An epitome of the homoeopathic domestic medicine / by J. Laurie. Thoroughly revised, and brought down to the present time by R. S. Gutteridge.

  • Laurie, Joseph, -1865.
Date:
[1888?]
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Credit: An epitome of the homoeopathic domestic medicine / by J. Laurie. Thoroughly revised, and brought down to the present time by R. S. Gutteridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for bad cases of congestive fever, or fatal English cholera. Sweating feet, 351. Swoon, Swooning, fainting, syn- cope. (See Fainting, 280, 447.) Sycosis, a fig-wort, a fungous ulcer; Thuja, Sanguinaria. Sylvester method of restoring THE apparently DEAD, 402. Sympathetic (i) produced, byre- action, from some organ primarily or principally affected, as pain in the breast from ovarian disturbance; (2) the set of nerves which takes its origin in separate ganglia, ar- ranged on each side of the spine ; they compose a cephalic, cervical, dorsal, lumbar, and sacral system ; they are so called because they are considered to produce the sym- pathy between different organs. Symptomatology, the observation and description of symptoms. Synchronous, occurring at the same time. Syncope, fainting, swooning, 280, 447. Synocha, an inflammatory fever. Synochus, continued or typhus fever. Synovia, the unctuous fluid secreted by the synovial membrane, which lubricates the joints. Synovitis, inflammation of synovial membrane of the joints. Bryonia, Asclepias Tuberosa, Merctirius. Systole, the contraction of the heart and arteries, which drives the blood onward. Tabes dorsalis, wasting of the spinal cord. ;— mesenterica, mesenteric disease, tuberculous affection or consumption of the bowels. Table, a term applied to the bones of the skull. T^nia, tape-worm. Talipes, club-foot. Tape-worm ; Mercurnu Cor., Filix Mas, Sabadella, Kousso, Tapping, the operation of drawing off the effused fluid or water in dropsy ; it is only palliative. Taxis, methodical pressure and manipulation, with a view of re- ducing hernia or rupture. Teeth, temporary, or children's first set, twenty j four incisors, two eye-teeth, and four double teeth in each jaw. , permanent, when complete. and the jaw has perfectly de- veloped, are thirty-two ; four in- cisors or cutting-teeth, two eye- teeth, four fanged or bicuspid teeth, and six double teeth, or molars, in each jaw. Teething, 483. Temperature of baths, 35. Temporal, relating to or connected with the temples, which are so called from the Latin tempus— time, because there the hair first turns while. Tenderness of the skin, 74. Tendo Achilles, the large ten- don below the calf, attached to the heel; the rupture of it is treated by a strap from the heel to the knee. Tendon, the white, tough, cord- like ending to certain muscles. Tenesmus, frequent, ineffectual, painful desire to relieve the bowels, as in dysentery, with straining, or forcing-pain gener- ally, Merctirius Corrosivus, Nux Vomica. Tent, a small roll of lint, or small cylindrical piece of sponge. Tepid baths, 33. Teplitz, 39. Tertian fever, ague whose par- oxysms return every forty-eight hours, or third day, usually the most easily manageable form. Tetanic, severely rigid spasm, re- sembling that of lock-jaw. Tetanus, lock-jaw. Tetter, properly an eruption of vesicles, herpes; but popularly