The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser

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Pierce, Ray Vaughn, 1840-1914

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The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand

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Kevin Handy, John Hagerson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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English

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RC: Medicine: Internal medicine

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Medicine, Popular

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18467

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May 28, 2006

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.MEDICINE SIMPLIFIED. — BY — R.V. PIERCE, M.D. — ONE OF THE STAFF OF CONSULTING PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS — AT THE INVALIDS' HOTEL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE, AND — PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD'S DISPENSARY — MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. — FIFTY-FOURTH EDITION. — One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand.
3. 3.PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION
4. 4.PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
5. 5.INTRODUCTORY WORDS.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. — BIOLOGY. — THE PROCESS OF GENERATION. — ALTERNATE GENERATION. — THE ORIGIN OF LIFE.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY. — THE BONES.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. — PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY. — THE MUSCLES.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY. — THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY. — ABSORPTION.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — PHYSICAL AND VITAL PROPERTIES OF THE BLOOD.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY. — CIRCULATORY ORGANS.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY. — THE ORGANS OF RESPIRATION.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY — THE SKIN.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. — PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY. — SECRETION.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. — PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY. — EXCRETION.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY. — THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. — THE CEREBRO-SPINAL SYSTEM. — THE GREAT SYMPATHETIC.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. — THE SPECIAL SENSES. — SIGHT. — HEARING. — SMELL. — TASTE. — TOUCH.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. — CEREBRAL PHYSIOLOGY. — REGIONAL DIVISIONS. — EMOTIVE FACULTIES. — VOLITIVE FACULTIES. — ANIMAL FACULTIES. — BASILAR FACULTIES. — REGION OF FEEBLENESS. — GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. — THE NATURE OF MIND.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. — THE HUMAN TEMPERAMENTS. — VITAL AND NON-VITAL TEMPERAMENTS. — THE TEMPERAMENTS CLASSIFIED. — THE LYMPHATIC TEMPERAMENT. — THE SANGUINE TEMPERAMENT. — THE LIFE LINE. — THE VOLITIVE TEMPERAMENT. — THE ENCEPHALIC TEMPERAMENT. — TRANSMISSION OF LIFE.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI — MARRIAGE. — LOVE. — CONJUGAL LOVE. — HISTORY OF MARRIAGE. — THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL. — THE WELFARE OF SOCIETY. — THE PERPETUATION OF THE SPECIES.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. — REPRODUCTION. — HERMAPHRODITIC REPRODUCTION. — DIOECIOUS REPRODUCTION. — OVULATION. — MENSTRUATION. — FECUNDATION. — PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION. — DOUBLE CONCEPTION. — UTERINE PREGNANCY. — THE PLACENTA OR AFTERBIRTH. — THE UMBILICAL CORD. — QUICKENING. — THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE PREGNANCY. — THE SIGNS OF PREGNANCY. — THE DURATION OF PREGNANCY.
23. 23.CHAPTER I. — HYGIENE DEFINED.—PURE AIR. — PURE AIR FOR RESPIRATION. — SITE FOR HOMES. — DAMP CELLARS. — DUST AND DISEASE. — COTTON-WOOL RESPIRATOR. — LIGHT AND HEALTH.
24. 24.CHAPTER II. — FOOD. BEVERAGES. ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS. CLOTHING. — BEVERAGES. — ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS. — THE CLOTHING.
25. 25.CHAPTER III. — PHYSICAL EXERCISE. MENTAL CULTURE. SLEEP. CLEANLINESS. — CYCLING. — MENTAL CULTURE. — SLEEP. — CLEANLINESS.
26. 26.CHAPTER IV. — HYGIENE OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS.
27. 27.CHAPTER V. — PRACTICAL SUMMARY OF HYGIENE.
28. 28.CHAPTER I. — THE PROGRESS OF MEDICINE. — THE ALLOPATHIC, REGULAR, OR OLD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. — HOMOEOPATHY. — THE ECLECTIC SCHOOL. — THE LIBERAL AND INDEPENDENT PHYSICIAN.
29. 29.CHAPTER II. — REMEDIES FOR DISEASE. — PROPRIETARY MEDICINES. — PROPERTIES OF MEDICINE. — ALTERATIVES. — THE COMPOUNDING OF ALTERATIVES. — ALKALIES. — ACIDS. — ANODYNES. — ANTHELMINTICS. — ANTIPERIODICS. — ANTISEPTICS AND DISINFECTANTS. — ANTISPASMODICS. — ASTRINGENTS. — CARMINATIVES. — CATHARTICS. — DIRECTIONS FOR USING DR. PIERCE'S PLEASANT PELLETS. — CAUSTICS. — COUNTER-IRRITANTS. — DIAPHORETICS. — DILUENTS. — DIURETICS. — EMETICS. — EMMENAGOGUES. — EXPECTORANTS. — LINIMENTS. — NARCOTICS. — NERVINES. — SEDATIVES. — STIMULANTS. — TONICS.
30. 30.CHAPTER III. — BATHS AND MOTION AS REMEDIAL AGENTS. — MOTION IS A REMEDIAL AGENT.
