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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...