• DB. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



mon disorder in Derbyshire, and among the inhabitants of the Alps, and other 

 hilly countries in their neighborhood; also in the valleys of Savoy, and at 

 Milan, and among the Pyrennes, and Cevennes, in France. The swelling in 

 bronchocele is at first without pain or any evident fluctuation, and the skin 

 retains its natural appearance; but as the swelling advances, it grows hard and 

 irregular; the skin becomes yellowish, and the veins of the neck put on a dis- 

 tended and winding appearance; then the patient complains of frequent flush- 

 ing of the face with headache, and pains darting through the tumor. Remedy, 

 pages 44, 45. 



CANCER. — Symptoms. — By occult cancer or sciiThus, is meant a hard 

 tumor, for the most part accompanied by sharp darting pains, which reciir 

 more or less frequently. This tumor, in course of time, breaks and ulcerates; 

 and then is more strictly denominated cancer. The parts of the body subject 

 to cancer are the following: The female breast and uterus (see Womb and its 

 Diseases), the lips, especially the lower one, the tongue, the skin, the tonsils, 

 the lower opening of the stomach, and some other parts chiefly glandular 

 Chimney-sweepers are subject to a cancerous affection of the scrotum. Rem- 

 edy, pages 33, 34, 35, 99, 271. 



CARBUNCLE. — Symptoms. — An abscess or collection of matter, of a 

 peculiarly gangrenous looking nature. The first symptoms are great heat and 

 violent pain in some part of the body, on which there arises a pimple with 

 great itching; under this, there is a circumscribed tumor, seeming to penetrate 

 deep into the parts below. This tumor soon puts on a dark red or purple color. 

 A little blister frequently appears on the top of the tumor, which being broken, 

 a dark-looking matter is discharged, and a slough makes its appearance. Some- 

 times a. little slough of a black color is seen in the middle of the tumor. The 

 progress of a carbuncle of the gangrenous state is generally rapid. The size 

 of carbuncles is various; sometimes they are eight or ten inches in diameter. 

 Considerable hardness and pain generally attend the disease. As it advances, 

 several detached openings form in the tumor; and through these, a greenish, 

 fetid, and irritating matter is discharged. Carbuncle most commonly occurs 

 in constitutions that have been injured by luxurious living; and from this cir- 

 cumstance, and from its occurring not unfrequently in people advanced in life, 

 carbuncle is commonly to be considered as accompanied with great danger; 

 and this danger is to be estimated by the size and situations of the swellings, 

 whether there be few or many of them, and by considering the age of the 

 the patient, and the state of his constitution. Remedy, pages 58, 59. 



CATARRH. — Symptoms. — The disease commonly called a Cold, of 

 which the following are the ordinary symptoms: — The patient is seized with a 

 coldness and shivering; and shortly after, there is a degree of difficulty in 

 breathing through the nose, and a sensation as if something were stopping that 

 passage; a symptom well known under the term of a stuffing of the nose or 

 head. There is a dull pain and heaviness in the forehead, and the motion of 

 the eyes is stiff and obstructed. There soon takes place from the nose, a plen- 

 tiful discharge of thin watery matter, so sharp as to inflame and excoriate the 



