^6 DR CHASE'S RECIPES, 



and flatness of the sides of the chest, prominent breast bone, looseness of text/ 

 uro in the bones, crooked legs and distorted spine; many otlier symptoms ol 

 scrofula are sometimes also present. This, like scrofula, disposes the system to- 

 other diseases; th« treatment of rickets is nearl}' the same A3 that of scrofula, 

 (which you will find in its proper place in another part of this work,) — rickets^ 

 however, is a more curable disease, and less apt to continue after adult age. 

 Remedy, page 192. 



.RINGWORM OR TBTT:EiR.— Symptoms.— This disease consists of 

 minute water blisters, arranged somewhat in rings; it begins with slight redneset 

 —small blisters form and are attended with a colorless fluid — these break in 

 four or five days, and are covered with a thin brownish scab, which falls off 

 about the eighth or ninth day, leaving a red surface, which gradually disappears. 

 The eruption seldom lasts more than ten days, but it sometimes appears a second 

 time, and continues for several weeks; it is always attended with itching 

 smarting, and burning. It often appears on the face, neck and arm.s of children 

 —and may be communicated by contact. Remedy, pages 103, 229. 



RUPTURE. — Sgmpioms (when it is reducible and not strangulated. 

 A swelling in some part of the belly; this diminishes a little on pressure, buc 

 returns when the pressure is withdrawn; it goes off when the patient lies down, 

 and is increased by coughing. Patients with rupture are semietlmes tronWed: 

 with indigestion; but frequently, all the functions of the albneatary cainal are- 

 quite reg\ilar. When we succeed in getting up the bowels, thera ia comnaooly 

 what is called a guggling noise. 



Causes. — There are some persons in whom ruptm-e takes place more easily 

 than in others, and in whom it is constant. The reason seems t© be, that tlie 

 parictes of the abdomen, or the neighborhood of the openings in it, are more 

 lax and yielding in them than In others. It is commoa in warm climates, in. 

 old people after long illnesses or debilitating fevers, and in the poor who have 

 labored hard and been ill fed. The circumstance which immediately occasions 

 ruptures, is generally some violent exertion, requiring a strong action of many 

 muscles, especially those of respiration; hence ruptures are brought on by 

 lifting or carrying heavy weights, jumping, running, vomiting, straining at 

 Btool, the effort* of women in childbed; or by coughing, sneezing, crying,, 

 laughing. Reaiedt, pages 197, 234, 



SALT RHEUM.— bee Eczema. 



SCARLET PEVER.—SCARLATINA.— -%7n^oms.— Either mfld, 

 or malignant with putrid sore throat, exhibits different forms of a disease which 

 is propagated by a specific contagion, like small-pox or measles, and like them is- 

 believed by the best observers to attack a person only once during life; though 

 the apparent exceptions to this remark are more numerous in scarlet fever, than, 

 in the other diseases above mentioned. On the third or fourth day after expos- 

 ure to the contagion of scarlet fever, a feverish attack occurs, and about the 

 second day of this fever, a bright scarlet rash appears on the surface of the- 

 body, and within the mouth and about the fauces. The scarlet fever varies- 

 lAMch. in its degree of m^gnity and danger, even during the same epidemic; itt; 



