SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES. 23 



Symptoms. — The disease comes on with coldness and shivering, and other 

 symptoms of beginning fever, then the heat of the body is incirased, the pulse 

 becomes more frequent, full, and strong, and there is v'ery marked difficulty of 

 breathing, especially when tlie patient attempts to draw in a full breath. The 

 pain is generally greater when the patient lies on the side affected, but some- 

 times the contrary is the case. The pain is felt most commonly on one side, 

 and some have supposed that the left side is more frequently attacked than the 

 right, but this does not appear to be correct. Sometimes the pain is felt at the 

 lower part of the breast, sometimes in the back, between the shouHcrs; the 

 pain is commonly fixed in one spot, but sometimes shoots from the side to the 

 shoulder, back, or breast, and snch sliooting pains are called in common lan- 

 guage stitches. The disease is always accompanied by cough; and this cough, 

 in every case, is attended with rery considerable pain at the beginning of the 

 disease, it is dry, but soon becomes somewhat moist, and the matter spit up is 

 streaked with a little blood. Rt^mttot, pages 249, 250. 



MEASLES,— See Symptoms, pages 210, 220; Rehtedy, pages 220, 

 221, 222. Malignant Measles, page 221. 



MUMPS.— See Sympkrmft, page 228; Remedy, page 228. 



NEURALGIA. — (Neuralgia, nervous headache sometimes called), means 

 pain in a nerve, and is generally of an excruciating, darting kind, but without 

 any heat or srvelling in the part. Neuralgic pairw affect Tarious parts of the 

 body, but are most common in the hc»d. Rkjtetdy, pages 78, 74, 76, 76. 



PAINTERS' COLIC. -See page 2SO. 



PALSY.— PARALYSIS.— ..'*r;n»jTrw»».— Sometimes there are no pre. 

 monitory symptoms; but often before the attack there are flushed face, swelling 

 of the veins about the head and neck, vertigo, a senw of fullness, weight, and 

 sometimes pain in the head, ringing in the ears, dro^-^ness, indistinct articula- 

 tion of words, or even loss of speech, confusion of mind, loss of memory, and 

 change of disposition, — amiable persons being made sullen and peevish, and 

 irritable ones miW and simpering. After the attack the countenance acquhes a 

 vague expression; the mouth is drawn to one side; the lower lip on the palsied 

 side hangs down, and the spittle dribbles away. The speech i« altered, and the 

 mind is generally impaired. 



In some instances the patient recovers in a longer or shorter time; in others 

 little or no improvement takes place, and the patient, after remaining helpless, 

 often for a tong time, dies either from gradual exhaustion, or suddenly from 

 apoplexy. Remedy, pages 130, 239. 



PILES.— Painful tumors in the neighborhood of the anus. Sometimes 

 they are situated externally, and are found in clusters, hard, painful, and giving 

 great inconvenience by tlicir preventing the person from sitting; at other times 

 they are within the gut, and are forced outwards with great pain when the 

 patient goos to stool. Sometimes they are situated so far up, that they du not 

 appear externally at all, but indicate their presence by very great pain, or by 

 the diechai^ of bkx)d. Sometimes the pain attending piles is less, aiid the 



