Dr. Chase's Third, last, and complete receipt book and household physician, or, Practical knowledge for the people ...
Chase, A. W. (Alvin Wood), 1817-1885
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PUBLISHCD BY F. B. DICKERSON CO. Detroit, Mich., and Windsor, Ont. TO WHOM ALL CORRESPONDCNCE SHOULD BE ADORESKED. 1897 Publishers' Notice. WE desire to place a copy of this work in the hands of every family, and, if the neighborhood has been canvassed and there is no agent through whom it can be purchased, we will send by mail, free of postage, faingle copies to any address on receipt of the regular subscription price. We at all times desire agents. The terms are liberal, and the agency to sell this work in any field will afford a good living to any man or woman of intelligence. Agents will be assigned territory in the order of their application. For name and address of the publishers, see title page. CoPYRiQHT, 18&-T, BY A. W. Chase. COPVRIOHT, 1887, BY F. B. DiCKERSON. All Rights Reserved. DEDICATION. THIS, MT THIRD AND LAST RECEIPT BOOK, IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED To the Twelve Hundred Thousand Families, througliout the United States and Dominion of Canada, WHO HAVE PURCHASED ONE OR BOTH OF MY FORMER BOOKS, AND TO THEIR CHILDREN WHO HAVE THUS BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THEM, AND WOULD, THEREFORE, DESIRE TO BENEFIT THEMSELVES, AND PERPETUATE THE NAME OF THE "OLD DOCTOR,*^ BY HANDING THIS, THE CROWNING WORK OF MY LIFE, TO THEIR CHILDREN. A. W. CHASE, M. D. PUBLISHERS' PREFACE. In presenting this book to the public, we make no apologies. There never was but one Doctor A. W. Chase. The immense sale of his former works is evidence that the public demand all that ever came from his prolific and philanthropic pen. There is no man now living, and none dead, whose writings have been so eagerly sought for, and no man, whose whole life was so devoted to the good of others. Through reverses in business, he left no pecuniary benefits to his family except the manuscript of this book, but died with the consciousness that his work had been appreciated and that he had been a benefactor to mankind. Dr. Chase's name is a household word in millions of homes ; we trust this book will make it a familiar name in a million more, and, although this, his final work, is by him dedicated to the people whom he served so long and well, we, as publishers, think it befitting to such as he to inscribe it " The Memorial Edition " and dedicate it to his children. THE PUBLISHERS. THE NURSF, AND PATIENT. AUTHOR'S PREFACE. The reason for the publication of this book is, that having given over fifty years of my life to the careful observation and test of Practical Receipes, as given in my first and second books, i. e., "Dr. Chase's Eeceipts, or Information for Everybody;" and "Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Bee Keeper, and Second Receipt Book," by which it has become very natural for me to make notes of and preserve for future reference, items and receipts discovered by myself and those seen in the discourses of the Scientific, Med- ical, Agricultural, Mechanical and Household Publications of the day; and observing that as time advanced, every branch of Science and Art, by continued experience, became more and more perfect, practical and positive in its development, I continually selected and preserved the very choicest items until enough was accumulated for a THIRD BOOK. And fully believing that it would be appre- ciated by the people who had purchased over twelve hundred thousand copies of my former publications, within the thirty years they have been before them, I determined to prepare it before I could willingly and conscientiously lay down my life work. I have, therefore, labored over four years faithfully and diligently in experimenting, compiling and arranging this, my third and last book, as I knew it would do good in every home it entered. I am now willing and shall forever rest from this char- acter of labor, that I may partake, a little at least, of the benefits and pleasures that I have done my best to prepare for others, feeling more than satisfied that if the people will give the time and earnestness in using this book that the author has in prepar- ing it, the benefits and pleasures will not only be mutual, but more lasting than our lives, benefitting even our children's chil- dren. As to the reliability of the information given in this volume, the unprecedentedly large sales of my two former works will viU AUTHOR'S PREFACE. testify. It is only necessary to say that the longer one labors in a practice or profession, or in the mechanical arts, the more mature is his mind and judgment and the better qualified he is to carry on his work. This being universally conceded, it need only be said, then, that one who has lived nearly seventy years, doing all the good possible to his fellow creatures, as I have done, if judged by the above evidence, would certainly make his last the crowning effort of his life, and that it shall be so found I feel assured. This work is the result of nearly thirty years practice and experience since the publication of my first book, and is not a " revised edition " of the former ones, but is made up wholly of new matter and new discoveries. I, therefore, believe that it will prove of infinite value to its purchasers, and although they may have both the former ones in their possession, they cannot, if they value my first and second book, afford to be without this, my third and last one. My