
In medicine, means a tendency to any one part,
    as when the blood rushes to the head, Ave say
    that it is a determination of the blood to the
    head, &c.
                DIAGNOSIS,
Means to tell  diseases  one from another by dis-
    tinguishing symptoms.
                DIATHESIS,
A constitutional  tendency to a disease, as Avhere
    a patient has a tendency to scrofula, Ave say
    he is of a scrofulous diathesis, &c.
             DISCRIMINATE,
To tell one disease or symptom from another.
                DISTENDED,
Enlarged, filled up, SAvollen, &c. When the abdo-
    men, or belly, becomes full and round Ave say
    it is  distended, or Avhen the bladder is very
     full it is distended. 
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          DORSAL VERTEBRAE.
The  twelve  joints of the back-bone next beloAv
    the first seven, counting doAvnward.
                DOMESTIC,
Appertaining to home or the family, such articles
    as sage,   soda, salt,  &c, are called domestic
    remedies.
             DYSMENORRHEA
Is the  name  given  to  painful menstruration, a
    female complaint.
                DYSPNOEA
Is what the doctor calls hard, oppressed breath-
    ing; a short, hard breath, &c.
                 DILUTED,
Is any tiling  made weaker by the addition of wa-
    ter, like  mixing Avater Avith spirits &c.
               ECCHYMOSIS,
Is Avhat is  seen when  there  is black or bluish
    spots on the skin where it has been bruised;
    the effusion of blood under the skin.
                  ECZEMA,
Is an itching eruption of the skin  like heat.
                  EDEMA,
Is a  Avatery SAvelling  of  any part; sometimes a
    joint, or a limb,  or a foot.
             EFFETE MATTER,
Is such as   has been used and thrown off  The
    matter  from  the boAvels,  bladder, &c,  is
    called effete matter.
               EFFICACIOUS.
When  medicine  has a  beneficial effect it is said
    that it is efficacious. 
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                 EFFLUVIA,
 Is an  invisable matter emanating from diseased
      bodies; we can sometimes smell it
                 EFFUSION
 A pouring out.   When  Ave say effusion  of blood,
      Ave generally mean the pouring out of blood
      into some cavity from a ruptured vessel.
                 EJECTED,
 ThroAvn up or cast out from the body.
                 ELASTIC,
 Springing back to its former shape, &c.
                 ELEVATOR,
 Is an  instrument for elevating,  or raising any-
     thing, as pieces of bone &c.
                  EMESIS,
 Means vomiting or pukeing.
                EMACIATION,
 Very lean, little but skin and bone.
         EMPIRIA OR EMPIRIAL,
 Medicines Avhose virtues are ascertained  by expe-
     rience without any regard to any application
     of science.
                 EMULSION,
 Is a mixture of any gumy substance  with  Avater,
     or oil and water.
                 ENCLEMIC.
 Diseases which are peculiar to a certain  class.
              ENDERMICALLY,
 When Ave  dissolve  quinine  and  apply  to or
    through the skin, Ave say that  Ave administer
    quinine endermically.
                  ENEMA,
Means an injection into the bowels. 
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              ENGORGEMENT,
'  "ii-v.-1 i.jit of any part from an  accumulation of
     !'I»h>([ in that part.
               EPIDEMIC,
A di><-a.-r extending  over  a large portion of the
     • ••timtry, as Avhen any disease like cholera at-
     ra<-l<» a large section, it is called epidemic.
                  ESCHAR,
[.-• a  sI'Mi^h or scab from a burn, or from  caustic,
     xh<- 'lead matter is called an eschar.
              EXACERBATION,
Is an in.-ivase of svmptoms of disease.
               EXCREMENT,
Mairer thrown off from the body,  as  the matter
     from the boAvels,  bladder,  &v,
           EXCRETORY  ORGANS,
,\iv  ..i-j-ans Avhich throAv off excrements, &c.
               EXHALATION,
I  »is.-hao:ii:g the air from the lungs, &.c.
               EXHIBITING,
In |.[-a«-rir" means, giving medicine to  patients.
             EXPECTORATION,
Is rlt. a.i of siutting up matter from the lungs, &c.
               EXUDATION.
Mk;vh>  ...,/ing out as through pores, &c.
                EXPULSION,
VI.-aiis  loi-cing out, or expelling a thing.
                EXOSTOSIS,
\  su'llii)"- of the  bone, a tumor of the bone.
                 EXCISED,
•  nt ...fi'. ..r cut out, or split Avith a knife; we ex-
    <-i- tumors, cancers, &c, and amputate legs
    ami arms. 
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                FACILITATE,
To make >-a..-\. to enable  us to  do readily  and
    ipiicklv. to .make a thing less trouble to do.
                FASTIDIOUS,
Fickle minded, hard to please,  dainty, &c.
                  FEBRIL!-].
When r.heiv are symptoms of fever,  or when fever
    i.« i.i ■ ■ -• ■ 111: We  say, it is febril symptoms.
                FECULENT,
Foul,  lilrhv.  like, discharges from the boAvels.
                   FECES,
The mart.-r .-.-1.-i oil' by the bowels.
                FETAL LIFE,'
The lit'" of a .-hiI-1,  before  it is born.
                   FETOR.
A  steni-li. a .iisa-:—,.able smell,  unpleasant odor.
                   FETID.
llaAine n .li.-a.L'r. ea.hle  smell, a stench,  &c,
                  FILTER.
Tostrain t.liiomjh paper, or cloth, or sponge,
                  FLACCID,
Soft. rb.M.v.  ilimsv, without resistance.
                ' 'FLATULENT,
Windy. ^ h-n   there is Ayind in the slamach or
    f)«>«•..■!-.  v*e- sav Ave are flatulent.   Flatulence
    and tU'iins  mi.-.ns the same.
                FLUCTUATE,
Moving. iinsta,ti..n;j'y,  not settled.
                 FUNCTION,
When an ..r.ean i- doing Avhat nature  assigns to
    it. »■<■ sav. it, F performing its functions.
         KFNCTfONAL DISEASES,
Are dis.-a.-■.-  .-aiis.'.. by  nonperformance  of such
    did v or ,ft:ner ion. 
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                GANGRENE,
Mortification, or a partial death of a part.
                 GELATIN,
A substance like jelly.
                GENITALS,
Organs of generation.
                GESTATION,
The period of pregnancy.
                   GRAIN,
A small Aveight, the sixtieth part of a drachm.
                  GOITRE,
An enlargment of the fore part of the neck.
            HALLUCINATION,
Delusions of the mind, confused and mistaken
     ideas, Avrong imaginations, &c,
               HEMTCRONIA,
A painful affection of one side of  the  head,  sun
     pain, broAV ague, rheumatism of the scalp, &c.
                HEM1PLEGY,
Palsy of one side of the body.
               HEMOPTYSIS,
Bleeding from the lungs, spitting of blood.
               HEMORRHAGE,
A flowing of blood, or a flooding, &c.
                 HEPATIC,
Belonging to the liver, Avhen  a patient has a de-
     railment of the liver,  Ave say, it is a hepatic
     derail gment,
                HYGIENE,
Science relating to the preservation of health.
            H YDRO CEPH ALUS,
Dropsy of the head. 
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             HYDROTHRORAX.
Dropsy of chest or breast.
            II YrPERC ATH ARSIS,
Excessive or over purging the boAvels.
             HYPERTROPHY,
An enlargment of an organ Avithout change  of
     structure
           HYPOCHONDRIACAL,
Loav spirits, blues, hypo, spleenyes, &c.
                 IMPUNITY,
Free from punishment or evil effects.
                IMPURITY-
Foulness, uncleannes, filth, &c.
              INCOHERENT,
Rambling in mind and speech
                INCIPIENT,
Beginning, the start, as a disease  in  its  first  or
     incipient stage.
             INCONTINENCE,
Inability to hold discbarges  as urine,  &c,  lewd,
     unchaste, not virtuous.
                INDOLENT,
Ulcers or tumors  that  progress sloAvly  without
     pain, are called indolent ulcers and tumors.
               INDURATED,
When a tumor or part becomes very  hard,  it is
     said to be indurated.
                INFANTILE,
Pertaining to  infants, like infantile diseases.
               INFECTIOUS,
Catching like measles, mumps, &c. are called in-
     fectious diseases,  catching diseases,  such  as
     may be taken one from  another. 
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               INFLAMMATION,
 Any part attended Avith heat or fever,  red,  swol-
      len, &c. as inflammatory diseases.
                  INFUSION,
 Cold infusion is to pour water on herbs, &c. and
      soak out the strength.  A hot infusion  is
      when Ave use hot water for the same purpose.
                  INHALE,
 Is to breathe into the lungs, to draw in  breath.
           INTERCOSTAL SPACE,
 Is the space between the ribs.
               INTERMITTENT,
 When a pulse stops occasionally, it is  called  an
     intermittent  pulse,  ague,  chills, &c. are
     called intermittent fever, because it stops, or
     goes and conies.
               LANCINATING.
 Pains tbat seem like a knife or sharp instrument
     Avas piercing through the parts.
               LATERITIOUS.
 Resembling brick dust,  as  in  pneumonia Avhen
     the patient spits up a matter looking like it
     Avas mixed Avith brick dust, it is called  Lat-
     eritious expectoration.
               LIBIDINOUS,
LeAvd, unchaste in Avord or action or both.
                   LIVID,
A  bluish or blackish  color,  like a bruise.
                  LOCAL,
Means comfined to one spot or place, a  disease of
    one part alone is called a local disease.
                  LOTION,
An external medicated wash, like weak lye. 
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                 MALADY,
Means a disease or ailment &c.
                MALARIAL,
Belonging to malaria; ague is a  malarial  disease.
             MALFORMATION,
Means misformed, not naturally formed.
                  it A MA,
Means the female breast.
