Pierce's memorandum and account book : designed for farmers, mechanics and all people who appreciate the value of keeping a memorandum of business transactions, daily events, and items of interest or importance, for future reference / a present from the World's Dispensary Medical Association, Lt'd.

  • Pierce, R. V. (Ray Vaughn), 1840-1914.
Date:
[1894?]
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Credit: Pierce's memorandum and account book : designed for farmers, mechanics and all people who appreciate the value of keeping a memorandum of business transactions, daily events, and items of interest or importance, for future reference / a present from the World's Dispensary Medical Association, Lt'd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'CONSUMPTION.—The bile poisoned blood, resulting from faulty action of the liver, passes from the upper and right cavity of the heart to the lower cavity, thence directly to the lungs, circulating through all parts of these most delicate organs. The tissues of the lungs are poison¬ ed and irritated, and thus invite the scrofulous humors with which the blood is burdened. In this way consump¬ tion, which is scrofula of the lungs, so defined by all the most scientific authors, is established. BRONCHITIS.—The biie-poisoned blood is in a meas¬ ure oxygenized and purified by the lungs; but in this effort these organs are overworked and irritated, and the foul blood-poison may be recognized in the offensive breath. Nervous cough, bronchitis, and consumption itself, are the natural results. The lungs would uot have become diseased had the liver done its whole duty. ASTHMA,—This spasmodic and distressing malady is generally the. result of reflex nervous action produced by impure blood —the indirect result, in other words, of impropei’ly-performed function on the part of the liver. DROPSY.—Dropsy is generally the result of diseased liver and is cured by a medicine which corrects its func¬ tions as will be abundantly shown by letters from our past patients. MAEARIAE POIWN^, which are absorbed from the atmosphere, taken into the lungs, are eliminated, or rejected, from the blood, by the lively: when this organ is in good condition, but when it fails in such perform¬ ances, the system suffers from chills, fever, dumb ague, congestive chills, and other phases of malarial poisoning. RHEUMATISM.—Tbi$ obstinate an'd painful disease is conceded to have its orign in a poisoned condition of the blood, and to be most successfully ti'eated by remedies which act upon the ‘livei% kidneys and other blood-purify¬ ing organs, thereby divesting the system of the offend¬ ing agents. THE SYMPTOMS OF LIVEE DISEASE and its resultant ax^d kindred affections may differ according to the circumstances, aptitude, temperament, age, or constitutional weakness of the individual and the com¬ plications of the disease and its stage of advancement. Not unfrequently the complexion becomes pale and sal¬ low, and there is puffiness under the eyes, bilious or sick headache, bitter taste in the mouth, tongue coated white or covered with a brown fur, hacking cough, ^ever. rest¬ lessness, an unnatural, dry, harsh, or scaly condition of thp skin, or branny eruptions, pimples, dai’k blotches, and troublesome itching. The water is frequently scanty and high-colored, and, if allowed to stand, deposits a sedi¬ ment. ' There is likely to be “backache,” and tired feel¬ ings. lassitude, and a sense of debility, chilly sensations, rheumatic pains, and dropsical swellings, or bloating are common. There is depression of spirits and a decided tendency to be discouraged and despondent. The func¬ tional powers of the stomach are impaired, there is loss or irregularity of appetite, uneasiness in region of the stomach, oppi’ession, sometimes sour stomach, “ heart¬ burn,” nausea, and “ waterbrash,” indigestion, or dys¬ pepsia, flatulency, and-amd eructations; the bowels be¬ come irregular* x^ually'constipated, and occasionally