mature years, numbering nearly three score and ten, will not allow me to ever undertake that great labor which, in this case, covers a period of nearly five years. A Eeceipt Book, not being calculated for general reading, can very properly be set in closer type than an ordinary book, and as it is my aim to give the greatest possible amount of informa- tion for the money invested, I have instructed the type-setters to use the smallest type that can, with ease, be read ; yet the following will serve to illustrate the fact that even a receipt book is, by some, read to a considerable extent As I was once traveling through Illinois, a gentleman, just before we reached the crossing of the Mississippi at Burlington, approached me, and said, "Isn't this Dr. Chase, the author of Chase's Eeceipt Book?" (referring to my first) to which I replied, " Yes, sir," when he remarked : " I thought I recognized you from the frontispiece in your book ;" and added, " We read it more than the Bible," etc. To which I remonstrated and begged to suggest that he instruct his family from that time forward to read the Bible most, inas- much as eternity was of infinitely more importance than this life. His name I have forgotten, but I take the liberty of giving the AUTHOR'S PREFACE. ix name and address of a lady in Wisconsin, whose letter I received while preparing this last work, presuming she will take no offense, as I give her name and letter only to prove to the public in what esteem my former books are held by those who have them. The following is from Mrs. 0, N. Alden, and dated at Neenah, Wisconsin : Dr. a. W. chase, Dear Sir: It is not the author or compiler of every book who himself so permeates the contents that the reader feels in the author a per- sonal acquaintance, but when I am consulting Dr. Chase's Books, it seems as though I was personally consulting him, and that he is a friend, he makes what is therein so individual. But, by so doing, he exposes himself to, per- haps, annoyance, as in this instance, by being personally addressed, * * * * The writer closes by relating her own condition of health, and making inquiry as to the character of goods made by another gentleman. I mention these circumstances among hundreds of others only to illustrate to those having neither of my former books what those who do have them think of them, hoping thus to convince the million that my third and last book shall, at least, be equally valuable. I have, however, done my best to produce a work in every respect superior to my former ones, and with the aid of thirty years' experience since my first book was published, during which time many new theories have come into vogue and many valuable discoveries have been made, I am confident that I have succeeded, and can only hope that my former works have opened the door to this, my Crowning Life Work, and that it will be a welcome visitor at every home, where either or both the first and second books have found their way and prove to be worth many times more than the sum paid for it, THE AUTHOR, Just two months after completing this work, and writing the foregoing preface, the "Old Doctor" passed away and his spirit took its flight to God who gave it. PUBLISHERS. — I- %n "^tmaxinm. 'h Dr. Alviit "Wood Chase, physician, and author of the celebrated Dr. Chase's Eeceipt Book, was born in Cayuga County, New York, in 1817. He was a son of Benjamin Chase, a native of the State of Massachusetts. When Alvin was eleven years of age his parents located near Buffalo, N. Y., where he grew to manhood, receiving a very limited education, in a log school-house. His desire for knowledge was so strong, coupled with an ambition peculiar to his naturally energetic disposition, that he far outstripped his more dilatory companions of that humble institute of learning. When seventeen years old he left New York and found employment on the Maumee Eiver, in the meantime devoting his spare moments to study. In 18-10 he located at Dresden, Ohio, where in the spring of 1841 he married Martha Shutts, daughter of Henry and Martha Shutts, natives of New York. To this noble and gifted wife, and mother of his children, may be justly attributed much of the success that followed the doctor during his long and eventful career. From the days of his boyhood he entertained a wish to study medicine, and awaited with impatience the time when he might become a member of the fraternity. After many ^- ^ wanderings he settled in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1856, where, to his intense delight, he was enabled vigorously to prosecute his studies in what was to be his future life-work. He attended lectures in the medical department of the State University during 1857 and 1858, and graduated from the Eclectic Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the meantime. Prior to 1869 he traveled over a large part of the United States, acquiring valuable knowledge, only gained by practical experience, which proved a good foundation for the wonderful book which afterward gained such great celebrity. The first edition of the work, like all subsequent ones, proved a great success, and soon placed the author on the high road to fortune. In 1864 he built the first part of that magnificent struct- ure that still bears his name. It stands on the corner of Main Street and Miller Avenue, and is an ornament to our city. The building was completed in 1868. The business had so increased that at this time fifty persons found constant and remunerative employment within the walls of the