New York
The Review of Reviews Company
1907

Copyright, 1907, by

The Review of Reviews Company

THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK

Contents

PART I

CHAPTER PAGE
I.The Eye and Ear[13]
Foreign Bodies in the Eye—Black Eye—Twitching of the Eyelids—Wounds and Burns—Congestion—Conjunctivitis—"Pink Eye"—Strain—Astigmatism—Deafness—Foreign Bodies in the Ear—Earache—Simple Remedies.
II.The Nose and Throat[51]
Nosebleed—Foreign Bodies in the Nose—Cold in the Head—Toothache—Mouth-Breathing—Sore Mouth—Pharyngitis—How to Treat Tonsilitis—Quinsy—Diphtheria—Croup—Laryngitis.
III.The Lungs and Bronchial Tubes[87]
Acute and Chronic Bronchitis—Coughs in Children—Liniments and Poultices—Cough Mixtures—Treatment of Pneumonia—Consumption—Asthma—Influenza, its Symptoms and Cure.
IV.Headaches[113]
Causes of Sick Headache—Symptoms and Treatment—Headaches Caused by Indigestion—Organic Disease a Frequent Source—Nervous and Neuralgic Headaches—Effect of Poison—Heat-Stroke.

PART II

CHAPTER PAGE
I.Growths and Enlargements[123]
Cancers—Fatty Tumors—Use of Patent Preparations Dangerous—Symptoms and Cure of Rupture—The Best Kind of Truss—Varicose Veins—Varicocele—External and Internal Piles—Operations the Most Certain Cure.
II.Skin Diseases and Related Disorders[139]
Itching, Chafing, and Chapping—Treatment of Hives—Nettlerash—Pimples—Fever Blisters—Prickly Heat—Cause of Ringworm—Freckles and Other Skin Discolorations—Ivy Poison—Warts and Corns—Boils—Carbuncles.
III.Rheumatism and Kindred Diseases[169]
Inflammatory Rheumatism—Symptoms and Treatment—Muscular Rheumatism—Lumbago—Stiff Neck—Rheumatism of the Chest—Chronic Rheumatism—Rheumatic Gout—Scurvy in Adults and Infants—Gout, its Causes and Remedies.