The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English / or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred / and Fifty Thousand
Carefully Revised by the Author, assisted by his full Staff of Associate Specialists in Medicine and Surgery, the Faculty of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1895, by the WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.
TO MY PATIENTS, WHO HAVE SOLICITED MY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, FROM THEIR HOMES IN EVERY STATE, CITY, TOWN, AND ALMOST EVERY HAMLET, WITHIN THE AMERICAN UNION; ALSO TO THOSE DWELLING IN EUROPE, MEXICO, SOUTH AMERICA, THE EAST AND WEST INDIES, AND OTHER FOREIGN LANDS, I RESPECTFULLY DEDICATE THIS WORK.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The popular favor with which former editions of this work have been received has required the production of such a vast number of copies, that the original electrotype plates from which it has heretofore been printed, have been completely worn out.
The book has been re-produced in London, England, where six editions have already been necessary to supply the demand for it.
In order to continue its publication to meet the demand which is still active in this country, it has been necessary, inasmuch as the original electrotype plates have become worn and useless, to re-set the work throughout. This has afforded the Author an opportunity to carefully revise the book and re-write many portions, that it may embody the latest discoveries and improvements in medicine and surgery. In performing this labor he has been greatly assisted by contributions and valuable aid kindly supplied by his staff of associate specialists in medicine and surgery who constitute the Faculty of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute.
Ray Vaughn Pierce
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MEDICAL ADVISER
IN PLAIN ENGLISH:
MEDICINE SIMPLIFIED.
PHYSIOLOGY.
BIOLOGY.
THE PROCESS OF GENERATION.
ALTERNATE GENERATION.
THE ORIGIN OF LIFE.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
THE BONES.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
THE MUSCLES.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
ABSORPTION.
PHYSICAL AND VITAL PROPERTIES OF THE BLOOD.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
CIRCULATORY ORGANS.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
THE ORGANS OF RESPIRATION.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY
THE SKIN.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
SECRETION.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
EXCRETION.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
THE SPECIAL SENSES.
SIGHT.
CEREBRAL PHYSIOLOGY.
REGIONAL DIVISIONS.
EMOTIVE FACULTIES.
VOLITIVE FACULTIES.
VOLITIVE FACULTIES.
ANIMAL FACULTIES.
BASILAR FACULTIES.
REGION OF FEEBLENESS.
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.
THE NATURE OF MIND.
THE HUMAN TEMPERAMENTS.
VITAL AND NON-VITAL TEMPERAMENTS.
THE TEMPERAMENTS CLASSIFIED.
THE LYMPHATIC TEMPERAMENT.
THE SANGUINE TEMPERAMENT.
THE LIFE LINE.
THE VOLITIVE TEMPERAMENT.
THE ENCEPHALIC TEMPERAMENT.
TRANSMISSION OF LIFE.
MARRIAGE.
LOVE.
REPRODUCTION.
HERMAPHRODITIC REPRODUCTION.
DIOECIOUS REPRODUCTION.
OVULATION.
MENSTRUATION.
FECUNDATION.
PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION.
DOUBLE CONCEPTION.
UTERINE PREGNANCY.
THE PLACENTA OR AFTERBIRTH.
THE UMBILICAL CORD.
QUICKENING.
THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE PREGNANCY.
THE SIGNS OF PREGNANCY.
THE DURATION OF PREGNANCY.
HYGIENE.
HYGIENE DEFINED.—PURE AIR.
PURE AIR FOR RESPIRATION.
SITE FOR HOMES.
DAMP CELLARS.
DUST AND DISEASE.
COTTON-WOOL RESPIRATOR.
LIGHT AND HEALTH.
FOOD. BEVERAGES. ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS. CLOTHING.
BEVERAGES.
ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
THE CLOTHING.
PHYSICAL EXERCISE. MENTAL CULTURE. SLEEP. CLEANLINESS.
CYCLING.
MENTAL CULTURE.
SLEEP.
CLEANLINESS.
HYGIENE OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS.
PRACTICAL SUMMARY OF HYGIENE.
RATIONAL MEDICINE.
THE PROGRESS OF MEDICINE.
THE ALLOPATHIC, REGULAR, OR OLD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.