               MALIGNANT,
A disea.se tending to  a  fatal determination, dis-
    tracted and incurable diseases
             MASTURBATION,
Self polution, which is a dangerous violation  of
    the laws of God and nature.
            MATERIA MEDICA,
That part of medical science that treats of or up-
    on the history and effects of medicines.
               MITIGATION,
Soothing or relieving, consoling, &c.
                MORBIFIC,
That Avhich giA'es rise to disease.
               MONOMANIA,
The derangment of the mind on,one subject.
                  MORBID,
Means unhealthy, as a morbid appetite, &c.
                 MERCURY,
Quick silver, or medicines prepared therefrom.
                MENINGITIS,
Means inflammation of the brain.
                  MINUM,
Means one drop, the sixtieth part of a drachm.
                  MENSES.
The month! v flow. 
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                 NAUSEA,
Sickness of the stomach.
                NECROSIS,
Mortification or the death of bone.
                NEPHRITIS,
Inflammation of the kidneys.
            NOMENCLATURE,
A list of Avords used in a particular science.
               NOSOLOGIST,
Is one Avho explains and classifies diseases.
             NYMPHOMANIA,
A disease of  females, much more common than
    has  been  supposed, and  one that should
    have more attention than heretofore.
                 OBESITY,
Means fatness, fleshiness, corpulence.
                OBSCENITY,
LeAvd,  vulgarity in speech and action.
                   OBTUS,
Stupid, dull or blunt; not sharp.
                   ODOR,
Smell of a thing, good or bad.
                 OMINOUS,
ForesliOAving, a sign or symptom of a thing.
                 OPACITY,
Hidden state, obscurity, darkness.
               ODORIFEROUS,
Having an agreeable smell, like roses &c.
                 OPIATES,
Medicines containing opium in some form.
                  ORIFICE,
Is a hole or opening. When Ave speak of the hole
    in the ear Ave call it the orifice of the ear. 
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                  PALIATE,
To lessen or relieve, to soothe or quiet.
                   PALOR,
Paleness of coun tenance, looking pale.
                  PANADA,
Food for the  sick made of bread and Avater or
     crackers and sweetened Avater,
              PARACENTESIS,
The operation of tapping the bowels in  dropsy.
                 PAROXISM,
Fits or spells recurring at intervals.
                PATHOLOGY
That treats upon the knoAvledge of diseases.
                PERCUSSION,
Striking on a part to learn its condition by sound
     as on the chest, &c.
              PERSPIRATION,
SAveat, watery substance that oozes out of the skin.
               PHYSIOLOGY,
Is that  science Avhich treats of life in organized
     bodies and the properties and  functions of
     those bodies, the relation of life, matter and
     action. Primary physiology should be taught
     in our common schools.
                 PRECLUDE,
To hinder, to prevent, to turn aside or off.
               PROTRACTED,
Continued for a long time or delayed.
                 PROGNOSIS,
Foretelling the termination  of a disease.
               PREDISPOSED,
Being disposed to disease before hand, inclined to
     take it, &c. 
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                  RANCID,
 Rauk, strong, musty, like old fat meat.
                RESERSION,
 Striking in, going back or going in, &c.
                  RECTUM,
 The loAver bowels, the fundament, anus,
                 REDUCE,
 To replace, as  when a joint is dislocated we re-
     duce it, put it back in place.
                REDUCTION,
 Means replacing a joint or part.
                RECUMBENT,
 Lying doAvn, or in a lving condition.
                REDUNDANT,
 More than is needed, more than enough.
                REMISSION,
 A  short abatement  of  disease,  but not all gone.
                RESOLUTION,
 A scattering or dispersing of a disease.
               RESPIRATION,
 Means breathing, both in and out.
                REQUISITE,
 That  Avhich is needed and must be had in order
    to succeed or do a thing.
                REGIMEN,
 Proper  use  of  food  and exercise in the cure of
    diseases—sometimes it only means diet.
                  RIGORS,
 A shivering or shaking, as in chills &c.
                ROTATING,
Means turning round and round.
              RUBEFACTION,
The skin reddened by heat &c. 
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                  SALIVA
The spittle from the mouth, vulgarly called slob-
    ber.
                SAL1YATION
An increased flow of saliva or spittle.
                SALUTARY
Beneficial  to health, promoting health &c.
                SATURATE
To take up all that is possible like a tincture or
    tea made  as strong as it can be.
                 SCIATICA
Rheumatism of the nerve of the hip.
                 SECRETED
Taken from the blood by certain organs.
                 SEDATION
A  quiet condition of vital force depressed.
               SEDENTARY
Habit of sitting a great deal or mostly.
                   SEMI
Means one half and is expressed by ss.
                  SEQUAL
The result or  termination of an action.
                 SINAPISMS
Mustard plasters are called sinapisms.
                 SOLUBLE
That may be dissolved in any liquid.
             SPINAL  COLUMN
The  tAventy-four  joints of the back bone  begin-
    ning  from the head  counting  downward.
    These are divided into  three sections, the
    first seven are called  the cervical vertebra,
    the next  twelve  the dorsal and the last five
    the lumbar vertebra
                 SPORADIC
Not depending upon cantagion or epidemic. 
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                STERNUM
Means the breast bone in front.
                 STOOLS,
Means the matter discharged from the bowels.
             SUBCUTANEOUS,
Means under the skin, put under skin.
                 SUBSIDE,
Passes off, becomes less severe, to decrease,
              SUFFOCATION,
A stoppage of breath from drowning &c.
              SUPPURATION,
Discharges of puss or matter.
              SYMPATHETIC,
Disease of one organ acting upon another.
              SYNONYMOUS,
Having the same meaning or thought, idea, &c.
            SYNOVIAL FLUID,
Is the fluid in the joints of the body.
                 TARSUS,
The edge of the eyelid, the instep or ankle.
               TENESMUS,
A painful effort of the bowels as in flux
                TINCTURE,
A solution of medicine in proof spirits.      ,
                 TONSILS,
Almonds of the ear, glands of the throat.
                 TORPID,
Motionless, stupid, inactive &c.
               TRANSIENT,
Of short stay, of short duration, quick over.
              TRANSLATED,
Shifted from one place to another, gone  to anoth-
    er part or place. 
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                TREMORS,
Involuntary shivering or shaking, unsteady.
               TRITURATE,
To rub into fine powder, to pulverize.
               TYMPANUM,
Is the name given to the drum of the ear.
                TYPHOID,
Sinking, depressed condition of the system.
                 TYPHUS,
A depressed and sinking condition of vital force.
                UMBILICUS,
The navel, vulgarly called nable.
                  UREA
Is a white substance in the urine.
                URETERS
Are tubes that convey Avater from the kidneys to
    the bladder.
                URETHRA
Conveys the urine from the bladder.
               URIC ACID,
Is in the urine and often forms gravel.
               VACCINATE,
To put matter under the skin(generally cow pox).
                 VAGINA,
The passage from the womb to the outer parts.
                  VAPOR,
The fumes of steam, smoke, gas, and spirits,
             VENESECTION,
Bleeding with the lancet or knife.
         VENTRICAL  CAVITIES,
Of the heart and  brain, in the heart the right
sends the blood into the lungs and the left sends
the blood over the whole system. 
                    22T
                 VERTIGO,
Dizziness  of the head, giddy headed.
                  VERILE,
Manly, strong, masculine &c.
                   VIRUS,
Atoms that convey the poison in contagious dis-
    eases, as small pox, yellow fever &c.
                VITIATED,
Corrupted poison, impaired, perverted &c.
               VOLATILE,
Passing off in a vapor, evaporating
               VORACIOUS,
Greedy, over-anxious, OArer-eager, &c.
                   WANT,
Accustomed to, inclined to, mode of doing.
                   ZONES,
Climates, regions,  belts, &c, &c.
  I have only given a few of such words as I thought
would be of most common use to  the reader  of
this book, consequently it is very incomplete, and
no one regrets it more than I do, but as the book
is a  small  one,  there is not room for a more
abundant dictionary of medical  terms.  I  shall
devote the remainder of these pages to such use-
ful imformation as I think will be of most use to
the readers and  promise them that I will try to
impress the best  ideas possible.   The  following
pages contain miscellaneous recipes, formulas and
items of interest to  the farmer,  merchant and
mechanic as well as to the family generally. 
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     THE FOLLOWING TABLE SHOWS,
 The properties in a general Avay of the differeut
 medicines shoAvn in left hand column; the princi-
 pal properties in the  middle  column, and  the
 dose for a grown person in the last.  In  dosing
 children the following rule must be observed.  A
 child from one to two  years  old may take  one
 twelfth of a grown person's close.
     From two to four, one sixth.
     From four to six, one fifth.
     From six to eight, one fourth.
     From eight to ten, one third.
     From ten to twelve, one half.
