CAMPHOR
Categories: Medical Uses of Some Common Household ArticlesThis is distilled from the wood and bark of the camphor tree,
cinnamomum camphora, which grows chiefly in China and Japan. It should be
kept in closed bottles.
Uses. It is good for cold in the head in the early stages. It may be
snuffed up the nostrils in fine powder, or put in boiling water and the
fumes inhaled. It is good used as a liniment in neuralgia, stiff neck,
rheumatism and for boils and sores. Used in the form of camphor ice it is
very good for sores, cuts, boils, etc. It is often of use to smell when
one feels faint. It is one of the ingredients in many liniments. Its
external use as spirits of camphor is extensive.
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Bunions, Pulverized Salt Petre for
"Five cents worth of pulverized saltpeter put into a bottle with sufficient olive oil to nearly dissolve it. Shake well and apply to parts night and morning." ... Burdock
Weedy, chiefly biennial plants of the genus Arctium. ... BURNS AND SCALDS
Raw Linseed Oil 3 ounces Lime Water 3 ounces Acidi Carbolici 15 drops This preparation for burns is used in all hospitals and is prescribed every day by the best physicians in the United States. The above amount ... Burns from Acid
Soda, chalk, whiting, sprinkled over the surface of the skin and covered with moist coverings of gauze. Egg albumen is also good applied, on the part. ... Burns or Scalds, Grated Onions for
"Grate onions and mix two parts pulp with one part salt; apply twice or three times a day, changing as soon as onions are wilted." The onions are very soothing and keep the air from the affected parts. ... Burns, an Easily Prepared Remedy for
"Spread pure lard, or any unsalted grease over burned surface: cover thickly with flour and wrap with soft cloth after pain has ceased. Remove the flour and spread again with lard or vaselin. Sprinkle over with boracic acid powder and wrap up." This is ... Burns, Charcoal for
"Powered charcoal put on thick. This gives quick relief," It is an antiseptic poultice and keeps air from burned surface. ... Burns, Lime Water and Sweet Oil for
"Put unslaked lime about the size of a hen's egg in three pints of water and strain; add one cup of sweet oil, shake and keep burn moist. Will heal without scar or scab." This is highly recommended by physicians. ... BURNS. SCALDS
A Burn is caused by dry heat. A Scald is caused by moist heat. A superficial burn, upon a young child, that involves the third of the body will almost certainly prove fatal, while a very deep burn, provided it is localized, may not be so seriou... By whom should one be Vaccinated
The operation of vaccination should be performed always by a competent and responsible physician. To try to vaccinate one's self or one's family is poor economy, for it often results not only in a waste of money and of time, but in a false and dangerous... Cachexia
Weight loss, wasting of muscle, loss of appetite, and general debility during a chronic disease. ... Cajeput (paperbark)
Australian and southeast Asian tree (Melaleuca quinquenervia, M. leucadendron) of the myrtle family (Myrtaceae); yields a pungent medicinal oil; grown in Florida. ... Calamine
White or colorless mineral, essentially Zn4Si2O7(OH)2.H2O (hemimorphite). Pink, odorless, tasteless powder of zinc oxide with a small amount of ferric oxide, dissolved in mineral oils and used in skin lotions. ... Calcareous
Composed of calcium carbonate, calcium, or limestone; chalky. cale Variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the wild form of the species; also called kail. ... CALLOSITY or Callositas
This is circumscribed yellowish-white, thickened and horny patches of one of the layers of the cuticle (epidermis). Causes--They come as the result of the occupation or pressure, and sometimes without any seeming cause. Symptoms. They occur mostly... Calomel
Colorless, white or brown tasteless compound, Hg2Cl2, used as a purgative and insecticide. Mercurous chloride. ... Cambric
Finely woven white linen or cotton fabric. ... CAMPHOR
This is distilled from the wood and bark of the camphor tree, cinnamomum camphora, which grows chiefly in China and Japan. It should be kept in closed bottles. Uses. It is good for cold in the head in the early stages. It may be snuffed up the nostri... CANCER
(In the following article on cancer we quote in part from material issued by the Public Health Department of the State of Michigan). Cancer is curable if it be operated upon in its early stages. If it be left to grow and develop, cancer is always fa... CANCER (CARCINOMA)
This is very malignant. This kind is divided into two classes, Scirrhus and Epithelial. 1. Scirrhus cancer. This is a hard, irregular growth of moderate size. Its special seat is the breast, the pyloric (smaller) end of the stomach and in few instanc... CANCER OF THE BREAST
Eighty-one per cent of an tumors of the breast are cancer or become so. Whenever a woman feels a lump in her breast, particularly if she be at the cancerous age, she should consult a skilled physician at once and keep that breast under medical observati... CANCER OF THE GALL BLADDER, AND BILE DUCTS. Causes
It usually occurs between forty and seventy years of age. The cases that originate here show no percentage in either sex; but those that appear here as secondary cancers are three times as frequent in women as in men. Chronic irritation by gall stones ... CANCER OF THE STOMACH
There is anemia and a gradual loss of weight. A peculiar color of the skin (cachexia), irregular vomiting, some bleeding of "coffee-ground" color. Progressive loss of weight. Dragging or burning in the region of the stomach. ... CANCER OF THE STOMACH
Usually occurs after the age of forty. Symptoms. Indigestion for a few months; lack of blood and loss of weight. Well marked case shows the following symptoms:--Distaste for food, nausea, irregular vomiting, especially in cases where it is located nea... CANCER OF THE STOMACH
The beginning of cancer of the stomach is very difficult to recognize and it is far safer and wiser, upon the appearance of the first suspicious symptom, to seek the aid of some physician skilled in cancer diagnosis than to ignore and neglect these earl... CANCER OF THE UTERUS
What women should know regarding it. The menopause or change of life comes on gradually, rarely suddenly. It is not preceded by excessive flowing or discharge or pain in a healthy woman. By cancer period is understood those years after forty, although... CANCER PASTE
I will tell you how I made it for the last twenty-three years. Take equal parts (by weight) of chloride of zinc, pulverized bloodroot, and wheat flour; mix well, add enough water to form a paste; spread the paste, just the size of the sore, on a rag... Cancer, Yellow Dock Root for
Scrape narrow leaf yellow dock roots and steep in cream to make a salve and apply externally. Add a little alcohol if you wish to keep it for sometime." ... CANKER SORE MOUTH. (Aphthous Stomatitis
This is a variety of inflammation of the mouth where there are one or more vesicles (cankers) upon the edges of the tongue, the cheek or the lips. Causes. They are most common in children between two and six years of age; but are not rare in adults. ... CANKER SORE MOUTH. (Aphthous Stomatitis)
This is a variety of inflammation of the mouth where there are one or more vesicles (cankers) upon the edges of the tongue, the cheek or the lips. Causes. They are most common in children between two and six years of age; but are not rare in adults. ... Cantharis (pl Cantharides) (also Called Spanish Fly)
Brilliant green blister beetle (Lytta vesicatoria or Cantharis vesicatoria) of central and southern Europe. Toxic preparation of the crushed, dried bodies of this beetle, formerly used as a counter-irritant for skin blisters and as an aphrodis... Capsicum
Topical American pepper plants, genus Capsicum, especially C. annuum and C. frutescens. ... Capsid (mirid Bug, Mirid)
Variety of leaf bug. ... Carbolic Acid (phenol)
Caustic, poisonous, white crystalline compound, C6H5OH, derived from benzene and used in resins, plastics, and pharmaceuticals and in dilute form as a disinfectant and antiseptic. ...