building; and the hospitality and liberality of the Doctor to the employes of the institution, as well as to the needy ones of the city, were always subjects of admiring comment. In 1873 he published his second book, of which many thousand copies were sold, and it is safe to say that fully one million and a half have found their way into the homes of this and foreign countries. A few years only have elapsed since Dr. Chase was considered one of the most prosperous and well-to-do xii citizens of Ann Arbor; losses by thousands and tens of thousands dollars greatly reduced his accumulations so honestly acquired. It is seldom the case that so much wealth is secured in so short a time by honest endeavor. He entered into no speculating schemes, but industriously pursued a very useful c-alling, bringing large profits without detriment to any, but, on the contrary, of great value to all. But, notwithstanding his losses, he did not lose his native energy and manliness of purpose, and stood before the community a conspicuous example of what energy, perseverance, and an indomitable will may accomplish. His liberality was remarkable, considering his income, though large. Many men, whose means were quadruple those of the Doctor, did not give one quarter as much for the advancement of education and benevolent enterprises. He was once nominated for mayor of the city, but his business compelled him to decline the proffered honor. But the storms of life finally overtook him and swept with almost resistless fury around the now aged physician, and a few of the prejudices that charac- terize the human family found a resting place in the heart of this noble man; yet, when the last chapter shall have been entered in the book of life, the account will probably be balanced. The last earthly rites have been performed, and the aged veteran laid peacefully away beneath the shadow of the silent tomb. It may truthfully be said that he lived with malice toward none and charity to all. A beautiful monument marks the place where his earthly remains are laid away, but his real and ever-enduring monument is seen in his life, devotion and usefulness to his fellow man. L. Davis, Secretary of the Washtenaw County Pioneer Society. Ann Arbor, Mich. CONTENTS. Dedication, ...... I Publishers' Peep ACE, .... V Authob's Preface, . . . - - VII " In Memoriam," . . . - - XI Symptoms op Diseases, - . • . • 1 Medical Eeceipts, ..... 33 NlTRSING AND MIDWIFERY, .... 278 Food for the Sick, . . - • • 302 Culinary or Cooking Department, . • • 319 Miscellaneous Department, . . - 515 Household Memoranda, . . . - 625 Toilet Department, . . - - 633 Dairy Department. - - • • 641 Domestic Animals, - . . • • 653 Agricultural Department, - 772 Mechanical Department, . - . • 790 Bee-Keeping, ..--•• 803  DEFINED. NAMES AND NUMBERS OF THE ORGANS. MEDICAL DEPAETMENT. STTDVCIPTOnv^dlS OIF 3DISE.A.SES. Remarks. — In preparing "Symptoms" I have carefully given all diseases that any person is liable not to be familiar with. There are some few common complaints, that " tackle " us without giving symptoms or warning, that I have omitted A man would not need to be told that he had the toothache or earache, or what the symptoms are. He would be liable to find it out very suddenly without consulting any book or doctor. Some such simple diseases I have omitted in "Symptoms." ABORTION OR MISCARRIAGE.— When a woman in the family way throws oflf the contents of her womb, or loses her child, during the first six months, the accident is a miscarriage, or abortion; when the same thing happens during the last three months of her term, it is a premature labor. Symptoms. — If abortion occur during the first month after conception, the symptoms may not attract much attention, or may be regarded only as an irregularity of menstruation. Occurring at later periods, it is frequently indi- cated by some feverishness, coldness of the feet and legs, a pufled-up condition of the eye-lids with purplish discoloratione, shooting pains in the breasts, which become soft, pains in the back,, bearing-down pains in the lower part of the bowels, which come and go, and at length take the character of real labor pains. As these pains increase, blood begins to appear, and, sooner or later, the bag of water breaks, and the fetus is thrown off. Causes. — These are very numerous. Some of the principal are, displace- ment of the womb; ulceration of its neck; syphilitic disease of the fetus received from the parent; too much exercise; heavy lifting; falls, particularly when the woman comes down upon the feet, and is heavily jarred; emetics; powerful purges; and too much nuptial indulgence. Remedy, pages 258, 259, 260,261. AGUE. — The popular English name for Intermittent Fever. Agtie is principally applied to the cold stage. The whole disease is commonly called Fever and Ague. Symptoms. — This fever consists of various fits or paroxysms, each of which is made up of three stages or successions of symptoms. These stages are the cold, the hot, and the sweating stages. When the sweating stage is finished, the patient is free of complaint, or the disease intermits till a future period, when the same stages as before succeed each other. The time duiing which the patient is free of the disease varies in different kinds of intermittent fever, and gives its name and character to the disease. If the stages run through their course every day, it is called a quotidian ague; if they begin again every J 1 2 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. third day, including that on which