31. 31.CHAPTER IV. — HYGIENIC TREATMENT OF THE SICK.
32. 32.PART IV. — DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIAL TREATMENT. — INTRODUCTION. — MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. — INTERPRETATION OF SYMPTOMS. — INFLAMMATION. — SEVERAL PRINCIPLES FOR TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATION. — FEVER. — FEVER AND AGUE. (INTERMITTENT FEVER.) — REMITTENT FEVER. (BILIOUS FEVER.) — CONGESTIVE FEVER. (PERNICIOUS FEVER.) — CONTINUED FEVERS. — TYPHOID FEVER. (ENTERIC FEVER.) — SCARLET FEVER. (SCARLATINA.) — SMALL-POX. (VARIOLA.) — VARIOLOID. (MODIFIED SMALL-POX.) — VACCINIA. (COW-POX.) — CHICKEN-POX. (VARICELLA.) — MEASLES. (RUBEOLA.) — ERYSIPELAS. — DIPHTHERIA. — QUINSY. (TONSILLITIS.) — ENLARGED TONSILS. — ELONGATION OF THE UVULA. — ANÆMIA. — APNOEA. — LEUCOCYTHÆMIA. — DROPSIES. — CASES TREATED. — RHEUMATISM. — DISEASES OF THE SKIN.
33. 33.ECZEMATOUS AFFECTIONS. — ERYTHEMATOUS AFFECTIONS. — BULLOUS AFFECTIONS. — NERVOUS AFFECTIONS OF THE SKIN. — ALPHOUS AFFECTIONS. — AFFECTIONS OF THE HAIR-FOLLICLES. — FURUNCULAR AFFECTIONS. — CARBUNCLE. (ANTHRAX.) — SCROFULA. — HIP-JOINT DISEASE. — WHITE SWELLING — RICKETS. (RACHITIS.) — OLD SORES. (CHRONIC ULCERS.) — FEVER-SORE. (NECROSIS.)
34. 34.TESTIMONIALS. — BLOOD DISEASE. — ANÆMIA—IMPOVERISHED BLOOD. — ERYSIPELAS. — BLOOD AND KIDNEY DISEASE. — ECZEMA—SUFFERINGS INTENSE. — BOILS CURED. — A TERRIBLE SKIN DISEASE. — BAD CASE OF ECZEMA OR SALT-RHEUM. — ERYSIPELAS AND WOMB DISEASE. — ECZEMA. — SALT-RHEUM—FLESH CRACKED OPEN AND BLED. — INVETERATE SKIN DISEASE WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 663 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y.: — CURES BROWN SPOTS. — SCROFULOUS DISEASE. — "HEART-RENDING TO BEHOLD". — SCROFULOUS ABSCESSES. — CROSS EYES. — SCROFULOUS SORE EYES — WEAK AND SORE EYES. — RUNNING SCROFULOUS SORES. — "FEVER SORES." — GENERAL DECLINE, RUNNING SORE ON LEG. — ECZEMA. — "FEVER SORES" OR INDOLENT ULCERS—DROPSY AND TORPID LIVER. — RUNNING SORE. — "OLD SORES" ON LEGS. — HIP-JOINT DISEASE. — HIP-JOINT DISEASE CURED. — HIP-JOINT DISEASE OF 11 YEARS' STANDING. — THICK NECK (GOITRE). — THICK NECK (GOITRE), — GOITRE CURED. — CARBUNCLES LARGE AS HEN'S EGGS! — THICK NECK. (GOITRE.) — MUMPS. (PAROTITIS.) — INFLUENZA, OR LA GRIPPE.
35. 35.ACUTE NASAL CATARRH.
36. 36.CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH. — OZÆNA. — COMPLICATIONS. — DIRECTIONS FOR USING DR. SAGE'S CATARRH REMEDY. — DIRECTIONS FOR USING DR. SAGE'S CATARRH REMEDY WITH THIS INSTRUMENT. — NASAL POLYPUS. — OUR OPERATION FOR NASAL TUMORS. — DEFORMITY OF THE NASAL SEPTUM. — OUR PAINLESS OPERATION. — OUR OPERATION. — PHARYNGITIS AND POST-NASAL CATARRH.
37. 37.ENLARGED TONSILS. — ELONGATION OF THE UVULA.
38. 38.CHRONIC LARYNGITIS.
39. 39.CONSUMPTION. — PHTHISIS PULMONALIS.
40. 40.CHRONIC BRONCHITIS.
41. 41.ASTHMA. — PHTHISIC. — UNPARALLELED SUCCESS. — NATURE OF THE DISEASE. — POPULAR REMEDIES USED FOR SELF-TREATMENT OF ASTHMA. — MILLIONS OF DOLLARS — HAY ASTHMA, OR HAY FEVER.
