The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand

Knowledge which is conducive to self-preservation is of _primary_ importance. That great educator, profound thinker, and vigorous writer, Herbert Spencer, has pertinently said t...

breathing, and an occasional ringing cough, the child should be kept in bed, comfortably covered, but not overloaded with clothes, and the tincture or fluid extract of veratrum...

_Gentlemen_--I have taken treatment from you for several months for nervous debility, and although I am not quite fully cured as yet, I have been greatly benefited, and believe,...

The human body is continually undergoing changes, which commence with the earliest dawn of existence and end only with death. The old and worn-out materials are constantly being...

It will be our aim, throughout this book, to prescribe such remedies as are within the easy reach of all, and which may be safely employed. Many of those of the vegetable class...

By means of the nervous system, an intimate relation is maintained between mind and body, for nervous energy superintends the functions of both. The fibres of nervous matter are...

Organization implies vital energy, since there can be no organization without it. The sperm cell, as we have previously seen, exists before the initiation of the life of every i...

Every individual derives existence from a _parent_, which word literally means one who brings forth. We restrict the meaning of the term _reproduction_, ordinarily, to that func...

The remedial effects of bathing are generally underrated. This want of appreciation is more often due to the improper manner in which it is performed than to an insufficiency of...

Hitherto, we have only considered the anatomy and functions of the organs employed in Digestion, Absorption, Circulation, Respiration, Secretion and Excretion. We have found the...

"Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again, he br...

There are two essentials requisite to the successful treatment of the sick: (1.) Medical skill; (2.) Good nursing. The former is necessary in order that the condition of the pat...

A well-developed physical organization is essential to perfect health. Among the Greeks, beauty ranked next to virtue, and an eminent author has said that "the nearer we approac...

The object of hygiene is the _preservation of health_. Hitherto, we have considered, at some length, the science of functions, or _Physiology_, and now, under the head of _Hygie...

_Digestion_ signifies the act of separating or distributing, hence its application to the process by which food is made available for nutritive purposes. The organs of digestion...

The term _Secretion_, in its broadest sense, is applied to that process by which substances are separated from the blood, either for the reparation of the tissues or for excreti...

All living bodies are made up of tissues. There is no part, no organ, however soft and yielding, or hard and resisting, which has not this peculiarity of structure. The _bones_...

In this chapter we propose to consider Life in its primitive manifestations. _Biology_ is the science of living bodies, or the science of life. Every organ of a living body has...

The number, position, and perfection of the eyes, vary remarkably in different orders, in many instances corresponding to the mode of life, habitation, and food of the animal. A...

During the last half century a great change has taken place in the treatment of disease. Medicine has advanced with rapid strides, from the narrow limits of mere empiricism, to...

The structure and functions of organized bodies are subject to continual alteration. The changes of nutrition and growth, which are constantly taking place in the tissues render...

Having considered the formation of chyle, traced it through the digestive process, seen its transmission into the _vena cava_, and, finally, its conversion into blood, we shall...

Through digestion and respiration, the blood is continually supplied with material for its renewal; and, while the nutritive constituents of the food are retained to promote the...

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 fr...

1. The first step which should be taken for the prevention of disease, is to make provision for the health of the unborn child. Greater care should be exercised with women who a...

The _Muscles_ are those organs of the body by which motion is produced, and are commonly known as _flesh_. A muscle is composed of _fascieuli_, or bundles of fibers, parallel to...

THE ORGANS OF RESPIRATION are the Trachea, or windpipe, the Bronchia, formed by the subdivision of the trachea, and the Lungs, with their air-cells. The _Trachea_ is a vertical...

_Absorption_ is the vital function by which nutritive materials are selected and imbibed for the sustenance of the body. Absorption, like all other functional processes, employs...

_Blood_ is the animal fluid by which the tissues of the body are nourished. This pre-eminently vital fluid permeates every organ, distributes nutritive material to every texture...

The products resulting from the waste of the tissues are constantly being poured into the blood, and, as we have seen, the blood being everywhere full of corpuscles, which, like...