the former paroxysm occurred, it is called a tertian; if every fourth day, a quartan. Several minuter varieties occur, ■with which it is unnecessary to trouble the general reader. Remedy, pages 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 123. APOPLEXY. — A disease in which the patient suddenly falls down, deprived of sense and motion; and which, in all languages, derives its name from the sudden manner of its attack, as if the patient were struck down by some invisible hand, by lightning, or some other agent equally sudden and violent. Symptoms. — A person seized with apoplexy in its most perfect form, sud- denly falls down, deprived of ^nse and motion, breathes heavily, and with a snoring sound; sometimes convulsions occur, and foam issues from the mouth. The pulse is full and strong, a cold clammy sweat breaks out over all the body; and the accumulating saliva, the bloated countenance, and the noisy laborious breathing, combine to form a distressing spectacle. The disease is not always so complete and violent, but varies in its symptoms, as is well described by Dr. Abercrombie: — "Sometimes the disease begins with a sudden attack of violent pain in the head, the patient becomes pale, sick and faint, generally vomits; and frequently, though not always, falls down in a state resembling fainting, the face very pale, the pulse very small. This is some- times accompanied by slight convulsion. In other cases he does not fall down, the sudden attack of pain being only accompanied by slight and transient loss of recollection. In both cases he recovers in a few minutes, is quite sensible, and able to walk ; continues to complain of intense headache; after a considerable time, perhaps some hours, becomes oppressed, forgetful, and incoherent, and thus gradually sinks into deep sleep, from which he never recovers. In some cases, palsy of one side occurs, but in others, there is no palsy. There is another form of the disease, in which the patient is suddenly deprived of the power of one side of the body, and of speech without stupor; or if the first attack is accompanied with stupor, this soon goes off; he appears sensible of his situation, and endeavors to express his feelings by signs. In some cases the attack passes gradually into apoplexy, perhaps after a few hours; in others, under the proper treatment, the patient recovers perfectly in a few days. In many cases the recovery is gradual, and it is only at the end of several weeks or months that the complaint is removed." It is a matter of very great difficulty to determine what is the particular state of the brain which gives rise to the symptoms of apoplexy. Sometimes, after a fatal case, when the head is opened, we find a large quantity of coagu- lated blood, and we consider the pressure of this effused blood as completely explaining what has happened. There are certain habits of body that seem more peculiarly disposed to this disease. Men with short thick necks, large heads, and corpulent bellies, especially after their thirty-fifth or fortieth year, are very frequently the sub- SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES 3 jects of this disease; but very many examples occur of a make directly the reverse of this, viz., tall and slender, being also attacked with apoplexy. Remedy, page 131. ASTHMA. — Symptoms. — A painful difficulty of breathing, recurring at intervals, with a sense of tightness across the breast; a wheezing cough, hard at first, but towards the end of each paroxysm more free, and followed by the discharge of a little mucus. The attacks of asthma are generally in the night- time, though they sometimes come on in the course of the day; and at what- ever time they come on, it is for the most part suddenly, with a sense of tightness across the breast, impeding respiration. The person, if in bed, i? obliged immediately to get up, and he requires the free admission of air. Tho difficulty of breathing increases, and is performed slowly, and with a wheezing noise. These symptoms sometimes continue for hours together; and a remis- sion takes place by degrees; the breathing becomes less laborious, and the patient speaks and coughs more easily; and if there is something expectorated, the remission is greater, and sleep comes on. In the morning, and through the day, though the breathing is better than during the fit, it is not yet free from difficulty; a degree of tightness is still felt, and a very slight motion of the body is apt to bring back the paroxysm. In the evening the breathing is worse, and about the same hour as on the former night, generally between midnight and two o'clock, the same train of symptoms is renewed. After the fits have recurred for several nights in this manner, they suffer more consider- able remissions; and, for some time, asthmatics may be free from complaint; but through the whole of life the paroxysms are ready to return, though in different circumstances in different patients. Asthma seldom appears before the age of puberty, and seems to attack men more frequently than women; and in persons of a full habit whom it continues to attack, it commonly causes a great degree of emaciation. Though it does not often destroy life in the paroxysms, it may become fatal by passing into other diseases, as into consumption of the lungs, or by occasioning dropsy; and many cases, which have appeared a common spasmodic asthma, have been found at last to depend on organic diseases of the heart and great vessels. Causes. — Some have the fits of si>asmodic asthma brought on by heat, whether