Chapter 3

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.