Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. ON THE MAINTENANCE OF HEALTH AND THE TREATMENT OF SIMPLE MALADIES. General Remarks.--The Effects of Heat on the System.-- Sunstroke.--Affections of the Head.--The Hair.-- Ear-ache.--Affections of the Eyes.--Bleeding from the Nose.--Sun-burn.--Freckles.--The Teeth.--The Lips, Mouth, and Tongue.--Sore Throat.--Method of applying Remedies to the Throat.--Slight Affections of the Stomach.-- Diarrhoea.-- Dysentery.-- Cholera.--Constipation.--General Debility. --Biliousness.--Sick Head-ache.--Giddiness.--Swimming in the Head.--Faintness.--Palpitations.--Neuralgia.-- The Use of Chloral.--Nervousness.--Nettle-rash.-- Prickly Heat.--Eczema. -- Burmese Ringworm.-- Herpes. -- The Feet. -- Corns.-- Bunions.-- Fissures. --Excessive Perspiration.--Blisters.--Ingrowing Toenail.--Tender Feet.--Damp Boots.--Inflammation. --Boils.--Blind Boila-- Whitlow.--Catching ColdStiff Neck.--Stitch in the Side. -- Rheumatism.-- Fever.-- "Burmah Head." -- Simple, Intermittent, and Remittent Fever.--Wounds.--Cut Finger.-- Bruises.--Sprained Ankle.--Varicose Veins.--Snakebite.--Scorpion-bite.-- Mosquitoes.-- Moths.--Burns and Scalds. -- Sea-sickness. -- Obesity. -- Functional Derangements.--On Nursing and the Care of the Sick.--Simple Remedies.--List of Medicines. A General misapprehension exists in the minds of those who have had no previous experience of tropical travel, that all equatorial regions are necessarily the home of pestilence, and the abode of mysterious and virulent diseases. Many people start for the tropics every succeeding year, with minds oppressed with a vague sense of dread due to this unfortunate misapprehension. In truth, the diseases to which dwellers in hot countries are liable, are, many of them, only exaggerated forms of..."