20 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



HA Y-F EVER. — Hay-asthma, and summer bronchitis, is a disease which 

 occurs about the time of the hay harvest, and appears to be caused by the pol 

 len of some wild plants getting into and inflaming the bronchial passages 

 This theory is supported by the fact that those who live in situations where 

 there is little or no vegetation do not suffer from it. 



Symptoms.— KAi^cvXij of breathing, and a burning sensation in the throat, 

 are the chief characteristics of this affection. Remedy, page 235. 



HEADACHE,— Pain, heaviness, or oppression about the head is a very 

 frequent occurrence, and arises from a great variety of causes. It is symp- 

 tomatic of disorders of the stomach and bowels; and in such cases it often 

 proceeds to a very distressing height. We judge headache to arise from dis- 

 orders of the stomach when the tongue is whitish, and slightly coated, with the 

 edges of a pale red color. The patient has a dimness and indistinctness oi 

 sight, he has a dull pain or weight in the head, with some confusion, and he is 

 somewhat giddy. The pulse is languid and feeble, but not very frequent. 

 There is a degree of sickness and irritation about the stomach. There is a 

 coldness and numbness about the fingers; and the patient becomes, what, in 

 common language, is called nervous. This kind of headach>,- commonly occurs 

 in the early stages of digestion. It is best relieved by an emetic, but this is a 

 remefly which should not be employed very often. Remedy, pages 44, 74, 

 107, 108, 139, 183. 



HEARTBUTIN. — Symptoms. — A disagreeable sensation proceeding from 

 acidity in the stomach, from which there are frequent belchinffs of sour flatu- 

 lence, or discharges of water with a burning heat at the pit of the stomach. 

 It is a very pertinacious symptom, and is not easily removed; it has its chance 

 of abatement or cure like the other symptoms of indigestion, by air, exercise, 

 and proper diet; but it is also to be palliated by giving such substances as will 

 combine with an acid in the stomach, and form a tasteless and innoxious salt. 

 Remedy, pages 108, 244. 



HEART HIS'EA.^'E.— Symptoms.— Oi all the diseases of the heart the 

 general symptoms are nearly the same. Respiration habitually short and con- 

 strained; palpitations and stiflings invariably produced by the motion of ascent, 

 by rapid walking, by mental emotions, and returning even without known 

 cause; frightful dreams, and interruption of the sleep by sudden startings; 

 occasionally the symptoms described under the name of angina pectoris; and, 

 lastly, a cachectic paleness, with tendency to leucophlegmatic effusion, which 

 eventually appears, are all symptoms which, to a greater or less extent, occur 

 in persons affected with disease of the heart. Remedy, pages 85, 108, 244. 



HEMORRHAGE. — Hemorrhage from the lungs may easily be dis- 

 tinguished from that of the stomach, as in the latter case the blood is vomited 

 up, usually in large quantities, of a much darker color and more or less mixed 

 with the contents of the stomach, whereas the blood from the lungs is of a florid 

 color, is thrown up in small quantities, by coughing or hawking, and is more 

 or less mixed with a frothy mucus. If bleeding from the stomach be but slight, 

 P- few drops of common table salt and vinegar may be sufficient to suppress it; 