HOMOEOPATHY.
THE ECLECTIC SCHOOL.
THE LIBERAL AND INDEPENDENT PHYSICIAN.
REMEDIES FOR DISEASE.
PROPRIETARY MEDICINES.
PROPERTIES OF MEDICINE.
ALTERATIVES.
THE COMPOUNDING OF ALTERATIVES.
ALKALIES.
ACIDS.
ANODYNES.
ANTHELMINTICS.
ANTIPERIODICS.
ANTISEPTICS AND DISINFECTANTS.
ANTISPASMODICS.
ASTRINGENTS.
CARMINATIVES.
CATHARTICS.
DIRECTIONS FOR USING DR. PIERCE'S PLEASANT PELLETS.
CAUSTICS.
COUNTER-IRRITANTS.
DIAPHORETICS.
DILUENTS.
DIURETICS.
EMETICS.
EMMENAGOGUES.
EXPECTORANTS.
LINIMENTS.
NARCOTICS.
NERVINES.
SEDATIVES.
STIMULANTS.
TONICS.
BATHS AND MOTION AS REMEDIAL AGENTS.
MOTION IS A REMEDIAL AGENT.
HYGIENIC TREATMENT OF THE SICK.
DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIAL TREATMENT.
INTRODUCTION.
MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS.
INTERPRETATION OF SYMPTOMS.
INFLAMMATION.
SEVERAL PRINCIPLES FOR TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATION.
FEVER.
FEVER AND AGUE. (INTERMITTENT FEVER.)
REMITTENT FEVER. (BILIOUS FEVER.)
CONGESTIVE FEVER. (PERNICIOUS FEVER.)
CONTINUED FEVERS.
TYPHOID FEVER. (ENTERIC FEVER.)
SCARLET FEVER. (SCARLATINA.)
SMALL-POX. (VARIOLA.)
VARIOLOID. (MODIFIED SMALL-POX.)
VACCINIA. (COW-POX.)
CHICKEN-POX. (VARICELLA.)
MEASLES. (RUBEOLA.)
ERYSIPELAS.
DIPHTHERIA.
QUINSY. (TONSILLITIS.)
ENLARGED TONSILS.
ECZEMATOUS AFFECTIONS.
BULLOUS AFFECTIONS.
NERVOUS AFFECTIONS OF THE SKIN.
ALPHOUS AFFECTIONS.
AFFECTIONS OF THE HAIR-FOLLICLES.
FURUNCULAR AFFECTIONS.
CARBUNCLE. (ANTHRAX.)
HIP-JOINT DISEASE.
WHITE SWELLING
RICKETS. (RACHITIS.)
OLD SORES. (CHRONIC ULCERS.)
FEVER-SORE. (NECROSIS.)
TESTIMONIALS.
ERYSIPELAS.
HIP-JOINT DISEASE.
THICK NECK (GOITRE),
ACUTE NASAL CATARRH.
CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH.
ENLARGED TONSILS.
CHRONIC LARYNGITIS.
CONSUMPTION.
CHRONIC BRONCHITIS.
ASTHMA.
TESTIMONIALS.
CONSUMPTION.
CONSUMPTION.
CONSUMPTION.
CONSUMPTION.
CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH.
CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH.
CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH.
NERVOUS DEBILITY AND CATARRH.
NERVOUS DEBILITY AND CATARRH.
COMPLICATION OF DISEASES.
NERVOUS PROSTRATION FOLLOWING GRIP.
DISEASES OF THE HEART.
DYSPEPSIA.
TESTIMONIALS.
DYSPEPSIA.
DYSPEPSIA.
COMPLICATION OF DISEASES.
DYSPEPSIA.
HEADACHE AND CONSTIPATION.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
HERNIA AND PILES CURED WITHOUT PAIN.
HEADACHE.
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
NERVOUS DEBILITY
OR EXHAUSTION.
HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA.
NEURALGIA.
PARALYSIS OR PALSY;
LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA AND KINDRED AFFECTIONS.
RECAPITULATION.
EPILEPSY ("FITS").
CHOREA (ST. VITUS'S DANCE).
TESTIMONIALS.
NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
NERVOUS DEBILITY—RESULT OF INDISCRETION.
NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY.
NERVOUS AND UTERINE DISEASE.
NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY.
NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY.
IRRITABILITY AND EXHAUSTION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, RHEUMATISM AND HEART DISEASE.
NERVOUSNESS, "FEMALE WEAKNESS," NASAL CATARRH.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
NERVOUS DEBILITY. SPECIAL TREATMENT.
NERVOUS PROSTRATION.
GENERAL AND NERVOUS DEBILITY.
NERVOUS DEBILITY AND VARICOCELE.
NERVOUS DEBILITY AND VARICOCELE.
NERVOUS DEBILITY. INDIGESTION.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
NERVOUS DEBILITY, DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION.
NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
GENERAL AND NERVOUS DEBILITY.
NERVOUS DEBILITY AND CATARRH.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
NERVOUS PROSTRATION; RHEUMATISM; CONSTIPATION.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
NERVOUS PROSTRATION.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
NERVOUS DEBILITY AND CATARRH.
"A NERVOUS WRECK."
NERVOUS DEBILITY,
GENERAL DEBILITY
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
NERVOUS DEBILITY
NERVOUS DEBILITY, DYSPEPSIA, AND OTHER COMPLICATIONS.
NERVOUS PROSTRATION.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
HERNIA—LEFT INGUINAL—PRESENT EIGHT YEARS WITH NERVOUS PROSTRATION.
THICK NECK (GOITRE),
NERVOUS DEBILITY,
"LIFE MISERABLE AT TIMES."
NERVOUS AND GENERAL PROSTRATION.
NERVOUSNESS, CATARRH, AND INDIGESTION.
LOSS OF FLESH AND STRENGTH.
NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.
NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.
NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.
NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.
NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.
NERVOUS PROSTRATION, SLEEPLESSNESS, DYSPEPSIA, AND RHEUMATISM.
NERVOUS PROSTRATION.
BAD CASE OF UTERINE DISEASE AND NERVOUS PROSTRATION,
NERVOUS PROSTRATION FOLLOWING GRIP.
NERVOUS PROSTRATION COMPLICATED WITH KIDNEY AND BLADDER DISEASE.
NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.
NERVOUS AND GENERAL PROSTRATION.
NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.
NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.
KIND WORDS.
SICK HEADACHE, GENERAL DEBILITY, MALARIA.
HEADACHE.
HEADACHE AND CONSTIPATION.
TERRIBLE PAIN IN HEAD AND FAINTING SPELLS.
SICK HEADACHE, BOILS.
SICK HEADACHE.
OBSTINATE NEURALGIA.
PARALYSIS AND UTERINE DISEASE.
PARTIAL PARALYSIS FROM UTERINE DISEASE.
LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA. SPECIAL TREATMENT.
PARALYSIS, NERVOUS PROSTRATION, ETC.
EPILEPTIC "FITS."
EPILEPSY.
SPASMS OR FITS.
EPILEPSY, "FITS."
ST. VITUS'S DANCE.
EPILEPSY.
A STRONG ENDORSEMENT.
COMPLICATION OF DISEASES.
ABORTION. (MISCARRIAGE.)
WOMAN AND HER DISEASES.
DYSMENORRHEA.
MENORRHAGIA.
THE TURN OF LIFE.
LEUCORRHEA.
STERILITY.
ULCERATION OF THE UTERUS.
URINARY FISTULA.
DISORDERS INCIDENT TO PREGNANCY.
OVARIAN AND UTERINE TUMORS.
TESTIMONIALS.
PARALYSIS AND UTERINE DISEASE.
NERVOUS AND GENERAL PROSTRATION.
NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY.
COMPLICATION OF DISEASES.
CONSUMPTION.
ST. VITUS'S DANCE.
THICK NECK (GOITRE),
PARTIAL PARALYSIS FROM UTERINE DISEASE.
LEUCORRHEA.
NERVOUSNESS, "FEMALE WEAKNESS," NASAL CATARRH.
SPERMATORRHEA
TESTIMONIALS
VARICOCELE;
A STRONG ENDORSEMENT.
HYDROCELE,
OR DROPSY OF THE SCROTUM.
THE URINARY ORGANS:
THEIR ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY.