of the weather or of warm apartments; and frequently by warm bathing. Some are hurt by cold and moist air, or by anything worn tight about the breast, or by distension of the stomach from a full meal, or windy diet; or from exercise hurrying the circulation of the blood. Sometimes the disease is brought on by causes affecting the nervous system, as passions of the mind; or by particular smells, or irritations of the lungs from smoke or dust. Remedy, pages 200, 201. ATROPHY. — Symptoms. — A disease, of which a very prominent symp- tom is wasting of the body, from deficiency of nourishment. It is well known to the nurses in Scotland by the term Dwining. It is very common in children, and proceeds in them from various causes; from teething, from acidity of the DB. CEASE'S RECIPES: stomach, and disorder of the bowels; from rickets, from diseases of the glands of the mesentery; and this last cause is by far the most common. The patient is at first languid and inactive; has a bad appetite, a disagreeable breath, a pale complexion, a large belly; the bowels are not regular, sometimes costive, at other times loose; the stools smell badly, and are of a whiter color than natural. When the disease has continued for some time, the body becomes greatly emaciated, the belly still more swelled, and the digestive functions more dis- ordered. Remedy, page 190. BARKERS' TSCB..— Symptoms.— This is contagious and due to a fungus growth that invades the hair and hair follicles. It appears chiefly on the hairy parts of the face — the chin, the upper lip, the region of the whiskers, the eye- brows, and the nape of the neck. It consists in little conical elevations, which maturate at the top, and have the shaft of a hair passing through them. These pimples are of a pale yellowish color. Remedy, page 102. BLADDER — INFLAMMATION.— -%TOj9toms.— The bladder is also liable to inflammation without rupture. The symptoms of this formidable complaint are a burning pain at the lower part of the belly, increased by pressure; constant desire to pass water, which is done in very small quantities, and with intense pain; and more or less general fever. Remedy, page 253. BLOODY FLUX.— DYSENTERY.— /S^m^j^wis.— The disease comes on with loss of appetite, costiveness, lassitude, shivering, heat of skin, and quick pulse. These are followed by griping pain in the bowels, and a constant desire to pass their contents. In general the passages are small, composed of mucus mixed with blood. These passages are attended and followed by severe gripings and inclination to strain, learnedly called tormina, and tenesmus. They are sometimes, in the early stages, attended by nausea and vomiting. The natural feces, which do not pass off much, are small in quantity, and formed into round, compact balls, or irregular, hardened lumps. This tenesmus, or great desire to strain, will continue, perhaps increase, for several days, — the discharges being mostly blood in some cases, and chiefly mucus in others. Having, generally, but little odor, at first, these discharges become, as the dis- ease advances, exceedingly offensive. Causes. — Dj'sentery is very frequently caused by sudden changes from hot to cold, by which sweating is suddenly checked, and the blood repelled from the surface. Hot climates, and dry, hot weather, are predisposing causes. All green, unripe, and unwholesome food; and all indigestible food of every sort, may induce it. Remedy, pages 60, 139, 195, 234. BOIL. — Symptoms. — A circumscribed inflammation in the external parts, which terminates in a pointed swelling, sometimes as large as a pigeon's Ggg, attended with redness and pain, and sometimes with a violent burning heat. These inflammations generally suppurate, but they do so very slowly. They break at first on the upper part, and some drops of matter ooze out. Wliat is commonly called the core is next seen; it is a purulent substance, but thick and tenacious, almost like a solid body, and may be drawn out of the SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES. 5 abscess. Its discharge is followed by a flow of thinner matter, after which the pain ceases, and the part heals. Remedy, pages 58, 59, 60, 97, 137. BOWELS, rNTLAMMATION" OF.— Symptoms.— ^h\s disease is characterized by the symptoms of general fever, heat of skin, thirst, restless- ness, quick and hard small pulse; and by sharp pain in the belly, increased on pressure, and accompanied by vomiting and costiveness. Causes. — Inflammation of the bowels is occasioned by acrid and irritating substances swallowed by the mouth, by hardened foeces, by vitiated bile, by long continued costiveness, and by constriction of some part of the canal in cases of rupture; a very frequent cause of it is cold, especially when applied with damp to the feet. Diagnosis. — Inflammation of the bowels is distinguished from colic by the absence of fever in this last, and by the pain in colic not being increased on pressure; and in every case of severe pain of the bowels, with vomiting and costiveness, the practitioner should make very strict inquiries, lest a rupture should be the cause of them. Remedy, pages 137, 252. BRAIN — INTLAMMATION — CONCUSSION.