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Categories: TermsPlants of the genus Achillea, especially A. millefolium, native to
Eurasia. Also called achillea, milfoil.
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WHOOPING-COUGH. (Pertussis)
Belladonna 2X or 3X dil. Ten drops in a glass half full of water and two teaspoonfuls given every one to three hours for sudden tight, violent cough, with sore throat, headache and nose bleed. Cuprum Met. 3X trit. (tablet form). One to two tablets ev... Whortleberry
Two deciduous shrubs, Vaccinium myrtillus, of Eurasia, or V. corymbosum, of eastern North America, having edible blackish berries. ... Why Vaccinate
Because vaccination is a preventive of all forms of smallpox, and because by traveling, or by travelers, by articles received in the mail or from the stores or shops, or other various ways anyone at any time, may, without knowing it, be exposed to small... WINE OF ANTIMONY. Symptoms
Metallic taste, violent vomiting, becoming bloody, feeble pulse; pain and burning in the stomach. Violent watery purging, becoming bloody; cramps in the extremities, thirst, great weakness; sometimes prostration, collapse, unconsciousness. Antidotes.... With what should one be Vaccinated
Because the potency of virus depends largely upon its being fresh, and it is so easy to obtain pure and fresh bovine virus, and because such bovine virus is efficient it is better in all cases to use only the pure and fresh bovine virus. ... WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT
Our busy life, our manner of dress, with all its attending demands are causing havoc with the health of women who are under its terrible strain. The number of women undergoing operations in our public and private hospitals from day to day bears witn... WOMB HEADACHE
Women who suffer from womb troubles such as leucorrhea, torn cervix, falling womb displacements and diseases of the inner womb, ovaries and tubes, suffer from all kinds of headache. The pain may be in the nape of the neck, the back part of the head and ... Wontedness
Being accustomed. ... WORMS
Tincture of Cina from one-tenth drop to two drops four times a day for pin (seat) (thread worms) and round worms. SymptomsBoring of the nose, livid, semi-circle under the eyes, restless sleep, cross, etc. ... WRINKLED HANDS
Wrinkled hands belong to age, and are due to loss of oil in the skin. After washing and wiping them, rub with a little cold cream or olive oil. Rub well into the skin. At night, use the cream or oil freely and put on a pair of old gloves. Camphor is ... WRINKLES
It is a great deal easier to prevent wrinkles than it is to get rid of them after one has acquired them. A little study of women's faces will show how wrinkles, that no amount of massage will obliterate, are being made. They make perpendicular wrinkles ... WRITERS' CRAMP. Causes
This occurs much oftener in men than in women, and usually between the ages of twenty-five and forty. The predisposing causes are a nervous constitution, heredity, alcoholism, worry, etc. The chief exciting cause,--excessive writing, especially when it ... Yarrow
Plants of the genus Achillea, especially A. millefolium, native to Eurasia. Also called achillea, milfoil. ... YELLOW FEVER
Yellow fever is an acute infectious disease characterized by jaundice, hemorrhages, albuminuria (albumin in the urine). Cause. It is common in the West Indies and epidemic in nearby countries. It is most common in crowded, dirty, poorly drained portio... YELLOW FEVER
Tincture Camphor drop doses every hour followed by Belladonna and Arsenicum. ... Yellow Fever (yellow Jack)
Infectious tropical disease caused by an arbovirus transmitted by mosquitoes of the genera Aedes, especially A. aegypti, and Haemagogus; it causes high fever, jaundice, and gastrointestinal hemorrhaging. ... Yerba Reuma
A low California undershrub (Frankenia grandifolia). ... Zingiber
Tropical Asiatic and Polynesian perennial plants: ginger. ...