42. 42.TESTIMONIALS. — BLEEDING FROM LUNGS, CONSUMPTION — SEVERE CHRONIC COUGH. — SPITTING OF BLOOD. LUNG DISEASE. — LUNG DISEASE. — MALARIA, CHILLS, AND LUNG DISEASE. — CONSUMPTION. — CONSUMPTION. — IT "FILLS THE BILL." LUNG DISEASE. — CONSUMPTION. — DYSPEPSIA AND NASAL CATARRH. — LUNG DISEASE. — A BAD COUGH. — SEVERE COUGH. — SPITTING OF BLOOD. — DESPONDENCY. — LUNG DISEASE. — CHILLS AND LINGERING COUGH — HEREDITARY CONSUMPTION. — ABSCESS OF LUNG. REDUCED ALMOST TO A SKELETON. — LUNG DISEASE. — REDUCED TO A SKELETON. — COUGH AND NIGHT SWEATS. — PULMONARY DISEASE. A WONDERFUL CURE. — THROAT AND LUNG DISEASE. — WEAK LUNGS, COUGH, PROFUSE EXPECTORATION AND CATARRH. — LUNG DISEASE. — CONSUMPTION AND GENERAL DEBILITY. — "COMPLETELY WRECKED." — BRONCHITIS OF TWENTY YEARS' STANDING. — BRONCHITIS. — LUNG DISEASE. — CHRONIC SORE THROAT, COUGH HOARSENESS. — CONSUMPTION. BAD COUGH, SPIT UP BLOOD. — LUNG DISEASE. — BILIOUSNESS, CONSTIPATION, BAD COUGH. — THROAT AND LUNG DISEASE. — SEVERE LUNG AND BRONCHIAL DISEASE. — DYSPEPSIA AND CONSUMPTION. — LUNG DISEASE CURED. — DISEASE OF LUNGS AND STOMACH. — DOCTORS ENDORSE IT. — CHRONIC BRONCHITIS AND DYSPEPSIA. — "SORE THROAT." — LUNG AND WOMB DISEASE, — BRONCHITIS AND LUNG DISEASE. — BLEEDING FROM LUNGS; CHRONIC CATARRH; VERY LOW. — LUNG DISEASE. — "COMPLETELY BROKEN DOWN" — CATARRH, INDIGESTION, AND NERVOUSNESS. — NASAL CATARRH. — CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH — A TERRIBLE CASE OF CATARRH. — CATARRH AND GENERAL DEBILITY. — CATARRH AND LIVER COMPLAINT. — CATARRH, BRONCHITIS, LIVER COMPLAINT AND DYSPEPSIA. — BRONCHITIS; CATARRH. — NASAL CATARRH, LUNG DISEASE, INDIGESTION, ETC. — CONSUMPTION. — CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH. — NASAL CATARRH AND DYSPEPSIA. — CATARRH OF TWENTY YEARS' STANDING. — CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH CAUSES GREAT SUFFERING. — CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH. — NASAL CATARRH. — IMPURE BLOOD AND CATARRH. — CATARRH AND DYSPEPSIA — NASAL CATARRH. — CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH AND LUNG DISEASE. — A DEBT OF GRATITUDE. — CATARRH, DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMPLICATIONS. — BRONCHIAL DISEASE. — CATARRH. — CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH. — CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH. STARTED WITH LA GRIPPE. — CATARRH AND OTHER COMPLICATIONS. — CATARRH OF EIGHT YEARS' STANDING. — DREADFUL COUGH. ABSCESS OF LUNG. — CATARRHAL DEAFNESS. — BRONCHITIS. LIVER COMPLAINT. — LINGERING COUGH. — NERVOUS DEBILITY AND CATARRH. — NERVOUS DEBILITY AND CATARRH. — CURE OF DEAFNESS DUE TO CATARRH. — ASTHMA AND CATARRH. — ASTHMA COMPLICATED WITH BRONCHITIS. — ASTHMA, OR PHTHISIC. — NASAL POLYPI. — ASTHMA CURED. — COMPLICATION OF DISEASES. — LUNG TROUBLE. — ASTHMA, OR PHTHISIC. — NERVOUS PROSTRATION FOLLOWING GRIP.
43. 43.DISEASES OF THE HEART. — ORGANIC DISEASE OF THE HEART. — SORE MOUTH. (STOMATITIS.) — NURSING SORE MOUTH. (STOMATITIS MATERNA.) — DIARRHEA, CHOLERA INFANTUM, OR SUMMER COMPLAINT, AND DYSENTERY. — COLIC. — JAUNDICE. (ICTERUS.) — GALL-STONES. (BILIARY CALCULI.) — INTESTINAL WORMS. — TRICHINA SPIRALIS.
44. 44.DYSPEPSIA. — CHRONIC DIARRHEA. — CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER. — (CHRONIC HEPATITIS.) — CONSTIPATION. (COSTIVENESS.) — PILES. (HEMORRHOIDS.) — ANAL FISTULA. (FISTULA IN ANO.)