— Acute and gen- eral inflammatioH of the brain and its membranes has two stages. Symptoms. — TJie Stage of Excitement, in which there is intense and deep- seated pain in the head, extending over a large part of it, a feeling of tightness across the forehead, throbbing of the temporal arteries, a flushed face, injected eyes, looking wild and brilliant, contraction of the pupils, great shrinking from light and sound, violent delirium, want of sleep, general convulsions, a parched and dry skin, a quick and hard pulse, a white tongue, thirst, nausea and vomiting, and constipation of the bowels. The Stage of CoUapse, in which there are indistinct mutterings, dull and perverted hearing and vision, double vision, the pupil from being contracted expands largely and becomes motionless, twitchings of the muscles, tremors and palsy of some of the limbs, a ghastly and cadaverous countenance, cold sweats, profound coma, and death The disease will not show all these symptoms in any one case. It runs a rapid course, causing death, sometimes, in twelve or twenty-four hours; or it may run two or three weeks. Remedy, pages 246, 247. BRONCHITIS.— 5//TOpfem5.— This disease is an inflammation of the membrane lining the air passages, or bronchi, is a very common, and a very ■ serious disease. It is of two kinds, the acute and the chronic or " winter cough." The acute form, or severe cough, begins with the symptoms of com- mon cold, or catarrh (see Catarrh); but difficulty of breathing, attended with a wheezing sound, and pain and cough, soon come on with great severity. There is also a degree of fever, generally much increased in the evening. With the cough, there is a tenacious and glary expectoration, sometimes purulent, and even mixed with blood. Remedy, pages 123, 254, 255, 256. BRONCHOCELE.— -Symptoms.— The goitre, or swelled neck, which so frequently occurs among the inhabitants of mountainous regions. It is a com- 6 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. mon disorder in Derbyshire, and among the inhabitants of the Ali)S, and othe*" hilly countries in their neighborhood; also in the valleys of Savoy, and sf Milan, and among the Pyrennes, and Cevennes, in France. The swelling \r bronchocele is at first without pain or any evident fluctuation, and the skii retains its natural appearance; but as the swelling advances, it grows hard an»^ irregular; the skin becomes yellowish, and the veins of the neck put on a dis- tended and winding appearance; then the patient complains of frequent flush' ing of the face with headache, and pains darting through the tumor. Remed"?, pages 44, 45. CANCER. — Symptoms. — By occult cancer or scirrhus, is meant a hard tumor, for the most part accompanied by sharp darting pains, which recur more or less frequently. This tumor, in course of time, breaks and ulcerates; and then is more strictly denominated cancer. The parts of the body subject to cancer are the following: The female breast and uterus (see Womb and its Diseases), the lips, especially the lower one, the tongue, the skin, the tonsils, the lower opening of the stomach, and some other parts chiefly glandular Chimney-sweepers are subject to a cancerous affection of the scrotum. Rem- edy, pages 33, 34, 35, 99, 271. CARBUNCLE. — Symptoms. — An abscess or collection of matter, of a peculiarly gangrenous-looking nature. The first symptoms are great heat and violent pain in some part of the body, on which there arises a pimple with great itching; under this, there is a circumscribed tumor, seeming to penetrate deep into the parts below. This tumor soon puts on a dark red or purple color. A little blister frequently appears on the top of the tumor, which being broken. a dark-looking matter is discharged, and a slough makes its appearance. Some- times a little slough of a black color is seen in the middle of the tumor. The progress of a carbuncle of the gangrenous state is generally rapid. The size of carbuncles is various; sometimes they are eight or ten inches in diameter. Considerable hardness and pain generally attend the disease. As it advances, several detached openings form in the tumor; and through these, a greenish, fetid, and irritating matter is discharged. Carbuncle most commonly occurs in constitutions that have been injured by luxurious living; and from this cir- cumstance, and from its occurring not unfrequently in people advanced in life, carbuncle is commonly to be considered as accompanied with great danger; and this danger is to be estimated by the size and situations of the swellings, whether there be few or many of them, and by considering the age of the the patient, and the state of his constitution. Remedy, pages 58, 59. CATARRH. — -Symjo^oTOs. — The disease commonly called a Cold, of which the following are the ordinary symptoms: — The patient is seized with a coldness and shivering; and shortly after, there is a degree of difliculty in breathing through the nose, and a sensation as if something were stopping that passage; a symptom well known under the term of a stufiing of the nose or head. There is a dull pain and heaviness in the forehead, and the motion of the eyes is stiff and obstructed. There soon takes place from the nose, a plen- tiful discharge of thin watery matter, so sharp as to inflame and excoriate the I I SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES 7 Bkin of the nose and lips. There is a sense of weariness over the whole body; and the patient is unusually sensible to the coldness of the air; and the pulse, especially toward evening, is more frequent than ordinary. These symptoms are very soon accompanied with hoarseness, and a sense of roughness and sore- ness in the course of the wind-pipe, with a difficulty of breathing, and tightness across the chest, and a cough, seemingly occasioned by something tickling or irritating the upper part of the wind-pipe. The cough is at first dry, and causes a good deal of pain in the chest, and about the head ; and at times there are other pains resembling rheumatism, in various parts of the body. Gradu- ally the cough becomes looser ; that is to say, is accompanied by the discharge of mucus, which is brought up with more-ease. The discharge from the nose becomes more mild, and also thicker; the pain of the head diminishes, but there is still a disagreeable sense of fullness about the nose, with a degree ol deafness, ringing in the ears, and a wheezing sound when a full breath is drawn. There is also a bad taste in the mouth, with a foul tongue, although the appetite is good. Eemedy, pages 57, 155, 164, 183. CHICKEN-POX. — Symptoms.