4 DR. CEASEPS RECIPES. 



stomach, and disorder of the bowels; from rickets, from diseases of the glands 

 of the mesentery; and this last cause is by far the most common. The patient 

 is at first languid and inactive; has a bad appetite, a disagreeable breath, a pale 

 complexion, a large belly; the bowels are not regular, sometimes costive, at 

 other times loose; the stools smell badly, and are of a whiter color than natural. 

 When the disease has continued for some time, the body becomes greatly 

 emaciated, the belly still more swelled, and the digestive functions more dis- 

 ordered. Remedy, page 190. 



BARBERS' TUCH..— Symptoms.— "This, is contagious and due to a fungus 

 growth that invades the hair and hair follicles. It appears chiefly on the hairy 

 parts of the face — the chin, the upper lip, the region of the whiskers, the eye- 

 brows, and the nape of the neck. It consists in little conical elevations, which 

 maturate at the top, and have the shaft of a hair passing through them. These 

 pimples are of a pale yellowish color. Remedy, page 102. 



BLADDER — INFLAMMATION.— %TOp<oms.— The bladder is also 

 liable to inflammation without rupture. The symptoms of this formidable 

 complaint are a burning pain at the lower part of the belly, increased by 

 pressure; constant desire to pass water, which is done in very small quantities, 

 and with intense pain; and more or less general fever. Remedy, page 253. 



BLOODY FLUX.— DYSENTERY.— /%m;5<(wis.— The disease comes 

 on with loss of appetite, costiveness, lassitude, shivering, heat of skin, and 

 quick pulse. These are followed by griping pain in the bowels, and a constant 

 desire to pass their contents. In general the passages are small, composed of 

 mucus mixed with blood. These passages are attended and followed by severe 

 gripings and inclination to strain, learnedly called tormina, and tenesmus. They 

 are sometimes, in the early stages, attended by nausea and vomiting. The 

 natural feces, which do not pass oflf much, are small in quantity, and formed 

 into round, compact balls, or irregular, hardened lumps. This tenesmus, or 

 great desire to strain, will continue, perhaps increase, for several days, — the 

 discharges being mostly blood in some cases, and chiefly mucus in others. 

 Having, generally, but little odor, at first, these discharges become, as the dis- 

 ease advances, exceedingly offensive. 



Causes. — Dysentery is very frequently caused by sudden changes from hot 

 to cold, by which sweating is suddenly checked, and the blood repelled from 

 the surface. Hot climates, and dry, hot weather, are predisposing causes. 

 All green, unripe, and unwholesome food ; and all indigestible food of every 

 sort, may induce it. Remedy, pages 60, 139, 195, 234. 



BOIL. — Symptoms. — A circumscribed inflammation in the external parts, 

 which terminates in a pointed swelling, sometimes as large as a pigeon's egg, 

 attended with redness and pain, and sometimes with a violent burning heat, 

 These inflammations generally suppurate, but they do so very slowly. They 

 break at first on the upper part, and some drops of matter ooze out. 

 What is commonly called the core is next seen; it is a purulent substance, but 

 thick and tenacious, almost like a solid body, and may be drawn out of the 



