SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES. 2& 



STTN" STROKE.— %to;?<<?tos— This begins by thirst, dizziness, headache 

 and sometimes there is vomiting or difHcult breathing. The symptoms, in fact 

 are pretty much the same as apoplexy; the patient should at once be talcen into 

 a cool shady place, and the first thing have a bucket of cold water poured slowly 

 over his head, and, in all respects treat the case the same as a case of apoplexy 

 Remedy, page 131. 



SYPHILIS. — Symptoms. — This disease is owing to a poisonous mattei 

 introduced into the system by absorption, thus producing more poisonous mattei 

 which in time corrupts all the fluids, and occasions many disorders in various 

 parts of tlie body, and is generally the consequence of impure sexual inter- 

 course. Remedy, page 204. 



THRUSH. — Symptoms: — Comes on in the mouth, may extend down the 

 throat, never attacks the nose or lungs, child becomes fretful, mouth and throat 

 red, inflamed and tender, vomiting and diarrhoea. The thrush consists of 

 white points at first, which soon run together and become patches, they are 

 slightly elevated, and look like white mould, or curdled milk, after the disease 

 has run on for a shor^ time the patches have a yellowish color, it comes on in 

 young children and is very dangerous unless properly treated. If the previous 

 health of the child is good the case should be cured in three to six days. 

 Remedy, pages 228, 296. 



TONSILITES-LPTFLAMICATION OP THE TONSILS. - 

 Symptoms. — Tliere is more or less thickness of speech, caused by enlarged tonsils 

 and liability to sore tltroat, or quinsy. The only symptoms are inflamed and 

 enlarged tonsils. Remedy, pages 53, 140. 



TUMORS — SWELLINGS. — Are of various kinds, either of the 

 whole body, or of particular members, or local and circumscribed. "Watery 

 swellings of the whole body are seen in general dropsy, and the same aisease 

 in its commencement occasions partial swellings, as of the lower extremities, 

 or of the arms or face, according to the position of the body. Circumscribed 

 swellings occur in various glands, as tho«e of the oeck, arm pit, or groins, 

 chiefly in scrofulous constitutions; or they may arise from inflammation, the 

 consequence of cold. The tonsils swell in sore throat, and occasion a fullness 

 of the external parts of the throat; gum-boils iorm during toothache, and 

 swell the cheeks; and the brnnchocele, or goitre, is an instance of a still more 

 permanent swelling. The face, head, and limbs often swell exceedingly from 

 various causes. 



Wen is the common popular name for an excrescence or tumor growing 

 on any part of the body, and trequently applied to tumors about the throat and 

 neck. Tumors are distinguished by surgeons according to tbe nature of their 

 contents; and they require treatment varied according to circumstances. 

 Remedy, pages 33, 96, 140, 210, 270, 296. 



TYPHOID, OR TYPHUS.— %OTptor72s.— The disease often has cau- 

 tionary symptoms. For several days before its actual beginning, the patient 

 droops. He may attend to his various duties, but does not seem well; he ia 

 low-spirited and languid; is indisposed to any exertion of body or mind, has 