45. 45.TESTIMONIALS. — "LIVER COMPLAINT." — DYSPEPSIA AND WOMB DISEASE. — INFLAMMATION OF LIVER. — LIVER COMPLAINT AND DROPSY. — INDIGESTION, CONSTIPATION, VARICOCELE. — CASE OF CHRONIC DIARRHEA CURED BY HOME TREATMENT. — LIVER COMPLAINT, DYSPEPSIA, AND CONSTIPATION. — DYSPEPSIA. — DYSPEPSIA. — OBSTINATE AND COMPLICATED DISEASE. — NERVOUS DEBILITY, DYSPEPSIA, KIDNEY AND LIVER DISEASE—CURED. — PROLAPSING PILES (Hemorrhoids), ASTHMA, TORPID LIVER AND CONSTIPATION. — BILIOUSNESS, CONSTIPATION, BAD COUGH. — LIVER DISEASE. — DYSPEPSIA, — DYSPEPSIA AND CONSTIPATION. — COMPLICATION OF DISEASES. — DYSPEPSIA AND GENERAL DEBILITY. — "LIVER COMPLAINT." — NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA. — DYSPEPSIA. — LIVER DISEASE. — TORPID LIVER, SUPPRESSED MENSTRUATION. — LIVER DISEASE AND NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA. — TORPID LIVER. — LIVER DISEASE, CONSTIPATION. — TORPID LIVER, DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY. — "TROUBLESOME COMPLAINTS." — LIVER AND KIDNEY DISEASE. — LIVER AND KIDNEY DISEASE. — TORPID LIVER. — DYSPEPSIA, UTERINE DISEASE. — DYSPEPSIA AND CONSUMPTION. — DYSPEPSIA, COSTIVENESS. — DYSPEPSIA OF FIFTEEN YEARS. — DYSPEPSIA, SHORTNESS OF BREATH. — DYSPEPSIA IN ITS WORST FORM. — DYSPEPSIA AND "FEMALE WEAKNESS." — INDIGESTION AND NERVOUSNESS. — INDIGESTION AND TORPID LIVER. — DISEASE OF STOMACH. — RHEUMATISM. — HEADACHE AND CONSTIPATION. — AS LIVER PILLS, — ULCERATION OF BOWELS. — BILIOUS ATTACKS. — DYSPEPSIA—CONSTIPATION. — SORES IN MOUTH DUE TO INDIGESTION. — GAINED THIRTEEN POUNDS; CATARRH OF STOMACH. — CHRONIC DIARRHEA—DYSPEPSIA. — DYSPEPSIA—LOSS OF FLESH. — TERRIBLE DYSPEPSIA CURED. — INDIGESTION, CATARRH, AND NERVOUSNESS. — GENERAL DEBILITY, MALARIA, SICK HEADACHE. — MALARIAL FEVER. — GENERAL DROPSY. — REDUCED TO A SKELETON. — CHRONIC DIARRHEA. — DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION. — DYSPEPSIA, RHEUMATISM, NERVOUS PROSTRATION, SLEEPLESSNESS. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — DYSPEPSIA AND CATARRH — INDIGESTION, CONSTIPATION, AND UTERINE DISEASE. — CHRONIC BRONCHITIS AND DYSPEPSIA. — A COMPLETE COLLAPSE. — INDIGESTION AND CONSTIPATION. — FISTULA IN ANO, PILES, PROLAPSE OF RECTUM. — RECTAL FISTULA. — UTERINE AND RECTAL DISEASE. — RECTAL FISTULA — RECTAL FISTULA and NERVOUS PROSTRATION-RUPTURE. — ANAL FISTULA. — HERNIA AND PILES CURED WITHOUT PAIN. — LARGE PILE TUMORS. — LARGE PILE TUMORS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF BLADDER. — BAD CASE OF PILES CURED BY HOME-TREATMENT. — PILES AND CHRONIC DIARRHEA. — HEADACHE. — BLOATING OF BOWELS, CAUSED BY LIVER DISEASE. — NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA; UTERINE AND SPINAL WEAKNESS. — DYSPEPSIA, TORPID LIVER—TERRIBLE SUFFERING. — THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. — NERVOUS DEBILITY
46. 46.OR EXHAUSTION. — AN AGE OF NERVOUSNESS. — SELF-ABUSE AND EXCESSES. — CARE SHOULD BE EXERCISED. — AN OVERWORKED NERVOUS SYSTEM — IMPOVERISHED OR POOR BLOOD. — DANGER OF CONTRACTING INTEMPERANCE. — TREATMENT. — VALUE OF EXPERIENCE. — TREATMENT AT HOME. — CONSULTATION BY LETTER. — EXAMINATION OF THE URINE. — WE AIM TO CURE, — IMPOVERISHED BLOOD. — "FEMALE WEAKNESS." — LOCAL CAUSES. — ALCOHOL, OPIUM AND TOBACCO — THE INVALIDS' HOTEL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE SPECIALLY EQUIPPED FOR THE CURE OF NERVOUS AFFECTIONS. — CARE AND SKILL REQUIRED. — ORGANIC, OR ANIMAL, EXTRACTS AS REMEDIES. — HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA. — NEURALGIA. — PARALYSIS OR PALSY;