     From twelve to sixteen, two thirds.
 You should take the general condition  into con-
sideration as well as age, old people cannot stand
as much as younger ones can,  females  less than
males.
  In the last or right hand column you must  ob-
serve that dr. stands for drachm or a  small tea-
spoonful; gr. stands for grains; and m. stands for
minum or drops.
  For class of medicine see page 201 &c.
Medicine.    Properties, Effects, &c.   Dose.
Aloes Powder,       Cathartic,          10 to 20 gr.
Alum,              Astringent,        5 " 20 gr..
Ammonia Carb. of, Stimulant, Expectorant, 2  " 5 gr.
Anis Seed Oil,       Aromatic,           5  " 10 m.
Antimonial Wine,    Emetic,                 2 dr.
Assafoetida,         Antispasmodic,     5 to 20 gr.
        Tr.            "             15 " 30 m.. 
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Medicine. Properties, Effects,		&c.	Dose.
Balsam Copaiba,	Diuretic,		15 to 20 m.
Balsam Peru,	Expectorant,		15 to 20 m.
Balsam Tolu Syrup,	u		ldr.
Bearberry Fluid Ex't	Diuretic,		1 dr.
Beladona Ex't,	Narcotic,		igr.
" Tincture,	"		5 to 15 m.
Bismuth Sub. Nitrate	Tonic Astringent &c.		20 " 30 gr.
Blood Root, Tr. Expectorant, Alterative,			20 " 30 m.
Blue Mass,	Purgative,		15 " 20 gr.
Buchu Fluid Ex't,	Diuretic,		ldr.
Catechu Powder,	Astringent,		10 to 15 gr.
" Tincture,	u		ldr.
Camphor Gum,	Stimulant and Sedative, 3 to 5 gr.		
" Tinct.,	u	a	20 " 30 m.
Castor Oil,	Purgative,		2 " 8 dr.
Calomel,	u		10 " 20 gr.
Chalk Prepared,	Astringent,		10 " 30 gr.
Chamomile Fluid Ex	t, Tonic,		1 dr.
Chloral Hydrate,	Narcotic &c,		10 to 30 gr.
Colchicum Root Fl'd Ex't, Sedative & Diuretic, 5 to 10 m.			
Wine,	u	M	20 " 30 m.
           Seed Tinct,,     "         "    " " "  "
 Cubebs Powder,  Diuretic and Alterative,  10 " 20 gr.
 Dover's Powders, Diaphoretic and Anodyne,     10 gr.
 Epsom Salts,         Cathartic,           2 to 6 dr.
 Gentian Tinct.,       Tonic,                  1 dr.
 Ginger Ground,   Aromatic and Stimulant, 5 to 20 gr.
 Glauber Salts,        Cathartic,           2"  4 dr.
 Gamboge Powder,        "               2"  4 gr.
•Gelsemium Fluid Ex(t, Anodyne & Sedative, 5 "  10  m.
 Ipecac Powder,       Diaphoretic,       • 1  " 2gr.
  "      "           Emetic,              10" 30 gr.
  "      syrup,       Diaphoretic, &c.          1 dr. 
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Medicine.    Properties, Effects, &c.
Ipecac Wine,         Expectorant, &c,
Iron and Quinine Citrate, Tonic,
 Iron Carb. of,
   "  Citrate of
   "  Iodide Syrup,
   "  Reduced,
   "  Phosphate,
 Jalap Powder,
 Laudanum,
 Leptandrin,
 Magnesia,
 Morphia,
 Mustard Seed,
 Myrrh Tincture,
 Opium Pow'd,
 Paregoric,
 Peruvian Bark,
         Tinct.,
 Potassa Bromide,
    "    Citrate,
    "    Chlorate,
    "    Iodide,
 Quinine,
 Quassia Infusson,
 Rhubarb Pow'd,
 Rue Decoction,
Sage Decoction,
Santonian,
Sarsaparilla Decoct'n,
          Fluid Ex't,
Senna Decoction,
  "  Fluid Ex't,
                     Dose.
                          *dr.
                      3 to 5 gr.
Tonic,                3 " 8 gr.
                          5gr.
 Tonic and Alterative, 5 to 10 m.
                     1 to 2 gr.
                      3 " 5 gr.
Cathartic,            10 " 20 gr.
Narcotic & Anodyne, 15 " 30 m.
Cathartic,            2 «•  5 gr.
 Laxative,            40 " 60 gr.
 Narcotic and Anodyne,    £ gr.
Emetic,                   l dr.
Expectorant,             25 m.
Narcotic & Anodyne, -J to 1 gr.
Anodyne,            1 "  2 dr.
Tonic, Antlperiodlc,  20 " 40 gr.
                          1 dr.
Sedative,
Laxative, Diuretic,
Expectorant,
Alterative,
Tonic, Febrifuge,
Tonic,
Cathartic,
Emmenagogue,
Diaphoretic,
Vermifuge,
Alterative,
    u
Cathartic,
20 to 30 gr.
 20 " 3  gr.
 10 " 15 gr.
 10 " 15 gr.
 3  "lOgr.
      ldr.
15 to 25 gr.
      4 dr.
      2oa.
  1 to 2 gr.
  1 " 2 dr.
  1 " 2 dr.
      8 dr.
      ldr. 
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 Medicine.    Properties, Effects, &c.   Dose.
 Skullcap infusion,     Tonic, &c.          8 to 12 dr.
 Stramonium Tr.,   Narcotic and Anodyne,  15 " 20 m.
 Sulphur Flour,    Laxative and Alterative, 1 to 2 dr.
 Turpentine,          Stimulant, Diuretic,      1 dr.
 Thyme Infusion,      Aromatic,             At will
 Tansy Oil,           Emmenagogue,         10 m.
        Infusion,           "              At will.
 Valerian Tinct.       Antispasmodic,          1 dr.
   I have abridged the above table, believing that
 it is amply sufficient for our present purpose  be-
 side a great many preparations are mentioned  in
 the body of the work in the treatment of the  va-
 rious diseases mentioned in the book, again some
 have been omitted because I do not believe that it
 would be best for the nonprofessional  to handle
 many that might do harm instead of good.
   I have been particular in noticing  such as any
 one may use, when needed, with safety.  A  great
 many herbs, roots, barks, &c. have  all ready been
 noticed on page 180, and too I have tried to make
 the explanations fully plain  and  simple so any-
 one can understand them.
  I shall now present the reader  with quite a
number of valuable recipes &c.,  many  of  them
made public now for the first time, and too, many
of  them  alone  are worth more than  five times^
the price of the book. 
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            TOOTH  POWDEES.
  Mix  one ounce of  finely  crushed chalk, one
half ounce of cassia poAvder, one ounce orris; mix
well and you have the best of poAvder for cleaning
the teeth.
TO PKESEKVE SKINS  WITH HAIR ON.
  Stretch the skin on a board or table with tacks,
hair down,  then  scrape off all the flesh and fat;
now work  in in all the powdered chalk you can
till the chalk begins to role off; now take the skin
off  and rub in as much powdered alum as it will
take, then wrap it up closely and put it in a dry
place for a few days and it will become as pliable
as if it was tanned and will remain  so.
              LILLY BALM.
  Steep elder flowers in boiling water and let it
stand till cool; it will  eradicate tan, freckles,
pimples, blotches, &c.
               EYE WATEE.
      Rose Water,               1 oz.
      Sugar of Lead            6 grs.
  A drop or two in the eye night and morning is
good for sore eyes.
  UNIVERSAL LINIMENT FOR BURNS.
  Mix equal parts  of olive oil, linseed oil and
lime water; shake well and apply.   I have  tried
this in many cases.   It is good. 
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         BLACKBERRY  BRANDY,
  Mix one quart of blackberry juice  to three
quarts of brandy and  one ounce  of  essence of
cinnamon; sweeten to taste.  This  is excellent in
bowel complaints &c.
             HAIR DRESSING.
  A  good hair dressing is made by mixing equal
parts of castor oil and proof brandy.  Perfume to
suit  with oil of  rosemary or oil of lavender &c.
This will not only keep your hair clean and pli-
ant but prevents it from falling out.
            PICKLE FOR BEEF.
  For  one hundred  pounds of beef, take three
quarts  of salt, one pound  of  brown sugar, two
ounces of ground black pepper; mix it in Avater
enough to cover the beef, let it  boil, take off the
scum and let it cool and pour it on the beef.  It
should be used up by the first of May, as salted
beef Avill  not keep well through warm weather.
         PEPPERMINT £ORDIAL.
  Take  one measure  of  essence of peppermint,
twenty measures of pure spirits and twenty meas-
ures of water and five measures of good syrup.
This is good for sick stomach or colic in children
and  for  bowel complaints; a few drops of pare-
goric added to each dose will improve it. 
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          GLAZED WHITE WASH.
  Take two gallons of water, one  pound  and a
half of rice, one pound of moist sugar, let  the
mixture boil till the rice is dissolved, then thick-
en to the consistency of Avhite Avash with finely
powdered lime.
  This is a pretty satin  looking whitewash  and
does well for inside purposes.
         TO CASE HARDEN IRON.
  Heat the article to a  bright  red and rub or
sprinkle on it prussiate of potash, as soon as the
potash seems decomposed plung the article into
cold water.  This will make iron almost as hard
-as steel.
              LIQUID GLUE.
  Take good glue one pound, dissolve  it  in  one
pint of water by putting the vessel containing the
glue and water in  another  vessel of  hot water,
then add twelve ounces of acetic acid, if for win-
ter use you may use more acid, and less in sum-
mer, you should use is little acid as will keep  it
liquid.
          COLDS IN THE HEAD.
  Simply breathe the fumes of tincture of iodine
every few minutes, and all the symptoms  of the
malady will soon disappear. 
                    235
               FOR WARTS.
  Apply muriatic acid with a knitting needle to
the tops of the warts, a few applications will in a
few days remove them Avithout pain or soreness.
                FOR COLDS.
       Water                    1 qt.
       Flaxseed                  \ oz.
       Extract of Licorice        3 oz.
       Raisins                   4 oz.
Boil slowly twenty minutes and add
       Brown Sugar              4 oz.
       Good Vinegar             1 oz.
Dose, a tablespoonful eyery two or three hours
through the day, and two  tablespoonfuls at bed
time.
                 A FELON,
May be cured if taken in time by mixing a little
salt with the white of an egg and binding it  to
the felon.
  Colic is often cured by taking every five or  ten
minutes a half teaspoonful of salt in a little warm
water.
  Croup has been often cured by giving half as
much salt as of honey.   Mix well and give a tea-
spoonful every ten  minutes. 
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TO MAKE PENCIL WRITING INDELIBLE.
You Avill simply Avet it in neAV skimed  milk and
let it dry, Avill not rub out or fade.

