A Dictionary of Medicine: Designed for Popular Use. Containing an Account of Diseases and Their Treatment, Including Those Most Frequent in Warm Climates
A Dictionary of Medicine: Designed for Popular Use. Containing an Account of Diseases and Their Treatment, Including Those Most Frequent in Warm Climates
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...debility which it would prodnce. When very thick, it is uncomfortable from its warmth; but we have never known it to be a canse of weakness, except from the perspiration which a large mass of hair must occasion. Cutting off the hair has, within our own knowledge, been often injurious, and attended with every appearance ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...debility which it would prodnce. When very thick, it is uncomfortable from its warmth; but we have never known it to be a canse of weakness, except from the perspiration which a large mass of hair must occasion. Cutting off the hair has, within our own knowledge, been often injurious, and attended with every appearance of local plethora. As usual, moderation is the best; and if it hang over the shoulders, it is long enough, unless it grows at the same time thinner, and in that case it must be cut shorter. To increase the growth of hair, various preparations have been employed, and each perfumer has his secret; though we know not that any are particularly snccessful. They chiefly consist of warm, stimulating oily substances, to increase apparently the circulation through the bulb, and probably to check the perspiration." (pann's Medical Dictionary.) HARROWGATE. HARE And HARE-SOUP are classed among the fibrinous aliments; and being nutritious in themselves, and generally cooked with the addition of various stimulant condiments, they should be avoided in diseases of excitement, and used cantiously in the diet of convalescents. HARE-LIP. A division in the upper lip, with which some children are born. The division is sometimes confined to the skin and muscles of the lip, but in other cases it extends to the palate-bone and the soft parts of the mouth. It is a deformity which parents are very anxious to get rid of, and it is done without a great deal of pain or difficulty; but it is proper to wait till the child is a few years old( and able to give a little assistance by its own steadiness. The operation consists in removing the skin from the two surfaces, and bringing and keeping the two raw edges in contact; when the opposite sides grow together perfectly, ...
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