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Cholera Morbus
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Acute gastroenteritis occurring in summer and autumn exhibiting severe
cramps, diarrhea, and vomiting. No longer in scientific use.
CHOLERA INFANTUM, Symptoms
CHOLERA MORBUS
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CHILBLAINS. (Erythema Pernio)
This occurs usually in people with a feeble circulation or scrofulous constitution, usually seen in the young or very old. The redness shows most, as a rule, on the hands and feet. The redness may be either a light or dusky shade. It itches and burns e...
Child birth
Pelvic diseases frequently come from injuries received during labor. ...
CHILDREN'S TEETH
On no account let a child's second teeth come in crowded, irregular or projecting. A good dentist can remedy all these malformations and though it may be troublesome at the time, the child, when grown, will blame you for not having relieved him of them....
CHLORAL HABIT. Symptoms
After a slight primary exhilaration there is depression of the mind and body; skin eruptions, bad breath, spongy gums, poor appetite, indigestion, bad nutrition, permanent dilation of the cutaneous (skin) blood vessels, intermittent pulse, blunting of t...
Chloral Hydrate
Colorless crystalline compound, CCl3CH(OH)2, used as a sedative and hypnotic. ...
CHLORAL. Symptoms
Deep sleep, livid look, pulse weak, breathing slow, pupils contracted during sleep, but dilated when awake, temperature low. Antidotes. Permanganate of potash, four to five grains every half hour. Treatment. Emetics at first, if seen early, such as ...
Chlorosis
Iron-deficiency anemia, primarily of young women, indicated by greenish-yellow skin color. ...
CHOKING. (Foreign bodies in the larynx)
Produce vomiting. Give an emetic, warm water, melted lard, vaselin or one teaspoonful of mustard in one-half glass of warm water and drink. Tickle the throat with your finger or a feather. For a child, sometimes by taking hold of the feet with the head...
CHOLERA ASIATIC
Aconite first stage. Tincture Camphor in drop doses second stage every fifteen minutesFollow with Arsenicum, Veratrum alb. Carbo veg. 3X trit. (tablet form) third stage. ...
Cholera Infantum
Acute non-contagious intestinal disturbance of infants formerly common in congested areas with high humidity and temperature. ...
Cholera Infantum, Chickweed For
"Chickweed boiled and sweetened in milk. This cured my daughter when an infant. This recipe has been used by me and my mother and proved effectual." The above remedy is an inexpensive one and easily prepared. It will be found excellent for this trouble....
CHOLERA INFANTUM, Symptoms
Usually begins with a diarrhea, which is often so mild as to attract but little attention, but should be a warning. If a weakly baby has a diarrhea which persists, or is foul smelling and especially if there is a marked loss of flesh and dullness of min...
Cholera Morbus
Acute gastroenteritis occurring in summer and autumn exhibiting severe cramps, diarrhea, and vomiting. No longer in scientific use. ...
CHOLERA MORBUS
The onset is usually sudden with nausea, vomiting, and cramp-like bowel pains; vomits at first the stomach contents. Purging follows; vomiting and purging with severe cramps in abdomen and legs. ...
CHOLERA MORBUS
Arsenicum alb. 3X trit. (tablet form). One to two tablets on tongue every fifteen minutes until better, when there is watery burning vomiting, with terrible thirst, great prostration. Veratrum alb. 2X dil. in water, etc. When there is vomiting with gr...
CHOLERA MORBUS (Acute Inflammation of Stomach and Upper Bowel)
This is most common in young people in late summer, after indiscretion in eating. Symptoms. Sometimes the patient feels tired, then nausea, etc. The attack though is usually sudden, with nausea, vomiting, and cramp-like pains in the abdomen. The cont...
Chorea
Nervous disorders marked by involuntary, jerky movements, especially of the arms, legs, and face. ...
Chorea
Follows scarlet fever also, especially in girls from twelve to fifteen years. Diagnosis. In most cases it is easy to distinguish from other diseases. Dermatitis, inflammation of the skin ("Itis" always means inflammation). In dermatitis the throat sy...
CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM
This results from protracted or periodic "sprees." Symptoms. The face is red, the capillaries are dilated, eyes are watery, conjunctiva is congested. There is chronic inflammation of the stomach, which is characterized by morning vomiting; there is of...
Chronic Alcoholism
This is different; withdraw the alcohol and substitute strychnine, one-thirtieth of a grain three or four times a day, nourishing food, confinement in a sanitarium if necessary. Give the bromides for the restlessness and sleeplessness. Drugging of the l...
CHRONIC BRIGHT'S DISEASE. (Chronic Parenchymatous Nephritis). Causes
Young adult life and most common in males. It may come from acute inflammation of the kidneys that was due to exposure, pregnancy, or scarlet fever, or follow excessive use of alcohol, etc. In children it usually follows acute inflammation of the kidn...
CHRONIC BRONCHITIS. Causes
People over middle age are more liable to it. It comes chiefly in winter, in changeable, cold and damp climates. It may follow repeated acute attacks. Symptoms. These are variable and are present chiefly in winter and damp weather. The cough is worse...
CHRONIC CATARRHAL INFLAMMATION OF THE MIDDLE EAR
The expression, acute inflammation of the middle ear, is rightly employed when it is applied to a case in which the underlying cause is of a temporary nature, as for example, a cold in the head, and mild attack of influenza, perhaps also in an attack o...
CHRONIC CONGESTION OF THE KIDNEYS. Causes
Diseases of other organs and obstruction to the return of the circulation in the veins. Cirrhosis of the liver causes it. The kidney is enlarged dark red, the urine is diminished, with albumin and casts and sometimes blood. Treatment. Remove the caus...