47. 47.LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA AND KINDRED AFFECTIONS. — LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA. — SHAKING PALSY. — GENERAL TREATMENT OF PARALYSIS. — RECAPITULATION. — ANIMAL JUICES, OR EXTRACTS. — EPILEPSY ("FITS"). — CHOREA (ST. VITUS'S DANCE). — TESTIMONIALS. — NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — NERVOUS DEBILITY—RESULT OF INDISCRETION. — NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY. — NERVOUS AND UTERINE DISEASE. — NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY. — NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY. — IRRITABILITY AND EXHAUSTION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, RHEUMATISM AND HEART DISEASE. — NERVOUSNESS, "FEMALE WEAKNESS," NASAL CATARRH. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. SPECIAL TREATMENT. — NERVOUS PROSTRATION. — GENERAL AND NERVOUS DEBILITY. — NERVOUS DEBILITY AND VARICOCELE. — NERVOUS DEBILITY AND VARICOCELE. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. INDIGESTION. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — NERVOUS DEBILITY, DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION. — NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — GENERAL AND NERVOUS DEBILITY. — NERVOUS DEBILITY AND CATARRH. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — NERVOUS PROSTRATION; RHEUMATISM; CONSTIPATION. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — NERVOUS PROSTRATION. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — NERVOUS DEBILITY AND CATARRH. — "A NERVOUS WRECK." — NERVOUS DEBILITY, — GENERAL DEBILITY — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — NERVOUS DEBILITY — NERVOUS DEBILITY, DYSPEPSIA, AND OTHER COMPLICATIONS. — NERVOUS PROSTRATION. — NERVOUS DEBILITY. — HERNIA—LEFT INGUINAL—PRESENT EIGHT YEARS WITH NERVOUS PROSTRATION. — THICK NECK (GOITRE), — NERVOUS DEBILITY, — "LIFE MISERABLE AT TIMES." — NERVOUS AND GENERAL PROSTRATION. — NERVOUSNESS, CATARRH, AND INDIGESTION. — LOSS OF FLESH AND STRENGTH. — NERVOUS EXHAUSTION. — NERVOUS EXHAUSTION. — NERVOUS EXHAUSTION. — NERVOUS EXHAUSTION. — NERVOUS EXHAUSTION. — NERVOUS PROSTRATION, SLEEPLESSNESS, DYSPEPSIA, AND RHEUMATISM. — NERVOUS PROSTRATION. — BAD CASE OF UTERINE DISEASE AND NERVOUS PROSTRATION, — NERVOUS PROSTRATION FOLLOWING GRIP. — NERVOUS PROSTRATION COMPLICATED WITH KIDNEY AND BLADDER DISEASE. — NERVOUS EXHAUSTION. — NERVOUS AND GENERAL PROSTRATION. — NERVOUS EXHAUSTION. — NERVOUS EXHAUSTION. — KIND WORDS. — SICK HEADACHE, GENERAL DEBILITY, MALARIA. — HEADACHE. — HEADACHE AND CONSTIPATION. — TERRIBLE PAIN IN HEAD AND FAINTING SPELLS. — SICK HEADACHE, BOILS. — SICK HEADACHE. — OBSTINATE NEURALGIA. — PARALYSIS AND UTERINE DISEASE. — PARTIAL PARALYSIS FROM UTERINE DISEASE. — LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA. SPECIAL TREATMENT. — PARALYSIS, NERVOUS PROSTRATION, ETC. — EPILEPTIC "FITS." — EPILEPSY. — SPASMS OR FITS. — EPILEPSY, "FITS." — ST. VITUS'S DANCE. — EPILEPSY. — A STRONG ENDORSEMENT. — COMPLICATION OF DISEASES. — ABORTION. (MISCARRIAGE.)
48. 48.WOMAN AND HER DISEASES. — MENSTRUATION AND ITS DISORDERS. — AMENORRHEA.
49. 49.DYSMENORRHEA. — (PAINFUL MENSTRUATION.)
50. 50.MENORRHAGIA. — (PROFUSE MENSTRUATION.)
51. 51.THE TURN OF LIFE. — (CESSATION OF THE MENSES.)
52. 52.LEUCORRHEA. — ("WHITES.")
53. 53.STERILITY. — (BARRENNESS.) — DISPLACEMENTS OF THE WOMB.
54. 54.ULCERATION OF THE UTERUS.
55. 55.URINARY FISTULA.
56. 56.DISORDERS INCIDENT TO PREGNANCY.
57. 57.OVARIAN AND UTERINE TUMORS.
