_Former Assistant in Neurology, Columbia University; former Chairman, Section on Neurology and Psychiatry, New York Academy of Medicine; Assistant in Medicine, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College; Medical Editor, "New International Encyclopedia"_ NEW YORK The Review of Reviews Company 1907 Copyright, 1907, by THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK _Contents_ PART I CHAPTER PAGE I. THE EYE AND EAR 13 Foreign Bodies in the Eye--Black Eye--Twitching of the Eyelids--Wounds and Burns--Congestion-- Conjunctivitis--"Pink Eye"--Strain--Astigmatism-- Deafness--Foreign Bodies in the Ear--Earache--Simple Remedies. II. THE NOSE AND THROAT 51 Nosebleed--Foreign Bodies in the Nose--Cold in the Head--Toothache--Mouth-Breathing--Sore Mouth-- Pharyngitis--How to Treat Tonsilitis--Quinsy-- Diphtheria--Croup--Laryngitis. III. THE LUNGS AND BRONCHIAL TUBES 87 Acute and Chronic Bronchitis--Coughs in Children-- Liniments and Poultices--Cough Mixtures--Treatment of Pneumonia--Consumption--Asthma--Influenza, its Symptoms and Cure. IV. HEADACHES 113 Causes of Sick Headache--Symptoms and Treatment-- Headaches Caused by Indigestion--Organic Disease a Frequent Source--Nervous and Neuralgic Headaches-- Effect of Poison--Heat-Stroke. PART II I. GROWTHS AND ENLARGEMENTS 123 Cancers--Fatty Tumors--Use of Patent Preparations Dangerous--Symptoms and Cure of Rupture--The Best Kind of Truss--Varicose Veins--Varicocele--External and Internal Piles--Operations the Most Certain Cure. II. SKIN DISEASES AND RELATED DISORDERS 139 Itching, Chafing, and Chapping--Treatment of Hives--Nettlerash--Pimples--Fever Blisters--Prickly Heat--Cause of Ringworm--Freckles and Other Skin Discolorations--Ivy Poison--Warts and Corns-- Boils--Carbuncles. III. RHEUMATISM AND KINDRED DISEASES 169 Inflammatory Rheumatism--Symptoms and Treatment-- Muscular Rheumatism--Lumbago--Stiff Neck--Rheumatism of the Chest--Chronic Rheumatism--Rheumatic Gout-- Scurvy in Adults and Infants--Gout, its Causes and Remedies. PART III I. HEALTH AND PURITY 191