                BLUE INK.
  Grind Avell together prusian blue oxalic acid
each one half ounce, add soft water till you have
the right shade, then add a tablespoonful of gum
arabic to each quart of ink.
     TO TAKE OUT GREASE SPOTS,
Use spirits of ammonia, this will take out  ink or
fruit stains without injury to the fabric.
              BEST RED INK.
      Best Carmine          2 grains
      Rain Water            i ounce
      Water of Ammonia    20 drops
Add a little gum arabic, and you will have the
best red ink for ruling &c.
TO PRESERVE BUTTER TO KEEP 2 YEARS
Mix well together,
      Salt Petre                1 oz.
      White Sugar              1 oz.
      Spanish grate Salt        2 oz.
Grind well, then add one ounce of this mixture to
each pound of butter, mix well and  press in a
close vessel so as there will be  no vacuities and
closely cover.
  This recipe is worth the price of the book. 
                    237
        HORSE  TAMERS SECRET.
  Rub a little oil of cumin on your hand and ap-
proach the horse and put it on his nose, and  get
a little in it.  Take 8 drops of oil rhodium and a
little horse castor grated fine, and put them into a
thimble, open his mouth and put it on his tongue;
neither of these oils will injure the horse in  any
Avay.  Now you may use your horse in the usual
way, put a strap round his ankle and  draw up
through a cirsingle after strapping up the other
foot, you may cause him to kneel down, or lay
down in a short time without the straps he will
do your bidding; this is said to tame  the  wildest
horse in a short time, you should be  careful  not
to use the whip or other punishment.
  You may use your horse as above daily till he
will obey you at all times.
     GOLD AND SILVER COUNTERFEIT
                DETECTER.
       Take Nitrate of Silver     1 dr.
       Rain Water             1 gill.
When dissolved it is ready for  use.   If coin  is
pure it will not change the color,  if  not it will
turn it black.

