23 DR CEASE'S RECIPES. 



•which are remediable, while others are not so. The loss of both testicles, or 

 organic disease in them to a great extent, will render a man impotent for life; 

 fear, weakening diseases, excessive drinking and smoking, may again make 

 him temporarily incompetent. A skillful and kind pliysician sliould always be 

 consulted where real or fancied incapacity exists, and under no circumstances 

 whatever sliould advice be sought from advertisers of cordials, balms, restora- 

 tives, etc. Remedy, pages 180-183. 



INPAlSTTtLE ERYSIPELAS.— See Erysipklas. 



JAUNDICE. — This is a symptom of a disease, and not a disease, and 

 depends upon the absorption of bile into the system from various causes. It is 

 characterised by auniversid yellowness of the skin, and of the white of the eye8; 

 itching of the surface of the body, a white or claylike appearance of the stools; 

 while the urine tinges linen of a yellow color. The disease is attended by a sense of 

 weariness and languor, a feeling of pain or uneasiness about the pit of the stomach, 

 and there is sonvetimes a slight difficulty of breathing. There is also sickness, 

 vomiting, sourness of stomach, and various other symptoms of indigestion. 

 There is sometimes an acute pain on the right side, below the margins of the libs. 

 Tliere is not, in general, much fever. It is a vulgar error to believe tliat patients in 

 jaundice see objects of a yellow color. Remedy, pages 161, 201, 202, 203. 



KIDNEYS, rPTPLAMMATION OT .— Symptoms.— K weakness in 

 the small of the back, and a dull, heavy pain in the kidneys. The urine is 

 passed often, and in small quantities. It is alkaline, — sometimes white and 

 milky, — and has in it deposits of phosphate of hme, and triple phosphates. 

 Remedy, page 252. 



LIVER, INFLAMMATION OF.— ^^irmp^oww.-These are sympathetic 

 fever, with pain, and a sense of tension in the right side, inability to lie on the 

 left side, difficulty of breathing, a dry cough, vomiting, and hiccough. 



The pain is acute and lancinating generally, though sometimes dull and 

 tensive. When sharp, it is like the stitch of pleurisy, and it indicates that the 

 peritoneum which covers the liver is inflamed. When dull, it is the body of 

 the organ which is suffering. When the convex surface of the liver is the seat 

 of the disease, the pam is apt to run up to the right collar-bone, and to the top 

 of the right shoulder. Breathing, coughing, and lying on the left side, increase 

 the pain. A soreness is felt by pressing over the liver. The pulse is full, hard, 

 and strong, the bowels are costive, and the stools are clay colored, owing to not 

 being tinged with bile, — this having stopped flowing. The tongue is covered 

 with a yellow, dark brown, or even black coat, and there is a bitter taste in the 

 mouth Remedy, page 245. 



LUNGS, INFLAMMATION OP.— When the substance of the lung 

 Itself is inflamed, the disease is termed pneumonia; and the word pleurisy or 

 pleuritis is restricted to inflammation of the pleura, i. e., the membrane which 

 envelopes the lungs, and lines the inner surface of the ribs. Sometimes both 

 parts are affected, and then the term pleuro-pneumonia, is used. For all prac- 

 tical purposes, the inflammation of these various parts may be included under 

 one common name. 