58. 58.TESTIMONIALS. — LARGE FIBRO-CYSTIC TUMOR. — POLYPOID TUMOR OF UTERUS WEIGHING OVER FIVE POUNDS. — FIBROID TUMOR. CURED WITHOUT CUTTING. — OVARIAN TUMOR OF 62 POUNDS WEIGHT REMOVED. — UTERINE FIBROID TUMOR. — OVARIAN ABSCESS. — SUFFERED FOR 20 YEARS. — DISEASED OVARY. — FIBROID TUMOR OF UTERUS. — OVARIAN TUMOR MADE UP OF SMALL CYSTS (MULTILOCULAR). — OVARIAN TUMOR. — FIBROUS TUMOR. — FIBROID TUMOR OF THE UTERUS — NERVOUS PROSTRATION; DEBILITY; DYSPEPSIA; "FEMALE WEAKNESSES," CURED BY SPECIAL HOME-TREATMENT. — BED FAST FROM WOMB DISEASE AND URINARY TROUBLES. — UTERINE AND RECTAL DISEASE. — FALLING OF THE WOMB, LEUCORRHEA. — SEVERE NERVOUS PROSTRATION. — MONTHS OF SUFFERING AND TORTURE. — COMPLICATED CASE OF WOMB DISEASE. — UTERINE DISEASE. — PAINFUL MENSTRUATION AND CONSTIPATION. — COMPLICATION OF DISEASES CURED BY SPECIAL HOME-TREATMENT. — PARALYSIS AND UTERINE DISEASE. — BARRENNESS CURED. — INDIGESTION, CONSTIPATION, AND UTERINE DISEASE. — NERVOUS AND GENERAL PROSTRATION. — GENERAL DECLINE. — NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY. — "FEMALE WEAKNESS." — WOMB DISEASE. — A MOST WONDERFUL CURE. — SEVERE FLOWING. — ERYSIPELAS AND WOMB DISEASE. — FALLING OF WOMB. — DYSPEPSIA, UTERINE DISEASE. — COMPLICATION OF DISEASES. — VAGINITIS—IRREGULAR MENSTRUATION. — CONSUMPTION. — FEMALE WEAKNESS, ASTHMA, SEVERE COUGH. — "FEMALE WEAKNESS," THE RESULT OF GRIP. — "FEMALE WEAKNESS" PERMANENTLY CURED. — TORPID LIVER, SUPPRESSED MENSTRUATION. — SUPPRESSED MENSTRUATION AND NERVOUS DEBILITY. — DISEASE OF WOMB. — "HER FAVORITE". — WORDS OF PRAISE. UTERINE DISEASE. — "FEMALE WEAKNESS". — STERILITY CURED — "WOMB TROUBLE." — UTERINE DEBILITY CURED — FEMALE WEAKNESS, NERVOUSNESS AND DYSPEPSIA. — THREATENED MISCARRIAGE. — WAS A GREAT SUFFERER. — TROUBLES INCIDENT TO "CHANGE OF LIFE." — DYSPEPSIA AND "FEMALE WEAKNESS." — WOMB DISEASE. — "FEMALE WEAKNESS." PERIODICAL PAINS. — FALLING OF WOMB. — UTERINE DEBILITY. — "FEMALE WEAKNESS." — UTERINE DISEASE. — LEUCORRHEA, IRREGULAR MENSTRUATION. — "CHANGE OF LIFE," ORGANIC HEART DISEASE, WOMB TROUBLE. — ULCERATION OF THE WOMB. — REV. W.J. WALKER'S PRAYER. — TERRIBLE PAIN AND FAINTING SPELLS. — "WAS THE PICTURE OF DEATH." — UTERINE DISEASE OF YEARS' STANDING. — ST. VITUS'S DANCE. — "FALLING OF WOMB." — UTERINE DISEASE, "CHANGE OF LIFE." — MAKES CHILDBIRTH EASY. — SHORTENS LABOR. — "FEMALE WEAKNESS." — "FEMALE WEAKNESS." — "FEMALE WEAKNESS". — OBSTINATE CHRONIC DISEASE CURED. — NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA; UTERINE AND SPINAL WEAKNESS. — THICK NECK (GOITRE), — SUPPRESSED MENSTRUATION. — THICK NECK (GOITRE). — DROPSY, SICK HEADACHE, DYSPEPSIA AND BLOODY PILES. — WOMB DISEASE. — GENERAL DEBILITY. "FEMALE WEAKNESS." — TUMOR OF BREAST AND WOMB DISEASE. — ULCERATION OF WOMB. IRREGULAR MENSTRUATION. — SAVE DOCTORS' BILLS. — "FEMALE WEAKNESS." — PARTIAL PARALYSIS FROM UTERINE DISEASE. — IRREGULARITY AND UTERINE DEBILITY. — WOMB DISEASE. — ULCERATION OF WOMB. — LESSENS MISERY. — OVARIAN DISEASE. — LEUCORRHEA. — SEVERE FLOWING (MENORRHAGIA.) — "FEMALE WEAKNESS." — INDIGESTION, IMPOVERISHED BLOOD. — "FEMALE WEAKNESS." — ULCERATION AND FALLING OF WOMB. — BARRENNESS, DYSPEPSIA, "LIVER COMPLAINT." — GENERAL DEBILITY, MALARIA, SICK HEADACHE. — OVARIAN PAINS. — "GIVES A NEW LEASE OF LIFE." — MOTHERS' RELIEF. — "FALLING OF WOMB." — "WOMAN'S ILLS." — AN OLD LADY'S TRIBUTE. BETTER THAN CALOMEL. — A YOUNG LADY'S ADVICE TO INVALIDS. — BETTER THAN "SUPPORTERS." — SUPPRESSED MENSTRUATION. — HOW TRAVELING INVALIDS MAY BE IMPOSED UPON. — NERVOUSNESS, "FEMALE WEAKNESS," NASAL CATARRH. — MADE HER "STRONG AND WELL." — MADE LIFE A BURDEN. — "FEMALE WEAKNESS," LEUCORRHEA. — FEMALE IRREGULARITIES. — "JUST A MERE SKELETON." — CONSTANT SUFFERER FOR MANY YEARS. — A MOTHERS' FRIEND. — BED FAST. — AT DEATH'S DOOR. — HEART, LIVER, AND STOMACH DISEASE. — UTERINE DISEASE. — THE PICTURE OF HEALTH. — LIFTED THE BURDEN.
