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bluish, lower eyelids swollen, and blue circle around them; thirst, sick stomacli, 

 vomiting; appetite variable, breath foul, tongue red and covered with points, 

 pulse fast and irregular, may have spasms, twitching of muscles, disturbed 

 sleep, nightmare, headache, eyes dilated, cross eye, colic, grinding teeth in 

 sleep, generally diarrhoea. The symptoms of thread worm aro not so pro- 

 nounced; there is less fever, colic and nervous symptoms; the itching of the 

 rectum is the most marked and prominent symptoms; the thread worm does 

 not kill the patient, the round worm may. Never give worm medicine till 

 the child has passed worms, and you have seen them. REArEDV, pages 134» 

 143, 144, 145, 146, 147. 



Remarks. — There are 21 kinds of worms. We shall take up two only, as 

 they are the ones usually found, The first, or round worm, is reddish o\ 

 reddish-yellow in color, tapers at both ends, and looks like the common earth 

 or "angle" worm; they are prone to move from one place to another in tht 

 intestines, and may be found in the stomach. Each female worm lays about 

 60 million eggs. The thread, maw, or pin worm is white, and looks like a 

 piece of white sewing thread; they are found in the large intestine and the 

 rectum, where they create intolerable itching. Tape worms inhabit the small 

 intestines, and will not be treated of more fully, as no one should try to doctor 

 themselves for their removal, but should go at once to their physician. 



YELLOW FEVER.— A dangerous fever, of the remittent and typhoid 

 kind, common in the West Indies and America; and, with some little variety, 

 occurring, too, often in Spain and Gibraltar. The yellow fever, like many 

 others, attacks with lassitude and chilly fits, faintness, giddiness, and flushing 

 of the face, thirst, pain in the eyeballs or forehead, pain in the back, scanty 

 and high-colored turbid urine; irregular and diminished perspiration; the 

 tongue is covered with a dark fur; the bile is secreted in unusual quantity, and 

 being forced up into the stomach, is vomited; the skin is hot and dry. As the 

 disease advances, the eyes become of a deep yellow, and the face and breast 

 are of the same color; there is an incessant vomiting of frothy bile; great 

 costiveness prevails, and delirium comes on. The fever sometimes remits so 

 much about the end of thirty-six hours, that the patient thinks himself com 

 paratively well; but the symptoms soon return with great aggravation, and 

 extreme debility. In the last stage of the disease the debility is very great, and 

 symptoms of universal putrescency occur; large livid patches are observed, the 

 tongue becomes dry and black, the teeth are incrusted with dark fur, the body 

 exhibits a livid yellow, blood flows from the mouth, cars, and nostrils, dark 

 and fetid stools are discharged, hiccoughs come on, the pulse sinks, and death 

 soon follows. The order and severity of tlie symptoms vary in different cases; 

 some are seized very suddenly, and fall down insensible; others, for a few 

 I'.ays, have the warning signs of costiveness, defect of appetite, pain in t]u» 

 lioad, yellowness of the eyes, hoarseness and sore throat, lowness of spirits. 

 Tn the great majority of cases there are evident remissions or intermissions 

 All kinds of persons are affected by it, but those principally who are in tht. 

 prime of life; men more frequently than women. People of color have tbt 

 disease milder than others. Remedy, page 224. 