— A diseaseof the>eruptive kind, in various particulars resembling small-pox, and apt to be confounded with it. Chicken' pox arises from a peculiar contagion, and attacks persons only once in theii lives. It is preceded by chilliness, by sickness or vomiting, headache, thirst restlessness and a quickened pulse. After these feverish symptoms, which an/ generally slight, have lasted one or two days, pimples appear on different partd of the skin, in the form of small red eminences, not exactly circular; having a surface shining, and nearly flat, in the middle of which a small clear vesicle soon forms. On the second day, this is filled with a whitish lymph; on tne third day, the fluid is straw-colored ; and on the fourth day, the vesicles wh>iCh have not broken begin to subside. Few of them remain entire on the fifth day; and on the sixth, small brown scabs appear in the place of the vesicles. Oa the ninth and tenth days, they fall off, without leaving any pits. RemejDT, page 224. CHILBLAINS- — Symptoms. — A painful inflammatory swelling on thfe extreme parts of the body, as the fingers, toes, and heels, occasioned by c old. A very common way of getting chilblains, is by bringing the hands and feet near the fire in cold frosty weather. The color of chilblains is a deep purple or leaden hue, the pain is pungent and shooting, and a very disagreeable itching attends. In some instances, the skin remains entire; in others it breaks, and a thin fluid is discharged. When the cold has been great or long continued, the parts affected are apt to mortify and slough off, leaving a foul ulcer behind. Remedy, pages 142, 143. CHILLS AND FEVER.— See Ague. CHLOROFORM. — The formidable symptoms which sometimes arise from an overdose of chlorofoi-m are best met by opening the patient's mouth, and forcibly making the tongue protrude, allowing the free access of air, and applying ammonia to the nostrils. Chloroform should be administered only by a medical man. Remedy, page 95. 8 DB. CEASE'S RECIPES. CHOLERA.— This disease is often attended by vomiting and purging, with cramps in various parts of the body. It first attracted notice as a wide-spreading and fatal epidemic, in the year 1817, when it appeared at at Jessore, in Bengal; and after ravaging the Continent and Isles of Asia, and spreading to China, it continued its destructive course westward through Germany and the Russian Empire, till it at length reached the British Islands in 1831. After committing frightful ravages, the disease disappeared from England in the end of 1833; but it reappeared in 1849, and carried off 15,000 people in London alone, and about 80,000 in the whole kingdom. In 1853 and 1854 the disease again caused a terrible mortality, upwards of 6,000 deaths having occurred in London alone during the first ten weeks of the epi- demic which occurred in the latter year. SymptoTUs. — The attack of the disease is sometimes quite sudden; at other times, there are precursory symptoms, of which the duration varies from a few hours to three or four days. There is a sense of general uneasiness and oppres- sion, increased sensibility, not unlike a delusive feeling of high health and animation; pains about the navel; sometimes tremors and debility. The person is affected with derangement of the alimentary canal, more or less severe, indi- cated by sickness and vomiting, flatulent noises in the bowels, and frequent loose, but natural stools; these symptoms being accompanied or succeeded by thirst, headache, languors, and cramps or twitches in the limbs, breast, and other parts of the body. Such derangements often occur after some irregu- larity to which the patient has not been accustomed, as a luxurious meal, an indulgence in wine, spirits, beer, or porter, the eating of pastry, or other indi- gestible food; or after being exposed to the night-air, or to cold and damp. In ordinary seasons, these ailments might be left to nature, or carried off by a gentle laxative. But in seasons and districts where cholera prevails or is ex- pected, no person, through fear of being thought whimsical, should neglect even very slight uneasiness; if the alarm be a false one, little harm is done; but if there be real danger to follow, it is of unspeakable consequence to have a medical man on the watch, to apply the remedies before the strength fails, and before the second stage, or that of collapse, comes on. Remedy, pages 60, 127, 128, 139, 141, 236. CHOLERA INFANTUM.— See Symptoms, page 226. Remedy, page 226. CHOLERA MORBUS.