59. 59.SPERMATORRHEA — (SEMINAL WEAKNESS),
60. 60.TESTIMONIALS
61. 61.VARICOCELE; — OR, ENLARGED VEINS OF THE SCROTUM SOMETIMES CALLED FALSE RUPTURE — A PAINLESS OPERATION. — OUR PAINLESS OPERATION. — VARICOCELE. — VARICOCELE. — VARICOCELE. — VARICOCELE. — VARICOCELE. — VARICOCELE. — VARICOCELE. — VARICOCELE. — VARICOCELE. — LARGE VARICOCELE. — VARICOCELE. THE RESULT OF INJURY. — VARICOCELE. — BAD VARICOCELE OF MANY YEARS' STANDING. — VARICOCELE. — VARICOCELE OR FALSE RUPTURE—DUE TO STRAINING AND OVERWORK. — VARICOCELE OR FALSE RUPTURE—TWELVE YEARS' STANDING—CURED IN TEN DAYS. — VARICOCELE AND RESULTANT WEAKNESSES. — RUPTURE OF SPERMATIC VEINS. — VARICOCELE-FALSE RUPTURE CAUSED BY INJURY. — VARICOCELE. — VARICOCELE AND GENERAL DEBILITY. — VARICOCELE AND NERVOUS DEBILITY. — BAD VARICOCELE OF LONG STANDING. — DOUBLE VARICOCELE AND STRICTURE OF URETHRA. — INDIGESTION, CONSTIPATION, VARICOCELE. — BAD VARICOCELE. — VARICOCELE. — VARICOCELE. — VARICOCELE — VARICOCELE. — A BAD CASE. — VARICOCELE-CAUSED FROM STRAIN. — VARICOCELE. — VARICOCELE. — A STRONG ENDORSEMENT. — HYDROCELE, — OR DROPSY OF THE SCROTUM. — HYDROCELE. — HYDROCELE. — HEMATOCELE OR RUPTURED VEINS. — HYDROCELE WITH VARICOCELE. — TWENTY-TWO YEARS' STANDING—UNSUCCESSFULLY TREATED BY OTHERS. — THE URINARY ORGANS:
62. 62.THEIR ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY. — THE KIDNEYS. — THE BLADDER. — THE URETHRA. — THE PROSTATE GLAND
63. 63.KIDNEY DISEASE.
64. 64.BRIGHT'S DISEASE. — DIABETES. (POLYURIA AND GLYCOSURIA.) — CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER. — (CHRONIC CYSTITIS.) — GRAVEL. — STONE IN THE BLADDER. — CHRONIC ENLARGEMENT OF THE PROSTATE GLAND. — (HYPERTROPHY.) — STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA. — TESTIMONIALS. — DOUBLE VARICOCELE AND STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA. — RUPTURE.
65. 65.(BREACH OR HERNIA.) — TESTIMONIALS. — A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER — A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER'S — RUPTURE FROM BOYHOOD. — HERNIA—LEFT INGUINAL—PRESENT EIGHT YEARS WITH NERVOUS PROSTRATION. — HERNIA. CURED SEVERE PAIN. — "SOUND AS A DOLLAR." — RUPTURE, DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, AND KIDNEY DISEASE. — RUPTURE. — HERNIA AND PILES CURED WITHOUT PAIN. — HERNIA OR RUPTURE. — DOUBLE RUPTURE. — RUPTURE. — STRANGULATED RUPTURE OR BREACH — HERNIA OR RUPTURE — IRREDUCIBLE HERNIA. — COMPLICATION OF DISEASES. — HERNIA OR RUPTURE OF 11 YEARS' STANDING. — RUPTURE, — FEMORAL HERNIA. — "A LIVING DEATH FOR YEARS."
66. 66.CROUP, MEMBRANOUS AND SPASMODIC. — WHOOPING-COUGH. (PERTUSSIS.) — NOSEBLEED. — INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH. (GASTRITIS.) — CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH. — NEURALGIA OF THE STOMACH. (GASTRALGIA.) — PERITONITIS. — EPIDEMIC CHOLERA. — ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES. — WOUNDS. — FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS. — SPRAINS. — BRUISES. — FOREIGN BODIES IN THE NOSE. — FOREIGN BODIES IN THE THROAT AND AIR-PASSAGES. — DROWNING. — FAINTING. — BURNS AND SCALDS. — SUN-STROKE.
67. 67.POSTERIOR SPINAL CURVATURE. — (HUMPBACK.)
68. 68.LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE. — (CROOKED BACK.) — DEFORMED FEET, HANDS AND LIMBS.
