The doctor at home and nurse's guidebook / edited by George Black.

Date:
1909
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    8g BUTTER-MILK free from magnesium compounds, it will impart a bitter taste to the butter. Even fresh butter has some salt in it, from \ to 2 per cent. Salt butter should not contain as much as 8 per cent., but more has been detected in inferior samples. If butter is to be kept some time, or exported, it receives, besides salt (2 to 5 per cent.), a small quantity of sugar—not, however, more than 8 oz. to the hundred- weight. Butter, when taken in moderate quantity is nutritious, and, in general, not difficult of digestion. butter-milk Butter-milk is milk deprived of ! its oily matter by churning or agita- tion. It is nourishing, cooling, and diluent, and is used, sometimes with great advantage, in wasting, or a poor habit of body. Good butter- milk is frequently of much service as a remedy in pulmonary con- sumption, particularly in the early 1 stages of the florid species so often met with in the young and blooming. CAECUM (Latin eaecus, blind,” or “ concealed ”). The caecum is the first part of the large intestine, and extends down- wards from the point where the small intestine enters the large one. It may be described as a sort of pouch, generally about two and a half inches long, and wide. CALF’S-FOOT JELLY See Gelatine. CANCER is a hard tumour, intersected with firm whitish divergent bands, found chiefly in the excretory glands, or skin, which is capable of contaminat- ing other parts, either by direct communication or through the medium of the absorbents ; it is attended with acute and lancinating pains, and generally terminates in a fetid and serious ulcer. Its most common seats are the female breast and womb, the lip, tongue, stomach, and testicle. CANCER, CAUSES OF A cold and variable climate ; a deranged state of the general health; the change effected in the constitu- tion of women at the time when the usual monthly discharge altogether ceases ; blows and other vehicles of mechanical violence, are all popularly supposed to be excit- ing causes of this complaint. But frequently there is no apparent cause, and when any of the above exist, we must almost invariably consider a disposition in the organ or part affected to take on the diseased actions of cancer, to be necessary to the actual deve- lopment of this particular malady. There is some reason to regard it as hereditary. CANCER, DISTINCTION OF The distinguishing marks of this disease are its stony hardness to the touch ; its being perfectly circum- scribed, so that its whole extent and limits unconnected with the surrounding parts, may be distinctly felt ; its never, or very rarely, occurring save in the excretory glands or skin, and especially its power of contaminating other parts in its vicinity, either by direct communication or through the medium of the absorbents, CANCER, SYMPTOMS OF When cancer takes place in the breast, it usually begins with a small indolent tumour that excites little attention. In process of time this tumour is attended with an itching, which is gradually exchanged for a pricking, a shooting, and at length a lancinating pain, a sense of