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Cut low at the neckline. Wearing a garment that is low-cut or strapless.
DEAFNESS
Defective Worm-like Bowel Movement
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CUTS. WOUNDS
They are named cut (incised); contused, such as made by a blunt instrument. Lacerated or torn, when the tissues are torn or ragged. Punctured, stab-wounds, when made by a pointed instrument. Treatment. There may be pain, gaping (opening) of the e...
Cystitis
Inflammation of the urinary bladder. ...
CYSTITIS (Inflammation of the Bladder)
Acute and chronic. Aconite 2X dil. One drop everyone to two hours first twenty-four hours. Cantharis 3X dil. For painful urination, and small amount; one to two drops every two hours. ...
CYSTOCELE
Cystocele is simply a tumor formed by the bladder pressing into the walls of the vagina. The bladder descends into the pelvis on account of relaxation or destruction of its normal support. The anterior wall of the vagina yields. Causes. Tear of the p...
CYSTS OF THE VULVA
A cyst is a cavity containing fluid and surrounded by a covering (capsule). The duct (canal) of the gland of Bartholin, situated in the labia majora, sometimes closes and the secretions of the gland are not cast out, thus forming the cyst. Cause. The...
Damask
Rich patterned fabric of cotton, linen, silk, or wool. Fine, twilled table linen. ...
DANDRUFF
Dandruff is the scaling off of dead cuticle. In excess, it becomes a disease, forming so thick a scale as to kill the roots of the hair and cause it to fall out. It is rightly called "itch dirt." Cleanliness therefore helps a cure. An old-fashioned r...
DANDRUFF (Seborrhoea)
The scurfs or scales (dandruff) upon the scalp are formed from seborrhoea. Definition. The word seborrboea means to flow suet or fatty fluids. Seborrhoea is a functional disorder of the sebaceous gland (fatty, suet matter) and this secretion is somew...
Deadly Night-shade (bittersweet, Bittersweet Nightshade, Climbing
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DEADLY NIGHT-SHADE. Symptoms
Flushed face, red eyes, throbbing head, pulse fast, dizzy, staggering, hot and dry throat, dilated pupils, scarlet rash on the skin. Patient may be delirious and wildly so. Antidotes. Tannic acid, twenty drops in glass of water. Emetics to produce...
DEAFNESS
This is usually the result of a disease and is merely a symptom. Diseases of the middle ear, rupture of the drum membrane, and large ulceration of this membrane cause it. Ear wax causes temporary deafness. Diseases of the throat and nose cause it very o...
Decollete
Cut low at the neckline. Wearing a garment that is low-cut or strapless. ...
Defective Worm-like Bowel Movement
Irregular habits of living head the list causing this defective action. Everyone should promptly attend to Nature's call. Some people wait until the desire for stool has all gone, and in that way the "habit" of the bowels is gradually lost. Everyone sh...
Deficiency of the Secretions
Many of the causes that hinder worm-like motion are also likely to lessen the normal secretions of the bowel. Some kinds of liver diseases tend to lessen the secretions of the bowel, because the amount of bile emptied into the bowel is lessened. Sometim...
DELAYED MENSTRUATION
This is often caused by slow development of the generative organs. The girl may not come around until seventeenth to nineteenth year. Causes. It may be due to heredity. Lack of proper nourishment and proper exercise are the most important causative f...
DELIRIUM TREMENS
This is a brain manifestation of chronic alcoholism occurring in steady drinkers after excessive drinking or sudden withdrawal of alcohol, or after sudden excitement or accident, pneumonia or other illness, or lack of food. Symptoms. There are restle...
DEMENTIA
This term literally means "from mind," out of mind, and such a person is in a state of the most deplorable mental poverty. We all have seen such cases and some cases are not only very sad but disgusting. PRIMARY DEMENTIA comes on independently of ...
Demi-monde
Class of women kept by wealthy lovers or protectors; prostitutes; group whose respectability is dubious or whose success is marginal. ...
Demulcent
Soothing, usually mucilaginous or oily substance, such as glycerin or lanolin, used to relieve pain of irritated mucous membranes. ...
DENGUE. Break-bone Fever, Dandy Fever
This is an acute infectious disease characterized by pains in the joints and muscles, fever, an initial reddish swollen eruption and a terminal eruption of variable type. It occurs in the tropical regions and the warmer portions of the temperate zone. ...
DEVELOPMENT AT DIFFERENT MONTHS
First month. There are indications of the eyes, mouth and anus. The extremities are rudimentary. The heart is 4/10 of an inch long. Second month. It is now about one inch long. The eyes, nose and ears can be distinguished. External genitals. There...
DEVIATION OF THE SEPTUM (Partition)
Deviation is the bending or curving of the partition (septum) to one side or the other, leaving one nostril very large and roomy and closing the other nostril wholly or partly. Causes. Blows, falls, etc., high-arch palate. It is seldom seen under seven...