69. 69.MECHANICAL AIDS — IN THE TREATMENTS OF — CHRONIC DISEASES. — THE CURE OF SWELLINGS AND TUMORS. — COUNTER-IRRITATION AND REVULSION. — CURE OF NEURALGIA. — CURE OF PARALYSIS. — CURE OF DEFORMITIES. — DISEASES OF WOMEN. — RECAPITULATION. — World's Dispensary Medical Association — Incorporated under Statute Enacted by the Legislature of New York. — IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. — INVALIDS' HOTEL
70. 70.TREATMENT OF ALL CHRONIC DISEASES. — DESTROYED BY FIRE — STAFF OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. — THE GRAND ENTRANCE. — FIRST FLOOR. — THE UPPER FLOORS. — ON THE THIRD FLOOR — ELECTRICAL OUTFIT — FOURTH FLOOR. — A STEAM PASSENGER ELEVATOR — FIRE-PROOF VAULTS. — THE BATH DEPARTMENT. — THE SURGICAL DEPARTMENT. — OUR REMEDIES. — REGULATION OF DIET. — TRAINED ATTENDANTS. — GOOD ORDER. — AMUSEMENTS. — UNPARALLELED SUCCESS. — A COMMON SENSE VIEW. — LIBERALITY. — OUR PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS — WORLD'S DISPENSARY. — THE BASEMENT. — MACHINERY. — MAIN FLOOR. — THIRD FLOOR. — FOURTH FLOOR. — FIFTH FLOOR. — SIXTH FLOOR. — GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.
71. 71.THE — Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute — SOME OF THE CAUSES THAT LED TO ITS ERECTION, AND THE ADVANTAGES WHICH IT AFFORDS. — A REMEDIAL HOME. — TREATING PATIENTS AT THEIR HOMES, — DISEASE HAS CERTAIN UNMISTAKABLE SIGNS, — CLIMATE. — EXTREME HEALTHFULNESS OF BUFFALO. — EVIDENCE OF HEALTH STATISTICS. — BUFFALO OUTRANKS ALL IN HEALTHFULNESS. — FACTS OF SCIENCE. — EQUABILITY OF CLIMATE. — ADVANTAGES OF LOCATION. — A GENUINE HOME. — OUR TERMS MODERATE. — FACILITIES FOR TREATMENT. — DIVISION OF LABOR. — ADVANTAGES OF SPECIALTIES. — PROGRESS IN MEDICINE. — ADVANTAGES OFFERED TO INVALIDS. — A FAIR AND BUSINESS-LIKE OFFER TO THE AFFLICTED.
72. 72.SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT — OF — CHRONIC OR LINGERING DISEASES. — DIVISION OF LABOR. — ADVANTAGES OF SPECIALTIES. — ADVERTISING. — TREATING PATIENTS WHO RESIDE AT A DISTANCE. — URINARY SIGNS. — INVALUABLE AIDS IN DETERMINING DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS AND BLADDER. — THE MOST EMINENT MEDICAL AUTHORITIES ENDORSE IT. — CONSULTATIONS BY LETTER. — FREE CONSULTATION. — CHARGES MUST BE PREPAID. — RELIABLE MEDICINES. — OUR TERMS FOR TREATMENT — WHY OUR FEES ARE REQUIRED IN ADVANCE. — TERMS FOR BOARD AND TREATMENT AT THE INVALIDS' HOTEL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE — SPECIAL ADVICE. — VISITING PATIENTS WHO RESIDE AT A DISTANCE. — TO PHYSICIANS — OUR MEDICINES — NO RELATIONSHIP WITH HUMBUGS. — NOT CONFINED IN PRESCRIBING — OUR MEDICINES PREPARED WITH THE GREATEST CARE.
73. 73.AND ITS FOUNDER. — OUR PROFESSIONAL STAFF. — From the "Roman Citizen," (Rome, N.Y.). — THE INVALIDS' HOTEL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE. — From the Washington (D.C.) Chronicle. — ONE OF THE ATTRACTIONS AT BUFFALO. — From the Missouri Republican ( St. Louis ). — A REMARKABLE PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS. — From the Toledo Blade . — From the St. Louis Globe . — THE SUCCESSFUL PHYSICIAN. — From, the New York Independent. — LAURELS FOR TRUE WORTH. — A MAN OF THE TIME. — Extracts from Biographical Sketches of New York Senators. — From the New York Times. — WELL-MERITED SUCCESS. — The New York Tribune says: — From, the Boston Daily Globe. — A CURE FOR MANY EVILS. — VOCABULARY
74. 74.OF THE — COMMON SENSE MEDICAL ADVISER, — GIVING EACH TECHNICAL WORD EMPLOYED, REFERRING TO ITS images/advise WHEN POSSIBLE, AND IN CASE THE WORD WILL NOT PERMIT OF A SHORT DEFINITION, REFERRING TO THE PAGE WHERE A FULL DESCRIPTION OF ITS MEANING MAY BE FOUND. — HOW TO AVOID SWINDLERS — Who Sometimes Infest the Cars and Depots in and Near this City.
75. 75.WE, THEREFORE, — Advise all those Desiring to Visit Us, — " A Word to the Wise ," — INDEX. — INDEX TO APPENDIX — Footnotes

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