Encyclopedia"_

NEW YORK

The Review of Reviews Company

1907

Copyright, 1907, by

THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY

THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK

_Contents_

PART I

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE EYE AND EAR 13

Foreign Bodies in the Eye--Black Eye--Twitching of
the Eyelids--Wounds and Burns--Congestion--
Conjunctivitis--"Pink Eye"--Strain--Astigmatism--
Deafness--Foreign Bodies in the Ear--Earache--Simple
Remedies.

II. THE NOSE AND THROAT 51

Nosebleed--Foreign Bodies in the Nose--Cold in the
Head--Toothache--Mouth-Breathing--Sore Mouth--
Pharyngitis--How to Treat Tonsilitis--Quinsy--
Diphtheria--Croup--Laryngitis.

III. THE LUNGS AND BRONCHIAL TUBES 87

Acute and Chronic Bronchitis--Coughs in Children--
Liniments and Poultices--Cough Mixtures--Treatment
of Pneumonia--Consumption--Asthma--Influenza, its
Symptoms and Cure.

IV. HEADACHES 113

Causes of Sick Headache--Symptoms and Treatment--
Headaches Caused by Indigestion--Organic Disease a
Frequent Source--Nervous and Neuralgic Headaches--
Effect of Poison--Heat-Stroke.

PART II

I. GROWTHS AND ENLARGEMENTS 123

Cancers--Fatty Tumors--Use of Patent Preparations
Dangerous--Symptoms and Cure of Rupture--The Best
Kind of Truss--Varicose Veins--Varicocele--External
and Internal Piles--Operations the Most Certain
Cure.

II. SKIN DISEASES AND RELATED DISORDERS 139

Itching, Chafing, and Chapping--Treatment of
Hives--Nettlerash--Pimples--Fever Blisters--Prickly
Heat--Cause of Ringworm--Freckles and Other Skin
Discolorations--Ivy Poison--Warts and Corns--
Boils--Carbuncles.

III. RHEUMATISM AND KINDRED DISEASES 169

Inflammatory Rheumatism--Symptoms and Treatment--
Muscular Rheumatism--Lumbago--Stiff Neck--Rheumatism
of the Chest--Chronic Rheumatis