KIDNEY DISEASE.
BRIGHT'S DISEASE.
STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA.
TESTIMONIALS.
DOUBLE VARICOCELE AND STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA.
RUPTURE.
(BREACH OR HERNIA.)
TESTIMONIALS.
A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER
A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER'S
RUPTURE FROM BOYHOOD.
HERNIA—LEFT INGUINAL—PRESENT EIGHT YEARS WITH NERVOUS PROSTRATION.
HERNIA. CURED SEVERE PAIN.
"SOUND AS A DOLLAR."
RUPTURE, DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, AND KIDNEY DISEASE.
RUPTURE.
HERNIA AND PILES CURED WITHOUT PAIN.
HERNIA OR RUPTURE.
DOUBLE RUPTURE.
RUPTURE.
STRANGULATED RUPTURE OR BREACH
HERNIA OR RUPTURE
IRREDUCIBLE HERNIA.
COMPLICATION OF DISEASES.
HERNIA OR RUPTURE OF 11 YEARS' STANDING.
RUPTURE,
FEMORAL HERNIA.
"A LIVING DEATH FOR YEARS."
CROUP, MEMBRANOUS AND SPASMODIC.
POSTERIOR SPINAL CURVATURE.
LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE.
MECHANICAL AIDS
CHRONIC DISEASES.
THE CURE OF SWELLINGS AND TUMORS.
COUNTER-IRRITATION AND REVULSION.
CURE OF NEURALGIA.
CURE OF PARALYSIS.
CURE OF DEFORMITIES.
DISEASES OF WOMEN.
RECAPITULATION.
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Incorporated under Statute Enacted by the Legislature of New York.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.
INVALIDS' HOTEL
A FULL STAFF OF EIGHTEEN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
TREATMENT OF ALL CHRONIC DISEASES.
FOURTH FLOOR.
WORLD'S DISPENSARY.
THE BASEMENT.
MACHINERY.
MAIN FLOOR.
THIRD FLOOR.
FOURTH FLOOR.
FIFTH FLOOR.
SIXTH FLOOR.
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.
THE
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute
A REMEDIAL HOME.
TREATING PATIENTS AT THEIR HOMES,
DISEASE HAS CERTAIN UNMISTAKABLE SIGNS,
CLIMATE.
EXTREME HEALTHFULNESS OF BUFFALO.
EVIDENCE OF HEALTH STATISTICS.
BUFFALO OUTRANKS ALL IN HEALTHFULNESS.
FACTS OF SCIENCE.
EQUABILITY OF CLIMATE.
ADVANTAGES OF LOCATION.
A GENUINE HOME.
OUR TERMS MODERATE.
FACILITIES FOR TREATMENT.
DIVISION OF LABOR.
ADVANTAGES OF SPECIALTIES.
PROGRESS IN MEDICINE.
ADVANTAGES OFFERED TO INVALIDS.
A FAIR AND BUSINESS-LIKE OFFER TO THE AFFLICTED.
SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT
CHRONIC OR LINGERING DISEASES.
DIVISION OF LABOR.
ADVANTAGES OF SPECIALTIES.
ADVERTISING.
TREATING PATIENTS WHO RESIDE AT A DISTANCE.
URINARY SIGNS.
INVALUABLE AIDS IN DETERMINING DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS AND BLADDER.
THE MOST EMINENT MEDICAL AUTHORITIES ENDORSE IT.
CONSULTATIONS BY LETTER.
FREE CONSULTATION.
CHARGES MUST BE PREPAID.
RELIABLE MEDICINES.
OUR TERMS FOR TREATMENT
WHY OUR FEES ARE REQUIRED IN ADVANCE.
TERMS FOR BOARD AND TREATMENT AT THE INVALIDS' HOTEL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE
SPECIAL ADVICE.
VISITING PATIENTS WHO RESIDE AT A DISTANCE.
TO PHYSICIANS
OUR MEDICINES
NO RELATIONSHIP WITH HUMBUGS.
NOT CONFINED IN PRESCRIBING
OUR MEDICINES PREPARED WITH THE GREATEST CARE.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD'S
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute
VOCABULARY
OF THE
COMMON SENSE MEDICAL ADVISER,
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