— See Symptoms, page 225. Remedy, page 226. COLIC. — Symptoms: — A painful sensation spreading over the belly, and accompanied by a feeling of twisting or wringing at the navel. It is owing to spasms acting on the intestines themselves; and very frequently the skin and muscles of the belly are also drawn inwards and spasmodically contracted. These pains are very violent, unlike the transient gripings that occur in other affections of the bowels; and costiveness is a general attendant Vomiting is also present; any thing taken in the mouth is apt to be rejected, and bile is thrown up SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES. 9 Causes. — Tlie causes of colic are various. It may arise from cold, from flatulence, from mechanical obstruction, from acrid matters taken into the stomach, from accumulation of faeces after long costiveness; it may also arise from passions of the mind. It is distinguished from Inflammation of the bowels by the pain at times disappearing, by the absence of fever, and by pres- sure relieving the pain. Sometimes, however, long continued spasms induce inflammation. Remedy, pages 41, 46, 127, 129, 197, 230, 277. CONSTIPATION OR COSTIVENESS.— The usual frequency of evacuating the bowels for persons in good health is once in twenty-four hours. The constitutions of different people vary in this respect; some having two or three motions in a day without any inconvenience or ill health; others not hav- ing above one or two in a week. When a person has habitually fewer motions than the generality of healthy people, he is said to be of a costive habit or con- stipated; and when he has at any time fewer than his ordinary rate, and when the faeces are hard, dry, and voided with difficulty, he is said to be costive or constipated. Causes. — Independently of medicine, it is not very easy to specify any diet or mode of living that universally predisposes to costiveness. Many articles have been blamed, and yet have been used by thousands without producing that effect. Rice in various modes of cookery; the finer kinds of bread; roast meat, eaten without a due proportion of vegetables; cheese; port and other dry wines; and indolent and sedentary life; and a sea voyage, are all known to occasion costiveness in certain individuals. In some infants this state is consti- tutional; and for some time, at least, appears to do them little harm. It is very apt to occur in children, as their volatility and playfulness cause them often to disregard the calls of nature, till a great and dangerous mass of feculent matter is accumulated in their bowels. The indolent and sedentary lives of females predisposes them much to costiveness. The structure of their pelvis also allows a larger mass to accumulate without inconvenience, from which circum- stance the faeces are deprived of almost all their fluid parts, and the remainder becomes dry, hard, and difficult to be voided. Persons of the melancholic temperament; also those who are advanced in life, and those who take little exercise, are liable to become costive. Remedy, pages 46, 47, 135, 136, 280. CONSUMPTION.— This disease is probably the greatest existing scourge of the human race, at least in the northern and middle latitudes. It is not deviating far from the truth to say that it causes about one-sixth or one- seventh of all the deaths north of the tropics. The duration of the disease is exceedingly variable. While some cases run their course to a fatal termination in less than a month, others have been known to continue thirty or forty years. The greater number of cases, as a rule, terminate in from one to two years. It is pre-eminently a hereditary disease. Symptoms. — The earliest symptom of consumption that usually manifests itself is a short, dry cough, exciting no particular attention, being attributed to a slight cold. It, however, continues, and after a time increases in frequency. The breathing is more easily hurried by bodily motion, aad the pulse becomes 10 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. more frequent, particularly after meals and towards evening. Towards even- ing there is also frequently experienced a slight degree of chilliness, followed by heat and nocturnal perspirations. The patient becomes languid and indolent, and gradually loses strength. After a time the cough becomes more frequent, and is particularly troublesome during the night, accompanied by an expector- ation of a clear, frothy substance, which afterwards becomes more copious, viscid, and opaque, and is most considerable in the morning; the sputa are often tinged with blood ; or haemoptysis occurs in a more marked form, and to a greater extent As the disease advances, the breathing and pulse become more hurried; the fever is greater, and the perspirations more regular and pro- fuse. The emaciation and weakness go on increasing; a pain is felt m some part of the thorax, which is increased by coughing, and sometimes becomes so acute as to prevent the patient from lying on the affected side. All the symp- toms increase towards evening; the face is flushed; the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet are affected with a burning heat; the feet and ankles begin to swell, and in the last stage of consumption there is nearly always profuse diarrhoea. The emaciation is extreme ; the countenance assumes a cadaverous appearance, the cheeks are prominent, the eyes hollow and languid. Usually the appetite remains entire to the end, and the patient flatters himself with the hope of a speedy recovery, often vainly forming distant projects of interest or amusement, when death puts a period to his existence. Tubercular deposits are also usually found in other organs of the body; the liver is enlarged and changes in appearance, and ulcerations occur in the intestines, the larynx, and trachea. These are so frequent and uniform as to lead to the belief that they form part of the disease. 