SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES. 7 



skin of the nose and lips. There is a sense of weariness over the whole body ; 

 and the patient is usually sensible to the coldness of the air ; and the pulse, 

 especially toward evening, is more frequent than ordinary. These symptoms 

 are very soon accompanied with hoarseness, and a sense of roughness and 

 soreness in the course of the wind-pipe, with a difficulty of breathing, and 

 tightness across the chest, and a cough, seemingly occasioned by something 

 tickling or irritating the upper part of the wind-pipe. The cough is at first 

 dry, and causes a good deal of pain in the chest, and about the head ; and at 

 times there are other pains resembling rheumatism, in various parts of the 

 body. Gradually the cough becomes looser ; that is to say, is accompanied by 

 the discharge of mucus, which is brought up with more ease. The discharge 

 from the nose becomes more mild, and also thicker ; the pain of the head 

 diminishes, but there is still a disagreeable sense of fullness about the nose, 

 with a degree of deafness, ringing in the ears, and a wheezing sound when a 

 full breath is drawn. There is also a bad taste in the mouth, with a foul 

 tongue, although the appetite is good. Remedy, pages 57, 155, 164, 183. 



CEICKEIS-VOK.— Symptoms.— K. disease of the eruptive kind, in 

 various particulars resembling small-pox, and apt to be confounded with it. 

 Chicken-pox arises from a peculiar contagion, and attacks persons only once 

 in their lives. It is preceded by chilliness by sickness or vomiting, headache, 

 thirst, restlessness and a quickened pulse. After these feverish symptoms, 

 •which are generally slight, have lasted one or two days, pimples appear on 

 different parts of the skin, in the form of small red eminences, not exactly 

 circular ; having a furface shining, and nearly flat, in the middle of which a 

 small clear vesicle soon forms. On the second day, this is filled with a whitish 

 lymph ; on the third day, the fluid is straw-colored ; and on the fourth day, 

 the vesicles which have not broken begin to subside. Few of them remain 

 entire on the fifth day; and on the sixth, small brown scabs appear in the place 

 of the vesicles. On the ninth and tenth days, they fall off, without leaving 

 any pits. Remedy, page 224. 



CBlliBJAAlNS.— Symptoms.— K painful inflammatory swelling on the 

 extreme parts of the body, as the fingers, toes, and heels, occasioned by cold. 

 A very common way of getting chilblains, is by bringing the hands and feet 

 near the fire in cold, frosty weather. The color of chilblains is a deep purple 

 or leaden hue, the pain is pungent and shooting, and a very disagreeable 

 itching attends. In some instances, the skin remains entire; in others, it 

 breaks, and a thin fluid is discharged. When the cold has been great or long 

 continued, the parts affected are apt to mortify and slough off, leaving a foul 

 ulcer behind. Remedy, pages 142, 143. 



CHILLS AND FEVER.— See Ague. 



CHLOROFORM. — The formidable symptoms which sometimes arise 

 from an overdose of chloroform are best met by opening the patient's mouth, 

 and forcibly making the tongue protrude, allowing the free access of air, and 

 applying ammonia to the nostrils. Chloroform should be administered only 

 by a medical man. Remedy, page 95. 



