Demulcent
Categories: TermsSoothing, usually mucilaginous or oily substance, such as glycerin or
lanolin, used to relieve pain of irritated mucous membranes.
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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
... 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... DIABETES
The onset is gradual, glucose (sugar) is persistently in the urine. Great quantity of urine passed; six to forty pints in twenty-four hours. Thirst is great. Large quantities of water is taken. Loss of strength and weight, mouth is dry, tongue is red an... DIABETES INSIPIDUS
A chronic affection characterized by the passage of large quantities of normal urine of low specific gravity. Causes. It is most often found in young males and is probably of nervous origin. It may follow excitement or brain injury. Symptoms. The o... DIABETES MELLITUS
A disorder of nutrition in which sugar accumulates in the blood and is excreted in the urine, the daily amount of which is greatly increased. Causes. Hereditary influences play an important role and cases are on record of its occurrence in many membe... DIABETES MELLITUS
Phosphoric acid 3X dil. Two drops four times a day. Uranium nitrate 3X trit. (tablet form). One tablet three times a day. ... Diagnosis
In twin pregnancy the symptoms and disorders of pregnancy are apt to be exaggerated, and watery swelling above the pubic bone is almost always present in the latter months. The abdomen is larger and broader and there may be a depression dividing the abd... DIARRHEA
Causes. (a) Improper or excessive food, including green or over-ripe fruit. (b) Poison substances; such as decomposed milk or meat either fresh or canned: or caused by arsenic, mercury or colchicum. (d) Exposure to cold, wet or draughts. (c) S... Diathesis
Hereditary predisposition to disease, allergy, or other disorder. ... Diet
This should consist at first of liquid, unstimulating food, given in small quantities and frequently. If the baby does not nurse, the liquids should be restricted. Some women on the first day can take milk, milk toast, or if desired, dry or buttered toa...