Johnson's family physician : from the ablest medical authorities, giving numerous and dangerous diseases to which the human race is subject, the symptoms and treatment, or what is necessary to be done in an emergency for the patient before the physician arrives, thereby alleviating suffering and often saving life / by E. Darwin Hudson, with articles from the most eminent physicians, among whom are Willard Parker [and others].
- Hudson, E. Darwin (Erasmus Darwin), Jr., 1843-1887.
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Johnson's family physician : from the ablest medical authorities, giving numerous and dangerous diseases to which the human race is subject, the symptoms and treatment, or what is necessary to be done in an emergency for the patient before the physician arrives, thereby alleviating suffering and often saving life / by E. Darwin Hudson, with articles from the most eminent physicians, among whom are Willard Parker [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![are now applied most successfully in the treatment of fractures of the bones of the extremities, in place of other splints. The starch or dextrine bandage is made by sat- urating several successive layers of care- fully-applied bandage, or cloth of loose tex- ture, with thick boiled starch, which when dried converts the soft fabrics into a rigid case. The plaster of Paris or gypsum is prepared by making a thin paste of equal parts of plaster and water, which may be soaked into the bandages or cloths fitted to the shape of the broken limb. Salt added to the water hastens the setting of the plaster. Glue is added where the setting is desired to be slow. The water-glass or sili- cate bandage is made of silicate of potash or silicate of soda dissolved in caustic pot- ash or soda. It possesses great strength, and is very light. Each layer of the roller bandage as it is applied is brushed over with the solution of the silicate, which at once dries. A final coating secures the smooth dressing for the exterior. Barba'does Leg. See Elephantiasis. Bar'ber's Itch, a term applied somewhat indiscriminately by the public and many physicians to two distinct diseases. 1. A majority of cases are instances of impetigo mentis, or pustular eruption on the face from the irritation of too frequent and close shaving. The face is inflamed, red, tender, and nodular, with numerous pus- tules of various size, discharging pus, which mats in the stumps of the beard and forms scabs. But the beard does not fall, and if isolated hairs be pulled out and the bulb examined microscopically, it is found to be free from any of the parasitic sporules which mark the second and contagious form. 2. The second form is the true barber's itch, contracted by contact of person or the soiled and contaminated razors and brushes of the barber. It is termed sycosis, tinea sycosis, and mentagra, and is really ringworm in the beard. Each hair of the infected beard is covered with a whitish I^owder of parasitic scales or sporules. The parasitic vegetation is the Microsporon men- tagrophytes, probably identical with the Tri- cophrjton tonsurans of simple ringworm. The face is variably inflamed with nodules of hardening and pustules, and has patches and arcs of whitish scales. In either the impetigo mentis or the true sycosis the inflam- mation is to be removed by frequent appli- cations of cold water, perfect cleanliness, and soothing lotions, as of glycerine, opium, and acetate of lead. With the first form such methods will suffice. In the second or parasitic form all the infected hairs should be pulled out with the depilation- forceps, and the parasites destroyed in the hair-follicles by parasiticide lotions or unguents. Chief of these are sulphurous acid, either pure or diluted, carbolic acid in glycerine, weak solutions of corrosive sublimate, and ointments of sulphur, iodide of sul])hur, nitrate of mercury, and white precipitate. Basedow's Disease, called also Graves' Disease and Exophthalmic Goitre, is a dis- ease more common among women than men, and characterized by prominent eyeballs, slightly enlarged thyroid gland, palpitation of the heart, and generally by anaemia. Basedow's disease frequently, though not always, ends in recovery. Its cause is stated by Niemeyer to be probably a paralysis of the vasomotor nerves. It is best treated by good food, chalybeates, gentle exercise, and hygienic measures. BiKious CoKic and Calculus. See Liver, Diseases of. BiKious Fe'ver, an indefinite term not in- cluded in any accepted classification of dis- ease. It is equally applied to attacks of extreme indigestion with associated irrita- tive fever (febricula); to the disturbance of persistent constipation and torpid liver, when fever coexists with headache, foul tongue, bad breath, loss of appetite, load- ed bowels, general languor, and chilliness; to obscure forms of malarial fever (remit- tent) ; to unpronounced and mild cases of typhoid; and to many other cases when the physician lacks in diagnostic ability. The cases which may be termed bilious fever are such as are due to inactive liver, cos- tiveness, and disordered digestion, and marked by chills, general malaise, and dark complexion, but yield promptly to a vigorous cathartic treatment and corrected diet. Birth-marks. See N^vus. Bites of Serpents. See Poison of Ser- pents. Blad''der [Lat. vesica; Fr. vessie], a mus- culo-membranous sac contained in the an- terior part of the pelvis. It is absent in all invertebrate animals. A few cartilaginous fishes possess it; so do Batrachia (frogs, etc.) and Chelonia (turtles). No birds have it, although the ostrich and cassowary have a dilatation of the cloaca somewhat resembling it. It is present in all Mammalia. In man the bladder is nearly triangular when empty, oval when fixll. The ureters (one on each side) convey the urine to it from the kidneys; and this is voided, by the contraction of the bladder, through the urethra. The entrance to the latter is guarded by a valve, partly muscular, called by some anatomists the sphincter vesicce. Distension of the bladder (retention of urine) from any obstruction of the urethra is a very painful and sometimes](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21131041_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