       TO BRONZE IRON CASTING.
  First clean with acid and then immerse in a so-
lution of sulphate  of copper  (blue vitriol) and
wash it well. 
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                BLACK INK.
  Dissolve one fourth pound of Ex't logAvood  in
one gallon of clean soft water, heat  to a boiling
point in a clean iron vessel, skim well and strain,
then add ninety grains of bicarbonate of potash,
and fifteen grains of prussiate of potash,  dissolve
in a half pint of hot water, then  stir for  three
minutes and when cold it is done.
READY RELIEF.
Alcohol	1 pt.
Oil Hemlock	* oz.
Oil Sassafras	h oz.
Spirits of Turpentine	h oz.
Balsam of Fir	h oz.
Chloriform	\ oz.
Tincture Catechu	h oz.
Tincture Guaiac	i oz.
Oil of Origanum	1 oz.
Oil of Winter Green	i oz.
Gum Camphor	£ oz.
This is good for external or internal pains.
                 VINEGAR.
      Acetic Acid              li lb.
      Molasses                 3 pts.
      Rain Water             10 gal.
Put all in a keg, shake once daily.  This is good
vinegar and it's cheap and can be made any time. 
                   239
            INDELLIBLE INK.
  Dissolve two ounces of nitrate silver in a little
water, then mix it in one gallon of common wri-
ting ink in which  considerable gum arabic  has
been used.  Add  gum  arabic till  it  will  not
spread.  Keep the bottle in  dark  paper, away
from the light
       TO REMOVE FRUIT STAINS.
  To remove walnut and fruit stains from  your
fingers.  Dip them in strong store  tea,  and rub
well with the same.
   OINTMENT FOR CHAPPED HANDS.
  Mix together in a cup on a stove,
      Gum Camphor           3  dr.
      White Beeswax           3 dr.
      Spermaceti               3 dr.
      Olive Oil (Sweet Oil)      2 oz.
  Anoint your hands and put on gloves  at bed-
time.
            OIL FOR HARNESS.
      Mix Foot Oil             1 qt.
      Beef Tallow              4 oz.
      Lamp  Black           3 tablespoonfuls
In summer add
      beeswax                  4 oz.
  This is an excellent oil for harness and  sho uld
be kept by farmers. 
                    240
      SILVER AND GOLD PLATING.
  To  make the Gold Solution.—Dissolve a gold
dollar in one and a half ounces of nitro-muriatic
acid then add one half ounce of sulphuret of po-
tassa  dissolved  in a  gill  of water.   This will
precipitate the gold to the  bottom.  Then Avash
the precipitate in warm soft water and after it is
well washed  put  it into  a solution of cyanuret
of potassa,  three-fourths of an ounce dissolved in
a pint of water.   This forms the solution.
            SILVER SOLUTION.
   Dissolve  a quarter of a  dollar in two-thirds
of an  ounce of nitric acid diluted with one-fourth
of an  ounce of soft water; and after it is dissolved
you must add half an ounce of muriatic acid and
an equal quantity of soft water; this will  precipi-
tate the silver to the bottom.  Wash this precipi-
tate well,  as the above,  and then put it into a
solution of two-thirds of an ounce of cyanuret
of potassa dissolved in one half pint of soft water
and this forms the solution ready for use.
    DIRECTIONS FOR USING EITHER.
   Put  the solution in a common bowl or a glass
vessel,  and when you thoroughly cleanse the ar-
ticle  to be plated from all grease and dirt, you
should  immerse  it in the  solution for ten or 
                    241
fifteen  minutes then take  it out and wash and
polish  and repeat till the plate is thick enough
or all the metal is taken up.

