SYMPTOMti OF DISEASES. 6 



abscess Its discharge is followed by a flow of thinner matter, after which the 

 pain ceases, and the part heals. Remedy, pages 58, 59, 60, 97, 137. 



BOWELS, INFLAMMATION OY.— Symptoms.— l^hXs, disease is 

 characterized by the symptoms of general fever, heat of skin, thirst, restless- 

 ness, quick and hard small pulse; and by sharp pain in the belly, increased on 

 pressure, and accompanied by vomiting and costiveness. 



Causes. — Inflammation of the bowels is occasioned by acrid and irritating 

 substances swallowed by the mouth, by hardened foeces, by vitiated bile, by 

 long continued costiveness, and by constriction of some part of the canal in 

 cases of rupture; a very frequent cause of it is cold, especially when applied 

 with damp to the feet. 



Diagnosis. — Inflammation of the bowels is distinguished from colic by the 

 absence of fever in this last, and by the pain in colic not being increased on 

 pressure, and in every case of severe pain of the bowels, with vomiting and 

 costiveness, the practitioner should make very strict inquiries, lest a rupture 

 should be the cause of them. Remedy, pages 137, 252. 



BRAIN — INFLAMMATION — CONCUSSION.— Acute and gen- 

 eral inflammation of the brain and its membranes has two stages. 



Symptoms. — The Stage of Excitement, in which there is intense and deep 

 seated pain in the head, extending over a large part of it, a feeling of tightness 

 across the forehead, throbbing of the temporal arteries, a flushed face, injected 

 eyes, looking wild and brilliant, contraction of the pupils, great shrinking 

 from light and sound, violent delirium, want of sleep, general convulsions, a 

 parched and dry skin, a quick and hard pulse, a white tongue, thirst, nausea 

 and vomiting, and constipation of the bowels. 



TJie Stage of Collapse, in which there are indistinct mutterings, dull and 

 perverted hearing and vision, double vision, the pupil from being contracted 

 expands largely and becomes motionless, twitchings of the muscles, tremors 

 and palsy of some of the limbs, a ghastly and cadaverous countenance, cold 

 sweats, profound coma, and death 



The disease will not show all these symptoms in any one case. It runs a 

 rapid course, causing death, sometimes, in twelve or twenty-four hours; or it 

 may run two or three weeks. Remedy, pages 246, 247. 



BRONCHITIS.— iSi/Jwptoms.— This disease is an inflammation of the 

 membrane lining the air passages, or bronchi, is a very common, and a very 

 serious disease. It is of two kinds, the acute and the chronic or " winter 

 cough." The acute form, or severe cough, begins with the symptoms of com- 

 mon cold, or catarrh (see Catarrh); but difliculty of breathing, attended with a 

 wheezing sound, and pain and cough, soon come on with great severity. There 

 is also a degree of fever, generally much increased in the evening. With the 

 cough, there is a tenacious and glary expectoration, sometimes purulent, and 

 even mixed with blood. Remedy, pages 123, 254, 255, 256. 



BRONCHOCELE.— A%wii)^o?ra«.--The goitre, or swelled neck, which so 

 frequently occurs among the inhabitants of mountainous regions. It is a com- 



