The Home medical library v. 2, 1910, Volume 2Review of Reviews Company, 1907 |
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... bathing the eyelid for fifteen min- utes at a time , every hour , with a hot solution of boric acid ( half a teaspoonful to the cup of water ) . Then at night the swelling should be painted with collodion , several coats , being careful ...
... bathing the eyelid for fifteen min- utes at a time , every hour , with a hot solution of boric acid ( half a teaspoonful to the cup of water ) . Then at night the swelling should be painted with collodion , several coats , being careful ...
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... bathing also endangers the ear , as cold water is forcibly driven not only into the external auditory canal , but , what is more frequently a source of damage , into the Eustachian tubes through the me- dium of the nose or throat . In ...
... bathing also endangers the ear , as cold water is forcibly driven not only into the external auditory canal , but , what is more frequently a source of damage , into the Eustachian tubes through the me- dium of the nose or throat . In ...
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... baths is an effective preventive . There is no sufficient reason for dressing more warmly in a heated house in winter than one would dress in summer . It is , moreover , unwise to cover the chest more heavily than the rest of the body ...
... baths is an effective preventive . There is no sufficient reason for dressing more warmly in a heated house in winter than one would dress in summer . It is , moreover , unwise to cover the chest more heavily than the rest of the body ...
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... bath and a glass of hot lemonade containing a tablespoonful or two of whisky , is the most valu- able treatment . The Turkish bath is also very effica- cious in cutting short colds , but involves great risk of increasing the trouble ...
... bath and a glass of hot lemonade containing a tablespoonful or two of whisky , is the most valu- able treatment . The Turkish bath is also very effica- cious in cutting short colds , but involves great risk of increasing the trouble ...
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... bath , and keep them in bed . If there is fever with the cold , five drops of sweet spirit of niter may be given in a teaspoonful of sweetened water every two hours . Liquid vaseline , or the alboline mixture advised for adults , may be ...
... bath , and keep them in bed . If there is fever with the cold , five drops of sweet spirit of niter may be given in a teaspoonful of sweetened water every two hours . Liquid vaseline , or the alboline mixture advised for adults , may be ...
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acute adenoids adults alcohol appear applied astigmatism attack bath become bladder bleeding blood body boil boric acid bowels brain breathing Bright's disease bronchitis calomel canal cancer catarrh cause chest child chronic cloth cold common commonly consumption cotton cough cure deafness diet diphtheria discharge disorder doses drops drugs eczema enlarged eruption Eustachian tubes eye-strain eyeball fever frequently germs glands gonorrhea gout grains grippe headache Hospital hot water inflammation insane irritation itching joints lens lids middle ear milk mouth mucous membrane muscles nasal neck nervous night nose nostrils obstruction occur ointment ounce pain passage patent medicines patient persons physician pneumonia poison poultice Quinsy relieved remedies removed result rheumatism ringworm rupture sexual organs skin solution sometimes sore throat surface swelling symptoms syphilis syrup of ipecac teaspoonful theria three times daily tion tonsils tooth treatment trouble tumors urine usually vomiting
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Page 250 - Formulary official at the time of investigation: Provided, That no drug defined in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary shall be deemed to be adulterated under this provision if the standard of strength, quality, or purity be plainly stated upon the bottle, box, or other container thereof, although the standard may differ from that determined by the test laid down in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary. Second. If its strength or purity fall below the professed...
Page 250 - Provided, That no drug defined in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary shall be deemed to be adulterated under this provision if the standard of strength, quality, or purity be plainly stated upon the bottle, box, or other container thereof although the standard...
Page 250 - If the contents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part, and other contents shall have been placed in such package...
Page 259 - Tuberculosis and the Committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the Charity Organization Society of The City of New York, at the Museum of Natural History, from November 27 to December 9, 1905.
Page 250 - If, when a drug is sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary, it differs from the standard of strength, quality, or purity, as determined by the test laid down in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary...
Page 249 - Second. — No matter what your confidence in the medicine, or how highly recommended it is, consult a physician before using very much of it. Third. — Take no medicine internally without a physician's advice. Throughout this chapter the word " patent medicine " will be used in its widely accepted form, in the everyday sense, without regard to its legal definition, and will be held to include any of the above-mentioned classes, unless a direct statement is made to the contrary. In Germany the contents...
Page 128 - Rupture is three times more frequent in men than in women, and is favored by severe muscular work, fatness, chronic coughing, constipation, diarrhea, sudden strain, or blows on the abdomen.
Page 149 - On the body, ringworm attacks the face, neck, and hands. It appears first as small, red, scaly spots which may spread into a circular patch as large as a dollar with a red ring of small, scaly pimples on the outside, while the center exhibits healthy skin, or sometimes is red and thickened.
Page 152 - Soon little blisters form, and scratching breaks them open so that the parts are moist and then become covered with crusts. The poison is conveyed by the hands to the face and, in men, to the sexual organs, so that these parts soon partake of the same trouble.
Page 146 - An ointment consisting of half a dram of precipitated sulphur with half an ounce each of powdered starch and vaseline applied each night, and hot water used on the face three times daily are also efficacious.