            CHINESE CEMENT.
       White Shellac pulverized  4 oz.
       Clear Gum Mastic         £ oz.
     >  put this in a bottle and add
       Sulphuric Ether           2 oz.
       let it stand an hour and add
       Alcohol                -  1 pt.
Shake  occasionally until dissolved.  Keep  aAvay
from fire or lamps while mixing or using.
   To use the cement just warm the edges of  the
article to be mended and apply the cement Avith a
pencil, brush, or otherwise.

              ERASIVE SOAP.
   This recipe is worth ten times the price of the
book to any family, and it costs but little to try it.
       Aqua Ammonia           2 oz.
       White Shaving Soap       1 oz.
       Salt Petre          •     1 teaspoonful
       Soft Water                1 qt.
Mix, and it is ready for use.  This is the soap of
all soaps for cleaning coat collars or anything else.

              FRICTION SOAP.
   To remove tar and grease; mix  one  pound of
brown soap with two pounds of clean white sand. 
242
              A CHEAP PAINT.
  Take a half bushel of unslaked lime and slake
it Avith boiling Avater, keeping it covered  during
the process, then add a peck of clean salt and five
gallons of hot water, three pounds of ground  rice
boiled to a thin paste, and stir boiling  hot,  then
put in a half pound of clean glue prepared as fol-
Ioavs:  put the glue  in  a small vessel, and then
put the vessel in a larger  one  containing Avater,
and then boil the Aressel containing the glue,  this
Avill melt  the glue  without burning it.  When
the Avhole  is mixed let it stand a few days, and
Avhen used it should be  applied hot.   Any shade
can be given that you may desire, by  using the
usual coloring matters,  such as lamp black &c.
A pint of this paint  if properly put on  will cover
a square yard, and  will retain its brilliancy for
years, on brick, stone or Avood.

