The practice of medicine, according to the plan most approved by the Reformed or Botanic Colleges of the U. S : embracing a treatise on materia medica and pharmacy ; illustrated with numerous engravings ; designed principally for families / by J. Kost.

  • Kost, J., 1819-1904.
Date:
1847
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Credit: The practice of medicine, according to the plan most approved by the Reformed or Botanic Colleges of the U. S : embracing a treatise on materia medica and pharmacy ; illustrated with numerous engravings ; designed principally for families / by J. Kost. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cayenne pepper and lady slipper, prepared in the same way, is very good. A half tea spoonful of cayenne pepper, and a tea spoonful of lady slipper, stirred into a glass of wine, sweet- ened with loaf sugar, and drank at two or three doses, is also very well calculated to sustain the system under so severe a shock. If there be sickening at the stomach, it is often the case, nothing short of an emetic will relieve it. Some essence of peppermint, or a little vinegar, may, however, sometimes do some good. The bowels should be kept open by mild laxatives, or injections. CANCER. (Carcinos.) Cancer is a disease that has inherited its name from the ancients, who fancied that the large blue veins of the tumor, resembled the claws of a crab. It is likewise called carcinoma or carcinos, by the Greeks, and Lupus by the Romans, because it eats away the flesh like a wolf. Dr. Cullen defines it a painful scirrous tumor, terminating in a fatal ulcer. Any part of the body may be the seat of cancer, though the glands are most subject to it. It is distinguished according to its sta- ges, into occult and open', by the former is meant its scirrous state, which is a hard tumor that sometimes remains in a quiet state for many years. When the cancerous action com- mences in it, it is attended with frequent shooting pains; the skin that covers it becomes discolored, and ulceration sooner or later takes place: when the disease is denominated open cancer. Mr. Pearson says, 'When a malignant scirrous or a watery excrescence hath proceeded to a period of ulceration, attended with a constant sense of ardent and occasionally shooting pains, is irregular in its figure and presents an une- qual surface, if it discharges sordid, sanious or foetid matter; if the edges of the sore be thick, indurated, and often exqui- sitely painful, sometimes inverted at other times retorted, and exhibit a sorrated appearance: and should the ulcer in its progress be frequently attended with hemorrhage, in conse- quence of the erosion of blood vessels; there will be little hazard of mistake in a cancerous ulcer.' In men a cancer most frequently seizes the tongue, mouth, or penis; in women the breasts, or uterus, particularly about the cessation of their