          OIL PASTE BLACKIMG.
       Oil of Vitriol              2 oz.
       Tanners' Oil               5 oz.
       Ivory Black ,             2 lbs.
       Molasses                  5 oz.
   First mix the oil and vitriol together and let it
stand a day and night, then add the ivory black
and molasses and  the white of an egg.  This is
superior blacking,  will  not injure leather, and
will  give  you a  good  gloss and will last you a
long  time.   It gives universal satisfaction  and
costs  but little to try it. 
                      243
                 SOLDERING.
   Hoav  to  make the soldering fluid.—Dissolve
 two. ounces of zinc in four ounces of  muriatic
 acid  in a  glass vessel,  then dissolve one ounce
 of Sal Ammonia in a gill ol water and  add it to
 the other mixture.  Use care in handling the acid
 not to get it on your clothes or in your eyes,
   To make the solder, you will melt together four
 parts  of lead,  three  parts of tin, and two parts
 of bismuth and run into sticks.
   To use the Fluid and solder.—You must scrape
 the parts, to be soldered, clean and bright,  then
 with a small stick mop you Avill apply the fluid
 where you Avant the solder to stick; then put on a
 small  piece of solder and hold over a lamp or
 apply  heat otherwise. The  solder melts much
 easier  than tinners'  solder and will flow Avhere
 the fluid is applied, and  will be found very con-
 venient in domestic use.   It will solder tin, brass
 or iron;  and with  this  solder and fluid you can
 easily  mend your  broken jewelry  &c, Avithout
 taking it  to  the shop,  which is sometimes very
 inconvenient.

  A  Silver Plating fluid is made by dissolving a
 little quick silver—say the size of a buck shot—
 in half an ounce of nitric  acid and  water mixed.
 This applied, with a soft mop, will give copper
 or brass the  appearance  of  silver, but will not
last a great while. 
CONTENTS.
Apoplexy,
Asthma,
Bleeding from the nose,
Brow Ague,
Bleeding from the Lungs,
Bronchitis,
Burns and Scalds,
Broncho cele,
Boils,
Broken bones,
Blackberry Brandy,
Black Ink,
Blue Ink,
Best Red Ink,
Cholera Infantum,
Constipation,
Consumption,
Chicken Pox,
Corns on Toes,
Colic,
Croup,
Carbuncles,
Consumption of Bowels,
Catarrh or Colds,
Cancer,
Comp. Powders,
Classes of Medicine,
Chinese Cement,
 Cheap Paint,
Diarrhoea,
 Dyspepsia, 
             CONTENTS—Continued.
                                           Page.
Dropsy,                                        41
Diphtheria,                                     64
Deafness,                                      145
Dislocation of Bones,                           158
Earache,                                       74
Erysipelas,                                     7s
Elongation of the Uvala,                         97
Explanation of Medical terms,                   20G
Eye Water,                                    233
Erasive Soap,                                 24i
Fevers,                                         °
  "     Intermittent,                             7
  "     Typhoid,                                9
  "     Typhus,                                1°
        Scarlet,                                n
Flux,                                          37
Felons,                                   235—139
Fits,                                          143
Friction Soap,                                 241
Freckles,                                      120
Gall Stones,                                   1°3
Gravel,                                       155
Glazed Whitewash,                            234
Gold and Silver Counterfeit Detector,            237
Hiccough,                                      I4
Headache,                                     23
Heartburn,
                                               QQ
Hip Disease,                                   va
Hair Dressing,                                 233
Horse  Tamer's Secret,                          237
Impetigo,                                      00 
CONTENTS—Continued.
	Page.
Itch,	75
Intussusception of.Bowels,	121
Inflammation of Bladder,	147
Indelible Ink,	239
Incontinence of Urine,	153
Jaundice,	71
Liver Disease,	122
Lilly Balm,	23 2
Liquid Glue,	234
Measles,	12
Mixtures,	195
Mumps,	13
Mad Dog Bite,	112
Neuralgia,	68
Nettle Rash,	118
Nursing the Sick,	177
Ointments,	192
Ointment for Chapped hands,	193—239)
Oil for Harness,	239
Oil Paste Blacking,	242
Palpitation of Heart,	28
Pneumonia, ^	52
Pleurisy,	55
Piles,	85
Properties of Barks, &c,	180
Preserve Skins with hair on,	232
Peppermint Cordial,	233
Pickle for Beef,	233
Quinsy,	95,
Rheumatism. Acute,	55
" Chronic,	59
Roseola,	63
Retention of Urine,	15Q
 
CONTENTS—Continued.
	Page.
Rupture,	170
Ready Relief,	238
Remove Stains,	239
Syrups,	191
Scrofula,	80
Shingles (Sprains 168,)	88
Snake Bites,	105
Spider Bites,	110
Snuff and its Effects,	196
Success depends on,	205
Silver and Gold plating,	240
S oldering,	243
Sore Legs,	93
Sore Mouth,	128
Silver Plating Fluid,	243
Saint Vitus Dance,	133
Tetter,	87
Toothache,	141
Tinctures,	187
Table of Medicines and Doses,	22S
Thrush,	130
Tooth Powders,	232
To Cure^Butter to Keep Tavo Years,	236
To Take out Grease Spots,	236
To Case Harden Iron,	234
To Bronze Iron Casting,	237
Universal Liniment for Burns,	232
Vertigo,	29
Visiting the Sick,	171
Vinegar,	239
Warts,	135—41
Whooping Cough,	73 76
Worms,	
White Swelling,	99
 
            HEALTH HINTS.
  People  Avho  have lung diseases should wear a
flannel pad between  their  shoulders  and keep
their breast and feet well protected from cold and
dampness.

  You should  never  bake your back to fire, bu^
merely warm it.

  You should  always go  to  bed with dry and
warm feet and dry clothes.

  Never  sleep  in damp beds, summer or winter;
and a mattress is better than feathers.

  You should  always keep your house well ven-
tillated, but not sleep in a current of air, especial-
ly Avhen you are heated.

  Never  run to  keep from getting wet, for you
then get hot and often wet,  too.   It will not hurt
you if you are cool,  but if you are hot it may cost
you your life.

  Keep your feet warm and your head cool.
  Tire places are much more healthy than stoves.
A stove may keep your body warm, but not  your
feet.  If you  use a stove you should keep Avater
on it.
  School houses  should be well ventillated and
would be better heated by fire-places than stoves.
You are not so apt to take cold. 
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  Cold water at the table is better than hot coffee.
Cold bread and milk is much more healthy than
hot bread and coffee.

  You should  not eat any more if you are hun-
gry than if you were not hungry.

  You should  never go  to bed in less than an
hour after you eat supper.

  You should, by all means, avoid drinking much
cold Avater  while  your blood is hot, nor should
you  plunge your  head,  hands or  body in cold
water while you are hot.

  Children  should  never sleep with old folks or
they will soon become pale and sickly.

  Never  suffer your daughters to lace themselves
or use snuff,  and they will be a thousand times
better off, and look ten  times better.

  Neither children nor grown people should ever
chew rosin or gum—or tobacco.

  Never  take medicine  unless you need it; then
be sure to take only what you do need.

  Medicine that  you  do not  need  will do you
harm,
THE END. 
2oO
                  NOTICE.
   Having been strongly solicited by many of my
patients and  friends to Avrite a little book on the
prevention,  cure and treatment of Female Dis-
eases.   I  have consented  to  do so, and aim to
have the treatise out by the 1st of July, 1888.
   Having  made  a  specialty  of that branch of
practice for  the last  ten years, I feel confident
that my book on that subject  will pay the reader
ten-fold for price and trouble.
   I Avill  cheerfully correspond Avith any lady on
the subject of health; and no lady need feel the
least hesitancy in writing to  me,  as all  communi-
cations of a private nature are held in strict  con-
fidence, so she  need not fear I will disclose any
thing that it is needful for me to know  in  order
to prescribe  for  her.  All. letters of this kind
containing five  cents  in  stamps will receive due
notice and reply.
   The  above  book  will  be bound in pamphlet
form  and  will be sent by mail on receipt of fifty
cents, after the 1st of July, 1888.
   Hoping that it may prove a blessing of  incom-
prehensible value to  thousands of our afflicted
wives and daughters,   I am yours truly,
                       W.  G.  HAMILTON,
                               Salem, N. C. 
     PUBLISHER'S TESTIMONIAL.
   I am aAvare that it is quite common for people
to give recommendations, testimonials &c,  Avith-
out giving them much  thought,  or I am afraid,
much care.   This is all Avrong, and causes a great
deal of trouble.  Again people may, and do, give
these for the sake of gain or profit; this,  too, is
wrong,  and  no man Avho  does it is Avortby of
confidence.  For neither of the above reasons, but
for the  reason  that I think it in every way de-
serves  patronage do I  recommend this book to
public favor, believing that it will prove a bless-
ing to thousands.
  KnoAving,  personally,  the Author as I do, and
believing him to be a conscientiously, true Chris-
tian gentleman, I look upon his Avork as  border-
ing on philanthropy, and  feel all the more like it
was not only a pleasure,  but a duty,  also, to
recommend this Avork to public  favor,
                        Respectfully,
                         W.  C.  PHILLIPS. 
 
 
 
 
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